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Is Methane a Problem for Climate?


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Season 3, Episode 10

Conversation with Professors William Happer and William van Wijngaarden

In this episode, Dr. Tammy Nemeth is joined by Dr. William Happer, professor emeritus of physics at Princeton University, and his colleague Dr. William van Wijngaarden, professor of physics at York University, to discuss the role of methane on Earth’s temperature. The conversation was centred around the paper, “Dependence of Earth’s Thermal Radiation on Five Most Abundant Greenhouse Gases” and the “Methane and Climate” paper written by

Professors Happer and van Wijngaarden.

Here is a link to the five greenhouse

gases paper:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2006.03098.pdf

 

Here is a link to the Methane and

Climate paper: https://co2coalition.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Methane-and-Climate.pdf)

 

A short explanation of the above

papers:

https://www.realclearenergy.org/articles/2022/11/16/a_little_learning_on_methane_and_climate_change_864994.html

 

https://www.scienceunderattack.com/blog/2022/6/27/why-theres-no-need-to-panic-about-methane-in-the-atmosphere-106

 

Another summary of the methane paper:

https://co2coalition.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Methane-the-Irrelevant-GreenHouse-Gas.pdf

 

https://co2coalition.org/media/methane-and-climate-change-professor-william-van-wijngaarden/

 

The CO2 Coalition has a number of

excellent articles explaining the science in an accessible way: https://co2coalition.org

 

On Nitrous Oxide: https://co2coalition.org/publications/nitrous-oxide-and-climate/

 

https://co2coalition.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Nitrous-Oxide.pdf

 

Prof. van Wijngaarden on GHGs in

Ontario: https://co2coalition.org/publications/impact-of-changing-greenhouse-gas-concentrations-on-ontarios-climate/

https://co2coalition.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/OntarioClimate-Wijngaarden.pdf

 

Dr. Roy Spencer’s temperature data: https://www.drroyspencer.com/latest-global-temperatures/

See also, https://co2coalition.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Infrared-Forcing-by-Greenhouse-Gases-2019-Revised-3-7-2022.pdf

Biography of Prof. van Wijngaarden: https://wvanwijngaarden.info.yorku.ca/bio/

Biography of Prof. William Happer: https://dof.princeton.edu/people/william-happer

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