Press Releases and Articles

NOAA Declares 2020 the Second Hottest Year on Record, a Very Close Second: This observation documents global warming but suggests that increases in greenhouse-gas emissions may not be the best explanation. Press Release, January 15, 2021

Global Warming Has Been Much Greater in Urban Areas Than in Rural Areas: The northern hemisphere, which contains 90% of world population, most major cities, and most air pollution, warmed 70% more than the southern hemisphere. Press Release, December 10, 2020

New Data Shows That Climate Changes Far More Rapidly and Frequently Than Currently Imagined: For millions of years, air temperatures rose suddenly within years and cooled slowly over a few thousand years forming highly erratic, saw-toothed sequences. Press Release, October 22, 2020

The History & Science Behind the Color of Our Skin: Home Business Magazine, October 13, 2020

Once Upon a Time All Humans Had Dark Skin: Skin color, eye color, and hair texture are the primary ways human bodies adapt to intense sunlight in the tropics. Press Release, August 7, 2020

Greenhouse Gases Cannot Explain Observed Global Warming: Greenhouse-warming theory is rapidly becoming the most expensive mistake ever made in the history of science. Industry Today, May 5, 2020

Extraordinarily low ozone in the Arctic this winter was contemporaneous with extraordinarily high temperatures: Ozone depletion plays a much bigger role in global warming than commonly recognized, according to Dr. Peter Ward a 27-year veteran of the U.S. Geological Survey. Press Release, May 4, 2020

COMMENTARY: Greenhouse Warming Theorists Don’t Understand Basic Physics. Understanding global warming ultimately gets down to understanding thermodynamics—the physics of what heat is and how heat flows. CNS News, April 30, 2020

The Great Greenhouse Goof-Up! Some Good News Midst the COVID-19 Crisis: A revolution in the physics of heat, discovered by Dr. Peter L. Ward, shows that greenhouse-warming theory cannot physically explain observed global warming. Press Release that they refused to distribute, April 7, 2020

Why Major Global Warming In Future Decades Is Highly Unlikely According To Science Is Never Settled Inc., A Not-For-Profit Correcting The Physics Of Climate Change. An interview with Dr. Peter L. Ward, Chief Scientist, Science Is Never Settled, Inc. Superb Crew, February 4, 2020

2016 Is Still the Hottest Year on Record – Major Global Warming in Future Decades is Highly Unlikely: Once again, greenhouse-warming theory cannot explain observed changes in global temperatures, while ozone-depletion theory can explain these changes in detail. Press Release, January 15, 2020

Climate Scientists Refuse to Face the Reality that Greenhouse Warming Theory is Mistaken: The world warmed nearly two degrees Fahrenheit since 1950, but greenhouse gases cannot physically be the cause. Thus, future greenhouse warming is not expected. Press Release, January 7, 2020

Failure of the UN Climate Change Conference May Be a Blessing in Disguise: This delay provides more time for climate scientists to consider the reality that the old-fashioned science of greenhouse-warming theory may be mistaken. Press Release, December 19, 2019

Air temperatures in Greenland increased suddenly ten to thirty degrees 25 times during the last 115,000 years: Dr. Peter L. Ward describes at a major international meeting how Earth’s climate has been changing rapidly every few thousand years in a highly erratic way. Press Release, December 4, 2019

Peter L Ward will be sharing his groundbreaking research at the 130th annual Geological Society of America Meeting: Throughout Earth’s history, climate has warmed many degrees suddenly, within years, and cooled slowly over millennia. Some warming events lasted tens of thousands of years, heating oceans to hot tub temperatures, causing major ocean acidity, and destroying nearly all life on Earth. Press Release, November 1, 2018

Ozone Depletion, Not Greenhouse Gases Cause for Global Warming, Says Researcher. R&D World Magazine, April 20, 2018

The Costs Of Waiting For A Volcano To Erupt: Earthquakes began rumbling under Agung volcano on the “Paradise Island” of Bali in Indonesia on August 10, 2017. These small earthquakes drew immediate attention because Mt. Agung, which dominates the island’s landscape, had erupted in 1963, killing more than 1100 people. Was Agung reawakening? Could a major eruption be imminent? Forbes, February 16, 2018

New Research Shows Volcanoes Cause Both Sudden Global Warming and Slow Global Cooling: According to new research by Dr Peter L Ward, the distinctive footprints of climate change throughout earth’s history show sudden warming within years and slow cooling within thousands of years. Ice cores, where annual layers can often be observed, show clear evidence that major global warming usually begins suddenly within years while major global cooling typically occurs slowly over thousands of years. Press Release, October 11, 2016

Supreme Court’s Stay of EPA Carbon Rules Gives Time to Get the Climate Science Right: The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday to temporarily block implementation of the EPA’s Clean Power Plan while lawsuits from 29 states and many power companies proceed. It also provides a chance to be sure the science behind this plan is correct. Press Release, February 11, 2016

Reducing Greenhouse Emissions Unlikely to Reduce Global Warming; A More Likely Cause Is Ozone Depletion, According to Longtime US Geophysicist: No scientist has ever demonstrated experimentally that observed increases in greenhouse-gas concentrations actually cause air to warm enough to explain global warming. The only experiments documented in the literature were done in 1900 by Knut Angstrom, who showed any warming to be minimal. Press Release, January 11, 2016

Icelandic Volcano Made 2015 the Hottest Year on Record: Dr. Ward explains that there are two distinctly different types of volcanism: large explosive volcanic eruptions, which are well known to cause global cooling by forming aerosols that reflect and scatter sunlight in the lower stratosphere, and effusive basaltic eruptions, which do not form aerosols but do release gases that deplete the ozone layer, causing global warming. Press Release, December 12, 2015

Whistle-Blower U.S. Geophysicist Issues $10,000 Challenge: Dr. Peter L. Ward, a longtime U.S. geophysicist, issued today a $10,000 personal challenge to fellow scientists to quantify the real cause of global warming. Press Release, November 12, 2015

E-Mail Challenge Sent to 2000 Scientists on November 12, 2015: Today I am issuing a $10,000 Climate Change Challenge to you and scientists like you who have worked hard for many years researching climate change. Ozone depletion caused by chlorofluorocarbon gases (CFCs) and by effusive, basaltic, volcanic eruptions appears to provide a clear, complete, and sufficient explanation for all global warming observed in the past 100 years and throughout Earth history. These observations raise the question, what role does greenhouse-gas warming play? Press Release, November 12, 2015

Scientists and politicians worked together to solve the global warming crisis: In 1988, scientists and politicians worked closely together to develop the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer, the first universally ratified treaty in United Nations history. Little did they realize that this same treaty would bring an end to global warming ten years later. Press Release, January 5, 2015

Why Has Global Warming Stopped? Average global temperatures have not risen since 1998 even though emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases continue to rise rapidly. Climate models predict temperatures should be increasing. This divergence for 16 years between increasing greenhouse-gas concentrations and constant temperature implies that we may not understand the true cause of climate change. Press Release, December 16, 2014

Global warming is caused by ozone depletion, not greenhouse gases: The ozone layer, more than 12 miles up in the atmosphere, is formed and heated by high-energy, ultraviolet radiation from the Sun. When the amount of ozone is reduced (depleted), more of this sun-burning, cancer-causing radiation reaches Earth, cooling the ozone layer and warming Earth. This ultraviolet energy is 48 times hotter, 48 times more energetic that infrared radiation absorbed by greenhouse gases. Press Release, November 18, 2014