Ned Nikolov, Ph.D.

Ph.D. Physical Scientist with a broad range of interests in various fields of science, i.e. climate, cosmology, astrophysics, nutrition, archaeology etc.

[Ned Nikolov, Ph.D. @NikolovScience]

This is an updated list of peer-reviewed publications, conference presentations, video podcasts, and key blog articles explaining various aspect of our new climate-science paradigm currently known as the Nikolov-Zeller (NZ) Climate Concept.

This full-fledged, physics-based and data-driven concept will eventually replace the "greenhouse theory" of climate change, which was proposed as a pure conjecture more than 120 years ago, and is now falsified by modern satellite observations from projects such as NASA CERES (https://t.co/sCmErjJfJu):

Peer-reviewed Scientific Papers:

- 2014. On the average temperature of airless spherical bodies and the magnitude of Earth’s atmospheric thermal effect: https://t.co/z2xlrKy3mL

- 2017. New Insights on the Physical Nature of the Atmospheric Greenhouse Effect Deduced from an Empirical Planetary Temperature Model: https://t.co/4gpTdfo40G

- 2024. Roles of Earth’s Albedo Variations and Top-of-the-Atmosphere Energy Imbalance in Recent Warming: New Insights from Satellite and Surface Observations: https://t.co/9EcSJbPmNU

Video Presentations & Podcasts:

- 2021. Demystifying the Atmospheric Thermal Effect. Toward a New Paradigm of Climate Science: https://t.co/pqptdP8rI9

- 2021. Drivers of Earth's Paleoclimate, a New Paradigm of Understanding: https://t.co/e5PfOJxtXw

- 2024. Beyond the Greenhouse Theory: https://t.co/EYE4MCzhgo

- 2025. The ill-defined “Greenhouse Effect” and Greenhouse-Gas "Radiative Forcing" https://t.co/Wn7j7qlkoZ

- 2025. What's the Truth? Unpacking Climate Science (Podcast with Dr. Shawn Baker): https://t.co/QKjcuv5YZz

- 2026. Is the Global Mean Surface Temperature Physically Meaningful? https://t.co/gH5knHwFAP

Blog Articles:

- 2022. Dispelling the Milankovitch Myth: Why were Ice Ages not caused by Orbital Cycles? https://t.co/NmJppvJ8QQ

- 2022. A Surface Solar Radiation Dataset exposes a major manipulation of Global Temperature Records between 1960 and 1980: https://t.co/00eGwkTEfn

- 2024. Misrepresentation of Critical Satellite Data by the IPCC 6th Assessment Report: https://t.co/E0zticR3RM

- 2024. An Open Letter to IPCC discussing omissions & data misrepresentations in AR6: https://t.co/fKlHth08qW

Spread the word about our new climate science, for it has the power to save the World through knowledge from a self-induced destruction caused by collective ignorance!

[Ned Nikolov, Ph.D. @NikolovScience]

@greg_davies Yep! Trump will probably veto any radical law that the Dems attempt to pass.

[Ned Nikolov, Ph.D. @NikolovScience]

Well, it looks like the Dems are going to gain control over the House and quite possibly over the US Senate as well.
Among the many disastrously consequences this would have for the USA is the return of the "climate-crisis" nonsense in our lives, which many rifgrfully call "The Gree New Scam":
https://t.co/pDGSJX2KKZ

Will ever humanity overcome the mega delusions ruling our World today?

[Ned Nikolov, Ph.D. @NikolovScience]

@TexelElf Exactly, but I doubt that impeachment will happen.

[Ned Nikolov, Ph.D. @NikolovScience]

Well, it looks like the Dems are going to gain control over the House and quite possibly over the US Senate as well.
Among the many disastrously consequences this would have for the USA is the return of the "climate-crisis" nonsense in our lives, which many rifgrfully call "The Gree New Scam":
https://t.co/pDGSJX2KKZ

Will ever humanity overcome the mega delusions ruling our World today?

[Ned Nikolov, Ph.D. @NikolovScience]

@kendo451 Correct!

[Ned Nikolov, Ph.D. @NikolovScience]

People oftentimes dismiss hypotheses (ideas) they cannot explain. However, science is about FOLLOWING the evidence, no matter where it leads. Sometimes the evidence points toward phenomena that we cannot mechanistically describe in terms of known processes.

One such phenomenon is the "Expanding Earth". The NOAA age map of the ocean-floor lithosphere (created over several decades) ONLY shows zones of expansion surrounding all continents (see the attached image). In this map, one cannot find subduction zones required by the Plate Tectonic theory. The map implies that Earth has been expanding that oceans did not exist prior to 180 My ago and only shallow seas were present.

Do you agree?

[Ned Nikolov, Ph.D. @NikolovScience]

@Monetarius Wrong interpretation of our results by AI.

[Ned Nikolov, Ph.D. @NikolovScience]

It appears that "subduction zones" in Geology are equivalent to "CO2 radiative forcing" in climate science meaning that they are both FICTIONS created to keep a wrong theory afloat...

[Ned Nikolov, Ph.D. @NikolovScience]

People oftentimes dismiss hypotheses (ideas) they cannot explain. However, science is about FOLLOWING the evidence, no matter where it leads. Sometimes the evidence points toward phenomena that we cannot mechanistically describe in terms of known processes.

One such phenomenon is the "Expanding Earth". The NOAA age map of the ocean-floor lithosphere (created over several decades) ONLY shows zones of expansion surrounding all continents (see the attached image). In this map, one cannot find subduction zones required by the Plate Tectonic theory. The map implies that Earth has been expanding that oceans did not exist prior to 180 My ago and only shallow seas were present.

Do you agree?

[Ned Nikolov, Ph.D. @NikolovScience]

@myOpinion_27 @ValerioCapraro I doubt it! AI has no native intelligence of its own. It's a soulless piece of software...

[Ned Nikolov, Ph.D. @NikolovScience]

@marcelocantos @ValerioCapraro Total BS!

[Ned Nikolov, Ph.D. @NikolovScience]

@ScienceBlog3 Well, the real issue here is that the Indian Plate is shown to move independently of all other plates, which can only happen, if it is not connected to any other continental plates, and was sliding on top of the mantle. This cannot happen for reasons I stated in my top post.

[Ned Nikolov, Ph.D. @NikolovScience]

According to Plate Tectonics, the currently accepted theory of Earth's crustal evolution by mainstream Geology, continental plates slide on top of a "molten mantle" like potatoes on a greasy skillet:
https://t.co/i4oLra0yg8

Here is a video illustrating this idea with the Indian tectonic plate, which is believed to have traveled by itself from Madagascar (near the southern tip of East Africa) northward for 45 My before colliding with the Asian plate some 55 My ago and forming the the Himalayan Mountain as a result. Note that the Indian plate is shown to move autonomously & independently of the other tectonic plates!

Do you think such "sliding" was possible provided that: (a) the upper mantle has a viscosity of 10^19 - 10^21 Pa-second, which is 6-7 ORDERS of magnitude higher than the viscosity of solid ice; and (b) the continental plates are anchored to the upper mantle by granite roots that are 150 - 300 km deep?

FYI, viscosity measures the resistance of a material to flow or deformation. A viscosity value of 10^19 - 10^21 Pa-second implies a solid body for all practical purposes.

[Ned Nikolov, Ph.D. @NikolovScience]

According to Plate Tectonics, the currently accepted theory of Earth's crustal evolution by mainstream Geology, continental plates slide on top of a "molten mantle" like potatoes on a greasy skillet:
https://t.co/i4oLra0yg8

Here is a video illustrating this idea with the Indian tectonic plate, which is believed to have traveled by itself from Madagascar (near the southern tip of East Africa) northward for 45 My before colliding with the Asian plate some 55 My ago and forming the the Himalayan Mountain as a result. Note that the Indian plate is shown to move autonomously & independently of the other tectonic plates!

Do you think such "sliding" was possible provided that: (a) the upper mantle has a viscosity of 10^19 - 10^21 Pa-second, which is 6-7 ORDERS of magnitude higher than the viscosity of solid ice; and (b) the continental plates are anchored to the upper mantle by granite roots that are 150 - 300 km deep?

FYI, viscosity measures the resistance of a material to flow or deformation. A viscosity value of 10^19 - 10^21 Pa-second implies a solid body for all practical purposes.

[Ned Nikolov, Ph.D. @NikolovScience]

Trenches don't prove subduction. They are just formations resulting from the spreading of the ocean floor. Again, does the overall length of such trenches match the length of the mid-oceanic spreading ridges? The obvious answer is "No"!

Mountains form, when the spreading ocean floor pushes against continental boundaries as the earth's radius increases and Earth's overall curvature flattens a bit. This causes enormous lateral pressure, which creates "wrinkles" (uplifts) in the crust, we call mountains. See this:

[Ned Nikolov, Ph.D. @NikolovScience]

@Monetarius That's BS protected by AI!

[Ned Nikolov, Ph.D. @NikolovScience]

The mistake made back then and repeated today is that the lack of human understanding about a process driving a particular phenomenon makes impossible the acceptance of evidence supporting the existence of the phenomenon.

The question "what happened?" should be separated from the question "how did it happen".

[Ned Nikolov, Ph.D. @NikolovScience]

@whittomd Additional mass delivered by cosmic particle fluxes (protons and electrons).

[Ned Nikolov, Ph.D. @NikolovScience]

Basalt and granite have nearly identical densities... A crustal plate of 14-15% lesser density than the mantle cannot sink into a pool of solid mantle with a viscosity of 10^19 - 10^21 Pa-seconds. This is like trying to "insert" a plate made of pure gold into a block of platinum (platinum is 11% denser than pure gold).

For the Earth to maintain a constant size, the length of spreading zones visible on the NOAA map must match the length of subduction zones. However, there is NO physical evidence for subduction taking place anywhere on the Planet, let alone matching the length of spreading zones.

[Ned Nikolov, Ph.D. @NikolovScience]

The pressure at the ocean floor (at 10,000 m depth) is about 0.1 GPa (it's less than that at lower depths). The pressure in the asthenosphere at 200 km depth is about 6.9 GPa in all directions.

How do you imagine a surface crust under 0.1 GPa of pressure sinking into a practically solid mantle that is denser than the crust and at 6.9 GPa of pressure?

[Ned Nikolov, Ph.D. @NikolovScience]

@TexelElf Yes, continental keels do descent into the asthenosphere, which starts at 80 km depth. Keels easily go down to 200 km.
Believing that the surface crust can sink below 200 km depth is just INSANE!

[Ned Nikolov, Ph.D. @NikolovScience]

@MACD86330 We need to ask the right (albeit inconvenient) questions to gain understanding of the World. ��

[Ned Nikolov, Ph.D. @NikolovScience]

Here are some reasons that make the subduction of one tectonic plate under another and its sinking into the mantle physically impossible:

1. North America is anchored to the upper mantle by a 250-600-km deep root called craton. Other continents have similar cratons. This makes "slipping" of a crustal plate under a continent impossible.

2. The crust has lower density than the upper mantle, and there is an enormous pressure directed from the mantle outwards that cannot be overcome by gravity. This makes sinking of a crustal plate into the mantle impossible.

3. The mantle is practically solid as a rock, because it has an estimated viscosity in the order of 10^19 - 10^21 Pa-s. It cannot be penetrated by a lower-density upper plate.

Finally, subduction requires the presence of piles of rubble on the ocean floor at the seam between two plates, where one plate moves under the other. Nothing like that is observed in reality!