By P Gosselin on 21. June 2013
The Geophysical Research Letters has just published the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research’s crystal ball visions for the monsoons in India, PIK press release here. I’ve highlighted the language to emphasize the speculative nature of the study. Ups-and-downs of Indian monsoon rainfall likely to increase under warming Day-to-day rainfall in India might become much […]
Posted in Drought and Deserts, Models, Stupid Predictions |
By P Gosselin on 21. June 2013
A reader, currently in Dallas, and was compelled to photograph the headquarters of the Dallas Morning News. He sent me the following photo, where I’ve highlighted part of the text which I think would be good advice for certain media outlets here in Germany when reporting on global warming, and anywhere for that matter. Photo […]
Posted in Media / Bias |
By P Gosselin on 20. June 2013
Joe Bastardi has left a comment at Rolling Stone in response to their “10 Dumbest Statements Ever Made About Global Warming” commentary. Here it is: By the way, talking about deceit. THIS WAS A GLOBAL WARMING ISSUE. that is the game you chose. To then conveniently turn into Climate Change, which is redundant since over […]
Posted in Models |
By P Gosselin on 20. June 2013
UPDATE: Levermann has now officially blocked me as a Twitter follower Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research scientist Anders Levermann, a colleague of über-alarmists Stefan Rahmstorf and Hans-Joachim Schellnhuber, gleefully tweeted an article from the sex, drugs, and rock n roll lifestyle authority, Rolling Stone: The 10 Dumbest Things Ever Said About Global Warming. PIK […]
Posted in Green Follies, Hockey Team |
By P Gosselin on 19. June 2013
If anything shows that climate change is mainly the worry of rich western neurotics in search of a meaning in life, it’s the latest survey by the UN on what are the world’s most pressing problems. Surveyed so far are 625,000 people. Vote here: http://www.myworld2015.org/. Economics/statistics professor Bjorn Lomborg writes at FaceBook the above […]
Posted in Climate Politics, Green Follies |
By P Gosselin on 19. June 2013
Spiegel here reports on the results of a new recently published survey on how Germans view climate change. The cooked study (yes, I think the survey is very dubious) was conducted by Engels et al. The dressed-up as science survey comes from the cabal of usual warmist suspects. According to Spiegel, based on a telephone survey of […]
Posted in Activism, Climate Politics, Scepticism |
By P Gosselin on 19. June 2013
Reader Jeff Glassman of rocketscientistsjournal.com left a comment about Murry Salby, which regrettably got held up in the spam filter. Because he devoted much time to writing it, I’ve upgraded his comment to a post. ============================================ On 4/18/2013, Ferdinand Engelbeen misunderstands Henry’s Law and its dominance over atmospheric CO2 to the exclusion of human emissions. 1. […]
Posted in CO2 and GHG, Solar Sciences |
By P Gosselin on 18. June 2013
Just call it the Great Solar Energy Bubble! It has popped for good, and what’s left behind is a whopping 21 billion euros in destroyed capital, Germany’s flagship daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) writes today. One of the arguments used to convince people of the virtues of solar energy was that “the sun doesn’t send […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Green Follies |
By P Gosselin on 17. June 2013
The print edition of Spiegel today has an interview with Prof Hans von Storch, the outspoken leading climate scientist often aims criticism at both sides of the climate debate. Not that von Storch is sort of a provocateur, rather he only speaks his mind, which at times for some means a message they’d prefer not to […]
Posted in CO2 and GHG, IPCC, Models, Oceans |
By P Gosselin on 17. June 2013
At the SciLogs website, Stefan Rahmstorf of the über-alarmist Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research presents Part III of his Mann-hockey-stick-resurrection series. Here he explains to his German readers how the temperature really developed over the Holocene and why the 20th century is “unique”. To do this, Rahmstorf uses the findings of the already refuted […]
Posted in Hockey Team, Models, Paleo-climatology |
By P Gosselin on 16. June 2013
The Economist here has an excellent analysis of the German “Energiewende” which is the country’s bold transformation to (80%) renewable energy by 2050. Right now the Economist is not too impressed, and its report should serve as a warning to other countries contemplating a similar move. Hat tip Judith Curry (must read). Some quotes: “Germany’s Energiewende […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Climate Politics |
By P Gosselin on 15. June 2013
Geologist Dr. Sebastian Lüning’s and Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt’s Die kalte Sonne website talks about the latest study on Antarctic ice. Remember that we keep hearing that the next IPCC report will be even scarier than the last one of 2007. ======================== Antarctic Ice Sheet Indeed Melting Slower Than Originally Thought By Fritz Vahrenholt and Sebastian Lüning […]
Posted in Antarctic, Sea Levels |
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