By P Gosselin on 31. December 2014
Two blurbs today, before I get ready for this evening’s New Year’s celebrations. Environmentally friendly cars as death boxes First is that people who drive small cars in order to save the climate are seriously putting themselves at risk, or even dying if involved in a serious accident. That’s the result of newly conducted crash tests […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Paleo-climatology |
By P Gosselin on 30. December 2014
In 2014, Germany and parts of Europe will be seeing their warmest year ever since temperature recording began in earnest late in the 19th century. The media and alarmists are giddy about this, even though most of it is due to a global weather pattern that worked to deliver an almost steady stream of warm […]
Posted in Arctic, Cooling/Temperature, Models, Stupid Predictions |
By P Gosselin on 29. December 2014
A couple of days ago I wrote a piece aimed at encouraging readers to consider a diet change to improve their health for the coming new year, and to ignore the consensus high-carb/lowfat diet. My own health has improved dramatically since I stopped listening to the preventive maintenance advice peddled by the boys at the expensive […]
Posted in Activism, Nutrition |
By P Gosselin on 28. December 2014
Joe Bastardi’s latest Weatherbell Saturday Summary is out. This week the high-profile, veteran meteorologist has some interesting comments on sea surface temperatures and this year’s once highly ballyhooed “super El Niño“. Remember how earlier this year a number a climatology experts were all giddy because somehow they had managed to convince themselves that a “super El […]
Posted in Models, Oceans, Stupid Predictions |
By P Gosselin on 28. December 2014
As New Year’s Day approaches here’s something off-topic, but could make a real difference to your health. It has to mine. Probably the most common New Year’s resolution one hears is “I’m going to get back in shape“. Unfortunately it is also the one that fails the most often. A year ago, at the age of […]
Posted in Agriculture |
By P Gosselin on 26. December 2014
CNN recently published an online op-ed by Germany’s Federal Minister of Environment, Barbara Hendricks, titled: How Germany banishes climate myths, where she brazenly declares Germany’s Energiewende (transition to renewable energies) a success story. Nothing could be further from the truth. In reality her op-ed piece ranks right up there close to George W. Bush’s famous “Mission […]
Posted in Alternative Energy |
By P Gosselin on 25. December 2014
So far it’s been a very mild winter across Central Europe. Just days ago, with temperatures in the double-digit Celsius range, meteorologists and media wrote off the possibility of a white Christmas. Gradually all the snow being a “thing of the past” talk was starting up. Wrong again. So unpredictable can chaotic systems like weather and […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Weather |
By P Gosselin on 24. December 2014
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year NoTricksZone
Posted in Misc. |
By P Gosselin on 23. December 2014
Due to time constraints, what follows is a shortened version of the original German blog article. ================================= Danish Chinese scientists discover important relationship: Arctic sea ice development of the last 5000 years is controlled by solar activity By Fritz Vahrenholt and Sebastian Lüning (Translated/edited by P Gosselin) Satellites began systematically measuring sea ice about 35 […]
Posted in Arctic |
By P Gosselin on 22. December 2014
UPDATE: Trek of Fools – Ric Werme provides the link to a Spanish language video…the pictures tell the whole story: The documentary provides the names and passport numbers of some of the Greenpeace activists. ============================= Here’s a Spanish-language video clearly showing the “irreparable” damage to the Peruvian Nazca Lines done by renegade Greenpeace activists earlier […]
Posted in Greenpeace |
By P Gosselin on 22. December 2014
Update: Latest model run now shows less cold after New Year’s day…so fast can the weather in the future change! ================================ Much of Europe has been enjoying a mild fall, and early winter thus far as a long series of Atlantic lows laden with warm, Atlantic air masses have been sweeping regularly across the continent. […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Weather |
By P Gosselin on 21. December 2014
The following by German scientists Fritz Vahrenholt and Sebastian Lüning exposes yet another classic example why we cannot trust climate institutes. ======================================= Caught red-handed: Geomar omits crucial 1960s Arctic sea ice melt phase in press release By Fritz Vahrenholt and Sebastian Lüning (Translated/edited by P Gosselin) The most well-known historical Arctic region melting period took place 1000 […]
Posted in Arctic |
By P Gosselin on 20. December 2014
What About Climate Change? By Ed Caryl In last week’s on-line issue of the Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine (Volume 90, Number 4), Judith Curry and Kim Cobb contributed their thoughts on the issue of climate change in two short essays. Photo: Kim Cobb; source: Georgia Tech. These essays were obviously intended to oppose each other. […]
Posted in Activism |
By P Gosselin on 19. December 2014
Germany’s so-called Climate Consortium here has published a telling statement on this year’s “record warm year” in Germany and the reasons behind it. The Climate Consortium represents the collective position of all Germany’s scientific climate institutes. Although the statement claims the record year “fits very well in the picture of a long-term global temperature increase” it […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Oceans |
By P Gosselin on 18. December 2014
The online Swiss Handelszeitung (Trade News) reports on the world’s second largest reinsurer Swiss Re, and on the losses from natural catastrophes for 2014. Let’s recall that natural catastrophes are supposedly becoming more and more frequent due to the alleged man-made climate worsening from manmade CO2 emissions. Hat-tip: Kurt However the Handelszeitung writes that preliminary […]
Posted in Hurricanes/Tornados, Media / Bias, We're To Blame |
By P Gosselin on 17. December 2014
Dirk Notz of the Hamburg-based Max-Planck-Institute: Arctic sea ice could again expand in the coming decade By Sebastian Lüning and Fritz Vahrenholt (Translated/edited by P Gosselin) Over the past 30 years Arctic sea ice has shrunk considerably. Although both in 2007 and 2012 negative records were reached, the ice recovered in the years that followed. […]
Posted in Arctic |
By P Gosselin on 16. December 2014
Recently I published an opinion by Harvard astrophysicist Willie Soon concerning the dubious “2014 hottest year ever” claim. That post is doing very well and continues to be widely shared in the social media – so much so that the piece stung a sensitive nerve over at Climate Nexus. But instead of rebutting Dr. Soon point-by-point, […]
Posted in Activism |
By P Gosselin on 15. December 2014
Rainer Hoffmann of the German language Klimamanifest has produced a short clip on the 2°C target we keep hearing about. According to activists the globe mustn’t be allowed to warm up more than 2°C over its 1900 level, otherwise it will tip into an irreversible and unstoppable spiral to climate catastrophe that will lead to […]
Posted in Activism, Climate Politics, Hockey Team |
By P Gosselin on 14. December 2014
It’s clear: none of the intended aims were reached during the two-week UN mega climate conference in Lima. Some baby steps were made. And of course they are being sold to the public as important progress on the road to a binding treaty in Paris next year. No one believes it. What was achieved, unfortunately, were […]
Posted in Activism, Climate Politics, IPCC |
By P Gosselin on 13. December 2014
The Lima Climate Conference has been extended another day as countries are still unable to reach an agreement on how much to cut emissions and who has to pay how much. But there are mounting signs that the talks may have fallen apart. This morning NTV German public television writes that German Environment Minister Barbara Hendricks […]
Posted in Climate Politics, IPCC |
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