By P Gosselin on 17. February 2015
The latest post by Frank Bosse and Fritz Vahrenholt looks at solar cycle 24 in January, and the climate impacts of the North Atlantic. The two authors write that the IPCC models may be in for a bitter surprise. ================================== The sun in January 2015 and Atlantic prognoses By Frank Bosse and Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, IPCC, Models, Oceans, Solar Sciences |
By P Gosselin on 16. February 2015
German experts Sebastian Lüning and Fritz Vahrenholt tell at their Die kalte Sonne site us why the 2013 Cowtan and Way paper has proven to be a flop. ======================================== Failed spectacularly: Arctic data hole theory for the warming pause collapses By Sebastian Lüning and Fritz Vahrenholt (Translated, edited by P Gosselin) For quite some time […]
Posted in Activism, Arctic, Cooling/Temperature, Hockey Team, Models |
By P Gosselin on 15. February 2015
The Northeast USA is being socked by frightful cold and massive snow. The brutal New England winters are back and now we are witnessing last ditch efforts by disgraced climate scientists to blame the brutally cold winters on a warming planet (which in reality has not warmed in 18 years). At his latest Saturday Summary […]
Posted in Arctic, Cooling/Temperature, Hockey Team, Oceans, Weather |
By P Gosselin on 14. February 2015
Wintertime is when people especially need reliable power for their homes, living and workplaces – especially in a northern country like Germany. Unfortunately wind and solar power just aren’t able to come through and deliver when the chips are down. The above chart shows German power supply by the various sources available and demand over […]
Posted in Alternative Energy |
By P Gosselin on 13. February 2015
Roger Lewis of the UK online Spectator presents a highly interesting portrait of environmentalist, doomsday-believer Dylan Evans and his Utopia Experiment. Lewis concludes from it: “Designs for living always end in tears, or worse.” So disconnected from reality was Evans, and academic, that he believed he could actually make himself a better life departing the comforts of the […]
Posted in Abnormal Climate Psych |
By P Gosselin on 12. February 2015
According to University of California pediatric endocrinologist Robert Lustig, the US had 6 million “seriously overweight” kids in 2001. Since then that number has skyrocketed to over 20 million. Worldwide there are 366 million people with diabetes. By 2030, if trends are not curbed, 165 million Americans will be obese and by 2050 100 million […]
Posted in Abnormal Climate Psych, Climate Politics, Hockey Team, IPCC, Scepticism |
By P Gosselin on 11. February 2015
German climate science critical group Klimakontroverse.de is holding its next meeting at the Freizeitheim Linden in Hannover, Germany, 19 February, at 7:30 pm. The group regularly has meetings on climate and is known for taking the discussions directly to the public, but doing so with respect, courtesy and politeness. It writes: The main topic of the […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Scepticism |
By P Gosselin on 10. February 2015
How often have we heard the older folks reminiscing about good old fashioned New England winters we used to get 50 years ago? Well, they’re back. Ironically today’s winters are in fact so tough that journalist Jason Samenow of the online Washington Post here predicts that we may remember the current one “for generations“. A “severe […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Misc., Weather |
By P Gosselin on 9. February 2015
Reader Jimbo left a comment which I’ve upgraded to a post. Below he presents a list of 25 examples where climate alarmism organizations and scientists were more than happy to take in big money from Big Oil and industry. Even Michael Mann (Example no. 19) benefitted from the Koch Brothers! ============================ By reader Jimbo We are often […]
Posted in Activism, Climate Politics, Hockey Team, Misc. |
By P Gosselin on 8. February 2015
Charting the costs and effectiveness of renewable energy in Europe A comparison of both the capital cost and energy production effectiveness of renewable energy in Europe. By Ed Hoskins (Some editing by P Gosselin) The diagrams below show the cost and capacity factors of the major European renewable energy power sources: onshore and offshore wind farms […]
Posted in Alternative Energy |
By P Gosselin on 7. February 2015
Resistance to wind power in Germany is snowballing. And it needs to be noted that this resistance is grass roots and sustained almost entirely by volunteers and privately donated time and effort. In the latest wind energy critical site www.vernunftkraft.de here has a report summarizing the performance of Germany’s wind turbines in 2014. Again the […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Green Follies |
By Ed Caryl on 6. February 2015
It has been clear for a long time to those who simply observe climate that temperatures are driven by, in the long term, orbital and Earth tilt cycles, the Milanković cycles, in the medium term by solar cycles with ocean cycles. like the Atlantic Multi-Decadal Oscillation (AMO), and in the short term, by ocean and […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Models, Oceans, Solar Sciences |
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