By P Gosselin on 18. June 2016
On June 8 Spiegel science editor Axel Bojanowski wrote a rather harsh piece criticizing recent claims in the German media that “heavy rainfalls” were becoming more frequent in Germany when in fact there is no statistical evidence to support the claim. He even went so far to call the claims in the media “a climate bluff”. I […]
Posted in Scepticism |
By P Gosselin on 17. June 2016
Now the latest on the French government disappearing a skeptic project from a climate contest. In a contest that is set up to find the best solutions to a “problem”, it is not always wise to propose irrefutable scientific evidence that shows the “problem” does not even exist, and thus making the contest a waste […]
Posted in Climate Politics, Paleo-climatology |
By P Gosselin on 16. June 2016
It’s no secret that Dr. Sebastian Lüning’s outstanding, purely scientific Medieval Warming Period Map project has been held in very high regard within the science community. It’s also no secret that some government-funded scientists and a slew of activists are not at all happy that it has created controversy and cast serious doubt over climate science. Indeed Lüning’s […]
Posted in Activism, Climate Politics |
By P Gosselin on 15. June 2016
Meteorologist Joe Bastardi tweeted at Twitter the latest surface temperarture developments. I posted on this here yesterday. Joe tweeted the following chart by Dr. Ryan Maue: It shows how the surface temperature for the southern hemisphere is well into the cooler-than-normal territory, now close to a full degree Kelvin cooler than April’s peak. The black […]
Posted in Oceans |
By P Gosselin on 14. June 2016
Schneefan at his site here writes about the unusually wet weather Europe has been experiencing lately. This has to be upsetting to global climate modelers and scientists, who years ago claimed Europe would have to expect hot, dry summers involving severe periods of droughts. That prediction has turned out to be totally wrong. The very […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Oceans |
By P Gosselin on 13. June 2016
By Kenneth Richard When it comes to climate’s sensitivity to increases the CO2 concentration, the commonly stated assumption – based on modeled calculations – is that the resulting temperature change when CO2 concentrations are doubled from 275 ppm (pre-industrial) to 550 ppm is about 1.2°C. This is the direct result reported from doubling CO2 concentrations […]
Posted in CO2 and GHG |
By P Gosselin on 12. June 2016
The English language version of public broadcaster Deutsche Welle (DW) reports the latest on the unavoidable and what many critics are calling as long overdue reforms of Germany’s renewable energies feed in act (EEG) as the country reels from extremely high costs and daunting technical challenges. Pulling the reins on Germany’s wildly fluctuating sun and wind […]
Posted in Alternative Energy |
By P Gosselin on 11. June 2016
Dr. Sebastian Lüning writes at the Die kalte Sonne site that alarmist climate scientist Stefan Rahmstorf has been shown to be wrong with his idea of a weakening Atlantic Current. It turns out that natural factors are dominating. Image: NASA (public domain) ================================================ Bitter defeat for Stefan Rahmstorf: Weakening of the Atlantic Current from 2004 […]
Posted in Oceans |
By P Gosselin on 10. June 2016
Yesterday I posted on Spiegel reporting no precipitation trend changes in Germany from warming. Today’s post once again shows the alleged link is not what we are often told it is. ================================================ Max Planck Institute: Coupling of extreme extreme precipitation to climate warming weaker than feared By Dr. Sebastian Lüning und Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt (German […]
Posted in Drought and Deserts |
By P Gosselin on 9. June 2016
Parts of Germany have been hit hard by unusually harsh downpours, flooding and thunderstorms over the recent days, prompting some alarmist scientists to barge into TV and radio studios to announce it’s due to human-made climate worsening. Now Spiegel science journlalist Axel Bojanowski comments on this behavior in a commentary titled: “Heavy rains in Germany: […]
Posted in Hurricanes/Tornados, Media / Bias, Models |
By P Gosselin on 8. June 2016
German geologist and the author of climate science-critical book The Neglected Sun, Dr. Sebastian Lüning has entered his Medieval Warming Period Map in the French government sponsored contest “100 Projects For The Climate“. Right: Dr. Sebastian Lüning. Photo Die kalte Sonne. Within the scope of the 100 Projects For The Climate campaign, French Minister of […]
Posted in Paleo-climatology |
By P Gosselin on 7. June 2016
German meteorological site wobleibtdieerderwaermung.de here presents the latest developments on surface temperatures. Today I’m focused on the part dealing with the rapidly declining global temperature (TLT). ===================================================== Cold June spell about to hit Europe – more heavy summer rains in 2016 will lead to more flooding. By Schneefan (Translated, edited by P Gosselin) The current […]
Posted in Oceans, Solar Sciences |
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