By Kenneth Richard on 31. October 2016
Share this… Facebook TwitterIn the IPCC’s 2001 third report (TAR), the total surface temperature increase for the 20th century was reported to be “about 0.6°C”. IPCC TAR (2001): “The global average surface temperature has increased over the 20th century by about 0.6°C.” This Met Office graph of global temperatures for 1860-2000 was included in the […]
Posted in Activism, Cooling/Temperature, Hockey Team, IPCC, Paleo-climatology |
By P Gosselin on 30. October 2016
Share this… Facebook TwitterSeasonal forecasts are iffy. Right now, however, there are strengthening indicators showing winter brutality in the pipeline for Europe rushing at us like an express train. Don’t let the current relatively benign autumn conditions fool you. I’ve been following all of this over the past couple of weeks, and as a result decided […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Weather |
By P Gosselin on 29. October 2016
Share this… Facebook TwitterClimate science critical geologist Dr. Sebastian Lüning and chemist Professor Fritz Vahrenholt informed readers here that a new book has been recently published: “Evidence-Based Climate Science: Data Opposing CO2 Emissions as the Primary Source of Global Warming“. The book’s publisher is glacier geologist Don Easterbrook, Western Washington University. At their site Lüning […]
Posted in IPCC, Models, Paleo-climatology |
By P Gosselin on 28. October 2016
Share this… Facebook TwitterUSA’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) provides data here on snow cover. Because global warming is supposed to be leading to less snow, one would think that snow cover in terms of area would be trending downwards over the past 50 or so years. However, the data tell us a very […]
Posted in Arctic |
By Kenneth Richard on 27. October 2016
Share this… Facebook TwitterAccording to the IPCC (2007), changes in climate occur as a consequence of variations in the Earth’s radiation budget (solar energy absorbed by versus leaving the surface). Changes in the Earth’s radiation budget occur for 3 primary reasons; two of those three reasons involve solar forcing. IPCC AR4: “Global climate is determined […]
Posted in Solar |
By P Gosselin on 26. October 2016
Share this… Facebook TwitterThe other day as I was looking to book a hotel in the city of Hamburg I came across the Novum Style Hotel Hamburg. What caught my eye was that the booking and price conditions allow guests the option of offsetting the CO2 emissions that their stay produces. According to the Novum’s […]
Posted in Activism |
By P Gosselin on 25. October 2016
Share this… Facebook TwitterCriticism and harsh words on Germany’s out-of-control renewable energy policy continues to mount and grow in volume as the energy sector approaches potential catastrophe. Cologne’s online Kölner Stadt Anzeiger (KSta) here reports on a speech made by Germany’s former federal economics minister Wolfgang Clement on the subject of Germany’s green energy policy […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Climate Politics |
By Kenneth Richard on 24. October 2016
Share this… Facebook Twitter Above image from Hanna et al., 2011 (Greenland Ice Sheet) In 1942, eight U.S. WWII aircraft (2 bombers, 6 fighter planes) emergency-landed on […]
Posted in Misc. |
By P Gosselin on 23. October 2016
Share this… Facebook TwitterThere’s more trouble with the Energiewende. The thrill is gone! It used to be that the German Energiewende (transition to renewable energies) once enjoyed overwhelming support among the population. However, a recent national survey conducted by Germany’s University of Stuttgart, in cooperation with the University of Münster and two Fraunhofer institutes, shows a […]
Posted in Misc. |
By P Gosselin on 22. October 2016
Share this… Facebook TwitterYesterday veteran meteorologist Joe Bastardi brought to our attention an article by the Washington Post here, where it reports forecasters are warning that the coming winter “could get nasty” for the Washington D.C. area. Although the National Weather Service predicts “equal chances of a cold or mild winter”, private meteorologists warn the […]
Posted in Arctic, Cooling/Temperature, Weather |
By P Gosselin on 21. October 2016
Share this… Facebook TwitterTrick of the radiative forcing of 3.7W/m2 at the tropopause by Kyoji Kimoto Radiative forcing is defined as 3.7W/m2 for 2xCO2 at the tropopause by the IPCC Third Assessment Report (2001) to avoid the usage of the surface radiative forcing of around 1W/m2. It is greatly reduced from the radiative forcing of […]
Posted in CO2 and GHG |
By Kenneth Richard on 20. October 2016
Share this… Facebook TwitterBack in the early 1970s, when there was a scientific consensus that the Earth was cooling and that cooling was not good for the biosphere, scientists were ranking human-generated pollutants in terms of their potential to do harm to the planet. At that time, CO2 was regarded as “the least objectionable or only […]
Posted in Pollution |
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