By Kenneth Richard on 20. March 2017
Modern ‘Warmth’ A Brief Excursion From 8,000-Year (Continuing) Cooling Trend The scientific literature is replete with evidence that the geological record for the Holocene (the last 10,000 years) fails to support the concept that rising atmospheric CO2 concentrations cause ocean and land temperatures to rise. Actually, the scientific literature strongly suggests that the correlation between […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Hockey Team, Paleo-climatology |
By P Gosselin on 19. March 2017
Translated/edited from wobleibtdieerderwaermung.de. A huge hole in the magnetically hot corona of the sun in the coming weeks will lead to a powerful solar wind and initiate hefty polar lights in the earth’s magnetic field. This will be a brief pause in the solar activity slumber that has taken hold over the past year and […]
Posted in Solar |
By P Gosselin on 18. March 2017
Germany’s Deutsche Welle (DW) here presents a commentary by Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, the director of German ultra-alarmist Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. Professor Schellnhuber fears that the planet could warm even as much as 12°C if man does not act quickly to totally eliminate greenhouse gases. He adds that he “has all the evidence” […]
Posted in Activism, Climate Politics |
By P Gosselin on 17. March 2017
The largest city of my home state of Vermont — Burlington — was buried by a record-shattering 30.4 inches (ca. 80 cm) of snow from recent storm Stella. Burlington, Vermont area gets buried by record-smashing snow as bitter temperatures grip region. Image cropped from Westford Webcam. Hat-tip: reader Indomitable Snowman Amusingly the reader Snowman just informed […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Stupid Predictions, Weather |
By Kenneth Richard on 16. March 2017
Are Modern Rates Of Sea Level Rise Too Slow For Optimal Coral Growth? Since the 20th century began, global sea levels have been rising at rates of about 1.7 – 1.8 mm/year, or about 0.17 to 0.18 of a meter (~7 inches) per century. NOAA Zerbini et al., 2017 “Our estimated rates for the northern Mediterranean, […]
Posted in Sea Levels |
By P Gosselin on 15. March 2017
The Sun In February and Arctic Sea Ice Von Frank Bosse und Fritz Vahrenholt (Translated and condensed [due to time constraints] by P. Gosselin) The star at the center of our solar system was also very inactive last month. The determined sunspot number SSN of 26.1 was only 50% of what is normal. Fig. 1: Mean […]
Posted in Antarctic, Arctic, Natural Oceanic Oscillations, Solar |
By P Gosselin on 14. March 2017
By Dr. Sebastian Lüning and Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt (German excerpts translated/edited by P Gosselin) On February 27, 2017, the DWD German National Weather Service concluded in its February report: February 2017 was much too warm and with only average sunshine Offenbach, 27 February 2017– At the beginning of February 2017, it was still cold in […]
Posted in Activism, Cooling/Temperature |
By Kenneth Richard on 13. March 2017
Climate Model Errors = 20 W m-2 CO2 Climate Forcing = 0.2 W m-2 Scott Pruitt, the new head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, has recently been characterized as a climate science “denialist” by world news organizations. A UK Guardian headline, for example, has claimed that “EPA head Scott Pruitt denies that carbon dioxide causes global […]
Posted in CO2 and GHG, IPCC, Models |
By P Gosselin on 12. March 2017
Germany appears poised to make a fundamental course correction in its climate and energy policy. Germany has long been a steadfast and influential proponent of “climate protection”. Also the country’s Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), directed by climate doomsday professor Hans-Joachim Schellnhuber, has been one of the most influential European players in underpinning the […]
Posted in Climate Politics |
By P Gosselin on 11. March 2017
“Do we have the next Solyndra at hand?” I had to shake my head when reading the recently published Fox News report: Another taxpayer-funded energy company files for bankruptcy. Image cropped from Aquion Energy. Hat-tip: Indomitable Snowman According to Fox News, Pennsylvania-based Aquion Energy had received “a $5.2 million stimulus-tied grant” (not a loan) from the […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Climate Politics, Green Follies |
By P Gosselin on 10. March 2017
The ‘Energiewende’ (transition to green energies) risks leading to a complete meltdown of Germany’s power generation sector. The latest news is that German electricity giant Eon expects to post a massive 12.4 billion euro loss for the year 2016, NTV news site writes here. Careful not to link the loss to Germany’s failing renewable energy […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Green Follies |
By Kenneth Richard on 9. March 2017
The Globe Has Not Been Warming . . . So Why Is It Called ‘Global’ Warming? There were at least 60 peer-reviewed scientific papers published in 2016 demonstrating that Today’s Warming Isn’t Global, Unprecedented, Or Remarkable. As of the end of January, another 17 papers had already been published in 2017. 17 New (2017) Scientific […]
Posted in Hockey Team, Natural Variability, Paleo-climatology |
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