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By P Gosselin on 21. October 2017
If one were to rate the investment made by governments globally aimed at creating concern for a potential problem, then the huge investment in climate change fear by now would definitely have to be rated as “junk” quality. Never has so much seen so little return. Hundreds of billions have been invested so far with the […]
Posted in Misc. |
By P Gosselin on 20. October 2017
Recently Kenneth Richard posted a flurry of papers showing that the CO2 climate sensitivity estimate has been trending sharply downward over the years, which means CO2’s claimed effect on warming has been highly exaggerated. Now another opinion has come to light, further supporting the notion that the recent rise in CO2 in fact is having […]
Posted in CO2 and GHG |
By P Gosselin on 18. October 2017
First, at Twitter here Swiss high-profile meteorologist Jörg Kachelmann presented a video on how he thinks German public television failed to adequately warn the public before North Sea storm Xavier barreled through northern Germany on October 5. Swiss meteorologist Jörg Kachelmann says he believes German media (image above) inadequately informed the public of the danger […]
Posted in Media / Bias |
By P Gosselin on 17. October 2017
By Dr. Sebastian Lüning and Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt German text edited/translated by P Gosselin) Satellite measurements of Antarctic sea ice do not go back even 40 years. That’s not very much, especially when we consider that many natural climate cycles have periods of 60 years and more. Luckily we have the field of climate reconstruction. Using […]
Posted in Antarctic |
By P Gosselin on 15. October 2017
Volcano Agung in Bali is showing worrisome signs of a major eruption, writes German climate blogger Schneefan here. The highest level of activity with multiple tremor episodes were just recorded. You can monitor Agung via live cam and live seismogram. The 3000-mter tall Agung has been at the highest warning level 4 since September 21. Schneefan […]
Posted in Tectonics/Volcanoes |
By P Gosselin on 14. October 2017
One thing is clear: Germans were fooled and deceived by politicians and activists into thinking that the transition to renewable energies would not cost much, reduce pollutants, create a clean environment, improve the climate and create many jobs. None of these have come true. Electricity prices have skyrocketed, the landscape is being industrialized and Germany has […]
Posted in Alternative Energy |
By P Gosselin on 13. October 2017
In the wake of a fall storm ‘Xavier’ that struck Germany and claimed 7 lives, one of Germany’s most popular TV Talkshows, Maischberger 1 on ARD German public television, recently featured climate change in discussion round bearing the title: “Xavier and the weather extremes: has our climate reached the tipping point?” Cologne and Berlin under water! Backdrop […]
Posted in Activism, Media / Bias, Scepticism |
By P Gosselin on 11. October 2017
Germany Temperatures Baffle: September Mean Shows Hardly Any Warming In 70 Years By Josef Kowatsch and Dr. Sebastian Lüning (Translated and edited by P Gosselin) Temperatures are rising and rising and rising. That’s what we read in any case in the daily newspaper, and that’s what some television professors, activists and climate scientists are telling us. […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature |
By P Gosselin on 10. October 2017
Dr. Ryan Maue here reports at Twitter that although the Atlantic hurricane season “is going gangbusters“, the Pacific is in fact seeing “one of quietest Typhoon seasons on record“. Last month in the media, amid the aftermath of Harvey and Irma, the public heard a long stream of hysterical reports claiming that the tropical storms were sure sure […]
Posted in Hurricanes/Tornados |
By P Gosselin on 8. October 2017
It’s safe to say that the only people who still believe the ultra-alarmist scenarios of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research are the leftist media and green activists. Even the government funders of this institute know they aren’t really true. After all Germany hasn’t cut CO2 emissions in close to 10 years. Dr. Sebastian […]
Posted in Activism, Hockey Team |
By P Gosselin on 7. October 2017
German public radio DLF here reports an astonishing finding by scientists: Global wind speeds globally are slowing down! A number of European scientist groups and a European science magazine of the EU Commission just reported on this. Global wind speeds are slowing down, European researchers believe. Image: anemometer, NOAA public domain photo. According to the […]
Posted in Agriculture, Drought and Deserts, Hurricanes/Tornados, Natural Variability |
By P Gosselin on 6. October 2017
Last Wednesday evening, Florida State University graduate student Levi Cowan showed at his Tropical Tidbits site his analysis of what was later to develop into tropical storm Nate in the Gulf of Mexico. His analysis exposed the great differences – thus huge uncertainty – between the US GFS and the European ECMWF models for the early projected […]
Posted in Models |
By P Gosselin on 4. October 2017
Like so many (highly subsidized) green energy projects in Germany the Kalina geothermal power plant in Unterhaching, Germany, was put into operation with great fanfare some 8 years ago in 2009. Look at all the great things we’re doing, high ranking politicians seemed to say as the cut the opening ribbon. Today the online Merkur.de reports that the […]
Posted in Alternative Energy |
By P Gosselin on 3. October 2017
In a recently released video interview by journalist Jörg Rehmann, University of Magdeburg economics professor Joachim Weimann explains why renewable energies have been a terrible idea for Germany so far. Recently a high ranking expert commission set up by the German government even sharply criticized the German Energiewende (transition to renewable energies), saying it was leading the country down […]
Posted in Alternative Energy |
By P Gosselin on 1. October 2017
Germany’s DWD national weather service has the preliminary September 2017 report out. According to the result of the data measured by the country’s 2000 weather stations, last month was cooler than normal. September 2017 in Germany saw a mean temperature of 12.7°C, which was 4.2°C cooler than last year’s record warm September (16.9°C). This means […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Weather |
By P Gosselin on 30. September 2017
Yet another study has been published showing that regional climate cycles are related to solar activity. The most recent suggest that blizzards in North America are related to solar activity cycles. Blizzard in Kansas. Photo: NOAA – public domain. ========================================== More Blizzards in North America During Solar Weak Phases By Dr. Sebastian Lüning and Prof. […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Solar |
By P Gosselin on 29. September 2017
Angela Merkel’s grand coalition government with the opposition SPD socialist party took a massive beating in last Sunday’s election, with both her CDU/CSU party and the coalition partner SPD socialist party coming in at post-war historic lows. Since then the SPD has announced it is no longer interested in continuing the grand coalition and instead […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Climate Politics |
By P Gosselin on 27. September 2017
At Twitter physical scientist Ned Nikolov informs us of a 2015 paper that “finds NO trend in global Tropical Cyclone Activity between the decade 1965-1974 and the present. Hence, warming has NOT affected hurricane activity for the past 45 yrs! ” The paper’s abstract: The ACE index is used to compare tropical cyclone activity worldwide […]
Posted in Hurricanes/Tornados |
By P Gosselin on 26. September 2017
No doubt today there’s a huge demand for science de-indoctrination – especially among children – in a variety of fields, ranging from nutrition, climate science, economics and even eugenics (still!). Government corruption of the sciences is as old as civilization itself. It will never go away and so the best we can hope for is to […]
Posted in Arctic |
By P Gosselin on 24. September 2017
The German election results are coming in, and one thing is clear: Angela Merkel’s coalition government lost big. The preliminary figures show: (UPDATED Monday) CDU/CSU center right – 33.0% SPD socialist – 20.5 Left – 9.1 FDP free democrats – 10.7 Greens – 8.9 AfD hard right – 12.6 Other – 5.0 Here we see that the German center-leftist parties […]
Posted in Climate Politics |
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