Chinese-British Peer-Reviewed Paper Shows Holocene Dry-Wet Oscillations “Most Likely In Response To Solar Activity”

Chinese-British Peer-Reviewed Paper Shows Holocene Dry-Wet Oscillations “Most Likely In Response To Solar Activity”

The number of papers appearing recently showing that the sun has a major impact on the Earth’s climate is truly baffling. After all how could a twinkly little star 150 million kilometers away, separated from the Earth by empty space, possibly impact our climate? Everyone knows that trace gas CO2 drives climate 95%, that it’s the Earth’s climate-control [...]

Yet Another Paper Shows “The Enormous Importance Of Solar Activity Fluctuations On Climate”

Yet another study has appeared in the Journal of Geophysical Research, this one looks at the precipitation history on the Tibetan Plateau of the last 1000 years. Figure 1: Reconstruction of precipitation amounts for the edge of the Tibetan Plateau. The bars on the chart depict prominent weak phases of solar activity, which correspond to Om [...]

Papers Showing Sun As Main Driver Keep Rolling In – IPCC Focus On CO2 Looking More Like A Delusional Obsession

Papers Showing Sun As Main Driver Keep Rolling In – IPCC Focus On CO2 Looking More Like A Delusional Obsession

Dr. Sebastian Lüning (geologist) and Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt (chemist) at their website here discuss a recent (peer-reviewed) paper appearing in the journal Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. Figure 1: Taklamakan Desert is western China. Source: Wikipedia I’ve translated and edited the text in English with their kind permission. Oases of the Chinese Taklamakan Desert Greened Up In Sync [...]

German Leftist Media Seethe In A Fit Of Jealousy As They Lose Relevance, Readers

German Leftist Media Seethe In A Fit Of Jealousy As They Lose Relevance, Readers

The English language The Local here brings us a story I find amusing. Germany’s elitist mainstream print dailies are peeved because they have to share a prestigious journalism award with “populist” Bild tabloid, which they are now calling “Germany’s Rupert Murdoch”. Germany’s “journalism elitists” seethe over Bild’s media power. It appears that the “intellectual” leftist dailies in [...]

Ed Caryl Responds To Latest Warmist Gaseous End-Of-World Scare Scenario

Ed Caryl Responds To Latest Warmist Gaseous End-Of-World Scare Scenario

Methane By Ed Caryl I wish to thank the commenter styling himself SpaceScience for drawing our attention to the article at Nature GeoScience titled Atmospheric observations of Arctic Ocean methane emissions up to 82° north. PMMA chamber used to measure methane and CO2 emissions in Storflaket peat bog near Abisko, northern Sweden. Source: Wikipedia. The comment [...]

Germany’s Federal Network Agency Report Shows Power Grid “On The Brink” – Thanks To Renewable Energies

Germany’s Federal Network Agency Report Shows Power Grid “On The Brink” – Thanks To Renewable Energies

The German Bundesnetzagentur (Federal Network Agency) is the authority of the German federal government overseeing electricity, gas, telecommunications, post and railway networks. You know there’s a real problem when the agency itself issues a press release warning that the national power grid is in serious trouble and that something needs to be done urgently. Steffen Hentrich [...]

ESA Envisat Pronounced Dead

ESA Envisat Pronounced Dead

What follows is a press release from ESA today: ESA declares end of mission for Envisat Just weeks after celebrating its tenth year in orbit, communication with the Envisat satellite was suddenly lost on 8 April. Following rigorous attempts to re-establish contact and the investigation of failure scenarios, the end of the mission is being [...]

US Senate Candidate, Landslide Primary Winner Mourdock: “Debate Is Not Over On Global Climate Change”

US Senate Candidate, Landslide Primary Winner Mourdock: “Debate Is Not Over On Global Climate Change”

The (un)Scientific American has an opinion on the US Senate Republican primary race in Indiana and challenger Richard Mourdock. Geologist Mourdock trounces incumbent Richard Lugar in a climate of throw-the-old-bums-out and bring in fresh blood and ideas. So what can we expect from the new GOP candidate when it comes to climate change and science? First [...]

Meteorologist Klaus-Eckard Puls

The Belief That CO2 Can Regulate Climate Is “Sheer Absurdity” Says Prominent German Meteorologist

Physicist and meteorologist Klaus-Eckart Puls was interviewed by Bettina Hahne-Waldscheck of the Swiss magazine “factum“. I’ve translated and summarized the interview, paraphrasing for brevity. factum: You’ve been criticising the theory of man-made global warming for years. How did you become skeptical? Puls: Ten years ago I simply parroted what the IPCC told us. One day [...]

Must Read! Forbes Magazine Writes Of “Rising Global Warming Discord…Rapidly Growing Skepticism”

It’ll soon be over. It’s all coming apart. You can only watch in awe. Forbes online has just published a consensus-shattering article by Larry Bell: Global Warming Chorus Discord Rising To Feverish Pitch. Some selected juicy excerpts… …leading voices in the Global Warming Gospel Choir are now abandoning the old climate crisis hymnal … ‘there’s [...]

Vermont Senator Says State Energy Plan Has Become “A Blind Obsession”

Vermont Senator Says State Energy Plan Has Become “A Blind Obsession”

I got an e-mail from reader Thomas L. with a link to an opinion piece at Vermont Tiger titled “Fire On The Mountain“, written by Vermont state Senator Joe Benning. Vermont disfigures, self-mutilates its scenic ridgelines and mountains for the sake of a blind obsession. Source: lowellmountainsnews.com/ It shows how public opinion on the issue of [...]

Survey Shocks Swedish Defence Research Agency…”70% Of Sweden’s Local Politicians Don’t Believe In The Science”!

Survey Shocks Swedish Defence Research Agency…”70% Of Sweden’s Local Politicians Don’t Believe In The Science”!

Thank you Sweden for not acting like duped, non-thinking zombies, blindly marching behind activists who claim to be cool, educated and hip. Thank you for exercising critical and open thinking. It’s hip women from larger cosmopolitan areas who are acting to combat climate change while doubters are often conservative-leaning men, says an “expert”. Sweden’s English language [...]

Local Arctic Warming Has Nothing To Do With CO2 – Caused By Sulfur Dioxide From Russian Smelting

Local Arctic Warming Has Nothing To Do With CO2 – Caused By Sulfur Dioxide From Russian Smelting

More on Sulfur Dioxide By Ed Caryl Nearly all of the literature about SO2 claims that it is not a greenhouse gas. This “consensus” opinion is based on the belief that SO2 residence time in the atmosphere is too short for the gas to have an effect. Figure 1: Arctic temperature anomaly map for March [...]

PNAS Study Shows Powerful Correlation Between Sun And Climate Over The Last 9000 Years

By Dr. Sebastian Lüning and Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt (Translation / editing by P Gosselin) The IPCC thinks the sun plays nary a role on climate and that anthropogenic factors explain almost the entire warming since 1850. It’s been completely ignored that Gerard Bond was able to show more than 10 years ago that the last [...]

Panetta Recklessly Sees Casus Belli, Defines The Enemy – Is He Preparing For A State Of Emergency?

Panetta Recklessly Sees Casus Belli, Defines The Enemy – Is He Preparing For A State Of Emergency?

You really have got to worry when the U.S. Secretary of Defense declares a major security threat that isn’t real. History shows that such declarations are often followed by the suspension of civil law to make way for martial law, rationing and curfews. Casus belli refers to offenses or threats directly against a nation. It [...]