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By P Gosselin on 28. September 2016
Science journalist and geologist Axel Bojanowski at the online German Spiegel news weekly comments on the drive by activists to proclaim an “Anthropocene” age because they claim that man has so much altered the planet and is adding a new geological layer in doing so. It all stems from accusations that man has altered the surface […]
Posted in Activism, Tectonics/Volcanoes |
By P Gosselin on 26. September 2016
An open letter about climate politics from seven distinguished climate researchers and friends of science follows: ============================================= Some 375 political activists attached to the National Academy of Sciences, supporting the totalitarian view on the climate question, have issued an open letter saying we “caused most of the historical increase in atmospheric levels of heat-trapping greenhouse […]
Posted in Activism, Scepticism |
By P Gosselin on 25. September 2016
At the Germany-based European Institute for Climate and Energy (EIKE), Helmut Kuntz writes that Germany’s all-time record high temperature recorded last year, 2015, is likely an artifact of the urban heat island effect (UHI) and instrumentation error margins. In 2015 the Kitzingen weather station located in southern Germany set a new all-time high when it reached […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature |
By P Gosselin on 24. September 2016
At BR Bavarian public broadcasting here, Judith Zacher writes how the Zöschingen wind park has lost the air under its wings and has disappointed investors. At the time it opened in 2013, it was Bavaria’s largest citizens-operated wind park. But the BR writes that “there’s not enough wind and the financial expectations can hardly be […]
Posted in Alternative Energy |
By P Gosselin on 23. September 2016
Yesterday the online German news weekly FOCUS here wrote an article that is certainly more bad news for Germany’s electricity consumers, who are already paying among the highest rates in the world. One of Germany’s major power grid operators, Tennet, announced it is “massively increasing power grid fees” and that “power is going to be more […]
Posted in Alternative Energy |
By P Gosselin on 21. September 2016
Land area gains despite sea level rise: coastal areas have grown 13,500 sq km over past 30 years By geologist Dr. Sebastian Luning and Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt. (German text translated/edited by P Gosselin) On August 25, 2016 there was in Nature Climate Change a small wonder was observed. A team of scientist led by Gennadii […]
Posted in Oceans, Sea Levels |
By P Gosselin on 20. September 2016
Atmospheric research scientist Dr. Philip Klotzbach at Twitter here tweeted a chart showing that accumulated cyclone energy (ACE) has not risen at all in 30 years, despite earlier massive hype and hollering by climate scientists and media, who insist “man-made” global warming is causing more frequent and intense cyclones. In fact Klotzbach’s plot above shows that […]
Posted in Hurricanes/Tornados |
By P Gosselin on 18. September 2016
The greatest obstacle to wind energy is its unreliable, weather-dependent supply. If the wind stops blowing, then it’s lights out! Image cropped from: www.youtube.com/kGXoE3RFZ8 Yet, proponent’s often claim the solution is offshore, for example out in the tempestuous North Sea. There the wind is always blowing, they like to tell us. Unfortunately this too is turning […]
Posted in Alternative Energy |
By P Gosselin on 17. September 2016
German climate and weather analyst Schneefan here Looks at the current ENSO conditions. What follows are excerpts of what he presents. =================================== The global cooling weather phenomenon La Niña in the equatorial Pacific is steadily increasing in strength – and the NOAA has not recognized this: NOAA Cancels La Niña Watch While La Niña Conditions Exist. […]
Posted in Arctic, Oceans |
By P Gosselin on 16. September 2016
High profile German food chemist Udo Pollmer here at German public radio brings the following video to our attention. In the video biologist and public speaker Allan Savory tells an audience how climate change and desertification has a lot more to do with the elimination of roaming herd animals over grasslands and vegetated areas over the […]
Posted in Drought and Deserts |
By P Gosselin on 14. September 2016
Kenneth Richard’s post from yesterday on how a small group of alarmist scientists tried to whitewash away the global cooling scare of the 1970s has been making some waves. Not only was it made the top headline at Climate Depot, but also James Delingpole at Breitbart London here has written a scathing piece about the fraudulent, totalitarian […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Hockey Team |
By P Gosselin on 12. September 2016
Today I can only offer a trailer on what will be published tomorrow, as the finishing touches are still ongoing. Over the past weeks NTZ has assisted in a comprehensive analysis of a large body of climate science literature. At this point I can only say that the results have one climate science’s central claims […]
Posted in Activism, Climate Politics, IPCC |
By P Gosselin on 11. September 2016
Professor Fritz Vahrenholt wrote an expert assessment for the Liechtenstein-based Geopolitical Intelligence Services on the situation concerning Germany’s power grid stability and its current renewable energy policy. He says Germany needs an immediate and fundamental course correction if it wishes to avert a disaster. Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt. Photo credit: DkS. Costly for the consumer Vahrenholt […]
Posted in Alternative Energy |
By P Gosselin on 10. September 2016
Schneefan at wobleibtdieerderwaermung.de here analyzes Arctic sea ice to date… (Translated, edited by P Gosselin) ==================================== Arctic: Sea ice melt 2016 done at 4.1 million km²? Northwest Passage freezes over! At approx. 4.1 million square kilometres extent, it appears that the summertime Arctic sea ice melt has ended early, on 7 September 2016. Here the […]
Posted in Arctic |
By P Gosselin on 9. September 2016
Germany’s leading climate alarmism site “Klimaretter” (Climate Rescuer) recently fretted that the German government has quietly watered down the country’s climate protection policy and targets for the coming decades. In short, Germany is walking away from its climate protection commitments declared in Paris. The site describes Germany’s plan to reduce CO2 emissions by 2050 as […]
Posted in Climate Politics |
By P Gosselin on 7. September 2016
German flagship ARD public television recently broadcast a report on Germany’s Energiewende called: “The Battle Over Wind Turbines” Meet the Schmidt’s in northern Germany. The family, like many Germans, once welcome wind turbines and viewed them as a responsible way to produce energy in an environmentally and climate friendly way. Today the ARD reports that they […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Climate Politics |
By P Gosselin on 6. September 2016
Japanese climate blogger Kirye caught my eye here at Twitter when posting a comparator chart of Arctic sea ice extent (and thickness) for 2007, 2015 and this year (2016) for September 4. In a nutshell, what is all the alarm about? She comments that “Arctic ice is not doomed in the real world.” Clearly Arctic […]
Posted in Arctic, Models |
By P Gosselin on 4. September 2016
What’s wrong here? August in Germany is not getting warmer By Josef Kowatsch and Sebastian Lüning (Translated/edited by P Gosselin) According to the German DWD national weather service August 2016 recorded a mean temperature of 17.7°C. The start of the month was really cool, but the last part of the month the temperature climbed to peak […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature |
By P Gosselin on 3. September 2016
The mean temperature for Germany in August, 2016, was 17.7°C, which turns out to be 0.2°K colder than the figure reported in the overheated August 30, 2016 press release issued by the German DWD national weather service. The August result makes the month 0.7°C warmer than the 1981-2010 mean. Nothing extraordinary. However, the DWD has had a habit […]
Posted in Activism, Cooling/Temperature, Media / Bias |
By P Gosselin on 2. September 2016
Accuweather here writes that hurricane Hermine is the first to make landfall in Florida since Wilma way back in October 2005, 11 years ago. Chart: NOAA, public domain In the heydays of global warming, in the early 2000s, scientists and activists loudly claimed hurricanes would become more frequent and even more powerful due to global warming […]
Posted in Hurricanes/Tornados |
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