By Kenneth Richard on 30. January 2020
In 2019, more than 440 scientific papers were published that cast doubt on the position that anthropogenic CO2 emissions function as the climate’s fundamental control knob…or that otherwise serve to question the efficacy of climate models or the related “consensus” positions commonly endorsed by policymakers and mainstream media sources. Image Source: Collins et al., 2019 […]
Posted in Antarctic, Arctic, Climate Sensitivity, Cloud Climate Influence, CO2 and GHG, CO2 Greens the Earth, Cooling/Temperature, Coral Reefs, Glaciers, Natural Oceanic Oscillations, Natural Variability, Paleo-climatology, Scepticism, Sea Ice, Sea Levels, Solar Sciences, Warming/CO2 Benefiting Earth, Wind Power |
By P Gosselin on 29. January 2020
Data from the University of Rutgers show that northern hemisphere snow cover in the fall and winter have trended upwards since data recording began in 1967. The following chart shows northern hemisphere snow cover for fall, where we see a formidable upward trend: Next we see the chart for wintertime northern hemisphere snow cover. Though […]
Posted in Arctic |
By Kenneth Richard on 9. December 2019
Scientists find three Arctic (Svalbard) lakes were all ~7°C warmer than they are now about 10,000 years ago – when CO2 concentrations were only 260 ppm. According to a just-published Geophysical Research Letters paper (van der Bilt et al., 2019), not only were surface temperatures 7°C warmer than today in High Arctic Svalbard due to […]
Posted in Arctic, Paleo-climatology |
By Kenneth Richard on 25. November 2019
The Arctic’s western Barents Sea (Storfjordrenna) surface temperatures now range between 2-4°C. Sea ice persists in the region for 10 months of the year. A new study finds this same region was sea ice-free, 10°C warmer than today (13°C), and SSTs rapidly rose and fell by degrees C per century during the mid-Holocene. The western […]
Posted in Arctic, Paleo-climatology, Sea Ice |
By Kenneth Richard on 31. October 2019
For over 40 years (1961-2002), the Greenland ice sheet cooled, thickened, and gained mass just as anthropogenic CO2 emissions were sharply rising. Image Source: Mikkelsen et al., 2018 According to Greenland ice sheet instrumental records, there was a dramatic cooling trend during summer months from the late 1980s to early 2000s (Chylek et al., 2004). […]
Posted in Arctic, Cooling/Temperature, Glaciers |
By P Gosselin on 27. October 2019
At XR and FFF rallies, speakers like telling outright lies with the aim of trying to get the masses of people to stampede in mass panic and blind anger. One of these activists in Germany is Carola Rackete, reports Michael Krüger here at Science Skeptical. Rackete, the award-winning refugee rescuer and sea vessel captain, has […]
Posted in Activism, Arctic, Drought and Deserts |
By Kenneth Richard on 24. October 2019
A new 800-year reconstruction of Western Arctic Ocean sea ice variability (Porter et al., 2019) indicates the recent centuries (and decades) of sea ice coverage are the most extensive of the period, with no significant net change in the last 200 years. There was no ice cover in the Western Arctic for about 2 to […]
Posted in Arctic, Sea Ice |
By P Gosselin on 15. October 2019
Rahmstorf way off: New study finds no robust relationship between shrinking sea ice, European cold waves By Die Kalte Sonne (German text translated/edited by P Gosselin) Photo: Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research A good six years ago, Potsdam climate researcher Stefan Rahmstorf was outraged by the German Weather Service (DWD) at his at Klimalounge […]
Posted in Alarmism, Arctic, Hockey Team |
By Kenneth Richard on 10. October 2019
In a new study, scientists report that about 17,000 to 20,000 years ago, when CO2 levels hovered near 190 ppm, “summer temperatures were higher here [North Slope, Alaska] than they are today” (Kuzmina et al., 2019). Image Source: Guthrie and Stoker, 1990 and The New York Times In the modern climate, North Slope, Alaska (north […]
Posted in Arctic, Paleo-climatology |
By Kenneth Richard on 30. September 2019
A new reconstruction of Arctic (NW Greenland) sea ice cover (Caron et al., 2019) reveals modern day sea ice is present multiple months longer than almost any time in the last 8000 years…and today’s summer sea surface temperatures are among the coldest of the Holocene. Yet another new study (Caron et al., 2019) shows today’s […]
Posted in Arctic, Sea Ice |
By Kenneth Richard on 26. September 2019
Greta Thunberg lives in Sweden. According to peer-reviewed science, Sweden was at least 3°C warmer than it is today about 6000 to 9000 years ago, when CO2 concentrations lingered around 265 ppm. At 410 ppm CO2, 21st century Sweden is colder now than almost any time in the last 9000 years. Image Source: Grudd, 2008 […]
Posted in Arctic, Cooling/Temperature, Medieval Warm Period, Paleo-climatology |
By Kenneth Richard on 23. September 2019
CO2 concentrations have risen from 310 ppm to 410 ppm since the 1930s. However, there has been no net change in Arctic or Greenland temperatures during these last 90 years. During the Pliocene, CO2 also ranged between about 300-400 ppm, but the Arctic was 15-22°C warmer and sea levels 25 meters higher than today. Is […]
Posted in Arctic, Climate Sensitivity, Paleo-climatology |
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