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By P Gosselin on 5. June 2026
May’s weather and Spring 2026 in the context of the last 100 years By Frank Bosse, KlimaNachrichten editor Germany’s DWD national weather service has published its monthly, preliminary, data for May 2026. These data also include the preliminary regional averages for temperature (14.1 °C) and precipitation (65 mm). In terms of temperatures, 14 of the […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Drought and Deserts |
By Kenneth Richard on 29. May 2026
Century-scale patterns of solar activity suggest the onset of the next Little Ice Age cooling period is here. Newly published research utilizing historical solar magnetic field phase analysis documents the impact of solar activity on Earth’s temperature. Cold “Little Ice Age” periods can be reliably linked to Grand Solar Minima (GSM). For example, during the […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Paleo-climatology, Solar Sciences |
By Kenneth Richard on 27. April 2026
“The results indicate that extremes in heat-related metrics for daily T [Max] in the summer have not increased and in fact often show modest declines since 1899, due mostly to the early heat events during 1925-1954.” – Christy, 2026 The contiguous United States (CONUS) has the most reliable and comprehensive long-term daily maximum and minimum […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Natural Variability |
By Kenneth Richard on 11. April 2026
The drivers of warming and glacier retreat in Antarctic climates are not aligned with a linearly-rising trend of atmospheric CO2. Scientists (Park et al., 2026) have assessed that over the last four decades the patterns of air temperature, sea surface temperature, and glacier retreat near King George Island (just north of the northernmost tip of […]
Posted in Antarctic, Cooling/Temperature, Glaciers |
By Kenneth Richard on 30. March 2026
Because cold temperatures are so much more dangerous to human health than warmth, a modest 0.5°C warming could save over 10,000 lives per year in the US. A new study indicates that from 2000 to 2020 there were 6,129 annual deaths attributable to excess summer heat across 1,514 US counties (representing 91% of the United […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Warming/CO2 Benefiting Earth |
By Kenneth Richard on 26. January 2026
Decades of satellite data confirm the globe has been substantially greening – as defined by rising Leaf Area Index (LAI) values – since the 1980s. The CO2 fertilization effect (CFE) enhances plant productivity via improved light use efficiency and water use efficiency. In other words, with elevated CO2, photosynthesis rates are not as hampered as […]
Posted in CO2 Greens the Earth, Cooling/Temperature |
By P Gosselin on 24. January 2026
Record cold at the South Pole … Amundsen-Scott Station records -61.3°C … coldest October temperature in Southern Hemisphere since 1981. The German, realist European Institute for Climate and Energy (EIKE) presents its latest video on the subject of Antarctica and contrasts the new records with mainstream media coverage of climate change. On October 15, 2025, […]
Posted in Antarctic, Cooling/Temperature |
By Kenneth Richard on 30. December 2025
Global warming was significantly more pronounced in the early 20th century and prior to 1940, or back when CO2 emissions rates were 8.6 times lower than they were from 1983-2024. A new study using 60 million daily maximum/minimum temperatures from 1600 global weather stations across 29 countries indicates the globe warmed at a rate of […]
Posted in Climate Sensitivity, CO2 and GHG, Cooling/Temperature |
By Kenneth Richard on 23. December 2025
The Southern Ocean (60-70°S) and Antarctica (south of 60°S) were warmer in the late 1970s and early 1980s than in recent decades (Vihma and Uotila, 2016, Ma et al., 2025). These regional temperature anomalies do not align with linearly-rising CO2 emissions. Image Source: Vihma and Uotila, 2026 Image Source: Ma et al., 2025
Posted in Antarctic, Cooling/Temperature |
By Kenneth Richard on 15. December 2025
“Temperature is an intensive property that is defined only in equilibrium systems and cannot be meaningfully averaged across non-equilibrium systems.” − Cohler, 2025 A 2007 math proofs study that asserted a global mean temperature does not exist in reality (because a temperature average can only be defined in equilibrium systems) has never been disproved. For […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Uncertainty Error |
By Kenneth Richard on 9. December 2025
Central Asia’s Karakoram Mountains have not undergone any warming since 1851, a trend that is inconsistent with claims that modern warming has been global in scale. Per a new study‘s reconstruction of summer temperatures over the last 170 years, this region has cooled dramatically (by nearly 1°C) since the 1980s. This “anomalous” cooling trend has […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Glaciers
By Kenneth Richard on 20. November 2025
A new study finds Earth’s bottom water temperatures (BWTs) have cooled by 2-3°C over the last 4.5 million years through to the pre-industrial era (1750). Since 1750, however, global BWTs have not risen in a detectable way, nor have they exceeded the warmth achieved during the Medieval Warm Period (Gebbie and Huybers, 2019). The Pacific […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Oceans |
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