Drought and Deserts
As Floods Hit Eastern Germany, Recent Potsdam Climate Institute Model Warned Of Summertime “Water Shortages”!
Holger Thuss, President of the European Institute for Climate and Energy (EIKE) at Facebook brings up a report appearing at the online FOCUS just last September. In the report the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact research (PIK) warned that summers in eastern Germany would suffer from “water shortages”. That’s what their models had shown. FOCUS wrote [...]
Back To The Penalty Box…Chinese Paleo-Climatolgists Slap Down High-Sticking Michael Mann!
Saturday I posted about a recently published study by He YuXin et al, which happened to catch the watchful eye of Sebastian Lüning of kaltesonne.de/. Lüning comments on what the paper means for Michael Mann: ================================================= Medieval warmth at the northern Tibetan Plateau casts doubt on Michael Mann’s temperature map By Dr. Sebastian Lüning In [...]
German Journalist Writes New NOAA Study Embarasses The Obama Administration / Kevin Trenberth
At his Die Welt blog, journalist Ulli Kulke has a commentary on the recent scientific study issued by the NOAA and its latest findings concerning the US drought last year, which now states that it was due to just plain bad, natural weather and was not man-made. Kulke calls the findings embarrassing for President Obama, who now [...]
Study Shows Southwest Droughts Of The Past “Were More Severe, Persistent Than Any Of The Last 100 Years”!
The U of A Science News website has an interesting report on precipitation reconstructions using tree rings. The reconstruction goes back some 470 years in the Southwest, covering most of Arizona, western New Mexico and parts of northern Mexico. Arizona sunset. Photo credit: Saguaro Pictures, Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license. Today when drought strikes, we [...]
East African Drought Due To Natural Cycles – Not Man-Made, Study In Nature Shows
Sebastian Lüning and Fritz Vahrenholt’s Die kalte Sonne site recently posted an article about the East African drought, which, as it turns out, is all part of a natural cycle. ================================================ New Study in Nature: East African Drought Trend Part of a Natural Cycle By Sebastian Lüning and Fritz Vahrenholt (Translated, edited by P Gosselin) [...]
East African Drought Due To Natural Cycles – Not Man-Made, Study In Nature Shows
Sebastian Lüning and Fritz Vahrenholt’s Die kalte Sonne site recently posted an article about the East African drought, which, as it turns out, is all part of a natural cycle. ================================================ New Study in Nature: East African Drought Trend Part of a Natural Cycle By Sebastian Lüning and Fritz Vahrenholt (Translated, edited by P Gosselin) [...]
Leading German Meteorologist Dismisses Climate Horror Scenarios…”Are Without Any Scientific Merit”
Dr. Karsten Brandt is one of Germany’s leading commercial meteorologists and runs www.donnerwetter.de/, which provides forecasting services in the private sector. He often appears as an expert in the German media, see here for example. At his donnerwetter.de site he recently published an article, which I’ve translated in English with kind permission. ================================================= Where’s the Climate Change? [...]
Ehrlichian Catastrophe-Obsessed Potsdam Climate Institute Claims 12 Times More Heat Records By 2040!
The PIK has issued a press release on another one of its patently alarmist, statistically selective and manipulative studies, BASED ON MODELS, claiming the end of the world is near. I’m sure this study will be shown to be preposterous in just a matter of days. No matter, the German media can hardly contain itself. [...]
Reinsurer Munich Re Natural Catastrophe Statistics Report 2012: Far Less Global Damage From Weather In 2012!
The real story of 2012 is one of unextreme weather and natural events. Deaths globally in 2012 from natural disasters were 90% below the longterm average. Photo: Public domain photo, NOAA The online, eco-leftist TAZ from Berlin has an article about reinsurer Munich Re’s Natural Catastrophe Statistics 2012 report on weather and natural disasters, released yesterday. 2012 [...]
Higher CO2 Concentrations Will Feed A Billion More People
Ed Caryl today presents the latest of his essays. This one on CO2 and plant growth. ========================================== What Should We Do About CO2 Emissions? By Ed Caryl So, what should we do about CO2 emissions? The answer is: nothing. The evidence that Co2 is harmful, that it is raising the earth’s temperature dramatically, has been largely [...]
Die Zeit’s Slovenly Climate Journalism – How They Totally Botched The Story Of The Missing Wheat
What follows is the story of how editors at renowned German weekly Die Zeit completely botched the translation of English text passages to German, thus making their German story completely erroneous, and far more sensational. Climate change threatens the global supply of noodles, Die Zeit claims. Source: www.kaltesonne.de ================================================ Embarrassing translation blunders in climate-alarm article [...]
‘The Local’: Munich RE “Profiteering From Climate Change Scare Stories Based On Quasi Scientific Reports”
Germany’s English-language online news site The Local here also features Spiegel’s report on weather extreme hype by reinsurer Munich RE. Munich RE has no proof, scientists claim. Fears based on quasi science. (Graphic source: http://en.wikipedia/Munich_Re The local writes: Scientists decry insurer’s extreme weather claims German insurance companies stand accused of putting the wind up American [...]
Spiegel Slams Munich RE: Distortions Of Weather Extremes Are “Suspicious” And “Irresponsible Hype”
Climate-change bilking by Big Insurance is slowly but surely being exposed by the media. The noose around the climate change scam is tightening. Reinsurers are cashing in by spreading dubious fears of weather extremes. Photo source: Tomas Castelazo, GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version. Spiegel reporter Axel Bojanowski has a piece today [...]
Spiegel 1974: “Temperatures Over Last 20 Years Have Dropped Faster Than At Anytime In The Last 1000 Years”
Looking back at the Spiegel archives, here’s another report warning of global cooling and that man was the cause: The desert is growing. There are some very familiar sounding excerpts (my emphasis): Undisputed is that the desert is growing…the Sahara in some places has expanded southwards by 48 km…24 million people in Mauritius, Senegal, Mali, Niger [...]
The Handelsblatt Interviews Climate Catastrophe Skeptic Fritz Vahrenholt: The Fear Is Driven By Money
It used to be that climate skeptics in Germany never got interviews with major media outlets. It was a sort of unwritten rule. Headline: “The Temperature will rise only one degree” But now that seems to be changing – ever since the release of Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt’s and Sebastian Lüning’s skeptic book, Die kalte Sonne, [...]
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