Hurricanes/Tornados

Meteorologist Joe Bastardi: The Whole CO2 “Argument Is Tiresome And Absurd…Warmists Living In A Fantasy World”

Meteorologist Joe Bastardi: The Whole CO2 “Argument Is Tiresome And Absurd…Warmists Living In A Fantasy World”

Joe Bastardi of weatherbell.com/ kindly took the time to write a comment, and so I think it deserves being upgraded to a post. It’s one whole semester of meteorology summed up (edited by PG)! Here’s the problem globally: We continue to dwell on temperatures in the Arctic and ignore the fact that it’s a natural cyclical distortion because the planet [...]

Leading German Meteorologist Dismisses Climate Horror Scenarios…”Are Without Any Scientific Merit”

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? [...]

Reinsurer Munich Re Natural Catastrophe Statistics Report 2012: Far Less Global Damage From Weather In 2012!

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 [...]

Europe Admits Inconvenient Truths: “Climate Change Has Become A Fringe Issue…Shale Gas Offers Hope”

If there ever was a sign that the issue of climate change is struggling with irrelevance in Europe, and thus has lost its global leadership force, it can be found in this candid (frustrated) view expressed in the Austrian STANDARD: “Disinterest in Climate Change” by Eric Frey. “Despite Sandy, global warming is a fringe issue in [...]

Another Massive (Winter) Storm Brewing – May Pound Already Battered Northeast With Cold, Heavy Snow

Another Massive (Winter) Storm Brewing – May Pound Already Battered Northeast With Cold, Heavy Snow

If you think things are now horrendous for the Northeast US, just wait few more days. Hell in New Jersey and New York could turn into Super Hell, especially if they don’t get power and real help soon.  Chart from the National Center for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) of the US National Weather Service indicates massive [...]

Joe Bastardi Rips Al Gore: “Stunningly Ignorant…He Doesn’t Know What He’s Talking About”

Joe Bastardi Rips Al Gore: “Stunningly Ignorant…He Doesn’t Know What He’s Talking About”

Precisely how I feel. If you haven’t seen this yet, then watch it now. Video: Bastardi rips Al Conjob Gore “That’s stunningly ignorant, or stunningly deceptive what Al Gore said. [...] He doesn’t know what he’s talking about. And ever since he shot his mouth off over Katrina, we’ve seen total global tropical activity go [...]

Leading Hurricane Expert Chris Landsea Makes A Presentation On Hurricanes

Here’s an excellent chance to learn from one of the most cited hurricane experts worldwide. VIDEO BY CHRIS LANDSEA Hat-tip: climatedepot.com/ Photo: Chris Landsea, Ph.D. in Atmospheric Science, NOAA (public domain photo).  

ZDF German Public Television Reporter: Long Island Express Storm Of 1938 “Claimed 800 Million Lives”!

Flagship ZDF German public television, Germany’s equivalent to CBS or BBC, reported on Hurricane Sandy yesterday evening on it famous “heute journal” news show. I was watching it live (which is very rare for me) and I couldn’t believe what I heard. What follows is the video link of the broadcast. Just listen here to what the ZDF [...]

German Meteorological Expert Says: “No Evidence Showing Link Between Storms And Global Warming”

German Meteorological Expert Says: “No Evidence Showing Link Between Storms And Global Warming”

Yesterday evening I watched a special report on Hurricane Sandy on Phoenix public television. Meteorologist Dr. Karsten Brandt. (Photo source: donnerwetter.de) Phoenix invited meteorologist Dr. Karsten Brandt as an expert. Brandt is co-managing director of donnerwetter.de. He was asked by the Phoenix news achorman if we should expect more and bigger storms due to global [...]

Now A Mere Jog In A Storm’s Path Has Become Proof Of Manmade Climate Change…”Pope Calls For Solidarity!”

Now A Mere Jog In A Storm’s Path Has Become Proof Of Manmade Climate Change…”Pope Calls For Solidarity!”

It used to be that weather extremes were “proof of man-made warming”. But because that argument didn’t seem to sway anyone, the warmists have taken it a level higher: now even the storm’s path is proof. This is how desperate they’ve become. Thirty years ago, such people would have been committed to a nuthouse. Chart [...]

‘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 [...]

Anthony Watts’s Best Interview! Nature Has Had Enough Of Spurious Climate Science

Click on the following link and listen to Anthony Watts on Nature getting back to serious science. http://soundcloud.com/thelarslarsonshow/anthony-watts-has-been Says it plainly. No wonder the charlatans like Appell are freaking out.  

German Professor Says We Are “Treading On Thin Ice” With Our Interpretation Of Warming

Online German daily Die Welt here published a surprisingly anti-alarmist article written by Prof Wolfgang Behringer, a science historian at the University of Saarbrücken. His conclusion: climate change and ice cap melting (and freezing) are nothing new and that man ought to be grateful it’s warmer, and not be hysterical about it. Indeed this is the [...]

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, [...]