By Kenneth Richard on 8. Nov 2018
Share this…FacebookTwitterGoogle+email“A number of biases internal and external to the scientific community contribute to perpetuating the perception of ocean calamities in the absence of robust evidence.” – Duarte et al., 2015 Image Source: Larcombe and Ridd, 2018 Within a matter of days after the press release for a newly published Nature paper spewed the usual […]
Posted in Activism, Alarmism, Oceans, Scepticism |
By P Gosselin on 12. Sep 2018
Share this…FacebookTwitterGoogle+emailGulf Stream is doing fine: Potsdam Institute horror story suffers bitter setback By Dr. Sebastian Lüning and Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt (German text translated/edited by P Gosselin) The horror scenario from the movie The Day After Tomorrow keeps getting presented as a real plausible scenario for our future: Falling salt content of the upper Gulf Stream […]
Posted in Arctic, Oceans |
By Kenneth Richard on 23. Aug 2018
Share this…FacebookTwitterGoogle+emailCoral reef bleaching events occur after exposure to unusually warm water temperatures or excessive sunlight. Activists claim that today’s coral bleaching events are not only unprecedented, but reefs will soon disappear. In contrast, scientists have determined that modern-day bleaching events are not unusual or unprecedented, but only a continuation of a naturally-occurring phenomenon. A […]
Posted in Alarmism, Natural Variability, Oceans |
By Kenneth Richard on 9. Aug 2018
Share this…FacebookTwitterGoogle+emailRecent research has emphasized that “critical mysteries remain” in our ability to quantify or even understand carbon cycle processes as they relate to Earth’s water bodies. Observational constraints prevent the detection of an anthropogenic signal in ocean carbon uptake trends on decadal timescales (McKinley et al., 2017). Many new papers even contradict the IPCC-endorsed […]
Posted in CO2 and GHG, Emissions, Oceans |
By P Gosselin on 8. Aug 2018
Share this…FacebookTwitterGoogle+emailUsing data from the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI), Japanese skeptic blogger Kirye just tweeted how Arctic sea ice volume has surged to the 3rd highest level in 16 years. Data source. Danish Meteorological Institute. Chart source: Kirye. Today, there’s not a climate ambulance chaser to be found in the Arctic. Some ten years ago, […]
Posted in Arctic, Oceans |
By Kenneth Richard on 20. Jul 2018
Share this…FacebookTwitterGoogle+emailA new analysis of top-to-bottom (0-5000 m) ocean heat content changes since the mid-1990s reveals that (a) large regions of the global ocean have undergone cooling, and (b) the overall net temperature change for 1994-2013 was a modest 0.02°C. In contrast, during the Holocene the oceans naturally warmed at a rate and magnitude several […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Natural Variability, Oceans |
By P Gosselin on 15. Jul 2018
Share this…FacebookTwitterGoogle+email40-year veteran meteorologist Joe Bastardi at WeatherBell’s Saturday Summary shows how the Earth’s surface has cooled dramatically over the past three years and that Arctic sea ice is piling up. Hurricane threat to East Coast due to natural factors First at his most recent Saturday Summary, the 40-year meteorologist first warns that in-close developing […]
Posted in Arctic, Cooling/Temperature, Oceans, Sea Ice |
By P Gosselin on 14. Jul 2018
Share this…FacebookTwitterGoogle+emailAnother paper titled The Solar Wind and Climate: Evaluating the Influence of the Solar Wind on Temperature and Teleconnection Patterns Using Correlation Maps lends great support to the claim that solar activity plays a major role in driving the Earth’s climate, and that CO2’s impact is being grossly overstated. Hat-tip: Kirye. The paper, authored by […]
Posted in IPCC, Natural Oceanic Oscillations, Oceans, Scepticism |
By P Gosselin on 13. Jul 2018
Share this…FacebookTwitterGoogle+emailDespite hysterical headlines from the fake media claiming the weather is weirding out due to man-made climate change, recent studies show that it’s mostly superstition and that our modern climate in fact is well within the range of natural climate variability. If one really wants to understand today’s weather and climate, it is essential to […]
Posted in Drought and Deserts, Medieval Warm Period, Natural Oceanic Oscillations, Natural Variability, Oceans |
By P Gosselin on 30. Jun 2018
Share this…FacebookTwitterGoogle+emailThe following Arctic sea ice area chart from the Bremerhaven-based Alfred-Wegener Institute shows a current sea ice area that is about 1 million square kilometers below the mean. Chart: Alfred Wegener Institute, University of Bremen. But don’t let the lower than normal sea ice area fool you into thinking the ice is disappearing, and […]
Posted in Arctic, Oceans, Sea Ice |
By P Gosselin on 8. Jun 2018
Share this…FacebookTwitterGoogle+emailUnusually cold tropical Atlantic could suppress hurricane activity this year, says Colorado State University hurricane expert Phillip Klotzbach. However cold tropical Atlantic sea surface temperatures don’t necessarily mean reduced hurricane risk. Colorado State University (CSU) hurricane expert Phillip Klotzback at Twitter commented that the tropical Atlantic sea surface temperatures are the 2nd coldest on […]
Posted in Hurricanes/Tornados, Oceans |
By P Gosselin on 30. May 2018
Share this…FacebookTwitterGoogle+emailThese are tough times for the US climate-ambulance chasers, who like to use every extreme-weather event as a God-sent sign the climate is going to hell in a handbasket. Tornadoes AWOL, models contradicted But even weather extremes aren’t cooperating with the climate predictions and models. For instance, yesterday meteorologist Joe Bastardi at Weatherbell noted that […]
Posted in Arctic, Hurricanes/Tornados, Oceans |
By Kenneth Richard on 28. May 2018
Share this…FacebookTwitterGoogle+emailIn the past it has been widely reported that high and abruptly changing CO2 concentrations during the Permian led to climate conditions that were “too hot for complex life to survive” on the planet. Today, scientists have determined that the opposite may be true: the Permian mass extinction event occurred during a period of […]
Posted in Oceans, Paleo-climatology, Sea Levels |
By P Gosselin on 15. May 2018
Share this…FacebookTwitterGoogle+emailMedia in typhoon-prone Japan ignore new important findings suggesting hurricanes and typhoon intensification speed depends mostly on natural oceanic cycles, and not related to atmospheric CO2. Recently I posted on the surprising and science-realistic German DLF national public radio report on how hurricanes are intensifying more quickly today than they did 30 years ago. Findings […]
Posted in Hurricanes/Tornados, Oceans |
By P Gosselin on 13. May 2018
Share this…FacebookTwitterGoogle+emailHere’s something you don’t witness very often…German national public radio telling listeners that natural factors are behind observed changes in something related to climate. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard the German media claim storms are linked to our disdainful energy gluttony. So it comes as quite a shock when you […]
Posted in Hurricanes/Tornados, Oceans |
By P Gosselin on 12. May 2018
Share this…FacebookTwitterGoogle+emailWe’ve heard about all the cold and icy weather reports and results coming from all corners of the planet lately, and so naturally most of us sense that it just doesn’t jive with all the alarmist global warming claims and rhetoric we hear. Tremendous ice growth For example over the past winter the Arctic ice […]
Posted in Arctic, Oceans |
By P Gosselin on 11. Apr 2018
Share this…FacebookTwitterGoogle+emailSchneefan at German weather and climate analysis site wobleibtdieerderwaermung.de here brings us the latest on atmospheric temperatures. First we note that the middle troposphere (7,500 meters) as measured by NASA has seen recently a sharp cooling off since the start of April: The chart shows the daily mean temperature at about 7,500 meters altitude, i.e. […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Natural Oceanic Oscillations, Oceans |
By P Gosselin on 6. Apr 2018
Share this…FacebookTwitterGoogle+emailThe addition of an esteemed Norwegian climate scientist to the London-based GWPF will help bring some sobriety back to a science that has all too often been immersed in alarmism. The London-based Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) recently announced Professor Ole Humlum of Norway was joining its Academic Advisory Council. This brings another persuasive […]
Posted in Models, Oceans, Scepticism, Solar Sciences |
By P Gosselin on 30. Mar 2018
Share this…FacebookTwitterGoogle+emailGrowing polar ice mass in a warm world? Although a number of scientists are hollering that 2017 was “among the warmest on record”, we are not seeing any manifestation of this, at least over the northern hemisphere, where ironically snow and ice have shown surprising extents. This year the northern hemisphere winter has been […]
Posted in Antarctic, Arctic, Cooling/Temperature, Oceans |
By P Gosselin on 23. Mar 2018
Share this…FacebookTwitterGoogle+emailBrand new scientific findings in a just published paper by Lansner and Pepke Pedersen appearing in the journal of Energy and Environment cast global warming science into more uncertainty. The findings tell us that ocean cycles and their impacts have not been adequately accounted for in computing global temperatures. BEST approach “flat wrong” The paper […]
Posted in Natural Oceanic Oscillations, Oceans |
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