By P Gosselin on 6. January 2017
As Europe and USA brace for more frigid weather, some are asking if this is what we need to expect to cope with in the future. Now it’s clear that the recent “record warm” 2 years had little to do with CO2, and instead were almost entirely due to the well-known El-Nino phenomenon over the […]
Posted in Arctic, Cooling/Temperature, Models, Oceans |
By Kenneth Richard on 5. January 2017
While it has understandably not received much, if any, media attention, the North Atlantic Ocean has been rapidly cooling since the mid-2000s, or for more than 10 years now. The longer the cooling trend continues — and scientists are projecting more cooling for the coming decades — the more difficult it will be to […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Oceans |
By P Gosselin on 4. January 2017
Important Success: Clouds as a Climate Amplifier of Atlantic Ocean Cycles Confirmed By Dr. Sebastian Lüning and Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt (German text translated/edited by P Gosselin) In September 2016 an exciting paper by a team led by Katinka Bellomo was published in the Geophysical Research Letters. It described a climate amplifier for the Atlantic Multidecadal […]
Posted in Oceans |
By Kenneth Richard on 2. January 2017
Climate science is supposed to be settled, right? We are told that there is an overwhelming agreement, or consensus, among scientists that most weather and climate changes that have occurred since the mid-20th century have been caused by human activity — our fossil fuel burning and CO2 emissions in particular. We are told that natural mechanisms that […]
Posted in CO2 and GHG, Cooling/Temperature, Drought and Deserts, Glaciers, Green Follies, Hockey Team, Models, Oceans, Scepticism, Sea Levels, Solar, Tectonics/Volcanoes, Weather |
By P Gosselin on 31. December 2016
Dr. Sebastian Lüning and Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt here bring our attention on a recent paper on the impact of “sea smell” on climate. Below is the press release in English. Under the bottom line: Climate models are a very long way from being reliable. They are still at the primitive stages. ============================================== Impact of sea smell […]
Posted in CO2 and GHG, Oceans |
By Kenneth Richard on 29. December 2016
The ocean “acidification” narrative that claims humans are gradually lowering pH levels in sea water with their CO2 emissions may rest on presumptions, hypotheticals, and confirmation bias — not robust, observational scientific evidence. A paper by Wei et al. (2015) published a year ago in the Journal of Geophysical Research effectively illustrates the vacuousness of the […]
Posted in Oceans |
By P Gosselin on 21. December 2016
Coral reefs keep cool By Dr. Sebastian Lüning and Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt (German text translated by P Gosselin) Coral horror stories have long been among the favorites of the media. Lately, however, a number of journalists have been taking a closer look at the state of the coral reefs. A good example is an article […]
Posted in Oceans |
By P Gosselin on 16. December 2016
The Sun in November 2016. And models coming back to reality By Frank Bosse and Fritz Vahrenholt (Translated/edited by P Gosselin)The star at the center of our solar system last month again approached bottom with its solar activity. The monthly mean for sunspot number (SSN) was 21.4. Just how low this is, is clearly illustrated by […]
Posted in Models, Oceans, Solar Sciences |
By Kenneth Richard on 12. December 2016
Three years ago, when the Rosenthal et al. (2013) paper was made available online from the journal Science, there was a bit of a stir among the purveyors of the humans-control-climate-with-their-CO2-emissions paradigm. Climate activist Michael Mann, for example, was ostensibly quite unhappy that a Medieval Warm Period (with +0.65°C warmer-than-now intermediate [0-700 m] ocean temperatures) was prominently […]
Posted in CO2 and GHG, Cooling/Temperature, Oceans, Paleo-climatology |
By P Gosselin on 9. December 2016
Finally there’s agreement: Ocean cycles are responsible for the missing warming since 2000 By Dr. Sebastian Lüning and Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt (German text translated, edited by P Gosselin) It was stated in our 2012 climate science skeptical book “Die kalte Sonne” and was massively criticized. Today it is accepted: the systematic impact of ocean cycles […]
Posted in Oceans |
By Kenneth Richard on 1. December 2016
Oceans Warmed 6 Times Faster Than Modern Rates During The Mid-Holocene Annotated graph from Rosenthal et al. (2013) illustrating the steep amplitude of natural variations in ocean heat It has long been acknowledged by scientists that significant changes in deep ocean heat content have occurred in the past in the absence of changes or forcing […]
Posted in CO2 and GHG, Oceans, Paleo-climatology |
By Kenneth Richard on 14. November 2016
Over the course of years to decades, the heat contained in the ocean naturally undulates, with more or less upwelling cooler waters rising to the surface. Naturally-occuring El Niño (wind current) events greatly influence the prevention of cooler waters from upwelling to the surface; this phenomenon, in turn, ultimately elicits an overall surface warming event […]
Posted in Oceans, Solar, Weather |
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