By P Gosselin on 24. June 2020
Nowadays as soon as there’s any hint of some heat in the forecast, the European press immediately jump to holler a “record hot” summer is in the pipeline. Brace yourselves! A total miss For example, just last week The Weather Channel Germany warned of 40°C temperatures for Germany, probably after some model results sniffed out […]
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By P Gosselin on 13. June 2020
On May 26, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) issued a press release warning of “another record-breaking heat season” for the northern hemisphere this summer, along with the potential of the COVID-19 pandemic amplifying the health risks of the hot weather. Media outlets picked up the WMO warnings and spread panic stories of mayhem and climate […]
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By P Gosselin on 7. June 2020
So far no signs of another super hot-dry summer for Europe, which media have been alarming about. Veteran Swiss meteorologist Jörg Kachelmann tweeted the 45-day projections for Europe. In terms of precipitation, Europe saw drought conditions over the past two summers (2018 and 2019) and climate alarmists claimed this would be the new normal. And […]
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By P Gosselin on 28. December 2019
German site Alles Schall und Rauch (Everything is smoke and mirrors) here reminds us how back in 2004, “leading experts” warned the planet would likely be going down in flames by 2020! Forecast 2004 – Global doomsday by 2020 By Freeman (German text translated/edited by P Gosselin) Only three more days and the first decade […]
Posted in Alarmism, Stupid Predictions |
By P Gosselin on 28. May 2019
Seasoned Swiss meteorologist calls out sloppy, click-baiting journalism peddling sensational AccuWeather scorcher summer forecast for Central Europe. Even weirder, AccuWeather is simultaneously predicting near record cold summer for Europe. Prominent Swiss meteorologist Jörg Kachelmann recently tweeted his reaction to an AccuWeather seasonal forecast reported by the Swiss online Tagesanzeiger here who warned Europe would be […]
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By P Gosselin on 25. May 2019
Again today we are seeing earlier sensational, hysterical alarmist predictions made by “climate scientists” falling to pieces before our eyes. Recall how back in 2012 parts of the USA were seeing drought conditions and so the climate alarmists declared the US climate was entering a “permanent drought” – due to man’s use of fossil fuels. […]
Posted in Alarmism, Drought and Deserts, Stupid Predictions |
By P Gosselin on 21. April 2019
Yesterday I wrote here how some scientists misrepresent the observed data concerning Greenland ice melt in order to get the alarming results they want. There we see that Greenland has been melting, but recently much more slowly than what we are often led to believe. Looking at the latest Greenland ice volume data from the Danish […]
Posted in Arctic, Stupid Predictions |
By P Gosselin on 26. March 2019
By Kirye and Pierre Gosselin In December 2000, environment correspondent Paul Brown wrote here at The Guardian that global warming threatened “to create a dust belt around the globe” and that the Sahara had “crossed the Mediterranean” and forced “thousands to migrate as a lethal combination of soil degradation and climate change” turned “parts of […]
Posted in Drought and Deserts, Stupid Predictions |
By P Gosselin on 6. February 2019
By Kirye Since the global warming scare started some 30 years ago, Japan’s winters in fact have have not been warming – but rather many areas show the opposite is happening: cooling. January in Japan no warming in over 30 years For Japan as a whole, the entire country has […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Hurricanes/Tornados, Stupid Predictions |
By P Gosselin on 16. December 2018
German climate skeptic Snowfan here reports that Germany’s DWD National Weather Service has been caught deliberately spreading climate alarmism ahead of the COP24 using “fake news” in its press release of December 3, 2018, where it announced: 2018 could be the warmest and driest year since 1881.“ Snowfan replied on December 9th that 2018 could […]
Posted in Activism, Alarmism, Drought and Deserts, Stupid Predictions |
By P Gosselin on 10. August 2018
Charlatans exposed…when sham predictions clash with reality Yesterday Japanese blogger Kirye prepared a chart (below) depicting Arctic sea ice volume since 2006, the year Al Gore’s Inconvenient Truth (AIT) was released, and just a year or two before a spate of ice-free-Arctic-by-2013 (or earlier) predictions were issued by a number of “experts”, which of course the […]
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By P Gosselin on 29. July 2018
A recently published paper appearing in the PNAS authored by Bridget R. Scanlon et al reveals that calculations of water storage in many river basins from commonly used global computer models differ markedly from storage estimates from GRACE satellites. Source: PNAS, Bridget R. Scanlon et al Because we increasingly rely on models to project the impacts […]
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