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By P Gosselin on 13. October 2014
Volcanic activity in Iceland has risen dramatically over the past few weeks. Yet, thankfully, the big eruption many feared never materialized and signs show that the pressure has been subsiding. Good news, many among us may think. Bárðarbunga Volcano, September 4, 2014. Picture taken by Peter Hartree , CC BY-SA 2.0. Yet science journalist and […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Tectonics/Volcanoes |
By P Gosselin on 3. June 2014
A Short History of the Human Race Part 1, The Late Pleistocene, A Story of Survival By Ed Caryl The story of the human race, Homo Sapiens, is really a story driven by climate, particularly temperatures, rainfall, and sea level. Most of that history has taken place in the last 20,000 years, since the Last […]
Posted in Agriculture, Cooling/Temperature, Drought and Deserts, Glaciers, Paleo-climatology, Tectonics/Volcanoes |
By P Gosselin on 14. February 2014
I don’t have any solid information on the Kelud volcano’s explosivity index, but preliminary indications show it may have a VEI of 3, possibly 4. The plume has reached 17 km. This would have very little impact on climate. But still, look for desperate warmists to seize upon it and to blame it for cooling over […]
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By P Gosselin on 28. December 2013
In Germany climate science used to be considered completely settled. Global temperatures had been pretty much steady for a thousand years before skyrocketing upwards as soon as man really started industrializing about 150 years ago, Germans were told again and again. But today Germany’s major media are beginning to realize that this view is perhaps quite naïve […]
Posted in Media / Bias, Paleo-climatology, Scepticism, Solar Sciences, Tectonics/Volcanoes |
By P Gosselin on 22. December 2013
Why The Hiatus? By Ed Caryl One of the climatologist’s explanations for the 17-year hiatus in global warming is the effect of aerosols. This explanation seems weak for the simple reason that we don’t see aerosols in this time period. We do see the impact of aerosols from volcanic activity in previous periods, however. Here […]
Posted in Misc., Models, Pollution, Tectonics/Volcanoes |
By P Gosselin on 29. July 2013
Hans Labohm sent an e-mail with sad news: Swiss scientist Peter A Ziegler has passed away. Professor Dr Dr Peter A. Ziegler, 1928 – 2013. Photo credit: Ziegler family archive, GNU Free Documentation License. Prof. Ziegler made a tremendous contribution to the fields of geology, energy, climate and our understanding of how the planet evolved. Arthur […]
Posted in Paleo-climatology, Scepticism, Tectonics/Volcanoes
By P Gosselin on 28. May 2012
Scientists keep finding major knowledge gaps in their “science-is-settled” field of climatology. The latest gap is revealed by an experiment by an international team of scientists that shows evidence of a new mechanism where light causes atmospheric aerosols to increase in size. Aerosol pollution over India and Bangladesh, 2001. (Photo source: NASA) The results of the research by […]
Posted in Models, Solar, Tectonics/Volcanoes |
By P Gosselin on 24. April 2012
By Ed Caryl The sun supplies about 1360 watts per square meter to the Earth as seen by satellites at the top of the atmosphere. This power varies by about 1.3 watts over the 11-year solar cycle. Energy is reflected back to space by clouds and the earth’s surface. Some energy is radiated to space […]
Posted in CO2 and GHG, Models, Oceans, Solar, Tectonics/Volcanoes |
By P Gosselin on 1. April 2012
This is no April Fool’s story. It’s a real story at Spiegel. Everyone knows that some climate scientists like to use sea level rise as a way to scare the public when it comes to the dangers of global warming. A one-meter rise could wreak havoc and displace tens of millions of people overnight over 100 […]
Posted in Oceans, Sea Levels, Tectonics/Volcanoes
By P Gosselin on 29. March 2012
The warmists keep insisting that it’s CO2 and that the sun is not playing a role in our climate today. According to them, the sun has been on strike and stopped playing a role since mankind started its sinful use of CO2. Yet another study is out and shows that the warmists are off in […]
Posted in Misc., Paleo-climatology, Solar Sciences, Tectonics/Volcanoes |
By P Gosselin on 14. June 2011
The media reported that because of ash from the 1625m Dubbi volcano in Eritrea in northeastern Africa being blown 15 km up into the atmosphere, Hillary Clinton had to change her travel plans. So did dozens of other flights have to be cancelled. Satellite photos now show huge clouds of ash blotting out the sky, see left, […]
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By P Gosselin on 25. May 2011
The eruption of Grímsvötn on May 20, 2011 has produced a cloud of volcanic ash that shot up over 50,000 ft and has drifted over parts of Europe closing a number of major airports and creating air traffic havoc. Now the online Der Spiegel reports today that another volcano, Hekla, is on the verge of exploding as […]
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By P Gosselin on 26. April 2011
The warmist German klimaretter.info site has a piece about sequestraton of carbon dioxide, which reports that Swedish power company Vattenfalls plans have a CCS plant near Berlin ready by 2015. The plant would remove CO2 from Vattenfall’s brown coal power plant and pump it into the earth for high-pressure underground storage. But an expert geological assessment shows that […]
Posted in CO2 and GHG, Tectonics/Volcanoes |
By P Gosselin on 21. March 2011
The animated graphic below was created by geophysicist Joachim Saul from the Helmholtz Association GFZ Research Centre for Geosciences, read here and shows the sequence of quakes since March 9. The animated image is available at www.gfz-potsdam.de. Click the image to activate. The GFZ press release writes: It shows the earthquake activity in the region of Honshu, […]
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By P Gosselin on 13. March 2011
Der Spiegel here gives us a good idea of the scale and magnitude of Japan’s massive Sendai earthquake, which weighed in at 9.0 on the Richter scale. It ought to remind some of us of nature’s fury and that we are powerless to steer it. The earthquake occurred in the western Pacific Ocean, 130 km (81 mi) east […]
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