By Kenneth Richard on 7. April 2022
Share this…FacebookTwitterFailure to correct the “coarse temporal resolution” of pre-1970s maximum daily rainfall data changes the sign of trend analysis from slightly positive to solidly negative in the last century (1921-2020). Those who ascribe to the position that humans can control the weather by engaging in fossil-fuel related activities (such as using planetary-heating smartphones) literally […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 10. February 2022
Share this…FacebookTwitterAfter a thorough examination of extreme weather indices across the globe, scientists (Alimonti et al., 2022) have concluded “none of these response indicators show a clear positive trend of extreme events.” Therefore. “the climate crisis that, according to many sources, we are experiencing today, is not evident yet.” There is an “absence of generalized […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 27. January 2022
Share this…FacebookTwitterMedia outlets are pressured by “green groups” to opportunistically claim every extreme weather event – including the ensuing damage – is caused by human greenhouse gas emissions. In recent decades there has been a deintensification of extreme weather (precipitation) events. Image Source: Koutsoyiannis, 2020 Deaths and property losses from extreme weather events have also […]
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By P Gosselin on 31. December 2021
Share this…FacebookTwitterGermany 2021 – “an average weather year” Despite drought-ending wet periods, Germany saw “an average weather year” in 2021, says the German DWD National Weather Service. Photo: P. Gosselin “Quite average” Offenbach, Germany, 30 December 2021 – The weather year 2021 was quite average in Germany overall, says. Tobias Fuchs, Climate Director of the […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 4. October 2021
Share this…FacebookTwitterA new study (Burkart et al., 2021) reports that for every 356 deaths attributable to warm weather across the globe there were 1,337 attributable to cold weather in 2019. The cold weather death attribution in 2019 was up from 1,021 (thousands) in 1990, a 24% increase. Warm weather deaths also rose – from 205 […]
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By P Gosselin on 27. August 2021
Share this…FacebookTwitterSummer snows hit northern hemisphere… Many parts of Europe have not had much a of a real summer, having seen much cool and wet weather this year. Days of snow forecast down to 2000 meters in the Austrian Alps Today the Austrian site heute.de here reports “snow flakes have colored many mountain regions of […]
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By P Gosselin on 13. August 2021
Share this…FacebookTwitterTyphoon trends contradict alarmist clai9ms made by the IPCC’s latest report By Kirye and Pierre The latest IPCC AR6 report claims there is a likely link between extreme weather events and human activity, particular so-called greenhouse gas emissions. The media wasted no time in spreading panic and magnifying hysteria. But is it true that […]
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By P Gosselin on 7. August 2021
Share this…FacebookTwitterFrom Die kalte Sonne The German Weather Service (DWD) published its weather summary for July 2021: July 2021 was significantly too wet, slightly too warm and lacked sunshine. […] In July, an average of about 110 liters per square meter (l/m²) fell nationwide and thus almost 40 percent more precipitation than the average of […]
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By P Gosselin on 31. July 2021
Share this…FacebookTwitterCool and wet weather expected to plague Europe into August The previous three hot and dry European summers of 2018, 2019 and 2020 led “experts” to declare this was all the new normal for future – unless we surrender our freedom to regulatory masterminds. But no sooner was the ink of that declaration dry, […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Misc., Weather |
By P Gosselin on 6. July 2021
Share this…FacebookTwitterA study of Czech extreme weather fatalities show that the trend has been “significantly falling”. Most weather extreme fatalities were related to cold…less than 2% “heat related”! German climate site Die kalte Sonne reports on on new study that looked at fatalities due to weather extremes in the European landlocked country of the Czech […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 10. June 2021
Share this…FacebookTwitterScientists have calculated the years of life lost (YLL) attributed to exposure to “non-optimum” temperatures. It turns out that during the 2000s – supposedly the warmest years on record – people were still far more likely to die from exposure to cold temperatures than warm temperatures. The country with the largest human population has […]
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By P Gosselin on 23. May 2021
Share this…FacebookTwitterOur fellow Dutch climate blogger and friend Klimaatgek writes about how cold this spring has been in the Netherlands this year, namely April and May. Not long ago I reported how Germany had seen its fourth coldest April since recordings began in 1881. May so far hasn’t been warm either as the DWD German […]
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