Sensationalist weathermen in Germany losing credibility, get mocked and ridiculed.
Meteorologists are discovering that if they want to get attention from the media and more clicks and and likes (short term), then all they have to do is announce fictional heatwaves that weather models routinely hallucinate 10-14 days out. “Temperatures could soar to 40°C!”
In an attempt to sensationalize hot summer weather to convey climate urgency and panic,some German meteorologists have been bombarding their viewers with alarming headlines, like: “This summer threatens to shatter all weather records!”
These climate alarmists have been fixated on regular weather extremes and using dramatic imagery of storms, droughts, and collapsing Swiss mountains to sway public opinion – while totally ignoring the lack of statistical evidence for an increase in such phenomena.
Weltwoche, reports, however, that the increasingly shrill weather rhetoric is backfiring, leading to greater mistrust among a growing number of skeptics who use social media platforms like X to mock and ridicule the sensationalized claims.
Thanks to social media, Weltwoche concludes that the era of media monopolies on truth is over: “But the shriller the battle cries of the climate alarmists, the less credible they become.”
Scientists have counter-intuitively determined that a melting Antarctic ice sheet serves to mitigate global warming.
The anticipated accelerated melting of the Antarctic ice sheet (AIS) will mean massive amounts of freshwater will enter the Southern Ocean (SO) over the next one hundred years.
According to a new study‘s panoply of SOFIA (Southern Ocean Freshwater Input from Antarctica) models, a melting AIS will, in turn, cool the SO and Antarctica (the latter by 1°C or more) as well as lead to further expansion of the Southern Hemisphere’s sea ice.
More specifically, as a consequence of future Antarctic ice sheet melt, over the next century the entire 40-70°S region will cool ~0.7°C and sea ice will expand by approximately 2 million km² (per Figure S1 from the study). The lead author already published a 2022 paper documenting “the Southern Ocean (50°S–70°S) sea surface temperature has a significant and robust cooling trend during 1982–2020,” so the cooling trend has been ongoing for over 40 years already.
The authors of the present study maintain the “response to an increased Antarctic sea ice extent and ocean surface cooling results in global atmospheric impacts,” not just local or regional ones. Specifically, the effect of SO cooling includes a (a) reduction in the global warming rate, (b) troposphere-wide cooling, (c) Eastern tropical Pacific cooling, (d) a delay in the anticipated weakening of the AMOC, (e) a northward shift of the ICTZ (Inner-Tropical Convergence Zone), and (f) a “weakening of the jet stream on its equatorward flank in both hemispheres.”
In other words, the key to reducing the global warming “problem” and its presumed side effects may be to cheer on (or hope for) an accelerated AIS melting over the next century.
“Since most of these responses act opposingly to global warming mechanisms diagnosed from model experiments lacking Antarctic freshwater, our results support the notion of a potential delay of anthropogenic climate change through SO [Southern Ocean] processes.”
For those who say a future accelerated Antarctic ice sheet melt will lead to concerning sea level rise, scientists contend this “problem” may be self-correcting as well.
According to the IPCC and climate models, if Antarctica were to ever warm (and it has not warmed in the last 70 years), this warmth would add more precipitation and thus ice mass to the Antarctic ice sheet (IPCC AR4, Krinner et al., 2007, Palerme et al., 2017). The warming-induced ice mass expansion contributes to a reduction in Antarctica’s contribution to sea level rise by 2100. Specifically, a warming Antarctica reduces sea level rise by -1.2 mm/yr.
So a warming Antarctica leads to ice mass gains and a reduction in sea level rise, and a melting ice sheet leads to widespread cooling and sea ice expansion. Either way, the alarmist narrative loses.
The Germany-base European Institute For Climate And Energy (EIKE) has issued its latest video featuring Antarctica. Good news! The alleged catastrophic warming remains a myth there.
It’s as cold as it ever was.
Lots of other publications showing Antarctic cooling. See my side bar for all posts about Antarctica.
Antarctica experienced record low temperatures in late 2023, particularly during late winter (July-August). These extreme cold events were observed across a wide area, impacting both East and West Antarctica, including the Ross Ice Shelf and the Antarctic Peninsula, according to The Watchers here.
The irony just couldn’t be greater, as all we hear in the fake media are stories about big icebergs breaking off somewhere, and everyone being (mis)led to believe the South Pole is melting when clearly as a whole it is not.
According to The Watchers: “These atmospheric patterns caused severe and persistent cold, influencing weather systems and temperature variations across the continent. The study also found that southerly flows from the continent and calm air conditions contributed to these cold spells.”
Supply of stations disrupted by cold
The study’s abstract states that the cold temperatures were measured across a broad area and hindered aircraft operations into McMurdo Station and Phoenix Airfield. When temperatures fall below −50°C, flight operations become risky because of hydraulic fluids and fuel can turn into gel onboard aircraft.
How cold was it? “Antarctica as a whole experienced dramatic drops in temperature,” reports The Watchers. “This extreme cold coincided with record-breaking high temperatures in South America, particularly in Chile where temperatures reached -40 ℃.”
The evidence for a much warmer Mid-Holocene keeps accumulating.
According to a recent paleoclimate study, today’s Gahai Lake (China) reconstructed surface sediment warm season temperature is 9.4°C. This is similar to the region’s documented meteorological station temperatures (8.8°C, May-September).
The reconstruction’s average Gahai Lake sediment warm season temperatures dating to 8000 to 3500 years ago was determined to be 16.5°C. This means the region was more than 7°C warmer than recent decades during those millennia.
Another new study from the Gulf of Thailand provides robust evidence sea levels were 1.8 – 2.3 m higher than today from 8600 to 6100 years ago. Sea levels were higher because less water was locked up on land as ice throughout the much warmer Mid-Holocene.
Attentive readers of “Klimanachrichten” already knew this beforehand: The past holiday weekend was a stress test for our electricity grid: The sun is very high, provides a lot of energy and the demand for electricity is very low due to the holiday. Back in May, 2025, you could read here:
“The Pentecost weekend is not far away, you should hope for clouds.”
Worrying situation
n-tv asked Werner Götz, head of the transmission system operator “TransnetBW”, about the problems. His answers are both interesting and worrying.
As grid operators, we have to balance consumption and supply every second. That’s not easy with this volatility. Consumers would probably also like a more even distribution.”
So how did things look on Pentecost Sunday? A look at the shares of production:
EE = renewable energy share fed into grid.
Up to 74% of the power generated came from renewable energies (EE, wind + PV). This implies the use of power electronics to maintain the 50 Hz alternating current specified in the European grid. The risks here became apparent during the Spain Blackout, as we reported in detail here, among other places.
At the end of April, however, only around 65% of the blackout on the Iberian Peninsula was ultimately caused by renewable energy.
Furthermore, an unknown proportion of photovoltaics (PV) cannot be controlled centrally, which was once the intention. Perhaps the old adage that “every little helps a lot” was simply ignored. Hundreds of thousands of rooftop solar systems add up to a huge generator. Unfortunately, however, they almost all deliver at the same time and there was no controllability at the time.
Cheap Chinese imports are contributing to the situation where around 35 GW of capacity cannot be controlled. An article on this blog from January 2025 explains the figures. The figures are likely to have risen further in the meantime.
The main thing big quantity, known as “ton ideology” in planned economies like in former East Germany. The main thing was to generate a lot of kWh, with little thought given to the sense and nonsense of it all.
The “negative prices” that occur on sunny days are in fact a levy to allow excess supply to be disposed of in neighboring countries. There are no negative prices in functional markets. A producer would simply stop producing if he had to add money to the products. Electricity is different. On Pentecost Sunday, this amounted to around 1.8 million euros between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m., the data comes from “Agora.” Without this “export”, the share of renewable energy would have been over 85% at the peak. This would then hardly have been manageable from a regulatory perspective.
It could have been a lot worse, as we know since the Spain blackout. Why didn’t it turn out that way? Fortunate circumstances, as a look at “Kachelmannwetter” shows heavy cloudiness over Germany on Pentecost Sunday:
Cloudiness to the rescue
At the peak of electricity generation from PV, the sky was mostly overcast in large parts of Germany last Sunday. The wind was blowing quite strongly, especially in the afternoon. If there had been a cloudless sky, that could have been a real disaster! All the experts’ hair would have stood on end.
And what was our goal? Climate protection! It can never have been real, even on Pentecost Sunday Germany produced an average of 151 g CO2/kWh. That is about a factor of 8 compared to what France achieves in this respect. Germany’s “green energy transition” also ensures that we remain one of the few “dirty children” in Europe when it comes to CO2 emissions from electricity production.
When will we put an end to this new version of “ton ideology”? Will the electricity grid have to crash due to uncooperative weather before we wake up?
Every reader can answer this question for themselves.
Event to combat heat gets cancelled due to cool, wet weather
Image generated by Grok AI
To combat climate change, German towns and cities are busily implementing “heat plans”. Germany has ambitious climate neutrality goals, aiming to be climate-neutral by 2045. The lives of millions of people are at risk!
The so-called Heat Planning Act went into force in January 2024 and legally obliges municipalities to develop these plans.Larger cities (over 100,000 inhabitants) have until mid-2026 to do so, and smaller towns until mid-2028.
One key aspect is adapting to summer heatwaves and protecting public health. This includes measures such as public awareness campaigns about staying safe during heatwaves, establishing cooling centers and long-term urban planning measures to mitigate the “urban heat island effect.”
The town of Mühlacker (near Stuttgart) has taken the Heat Plan act seriously and thus have organized a Heat Action Day, scheduled for June 6th. The aim was educating the public about heat, drought and climate change and provide tips on how to protect against heat.
It seems Germans, in the view of the country’s nanny leaders, are mentally not up to the task of dealing with summer weather. They need to be parented like little children and told to stay inside.
Ironically, the event yesterday had to be cancelled due to “forecast weather conditions,”,the above newspaper clipping reports.
The heat action day has been postponed to Friday, July 25, 2025. The weather yesterday, June 6, in Muehlacker was indeed rainy and cool, with highs not even reaching 20°C – obviously too harsh for the organizers!
We can only suspect that they are hoping more agreeable, hot weather will show up on July 25th event, so that the citizens and organizers there will be able complain about how heat makes it “too dangerous” to hold public events.
Europe is now dryer (and colder) than almost any other period in the last 9000 years.
A new European Alps hydroclimate reconstruction spanning the years 8980 to 2014 CE has been derived from the stable isotopes of 192 trees (Arosio et al., 2025).
The reconstruction clearly distinguishes centennial-scale warm periods such as the Medieval Warm Period (MWP), Roman Warm Period (RWP), and millennial-scale African Humid Period (when the Sahara was green, lake- and fauna-covered). These warmer centuries (millennia) were accompanied by wetter, much more humid climates.
In contrast, the coldest centuries of the Holocene such as the Little Ice Age (18th and 19th centuries) and Late Antique Little Ice Age (6th century) had the driest hydroclimates with “the most severe summer droughts of the past 9000 years.” Mass migration punctuated these cold periods.
Interestingly, the hydroclimate reconstruction shows the modern period (1900-2014) is no wetter (or warmer) than the 19th century’s Little Ice Age – the coldest, driest period of the last 9000 years. There has been no dramatic change or “uptick” in the last century.
“We suggest that much of Europe was not only warmer but also wetter during most of the preindustrial Holocene.”
Latest hysteria: preparing for heatwave-pandemics… the fake heat crisis… controlling people under the guise of protecting them.
“I don’t understand why I feel so hot and thirsty. The team doctor doesn’t know why, either. The government needs to tell us.” Image generated by Grok AI
With climate activists increasingly warning of killer heat waves every summer in Europe, the German government has drawn up a heatwave protection plan that calls for more draconian guidelines and bans for sports events on hot days.
In doing so, the German authorities are expanding the “Health Heatwave Protection Plan” to include the areas of sport, pharmacies and psychotherapeutic practices, according to the BMG press release here.
Adults still haven’t learned how to conduct themselves when it’s summertime, the authorities appear to believe.
The BMG says the heat protection plans are intended to inform citizens about the health risks of heat and to protect people who are at an increased health risk. In particular, this includes older people, the chronically ill, pregnant women, young children and sports enthusiasts.
The heat protection plans are recommendations to protect and sensitize these groups of people against heat.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), sportspeople are among the risk groups particularly affected by climate-related health risks. In cooperation with other organisations, the BMG has written up heatwave protection plan for organized sports in order to better protect all target groups in popular sport from heat-related health risks.
This plan, the federal BMG reports, is intended to help clubs and associations to protect athletes, full-time employees and volunteers, e.g. coaches, referees, officials and service staff, as well as spectators, from heat-related health risks.
BMG federal health authorities propose recommendations for event organizers to heed, such as (from page 5):
Ensuring heat and acclimatization-friendly travel and event planning
Determining whether and when competitions can be cancelled or postponed in extreme heat
Placing start and finish areas as well as staging areas in shaded areas.
Avoiding open fires/barbecues.
The proposed guidelines get pretty extreme, and also include:
Refrain from serving alcoholic, highly sugary, caffeinated or taurine-containing drinks
Offering mineral water, unsweetened tea and thin juice spritzers
Providing free drinking water dispensers
Distribution points for free sunscreen, headgear, loaner sunglasses.
Note that the German government here is presenting all this as recommendations that can be voluntarily followed. But we all know how such things develop later. We’ll have a heat-czar before we know it.
“Based on the historical fire-scar record, NAFSN [North American tree-ring fire-scar network] sites collectively would be expected to have burned 4346 times from 1984–2022, yet they burned 989 times, or only 23% of what would be expected under the historical fire regime.” — Parks et al., 2025
According to the prevailing alarmist narrative, the recent decades of “unprecedented” warming across North America was supposed to have been the driver of the continent’s contemporary “record-breaking” fires and burned area.
However, a new study using tree ring fire-scar records dating to the “historical period” of 1600-1880 has determined these colder Little Ice Age centuries had far higher burn rates than recent decades.
“Many studies have reported increases in area burned associated with a warming climate over the last few decades across much of North America. Our evidence indicates that, even under a warming climate, the rate at which NAFSN sites burned in recent decades has been much lower than historical rates [1600-1880] across most of the continent.”
“Our study of 1851 tree-ring fire-scar sites and contemporary fire perimeters across the United States and Canada reveals a substantial, persistent fire deficit from 1984-2022 in many forest and woodland ecosystems, despite recent increases in burning. Contemporary fire occurrence is still far below historical (1600-1880) levels at NAFSN sites despite multiple large and ‘record-breaking’ recent fire years, such as 2020 in the western United States.”
Astonishingly, the non-fire years at the 1,851 tree-ring fire-scar sites were more than one hundred times less frequent during the Little Ice Age centuries (1600-1880) than in the last four decades.
“The prevalence of non-fire years at the NAFSN sites in the contemporary time period [1984-2022] was >100 times more prevalent compared to the historical period…”
Overall, the North American tree-ring fire-scar record indicates the historical (1600-1880) period’s burn rate was more than four times greater than it was from 1984-2022, as modern fire burning was “only 23% of what would be expected under the historical fire regime.”
1911 in Germany saw a hot, dry summer that lasted from spring until well into September
German blog site lokalgeschichte here looks at the German summer of 1911, which was exceptionally hot, dry and sunny. It disproves the previously widespread idea that Central Europe’s heat waves are something new and due to more CO2 in the atmosphere.
Germany saw extreme heat from spring until September in 1911. Symbol image, produced by Grok
Although temperatures in the summer of 1911 were very high in places (up to 40 C in Chemnitz), no new records were broken. The year 1892 had similar or even higher values (41.5C in Reichenhall). The most remarkable feature of the summer of 1911 was not the absolute maximum temperature, but the duration of the hot spell and the persistent tendency towards dry and warm high-pressure weather, which lasted from spring until well into September.
In 1911, Germany saw extreme drought, particularly in western and central Germany. In Berlin, for example, only about half of the normal precipitation fell between April and July, and only a seventh in August. Such an event occurring today would have climates alarmists blaming CO2. But, as 1911 shows, weather extremes are nothing new.
According to the article, the cause of such weather is a persistent shift of high-pressure areas over continental Europe. However, the fundamental forces that control these atmospheric currents are not yet fully understood. Although the outflow of heated air from the tropics to the poles influences the climate of the temperate zones and the conditions in higher atmospheric layers could play a role, there are still no reliable laws for accurate forecasting.
Meteorological observations over almost two centuries show that cool and warm summers occur in bunches. Examples of this are eight consecutive cool summers from 1881 to 1888 and 18 cool summers from 1730 to 1747, as well as 15 warm summers from 1756 to 1770. The climate balances itself out over longer periods of time. It’s naturally occurring.
I don’t know how it’s been in other countries so far this year, but in Germany it seems a number of German weathermen have been getting acutely aroused every time a model sees a heat wave in the pipeline 2 weeks out. The media make headlines out of them.
Image generated by Grok
Of all people, you’d think meteorologists would know the huge uncertainties these models have beyond 7 days. But, when you’re desperate for attention, you might succumb to the temptation to take them as being real enough and have yourself quoted in the press.
Germany has seen an unusually dry spring this year. This has likely raised hopes of a hot summer. The DWD German national Weather Service reports that spring 2025 in Germany was 0.9°C warmer than the 1991-2020 reference period. One reason for the warmth was unusually sunny weather. Spring 2025 in Germany saw 695 hours of sunshine, around 33% more than the reference period 1991-2020 (522 hours) mean.
The plentiful sunshine meant lower precipitation. Spring 2025 in Germany was the third driest on record. Only 96 liters of rain fell per square meters.
Spring has aroused forecasters
The warm dry weather has definitely aroused many of Germany’s weathermen, who are now caught up in full blown record-heatwave summertime fantasies. Lost from memory are the months of heavy rainfall seen from late 2023 to the end of 2024.
Over at German Weather Channel here, Jan Schenk suddenly warned of “a 100-year summer” with temps soaring to 40°C in Germany. “One of the hottest summers ever is in the cards at 70 to 100%.”… “The previous summer of the century in 2003 could soon be replaced.” … “Over the course of the summer, a heat dome will form over south-eastern Europe, which will also spread to Germany. This means that we can expect a lot of high pressure and sunshine – and little rain. The highs will not stop at 30 or 35 degrees. We can already assume that the 40 degree mark will be exceeded several times in the summer of 2025. And the first heatwave in Germany will already appear in June.”
It’s important to point out that many weathermen today no longer forecast the weather, but instead simply report spectacular scenarios that models invariably churn out.
20°C could mean 40°C!
Over at Wetter.net, meteorologist Dominik Jung said the European Weather Model (ECMWF) is showing a“massive high altitude heat” for June 9, “Down on the ground, that would mean more than 35 degrees, maybe 38, 39, maybe almost 40 degrees,” says Jung.
So far, however, the ECMWF model is showing no such heat for early June. We can only speculate that Jung’s forecast has its origins in overly active fantasies.
So what will become of Germany’s summer? A hot one of course cannot be excluded. But to claim a near record hot summer is 70-100% sure is nothing but meteorological attention seeking and headline-grabbing.
Yet another new study affirms sea levels were meters higher than today on the Bohai Sea coast during the Mid-Holocene before declining to today’s levels over the last few millennia.
The Earth was less glaciated at this time, or from 9000 to 4000 years ago, meaning there was less water locked up on land as ice. Consequently, there was more water in ocean basins.
Hundreds of other studies have documented meters-higher at locations throughout the world, as documented here.
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