By P Gosselin on 31. July 2011
The European Institute for Climate and Energy (EIKE) has a story on the German Weather Service, and temperature trends for Germany, which are a good indicator for Central Europe. A few days ago the Deutscher Wetterdienst, DWD, (German Weather Service) in a press release warned that Germany’s temperature were likely to rise 2 to 4°C by […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Weather |
By P Gosselin on 30. July 2011
Now that the science behind the threat of polar bear extinction has fallen to pieces too, it’s worth looking at how the German elite media has approached the story, at least those who have not chosen to ignore the inconvenient embarrassment altogether, as most have done. Der Spiegel, to their credit, has given the story online, […]
Posted in Arctic |
By P Gosselin on 29. July 2011
Reader Bernd Felsche has a public service message for those of us living in Germany: Summer in Germany this year will be on August 2, 2011, from 1:30 pm to 3:30 pm. A whole 2 hours. Sorry, but that’s all that’s in store for summer in Germany this year. Germany over the last weeks has been […]
Posted in Stupid Predictions, Weather |
By P Gosselin on 28. July 2011
Some scientists and media have gotten much attention claiming that the world’s coral reefs could disappear in as little as 20 to 30 years – all because of humans consuming fossil fuels and whatever. Now the Financial Times Germany reports on a study that claims this is all exaggerated. The world’s largest coral reef off the east […]
Posted in Oceans |
By P Gosselin on 27. July 2011
What follows are just a couple of examples from James A. Marusek’s A Chronological Listing of Early Weather Events (may take a few minutes to load). This is an oustanding work that the warmists’s will not want you to see. (Hat tip reader Ron de Haan). 585 A.D. “Western Europe was so rainy, that it […]
Posted in Drought and Deserts, Hurricanes/Tornados, Weather |
By P Gosselin on 26. July 2011
German climate blog Readers Edition here has been keeping an eye on the winter in South America. While much of the news has been buzzing about the “record heat wave” hitting the US last week (a whopping 0.4% of the stations reported record highs! /sarc), Europe and South America for example are being left out in […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Weather |
By P Gosselin on 25. July 2011
Here’s a must read. German blogsite Ökowatch here brings our attention to a report appearing in the Smithsonian: America’s First Great Global Warming Debate. Even Thomas Jefferson was worried about man-made climate change. The Smithsonian writes: The date was 1799, not 1999—and the opposing voices in America’s first great debate about the link between human activity […]
Posted in Paleo-climatology |
By P Gosselin on 21. July 2011
Even with all the global warming we are supposedly having, summers are still too short. So I’m taking a few days off to enjoy some time outside. Back early next week! Here’s something to watch in the meantime (h/t Andrew Bolt):
Posted in Misc. |
By P Gosselin on 19. July 2011
German leaders seem to have a habit of driving their country into a wall. This time it’s their desire to show environmental supremacy. Many really do believe they are powerful enough to control the climate and at the same time defy the laws of economics. The European Institute For Climate And Energy (EIKE) has a piece written […]
Posted in Alternative Energy |
By P Gosselin on 18. July 2011
People are discussing the instructions made by CERN Head Rolf-Dieter Heuer not to interpret the results of the CLOUD experiment on cloud formation, read here. What follows is a translation of the relevant text in the article that appeared in DIE WELT here. Welt Online: Also the results of the so-called Cloud experiment are being awaited […]
Posted in Solar Sciences |
By P Gosselin on 16. July 2011
Germany’s leading political daily the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) published an open letter written by geology Professor Dr. Friedrich-Karl Ewert rejecting the claims made by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) that sea level rise is accelerating. The open letter is now available at the European Institute for Climate and Energy (EIKE), read here (part after Schellnhuber). […]
Posted in Oceans, Scepticism, Sea Levels |
By P Gosselin on 15. July 2011
Just call it bazaar science. The projection of sea levels has become quite the political football. So much hinges on the projections. Der Spiegel in an article titled IPCC haggles over data for sea level rise writes that 146 million people live in areas 1 meter or less above sea level. Tens of billions of dollars […]
Posted in Oceans, Sea Levels |
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