By P Gosselin on 30. December 2011
No surprise here. Just more inconvenient results for CO2 broken-record dogmatists. New paper: GISS temps and solar activity A recent paper published by the Journal of Atmospheric and Solar Terrestial Physics (74) 2012 87-93 and authored by Souza Echer et al. suggests that solar cycles, to a substantial extent, drive global temperatures, and that likely […]
Posted in Solar Sciences |
By P Gosselin on 29. December 2011
A new paper written by Maeng-Ki Kim, Department of Atmospheric Science, Kongju National University, and Seonae Kim of the Applied Meteorology Research Team, Environmental Prediction Research Inc. of Korea has been published by the Journal of Atmospheric Environment.The two scientists examined cities in South Korea and the urban heat island effect. Hat-tip: Dr. Ghana. According […]
Posted in CO2 and GHG, Models, Pollution |
By P Gosselin on 27. December 2011
If your “Globe” Is Only 10 Meters From Your Door – It’s Warming! By guest writer Ed Caryl In A Recent Temperature History – Part 1, 22 stations in the midwest U. S. were examined. On an average, these stations were cooling slightly over one AMO cycle, from 1934 to 2000, but there was much […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature |
By P Gosselin on 26. December 2011
German veteran journalist and publicist Dirk Maxeiner at his website is a bit shocked by the over-the-top, misdirected investigations recently conducted against sceptic bloggers and free speech in general. In his short piece: Climategate On The Path To A State Scandal Maxeiner writes: This is the kind of thing you’d expect to see against Chinese dissidents. […]
Posted in Climate Politics, Scepticism |
By P Gosselin on 24. December 2011
For Christmas I present to you my favourite Scrooge film – with Seymour Hicks. It’s a classic. Let’s hope that the climate Scrooges among us, those who think that 6 billion people or more are “surplus population” and see only the dark side of everything, will open their hearts and minds for once, and stop […]
Posted in Misc. |
By P Gosselin on 22. December 2011
By Ed Caryl In A Recent Temperature History, Part 1, the temperature trends for the contiguous United States were examined. In part 2, the rest of the world (as far as there is data) will be explored. Again, the selection criteria were: less than 10,000 population, and (as much as possible) a continuous record from […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Scepticism |
By P Gosselin on 21. December 2011
Energy giant British Petroleum (BP) announced that it was shutting down its solar module business for good. In 2000 the corporation had announced that it would expand aggressively into promising renewable energies, and dubbed itself “Beyond Petroleum”.Today, according to the online leftist “TAZ” daily here: Already last year the company shut down its own solar modules […]
Posted in Alternative Energy |
By P Gosselin on 20. December 2011
By Ed Caryl The recent issuing of four papers by Dr. Richard Muller, et al, has increased the on-line discussions of temperatures over the last decade. There are several claims in the first of these papers that deserve study: 1. “…The global land mean temperature has increased by 0.911 ±0.042 C since the 1950s…” 2. […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature |
By P Gosselin on 20. December 2011
Here’s something in line with yesterday’s post…how people can get caught up in mass hysteria (prerequisite: mass ignorance).Hat tip; DirkH Germany’s online Süddeutsche Zeitung reports here on Environment Minister Nortbert Röttgen’s comments on the results of Durban. Röttgen calls the outcome of Durban a “huge success”, yet “criticized global climate protection with clear words” in his offical […]
Posted in Abnormal Climate Psych |
By P Gosselin on 19. December 2011
Today we have learned that a true champion and warrior in the fight against global warming and CO2 emissions has passed away, read, and see video here. Kim Jong Il, The Great Climate Protection Leader Jr., died of a heart attack at the age of 69. No leader had done more in capping CO2 emissions, […]
Posted in Abnormal Climate Psych |
By P Gosselin on 17. December 2011
A new book is coming out. Personally I believe it’s going to cause a political storm in Germany, if not Europe. It’s going to upset a large number of climate Scrooges and the profiteers of doom. The book Die kalte Sonne, Warum die Klimakatastophe nicht stattfindet (The Cold Sun, Why The Climate Catastrophe Is Not Taking […]
Posted in Scepticism |
By P Gosselin on 16. December 2011
German site CO2 Handel here writes about a survey on the sentiment of Germans with regards to climate change and their will to do something about it. It’s no surprise that a vast majority of Germans believe that man is profoundly changing the climate. The major media outlets feed Germans with a constant stream of climate doom […]
Posted in Climate Politics, Scepticism |
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