By P Gosselin on 13. March 2012
Share this…FacebookTwitterChristian churches nowadays are pretty much always empty in Germany. But there is one church that is always full: the Church of Environmentalism. So comments Jan Fleischhhauer of Spiegel yesterday here. Environmentalism fad in Germany ready for the scrap heap as absurdities get exposed. Public domain photo: John Muir, 1907. Few countries have gone as fanatic as […]
Posted in Climate Politics, Green Follies, Greenpeace, Scepticism |
By P Gosselin on 12. March 2012
Share this…FacebookTwitterThere’s been some discussion in the media about the Potsdam Institute’s (PIK) recent paper claiming that Greenland is much closer to a collapse than previously expected. Don Easterbrook calls PIK scenario “nonsense!” (Photo: nofrakkingconsensus.com) However, few scientists outside the circle of IPCC alarmists are taking the PIK claims seriously. Recall that the IPCC 5th […]
Posted in Arctic, Hockey Team |
By P Gosselin on 12. March 2012
Share this…FacebookTwitterAnthropogenic global warming skepticism, not taken seriously in Germany until recently, has now got the warmists in a state of panic, despair and even deeper irrationality. Warmists Vlad Georgescu and Marita Vollborn have written an essay at German public radio called: Climate Change? No Thanks! It focuses on the growing wave of skepticism now sweeping […]
Posted in Abnormal Climate Psych, Scepticism |
By P Gosselin on 11. March 2012
Share this…FacebookTwitterEverybody say thank you to Poland. It was the only of 27 European countries to reject the EU’s climate roadmap at a conference of Environment Ministers in Brussels Friday, angering environmentalists and EU climate protection expansionists. The EU aims to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 80 – 95% by 2050 compared to 1990 levels. The EU […]
Posted in Climate Politics, Pollution |
By P Gosselin on 10. March 2012
Share this…FacebookTwitterBy Matti Vooro Recently I happened to look through some scientific papers and articles on global warming and the various forcing factors that affect our climate. One that caught my eye was a paper by N.A. Krivova and S.K. Solanki [2003] called: Solar variability and global warming: a statistical comparison since 1850. http://www.solen.info/solar/cyclcomp.html, web page prepared by […]
Posted in Solar Sciences |
By P Gosselin on 9. March 2012
Share this…FacebookTwitterProfessor Fritz Vahrenholt, author along with Dr. Sebastian Lüning of the skeptic German bestseller “Die kalte Sonne” had been invited to take part in the political talk show “hart aber fair” (tough but fair) on German public television, prime time Monday evening, March 12. That was before the show caved in and disinvited the […]
Posted in Climate Politics, Media / Bias, Scepticism |
By P Gosselin on 8. March 2012
Share this…FacebookTwitterA Brazilian team of scientists led by Pabulo Henrique Rampelotto recently published in the Journal of Atmospheric and Solar Terrestrial Physics a paper on precipitation and temperature patterns in Santa Maria in Southern Brazil. It’s the sun! What follows are excerpts from “Die kalte Sonne“ website. Brazilian agriculture and climate. Public domain by its […]
Posted in Oceans, Solar Sciences |
By P Gosselin on 7. March 2012
Share this…FacebookTwitterBy Ed Caryl This is a follow-up article on GHCN and GISS changes to the temperature records for Reykjavik, Iceland. Figure 1: Reykjavik, Iceland: Photo from Christian Bickel We now know that GHCN has changed data set versions from version 2 to version 3. Each of those versions has a history. Version 2 was […]
Posted in Arctic, Hockey Team |
By P Gosselin on 6. March 2012
Share this…FacebookTwitterWhen it comes to reviews of Fritz Vahrenholt’s and Sebastian Lüning’s controversial best-selling Die kalte Sonne book, now sweeping across Germany, Dr. Peter Heller, think tank member and contributor at the German Science Skeptical blog, has published what up to now has been one of the most thoughtful and insightful essays – a welcome […]
Posted in Activism, Hockey Team, IPCC |
By P Gosselin on 6. March 2012
Share this…FacebookTwitterI’m a little short on time and so today I will present the translation of the latest write-up at Die kalte Sonne website, which discusses yet another recent study showing yet again that the sun plays a major role on climate. Solar Activity Shows Precipitation In Maine Over the Last 7000 Years By Sebastian Lüning […]
Posted in Drought and Deserts, Paleo-climatology, Solar Sciences |
By P Gosselin on 5. March 2012
Share this…FacebookTwitterFritz Vahrenholt’s and Sebastian Lüning’s Die kalte Sonne website brings up another study that shows the sun plays a significant role in climate development. How many more of these are we going to need? I don’t know why there are still people out there who deny what ought to be obvious. ============================== New Norwegian […]
Posted in Solar Sciences |
By P Gosselin on 4. March 2012
Share this…FacebookTwitterSkeptic book by Fritz Vahrenholt and Sebastian Lüning “Die kalte Sonne” (see side bar) will begin its third week on the Spiegel bestseller list since it was first released on February 7. It shot up to number 14 on the bestseller list for German hardcover non-fiction books just a week after it was released. […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Scepticism, Weather |
By P Gosselin on 2. March 2012
Share this…FacebookTwitterA new paper titled High-resolution sea surface reconstructions off Cape Hatteras over the last 10 ka appearing just recently in the AGU Paleoceanography Journal authored by Caroline Cléroux et al provides further, clear evidence of a major solar impact on climate during the Holocene. Hat/tip: http://kaltesonne.de/. According to the paper’s abstract, the study presents high-resolution foraminiferal-based sea surface […]
Posted in Oceans, Paleo-climatology, Solar Sciences |
By P Gosselin on 2. March 2012
Share this…FacebookTwitterIt wasn’t all that long ago when a number of climate scientists were projecting the Earth would soon fall into an almost permanent, increasing El Niño mode, where the surface temperatures of the equatorial Pacific would always be like what we saw in 1998 – all man-made. Sea surface temperature chart September 2011. Source: NASA. […]
Posted in Oceans |
By P Gosselin on 1. March 2012
Share this…FacebookTwitterChanging the Arctic Climate By Ed Caryl GISS and the GHCN are preoccupied with the Arctic, bestowing large “corrections” on the few and far northern stations. The raw data of the Arctic did not tell the story they wanted to hear, and so GISS took it upon themselves to rewrite it. Let’s start with […]
Posted in Arctic |
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