By P Gosselin on 12. August 2013
Blogging is on the light side, as I’m pinched for time right now. But here’s something short and sweet. In this week’s Saturday Summary, meteorologist Joe Bastardi takes a look at the Arctic situation, among other interesting stuff. WeatherBELL’s Saturday Summary calls 2013 North Pole “the coldest ever recorded”. Unlike last year, this year we’ll […]
Posted in Arctic, Cooling/Temperature |
By P Gosselin on 11. August 2013
The European Institute for Climate and Energy (EIKE) based in Germany held a conference on climate and energy in Hamburg on June 14. The following is a good video recap in German. Most of the attendees are retired German scientists and experts who are free to speak their minds without fear of occupational retaliation or […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Climate Politics, CO2 and GHG, IPCC, Misc., Models, Scepticism |
By P Gosselin on 9. August 2013
Another major European media outlet is asking: Where’s the global warming? Image right: The August 7 edition of Denmark’s Jyllands-Posten featured a major 2-page article on the globe’s 15-years of missing warming and the potential solar causes and implications. Moreover, they are featuring prominent skeptic scientists who are warning of a potential little ice age […]
Posted in CO2 and GHG, Cooling/Temperature, IPCC, Models, Oceans, Scepticism, Solar Sciences |
By P Gosselin on 8. August 2013
German politicians are in race to see who can come up looking like the most dedicated world climate rescuer. So the ideas we hear coming from them often get really nutty. To become a thing of the past? Soon German kids won’t know what meat is anymore. Public domain photo. German tabloid Bild here a few […]
Posted in Climate Politics, Green Follies |
By P Gosselin on 7. August 2013
The political beauty about climate data is that it can be easily manipulated in order to fool the public. The National Oceanic And Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) recently released its State of the Climate in 2012: Highlights. To no one’s surprise, the report gives the reader the impression that warming is galloping ahead out of control. But their […]
Posted in Activism, Antarctic, Arctic, Cooling/Temperature, Models, Oceans, Weather |
By P Gosselin on 7. August 2013
London publisher Stacey International will soon be releasing the German skeptic best seller book “Die kalte Sonne” in English under the title: The Neglected Sun. Reader Loodt Pretorius writes: Amazon UK will release the book The Neglected Sun on 12 September and are taking pre-release orders at £10.99, a big discount to the Amazon USA price. […]
Posted in Scepticism
By P Gosselin on 6. August 2013
That’s 19,000 Manhattans. Arctic open sea water is in a death spiral! Source: http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/old_icecover.uk.php The chart shows this year’s current sea ice at about 5.2 million sq. km. Last year it was about 3.5 million sq. km. That’s an increase of almost 50%!
Posted in Arctic, Misc. |
By P Gosselin on 6. August 2013
Hard fact: global temperature has not risen as the models predicted – not even close! Conclusion: models are fundamentally flawed. Watch the following well-done video: Hat-tip: Rog Tallbloke. I left a link to this video at a PIK Twitter comment, and will see if it gets deleted or not. I wouldn’t be surprised if Youtube […]
Posted in CO2 and GHG, Models |
By P Gosselin on 5. August 2013
According to preliminary findings of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Energiebilanzen (AGEB), Germany has consumed far more energy in the first half of this year than a year earlier, up 4 percent. Germany burns more coal because of cold weather. Image (cropped) by Arnold Paul, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 Generic license. Alarmist site Klimaretter here, quoting the […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, CO2 and GHG, Green Follies, Nuclear energy |
By P Gosselin on 5. August 2013
The website of geologist Dr. Sebastian Lüning and Professor Fritz Vahrenholt, authors of the new book: “The Neglected Sun“, has a general solar activity progress report with some interesting observations on solar cycle 24 and comments about upcoming solar cycle 25. ================================= The Sun In July 2013 – News and Some Statistics By Frank Bosse […]
Posted in Solar Sciences |
By P Gosselin on 4. August 2013
Every sane, half-way educated person knows that a warmer planet is better than a colder one. During the ice ages, when CO2 concentration was just 180 ppm, much life on the planet stood on the brink of extinction. When the planet was a hot-house and CO2 was over 1000 ppm, the Earth was a literal […]
Posted in Antarctic |
By P Gosselin on 3. August 2013
Remember a few years ago when Dr. Mark Serreze, Director of the National Snow and Ice Data Center, nsidc.org, talked about the Arctic being in a death spiral because of sea ice was disappearing due to man-made global warming? Well, I’ve found another one of his death spirals…this one in Antarctica, which has been breaking sea […]
Posted in Antarctic |
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