By P Gosselin on 31. December 2013
With the MS Akademik Shokalskiy research vessel firmly embedded in ice and costs of the mammoth rescue effort mounting, the “scientific” Australasian Antarctic Expedition (AAE) led by Professor Chris Turney has morphed into a debacle that has put dozens of lives and property at risk. In under-estimating the world’s harshest environment and through slipshod planning […]
Posted in Antarctic, Green Follies |
By P Gosselin on 30. December 2013
The German online Westfalen-Blatt quotes Russian news agency Itar-Tass: After a failed rescue attempt by an icebreaker sent to free 74 participants of an Antarctic expedition that became trapped in polar ice, a large number of them are to be rescued by air. It has been decided to rescue 52 passengers and four crew members […]
Posted in Antarctic |
By P Gosselin on 30. December 2013
Josef Kowatsch of the European Institute for Climate and Energy (EIKE) has issued a press release informing that there’s been no increasing temperature in Germany in 17 years! Even though CO2 concentrations are increasing, annual mean temperature in Germany is cooling. Originally a warming of 0.4°C per decade was announced. Instead a cooling of more […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Models |
By P Gosselin on 30. December 2013
If you still don’t believe climate models cannot be trusted to predict the future, then watch the following video of a presentation made with humor added by leading expert modeler Prof. Christopher Essex earlier this year. Absolutely worth viewing! Hat-tip: DirkH On scientific consensus Essex quotes a cartoon: “Then we are agreed nine to one that we […]
Posted in IPCC, Models |
By P Gosselin on 30. December 2013
The latest news on the sea-ice trapped MV Akademik Shokalskiy global warming research vessel comes from Radio Australia: An Australian icebreaker has abandoned its attempt to rescue a Russian-flagged ship stuck in sea ice in Antarctica due to adverse weather conditions. […] ‘There could be further attempts if the master feels the weather conditions are […]
Posted in Antarctic, Green Follies |
By P Gosselin on 29. December 2013
At his Saturday Summary (12/28 here) veteran meteorologist Joe Bastardi comments on how humiliated global warming alarmist scientists are trying to save face by claiming that all the new polar sea ice proves global warming. Antarctic sea ice has been approaching record highs and embarrassed alarmist scientists are scrambling to explain why. After presenting his weather information, at […]
Posted in Antarctic, Arctic, Hockey Team |
By P Gosselin on 29. December 2013
The online Spiegel here has a new clip on the ongoing rescue attempts of the “Akademik Shokalskiy” research vessel. Both a French and Chinese icebreaker have given up trying to reach the trapped 74 persons on board the vessel. Spiegel writes “The polar ice is too thick.” Currently Antarctic sea ice is defying all the […]
Posted in Antarctic |
By P Gosselin on 28. December 2013
In Germany climate science used to be considered completely settled. Global temperatures had been pretty much steady for a thousand years before skyrocketing upwards as soon as man really started industrializing about 150 years ago, Germans were told again and again. But today Germany’s major media are beginning to realize that this view is perhaps quite naïve […]
Posted in Media / Bias, Paleo-climatology, Scepticism, Solar Sciences, Tectonics/Volcanoes |
By P Gosselin on 28. December 2013
Germany’s online Bild daily here reports on how a Chinese ice breaker trying to reach the sea ice-trapped Akademik Shokalskiy research vessel was stopped by thick sea ice: “Also The Ice Breaker Gets Stuck!” The 74 passengers who have now been trapped 4 days in unexpected Antarctic sea ice are made up of scientists, tourists, and crew members. One […]
Posted in Antarctic |
By P Gosselin on 27. December 2013
We know that many warmists just don’t know what they are taking about. Remember Al Gore claiming the center of the earth was 1 million degrees? Another classic example I just happened to come across is one by warmist Ramez Naam who runs a blogsite, which had not been known to me previously. In his […]
Posted in Activism, Arctic |
By P Gosselin on 27. December 2013
The metaphor just couldn’t be more fitting: desperate true believers of global warming/accelerating polar ice melt now find themselves trapped by thousands of square kilometers of summertime sea ice that wasn’t supposed to be there. No picture could better symbolize and communicate the intellectual bankruptcy and disillusionment of a faithful group who refuse to believe they […]
Posted in Abnormal Climate Psych, Antarctic, Glaciers, Green Follies, Humour, Oceans |
By P Gosselin on 26. December 2013
Spiegel here presents the top 10 science stories of 2013. Among them is the stop in global warming, which Spiegel describes as “the mysterious temperature development of the past years“. In the sub-heading Spiegel writes: An unexpected development has been occupying the attention of climate scientists: The air appears not to have warmed up in […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Media / Bias, Models |
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