By P Gosselin on 10. December 2013
“It was just a photo of Antarctica that we happened to have around and we were in a hurry.” This is surely the kind of answer you would get if you asked the climate propaganda-meisters at the AP and The Weather Channel about their choice of photo for their latest story. Hat-tip: Reader ES. They’ll […]
Posted in Media / Bias |
By P Gosselin on 9. December 2013
Cold is gripping globally, and not only in the US or Antarctica. Hat-tip: Jurian Sterk at Facebook. The French language www.hebdometeo.com here reports that in Alberta: “Temperatures Saturday in the Canadian prairies were glacial and that many cold records fell.” The report writes that Edmonton bottomed out at -39°C thus smashing the old record of -37°C […]
Posted in Arctic, Cooling/Temperature |
By P Gosselin on 9. December 2013
The German language Voice of Russia here wrote yesterday that US scientists had recorded, by satellite, a new all-time record low of -91.2°C in Antarctica. The reading was taken at the Japanese research station Dome Fuji, 3786 meters above sea level in 2004. The old record was -89.2 set in 1983. Where’s the warming! “NSIDC […]
Posted in Antarctic, Cooling/Temperature |
By P Gosselin on 8. December 2013
The German online FOCUS news magazine has a short article on the results of a climate survey conducted by the ISOE – Institute for Social-Ecological Research of people in the German financial capital of Frankfurt. The institute surveyed 1000 people on climate and facets of their day-to-day lifestyles like mobility and eating. Although 90% said the climate […]
Posted in Climate Politics, Scepticism |
By P Gosselin on 8. December 2013
When it comes to Christmas, you have to hand it to the Germans. No one celebrates it like they do. Many of the old Christmas traditions we so very much cherish today originate in Germany. Here’s a video of Christmas market activity. (Don’t worry, it’s not superimposed with “Last Christmas” by Wham). Perhaps a few of […]
Posted in Misc. |
By P Gosselin on 7. December 2013
Fritz Vahrenholt and Frank Bosse have released their November solar activity report. It follows in English. =================================== The sun in November 2013: You’re going to have to add more antifreeze By Frank Bosse and Fritz Vahrenholt (Translated, edited by P Gosselin) In November 2013 the sun showed signs of more activity as sunspot number (SSN) […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Solar Sciences |
By P Gosselin on 6. December 2013
Science journalist Axel Bojanowski of Spiegel comments on winter storm “Xaver” that pounded the north German coast yesterday, and on North Sea storms in general. No frequency increase in North Sea storms in 150 years. Photo by a U.S. Army helicopter, Netherlands flood 1953. Public domain photo. So are North Sea storms getting worse? Bojanowski […]
Posted in Hurricanes/Tornados |
By P Gosselin on 6. December 2013
Now that North Sea storm “Xaver” is on its way out and the media hype begins to die down, the question of whether the storm was due to climate change is making the rounds. When Yolanda struck the Philippines early last month, the IPCC momentarily forgot its own science and hysterically blamed man-made CO2 for […]
Posted in Hurricanes/Tornados, Models |
By P Gosselin on 5. December 2013
Hollywood actor George Clooney recently told reporters: “If you have 99 percent of doctors who tell you ‘you are sick’ and 1 percent that says ‘you’re fine,’ you probably want to hang out with, check it up with the 99. You know what I mean? The idea that we ignore that we are in some […]
Posted in Misc. |
By P Gosselin on 5. December 2013
6 December 2013, 10:45 This was the worst storm in 100, 50, 20, 10, 5, 2, …well, make that 0.1 years. Where I live the storm ended yesterday evening. One news media outlet (NDR radio) summed it nicely earlier this morning, saying that the storm “was worse than expected”, but then just two sentences later the […]
Posted in Hurricanes/Tornados, Weather |
By P Gosselin on 4. December 2013
Germany’s greens are hopelessly arrogant, believe they’ve been bestowed with superior intelligence, and are thus convinced they have been naturally selected to boss the rest of the world around. Well, these really aren’t attributes of greenies, but of other colored people who have discovered the effectiveness of putting on a green act. Climate activists fret […]
Posted in Activism, Climate Politics, Stupid Predictions |
By P Gosselin on 4. December 2013
This morning major media outlets are warning that a major Atlantic storm (Xaver) is brewing East of the southern tip of Greenland. The DWD has issued the following storm track with projected barometric pressure. Mi = Wednesday, Do = Thursday, Fr = Friday and Sa = Saturday, T = Low. Source: DWD_presse/status/408119086887870465. The pressure is expected […]
Posted in Hurricanes/Tornados, Weather |
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