By P Gosselin on 6. January 2014
Journal Nature can no longer be bothered to check facts anymore. Bad enough that they rarely subject global warming climate papers to real, rigorous peer-review, and so now even the most obvious rubbish gets by. In a Nature comment, Professor Turney seems to be responding in part to harsh articles published by Cambridge University News and […]
Posted in Activism, Antarctic, Green Follies |
By P Gosselin on 6. January 2014
Ice breakers getting trapped in near record high sea ice around Antarctica, Arctic sea ice seeing a whopping 50% gain last summer, record killer cold and snow gripping Canada and the USA, rare snowfalls in the Middle East and Southeast Asia. The string of cold weather events just doesn’t end. And all this in a […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature |
By P Gosselin on 5. January 2014
If you think it’s cold in Canada or Minnesota, some Russians would call that mild! Chart cropped from: www.weatherbell.com/. In Central Russia the mercury has dropped to below -60°F and lower at some locations. Above the chart shows one place where it’s currently -65°F. Normally such cold is more common further east in Eastern Siberia, […]
Posted in Arctic, Cooling/Temperature, Weather |
By P Gosselin on 5. January 2014
Today the online Daily Mail echos what NTZ wrote 5 days ago, and also brings in an expert to confirm exactly what I was suspecting: Prof Chris Turney may have been reckless in his planning for a major expedition. Although combining tourism and science on a cruise ship may seem like a creative idea on […]
Posted in Antarctic |
By P Gosselin on 5. January 2014
The Irish Examiner here reports that Robert Devoy, professor of physical geography at UCC, says the greater wind speeds and flooding in Ireland of the last few days are “what we would expect from a warming climate caused by the impact of humans”. However, he cites no substantial data to support that. In fact global data on […]
Posted in Hurricanes/Tornados, Sea Levels |
By P Gosselin on 4. January 2014
It appears that now even Professor Chris Turney admits blaming his expedition mishap on global warming was an astronomical stretch after all. Yesterday I reported here, quoting flagship Swiss daily (NZZ), that his communication director Alvin Stone blamed global warming for the vessel getting trapped in ice. The whole world laughed. I couldn’t believe it myself so […]
Posted in Antarctic, Green Follies |
By P Gosselin on 4. January 2014
The French website Contrepoints (Counterpoints) has an excellent general summary on how the Turney Expedition course of events unfolded in an article titled: Akademik Shokalskiy: the time to ask questions. Turney really does appear to be in a lot of hot water. Contrepoints introduction starts: Persuaded to have nothing to worry about from ice in the […]
Posted in Antarctic, Green Follies |
By P Gosselin on 3. January 2014
Le Monde here has an article which in large part re-iterates what NYT journalist Andrew Revkin wrote 3 days ago. The selfish, adolescent follies of the Turney expedition are seriously disrupting the supply of serious scientific operations in the Antarctic. A number of scientists worldwide have not found Turney’s charade amusing at all. The piece is […]
Posted in Antarctic, Green Follies |
By P Gosselin on 3. January 2014
Yet another vessel has been trapped by global warming sea ice! The Xue Long icebreaker has sent out a distress call. The Australian Maritime Safety Authority has released another press release: Aurora Australis on standby as a precautionary measure Xue Long notified AMSA at 1pm AEDT this afternoon it has concerns about their ability to […]
Posted in Antarctic, Green Follies |
By P Gosselin on 3. January 2014
Add another to the list of absurd things claimed to be caused by global warming: Vessels getting trapped in unexpected sea ice! This morning Switzerland’s online flagship daily NZZ here has a report on yesterday’s rescue of the Professor Chris Turney’s ill-fated Antarctic expedition. Once again we see naughty climatologist kids hiding behind mother media’s dress for […]
Posted in Antarctic, Green Follies |
By P Gosselin on 2. January 2014
Reader Aphan posted a comment providing a link to the website of one of the passengers, Janet Rice, an Australian Green politician, who was along on the trip. In it she describes the events of December 23 that led to a delay in the departure of the vessel, and thus causing it to lose the […]
Posted in Antarctic, Green Follies |
By P Gosselin on 2. January 2014
Maverick meteorologist Pier Corbyn at his site here has issued a statement on the rescue of Professor Turkey and his global warming boatpeople. As the story unfolds, it’s becoming increasingly clear that Turney’s preparation was really not quite up to standard, to put it kindly. I wrote about this at length 3 days ago here. Funny […]
Posted in Antarctic, Green Follies |
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