By P Gosselin on 11. February 2014
If you’re in Berlin next month, here’s an event you’ll want to put in your calendar. Dr. Peter Heller of Science Skeptical writes here that Germany’s Helmholtz Association is holding a podium discussion in Berlin on March 17, 2014. The title: “What can we believe? The climate debate and its impacts” So even some prestigious […]
Posted in Scepticism |
By P Gosselin on 10. February 2014
Just days ago I posted on a how veteran German Die Welt journalist Ulli Kulke was amazed at how supposedly one of the world’s best meteorological outfits, the Met Office of England, had botched 13 of the last 14 annual forecasts. Read here. Kulke accused the Met Office of “systematic false alarms”, saying they “refuse to […]
Posted in Hockey Team, Stupid Predictions |
By P Gosselin on 9. February 2014
This year western Europe has experienced a mild winter as a parade of low pressure systems coming in from off the Atlantic has fed the continent with a steady supply of mild southerly winds. For Germany this winter will be the first mild one in 6 years after a record 5 consecutive winters of colder […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Oceans |
By P Gosselin on 8. February 2014
If you think it just couldn’t be possible for any weather outfit to perform as poorly as the UK’s Met Office in long-term outlooks (13 out of 14 wrong), think again. It appears the US national weather services are right on their heels when it comes to who can make the all-time least accurate outlooks. […]
Posted in Stupid Predictions |
By P Gosselin on 7. February 2014
Dr. Sebastian Lüning’s and Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt’s Die kalte Sonne site brings us the latest solar report. ===================================== The Sun in January 2014 and News of the Sun’s Polar Field By Frank Bosse (Translated, edited by P Gosselin) Over the last month solar cycle 24 (SC24) has seen some rather brisk activity. The sunspot number […]
Posted in Solar Sciences |
By P Gosselin on 6. February 2014
Here’s something really cool and likely something you’re going to look at regularly. Axel Bojanowski reports here at Spiegel on an outstanding interactive global weather real-time animation tool. The animation is the creation of US programmer Cameron Beccario. Image cropped from: earth.nullschool.net. You can use the mouse to rotate the globe and to activate the […]
Posted in Weather |
By P Gosselin on 6. February 2014
At his blog, Die Welt veteran journalist Ulli Kulke writes about the British Met Office’s seemingly obstinate refusal to cast off its ideological addiction to planetary warming and the Office’s consequently resulting overblown annual global temperature forecasts year after year. Systematic false alarms As the data roll in, it’s now clear that 2013 was “among […]
Posted in Hockey Team, Models, Stupid Predictions |
By P Gosselin on 5. February 2014
Polar conditions are spreading southwards so much worldwide that they have also taken grip in Iran, Turkmenistan and Afghanistan. Earlier this winter places like Cairo and Jerusalem saw snow for the first time in many decades. Extreme winter conditions forecast to grip Caspian Sea region. Chart shows the 7-day temperature anomaly forecast. Image cropped from: […]
Posted in Arctic, Cooling/Temperature |
By P Gosselin on 4. February 2014
German alarmist site klimaretter.de here reports on the latest negative developments now hitting Germany’s wind power industry. The latest to be hit is wind-turbine transmission manufacturer Bosch Rexroth AG, which announced it will slash 210 jobs and give up a production plant in Nuremberg. Image cropped from: www.youtube.com/kGXoE3RFZ8 Klimaretter writes that the reason behind the move is […]
Posted in Alternative Energy |
By P Gosselin on 3. February 2014
Correction: A reader has pointed out that the paper is an analysis of some models which shows albedo, often claimed by alarmists as the primary Arctic climate driving factor, is not the number one Arctic amplifier after all, as skeptics have long maintained. The paper itself says nothing about the integrity of models, and thus the […]
Posted in Arctic, Models |
By P Gosselin on 2. February 2014
Renewable energy in Europe has just taken another nail in its coffin. Thanks to Germany’s infamous EEG energy feed-in act, electricity prices for consumers and industry have long been rising sharply, and now there’s a looming threat of a revolt. Today the online business magazine Unternehmen Heute quotes former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroder’s soon-to-be-published book, which […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Climate Politics |
By P Gosselin on 1. February 2014
As a whole, Europe has enjoyed a relatively very mild winter this year, as one Atlantic low after another have regularly pumped mild Atlantic air over much of the continent. But that pattern was interrupted by a blast of cold air from the East about 10 days ago. The results have been deadly. 13 die […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Weather |
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