By P Gosselin on 13. June 2014
Share this…FacebookTwitterYesterday I wrote a post about the Rheinstetten weather station here. At first I thought it was the one located at the local gliding airfield, but found it peculiar that siting was pretty bad – as Anthony Watts commented. This is not something that’s typical of Germans, who like to be precise with everything. […]
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By P Gosselin on 12. June 2014
Share this…FacebookTwitterEarly this week a German meteorologist tweeted that Germany had set a new record high for the date in the southern state of Baden Wurttemberg at a station called Rheinstetten. I was even told that the station was fairly new (and thus reliable?). I’ve noticed that on hot days the Rheinstetten station always appeared to […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Media / Bias, Weather |
By P Gosselin on 11. June 2014
Share this…FacebookTwitterOver the last weekend and early this week Germany saw some 4 days of record-breaking hot weather, which also brought on severe thunderstorms that caused property damage, local flooding, traffic disruptions and killed a half dozen people. Photo Mojib Latif (Source: GEOMAR) The media went crazy, and so did some “experts”. Immediately the high […]
Posted in CO2 and GHG, Green Follies, Hockey Team, Models, Weather |
By P Gosselin on 10. June 2014
Share this…FacebookTwitterA Short History of the Human Race Part 3. Empires By Ed Caryl After the cold snap of 8200 years ago, civilization really began to develop in the Middle East. Villages became towns. Towns developed into cities. Societies adopted formal rulers, religions, and the beginnings of social stratification. The first large temple structures date […]
Posted in Paleo-climatology |
By P Gosselin on 9. June 2014
Share this…FacebookTwitter Update: Read here. This post is about an interview by the online Swiss Der Bund here with Swiss geology giant Christian Schlüchter titled: “Our society is fundamentally dishonest“. In it he criticizes climate science for its extreme tunnel vision and political contamination. Geologist Sebastain Lüning sent me an e-mail where he writes: “This is […]
Posted in Glaciers, Paleo-climatology, Scepticism |
By P Gosselin on 8. June 2014
Share this…FacebookTwitterLooks like yet another model projection is about to join that now overflowing mass grave of failed climate and weather model projections. The latest to join it is the projection that 2014 would bring a “super El Niño”, and with it, the warmists are hoping, a new global temperature record. At Weatherbell Joe Bastardi has posted his […]
Posted in Arctic, Cooling/Temperature, Models, Oceans, Stupid Predictions |
By P Gosselin on 7. June 2014
Share this…FacebookTwitterThe European Institute for Climate and Energy (EIKE) has posted a video of Richard Lindzen’s presentation delivered at the 7th International Climate and Energy Conference in Mannheim, Germany in April. Overall Lindzen slams the IPCC models, claiming they act like they have everything all figured out, when in reality they do not. On ocean […]
Posted in CO2 and GHG, Hurricanes/Tornados, IPCC, Models, Oceans, Scepticism |
By P Gosselin on 6. June 2014
Share this…FacebookTwitterAn insightful commentary in Germany’s flagship daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung looks at the status and future of global climate policy development. In the commentary, climate policy expert Oliver Geden of the Foundation for Science and Policy (SWP) in Berlin writes that “climate diplomacy has long since maneuvered itself to a dead-end” and that “global climate […]
Posted in Climate Politics, IPCC |
By P Gosselin on 5. June 2014
Share this…FacebookTwitterA Short History of the Human Race The Climb Out Of The Ice Age Part 2 By Ed Caryl Below is a plot of sea level and temperature for the last 21,000 years, when the world warmed out of the last ice age, and civilization became possible. This is the end of the Upper […]
Posted in Agriculture, Drought and Deserts, Glaciers, Oceans, Paleo-climatology, Sea Levels |
By P Gosselin on 5. June 2014
Share this…FacebookTwitterIt’s increasingly obvious that warnings of a “rapidly warming planet” are coming from another alien world, one where the climate is completely different from the one we have here on Earth. Recently we have been seeing headlines telling us that the GLOBAL WARMING STOP has been extended yet another month, now at 17 years and […]
Posted in Activism, Cooling/Temperature, Models |
By P Gosselin on 4. June 2014
Share this…FacebookTwitterThe European Institute for Climate and Energy (EIKE) writes of the German reaction to the “announcement” made by a prominent Chinese figure, He Jiankun, who yesterday stated that CO2 in his country would be capped. The announcement sent waves of euphoria throughout the global media and top climate officials. It appeared to be the long-awaited breakthrough. […]
Posted in Activism, Green Follies, Media / Bias |
By P Gosselin on 4. June 2014
Share this…FacebookTwitterMarc Morano appeared on Al Jazeera America for a discussion round about whether the EPA bureaucratic power grab to regulate coal will have impacts on the economy and environment. Photo: CFACT Watch video here: https://ajam.app.box.com Morano compares CO2 reductions to an insurance policy, one where the premiums are far more costly than anything you’ll […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Climate Politics, CO2 and GHG, Pollution, Scepticism |
By P Gosselin on 3. June 2014
Share this…FacebookTwitterA Short History of the Human Race Part 1, The Late Pleistocene, A Story of Survival By Ed Caryl The story of the human race, Homo Sapiens, is really a story driven by climate, particularly temperatures, rainfall, and sea level. Most of that history has taken place in the last 20,000 years, since the […]
Posted in Agriculture, Cooling/Temperature, Drought and Deserts, Glaciers, Paleo-climatology, Tectonics/Volcanoes |
By P Gosselin on 2. June 2014
Share this…FacebookTwitter[Note: The report at Spiegel is one that comes from the DPA German news agency.] The online Der Spiegel writes how global CO2 emissions are projected to keep rising strongly, 1.1% annually, at least until 2035 – thanks to strong economic growth in emerging countries like India and China. Obama’s newly announced actions to curb CO2 […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Climate Politics, CO2 and GHG, Nuclear energy, We're To Blame |
By P Gosselin on 1. June 2014
Share this…FacebookTwitterUPDATED: Joe has contacted me and I’ve added a correction concerning the AMO-hurricane connection, which I misinterpreted from the video. See his comment below after my post. ===================================== Veteran meteorologist Joe Bastardi presents lots of interesting background information on hurricanes in his newest Saturday Summary, reminding viewers that they were much worse back in […]
Posted in Arctic, Hurricanes/Tornados, Oceans |
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