By P Gosselin on 31. December 2015
Share this…FacebookTwitterThanks in large part to wind and solar energy, not only have German electricity prices paid by consumers skyrocketed over the past years, thus casting a large number of homes into home fuel poverty, but also the supply itself is rapidly becoming precarious and unreliable. One problem is the stabilization of the power grid […]
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By P Gosselin on 30. December 2015
Share this…FacebookTwitterOver the past months we’ve witnessed a powerful El Niño, a Pacific oceanic phase that brings warm sea surface temperatures along the equatorial Pacific. This El Niño has made 2015 global temperatures among the highest on the satellite record. But not only has the equatorial surface Pacific been warm, so has a vast part […]
Posted in Oceans |
By P Gosselin on 29. December 2015
Share this…FacebookTwitterThe recent focus on (and hysteria over) the warm Christmas weather we saw over the North American east coast and Europe apparently is already fading and giving way to far more serious concerns – like the snow bowl blizzard of normally sunny El Paso, for example. Naturally it’s just silly to use one weather […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature |
By P Gosselin on 28. December 2015
Share this…FacebookTwitterDespite all the big talk by German political leaders on cutting back CO2 and fighting climate change, the country’s actions speak far greater volumes. Germany’s CO2 reductions over the past few years have not gone anywhere – except up – despite two consecutive much warmer than normal weather years. These are the results coming from […]
Posted in Climate Politics, CO2 and GHG |
By P Gosselin on 27. December 2015
Share this…FacebookTwitterUPDATE: Tony Heller reminds us (and Bernie Sanders) how warm it was back in 1951 on New Years Eve: https://twitter.com/Goddardde =========================================================== At his always interesting Saturday Summary at Weatherbell Analytics here, veteran meteorologist Joe Bastardi confirms what Tony Heller’s Real Science posted a couple of days ago: December 24, 1955 was warmer than the […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Weather |
By P Gosselin on 26. December 2015
Share this…FacebookTwitterToday I have a short but interesting report from Spiegel.de here concerning the performance of North Sea wind parks, which were once seen as the future backbone of Germany’s energy supply. Unfortunately things are not working out that way at all. Photo right: Bard Delivering only a tiny fraction of rated capacity Spiegel writes that Germany […]
Posted in Alternative Energy |
By P Gosselin on 25. December 2015
Share this…FacebookTwitterWishing everybody Mele Kalikimaka! This wonderful mild Christmas in some areas is in large part a gift from this year’s “El Nino” – so enjoy it! PS: I’d like to say a big THANK YOU to all readers, alarmist or skeptic, for making 2015 another successful year at NTZ! Share this…FacebookTwitter
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By P Gosselin on 23. December 2015
Share this…FacebookTwitterOne of the biggest obstacles global warming alarmists have had to deal with is the inconvenient existence of the Medieval Warm Period (MWP), as there are reams of literature showing that this period was as warm or even warmer than today. Photo right: Fritz Vahrenholt (Die kalte Sonne) Yet, a number of global warming activists and […]
Posted in Paleo-climatology |
By P Gosselin on 22. December 2015
Share this…FacebookTwitterThe human memory is not very reliable at calculating trends from the past. This has something to do with extraordinary events often crowding out uneventful ones – and standing out. As time progresses the extraordinary events tend to get overly weighted and distort the memory. Balz Rittmeyer and Marc Fehr at this site here […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature |
By P Gosselin on 21. December 2015
Share this…FacebookTwitterThe following is the English version of a post appearing at the German “wobleibtdieglobaleerwaermung?” (Where’s the global warming). The El current El Niño is in a tailspin. ================================== Global temperatures plummet in just a single week – NH one degree colder By Schneefan After the global temperature anomaly reached a peak in early December, […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Oceans |
By P Gosselin on 20. December 2015
Share this…FacebookTwitterGeologist Sebastian Lüning and Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt compare adjustments made by NOAA, NASA and the Met Office to doping in sports. ========================================= Temperature Data Doping? By Dr. Sebastian Lüning and Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt [Translated/edited by P Gosselin] Fantasy stories from la-la land: Climate change is progressing unhindered and the hottest November (2015) since measurements […]
Posted in Activism, Cooling/Temperature |
By P Gosselin on 19. December 2015
Share this…FacebookTwitterI expect this piece appearing at one of Germany’s leading weather forecasting sites, donnerwetter.de, to be controversial and that there could even be efforts to force the site to take it down. The commentary points out that some of the main elements of today’s environmental and climate movement sweeping across Europe were and are […]
Posted in Abnormal Climate Psych |
By P Gosselin on 18. December 2015
Share this…FacebookTwitter The Belgian online Le Peuple here interviewed István Marko, Professor of Chemistry at the UCL, and a so-called climate non-alarmist, on what he thought of the results of the highly ballyhooed Paris COP21 climate summit and agreement. Photo: www.uclouvain.be Unrealistic and laughable His assessment is devastating. He calls the COP21 agreement a “grand illusion“, […]
Posted in Climate Politics, IPCC, Scepticism |
By P Gosselin on 17. December 2015
Share this…FacebookTwitterThe German Wildlife Foundation has put out a press release: =================================== Chainsaws rip birdlife protection The German Wildlife Foundation sees an increase in criminal activity in the construction of wind parks Bird killed by wind turbine. Photo: German Wildlife Foundation As delegates congregated in Paris, chainsaws were busily cutting down forests in Germany to make […]
Posted in Alternative Energy |
By P Gosselin on 16. December 2015
Share this…FacebookTwitterThe Sun in November 2015 By Frank Bosse and Fritz Vahrenholt (Translated/edited by P Gosselin) In November our sun was once again below normal in activity. The 84th month since the current solar cycle started in December 2008 saw a solar sunspot number (SSN) of 63.2, which was 72% of what is the mean […]
Posted in Solar Sciences |
By P Gosselin on 15. December 2015
Share this…FacebookTwitterAs expected, we are now finding out the Paris climate climate agreement has been spectacularly oversold to the public as a success for climate protection. Now that the text has been examined, it is clear that the agreement, which cannot even be called a treaty, and which has yet to be “ratified”, is turning out to be […]
Posted in Climate Politics |
By P Gosselin on 13. December 2015
Share this…FacebookTwitterThe online Vermont news site Vermont Digger here presents a commentary by Vermont state Senator John Rodgers who represents my childhood home county of Orleans, and Essex county as well. Photo: Industrializing Vermont’s idyllic landscape. Cropped from video by Green Mountain Power Corp. Senator Rodgers has had it with industrial wind energy ruining his […]
Posted in Alternative Energy |
By P Gosselin on 12. December 2015
Share this…FacebookTwitterUPDATE: No surprise, but sadly, all countries signed the dumb treaty, which we know will be meaningless in curbing global CO2 emissions. The treaty is useless, vaguely binding and will not have any impact whatsoever. In a few days we will start hearing a chorus of dissatisfaction from reductions proponents about the treaty’s ineffectiveness. ====================== […]
Posted in Misc. |
By P Gosselin on 11. December 2015
Share this…FacebookTwitterSpiegel has the latest analysis of the climate haggling going on at COP21. It looks pretty heated. From science journalist Axel Bojanowski‘s perspective, the representatives have encountered some major obstacles. He writes of a “huge clamor” and reports that the treaty is on the brink. He writes, citing delegates, the negotiations have been charged with […]
Posted in Climate Politics |
By P Gosselin on 10. December 2015
Share this…FacebookTwitterBefore COP21 assembled in Paris last month, there was a sense of optimism that a new climate treaty to replace the long-expired 1997 Kyoto Protocol for reducing “greenhouse gas” emissions would be hammered out. But now that COP 21 is approaching its scheduled end, we are finding out from the media that representatives are […]
Posted in Climate Politics |
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