By P Gosselin on 20. December 2016
Germany is in shock after yesterday’s terrorist attack on a Berlin Christmas market, which is a stark symbol of German culture. The latest figures show 12 dead and 48 injured – some seriously. Also the Polish driver of the hijacked truck allegedly was killed. Already accusations are flying back and forth, with some on the […]
Posted in Misc. |
By Kenneth Richard on 19. December 2016
“[T]he coincidence of the most recent phase of ice-frontal retreat…and warming summer temperatures is not unusual in the context of the last ~80 years.” — Chandler et al., 2016 All too often, scientific analysis of modern glacier and ice sheet melt rates is conveniently confined to the last 30 to 60 years. Indeed, the common […]
Posted in Arctic, Glaciers |
By P Gosselin on 18. December 2016
Back in the 1970s, many media outlets warned of global cooling and even a possible coming ice age. For example here I wrote about how Spiegel in 1974 grimly reported of threatening global cooling and that the odds of global warming were “at best” only 1 in 10,000! Current warm period “coming to an end” […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Paleo-climatology |
By P Gosselin on 17. December 2016
The online Germany-based International Business Forum for Regenerative Energies (IWR) here writes that the country will fail to reach its 2020 climate targets, despite tens of billions of euros invested in green energies such as wind and solar, and all its incessant green pontification. An expert commission appointed by the government recently released its 5th […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Climate Politics |
By P Gosselin on 16. December 2016
The Sun in November 2016. And models coming back to reality By Frank Bosse and Fritz Vahrenholt (Translated/edited by P Gosselin)The star at the center of our solar system last month again approached bottom with its solar activity. The monthly mean for sunspot number (SSN) was 21.4. Just how low this is, is clearly illustrated by […]
Posted in Models, Oceans, Solar Sciences |
By Kenneth Richard on 15. December 2016
Fifteen international scientists recently collaborated to assemble one of the most comprehensive analyses of temperature and ice sheet changes for Greenland and the Canadian Arctic ever produced. Briner et al., (2016) synthesized over 100 records from a large and accumulating database to publish “Holocene climate change in Arctic Canada and Greenland” in the journal Quaternary […]
Posted in Arctic, Cooling/Temperature, Glaciers, Paleo-climatology |
By P Gosselin on 14. December 2016
NEWSBREAK 12/15/2016: Dollar climbs to highest level in over 13 years! ===================================== With their (fake) warnings that a Trump presidency would lead economic markets into turmoil, the Democrats and media critics have got to be feeling a little embarrassed. The opposite is actually occurring. Image cropped from: www.donaldjtrump.com/ Personally I haven’t seen anything like this since […]
Posted in Misc. |
By P Gosselin on 13. December 2016
Some kudos to Die Welt for publishing the opinion piece by one of the rare remaining fighters for liberty in Germany, Henryk Broder. Leading German politician Volker Kauder (photo) of the CDU party aims “to ban lies from the Internet” thus suggesting the establishment of a Ministry of Truth. Image cropped from volker-kauder.de/index.html, CDU. With […]
Posted in Climate Politics |
By Kenneth Richard on 12. December 2016
Three years ago, when the Rosenthal et al. (2013) paper was made available online from the journal Science, there was a bit of a stir among the purveyors of the humans-control-climate-with-their-CO2-emissions paradigm. Climate activist Michael Mann, for example, was ostensibly quite unhappy that a Medieval Warm Period (with +0.65°C warmer-than-now intermediate [0-700 m] ocean temperatures) was prominently […]
Posted in CO2 and GHG, Cooling/Temperature, Oceans, Paleo-climatology |
By P Gosselin on 11. December 2016
The German Historical Museum published at its website a fascinating account of one of the continent’s worst disasters. What follows are some excerpts. You can read the whole account by clicking on the link. It shows that bad weather has nothing to do with trace gas CO2 and “climate catastrophe” is nothing new. Hat-tip: Gerti […]
Posted in Drought and Deserts, Tectonics/Volcanoes, We're To Blame |
By P Gosselin on 10. December 2016
Ice and cold were supposed to be a thing of the past, global warming theorists insisted some years ago. But that hasn’t been true. The problem is that the natural factors clearly dominate, and the experts had forgotten all about them. Winters with snow and ice are just as likely as they ever were in the […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Weather |
By P Gosselin on 9. December 2016
Finally there’s agreement: Ocean cycles are responsible for the missing warming since 2000 By Dr. Sebastian Lüning and Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt (German text translated, edited by P Gosselin) It was stated in our 2012 climate science skeptical book “Die kalte Sonne” and was massively criticized. Today it is accepted: the systematic impact of ocean cycles […]
Posted in Oceans |
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