By P Gosselin on 31. January 2017
When it comes to the treatment and handling of refugees, it turns out that European leaders are the very last people who should be preaching morality to President Trump. Their total incompetence have cost thousands of refugee lives, and the situation is only getting much worse. They own it. A refugee from Afghanistan holds his young […]
Posted in Misc. |
By Kenneth Richard on 30. January 2017
Dr. Thomas Karl recently retired as Director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). In 1989, Karl’s stated position was that global temperatures cooled between 1921 and 1979. Source: RealClimateScience “Analysis of warming since 1881 shows most of the increase in global temperature happened before 1919 – before the more recent sharp rise in the […]
Posted in Activism, Cooling/Temperature, Hockey Team |
By P Gosselin on 29. January 2017
More fake science in the German press, coming from UNICEF ============================================== Water level of Lake Malawi was 120 meters lower during Little Ice Age By Dr. Sebastian Lüning and Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt (German text translated/edited by P Gosselin) UNICEF is currently collecting donations for Malawi, as reported by the German Passauer Neue Presse (PNP) as […]
Posted in Drought and Deserts |
By P Gosselin on 28. January 2017
Germany’s elite establishment is having a very difficult time coming to terms with the outcome of USA’s democratic process. The country’s ZDF national public television recently and energetically fanned the flames of Trump-hatred, going so far as to compare the U.S. President to Adolf Hitler. Madonna has company – in Germany. Smiling ZDF German moderator Ilka […]
Posted in Misc. |
By P Gosselin on 27. January 2017
Only 5% of demand covered The Swiss online Baseler Zeitung here writes how the country’s Association for Pharmaceutical, Chemical and Biotech Companies is coming out against Switzerland’s recently proposed green “energy strategy”, saying that it is “fundamentally going in the wrong direction“. The association fears it will lead to higher costs. Energy politician Christian Wasserfallen “is […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Climate Politics |
By Kenneth Richard on 26. January 2017
The Hockey Stick Collapses (2017) A collection of 60 peer-reviewed scientific papers published in 2016 were displayed here last month in an article entitled, “The Hockey Stick Collapses: 60 New (2016) Scientific Papers Affirm Today’s Warming Isn’t Global, Unprecedented, Or Remarkable“. Each paper from the 2016 collection cast doubt on claims of an especially unusual global-scale […]
Posted in Hockey Team, Paleo-climatology |
By P Gosselin on 25. January 2017
By Kyoji Kimoto I have found a 44-year cycle of heavy snowfall in Japan caused by a wavy jet stream, corresponding to Dalton and Gleissberg Minimum as follows [Kimoto, 2010]. 1. 1833/heavy snowfall – Dalton Minimum (1795-1830) 2. 1877 heavy snowfall (44 years later) 3. 1918/heavy snowfall: Gleissberg Minimum (1898-1923) – 41 years later 4. 1963/heavy snowfall (45 years […]
Posted in Solar Sciences |
By P Gosselin on 24. January 2017
No climate change: Huge iceberg threatens to break off from Larsen C Ice Shelf By Dr. Sebastian Lüning and Prof Fritz Vahrenholt (German text translated/edited by P Gosselin) Image: visibleearth.nasa.gov A huge crack recently formed through the Antarctic Larsen C ice shelf. The German Tagesspiegel here was fair and did not attribute it to climate […]
Posted in Antarctic |
By Kenneth Richard on 23. January 2017
One of the oft-stated “truths” for advocates of the position that humans are predominantly responsible for climate changes is that the Sun could not have played more than a negligible role in the global warming of the last few centuries. Indeed, the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPPC) report theorizes that the long-term solar […]
Posted in Paleo-climatology, Solar, Solar Sciences |
By P Gosselin on 21. January 2017
NOTE: I was in Berlin the whole weekend and just got back. A bit tired, and so no new post today. ======================================== The skeptic European Institute for Climate and Energy (EIKE) here brings our attention to a documentary on electric cars by German flagship ARD public television broadcast recently The news on the electric car […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Climate Politics |
By P Gosselin on 20. January 2017
The sun in December 2016, and a look ahead By Frank Bosse and Fritz Vahrenholt (Translated/summarized by P Gosselin) In December solar activity was rather quiet, with the sunspot number at only 19.5. The sun was spotless over 6 days, and already this month there have been 10 spotless days so far. In December solar […]
Posted in Solar Sciences |
By Kenneth Richard on 19. January 2017
What Models Say: ♦ IPCC TAR (2001): “Milder winter temperatures will decrease heavy snowstorms“ ♦ Kunkel et al., 2002: “Surface conditions favorable for heavy lake-effect snow decreased in frequency by 50% and 90% for the HadCM2 and CGCM1 [models], respectively, by the late 21st Century. This reduction was due almost entirely to … an increase in […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Models |
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