By P Gosselin on 19. July 2017
What follows later, below, is a short commentary by Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt and Dr. Sebastian Lüning recently appearing at Die kalte Sonne site here. Indeed, it’s truly mind-boggling how a single person or a trace gas now gets all the blame for every weather problem. The hysteria-filled Dark Ages of the Inquisition are back. Torches […]
Posted in Abnormal Climate Psych, Activism, Climate Politics |
By P Gosselin on 18. July 2017
Yesterday at Twitter here meteorologist Joe Bastardi, a well-known climate science antagonist, directed our attention to the NCEP temperature situation for South America. Yikes! The massive scale of the cold is of Amazonian proportions, with temperatures well below normal across the entire continent. Bastardi even called the cold “spectacular”. Recently snow was reported to have fallen in […]
Posted in Arctic, Cooling/Temperature |
By Kenneth Richard on 17. July 2017
CO2 Contributed Only 0.12°C To Global Temps Since 1850 A Swiss scientist known to have published hundreds of scientific papers in physics journals has authored a new scholarly paper that casts serious doubts on the effectiveness of CO2 as a greenhouse gas influencing Earth’s temperatures. This paper has been added to a growing volume of peer-reviewed scientific papers […]
Posted in CO2 and GHG, Scepticism |
By P Gosselin on 16. July 2017
What follows is a list of reasons compiled by this German site here on why wind is a poor source of power. There are eight disadvantages that cannot be ignored, the site writes. What follows are the eight reasons along with my own descriptions. 1. Unstable, erratic power supply The wind doesn’t blow constantly, and […]
Posted in Alternative Energy |
By P Gosselin on 15. July 2017
The Vice President of the Germany-based European Institute for Climate and Energy (EIKE) Michael Limburg wrote that the recent ice chunk breaking off the Antarctic ice shelf has everything to do with natural cyclic calving, and that the media reporting has been mostly alarmist hype. EIKE writes: Antarctic ice shelf breaking is a totally normal […]
Posted in Antarctic, Sea Levels |
By P Gosselin on 14. July 2017
Before getting to the yesterday’s Trump/Macron press conference, first I wish to bring up the nice reaction we got from Curtis Stone, the urban farmer I featured here a couple of days ago here in a less than flattering manner. (Now I wish I had not been so hard on him). Here’s the comment he […]
Posted in Climate Politics |
By Kenneth Richard on 13. July 2017
2nd Highest Subantarctic Glacier Advance Of Last 1,000 Years Occurred 50 Years Ago Yesterday we learned that a giant iceberg just split off from the Antarctic Peninsula. Most media outlets were uncharacteristically mild with their declarations of concern. Even The Guardian pointed out that the breakup of the ice is naturally occurring, glaciologists are “not unduly concerned […]
Posted in Antarctic, Glaciers |
By P Gosselin on 12. July 2017
We have all heard about the record-breaking ice mass balance and cold temperature reading of -33°C recently set in Greenland — the Arctic island that is supposedly the canary in the climate coal mine. It turns out that things up there are colder than we may be led to believe and that the alleged warming […]
Posted in Arctic, Cooling/Temperature |
By P Gosselin on 11. July 2017
Urban farming seems to be one of the latest trends among activists obsessed with environmental-footprints, and is being billed by some as the solution for all the world’s ills. In the following video urban farmer Curtis Stone is just the latest example of how people can get intoxicated by a dogma, become blind to their […]
Posted in Activism, Agriculture |
By Kenneth Richard on 10. July 2017
Greenland Cooling Since 2005 Arctic Region Cooler Now Than Most Of The Last 10,000 Years It’s official. According to a new paper published in the journal Scientific Reports, Greenland has been cooling slightly since 2005. This trend development may be a harbinger of what may be in store for the coming years. Shifts in North Atlantic temperatures typically […]
Posted in Arctic, Cooling/Temperature, Glaciers |
By P Gosselin on 9. July 2017
It was just reported that Greenland set a new all-time July cold record, where the mercury plummeted to -33°C. Read details here. What follows are excerpts from the most recent analysis of global temperature at wobleibtdieglobaleerwaermung.wordpress.com. A Greenland record low shouldn’t come as a surprise since in the wake of the recent El Nino global temperatures […]
Posted in Antarctic, Arctic, Cooling/Temperature, Oceans |
By P Gosselin on 8. July 2017
Sun rules sea level: Scientists discover unexpected relationship By Dr. Sebastian Lüning and Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt (German text translated by P Gosselin) A group of researchers led by Adrian Martinez-Asensio have found an 11-year Schwabe solar cycle in the European sea level. The authors published their findings 19 November 2016 in the Geophysical Research Letters: […]
Posted in Solar |
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