By Kenneth Richard on 30. November 2017
A Shrinking Anthropogenic Signal Continues To Emerge In The Arctic Earlier this year, Stein et al., 2017 published a reconstruction of Arctic sea ice variations throughout the Holocene that appeared to establish that there is more Arctic sea ice now than for nearly all of the last 10,000 years. The study region, the Chukchi Sea, […]
Posted in Arctic, Little Ice Age, Medieval Warm Period, Paleo-climatology |
By P Gosselin on 29. November 2017
It seems that the woes besetting the German Energiewende (transition the green energies) and the country’s power grids are finally beginning to hit home at the mainstream German media. For example German HR public radio here writes “increasingly large problems have besieged power grid operator Tennet” and that the company often “has to act at […]
Posted in Alternative Energy |
By P Gosselin on 28. November 2017
Today we bring you the climate wackiness of the week. At Swiss SRF public broadcasting, Yves Bossart recently interviewed philosopher and ethicist Dominic Roser of the Institute for Ethics and Human Rights of the University of Fribourg. Roser is also the author of the book “Ethics of Climate Change“. Photo right: Dominic Roser, University of Fribourg In the interview Roser tells […]
Posted in Abnormal Climate Psych, Activism |
By Kenneth Richard on 27. November 2017
Changing Scientific Consensus 1970s: Global Cooling A Serious Threat Today: Global Cooling Never Happened Until the mid-1980s, it was widely accepted in the peer-reviewed scientific literature that there was an abrupt global cooling trend between the 1940s and 1970s. The amplitude of the climate change amounted to more than -0.5°C of cooling in the Northern Hemisphere, as […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature |
By P Gosselin on 26. November 2017
A look at Dr. Ryan Maue’s site here tells us a lot about how 2017 cyclone activity is doing as the Atlantic hurricane season winds down. In September the Atlantic indeed saw some powerful hurricanes, such as Harvey, Irma and Maria, which led the media into a fit of Armageddon hysteria and calls to do […]
Posted in Hurricanes/Tornados |
By P Gosselin on 25. November 2017
Spiegel science journalist Axel Bojanowski here interviewed James Hansen, the former director of NASA GISS and one of the most prominent warners of CO2 induced global warming. Former NASA GISS director James Hansen calls exit from nuclear energy “a huge mistake”. Photo: NASA – nasa.gov, (archived) In the wake of the Fukushima disaster in Japan […]
Posted in Nuclear energy |
By P Gosselin on 24. November 2017
The Arctic is defying the alarmist melting predictions made by global warming activists and scientists. An Embarrassment! First, Vencore Weather here writes that Greenland Summit Station “will experience high temperatures around -40°F which continues the very cold and well-below normal trend for the month of November“. Moreover Vencore presents 2 NASA/MODIS satellite photos of Greenland’s Petermann […]
Posted in Arctic |
By Kenneth Richard on 23. November 2017
More Scientific Evidence For CO2’s Dubious Climate Impact Emerges Image Source: Robertson and Chilingar, 2017 According to the most basic precepts of anthropogenic global warming (AGW), variations in CO2 concentrations exert significant control on sea surface temperatures, glaciers, sea levels, and generalized climate dynamics (i.e., precipitation patterns). In particular, high CO2 concentrations, driven by human activity, are […]
Posted in CO2 and GHG, Paleo-climatology, Sea Levels |
By P Gosselin on 22. November 2017
Global surface temperatures have been falling steadily since the last El Nino, glacier melt has been decelerating rapidly and Arctic sea ice has been making a surprising recovery this year. Moreover, the equatorial Pacific has just entered a global cooling La Nina phase. But there is another far more ominous, long-term sign that the planet […]
Posted in Solar Sciences |
By P Gosselin on 21. November 2017
Some weeks ago I reported here on how Hans-Joachim Schellnhuber, the alarmist director of the Potsdam Institute, appeared on a leading German talk show together with Swiss meteorologist Jörg Kachelmann and others to discuss climate change and the rash of storms that had hit the Atlantic and North Sea. In the talk round Kachelmann (a […]
Posted in Activism, Alarmism, Scepticism |
By Kenneth Richard on 20. November 2017
Glacier Retreat Has Been Slowing During 2000-2016 A new satellite-based estimate of glacier mass change for High Mountain Asia (HMA), the world’s third largest glacier conglomeration after Antarctica and Greenland, reveals a relatively modest retreat rate for the first 17 years of the 21st century. The results from Brun et al. (2017) indicate that HMA glaciers are nearly […]
Posted in Glaciers |
By P Gosselin on 19. November 2017
The Editorial Board of the Wall Street Journal here put out an accurate, concise assessment of how Germany’s “Energiewende” (transition away from fossil and nuclear energies over to green energies) has been faring so far. It’s grade? I’d interpret it as an F for failure. Quickly turning into a huge embarrassment Once seen as “a paragon […]
Posted in Alternative Energy |
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