By P Gosselin on 31. December 2017
Share this… Facebook TwitterMeteorologist Joe Bastardi warned of a cold snap gripping the Eastern US many weeks ago, in October, at his Weatherbell Analytics site, which I visit almost daily. Chart source: NOAA, public domain. Today it’s all over the news: The Great Freeze of 2017 is smashing through the entire North American East, bringing with it […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature |
By P Gosselin on 29. December 2017
Share this… Facebook TwitterNOTE: As this post and the last have generated much interest, they will be left at the top for another day. ============================================ Retired German climatologist Dr. Werner Kirstein recently spoke on the topic of climate change before a packed audience at the 14th Anti-Censorship Conference (AZK) last November, blasting the politicization of […]
Posted in Alarmism, Climate Politics, Hockey Team, Media / Bias, Scepticism |
By Kenneth Richard on 28. December 2017
Share this… Facebook TwitterTemperatures To Decrease 0.5°C-0.7°C Due To Low Sunspots, Solar Minimum Image Source: Abdussamatov, 2012 During 2017, 120 papers linking historical and modern climate change to variations in solar activity and its modulators (clouds, cosmic rays) have been published in scientific journals. It has been increasingly established that low solar activity (fewer sunspots) […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Little Ice Age, Solar Sciences |
By P Gosselin on 27. December 2017
Share this… Facebook TwitterGermany’s energy poverty is about to get worse, as poor people are threatened with being put out in the cold by the country’s green energies. Electricity prices “higher than they have ever been” German news weekly Stern here reports that “electricity prices will rise further at the start of the year” and that […]
Posted in Alternative Energy |
By P Gosselin on 26. December 2017
Share this… Facebook TwitterWhat follows are 6 recent studies presented by Lüning and Vahrenholt, which dump cold water on the claim storms will get more frequent and intense. The studies fly in the face of a recent Nature editorial piece, one filled with the usual worn out alarmist propaganda language of climate doom we’ve been seeing […]
Posted in Alarmism, Emissions, Hurricanes/Tornados |
By Kenneth Richard on 25. December 2017
Share this… Facebook Twitter Image Source: 22 December 2017 Newsweek Christmas Day has arrived. With the advent of this cheery holiday comes a somber warning from Newsweek, purveyor of climate doom. “[A]s global temperatures rise due to climate change, snow on Christmas Day could increasingly become a rarity—even a distant memory.” Contrary to Newsweek‘s claims, however, snow cover across […]
Posted in Glaciers, Green Follies |
By P Gosselin on 24. December 2017
Share this… Facebook TwitterWishing everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Norman Rockwell – U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, public domain image. It’s been a good year for the NoTricksZone, with traffic in 2017 up around 25% compared to a year earlier. This is mostly thanks to the outstanding contributions by guest writer […]
Posted in Misc. |
By P Gosselin on 23. December 2017
Share this… Facebook TwitterAt the German Die kalte Sonne site here, Dr. Sebastian Lüning and Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt present another two recent papers showing that models are failing to simulate the climate and cannot be used to make prognoses. ======================================== What are temperature prognoses really worth? Climate models fail completely in the all-important reality tests […]
Posted in Models |
By P Gosselin on 22. December 2017
Share this… Facebook TwitterGermany’s once highly promoted “Energiewende” (transition to green energies) and the country’s feed-in act have been given a grade of “F” by one of the country’s top economists, Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Hans-Werner Sinn. Just days ago the renowned economics professor gave a presentation dubbed “How much volatile power can the power […]
Posted in Alternative Energy |
By Kenneth Richard on 21. December 2017
Share this… Facebook TwitterPost-1940s ‘Agricultural Intensification’ Caused Deep Cooling, 400% Crop Growth In a new paper published in Geophysical Research Letters, three MIT scientists assert that the human influence on the climate of the Central United States is dominated by agricultural activity rather than greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Human activity has caused a significant long-term cooling […]
Posted in Agriculture, Cooling/Temperature, Emissions, Models |
By P Gosselin on 20. December 2017
Share this… Facebook TwitterHave you ever wondered why the opposition and European elitists are freaking out? Many can no longer cope with the reality. Trump has performed extremely well under the most hostile of circumstances, and accomplished a lot: Now the huge tax reform bill moves to the President’s desk for signing. The tax burden is […]
Posted in Climate Politics, Misc. |
By P Gosselin on 20. December 2017
Share this… Facebook TwitterThere’s been a volcanic eruption in Northwest Pacific at Bezymianny Volcano, reports dutchsinse.com here. Already an aviation colour code RED has been issued. The spectacular, Mount St. Helens-like eruption has even been posted on YouTube: The 2882-meter Bezymianny Volcano in Russia in the northwest Pacific blew on December 20, 2017, and the eruption was […]
Posted in Tectonics/Volcanoes |
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