By P Gosselin on 19. December 2017
In an opinion piece at the Mittel Bayerische daily, Harry Neumann, National Chairman of the environmental group Naturschutzinitiative e.V. declares Germany’s Energiewende (transition to renewable energies) a failure and writes: “The wind power industry and nature protection cannot be reconciled.” Moreover Germany’s EEG green energy feed-in act is doing more harm than good, writes Neumann: […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Climate Politics |
By Kenneth Richard on 18. December 2017
In assessing the global-scale trends in near-surface (0-20 m) ocean temperatures between 1900 and 2010, Gouretski et al. (2012) determined that the world’s oceans warmed by about 1.1°C between 1900 and 1945 (~0.24°C per decade), but then only warmed by an additional net 0.3°C between 1945 and 2010 (~0.046°C per decade), including a cooling […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Natural Oceanic Oscillations, Oceans |
By P Gosselin on 17. December 2017
Before getting to the subject of climate models, first two small points worth bringing up: Eco-Trumpism spreading Firstly, it appears that Trump’s policies are sending powerful political impulses worldwide. For example ultra-alarmist German climate and energy site klimaretter here bemoans that leading socialist Sigmar Gabriel seems to be turning into an “Eco-Trump”. Gabriel actually had […]
Posted in Models |
By P Gosselin on 16. December 2017
The extreme German leftists Die Linke (The Left) Party in Germany issued a press release blasting Angela Merkel’s decision not to personally attend the “One Planet Summit” in Paris. Apparently climate change is not an issue important enough for the German chancellor to devote her time to. Merkel “a total no-show” German Leftist Party climate and […]
Posted in Climate Politics |
By P Gosselin on 15. December 2017
Geologist Dr. Norman Page left a comment which I’ve decided to upgrade to a post. In it he writes solar and La Nina observations fit well with his recent paper showing that climate is controlled by natural orbital and solar activity cycles. Dr. Page is among a growing number of scientists who share the general view […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Oceans, Solar |
By Kenneth Richard on 14. December 2017
Cooling, Not Warming, Leads To Weather and Climate Instability Image Source: Loisel et al., 2017 1. Significant Decreasing Trend In Severe Weather Since 1961 Zhang et al., 2017 Based on continuous and coherent severe weather reports from over 500 manned stations, for the first time, this study shows a significant decreasing trend in severe weather occurrence […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Little Ice Age, Weather |
By P Gosselin on 13. December 2017
The Sun in November 2017 By Frank Bosse and Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt (Translated and edited by P Gosselin) In November the sun was unusually quiet with respect to activity. The observed sunspot number (SSN) was merely 5.7, which is only 14% of what is typically normal for month number 108 into the cycle. The current […]
Posted in Oceans |
By P Gosselin on 12. December 2017
I lived in Arizona for a few years and I remember flash floods occurring regularly during the rainy summer season. Good to see things are getting less extreme there. Thanks, global warming! -PG =================================== Researchers surprised: extreme rainfall in Arizona has decreased over the past 50 years despite climate warming By Dr. Sebastian Lüning and Prof. Fritz […]
Posted in Drought and Deserts, Natural Oceanic Oscillations |
By Kenneth Richard on 11. December 2017
Electric Vehicle Emissions 27-50% Greater Than Internal Combustion Engine Vehicles Image: Qiao et al., 2017 Sales of electric vehicles (EV) in China have exploded in recent years. According to the New York Times (October, 2017), between 2014 and 2017, annual EV purchases by China’s citizens more than doubled, from 145,000 in 2014 to 295,000 (projected) for […]
Posted in Emissions, Green Follies |
By P Gosselin on 10. December 2017
We’re always hearing from the European media how winters supposedly have been getting warmer. Yet when we look out the window and look at the hard data, the claim crumbles. Atlanta ice box, 8-15 cm of snow! Today snow is forecast across much of Europe. In the US Dr. Ryan Maue tweets if there is […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature |
By P Gosselin on 9. December 2017
President Donald Trump once again rejected “global governance” and rigid multi-nation trade deals before a packed and highly enthusiastic rally in Pensacola, Florida, yesterday. Donald Trump leaves door wide open to a fair climate deal. Photo credit: Shealah Craighead, public domain photo. The US President re-emphasized the importance of American national sovereignty and independence from “global […]
Posted in Climate Politics |
By P Gosselin on 8. December 2017
Recently I wrote about 7 signs showing that the earth has been cooling and likely will continue to cool. To back this up, Kenneth Richards commented in a reply that this year has seen 7 new peer-reviewed papers that show us that the earth’s surface temperature at the poles and elsewhere has been cooling since […]
Posted in Arctic, Cooling/Temperature |
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