By P Gosselin on 19. January 2018
In Germany there is one weather station that has be intact and unchanged for some 138 years. It has never been moved and never been corrupted by the urban heat island (UHI) effect. Moreover it has consistently used the same instrumentation and computation method over the entire period, thus making it rare indeed. Few station can boast […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature |
By Kenneth Richard on 18. January 2018
Already 14 New (2018) Non-Hockey Stick Papers During 2017, there were 150 graphs from 122 scientific papers published in peer-reviewed journals that indicated modern temperatures are not unprecedented, unusual, or hockey-stick-shaped — nor do they fall outside the range of natural variability. Less than 3 weeks into the new publication year, the explosion of non-alarming […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Hockey Team, Medieval Warm Period, Paleo-climatology |
By P Gosselin on 17. January 2018
Australian Bushfires Have Become Less Frequent Over The Past 15 Years By Dr. Sebastian Lüning and Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt (German text translated/edited by P Gosselin) In the Australian state of Victoria, 50,000 km² of land have burned and 12 people and 1 million sheep and thousands of heads of cattle lost their lives. The regions […]
Posted in Drought and Deserts |
By P Gosselin on 16. January 2018
The online fuldainfo.de here reports of mores woes in the German offshore wind industry. It’s turning out that offshore wind power is expensive, and often plagued by technical difficulties. The offshore Trianel Borkum wind park severely hampered by spiraling costs, lower than expected winds. Photo credit: Trianel Just days ago I wrote here of another recent […]
Posted in Alternative Energy |
By Kenneth Richard on 15. January 2018
New Paper Spurns Anthropogenic CO2 Warming, Unveils Natural Explanation For Climate Change University of California (Santa Cruz) Professor W. Jackson Davis (Ph.D.), President of the Environmental Studies Institute, has published a new paper with colleagues in the journal Climate that thoroughly undermines the conceptualization of a dominant role for anthropogenic CO2 in the global warming since 1850. Davis […]
Posted in Antarctic, Natural Oceanic Oscillations, Natural Variability, Scepticism |
By P Gosselin on 14. January 2018
Not climate change: forest fires in the USA controlled by El Nino, arson and land use changes By Dr. Sebastian Lüning and Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt (German text translated/edited by P Gosselin) Droughts increase the risk of forest fires; that’s logical. However it is false to reflexively assign every forest fire to climate change. There have always been […]
Posted in Drought and Deserts |
By P Gosselin on 13. January 2018
Volatile winds, burning generators, failing blades and buckling towers: these are just some of the technical problems plaguing wind power and thus making it a highly undependable and unreliable source of electricity. Now we hear from NDR German public broadcasting reported of yet another problem plaguing the North Sea Riffgat offshore wind park located off the […]
Posted in Alternative Energy |
By P Gosselin on 12. January 2018
Quartz.com here presents an interesting chart which tells us the green energy revolution of the past 30 years has resulted in practically nothing. It’s been a flop. Fossil fuels remain as wildly popular as ever. Global fossil fuel use as a share of total energy has risen since James Hansen’s 1988 testimony. Chart: Quartz.com. In […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, CO2 and GHG |
By Kenneth Richard on 11. January 2018
‘Marked And Steady Increase’ In Modern Penguin Abundance Perhaps because of their unique visual appeal and heavy representation in children’s books and movies (and climate blogs), penguins may subjectively rank second only to polar bears in their polar popularity. The Polar Bear As ‘Global Warming’ Icon Advocates of climate alarm have historically used images of […]
Posted in Antarctic, Arctic |
By P Gosselin on 10. January 2018
Science journalist Axel Bojanowski at German flagship, center-left news weekly Spiegel here dismissed a recent study published by Columbia University scientists Wolfram Schlenker and Anouch Missirian, who had claimed climate warming was driving masses of environmental refugees to Europe. The two scientists claimed in Science to have found a relationship between weather disasters and refugees migrating […]
Posted in Climate Politics, Drought and Deserts, Stupid Predictions |
By P Gosselin on 9. January 2018
Tornadoes have become less frequent since 2010: Pacific ocean cycles control storm frequency By Dr. Sebastian Lüning and Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt (German text translated/edited by P Gosselin) We haven’t heard much about tornadoes lately. For a while they were the favorites among climate activists. When did the love affair end? Here we cast a look […]
Posted in Hurricanes/Tornados |
By Kenneth Richard on 8. January 2018
Graph from Perner et al. (2018) that shows modern-day Arctic sea ice (furthest left navy trend line) is still only slightly lower than during the Little Ice Age (LIA), and much more extensive (more ice) than during the Medieval Climate Anomaly (MCA), Roman Warm Period (RWP), and nearly all of the last 7,000 years. Song et al., […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Natural Oceanic Oscillations, Solar Sciences |
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