By P Gosselin on 19. July 2019
Share this… Facebook TwitterOur German skeptic friend Snowfan here keeps us up to date on the latest ODEN “Ship of Fools” attempt to travel across an Arctic that is supposed to be ice-free by now. The incentive to cross the Arctic passages in the summer is huge. Doing so would mean at least a week […]
Posted in Arctic, Green Follies |
By Kenneth Richard on 18. July 2019
Share this… Facebook TwitterScientists have found sea levels on India’s eastern coast were still 1-1.5 m higher than today as recently as 500 to 300 years ago and 3-4 m higher than today between 6000 to 4000 years ago. Seas rose and fell by multiple meters (-5 m to +3 m) within 1250 years until […]
Posted in Paleo-climatology, Sea Levels |
By P Gosselin on 17. July 2019
Share this… Facebook TwitterClimate sensitivity and the warming pattern By Die kalte Sonne (German text translated/edited by P Gosselin) In March 2018, we reported on a paper that derived the sensitivity of our climate system with the best data available. Lewis/Curry (2018) reached the result: 1.3 °C for doubling of the CO2 in the atmosphere […]
Posted in Models |
By P Gosselin on 16. July 2019
Share this… Facebook TwitterBy Kirye and Pierre Gosselin Whenever NASA GISS announces how recent global temperatures are much hotter than, for example, 100 years ago, just how statistically reliable are such statements? Most will agree, based mainly on sundry observations, that today is indeed warmer than it was when surface temperatures began to be recorded […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Data Manipulation, Models, Temperature Bias/Urbanization |
By Kenneth Richard on 15. July 2019
Share this… Facebook TwitterNatural variability rules in Antarctica. Scientists identify clouds, wind, and localized solar heating – not CO2 – as the factors driving ice melt. Rising CO2 leads to Antarctic cooling. Image Source: Lüning et al. 2019 Antarctica rapidly cooling in recent decades In a review of the scientific literature, Lüning et al. 2019 report […]
Posted in Antarctic, CO2 and GHG, Cooling/Temperature, Natural Variability |
By P Gosselin on 14. July 2019
Share this… Facebook Twitter“Snow in July – this surprised everyone. We remember times when it fell in April or even in May, but not during summer vacation.” By Kirye and Pierre Ice Age now here reported, “snow and record low temperatures” in Poland — in July — earlier this week. According to Polish sources, there […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature |
By P Gosselin on 13. July 2019
Share this… Facebook TwitterGerman climate science skeptic Michael Kruger of Science Skeptical here writes that the earth has become GREENER and more fertile due to more CO2 and warming. Source: Zhu et al Hard to believe, but the earth is not turning into a desert and more arid due to the CO2 increase in the atmosphere, […]
Posted in CO2 and GHG, Drought and Deserts |
By P Gosselin on 12. July 2019
Share this… Facebook TwitterAverting a bloody climate science civil war It’s time to take the debate away from the extreme factions and to move it to cooler heads, says veteran Swiss meteorologist Jörg Kachelmann Former German Public television meteorologist Jörg Kachelmann wrote an essay commentary for the Swiss online Die Weltwoche here titled “Tell me […]
Posted in Activism, Alarmism, Scepticism |
By Kenneth Richard on 11. July 2019
Share this… Facebook TwitterTwo University of Turku (Finland) physicists have determined a) the climate’s sensitivity to a doubling of CO2 is 0.24°C, b) the human contribution to the warming of the past century is only about 0.01°C, c) the IPCC and climate modeling dramatically overestimate CO2’s climate impact, and d) variations in low cloud cover […]
Posted in Climate Sensitivity, Cloud Climate Influence, Russian Climate Science |
By P Gosselin on 10. July 2019
Share this… Facebook TwitterFritz Vahrenholt: Merkel’s stricter climate targets to cost Germany another 3 trillion euros. The stricter climate protection targets recently announced by Chancellor Angela Merkel at a Protestant Church Congress would put a considerable burden on the German economy and every single household. If the goal formulated by Merkel to increase the CO2 […]
Posted in Alternative Energy |
By P Gosselin on 9. July 2019
Share this… Facebook TwitterWhere have all the globe-trotting climate ambulance chasers gone? Well, they’re nowhere to be found in Europe nowadays. Hat-tip: Snowfan in Germany The reason is the unusual cold that has swept across a large swath of the continent and which has sent temperatures plummeting to near freezing. Icebox July: Parts of Central […]
Posted in Arctic, Cooling/Temperature, Weather |
By Kenneth Richard on 8. July 2019
Share this… Facebook TwitterA new paper finds the performance of test-taking (cognitive, decision-making) “astronaut-like” subjects exposed to 5000 ppm CO2 was “similar to or exceeded” the performance of those exposed to baseline (600 ppm). This study follows up on a 2018 paper that determined submariners exposed to 15000 ppm CO2 performed just as well as […]
Posted in CO2 and GHG, Pollution, Scepticism |
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