By P Gosselin on 30. August 2019
There won’t as much blogging from my side this weekend because I’ll be participating in the so-called “Berlin Megamarsch” (Mega-Walk). At the Berlin 100/24 Megamarsch, participants take on the challenge of walking 100 kilometers within 24 hours. The fun starts Saturday, August 31, at 4 p.m. when some 1500 participants will begin following a marked […]
Posted in Misc. |
By Kenneth Richard on 29. August 2019
NASA has conceded that climate models lack the precision required to make climate projections due to the inability to accurately model clouds. Clouds have the capacity to dramatically influence climate changes in both radiative longwave (the “greenhouse effect”) and shortwave. Cloud cover domination in longwave radiation In the longwave, clouds thoroughly dwarf the CO2 climate […]
Posted in Cloud Climate Influence, CO2 and GHG |
By P Gosselin on 28. August 2019
Some fresh new scientific papers are confirming that renewable energies, particularly wind and solar power, are not delivering what was promised – not by a long shot. They likely will become far more of a burden than a benefit. “Virtually doubled the price of electricity” For example, Pereira et al., 2019 writes that “growth in […]
Posted in Alternative Energy |
By P Gosselin on 27. August 2019
How the sun impacts European climate By Die kalte Sonne (German text translated by P Gosselin) Images: NASA Observatory The gigantic nuclear fusion power plant of the sun reliably supplies the earth with energy. However, the IPCC’s current doctrine is that fluctuations in solar activity have no effect whatsoever on the Earth’s climate. Some climate […]
Posted in Solar |
By Kenneth Richard on 26. August 2019
In recent decades, North American glaciers have advanced by many kilometers and buried forests in ice in the same regions where glaciers have receded and uncovered Medieval-era forests. Image Source: Davi et al., 2019 Ancient forests buried beneath ice for the last ~1,000 years began “popping out from under southern Alaska’s Mendenhall Glacier” and garnishing […]
Posted in Glaciers, Medieval Warm Period |
By P Gosselin on 25. August 2019
The global warming crazies keep insisting that weather has become more extreme, but whenever a study looks at the past weather, it finds the opposite to be true. The latest is a new study titled “Historical extreme rainfall events in southeastern Australia” authored by Ashcroft et al appearing in the journal Weather and Climate Extremes. […]
Posted in Drought and Deserts |
By P Gosselin on 24. August 2019
Although Europe is expected to enjoy summerlike temperatures over the next few days, the globe as a whole is showing a number of large areas of cooling, the latest NCEP GFS forecast shows. Hat-tip: Snowfan here. The trend forecast for global 2m temperatures from August 24 to August 31, 2019 (forecast day 7 minus forecast […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Weather |
By P Gosselin on 23. August 2019
By Kirye and Pierre Gosselin It is a fact that land surface temperature records going back before 1900 globally are very few and sparse. Worldwide there are only 116 stations Version 3, unadjusted datasets that go all the way back to January 1880 – most of them are located in USA and Europe (northern hemisphere). […]
Posted in Antarctic, Cooling/Temperature, Data Manipulation |
By Kenneth Richard on 22. August 2019
In recent decades, the Earth’s seas have been rising at a rate of under 0.8 mm/year (8 cm per century) according to estimations of the sum of contributions to sea level rise. In contrast, sea levels rose at rates of more than 40 mm/year ~10,000 years ago. Relative sea level rise can be calculated using […]
Posted in Glaciers, Paleo-climatology, Sea Levels |
By P Gosselin on 21. August 2019
A recent study finds that Africa’s freshwater storages are driven by natural variability. Image: ScienceDirect Hat-tip: Mary Brown The authors examined GRACE satellite data and also found that Central Africa’s water storages are partially controlled by deforestation, and in northern Africa are controlled by groundwater extraction. What follows is the paper’s abstract, which does not […]
Posted in Natural Variability |
By P Gosselin on 20. August 2019
By Kirye and Pierre Gosselin Parts of Europe have seen a couple of brief but intense heat waves this summer, and so some of the public got brainwashed by the media into thinking the continent’s summer climate is rapidly getting hotter and that all this is the new normal. Yet, when we examine the unaltered […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature |
By Kenneth Richard on 19. August 2019
A long-term (50 years) study of a Great Barrier Reef (GBR) ecoystem finds corals may quickly recover from El Niño disturbances. According to scientists (Yan et al., 2019), coral reef ecosystems thrive in centennial-scale warming phases such as the Medieval Warm Period and Current Warm Period, whereas they experience population declines (“switch-off” episodes) during cold […]
Posted in Coral Reefs |
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