By Kenneth Richard on 31. October 2019
For over 40 years (1961-2002), the Greenland ice sheet cooled, thickened, and gained mass just as anthropogenic CO2 emissions were sharply rising. Image Source: Mikkelsen et al., 2018 According to Greenland ice sheet instrumental records, there was a dramatic cooling trend during summer months from the late 1980s to early 2000s (Chylek et al., 2004). […]
Posted in Arctic, Cooling/Temperature, Glaciers |
By P Gosselin on 30. October 2019
What follows is an example of how German decisionmakers go about protecting the environment: chop down hundreds of acres of forests and pour thousands of tons on concrete reinforced with hundreds of tons of steel on huge beds of gravel, all hauled in by hundreds of truck loads. Then install skyscraper tall industrial bird-killing monstrosities. […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Green Follies |
By P Gosselin on 29. October 2019
In an interview with the Hamburg daily Abendblatt here, retired German climate researcher Prof. Hans von Storch commented on the global climate debate, saying “Greta’s message is ridiculous” and that “Greta Thunberg’s demand that we panic has something of an end of world sect.” Hat-tip: Die kalte Sonne Climate scientist Prof. Hans von Storch. Image […]
Posted in Activism, Alarmism |
By Kenneth Richard on 28. October 2019
The last 40 years of global temperature changes can be radiatively explained by a natural reduction in cloud cover. From 1979 to 2011, satellite data provide documentation of a reduction in cloud cover and aerosol depth that allowed an additional 2.3 W/m² of positive shortwave energy to be absorbed by the Earth’s surface rather than […]
Posted in Cloud Climate Influence, Solar Sciences |
By P Gosselin on 27. October 2019
At XR and FFF rallies, speakers like telling outright lies with the aim of trying to get the masses of people to stampede in mass panic and blind anger. One of these activists in Germany is Carola Rackete, reports Michael Krüger here at Science Skeptical. Rackete, the award-winning refugee rescuer and sea vessel captain, has […]
Posted in Activism, Arctic, Drought and Deserts |
By P Gosselin on 26. October 2019
At the German libertarian site achgut.com here, guest writer Ulrike Stockmann writes a portrait of climate activist Greta Thunberg’s family. The title: “The Thunberg-Ernmans: An infinitely sad family history“. Ulrike Stockmann writes a portrait of the Ernman-Thunberg family. Image: achgut.com Stockmann portrait is based on the published book by Greta Thunberg’s mother, Malena Ernman: “Scenes […]
Posted in Abnormal Climate Psych, Activism, Alarmism |
By P Gosselin on 25. October 2019
German writer/rock singer Heinz Rudolf Kunze recently performed at at a city festival in Berlin Teltow, and had a message about today’s opinion intolerance, alarmism, political correctness, etc. for Germany’s leaders and supremacist activists. Regular mainstream German citizens often run the risk of being attacked whenever expressing dissenting views on hot-button issues, such as climate […]
Posted in Activism
By Kenneth Richard on 24. October 2019
A new 800-year reconstruction of Western Arctic Ocean sea ice variability (Porter et al., 2019) indicates the recent centuries (and decades) of sea ice coverage are the most extensive of the period, with no significant net change in the last 200 years. There was no ice cover in the Western Arctic for about 2 to […]
Posted in Arctic, Sea Ice |
By P Gosselin on 23. October 2019
The missing context: Climate change in the Mediterranean region By the Kalte Sonne (German text translated/edited by P. Gosselin) On October 11, 2019, Spiegel Online once again shined brilliantly parroting climate alarm. The German weekly news magazine could certainly now use their former science editor, Axel Bojanowski, who looked at climate science objectively. The topic […]
Posted in Hockey Team, Natural Oceanic Oscillations, Oceans |
By P Gosselin on 22. October 2019
German online weekly FOCUS writes Germany is turning into “Europe’s economic sick man” – due in large part to high energy prices and fierce environmental radicalism. The German weekly reports how German industrial production has been falling, citing figures from the automotive, chemicals and pharmaceutical industries, all of which need large quantities of energy. German […]
Posted in Activism, Agriculture, Alternative Energy, Climate Politics |
By Kenneth Richard on 21. October 2019
In two new papers (Chen et al., 2019, Gao et al., 2019), scientists identify an expansive greening trend for nearly 3/4ths of the globe’s land area as well as a 12.4% carbon sink increase, a 39% crop yield increase, and a 95% crop production increase since the early 1980s. The scientists attribute these trends to climate […]
Posted in CO2 Greens the Earth, Warming/CO2 Benefiting Earth |
By P Gosselin on 20. October 2019
By Kirye In Japan, like many other places around the world, the media like to tell audiences how sea surface temperatures around Japan are rising due to man-made global warming. But, as is often the case, the data and facts tell the opposite story. What follows is a chart depicting sea surface temperatures around Japan. […]
Posted in Hurricanes/Tornados, Media / Bias |
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