By P Gosselin on 18. September 2020
Today we present two papers on climate reconstruction using proxy data. One about East Antarctica and the other about belize. Hat-tip reader Mary Brown. AMO behind sea surface temperatures First we look at a paper authored by a team of German scientists: “Great Blue Hole (Lighthouse Reef, Belize): A continuous, annually-resolved record of Common Era […]
Posted in Antarctic, Oceans, Paleo-climatology
By Kenneth Richard on 17. September 2020
A “potential connection” between anthropogenic global warming and the frequency or intensity of wildfires in California has yet to emerge in the trend observations. Scientists have found a “lack of correlation between late summer/autumn wildfires” and “summer precipitation or temperature” in coastal California. In fact, “there is no long-term trend in the number of fires […]
Posted in Fire |
By P Gosselin on 16. September 2020
You would think that with all the added wind and solar energy in Germany, along with all the conventional power plants on standby, all totaling up to huge unneeded capacity, there would be no need to import any power at all. Well, think again. Photo: P. Gosselin The German epochtimes.de here reports that German imports […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Misc. |
By P Gosselin on 15. September 2020
Hat-tip: Die kalte Sonne According to a new study, the expansion of offshore wind energy planned to date could lead to less electricity actually being produced at higher costs because, according to current planning, wind farms are taking the wind away from each other. The researchers from the Technical University of Denmark in Roskilde and […]
Posted in Alternative Energy |
By Kenneth Richard on 14. September 2020
Evidence that temperature swings of ±17°C occurred during the end-Triassic mass extinction event imply that CO2 would have needed to increase 8- to 1,024-fold (3 to 10 doublings) to have induced that magnitude of temperature change. It didn’t. Evidence from a new study (Petryshyn et al., 2020) suggests “repeated” temperature swings of 16-17°C occurred in […]
Posted in Climate Sensitivity, Paleo-climatology |
By P Gosselin on 13. September 2020
By Kirye and Pierre Gosselin Today we plot the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) data for Northern Europe for the month of August, 2020. We have selected this region because it is the home of 17-year old climate alarmist/activist Greta Thunberg, who thinks the planet is heating up rapidly and so we’re all doomed. We plot […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature |
By P Gosselin on 12. September 2020
Here’s another example illustrating just how volatile and unreliable wind energy really is. Wind energy proponents like to claim that although turbines installed on land don’t produce so optimally, the ones at sea are wonderful because the wind there is always blowing and so it all kind of evens out. The chart below shows the […]
Posted in Abnormal Climate Psych |
By P Gosselin on 11. September 2020
Something is rotten with the GHE By Erich Schaffer Introduction The greenhouse effect (GHE) is a well established theory which most people consider a solid fact, even those who are otherwise “critical” over global warming. On the other side there are some voices who “deny” the GHE with flatearther-like arguments, which seemingly only adds to […]
Posted in CO2 and GHG |
By Kenneth Richard on 10. September 2020
Scientists continue to publish papers revealing no unusual climate trends for the last several centuries in many regions of the world. Despite the 135 ppm increase in CO2 concentration (275 ppm to 410 ppm) since the 1700s, a new 250-year temperature (precipitation) reconstruction (Peng et al., 2020) shows there has been no net warming in […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Paleo-climatology |
By P Gosselin on 9. September 2020
The green dream, with all its scenic beauty and nature conservation, has arrived in northern Germany. But now that green dream faces more obstacles. All is not so wunderbar when it comes to Germany’s wind power outlook. Germany’s Renewable Energy Sources Act, passed in 2000, was intended to ensure the generation of “green” electricity. Operators […]
Posted in Alternative Energy |
By P Gosselin on 8. September 2020
By Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt The global mean temperature of the satellite-based measurements remained almost unchanged in August compared to July. The deviation from the 30-year average (1981 to 2010) was 0.43 degrees Celsius. Temperature measurements on land and in the sea continue to decrease, as the graph of the JRC analysis shows, especially in the southern […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature |
By Kenneth Richard on 7. September 2020
A new assumption about carbon budgets reveals climate scientists have been vastly underestimating (by a factor of 2) the amount of carbon absorbed by the ocean for decades. Every past carbon budget estimate has been twice as wrong as the current estimate. When it comes to the ocean heat fluxes and source vs. sink carbon […]
Posted in Models, Natural Variability, Oceans |
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