By Kenneth Richard on 19. October 2020
Highly anomalous terrain (an active volcano), 40 years of cooling temperatures, and a CO2 record that dramatically contrasts with fluctuating values from forests and meadows reaching 600-900 ppm all beg the question: Is Mauna Loa’s CO2 record globally representative? Mauna Loa is the Earth’s largest land volcano. It has erupted over 3 dozen times since […]
Posted in CO2 and GHG, Cooling/Temperature, Scepticism |
By P Gosselin on 18. October 2020
As the globe has warmed since the end of the Little Ice Age, alarms concerning retreating glaciers have been sounded worldwide. The reason for the warming remains hotly disputed: alarmists blame it on manmade CO2 while skeptics say natural factors are just as much at play, if not more so. Image: Norwegian glace, for illustration […]
Posted in Glaciers |
By P Gosselin on 17. October 2020
By Kirye September mean temperature in Sweden has not been warming like alarmists said it certainly would. Looking at data from the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) for the 6 stations with data going back 22 years, we see that 3 of 6 stations have seen cooling September mean temperature over the past 22 years: Data: […]
Posted in Climate Politics, Cooling/Temperature |
By P Gosselin on 16. October 2020
SnowFan here reports on the latest winter forecasts for the 2020/21 Europe winter. History and statistics show Europe could be in for a frosty winter. Currently a significant La Nina is shaping up, and history shows that these events in the Pacific have an impact on Europe’s winters: The NOAA reanalysis above shows the temperature […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature |
By Kenneth Richard on 15. October 2020
As recently as 2000 to 1000 years ago, spanning the Roman to Medieval Warm Periods, East Antarctica was 5-6°C warmer than it is today. The consequent ice melt resulted in >60 meters higher water levels in East Antarctica’s lakes. East Antarctica has been rapidly cooling in recent decades, with magnitudes reaching -0.7°C to -2.0°C per […]
Posted in Antarctic, Medieval Warm Period, Paleo-climatology |
By P Gosselin on 14. October 2020
From environmental heroes – to national shame The whole publicity stunt was probably supposed to go something like as follows: To protest against forest clearance to make way for a new stretch of autobahn, a group of 9 masked German tree-huggers would rappel from a speedway overpass and hang a banner demanding that the planned […]
Posted in Activism |
By P Gosselin on 13. October 2020
By Jouwatch (Translated/edited by P. Gosselin) Since everyone is preoccupied with Corona, hardly anyone notices what is being decided to continue destroying Germany: The German government now wants to make the use of renewable energies a question of national security. “The use of renewable energies for electricity generation is in the public interest and serves […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Climate Politics |
By Kenneth Richard on 12. October 2020
It didn’t receive much a attention in 2015, but a comprehensive Nature journal study of 0-2000 A.D. global sea surface temperatures shows 1) climate changes occurred more than twice as fast during the Little Ice Age (LIA) than since 1800, 2) the entire first millennium was >1 standard deviation (s.d. unit) warmer than today, and […]
Posted in Little Ice Age, Medieval Warm Period, Oceans, Paleo-climatology |
By P Gosselin on 11. October 2020
Wind energy investment plummeted in the third quarter of this year in Germany, reports the online IWR here. “The nine-month figures now available make it clearer that this trend will continue in 2020,” writes the IWR. Issued construction licenses drop 70 percent in 3 years Installation of wind energy in Germany peaked in 2017 (see […]
Posted in Alternative Energy |
By P Gosselin on 10. October 2020
Germany’s Bundestag moves to enact a higher CO2 tax The “Corona pandemic”, despite the ever falling death rate, has given governments cover to enact draconian regulation and lockdowns, thus allowing their even wildest power wet dreams to turn into reality. Just a year ago much of what we are seeing today was considered unimaginable. Yet, […]
Posted in Alarmism, Climate Politics |
By P Gosselin on 9. October 2020
Our friend “SnowFan” here looks at the claims that September 2020 was the warmest ever recorded. It turns out that other measurement advanced satellites don’t agree. According to the much ballyhooed data, temperatures in Europe in September this year were on average 0.2 degrees Celsius higher than in the previous record September 2018. The service […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Oceans |
By Kenneth Richard on 8. October 2020
Prior to the transition from the last ice age to the current interglacial climate, when CO2 levels still lingered below 250 ppm, the relative sea levels in southern Greenland were “at least ∼32 m above present.” Relative sea levels have undergone a series of major changes since the last glacial maximum, when global sea levels […]
Posted in Paleo-climatology, Sea Levels |
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