By Kenneth Richard on 30. November 2020
Scientists report they must “exclude atmospheric pCO2 as a direct driver of SST variations” after finding the Atlantic Ocean’s surface was multiple degrees warmer than today from 90 to 20 thousand years ago, or when CO2 concentrations hovered below 200 ppm. Another new study (Hou et al., 2020) casts even more doubt on the contention […]
Posted in Climate Sensitivity, CO2 and GHG, Paleo-climatology |
By P Gosselin on 28. November 2020
Why do so few countries in Europe follow Germany in green electricity? The answer could lie in electricity prices: Eurostat lists these for the first half of 2020. Of all countries, Germany, Denmark and the United Kingdom are the wind energy countries that are very far ahead in terms of consumer prices. Hat-tip Die kalte […]
Posted in Alternative Energy |
By P Gosselin on 27. November 2020
Not surprisingly, climate alarmist and Guardian contributor Dana Nuccitelli reported in to brag about winning the recent bet. Then one day later he mustered the courage to express his willingness to bet again: Okay Dana, I’m in against you and will bet 100 USD, applying the same conditions of the previous bet. I say the […]
Posted in Misc. |
By Kenneth Richard on 26. November 2020
A new analysis by Drs. Wijngaarden and Happer (2020) suggests the “self-interference” saturation of all greenhouse gases in the current atmosphere substantially reduces their climate forcing power. At the current concentrations, the forcing power for greenhouse gases like CO2 (~400 ppm) and CH4 (1.8 ppm) are already saturated. Therefore, even doubling the current greenhouse gas […]
Posted in CO2 and GHG |
By P Gosselin on 25. November 2020
Germany’s massive public broadcasting media has a budget of €6.9 billion and 22,612 employees. The budget comes primarily from a licence fee which every household, company and public institution are required by law to pay. For an ordinary household the fee is currently €17.50 per month. ARD logo since 2019. Public domain image But over the years, […]
Posted in Activism |
By P Gosselin on 24. November 2020
Unusually harsh winter conditions have struck the northern hemisphere this October as record snow cover has been observed. More on this below. No more October warming? But first looking at the untampered data from the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) for stations with complete data going back to 1998 for Canada and 2001 for France, we […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature |
By Kenneth Richard on 23. November 2020
CO2 reached 1980s (352 ppm, average) to 2000s (380 ppm, max) levels 2500-5500 years ago in Japan per stomata records. Scientists (Wang et al., 2020) have determined stomatal evidence can uncover large short-term CO2 fluxes of 50-100 ppm within a century or less. Measurements from a forest near Mt. Kurikoma, Japan, reveal minimum to maximum […]
Posted in CO2 and GHG, Paleo-climatology |
By P Gosselin on 23. November 2020
I’d like to thank one of the readers among us who just made a generous donation to NoTricksZone. It’s big help and highly encouraging! We appreciate very much the generosity! Thank you! Thank you!
Posted in Misc.
By P Gosselin on 22. November 2020
Atmospheric CO2 just doesn’t change on a whim and cause global temperature to follow along in response. Press release from The Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI): Irregular Appearances of Glacial and Interglacial Climate States During the last 2.6 million years of Earth’s climate has altered between glacial and interglacial states. As such, there have been times […]
Posted in Paleo-climatology |
By P Gosselin on 21. November 2020
Germany began installing wind turbines in earnest some 20 years ago. Now that their lifetime has been exceeded, many are being ripped down. But there’s a big problem about what to do with the leftover carbon and glass-fibre reinforced blades. A recent report on ZDF German public television explains that currently there’s no plan in […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Green Follies |
By P Gosselin on 20. November 2020
Despite all the money-generating gloomy predictions of sinking islands, we reported in 2013 on how the Maldives was planning to build 30 new luxury hotels for future tourists. The resort island of Landaa Giraavaru (Baa atoll), photo by: Frédéric Ducarme – CC BY-SA 4.0. Underwater in 7 years? We recall how in 2012, the former President of […]
Posted in Sea Levels, Stupid Predictions |
By Kenneth Richard on 19. November 2020
The first-ever randomized controlled trial (4,862 participants) for mask-use effectiveness in the COVID-19 era reveals that people who wear face masks properly in public are infected only 0.1 of a percentage point less often (2.0% vs. 2.1%) than those who do not wear masks in public. In 2018 the United States’ Center for Disease Control […]
Posted in Uncategorized |
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