By P Gosselin on 18. November 2020
Early in 2011, NTZ readers and I entered a climate bet with Rob Honeycutt and climate warming dogmatist Dana Nuccitelli. The bet, which I dubbed the Honeycutt Climate Bet for Charity, was whether globally the 2011-2020 decade would be warmer or cooler than the previous 2001-2010 decade. Myself and and a number of NTZ followers […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Oceans |
By P Gosselin on 17. November 2020
The German transformation to green energies will fail due to wind power By Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt, Die kalte Sonne Not going to work, says German energy expert Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt (German text translated/edited/subheadings by P. Gosselin) The goals of the German transition to green energies are simple in terms of energy policy: 1. phase-out nuclear […]
Posted in Alternative Energy |
By Kenneth Richard on 16. November 2020
Reconstructions of past temperatures show much colder periods with higher CO2 levels or as-warm or warmer periods with much lower CO2 levels. A new study (Paus, 2020) indicates modern July temperatures center around 7.5 to 8°C in the Scandes Mountains (Norway). Today’s CO2 atmospheric concentration has reached 410 ppm. During the latter stages of the […]
Posted in CO2 and GHG, Little Ice Age, Paleo-climatology |
By P Gosselin on 15. November 2020
Last year Germany’s Potsdam Institute (PIK) boasted that it had a superior El Niño one-year forecasting model, claiming 80% certainty. Today, a year later, its forecast emerges totally wrong and the prestigious institute is left humiliated. Hat-tip: Snowfan In 2019, Germany’s Potsdam Climate Institute (PIK) boasted that it had a superior El Niño forecasting model, […]
Posted in Hockey Team, Stupid Predictions |
By P Gosselin on 14. November 2020
Data from NASA point to a powerful Pacific La Nina event in the works, and so with it could bring a considerable drop in the mean global surface temperature in 2021. According to the latest report issued by the Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BOM), the La Niña conditions continue in the tropical Pacific: “International climate […]
Posted in Natural Oceanic Oscillations |
By P Gosselin on 13. November 2020
First at Twitter, aspiring meteorologist Chris Martz posted a chart of tornado activity since 1954. Contrary to what climate alarmists have claimed, tornado frequency has not trended upwards: Hurricane claim involves “massive error” While on the topic of violent weather, the Washington Post recently published another alarmism-fraught article on the alleged increasing strength of hurricanes […]
Posted in Hurricanes/Tornados |
By Kenneth Richard on 12. November 2020
The southwestern US was nearly a desert from about 9000 to 5000 years ago, when Holocene peaks in aridity, surface temperature, and wildfire rates occurred. Arctic sea ice was at its lowest extent of the Holocene during these years. Image Source: Lachniet et al., 2020 A new extensively-referenced study (Lachniet et al., 2020) reviewing many […]
Posted in Drought and Deserts, Paleo-climatology, Sea Ice |
By P Gosselin on 11. November 2020
By Kirye and Pierre Gosselin Today we look at October mean temperatures for the emerald island country of Ireland, the Scandinavian country of Sweden and Finland. Global warming alarmists claim that the globe is warming, which intuitively would tell us summers should be getting longer, which in turn would mean the start of fall is […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature |
By P Gosselin on 10. November 2020
The pitfalls of planned economies… Power shortages, power surpluses, seas of milk and mountains of butter By Reinhard Storz (Translated/ edited by P. Gosselin) Some of the older generation will still remember the time when the press, radio and television talked about a sea of milk and a mountain of butter. Politicians had meant well […]
Posted in Alternative Energy |
By Kenneth Richard on 9. November 2020
Only a few thousand years ago, when CO2 levels were both stable and low (~265 ppm), the (1) Arctic had far less ice and more vegetation than it does now and (2) the massive rate of ice melt in Antarctica rendered modern melt rates negligible by comparison. A new study (Cherezova et al., 2020) reveals […]
Posted in Antarctic, Arctic, Glaciers, Paleo-climatology |
By P Gosselin on 8. November 2020
Have Trump/Barr led the Biden campaign into a lethal trap? Was a legal FISA warrant obtained to surveil campaign? If you watched the Trump Team’s press conference yesterday like I did, you probably wondered why on earth they held it where they did: Four Seasons Total Landscaping, owned by Marie Siravo, located in an industrial […]
Posted in Climate Politics |
By P Gosselin on 7. November 2020
By Kirye and Pierre Gosselin As urban expansion continues worldwide, it wouldn’t surprise anyone that cities would see a growing number of hot days as asphalt, concrete, steel and automobiles act as heat sinks that absorb the summer sun’s energy, a phenomenon known as the urban heat island effect (UHI). Indeed this has been the […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature |
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