By Kenneth Richard on 21. January 2021
Share this…FacebookTwitterSince the 1980s, warming and rising CO2 fertilization have spawned a global-scale greening trend. This leads to an “Earth greening-induced cooling effect” of land surface temperatures. In the last 9 months we have highlighted a study (Haverd et al., 2020) asserting rising CO2 and warming are the dominant drivers of Earth’s strong post-1980s greening […]
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By P Gosselin on 20. January 2021
Share this…FacebookTwitterBy Kirye and Pierre Cold recent events We’ve been hearing reports about how Siberia is experiencing a brutal cold spell with record-breaking cold readings, and places like the Sahara and Saudi Arabia have been getting snow. Spain has seen record cold temperatures. Though this is weather, it wasn’t really supposed to happen. Does it […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature |
By P Gosselin on 19. January 2021
Share this…FacebookTwitterIs the German model America’s future? Putting matches in charge of fighting gasoline fires? Even more interference appears to be the German government’s approach to solving the power grid mess that its earlier meddling created in the first place. Germany struggles to keep the lights on, looks for a law to prevent its power […]
Posted in Agriculture, Climate Politics |
By Kenneth Richard on 18. January 2021
Share this…FacebookTwitterMid-Holocene South China Sea maximum temperatures were ~3.5°C warmer (33.5°C vs. today’s 29.9°C) about 5000 yrs ago, when corals experienced an “optimum coral growth period”. There were “numerous coral bleaching episodes” even when temperatures weren’t as high, as coral bleaching is naturally occurring. Key points from a new study (Wang et al., 2021) that […]
Posted in Coral Reefs, Paleo-climatology |
By P Gosselin on 17. January 2021
Share this…FacebookTwitterPreviously hidden under a Swiss glacier, a 10,800-year old tree trunk was discovered and tells us the Alps were much warmer in the early Holocene than today. Online SRF Swiss Broadccasting recently reported on a fascinating find in the Swiss Alps: a more than 10,000 year old tree trunk that had been until recently […]
Posted in Paleo-climatology |
By P Gosselin on 16. January 2021
Share this…FacebookTwitterMore than 400 cows have died mysteriously since a wind park was built near a herd in 2012. Local residents also suffering health issues: “permanent fatigue, muscle aches, headaches, insomnia” Earlier we wrote about the adverse health impacts of wind turbines and on humans and animals, read here and here. Also search NTZ zone […]
Posted in Alternative Energy |
By P Gosselin on 15. January 2021
Share this…FacebookTwitterAlthough Germany sees about as many hours of sunshine as Alaska, the country is pushing for ever larger solar farms. Germany business daily Handelsblatt here reports that power company EnBW is currently building a 500 MW solar panel park in Brandenburg, 30 km east of Berlin. It reported that it will be able to […]
Posted in Alternative Energy |
By Kenneth Richard on 14. January 2021
Share this…FacebookTwitterScientists continued defying the “unprecedented” global warming narrative by publishing nearly 150 papers in 2020 that show large regions of the Earth (a) haven’t warmed in recent decades, (b) were as-warm or warmer within the last several centuries, and/or (c) were 1-7°C warmer than today just a few millennia ago. Here is the link […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Medieval Warm Period, Paleo-climatology |
By P Gosselin on 13. January 2021
Share this…FacebookTwitterData show Arctic more stable than media doomsayers portray it to be. In the latter part of the latest Klimaschau video, Arctic mean temperature trends above 70°N are examined: The first chart (8:38) goes back to 2000. Though the running 37-month average rose until 2006, it’s been steady ever since: Source: climate4you Over the […]
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By P Gosselin on 12. January 2021
Share this…FacebookTwitterA further analysis of last Friday’s European near power blackout shows that the problem had begun already one day earlier in France, due to cold weather, says a German expert. At wind energy protest group Vernunftkraft Bayern, Jörn Künzle provides background on what was behind Europe’s near blackout last Friday, January 8, 2021. We […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 11. January 2021
Share this…FacebookTwitterA new analysis of global sea level rise rates concludes the rising trend was 1.56 mm/yr−¹ from 1900-2018. This is the same rate as for 1958-2014 (1.5 mm/yr−¹), indicating there has not been a long-term distinctive change in sea level rise rates in the last 120 years. In 2018, Frederikse et al. assessed the […]
Posted in Glaciers, Sea Levels |
By P Gosselin on 10. January 2021
Share this…FacebookTwitterLast Friday, January 8, 2021, Europe narrowly escaped a blackout, says power grid expert A European power grid disturbance occurred at around 2 p.m. according to the Austrian Power Grid (APG). The normal frequency for Europe is 50 Hz and on Friday afternoon it dropped sharply to 49.75 Hz. “A larger supply area must […]
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