By P Gosselin on 16. February 2021
CORRECTION: 22 firefighters were needed (not 22 brigades). =================================== The burned out vehicle and unstable batteries had to be submerged in a container full of water for days to keep them from reigniting. The German online HNA daily here reports how a VW Golf 8 Hybrid vehicle suddenly “exploded” Saturday evening before bursting into flames […]
Posted in Alternative Energy |
By Kenneth Richard on 15. February 2021
Why have sea surface temperatures and proxy temperature reconstructions so strongly diverged from the instrumental land record in recent decades? Because “0.36 ± 0.04 °C” of non-climatic warming from roofs, asphalt, machines, vehicles…artificially enhances the post-1950s global temperature trend. A new analysis (Scafetta, 2021) suggests: • Urban Heat Island (UHI) effects can raise city temperatures 6-9°C above […]
Posted in Temperature Bias/Urbanization |
By P Gosselin on 14. February 2021
Southeast Greenland sea surface temperature was warmer than today in the 1940s, scientists find. A team of Danish scientists led by David Wangner published a paper a year ago about the results of a Greenland sediment core from Skjoldungen Fjord, near the Thrym Glacier, which allowed sea surface temperatures to be reconstructed. Hat-tip: Die kalte […]
Posted in Misc. |
By P Gosselin on 13. February 2021
Data show the month of January has been cooling across the northern hemisphere over the recent decades as winters make a comeback. Charts by Kirye (photo right) and Pierre German research news site Forschung und Lehre here reports how climate researcher Professor Stefan Rahmstorf of the Potsdam Institute concedes: “cold waves like the one currently […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature |
By P Gosselin on 12. February 2021
9300-year old vegetation remnants found under receding glaciers in Northern Sweden show that the trees once grew where tundra exists today, meaning it was warmer. Hat-tip: Kenneth Richard A new Swedish publication titled New Presence Of Beaver (Castor fiber L) in the Scandes sustains warmer-than-present conditions and a patchily treed and rich mountainscape finds that […]
Posted in Glaciers |
By Kenneth Richard on 11. February 2021
The survivable temperature thresholds for terrestrial animals in both hemispheres affirm recent millennia were much warmer with less sea ice than today. Antarctica hasn’t warmed in the last 70 years (Singh et al., 2020). The Southern Ocean surrounding Antarctica has been cooling and sea ice has been expanding since 1979 (Fan et al., 2014; Qian […]
Posted in Antarctic, Arctic, Cooling/Temperature, Glaciers, Paleo-climatology, Sea Ice |
By P Gosselin on 10. February 2021
By Kirye (photo right) and Pierre Gosselin The month of January has been cooling for 30 years in a number of European regions. A few days ago we looked at Germany’s mean temperature trend for January, and found that the mid-winter month has been cooling over the past three decades. Cooling Ireland Today we move […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature |
By P Gosselin on 9. February 2021
The polar vortex theory takes a beating: The claim a warm Arctic is behind the brutally cold winter conditions at the mid latitudes is shown by a Nature study to be scientifically baseless. Hat-tip: Die kalte Sonne. Now that Europe and North America are getting blasted by unusually severe winter weather, which climate alarmists predicted […]
Posted in Misc. |
By Kenneth Richard on 8. February 2021
CO2’s impact on the total net greenhouse effect (GHE) or longwave (LW) forcing trend has been offset by the dominant impact of cloud cover since the 1980s. It is now widely accepted that changes in clouds, naturally driven by changes in atmospheric circulation, “may be the most important parameter controlling the radiation budget, and, hence, […]
Posted in Cloud Climate Influence, CO2 and GHG, Solar Sciences |
By P Gosselin on 7. February 2021
By Die kalte Sonne, Josef Kowatsch (Translated, edited by P. Gosselin) The German DWD national weather service reports that the January 2021 mean temperature for Germany was 0.6 degrees Celsius, which is 1.1 degrees above the value of the old reference period 1961 to 1990. But compared to the current and warmer reference period of […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature |
By P Gosselin on 6. February 2021
UPDATE 1: Temperatures are well below freezing now with winds up 60 km/hr. Transportation has become largely paralyzed, with the German Railway announcing much service has been suspended. Snow is expected to continue until this evening. https://www.bild.de/ Green energy and COVID-19 lockdowns are playing energy Russian roulette with people’s lives. Perfect winter storm brewing. A […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Climate Politics |
By P Gosselin on 5. February 2021
Climate researcher, geologist, Patrice Poyet has released a new e-book: The Rational Climate e-Book: Cooler is Riskier. The Sorry State of Climate Science and Policies. This is an outstanding reference. Using the table of contents the reader can conveniently look up the topic that’s of interest. The ebook has been downloaded over 10,000 times so […]
Posted in CO2 and GHG, IPCC, Models, Scepticism |
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