By Kenneth Richard on 16. May 2022
A new study indicates nearly all the Northern Hemisphere and Tropical warming in the last 40 years occurred by the late 1990s. CO2 has risen by about 50 ppm since 1998 (367 to 418 ppm). Interestingly, upper-air measurements of temperature from balloon-borne sensor radiosonde data, shown below in the image from a new study (Madonna […]
Posted in CO2 and GHG, Emissions, Oceans |
By P Gosselin on 15. May 2022
Germany’s DWD national weather service has reported the data results for Germany for April, 2022. “Record snow” in some regions helped cool April 2022 in Germany. Illustration photo only. Photo: Copyright P. Gosselin Heavy snow, hard frosts The first two weeks of the Easter month were fickle and varied bringing stormy episodes, heavy snow in […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Misc. |
By P Gosselin on 14. May 2022
Leaked EU document on gas supply By Blackout News Russia has already suspended gas supplies to Poland and Bulgaria because they refused to pay roubles. The same threatens all European countries. The EU is therefore asking countries to share gas if Russia stops supplying it. The Spanish newspaper El País has now published the contents of […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Climate Politics |
By P Gosselin on 13. May 2022
Meanwhile western countries are getting pummeled by inflation, shaky supply chains, economic pain. German energy site Blackout News here reports that Russia’s oil exports remain unfazed despite the embargos by western countries. “In the second month of the war on Ukraine, Russia exported more oil than a year earlier, despite the oil embargo, notes Blackout […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Climate Politics |
By Kenneth Richard on 12. May 2022
Since 2000 there has been a natural reduction in net air-sea fluxes at the same time there has been rapid warming in the Indian Ocean. This affirms anthropogenic surface forcing cannot explain the recent warming in at least half the global ocean. The Indian Ocean covers approximately 20% of the ocean surface, but this basin […]
Posted in Natural Variability, Oceans |
By P Gosselin on 11. May 2022
Fritz Vahrenholt: The transition to green energies and the missing warming By Kalte Sonne Dear ladies and gentlemen, During the energy crisis that has become visible in Germany and Europe over the past few months, things have gotten quieter about the supposedly imminent climate emergency. On the one hand, energy prices and security of supply have […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Misc. |
By Kenneth Richard on 9. May 2022
Global sea surface temperatures have only been warming at a rate of about 0.06°C per decade since 1950. According to Dieng et al., 2017, global sea surface temperatures (SST) cooled slightly (-0.006°C/decade) from 2003 to 2013. This reduced the overall 1950-2014 warming rate to 0.059°C per decade. Image Source: Dieng et al., 2017 The NCAR/HadCRUT4 […]
Posted in Oceans, Paleo-climatology |
By P Gosselin on 7. May 2022
By Die kalte Sonne (Translated by P. Gosselin ) How was April, 2022? The Copernicus program provides monthly updates, including for April, 2022. Parts of Europe and North America were colder than the 1990-2020 average. Northeast Africa and Central Asia were warmer. An extensive region of much-above-average temperatures stretched from north-eastern Africa across the Middle […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature |
By P Gosselin on 6. May 2022
WMO, Zeit caught cooking doomsday statistics on natural disasters. The third part of the 110th German Klimaschau looks at natural disasters and claims by organizations and media that they’ve gotten much worse. Five times more weather related disasters than in the 1970s? For example, citing WMO report No. 1267 from 2021, German Zeit reported that […]
Posted in Activism, Alarmism, Drought and Deserts, Flood, Hurricanes/Tornados |
By Kenneth Richard on 5. May 2022
Of all the possible reasons for a warming Arctic since 2002, it has been determined that “the clear-sky downward long-wave radiation caused by water vapor” is the dominant cause. A new study says that when it comes to downwelling long-wave, water vapor, clouds, and temperature are the main factors determining its intensity. “As is well […]
Posted in Arctic, Natural Variability |
By P Gosselin on 4. May 2022
Austrian ski industry researcher Günther Aigner looks at the winter temperatures over the past 50 years at the famous Schmittenhöhe ski resort in the Austrian Alps, some 1,954 meters above sea level. In the video, Aigner looks at how much winters have warmed over the period in question and whether it has had any significant […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature |
By P Gosselin on 3. May 2022
By Kirye and Pierre The mean temperature data for April, 2022 for Tokyo and its Hachijō-jima island in the Pacific from the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) have been released. So is spring arriving earlier at these two contrasting stations. one massively urban and the other rural? The answer is “no”. First we look at the […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature |
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