By P Gosselin on 30. April 2023
Green minister uses government car to fetch forgotten jacket while calling on citizens to ride bicycles The climate activists are hypocrites who often preach water while guzzling wine. Days ago we reported on how EU Council President Charles Michel, “in true bourgeois style”, spent a staggering 700,000 euros on private jet flights that even included […]
Posted in Lifestyles of the Rich and Alarmist |
By P Gosselin on 28. April 2023
Yet, expects its own citizens to convert their homes beginning next year! Critical website Pleiteticker.de here reports on how the buildings of the Bundestag (Federal Parliament) will not be able to convert over to heat pumps without comprehensive renovations that would run well into the millions. Currently the Bundestag is predominantly heated with oil and […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 27. April 2023
During the last interglacial (LIG) 127 to 119k years ago, when CO2 levels were said to be only 275 ppm, Greenland’s Camp Century surface was ice free, vegetated. Today this same site is buried under a 1.4 kilometers-high ice sheet. The Arctic was sea ice free during the LIG (Diamond et al., 2021). Image Source: […]
Posted in Arctic, Paleo-climatology
By P Gosselin on 26. April 2023
A leading German politician views proposed climate policies as a danger to the country’s civil stability and democracy. Germany ignores the lessons of history. Image: French Revolution “Ecological madness”…”ruinous retrofittings” The mood in Germany has become outright ugly as citizens reel from high inflation and fear government policy initiatives that would bankrupt many if enacted. […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Climate Politics |
By P Gosselin on 25. April 2023
Preach water, guzzle wine by the gallon. That seems to be what Belgian EU Council President Charles Michel preaches to Europeans as they struggle to pay their ever increasing energy bills. The Prince of Private Jets, climate hypocrisy. 700,000 euros of taxpayer money spent on private jet flights, some to climate conferences. EU Council President […]
Posted in Activism, Lifestyles of the Rich and Alarmist |
By Kenneth Richard on 24. April 2023
A new study exposes the uncertainty in solar activity reconstructions, but suggests solar models explain climate changes far better than atmospheric CO2 concentrations. Proxy model estimates of the impact of solar variability on climate are highly uncertain. For example, estimations of the increase in solar irradiance over the last 400 years range anywhere from 0.75 […]
Posted in CO2 and GHG, Paleo-climatology, Solar Sciences |
By P Gosselin on 23. April 2023
Large household electricity consumption devices like heat pumps, electric cars may be throttled or completely switched off by the grid operators. Blackout News reports here how the German Bundestag has approved the law to accelerate the nationwide installation of smart meters. “The aim is to advance the digitalization of the transition to green energies.” It […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Green Follies |
By P Gosselin on 22. April 2023
By Die Klimanachrichten If there’s any any doubt, then it’s climate change. Not only more home runs in baseball, but now also more rioting at German public swimming pools in Berlin – due to climate change. The Berliner Zeitung on a report in the WDR. The massive riots in Berlin’s open-air swimming pools last summer […]
Posted in Misc. |
By P Gosselin on 21. April 2023
April 2023 is more than half finished and the average temperature was Germany is 6.2 degrees Celsius for the first half of April. That’s below the long-term average of 9.0 degrees Celsius. April 2023 very cool Hat-tip: Klimanachrichten However, the month still has a ways to go and warmer weather may prevail. But it seems […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Weather |
By P Gosselin on 19. April 2023
By Gabriel Oxenstierna We’ve had a La Niña for nearly three years. But now it has officially ended, and ENSO has moved into its neutral phase, the “La Nada”.[1] The La Niña event lasted three winters in a row, something that has only occurred twice before in modern times: 1973–1976 and 1998–2001. Both of these […]
Posted in Natural Oceanic Oscillations, Oceans |
By Kenneth Richard on 17. April 2023
Earth’s average annual temperature fluctuated by as much as 35°C (at high latitudes) from one millennial-scale period to the next during the last glacial period. A recently-published 2-part study (Smul′skii, 2022a and 2022b) utilizes established orbital and insolation data to calculate Earth’s average temperature today (0 k years ago), 14.4°C, and at 25°N, 45°N, 65°N, […]
Posted in Natural Variability, Paleo-climatology |
By P Gosselin on 16. April 2023
A German scientist asked if I would post the following text on behalf of William Walter Kay =================================== Koonin’s Sociology of Climatology By William Walter Kay BA JD Although focused on hard science, Koonin’s Unsettled broaches Sociology of Climatology in Chapter 10 (WHO BROKE “THE SCIENCE” AND WHY); commencing: Can it really be that […]
Posted in Misc. |
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