By P Gosselin on 31. October 2023
Germans are already completely fed up and frustrated with the costly transition to green energies, and the target remains very far off. Even Bloomberg calls it a “total failure” Federal Economics Minister Robert Habeck, Green Party, has been called by many the most incompetent in modern German history. Public domain image. Germany’s conservative Report 24 […]
Posted in Green Follies |
By Kenneth Richard on 30. October 2023
“Despite two decades of advances in many aspects of aerosol-climate science, aerosol climate forcing uncertainty is virtually undiminished. Yet, reducing this uncertainty is critical for any effort to attribute, mitigate, or predict climate changes.” – Kahn et al., 2023 According to a new study, the lower-bound uncertainty in natural aerosol forcing from wildfire smoke, desert […]
Posted in Models, Uncertainty Error
By P Gosselin on 29. October 2023
Snowfan here reports how the ECMWF expects up to 3 meters of fresh snow in the Alps by the 7th of November. Meanwhile, Joe Bastardi also sees signs that Europe’s winter will likely be a cold one (normal to below-normal) First we look at snowfall for the Alps over the next 10 days: Image cropped […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Drought and Deserts, Weather |
By P Gosselin on 27. October 2023
By Fritz Vahrenholt und Frank Bosse A look back at an article about the imminent “tipping point” of the Atlantic overturning circulation: At the end of July 2023 we had reported on an essay that thought to have identified the “tipping point” of the Atlantic overturning circulation (AMOC): Supposedly (most likely) it will be already […]
Posted in Oceans |
By Kenneth Richard on 26. October 2023
Paleoclimate studies continue to undermine claims of “unprecedented” global warming in the modern era. A new temperature reconstruction (Oliveira Silva Muraja et al., 2023) for Brazil reveals there has been no net modern warming since the 1400s. Image Source: Oliveira Silva Muraja et al., 2023 Another new temperature reconstruction (Yue et al., 2023) indicates there […]
Posted in Paleo-climatology
By P Gosselin on 25. October 2023
Eigengoal Not only politicians, but also companies are starting to get hysterical when it to comes to climate. There are now drastic wage cuts if employees drive or eat meat. Germany’s APOLLO NEWS here reports that soccer club VfL Osnabrück is now “penalizing its employees with climate fines.” “Based on an individual CO₂ footprint calculated […]
Posted in Activism, Green Follies |
By P Gosselin on 25. October 2023
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Posted in Misc.
By P Gosselin on 22. October 2023
By KlimaNachrichten We have carefully read the definition of a “tipping point” as conveyed by Potsdam Institute (PIK): “It’s like a pencil that you push further and further over the edge of a table with your finger. First nothing happens – then it falls.” That’s what the PIK website says. Nothing can bring the pencil […]
Posted in Arctic |
By P Gosselin on 20. October 2023
Europe’s regulation freak show: EU bureaucrats plan to make insurance coverage compulsory for any vehicle travelling over 6 km/hr… …including ride-on mowers! Ride-on mowers will be required to have insurance coverage, according to a EU proposal. Image: Mike Judge, MTV, cropped here. As Europe’s green, smothering net of regulation gets cast over the EU, citizens […]
Posted in Climate Politics |
By Kenneth Richard on 19. October 2023
There are many scientifically invalid assumptions in the “greenhouse gas hypothesis” that the editors of a journal, Earth System Dynamics (ESD), now insist they will never again allow to be subjected to critical analysis in future publications, as the editors of this journal are committed to only publishing studies agreeing with the “consensus.” In a […]
Posted in CO2 and GHG, Uncertainty Error |
By P Gosselin on 17. October 2023
Large electric batteries, like those used storing energy for electric cars and homes, are not showing a very good safety record as they are prone to fires and explosions. Today German site Blackout News here reports how one home in central Germany had an entire exterior wall blown out as a storage battery exploded last […]
Posted in Alternative Energy |
By Kenneth Richard on 17. October 2023
Per a new study, atmospheric CO2 levels rose to 383 ppm in the 1940s mostly as a consequence of soil respiration processes and sea surface temperature warming. Any anthropogenic contribution to this CO2 peak “can be largely excluded.” When assessing the historical atmospheric CO2 concentration, direct measurements of chemically analyzed air samples are at least […]
Posted in Climate Sensitivity, CO2 and GHG |
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