By P Gosselin on 16. January 2024
Germany’s greening economy is falling ever deeper into crisis Blackout News here reports: “Germany is currently in recession and the economic outlook is anything but positive. The economic upturn through the green transformation promised by Chancellor Olaf Scholz is unlikely to materialize in 2024.”Moreover, the Financial Times here reports: “Germany was the worst-performing major economy […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Climate Politics |
By Kenneth Richard on 15. January 2024
“Negative TOA [top of atmosphere] forcing of CO2 increase also happens outside of Antarctica. The Arctic sometimes exhibits strong negative CO2 forcing. This phenomenon even occurs in the tropics and mid-latitudes…” – Chen et al., 2024 It has previously been reported that as CO2 increases from 380 ppm to 1000 ppm, the CO2 greenhouse effect […]
Posted in Antarctic, Arctic, Climate Sensitivity, CO2 and GHG |
By P Gosselin on 14. January 2024
Some alarmist scientists claim it’s the hottest year on record, yet Arctic sea ice for this date stands at its highest level in 21 years. Hat-tip: EIKE here. Source: NSIDC This year’s reading – up to January 8 – has now far exceeded the average for the years 2011-2010, also exceeds the average for the […]
Posted in Arctic |
By P Gosselin on 13. January 2024
We keep hearing how we’re all supposed to believe in models – even those of highly complex, poorly understood systems like weather and climate. Yet, their outputs keep changing. Hat-tip Snowfan here. Back on December 22, last year, the National Weather Service (NWS) forecast a warmer than normal February 2024: But it has since turned […]
Posted in Models, Weather |
By Kenneth Richard on 11. January 2024
“The real atmosphere does not follow the GHG [greenhouse gas] GE [greenhouse effect] hypothesis of the IPCC.” – Miskolczi, 2023 CO2 increased from 310 ppm to 385 ppm (24%) during the 60 years from 1948 to 2008. Observations indicate this led to a negative radiative imbalance of -0.75 W/m². In other words, increasing CO2 delivered […]
Posted in Climate Sensitivity, CO2 and GHG |
By P Gosselin on 10. January 2024
Disconnected from reality: Despite heavy winter rains, flooding and DWD data, Germany’s Helmholtz Institute insists parts of Germany are “extremely dry”. The “climate change-induced drought” in January 2024 By Frank Bosse We already reported several times (here and here) on the Helmholtz Institute’s Drought Monitor. In the meantime, there have been major floods, especially in […]
Posted in Drought and Deserts |
By P Gosselin on 9. January 2024
The air is getting awfully thin for Germany’s Socialist/Green government. Never in postwar history has a ruling government been so unpopular, and there’s a reason for that. The reasons tens of thousands of farmers and truckers have blocked major traffic arteries everywhere and paralyzed the country is because of the governments insatiable appetite for tax […]
Posted in Activism, Agriculture, Green Follies, Pollution |
By Kenneth Richard on 8. January 2024
“[S]ince the dramatical decline of the ice extent in 2007, the summer Arctic sea ice area has not declined further.” – Astrup Jensen, 2023 Scientists have been using the year 2007 as the starting point for assessing Arctic sea ice trends for nearly a decade. A 2015 study published in Nature Climate Change reported a “near-zero […]
Posted in Arctic, Sea Ice |
By P Gosselin on 7. January 2024
Electric cars can lose over one third of the electricity just during charging, depending on the model. AI generated image Germany’s online Blackout News here reports: “Charging losses for electric cars ranges from 9.8% to 38.2%, depending on the model.” That means, on some models, nearly one third of the electricity to charge a lithium-ion […]
Posted in Alternative Energy |
By P Gosselin on 5. January 2024
As Germany’s flooding takes hold, the media have been quick to seize upon the extreme weather as proof of the climate crisis. But the data show us that it’s normal bad weather that’s also been seen many times before in the past. Yet, despite the widespread flooding, there are those who still believe that flooded […]
Posted in Alarmism, Drought and Deserts, Flood, Media / Bias |
By Kenneth Richard on 4. January 2024
AGW proponents use subjective forcing models and unmeasured estimates of past solar activity to claim humans drive warming. A scientist’s (Larminat, 2023) reassessment finds the Sun can drive climate, equilibrium climate sensitivity (ECS, 2xCO2 + feedbacks) is 1.14°C, and human forcing is overestimated. Because there have been no direct measurements of solar activity until the […]
Posted in Climate Sensitivity, Solar Sciences |
By P Gosselin on 3. January 2024
Four new studies in prestigious journals show Antarctic ice shelf as stable as ever. Hat-tip: EIKE Klimaschau Andreasen et al (2023) finds net gain A study by Julia R. Andreasen and colleagues looked at the changes in ice shelves, Antarctic-wide, using MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) satellite data from 2009 to 2019. Image: Andreasen et […]
Posted in Antarctic |
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