By P Gosselin on 31. March 2024
Another solar farm gets wrecked by hailstorm…toxic chemicals now threaten environment On March 16th, near Needville Texas, thousands of solar panels were destroyed by a powerful hailstorm, causing significant damage to a large 10,000-acre solar farm in the area. It’s tornado season! The storm brought baseball-sized hail and smashed the solar panels at the Fighting […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Green Follies |
By P Gosselin on 30. March 2024
Posted in Misc. |
By Kenneth Richard on 28. March 2024
Modern relative sea levels are near the lowest in the last 7,000 years. Two studies, independently published, identify Mid-Holocene sea levels in northern Norway (north of the Arctic circle) as 7 to 9 meters higher than today before declining to the present (Balascio et al., 2024, Nielsen et al., 2024). This region of the Arctic […]
Posted in Paleo-climatology, Sea Levels |
By P Gosselin on 27. March 2024
Winter sea ice in Arctic stable over past 20 years…has even recovered somewhat. Hat-tip: Klimanachrichten Arctic sea ice extent as recorded by Germany’s Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) in Bremerhaven, Germany, looks at the situation in January 2024. Despite the record temperatures reported, the ice in the Arctic has recovered somewhat. The slight recovery trend since […]
Posted in Arctic |
By Kenneth Richard on 25. March 2024
There has been a “continued, significant ozone reduction since 2004, amounting to 26% loss in the core of the ozone hole” (Kessenich et al., 2023). It is not at all evident that the 1987 Montreal Protocol bans on presumed ozone-depleting substances (ODS) like chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) materially affected the flat to negative trajectory of stratospheric ozone over […]
Posted in Ozone 'Hole' |
By P Gosselin on 24. March 2024
What follows are excerpts from EIKE Unexpected snow in Saudi Arabia In the desert of Afif, west of Riyadh, it snowed unexpectedly, both citizens and tourists were shocked. The significant drop in temperatures was expected with strong north-westerly winds making it even colder. Last year (2023), parts of Saudi Arabia saw its first snowfall in 100 […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Weather |
By P Gosselin on 22. March 2024
At Klimanachrichten, Dr. Ludger Laurenz looks how solar influence on rainfall in Germany. Precipitation patterns linked to the 22-year Hale cycle. While droughts and periods of heavy precipitation in Germany are often blamed on CO2 climate change by the media and pseudo-experts, Laurenz sees a clear link to the 22-year solar Hale cycle. This can […]
Posted in Solar |
By Kenneth Richard on 22. March 2024
The radiative effect of natural wildfire aerosol forcing alone can be said to fully cancel out the total accumulated forcing from 170 years of CO2 increases in the current climate. It has been estimated that the total change in climate forcing (radiation imbalance) from the 1750 to present CO2 concentration increase has been 1.82 W/m². […]
Posted in Models, Natural Variability, Paleo-climatology, Uncertainty Error |
By P Gosselin on 19. March 2024
Cold report No. 11 / 2024 By Chris Frey, Christian Freuer for EIKE. Excerpts translated by P. Gosselin Photo: © P. Gosselin Heavy snowfall hit large parts of Europe recently, including southern Spain. Several provinces in the Andalusia region remain under a snow warning following a “wintry” weekend, according to the Spanish weather authority Aemet, after […]
Posted in Weather |
By Kenneth Richard on 18. March 2024
“From modern instrumental carbon isotopic data of the last 40 years, no signs of human (fossil fuel) CO2 emissions can be discerned.” – Koutsoyiannis, 2024 It is routinely claimed that a telltale sign human emissions (fossil fuels) have irrevocably altered the atmospheric CO2 concentration is a declining trend in carbon isotope 13 (δ13C), considered an […]
Posted in CO2 and GHG, Emissions |
By P Gosselin on 17. March 2024
AI admits global historical weather data was sparse … “significant limitations to our certainty about global mean temperatures.” Chart source here. When I asked AI Google Gemini: “About how many weather stations there were on the globe back in 1890?”, this is the answer it provided: The exact number of weather stations in 1890 is […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature |
By P Gosselin on 15. March 2024
“I apologize if my previous responses downplayed the significance of limited data on oceanic cycles. You’re absolutely right, the ocean is a major component of the climate system, and its influence is significant.” Google AI admits there’s a glaring lack of climate data and huge uncertainty when it comes to climate change… An ocean of […]
Posted in Oceans |
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