By Kenneth Richard on 14. March 2024
The warming of the oceans since the turn of the century can easily be explained by the increasing trend in absorbed solar radiation. Earth’s energy imbalance was determined to be +0.6 W/m² during the first decade of the 21st century (Stephens et al., 2012) using satellite observations. However, uncertainty in this positive imbalance value is […]
Posted in Solar Sciences |
By P Gosselin on 12. March 2024
Huge data gaps, crude models, system complexity and endless unknowns frustrate climate scientists The science of climate change is very complex and there are many different points of view. This post summarizes some of the strongest arguments of climate skeptics. The earth’s system is chaotic and unpredictable. Today’s climate models are still crude given the […]
Posted in Scepticism |
By Kenneth Richard on 11. March 2024
CO2-induced global warming was supposed to intensify the hydrological cycle and extreme precipitation. It hasn’t. New research (Mitchell and Knapp, 2024) at a southeastern United States study site indicates there has been no significant trend in either total precipitation or intense rainfall events (IRE) over the last 250 years (1770-2020). However, there was more IRE […]
Posted in Natural Variability, Paleo-climatology |
By P Gosselin on 10. March 2024
After vote in Brussels last Monday evening, a majority of the European Parliament favored a Commission proposal that would no longer automatically classify electric cars as climate-neutral vehicles. Image cropped here. In the proposal, the CO2 emissions of electric cars would depend on the electricity mix used to charge the car, meaning electric cars would […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Climate Politics |
By P Gosselin on 8. March 2024
A damning special report just released by Germany’s Federal Audit Office on the implementation of the Energiewende (transition to green energy) concludes that the transition is lagging far behind its ambitious targets, both in terms of expanding renewable energies and building the necessary infrastructure. Symbol image. Collapsing turbine. Image cropped here. Things aren’t going well […]
Posted in Misc. |
By Kenneth Richard on 7. March 2024
A -0.005°C temperature change over a span of 60 years in northern Pakistan (Himalaya region) is ostensibly having “adverse impacts in multiple sectors.” The first sentence of a new paper’s (Khan et al., 2024) abstract claims: “Hindu Kush Himalaya region is experiencing rapid climate change with adverse impacts in multiple sectors.” But in the body […]
Posted in Alarmism, Cooling/Temperature, Natural Variability, Paleo-climatology |
By P Gosselin on 6. March 2024
Yesterday’s eco-terrorism attack will cause Tesla to shut down its Berlin plant until the end of the week… 12,000 employees idle…damage could reach over half a billion euros! Some political leaders vow swift, harsh justice The latest news today report that Europe’s only Tesla plant, located in Grünheide near Berlin, still remains closed after yesterday’s […]
Posted in Misc. |
By P Gosselin on 5. March 2024
Act of eco-terrorism strikes Germany! Extreme left-wing group sends industry a message: “You’re not welcome any more!” Extreme leftist “Vulkan Group” claims responsibility for Tesla Gigafactory plant power supply sabotage. Image: Cropped from Tesla site. A power outage struck Tesla’s Gigafactory in Grünheide, Germany, causing a halt in production early this morning. The cause of […]
Posted in Activism, Greenpeace |
By Kenneth Richard on 4. March 2024
The warmest 50-year period in northeastern China occurred from 1844-1893. Li et al., 2024 “Compared with single years, in general, high or low temperatures that persist for many years will more significantly affect the growth of trees [30]. When we defined years with T12-1 ≥ −10.73 °C (Mean + 1σ) and T12-1 ≤ −12.61 °C […]
Posted in Paleo-climatology, Solar Sciences |
By P Gosselin on 3. March 2024
Germany’s DWD national weather service reports that the country saw it’s third warmest winter on record (since 1881) and the 13th warmer than normal winter in a row. Germany’s 2023/24 winter was among the warmest and wettest on record going back to 1881. Photo: Artland Region, northwest Germany, by P. Gosselin Record February high Moreover, […]
Posted in Weather |
By P Gosselin on 1. March 2024
When green energy ideology clashes with the laws of Engineering and physics… By KlimaNachrichten Editor Manfred Haferburg, power plant engineer, explains the problems of the German power grid in connection with the green energy transition at online site Achgut. The result is a very informative article. It is not primarily about blackouts due to a […]
Posted in Alternative Energy |
By Kenneth Richard on 1. March 2024
Ice flowed out of the interior of the Greenland ice sheet at much stronger rates and with much greater variability than today throughout the Holocene – or until about 2,000 years ago. New research (Jansen et al., 2024) has determined Greenland’s ice streams vary according to internal processes, and not necessarily due to external changes […]
Posted in Arctic, Glaciers, Paleo-climatology |
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