By P Gosselin on 30. June 2024
No (predicted) “hellish summer” in sight. June saw near normal temperature, a bit wetter Germany’s DWD national weather service just issued the preliminary weather results for the month of June (2024). June in the Central European region was highly variable with periods of both cool and summery weather. The final phase of June saw the […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Drought and Deserts |
By P Gosselin on 29. June 2024
The long road to green hydrogen By KlimaNachrichten An article on NDR German public broadcasting clearly conveys the dimensions of hydrogen. It reports on a planned factory for green hydrogen in Neumünster. A hydrogen factory with an output of 50 megawatts corresponds to the output of ten wind turbines, which means that the output of […]
Posted in Alternative Energy |
By Kenneth Richard on 27. June 2024
A new study documents the detrimental effects linked to living in close proximity to wind turbines. Living within 10 km of a wind turbine may be associated with serious consequences to the health and safety of people and animals. Examples include: • limb deformities in horses • birth defects (born with missing eyes and tails) […]
Posted in Wind Power |
By P Gosselin on 26. June 2024
Summer-of-Hell Check By KlimaNachrichten We are almost 1/3 of the way through the meteorological summer. Time to remember the prediction made by suspect biologist Marc Benecke in spring 2024. He had predicted “a summer of hell with almost complete certainty”. We reported. As early as March 2024, some meteorologists raised concerns about this forecast. Shortly after […]
Posted in Stupid Predictions, Weather |
By Kenneth Richard on 24. June 2024
Modeling the main factors driving climate is riddled with and precluded by observational error. Some scientists now acknowledge this. Clouds are a main factor – even the “most important factor” – controlling changes in the Earth’s radiation budget, or climate (Sfîcă et al., 2021, Lenaerts et al., 2020). Image Source: Sfîcă et al., 2021 and […]
Posted in Cloud Climate Influence, Uncertainty Error |
By P Gosselin on 21. June 2024
By KlimaNachrichten Claimed revolutions in battery technology are somewhat symptomatic of how the media work and fail. Japanese company TDK reports progress in battery technology. The company’s new batteries are said to have an enormous energy density, said to increase by an incredible factor of 100. That would indeed be a sensation; a cell phone […]
Posted in Alternative Energy |
By Kenneth Richard on 20. June 2024
Greenland has not warmed (net) in the last 90 years. From 80,000 to 20,000 years ago Greenland warmed by 10-15 Kelvin within a span of “a few decades” 24 times (Kypke and Ditlevsen 2024). These abrupt warming periods occurred without concomitant CO2 concentration changes. And, of course, without human interference. Image Source: Kypke and Ditlevsen […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Natural Variability, Paleo-climatology |
By P Gosselin on 19. June 2024
490,000 tonnes of CO2 It’s the European Cup soccer championships and fans across the continent and beyond are celebrating the event. But there are some party-poopers out there who worry about the impact on the climate. By Klimanachrichten Soccer fans should have a guilty conscience. The mdr public broadcasting here calculates what environmental idiots the […]
Posted in Alarmism, CO2 and GHG |
By Kenneth Richard on 17. June 2024
In a new study, scientists use the new “ostracod-clumped isotope thermometer” to reconstruct a much warmer Late Pleistocene/Early Holocene Mediterranean climate. Today’s average summer and winter temperatures are 22°C (21.4°C) and 8°C, respectively, at Central Italy’s Lake Trasimeno. Around 11,000-12,000 years ago, when CO2 hovered in the 220-230 ppm range, summer temperatures averaged 25°C, sometimes […]
Posted in Paleo-climatology |
By P Gosselin on 16. June 2024
Back to fossil fuels! The figures for the registration of new electric cars in Germany are looking increasingly awful. In May 2024, the Federal Motor Transport Authority (KBA) reported that it had registered only 29,708 vehicles with electric motors. May e-car sales in Germany plummet more than 30% compared to a year earlier. AI image […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Climate Politics |
By P Gosselin on 14. June 2024
In a surprising move, Volkswagen announced it plans to invest 60 billion euros in the development of new combustion engines as confidence in electric mobility plummets in Germany and elsewhere. Chat GPT AI generated image Strategy adjustment “This change in strategy shows that the transition to electromobility is progressing more slowly than expected,” reports Germany’s […]
Posted in Alternative Energy |
By Kenneth Richard on 14. June 2024
Atmospheric pressure may have been over 2.0 bar during the Jurassic, which may explain why Antarctica was a densely vegetated rainforest during that time. It has long been understood that atmospheric pressure is one of the primary determinants of a planet’s temperature, with higher pressure (for example, Venus at 92 bar) yielding warmer climates due […]
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