By P Gosselin on 12. June 2024
Where’s summer? Glaciers in German Alps get a boost as winter appears in June. Image: Zugspitze webcam shot, June 12, 2024 ca. 9 pm. By Klimanachrichten The German DWD Weather Service is asking itself the this question and has no summery prospects until mid-June 2024. The unsettled, sometimes very wet and predominantly cool weather of […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Weather |
By Kenneth Richard on 10. June 2024
A collection of 85-year-old photographs reveal “growth and stability” of the East Antarctic ice sheet. Per a new study, more than 2200 historical aerial photos of a 2000 km stretch of ice in East Antarctica have been recently uncovered. The rare images reveal what the glaciers in this region looked like in 1937. Interestingly, the […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Glaciers |
By P Gosselin on 9. June 2024
The Deputy Leader of Germany’s Christian Democratic Union Jens Spahn warns that the current socialist-green government is leading the country into a “green fairy tale world” and sharply citicizes the country’s the nuclear phase-out. CDU deputy leader, Jens Spahn. Image cropped here. In an interview with on Deutschlandfunk radio, he said: “It was a green […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Climate Politics |
By P Gosselin on 8. June 2024
At the online Die Welt, science journalist Axel Bohanowski reports on: “How insurance companies and the media are misleading with weather disasters.” Image cropped here. Hat-tip: Klimaschau here. The rise in property damage often gets blamed on climate change, especially by click-baiting media and greedy insurance companies. But Bojanowski says it’s misleading to blame climate […]
Posted in Activism, Alarmism |
By Kenneth Richard on 6. June 2024
A new West Greenland temperature reconstruction (Strunk et al., 2024) finds the region was 1.5 to 2°C warmer than today from 560 to 1100 CE, encompassing the Medieval Warm Period (MWP). The LOI (vegetation abundance) record reflects a much wetter, greener landscape during the MWP. Image Source: Strunk et al., 2024
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Paleo-climatology |
By P Gosselin on 5. June 2024
The ice sheet and the Atlantic overturning circulation (AMOC): No Alarm AMOC. Source: Woods Hole By Frank Bosse We hear it over and again: the melting ice in Greenland due to warming will soon lead to a collapse of the AMOC, making it difficult for it to “restart”. The salt content in the north is […]
Posted in Alarmism, Oceans |
By Kenneth Richard on 4. June 2024
In the 1970s and 1980s ExxonMobil did not know that their reports would be so wrongly misinterpreted in the 2010s. Since 2015, when “investigative journalists” uncovered reports written in the late 1970s by ExxonMobil’s Science Advisor J.P. Black, it has been a common talking point in alarmist circles to insist that “Exxon Knew” about the […]
Posted in CO2 and GHG, Models, Uncertainty Error |
By P Gosselin on 2. June 2024
Many Germans regret their purchase or lease of an e-car and Germans overall are increasingly unwilling to consider them. Citing an article published in the online Merkur.de, Blackout News reports: “Half of German e-car owners regret their purchase or lease”. Apparently German e-car owners are disappointed due especially to “rising electricity prices”. Recently we reported […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Green Follies |
By P Gosselin on 1. June 2024
Better air temporarily warms the atmosphere Image: NASA (pubic domain) By Klimanachrichten An interesting article in Spektrum about a development that we have already reported on here. Apparently there is a connection between cleaner fuels for ships and cloud formation, which means more sunshine and higher temperatures. However, the reduced content of atmospheric sulphate aerosols […]
Posted in CO2 and GHG, Pollution |
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