By P Gosselin on 16. August 2026
In an interview on a Bild podcast, Swiss-based meteorologist Jörg Kachelmann strongly criticized Germany’s approach to dealing with heatwaves and climate issues, telling the German audience, “You’re a really crazy country.” Article here online: nau.ch Kachelmann told Bild the current European heatwave is unprecedented but that Germany and Switzerland got relatively “lucky” because the core […]
Posted in Activism, Alarmism, Drought and Deserts |
By Kenneth Richard on 15. August 2026
The bleaching and heat stress narrative that says rising CO2 is an existential threat to coral reef habitat has not been realized. Since reliable monitoring began 40 years ago, scientists (Ceccarelli et al., 2026) provide graphical evidence there has been no significant overall net change in coral cover throughout the Northern, Central, and Southern Great […]
Posted in Coral Reefs, Warming/CO2 Benefiting Earth |
By Kenneth Richard on 13. August 2026
Scientists (Yilgan and Jónsdóttir, 2026) report annual mean sea ice extent in the Greenland Sea was 8.4 times greater in 2023 (2,403.6 km²) than in 2019 (287.6 km²). In the month of January, the sea ice extent was 6.4 times larger in 2024 (20,308 km²) than in 2017 (312 km²). Hand-in-hand with the recent sea […]
Posted in Arctic, Cooling/Temperature, Sea Ice |
By P Gosselin on 12. August 2026
Currently there’s much hysteria across the German media surrounding this summer’s hot weather and drought. Without surprise, it’s allegedly unprecedented. But an old archive film from the German government shows how bad the situation was back in 1949. The Rhine River was nearly dried out! The video speaks of a “waterway without water” and that the […]
Posted in Alarmism, Drought and Deserts |
By Kenneth Richard on 12. August 2026
Cloud cover changes are a “top-down dynamical driver” of Earth’s climate. A July 2026 Environmental Research Letters paper authored by Bellocchi et al. attributes ~80% of the rise in Earth’s absorbed solar radiation since 2000 to declining high-reflectivity cloud cover, primarily from circulation-driven contraction of storm-cloud zones. The study highlights the climate’s “albedo governance,” suggesting […]
Posted in Cloud Climate Influence, CO2 and GHG, CO2 Greens the Earth |
By Kenneth Richard on 6. August 2026
In new research (Liu et al., 2026), scientists acknowledge clouds “markedly impact near-surface air temperatures” by altering the radiation budget and driving heating rates across the Arctic. For example, a cloudy day in winter may deliver 20-30 W/m² of cloud radiative forcing (CRF), warming the Arctic surface by 6-9°C. However, due to massive uncertainties in […]
Posted in Arctic, Climate Sensitivity, Cloud Climate Influence, CO2 and GHG |
By P Gosselin on 4. August 2026
A weather site’s amazingly sloppy measuremnt goes viral across Germany… Much of Europe has been enduring a heat wave and below normal precipitation. Not surprisingly, the media are busy using the hot weather to further promote climate alarm and get more clicks however they can. One way to accomplish this is to use sompletely bogus […]
Posted in Activism, Alarmism, Data Manipulation, Media / Bias |
By P Gosselin on 2. August 2026
“Heat Deaths” According to the RKI By Frank Bosse There is a publication by the RKI [Robert Koch Institute] on “Heat and Excess Mortality in Germany.” The methodology is also explained in it: calendar weeks with a mean temperature above 20°C are filtered out, and then the excess mortality figures provided by the Federal Statistical […]
Posted in Activism, Alarmism |
By Kenneth Richard on 1. August 2026
The CO2-induced “polar amplification” narrative peddled by climate alarmists has just taken another hit. It has previously been shown increasing CO2 by over 120 ppm (278 ppm to 400 ppm) cools the Antarctic climate (Notholt et al., 2024). These scientists found there has been a slight (-0.01°C) overall net cooling CO2 influence since 1750. Image […]
Posted in Antarctic, Arctic, CO2 and GHG, Cooling/Temperature |
By P Gosselin on 31. July 2026
A recent investigative interview by Apollo News featuring former Hamburg Environmental Senator and energy expert Fritz Vahrenholt has sparked intense debate over the stability of Germany’s power grid and the future of its industrial economy. As Germany aggressively transitions away from traditional baseload power and over to erratic renewable energies like wind and sun, government […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Green Follies |
By P Gosselin on 25. July 2026
Recent Germany forecasts of “never seen before heat” coming next week are already fizzling out. OI course there’s going to be some hot weather next week, but probably nothing like the click-baiting media have been warning. Snowfan at “wobleibtdieerderwaermung” reports today that none of the ECMWF models is predicting a heat wave and that they […]
Posted in Models, Weather |
By Kenneth Richard on 23. July 2026
Greenland is halfway through its current (2025-2026) melt season. So far it’s not looking good for the alarmist narrative. Image Source: Polar Portal For perspective, there is more ice and snow on Greenland today than for nearly any other period in the last 10,000 years. Image Source: Larocca and Axford, 2022
Posted in Arctic, Cryosphere, Glaciers |
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