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By P Gosselin on 24. April 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterBy Kirye Today we’ll take a look at March mean temperatures and their trend for some locations for which almost complete data are available from the Japan meteorology Agency. Though March is only a single month, it is important because we often hear how spring is supposedly arriving earlier due to global warming, and […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature |
By P Gosselin on 23. April 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterA few days ago here we wrote about how a team of German scientists at the Munich-based ifo Institute released the results of a study that showed that Electric cars end up producing more CO2 than comparable diesel cars. What follows is the press release in English issued by the ifo Institute: ========================================================= ifo: […]
Posted in Alternative Energy |
By P Gosselin on 21. April 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterYesterday I wrote here how some scientists misrepresent the observed data concerning Greenland ice melt in order to get the alarming results they want. There we see that Greenland has been melting, but recently much more slowly than what we are often led to believe. Looking at the latest Greenland ice volume data from the […]
Posted in Arctic, Stupid Predictions |
By P Gosselin on 20. April 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterWhen Greenland ice melt data are correctly presented, Greenland it has in fact decelerated recently, thus contradicting alarmist claims by a new paper’s authors. The “Illi omnia experti“ climate science By Uli Weber (Translated/edited by P Gosselin) Already in January 2019 a very peculiar scientific publication on the allegedly increasing glacier melt had been […]
Posted in Alarmism, Arctic, Data Manipulation |
By P Gosselin on 19. April 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterGermany’s Stuttgarter Zeitung here reports that electric cars are in fact pretty bad for the climate, it turns out. So, once activists are done banning fossil fuel powered vehicles, then electric ones will soon follow. According to a new German study, electric cars have “significantly higher CO2 emissions than diesel cars”, and especially the […]
Posted in Alternative Energy |
By P Gosselin on 17. April 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterNDR north German television recently broadcast a report about the protests against a planned windpark near the German village of Kreien, some 200 km east of Hamburg. White tail eagles being chased away from nest by loudspeakers in order to clear the way for permitting 14 wind turbines over 200 meters tall in Northern […]
Posted in Alternative Energy |
By P Gosselin on 16. April 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterAccording to German online business daily Handelsblatt here, German electricity are set to get significantly more expensive in 2019 due to the power grid becoming 8 percent more expensive to use. This will make already painfully high electricity prices even more excruciating. The Handelsblatt cites calculations by German think tank “Agora Energiewende”, which reports […]
Posted in Alternative Energy |
By P Gosselin on 14. April 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterAt the latest Saturday Summary at Weatherbell Analytics, Joe Bastardi, a well-known 40-year veteran of meteorology, looks at tornadoes and hurricanes. Although many meteorologists and climatologists confirm that there is no data suggesting global warming is causing more frequent and intense tornado and hurricane activity, there is a small but influential alarmist group who […]
Posted in Alarmism, Hurricanes/Tornados |
By P Gosselin on 13. April 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterHigh profile German meteorologist Donald Bäcker recently told an audience that there remains great uncertainty as to what is really behind climate change. He told the biggest problem the planet faces is waste, particularly plastic in the oceans. Hat-tip: Hallolindenlimmer.de Donald Bäcker regularly gives his weather forecasts on flagship German public television and spoke […]
Posted in Scepticism |
By P Gosselin on 12. April 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterGerman climate skepticism may have awakened, and ironically it may in large part be an unintended consequence of the “Greta demonstrations”. Germans may be finally getting fed up with the hysteria that has emptied out schools and turned into an ambush on their industrial jobs. German geologist Dr. Sebastian Lüning, who together with Prof. […]
Posted in Activism, Alarmism, Scepticism |
By P Gosselin on 10. April 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterClimate disaster? Grain production almost quadrupled worldwide while the population doubled over past 60 years! Michael Krueger (Translated/ edited by P Gosselin) In these times of Fridays for Future led by Greta Thunberg, all experts and self-proclaimed experts are talking about how badly the earth is doing and warning that planet earth is about […]
Posted in Agriculture, Alarmism |
By P Gosselin on 9. April 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterGerman political analysis and commentary site Freie Welt here has an article on how millions of Germans are increasingly unable to afford electric power. Germany’s Energiewende ‘ risks shorting out as millions struggle to pay their electricity bills. Image cropped here. While a number of commodities such as electronics, electrical goods and computing power […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Climate Politics |
By P Gosselin on 7. April 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterBy Kirye and P. Gosselin We often hear how the climate is changing everywhere, like in California. Listening to the media we get the impression that the Golden State is drying out and risks burning up, before heavy rains hit. Others claim the state is facing “weather whiplash” because climate change will make the […]
Posted in Alarmism, Drought and Deserts |
By P Gosselin on 6. April 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterOne of the fathers of the German environmental movement, Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt, comments on models, Friday school strikes and the environmental destruction by green energies. =============================== Ladies and Gentlemen, New climate model is useless Over 80(!) authors, led by Jean Christophe Golaz of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, have recently developed a new climate model […]
Posted in Activism, Alternative Energy, Models |
By P Gosselin on 5. April 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterA new paper published in the Journal of Weather and Climate Extremes by Dittus et al confirms what many skeptics has strongly suspected all along: There’s no trend in precipitation extremes and there isn’t much predictability either. Hat-tip: Reader Mary Brown. What follows is the paper’s abstract: The oceans are a well-known source […]
Posted in Natural Variability, Oceans |
By P Gosselin on 3. April 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterBy Kirye (Tokyo) Canada’s CBC here recently cited “a leaked report” which claimed Canada is “warming at twice the global rate.” According to the “leaked report”, Canada’s annual average temperature over land has warmed 1.7 C when looking at the data since 1948. But that claim is misleading when recent data is considered. Over […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature |
By P Gosselin on 2. April 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterA new study by Williams et al appearing in the Journal of Atmospheric and Solar Terrestrial Physics shows that the global warming hiatus of the early 20th century was in fact real. Image cropped here. Hat-tip Mary Brown A number of scientists from the alarmist camp like to insist that there had never been […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature |
By P Gosselin on 31. March 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterBy Kirye and Pierre Gosselin One fellow climate blogger recently wrote on how he’s been been looking at GHCN ‘unadjusted’ data and noticed that scientists at NASA appear to have been altering them: “This is a fairly disturbing development,” he wrote. Heating up Reykjavik and Nuuk Cited as an example is Reykyavik, Iceland. According to […]
Posted in Data Manipulation |
By P Gosselin on 30. March 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterA new study has just come out in the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters: Biomarkers reveal abrupt switches in hydroclimate during the last glacial in southern California. Hat-tip: reader Mary Brown It contradicts claims often made by global warming alarmists that the perceived California climate change is unusual, and that it is mostly […]
Posted in Paleo-climatology |
By P Gosselin on 29. March 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterThe Sun In February 2019 By Frank Bosse and Fritz Vahrenholt (Translated/edited by P Gosselin) The sun was also very sub-normally active in February. Although we are in the middle of the minimum, the sunspot number of 0.8 for the 123rd month into the cycle is very low. On 26 days of the month […]
Posted in Solar Sciences |
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