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 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 P Gosselin on 22. July 2026
The sun is the main driver of the Earth’s climate, skeptical scientists assert Brehm et al. (2021), Brehm et al. (2025) und Wang et al. (2026) Image captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory on Dec. 31, 2023. Credit: NASA/SDO (public domain). Dr. Peter F. Mayer at Austria’s online TKP has published a new article titled: “3,000 Years of […]
Posted in Paleo-climatology, Solar |
By P Gosselin on 19. July 2026
Wind energy means a large-scal technological regression Image: EIKE In his presentation at the Climate and Energy Conference held by the Germany-based European Institute for Climate and Energy (EIKE) in Halle, Prof. Horst-Joachim Lüdecke explored the energy efficiency of wind turbines and finds that it is a terribly inefficient way to produce electricity. Prof. Horst-Joachim […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Green Follies |
By P Gosselin on 15. July 2026
Munich’s first ever water restrictions ever (by its first-ever Green mayor)… €50,000 fine if kids caught cooling themslves under a garden hose! Real or feigned emergency? Germany’s online BILD reports on drastic water bans just implemented by the city of Munich due to what he dubiously claims to be “an ongoing water shortage.” Following a […]
Posted in Misc. |
By P Gosselin on 9. July 2026
French authorities seem to prefer seeing citizens suffer through heatwaves – and die by the thousands – than utilizing modern air conditioning. Image by P. Gosselin using Grok AI “Ecological virtue” has turned into a public health hazard The French climate blogsite Cliumat et Verité writes about why the French have an aversion to ACs, […]
Posted in Activism, Climate Politics, Green Follies |
By P Gosselin on 7. July 2026
Highest level in 13 years… Higher than the 1980s average! The analysis by the Canada Ice Service (chart below) shows that on July 6, 2026. sea ice extent in the Western Arctic, including the Northwest Passage, reached approximately 1.29 million km². That’s higher than the average of the 1980s. Hat-tip: Snowfan This marks the second-largest […]
Posted in Arctic |
By P Gosselin on 5. July 2026
Germany’s online Report24 has an article titled: “Studies Show Gigantic Wind Farms Significantly Warm the Night”. Proponents of the energy transition often ignore or conceal the negative local climate impacts of wind turbines. Report24 references a 2012 study published in Nature Climate Change by Liming Zhou and his research team, which investigated the impact of […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Green Follies |
By P Gosselin on 1. July 2026
Global artificial impervious surface area is as large as Spain, Germany and France combined … adding up to 25°C to surface temperatures The intensity of the recent heat waves has had a lot to do with the widespread urban heat island (UHI) effect. Surface temperatures vary widely, depending on the surface properties. Near surface temperatures. […]
Posted in Temperature Bias/Urbanization |
By P Gosselin on 28. June 2026
Here is historical footage from the German Federal Archives showing the Rhine River during a severe drought in 1949. Months of persistent drought caused the Rhine River’s water levels to drop to historic lows, exposing wide sandbars and rocky riverbeds that hadn’t been seen in decades. The low water level made the river incredibly difficult […]
Posted in Drought and Deserts |
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