By P Gosselin on 28. January 2024
By Frank Bosse During weather events, how often are we confronted with the simple claim: “More heat leads to more energy available, which leads to severe storms“? This is so catchy that it can be understood with just a basic knowledge of physics. So is the claim: “The warmer the tropical sea the more severe […]
Posted in Hurricanes/Tornados |
By P Gosselin on 26. January 2024
The data from Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) Pacific typhoons formed and those making landfall in Japan are now available and have been tabulated by Tony Heller’s wife, Kirye. Result: no rising trend for the past 70 years! The JMA’s data go back more than 7 decades, to 1951. First we look at the latest data from the […]
Posted in Hurricanes/Tornados |
By P Gosselin on 24. January 2024
Without fossil fuels,” we wouldn’t be able to feed the world”, distinguished scientist warns. We’ll be wrecking our lives the next decades.” British professor Angus Dalgleish, a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, and of the Royal College of Physicians, the Royal College of Pathologists and the Royal Australasian College of Physicians in an interview with Dr. John […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Scepticism |
By P Gosselin on 23. January 2024
Energy poverty is spreading in Germany. Citizens, especially seniors, can no longer afford to heat their residences Blackout News reports on how German senior citizens, who, due to high energy prices, are being increasingly forced into a life of poverty and struggling to keep warm at home. “Many pensioners can no longer pay heating costs […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Climate Politics, Green Follies |
By P Gosselin on 21. January 2024
“Results are somewhat in contrast to climate projections” Hat-tip: Klimanachrichten The European Space Agency (ESA) here reports on runoff and river discharge, which are important components in Earth’s water cycle. With the globe allegedly warming, drought and heatwaves are said to be more frequent and so the hotter climate should lead to reduced water runoff […]
Posted in Drought and Deserts, Flood |
By P Gosselin on 19. January 2024
Tokyo and Hachijō-jima island haven’t seen any warming in over 25 years, the Japan Meteorological Agency data show. Charts by Kirye The mean temperature data for 2023, for the city of Tokyo, Japan, and its Hachijō-jima island in the Pacific are now available from the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA). First we look at latest annual […]
Posted in Misc. |
By P Gosselin on 17. January 2024
New paper in ‘Nature’: Himalayan glaciers melting much more slowly than expected, researchers blame warming! Image: NASA (public domain) Germany’s online Frankfurter Rundschau (FR) reports on “baffled scientists” and how the Himalayan glaciers are cooling, yet insist the reason is global warming. The FR reports: This development is unusual because the Himalayan glaciers have continuously […]
Posted in Glaciers |
By P Gosselin on 16. January 2024
Germany’s greening economy is falling ever deeper into crisis Blackout News here reports: “Germany is currently in recession and the economic outlook is anything but positive. The economic upturn through the green transformation promised by Chancellor Olaf Scholz is unlikely to materialize in 2024.”Moreover, the Financial Times here reports: “Germany was the worst-performing major economy […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Climate Politics |
By P Gosselin on 14. January 2024
Some alarmist scientists claim it’s the hottest year on record, yet Arctic sea ice for this date stands at its highest level in 21 years. Hat-tip: EIKE here. Source: NSIDC This year’s reading – up to January 8 – has now far exceeded the average for the years 2011-2010, also exceeds the average for the […]
Posted in Arctic |
By P Gosselin on 13. January 2024
We keep hearing how we’re all supposed to believe in models – even those of highly complex, poorly understood systems like weather and climate. Yet, their outputs keep changing. Hat-tip Snowfan here. Back on December 22, last year, the National Weather Service (NWS) forecast a warmer than normal February 2024: But it has since turned […]
Posted in Models, Weather |
By P Gosselin on 10. January 2024
Disconnected from reality: Despite heavy winter rains, flooding and DWD data, Germany’s Helmholtz Institute insists parts of Germany are “extremely dry”. The “climate change-induced drought” in January 2024 By Frank Bosse We already reported several times (here and here) on the Helmholtz Institute’s Drought Monitor. In the meantime, there have been major floods, especially in […]
Posted in Drought and Deserts |
By P Gosselin on 9. January 2024
The air is getting awfully thin for Germany’s Socialist/Green government. Never in postwar history has a ruling government been so unpopular, and there’s a reason for that. The reasons tens of thousands of farmers and truckers have blocked major traffic arteries everywhere and paralyzed the country is because of the governments insatiable appetite for tax […]
Posted in Activism, Agriculture, Green Follies, Pollution |
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