By P Gosselin on 9. March 2015
Spiegel science journalist Axel Bojanowski here looks at the new paper “Climate change in the Fertile Crescent and implications of the recent Syrian drought,” PNAS, March 2, 2015 by Kelley et al, which claims the 2007−2010 drought contributed to the war in the region. A number of major news outlets, such as the New York Times […]
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By P Gosselin on 3. February 2015
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By P Gosselin on 25. January 2015
Yesterday I posted on Part 1 of German ZDF television’s Terra-X series two-part documentary on climate and human history appearing on January 11 and 18. Part 1 covered the world’s climatic changes that occurred during the last ice age and up to the time of the Roman Empire. Part 1 clearly showed that the earth’s climate […]
Posted in Agriculture, Cooling/Temperature, Drought and Deserts, Glaciers, Paleo-climatology, Stupid Predictions, We're To Blame |
By P Gosselin on 28. December 2014
As New Year’s Day approaches here’s something off-topic, but could make a real difference to your health. It has to mine. Probably the most common New Year’s resolution one hears is “I’m going to get back in shape“. Unfortunately it is also the one that fails the most often. A year ago, at the age of […]
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By P Gosselin on 23. November 2014
For decades the science told us that humans needed to cut back on fatty foods like red meat, eggs, chicken, cheese, butter and that we should switch to high carb diets, with lots of exercises. High carb, low fat was The Consensus. Backed by all the US medical associations and 99% of all doctors. Dissenters […]
Posted in Activism, Agriculture, Green Follies, Lifestyles of the Rich and Alarmist |
By P Gosselin on 3. November 2014
It’s early November and now is a good time to look at some of this year’s global crop harvest results. Let’s recall that global warming models projected poor harvests and hunger in the future due to droughts (and floods). But that is hardly the case…at least certainly for this year. And recall how Joe Bastardi last spring […]
Posted in Agriculture, CO2 and GHG |
By P Gosselin on 28. June 2014
A new study by researchers in England claim that people who eat lots of meat emit much more CO2 than vegans. Worse: the nutty scientists are urging governments to change dietary guidelines. At the journal of Climatic Change, Peter Scarborough et al claim that “reducing the intake of meat and other animal based products can make […]
Posted in Abnormal Climate Psych, Activism, Agriculture, Green Follies, We're To Blame |
By P Gosselin on 14. June 2014
A Short History of the Human Race Part 4/4. The Iron Age to the Present Research by Ed Caryl Climate historians usually recognize one Holocene Climate Optimum, from the end of the last ice age to about 4000 years ago. But as we have seen in this series of articles, there were three major warm […]
Posted in Agriculture, Cooling/Temperature, Drought and Deserts, Oceans, Paleo-climatology, Sea Levels |
By P Gosselin on 5. June 2014
A Short History of the Human Race The Climb Out Of The Ice Age Part 2 By Ed Caryl Below is a plot of sea level and temperature for the last 21,000 years, when the world warmed out of the last ice age, and civilization became possible. This is the end of the Upper Pleistocene […]
Posted in Agriculture, Drought and Deserts, Glaciers, Oceans, Paleo-climatology, Sea Levels |
By P Gosselin on 3. June 2014
A Short History of the Human Race Part 1, The Late Pleistocene, A Story of Survival By Ed Caryl The story of the human race, Homo Sapiens, is really a story driven by climate, particularly temperatures, rainfall, and sea level. Most of that history has taken place in the last 20,000 years, since the Last […]
Posted in Agriculture, Cooling/Temperature, Drought and Deserts, Glaciers, Paleo-climatology, Tectonics/Volcanoes |
By P Gosselin on 31. August 2013
Bill Gates tweets Revkin on the need for Golden Rice. Green activists acting out of pure ideology and emotion sabotage sight-saving crop… The True Story About Who Destroyed a Genetically Modified Rice Crop By Mark Lynas Did you hear that a group of 400 angry farmers attacked and destroyed a field trial of genetically modified […]
Posted in Activism, Agriculture, Greenpeace |
By P Gosselin on 23. August 2013
By Ed Caryl The natural CO2 flux to and from oceans and land plants amounts to approximately 210 gigatons of carbon annually. (Note that this is carbon. Multiply the numbers by 3.7 for the total weight of CO2 including the two oxygen atoms.) Man currently causes about 9 gigatons of carbon to be injected into […]
Posted in Agriculture, CO2 and GHG |
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