By Kenneth Richard on 25. March 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterIn a new paper, two astrophysicists shred the IPCC-preferred and model-based PMOD solar data set and affirm the ACRIM, which is rooted in observation and shows an increase in total solar irradiance (TSI) during the 1980-2000 period. They suggest a “significant percentage” of recent climate change has been solar-driven. Scafetta and Willson, 2019 I. […]
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By P Gosselin on 10. March 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterPIK takes a blow: stronger hurricanes cannot be explained by higher CO2 By Die kalte Sonne (German text translated/edited by P Gosselin) Image: NASA (public domain) Whenever the hurricane season in the Caribbean begins, the whole world and the German Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) wait for a strong storm, as it […]
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By P Gosselin on 9. March 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterAlarmists say that sea levels are rising rapidly, and unless we act now to take over the climate using the secret man-made CO2 reduction method, soon New York and even Cologne, Germany, will end up in water. At least that’s the alarmist scenario that the Truth Media like to tell us about. However, a […]
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By P Gosselin on 22. January 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterDanish Professor Henrik Svensmark is a leading physicist of cosmic radiation. At the end of last year he made a presentation at the 12th International Climate Conference in Munich, where he demonstrated that the climate is indeed modulated in large part by cloud cover, which in turn is modulated by solar activity in combination […]
Posted in Misc., Scepticism, Solar Sciences |
By P Gosselin on 6. January 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitter Markus Somm of the Swiss Baseler Zeitung (BaZ) here has an interesting commentary on why Spiegel and CNN-award wining journalist Claas Relotius had been able to get away with writing totally made up stories for as long as he did. Claas Relotius is the journalist who traveled to rural Fergus Falls, Minnesota, immediately after the […]
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By P Gosselin on 2. January 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterBy Thomas Lifson Read more, original story at The American Thinker here. The warmist fraud has a big problem: its predictions of doom have consistently failed to generate any serious pain. Yes, they blame hot weather in the summer in global warming, and if there are hurricanes, they must be caused by “climate change,” […]
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By P Gosselin on 9. December 2018
Share this…FacebookTwitterThe Swiss online Basel BAZ news site reported yesterday how the Yellow Vest fossil fuel tax protests have spread across Belgium and into the Netherlands, and so threaten to become a European phenomenon. Previously it was thought that a move away from fossil fuels and higher taxes on them were the will of the […]
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By P Gosselin on 7. August 2018
Share this…FacebookTwitterAbout a week ago I reported here how Germany’s “Solar Valley” spectacularly crashed into the wall of reality, turning into an industrial Death Valley, as almost the entire solar components production industry collapsed and left tens of thousands without jobs. Bleak future for Germany’s wind industry. Image: Wasili Karbe, cropped from video here. And the […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Climate Politics, Misc. |
By P Gosselin on 30. July 2018
Share this…FacebookTwitterOn April 22, 2015, Katherine Hayhoe declared that permanent drought was the future for the Texas Panhandle and that part of the nation’s beef supply would get increasingly strained. All the talk was about Texas having entered a state of permadrought with no relief in sight. Now let’s fast-forward ahead 3 years to 2018. In […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 23. July 2018
Share this…FacebookTwitterNewly published science reveals scientists grossly underestimated the timescales for land uplift in compensating for Western Antarctica ice mass loss, leading them to conclude “the ice sheet may stabilize against catastrophic collapse” (Barletta et al., 2018). Furthermore, even if the most vulnerable ice shelves in the Antarctic Peninsula did collapse completely, the total ice […]
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By P Gosselin on 18. May 2018
Share this…FacebookTwitterParts of Germany’s political leadership appear to be waking up to the harsh realities of green energies (wind and sun) and their inefficiencies. Hat-tip: Die kalte Sonne “Economic Minister accepts true condition of Energiewende” The website of German national daily “Welt” here reported last month that Germany’s powerful Minister of Economics, Peter Altmaier “accepts […]
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By P Gosselin on 29. April 2018
Share this…FacebookTwitterI’ve decided to take the day off from blogging today (April 29) on account it’s my birthday. Kenneth will be posting tomorrow and I’ll be back on Tuesday. Have a nice Sunday everyone! Share this…FacebookTwitter
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By P Gosselin on 12. April 2018
Share this…FacebookTwitterKenneth set to show in just minutes what a sham all the sea level rise alarmism really is. (Now busy setting the troll filter on high!) NASA photo – public domain Stay tuned! 🙂 Share this…FacebookTwitter
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By P Gosselin on 5. April 2018
Share this…FacebookTwitterDear Readers, Please let’s leave the name-calling aside. It really does not make any positive contribution at all. We all feel the frustration in the debate as we have two sides entrenched with only a few people daring to take a position between all the flying arrows. From now on Kenneth and I will […]
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By P Gosselin on 24. December 2017
Share this…FacebookTwitterWishing everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Norman Rockwell – U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, public domain image. It’s been a good year for the NoTricksZone, with traffic in 2017 up around 25% compared to a year earlier. This is mostly thanks to the outstanding contributions by guest writer Kenneth Richards. […]
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By P Gosselin on 20. December 2017
Share this…FacebookTwitterHave you ever wondered why the opposition and European elitists are freaking out? Many can no longer cope with the reality. Trump has performed extremely well under the most hostile of circumstances, and accomplished a lot: Now the huge tax reform bill moves to the President’s desk for signing. The tax burden is about to […]
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By P Gosselin on 21. October 2017
Share this…FacebookTwitterIf one were to rate the investment made by governments globally aimed at creating concern for a potential problem, then the huge investment in climate change fear by now would definitely have to be rated as “junk” quality. Never has so much seen so little return. Hundreds of billions have been invested so far with […]
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By P Gosselin on 20. May 2017
Share this…FacebookTwitterOff-topic today. (Don’t worry, the climate isn’t going anywhere.) Like many of us, I’m quite surprised by the absurd calls for impeachment of a President who has done nothing wrong. Just because he does things people don’t agree with and is sand in the Establishment machinery, this in no way constitutes grounds for impeachment. It’s a […]
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By P Gosselin on 22. April 2017
Share this…FacebookTwitterSlowdown: The braked warming of the last one and a half decades and its reasons By Dr. Sebastian Lüning und Prof. Fritz Vahrenhholt (German text translated by P Gosselin) Stefan Rahmstorf is against the notion of a warming hiatus. In his eyes it doesn’t exist. Instead he prefers to live in his Rahmstorfian world, […]
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By P Gosselin on 24. March 2017
Share this…FacebookTwitterClimate models fail on the test stand By Dr. Sebastian Lüning and Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt [German text translated/edited by P Gosselin) 20 years ago climate models were celebrated as a huge breakthrough. Finally we were able to reproduce reality in the computer, which had been becoming ever more powerful and faster. Everyone believed that only […]
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