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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 […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 4. April 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterA new paper indicates the rise in CO2 concentration occurred well after the Northern Hemisphere’s ocean circulation changes drove the abrupt warming (~11,700 years ago) that ended the last ice age – a lag that effectively leaves no causal role for CO2 during deglaciation. Image Source: Muschitiello et al., 2019 Ice core evidence from […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 1. April 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterGlaciers in Sweden melted ~7 times faster during the 1920s to 1960s than from 1970 to 2015. Image Source: Holmlund and Holmlund, 2019 Image Source: Holmlund and Holmlund, 2019 “The strongest melt in the mass change curve […] occurs between the 1930s and 1960s, with the beginning of this negative trend occurring in the […]
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By P Gosselin on 23. March 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterForsythia are an indicator plant used by the German DWD Weather Service for marking the beginning of spring in March. The trend of spring blossoming show that springs in Hamburg have been cooling over the past 30 years. The north German port city of Hamburg happens to have a long data series on the […]
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By P Gosselin on 20. March 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterGood news for skiers: winters at Austria’s Ischgler Idalpe have become colder over the past 30 years By Die kalte Sonne (Text translated by P Gosselin) New report shows Austrian winters have ignored global warming. Image cropped Zukunft Skisport. The Austrian Paznaun is a valley in the far west of North Tyrol with an […]
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By P Gosselin on 17. March 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterBy Kirye As today is St. Patricks Day, it’s a good time to look at Ireland’s annual mean temperatures over the recent decades. As we recall, global cooling was the scare of the 1970s before global warming became the scare in the 1980s. So since the 1980s, a fair amount of warming must have […]
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By P Gosselin on 15. March 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterBy Kirye (in Tokyo) On March 13, Japan’s Honmaddeka TV spoke about THE SANKEI NEWS, which reported there is a possibility that people will become less able to see cherry blossoms in full bloom in the near future. Readers may surmise the culprit for this themselves. Biologist Dr. Kiyohiko Ikeda tells audience on Honmaddeka […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 14. March 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterThe Post-1998 Hiatus Plods On…Regionally Image Source: Gan et al., 2019 North America (180-0°N, 15-60°N) has been characterized as a “major cooling center” by the authors of a new paper (Gan et al., 2019) published in Earth and Space Science. The continent warmed from 1982-1998, but a cooling trend since 1998 has nearly wiped […]
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By P Gosselin on 13. March 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterThe European Institute for Climate and Energy (EIKE) here presents two charts which I’m featuring today. They show that the winter temperature trend for Germany over the past 32 years is not cooperating with “experts’” forecasts of rapid warming and snow and ice becoming a thing of the past. The first chart, using the […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Drought and Deserts, Weather |
By Kenneth Richard on 7. March 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterYet another scientific paper presents evidence that the Arctic region was warmer than recent decades during the 1930s, leading scientists to conclude there is “still-insufficient knowledge of the mechanisms governing the Arctic Climate System.” Image Source: Araźny et al., 2019 Araźny et al., 2019 A comparison of bioclimatic conditions on Franz Josef Land (the […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 4. March 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterAccording to a comprehensive (305 locations in 10 countries) 2018 study, deaths attributed to extreme heat have been stable to declining in recent decades (1985-2012). In contrast, deaths attributed to cold weather show “no clear patterns” – neither increasing or decreasing. Image Source: Vicedo-Cabrera et al., 2018 Across the globe, recent cold spells have […]
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By P Gosselin on 2. March 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterBy Kirye and Pierre Gosselin Japan winters are cooling The Pacific island nation of Japan refuses to obey climate scientists’ forecasts of warming and ignore climate alarmists and their chorus of doomsday shrieks. Climate trends are moving the other way. Now that February has ended, the 2018/19 winter is now in the books. We’ve […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 21. February 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterScientists identify more regions of the world that haven’t warmed up – and have, instead, cooled – since the early 1900s. Kutta and Hubbart, 2019 Observed climatic changes in West Virginia and opportunities for agriculture “Between 1900 and 2016, climatic trends were characterized by significant reductions in the maximum temperatures (−0.78°C/century; p = 0.001), significant […]
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By P Gosselin on 20. February 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterOn Sunday I wrote here how any warmth that gets found anywhere on the globe almost always gets blamed on heat supposedly getting trapped by rising atmospheric CO2 concentrations (due to man). Of course here all other powerful, real factors such as solar and oceanic cycles get ignored. Yet in the case of Japan, we […]
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By P Gosselin on 17. February 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterBy Pierre Gosselin and Kirye Today any warming found anywhere almost always gets blamed on heat supposedly getting trapped by rising atmospheric CO2 concentrations. Moreover, activist scientists insist we ignore all other powerful factors such as solar and oceanic cycles. In fact these activists have become so extreme that they insist that record cold […]
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By P Gosselin on 10. February 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterRecord cold temperatures, transportation disrupted, fire extinguishers freeze as “coldest air mass ever” sweeps over Japan’s northern island of Hokkaido. By Kirye As the Asahi Shimbun here reports, Japan’s northernmost main island of Hokkaido has been gripped by a deep freeze with the temperature plunging to -31.8°C in Rikubetsu on February […]
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By P Gosselin on 6. February 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterBy Kirye Since the global warming scare started some 30 years ago, Japan’s winters in fact have have not been warming – but rather many areas show the opposite is happening: cooling. January in Japan no warming in over 30 years For Japan as a whole, the entire country […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 4. February 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterAntarctica Has Not Warmed In Over A Century Natural Variability – Not Humans – Drives Ice Melt The most recent mass media contribution to the canon of climate alarmism referenced a study claiming that “climate change” (i.e., human-caused deep ocean warming) was responsible for the Amundsen Sea’s (West Antarctica) “rapid melting” of the Thwaites […]
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