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By P Gosselin on 21. March 2020
Share this…FacebookTwitterWidespread frost to grip Europe The past winter has been an unusually mild one for most of Europe, which has led many people to think spring was here to stay. But the weather pattern has since switched. Instead of westerly winds bringing mild temperatures and rains across Europe, as they did all winter long, […]
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By P Gosselin on 18. March 2020
Share this…FacebookTwitterDonations now welcome! Before we jump into the data, readers may have noticed that NoTricksZone is now accepting donations – after close to 10 years of not doing so. Hosting services and the hourly rates specialists charge for troubleshooting are painfully expensive, and so any support, no matter how small, is very much appreciated. […]
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By P Gosselin on 13. March 2020
Share this…FacebookTwitterBy Kirye and Pierre Gosselin It’s been a particularly mild winter in Europe this year. But that hasn’t changed the long-term trend over the past 30 years. Now that the February 2020 data have been coming in, we plot the mean February temperatures for some countries in Europe. Sweden Three of 5 stations show […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 9. March 2020
Share this…FacebookTwitterA new study assesses a reduction in tree cover via urbanization or by clearing forests for cropland can warm up a locality by 1°C within 10 years. In contrast, transitions from croplands and urban centers to forests leads to cooling. Europe has been cooling recently (1992-2015) from land cover transitions to forests. Image Source: […]
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By P Gosselin on 8. March 2020
Share this…FacebookTwitterGerman broadcaster RTL here reported how Northern Hemisphere snow mass has reached the highest level in years. Image: Finnish Meteorological Institute The Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI) reports the total amount of snow in the northern hemisphere this winter season has been well above the long-term average from 1982 to 2012. This will come as […]
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By P Gosselin on 1. March 2020
Share this…FacebookTwitterOne of Europe’s oldest temperature series goes back 300 years: Berlin-Dahlem. Cyclic behavior. Source: Free University of Berlin/Wikipedia Readers will note the mean temperatures were warmer than they are today. The 1990s and 2000s were similarly warm as they were in the mid 1700s. Moreover, the long-term trend was downward from 1760 to 1990, […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 24. February 2020
Share this…FacebookTwitterFrom 2008 to 2016 a widespread cooling ranging from 0.6°C to more than 2.0°C has chilled effectively the entire oceanic region from E. Canada to N. Iceland to S. Europe. The cooling persists year-round and extends from the surface down to depths of 800 m. Image Source: Bryden et al., 2020 A year ago […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Oceans |
By P Gosselin on 21. February 2020
Share this…FacebookTwitterExperts: polar bears and winter snow on the increase The online Japanese Independent Web Journal (IWJ) reports on a leading figure in polar bear research, Dr. Susan Crockford, who says “polar bears will not become extinct due to climate change” and that “in fact, polar bears have increased rather than become extinct!” Crockford’s findings […]
Posted in Arctic, Cooling/Temperature, Scepticism |
By P Gosselin on 12. February 2020
Share this…FacebookTwitterBy Kirye and Pierre Gosselin Northern Europe and the Arctic show signs of winter cooling over the past decades. Could the global warming theory be in for an upset? Looking at January data over the northern Europe, we see no real warming trend for the month, according to data from the Japan Meteorological Agency […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 3. February 2020
Share this…FacebookTwitterA new 5680-year tree-ring temperature reconstruction for southern South America (Lara et al., 2020) reveals (a) no clear warming trend in recent decades, and (b) the 18th and 19th centuries (and many centennial-scale periods from the last 5680 years) had much warmer temperatures than today. Image Source: Lara et al., 2020 In addition to […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Paleo-climatology |
By Kenneth Richard on 30. January 2020
Share this…FacebookTwitterIn 2019, more than 440 scientific papers were published that cast doubt on the position that anthropogenic CO2 emissions function as the climate’s fundamental control knob…or that otherwise serve to question the efficacy of climate models or the related “consensus” positions commonly endorsed by policymakers and mainstream media sources. Image Source: Collins et al., […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 23. January 2020
Share this…FacebookTwitterA new reconstruction (Martin et al., 2020) shows peak mean annual temperatures (14°C) were 7°C warmer than today (7°C, 2009-2017) ~7800 years ago in France. In the last 200 years temperatures have fallen by ~3°C. Image Source: Martin et al., 2020 Another new study (Caillouet et al., 2019) finds little to no signficant climate […]
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