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By Kenneth Richard on 12. November 2020
Share this…FacebookTwitterThe southwestern US was nearly a desert from about 9000 to 5000 years ago, when Holocene peaks in aridity, surface temperature, and wildfire rates occurred. Arctic sea ice was at its lowest extent of the Holocene during these years. Image Source: Lachniet et al., 2020 A new extensively-referenced study (Lachniet et al., 2020) reviewing […]
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By P Gosselin on 29. September 2020
Share this…FacebookTwitterJust recently Anthony Watts posted an article on wildfires penned by Paul Homewood. Lately alarmists have been blaming the active forest fire season on global warming. They warn that warmer temperatures will lead to more wildfires. Is it so? First it’s important to note that warmer temperatures don’t necessarily lead to more drought and […]
Posted in Climate Sensitivity, Drought and Deserts, Fire |
By P Gosselin on 10. July 2020
Share this…FacebookTwitterThe Kyushu region of Japan has been getting lots of rain lately, which has led to flooding and 62 reported deaths because local officials failed to properly heed warnings to evacuate. The New York Times, however, blames it all on the “collision” of “demographic change and global warming” instead of incompetence by local authorities. […]
Posted in Alarmism, Drought and Deserts |
By P Gosselin on 1. July 2020
Share this…FacebookTwitterA comment by PhD physicist David Appell, a contributing writer to Scientific American and Nature, shows he does not understand the fundamental climate-driving mechanism of water evaporation in a recent comment. Amazon rain forest still exists despite very warm, year-round temperatures. Image cropped: NASA Many readers are familiar with climate alarm dogmatist David Appell. […]
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By P Gosselin on 26. June 2020
Share this…FacebookTwitter The myth of increasing European drought By Frank Bosse (Translated, edited by P Gosselin) It sounds so simple: it is undoubtedly getting warmer in Central Europe, and this is leading to increasing droughts. If you take the last two summers, this seems to be confirmed. And just like that it was exploited by […]
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By P Gosselin on 27. May 2020
Share this…FacebookTwitterCentral Europe has been getting WETTER over the long term, and not drier like much media like to suggest. Dry years are nothing new. Lately in Central Europe we’ve been hearing a lot about drought becoming the new normal – all because of man-made global warming, of course. Lots of hype made from 2 […]
Posted in Drought and Deserts, Media / Bias |
By P Gosselin on 23. April 2020
Share this…FacebookTwitterBy Kirye and Pierre Gosselin The summer of 2017 in Europe was a wet one, yet everyone seems to have forgotten that. Then came two hot and dry summers across Europe (2018 and 2019) and already climate alarmists began to call it the new normal. Hot dry summers with intense drought were in store […]
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By P Gosselin on 6. March 2020
Share this…FacebookTwitter The last two summers in Germany (2018 and 2019) were unusually dry and warm, and already alarmists began to screaming that this was just a preview of what’s in store for Europe’s crispy burnt future. The following 2 charts show the ground moisture for Germany last September. The left image depicts the ground […]
Posted in Alarmism, Drought and Deserts |
By P Gosselin on 11. January 2020
Share this…FacebookTwitterGerman climate blogger Snow Fan here presents some background on Australian bush fires. It turns out that the 1974/75 bush fires were considerably larger in area than the 2019/20 bush fires we have been witnessing. The Australian bush fires of 2019/20 have seen an area as big as southern Germany (see above). But in […]
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By P Gosselin on 11. December 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterVictoria Falls ignoring IPCC science: Sometimes more water, sometimes less By Die kalte Sonne (German text translated by P. Gosselin) German Spiegel Online on 7 December 2019: Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe and Zambia: “It’s the longest dry period that we have ever had.” The Victoria Falls are considered to be the widest waterfall in […]
Posted in Drought and Deserts, Oceans |
By P Gosselin on 12. November 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterThe two recent dry summers seen in Europe have led to alarmists believing that the climate doomsday has arrived. But The European Institute for Climate and Energy (EIKE) looks at the past to see if this sort of thing is really unusual. ======================= German forests growing much faster today than 1000 years ago. Photo: NTZ […]
Posted in Drought and Deserts, Paleo-climatology |
By P Gosselin on 27. October 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterAt XR and FFF rallies, speakers like telling outright lies with the aim of trying to get the masses of people to stampede in mass panic and blind anger. One of these activists in Germany is Carola Rackete, reports Michael Krüger here at Science Skeptical. Rackete, the award-winning refugee rescuer and sea vessel captain, […]
Posted in Activism, Arctic, Drought and Deserts |
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