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By P Gosselin on 24. February 2021
Share this…FacebookTwitterLooking at NASA’s Vegetation Index data, the news is good: the globe has greened 10% so far this century. That’s good news because we know this ultimately means greater crop production area and forest expansion. Ironically, what many “experts claim to be a huge problem (CO2) is in fact one of the major reasons […]
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By P Gosselin on 20. February 2021
Share this…FacebookTwitterDespite media claims of increasing wildfires across the globe, data show the opposite is in fact the case: wildfires have been trending downwards since NASA started recording data. Two days ago Kenneth wrote about how paleoclimatological findings suggested wild fires in Australia and the northwestern US raged with greater frequency and regularity until 500 […]
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By P Gosselin on 27. January 2021
Share this…FacebookTwitter Many “climate protection” policies promote the destruction of forests. Image: NASA (public domain). The climate alarmist Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC) says climate protection policies are more than 5 times more expensive than they have to be. More trees are the way to go. Yet climate protection is […]
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By P Gosselin on 5. January 2021
Share this…FacebookTwitterScience absurdity… “Climate experts” blame climate change for Lake Victoria record high levels, after blaming climate change for the low levels in 2006. Today we look at one particular segment of Dr. Sebastian Lüning’s highly interesting, newly released climate change news show Klimaschau (Climate View). Very low level in 2006 In it he examines […]
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By P Gosselin on 3. January 2021
Share this…FacebookTwitterDr. Sebastian Lüning recently started his own weekly YouTube videos on climate news in German: Klimaschau. Global wild fires on the decline In his latest video the veteran geologist looks at wild fires worldwide and the CO2 they emit. He reports that both have been decreasing. Citing the results of the European Copernicus satellite […]
Posted in Alarmism, Cooling/Temperature, Drought and Deserts, Oceans |
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 […]
Posted in Drought and Deserts, Paleo-climatology, Sea Ice |
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. […]
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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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