By P Gosselin on 20. March 2021
Lazy, uncritical media again fail to adequately examine data to produce misleading “news” Tropical storm expert Dr. Ryan Maue analyzed data on whether or not climate change was leading the first named hurricane occurring to be earlier and earlier each year, thus meaning a longer hurricane season, as the media have recently claimed. Media falsehoods […]
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By P Gosselin on 4. December 2020
If CO2 is a factor in cyclone formation, like some scientists suggest, then the data tell us the life-giving gas is more a brake than an accelerator. There’s been lots of media hype about more tropical storms, which experts suggest are in part due to man-made Co2-induced global warming. Cut the CO2, and the storms […]
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By P Gosselin on 13. November 2020
First at Twitter, aspiring meteorologist Chris Martz posted a chart of tornado activity since 1954. Contrary to what climate alarmists have claimed, tornado frequency has not trended upwards: Hurricane claim involves “massive error” While on the topic of violent weather, the Washington Post recently published another alarmism-fraught article on the alleged increasing strength of hurricanes […]
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By P Gosselin on 1. August 2020
This year is the first time since 1951 the Pacific sees no typhoons in the month of July. Typhoons have seen downward trend since 1951. By Kirye and Pierre Gosselin Global warming alarmists like to claim that tropical storms will intensify and become more frequent unless people stop using fossil fuels. And recently these alarmists have […]
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By P Gosselin on 19. June 2020
According to global warming catastrophists, climate change is good for everything that’s bad, and bad for all that is good. So not surprisingly, many have been claiming for years that tornadoes will become ever stronger, more frequent and so devastating that we’ll be sorry for not listening. But as many of us are finding out, […]
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By P Gosselin on 10. January 2020
Climate alarmist scientists refuted Distinguished climate expert Roger Pielke Jr. tweeted on recent findings contradicting alarmist claims that tropical storms have slowed down (thus stick around longer and wreak more devastation) or are more frequent and intense. First, lets look at frequency and intensity. No detected upward intensity/frequency trend at all In an article appearing […]
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By P Gosselin on 9. January 2020
Though the media like to tell their audience that man-made climate change is leading to more extreme weather, the data don’t support it. In fact, one could easily argue that Japan’s climate is more agreeable today. By Kirye in Tokyo and Pierre Gosselin No trend in long-term annual precipitation Over the past 100 years, for […]
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By P Gosselin on 8. January 2020
Hat-tip: Die kalte Sonne In 2019, weather-related events in Germany caused insured damage to houses, household contents, commerce, industry and motor vehicles amounting to 3.2 billion euros. This is the result of preliminary figures published in a press release by the German Insurance Association (GDV). The level is thus at the previous year’s level and […]
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By P Gosselin on 20. October 2019
By Kirye In Japan, like many other places around the world, the media like to tell audiences how sea surface temperatures around Japan are rising due to man-made global warming. But, as is often the case, the data and facts tell the opposite story. What follows is a chart depicting sea surface temperatures around Japan. […]
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By P Gosselin on 14. August 2019
Recently NTZ published a post on a study which examined Vietnam tropical cyclone activity. The study found that for Vietnam “none of the meteorological trends such as frequency, central pressure, wind speed, or storm intensity show any significant increase or decrease over the last four decades.” But such a trend is not only seen for […]
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By P Gosselin on 10. August 2019
A new paper appearing in the journal Urban Climate titled “Statistics on typhoon landfalls in Vietnam: Can recent increases in economic damage be attributed to storm trends?“, authored by Hiroshi Takagi, shows that tropical storm claims often made by climate alarmists are more fiction than fact. Tropical storm. Image: NASA The paper concludes “it is […]
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By P Gosselin on 4. August 2019
I’ve always wondered why alarmists blame storms on climate change, but then go totally silent when storms are absent. Just weather? Yesterday at WeatherBELL Analytics Saturday Summary video, 40-year veteran meteorologist Joe Bastardi focused on global tropical storm activity. Western Pacific typhoon activity near record low On the western Pacific front, Bastardi says: “Normally this […]
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