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By P Gosselin on 9. April 2022
Share this…FacebookTwitterBy Die kalte Sonne The third part of the IPCC’s 6th Assessment Report has been published and the response to it varies widely. The BBC speaks of a “now or never moment.” The problem with such terms is that they unfortunately wear out very quickly because they are again more or less deadlines. The […]
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By P Gosselin on 2. March 2022
Share this…FacebookTwitter Dealing With Fear By Die kalte Sonne The focus is on unlikely risks, not on what’s realistic The articles about the Climate Status Report of the IPCC Working Group 2 could hardly be more different. The German evening news: The German government sees the new report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change […]
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By P Gosselin on 8. February 2022
Share this…FacebookTwitterToday we have an anecdotal example of how Germany’s mainstream media regularly misleads the public with manipulative crafted reporting. Nuclear power is hated and viewed as evil by the German media, so any possible trick to make it look bad gets the green light. This time the ZDF went a little too far. Their […]
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By P Gosselin on 3. October 2021
Share this…FacebookTwitterRecord Antarctic winter this year (April to September) at the Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station with average of -61.1 ° C, the coldest on record. Illustrative image: NASA. Hat-tip: Régis Crépet The previous record was -60.6°C in 1976. Operated by United States Antarctic Program, the South Pole station this past summer was “the coldest on […]
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By P Gosselin on 15. August 2020
Share this…FacebookTwitterCORRECTION: The chart below is misleading. The ARD has not changed its color scheme. The chart for 2009 shows the 3-day forecast, whose color coding according to ARD in fact has not changed. The 2019 is the forecast chart for the day, and this 1-day chart uses a different color code for temperature. It […]
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By P Gosselin on 12. August 2020
Share this…FacebookTwitter Climate alarmism dissenters getting increasingly vocal. Yesterday I reported on how science editor Axel Bojanowski at German national daily DIE WELT had written a commentary on the deceptive use of a faulty climate hockey stick by ZDF German broadcasting. Naturally whenever anything of the sort happens here in Germany, attack dog Stefan Rahmstorf […]
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By P Gosselin on 11. August 2020
Share this…FacebookTwitter ‘Die Welt’ science editor Axel Bojanowski (right) comments “This is how climate change is forged”. He had 4 leading scientists confirm the above hockey stick chart was dubious. Image: Die Welt , Source:: DeWikiMan/commons.wikimedia.org/CC BY-SA 4.0; Bojanowski/private ZDF weather moderator Özden Terli under fire: Did he deceive viewers on historical climate with sleight […]
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By P Gosselin on 2. June 2020
Share this…FacebookTwitterCORRECTION: The ARD has not changed its color scheme. The chart for 2009 shows the 3-day forecast, which according to ARD in fact has not changed. The 2019 is the forecast chart for the day, and this 1-day chart uses a different color code for temperature. It too has not changed since 2009. The […]
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By P Gosselin on 30. May 2020
Share this…FacebookTwitterOne complaint often heard within the scope of the climate debate is the very poor and misleading communication of science by the media to the public. Image: NASA Earth Observatory, public domain Warmer-than-normal early summer for northern hemisphere The latest example involves a summer weather update by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), called The […]
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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 […]
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By P Gosselin on 17. February 2020
Share this…FacebookTwitterIn Germany there have been rumors that the alleged Antarctic Seymour Island “all-time Antarctic record high” of 20.75°C set on February 9th is a hoax – originating by the AFP news agency and then spread by The Guardian. The alleged 20.75°C was supposedly logged by Brazilian scientists and was supposedly almost a full degree […]
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By P Gosselin on 8. February 2020
Share this…FacebookTwitterI feel obligated to upgrade a reader comment by Jim Lakely, Communications Director, The Heartland Institute, to a post. He says I was “being very unfair” yesterday. My main gripe is that these two very dishonest Correctiv “journalists” should have never been allowed to get as far as they did. Now we independent skeptics […]
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