By P Gosselin on 23. October 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitter The missing context: Climate change in the Mediterranean region By the Kalte Sonne (German text translated/edited by P. Gosselin) On October 11, 2019, Spiegel Online once again shined brilliantly parroting climate alarm. The German weekly news magazine could certainly now use their former science editor, Axel Bojanowski, who looked at climate science objectively. […]
Posted in Hockey Team, Natural Oceanic Oscillations, Oceans |
By P Gosselin on 30. July 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterTwo European professors recently wrote that the IPCC projections of future warming are based on huge unknowns, and do not take the past properly into account. This means that projections of the future of the world’s climate are unreliable, according to Samuel Furfari, Professor at the Free University of Brussels, and Henri Masson, Professor […]
Posted in Models, Oceans, Scepticism |
By Kenneth Richard on 13. June 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterDespite reports of relatively high regional rates of sea level rise, the Atlantic Coast of the United States has actually been expanding in recent decades after rapidly shrinking prior to the 1960s. A 2001 Salon magazine “terror in the skies” alarmism article featured a Dr. James Hansen late-1980s prediction that New York City’s West […]
Posted in Alarmism, Oceans, Sea Levels |
By P Gosselin on 10. June 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterNo Reason For Panic: The Oscillating Gulf Stream By Die kalte Sonne (German text translated/edited by P Gosselin) Image: NASA JPL (public domain) The Gulf Stream provides heating for Western Europe. Some climate activists paint horror scenarios on the wall that the Gulf Stream is slowing down or even stopping due to climate change […]
Posted in Arctic, Oceans |
By P Gosselin on 22. May 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterEarly May saw a surprise heavy snowfall across parts of central Europe and near record levels for that particular time of year up in the Alps. Such events do little to bolster public confidence in the claim the globe is warming. So leave it to the ultra-alarmist Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) […]
Posted in Activism, Hockey Team, Oceans |
By P Gosselin on 12. May 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterGulfstream “barely impacted” by Arctic ice melt By Die kalte Sonne (German text translated/edited by P Gosselin) Arctic ice melt barely impacting AMOC. Day After Tomorrow scenario remains fantasy, new study suggests. Figure: R. Curry, http://editors.eol.org/eoearth/wiki/File:OCP07_Fig-6.jpg; CC BY 3.0 Stefan Rahmstorf never tires of claiming the Gulf Stream system (AMOC, Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation) […]
Posted in Arctic, Oceans |
By P Gosselin on 5. April 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterA new paper published in the Journal of Weather and Climate Extremes by Dittus et al confirms what many skeptics has strongly suspected all along: There’s no trend in precipitation extremes and there isn’t much predictability either. Hat-tip: Reader Mary Brown. What follows is the paper’s abstract: The oceans are a well-known source […]
Posted in Natural Variability, Oceans |
By P Gosselin on 3. March 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterWhen a paper dealing with ocean heat absorption was found to have errors and in need of correction, the BBC reported it to the public. The German media, however, were perfectly content to leave its viewers and readers misinformed. Controversial paper was forced to be corrected. ==================================================== Dangerous Groupthink By Die kalte Sonne (German […]
Posted in Activism, Media / Bias, Oceans |
By Kenneth Richard on 18. February 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitter I. According to the IPCC, the true manifestation of “global warming” can almost exclusively (93%) be found in the oceans. The surface air or atmospheric heat changes amount to just 1% of the “global warming” representation. Image Source: IPCC (2013) II. In the first 2000 meters of the global ocean, there has only […]
Posted in Natural Variability, Oceans, Paleo-climatology, Scepticism |
By P Gosselin on 29. January 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterAt Die kalte Sonne site here, Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt and Frank Bosse published an analysis of Gebbie et al 2019. What follows is the translation in the English. ============================================================ Climate surprises A paper very worth reading from the USA from January 2019 in Science (Geoffrey Gebbie of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution/Peter Huybers of […]
Posted in Climate Sensitivity, Models, Oceans |
By Kenneth Richard on 10. January 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterAuthors of a new paper published in the journal Science (Gebbie and Huybers, 2019) insist “the deep ocean ultimately plays a leading role in the planetary heat budget.” The global deep ocean has much less heat today than it had during both the Medieval Warm Period and the Little Ice Age. Image Source: Gebbie and Huybers, […]
Posted in CO2 and GHG, Cooling/Temperature, Oceans |
By Kenneth Richard on 8. November 2018
Share this…FacebookTwitter“A number of biases internal and external to the scientific community contribute to perpetuating the perception of ocean calamities in the absence of robust evidence.” – Duarte et al., 2015 Image Source: Larcombe and Ridd, 2018 Within a matter of days after the press release for a newly published Nature paper spewed the usual […]
Posted in Activism, Alarmism, Oceans, Scepticism |
By P Gosselin on 12. September 2018
Share this…FacebookTwitterGulf Stream is doing fine: Potsdam Institute horror story suffers bitter setback By Dr. Sebastian Lüning and Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt (German text translated/edited by P Gosselin) The horror scenario from the movie The Day After Tomorrow keeps getting presented as a real plausible scenario for our future: Falling salt content of the upper Gulf Stream […]
Posted in Arctic, Oceans |
By Kenneth Richard on 23. August 2018
Share this…FacebookTwitterCoral reef bleaching events occur after exposure to unusually warm water temperatures or excessive sunlight. Activists claim that today’s coral bleaching events are not only unprecedented, but reefs will soon disappear. In contrast, scientists have determined that modern-day bleaching events are not unusual or unprecedented, but only a continuation of a naturally-occurring phenomenon. A […]
Posted in Alarmism, Natural Variability, Oceans |
By Kenneth Richard on 9. August 2018
Share this…FacebookTwitterRecent research has emphasized that “critical mysteries remain” in our ability to quantify or even understand carbon cycle processes as they relate to Earth’s water bodies. Observational constraints prevent the detection of an anthropogenic signal in ocean carbon uptake trends on decadal timescales (McKinley et al., 2017). Many new papers even contradict the IPCC-endorsed […]
Posted in CO2 and GHG, Emissions, Oceans |
By P Gosselin on 8. August 2018
Share this…FacebookTwitterUsing data from the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI), Japanese skeptic blogger Kirye just tweeted how Arctic sea ice volume has surged to the 3rd highest level in 16 years. Data source. Danish Meteorological Institute. Chart source: Kirye. Today, there’s not a climate ambulance chaser to be found in the Arctic. Some ten years ago, […]
Posted in Arctic, Oceans |
By Kenneth Richard on 20. July 2018
Share this…FacebookTwitterA new analysis of top-to-bottom (0-5000 m) ocean heat content changes since the mid-1990s reveals that (a) large regions of the global ocean have undergone cooling, and (b) the overall net temperature change for 1994-2013 was a modest 0.02°C. In contrast, during the Holocene the oceans naturally warmed at a rate and magnitude several […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Natural Variability, Oceans |
By P Gosselin on 15. July 2018
Share this…FacebookTwitter40-year veteran meteorologist Joe Bastardi at WeatherBell’s Saturday Summary shows how the Earth’s surface has cooled dramatically over the past three years and that Arctic sea ice is piling up. Hurricane threat to East Coast due to natural factors First at his most recent Saturday Summary, the 40-year meteorologist first warns that in-close developing […]
Posted in Arctic, Cooling/Temperature, Oceans, Sea Ice |
By P Gosselin on 14. July 2018
Share this…FacebookTwitterAnother paper titled The Solar Wind and Climate: Evaluating the Influence of the Solar Wind on Temperature and Teleconnection Patterns Using Correlation Maps lends great support to the claim that solar activity plays a major role in driving the Earth’s climate, and that CO2’s impact is being grossly overstated. Hat-tip: Kirye. The paper, authored by […]
Posted in IPCC, Natural Oceanic Oscillations, Oceans, Scepticism |
By P Gosselin on 13. July 2018
Share this…FacebookTwitterDespite hysterical headlines from the fake media claiming the weather is weirding out due to man-made climate change, recent studies show that it’s mostly superstition and that our modern climate in fact is well within the range of natural climate variability. If one really wants to understand today’s weather and climate, it is essential to […]
Posted in Drought and Deserts, Medieval Warm Period, Natural Oceanic Oscillations, Natural Variability, Oceans |
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