By Kenneth Richard on 10. January 2019
Authors 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, 2019 […]
Posted in CO2 and GHG, Cooling/Temperature, Oceans |
By Kenneth Richard on 8. November 2018
“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 it’s-worse-than-we-thought headlines […]
Posted in Activism, Alarmism, Oceans, Scepticism |
By P Gosselin on 12. September 2018
Gulf 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 due […]
Posted in Arctic, Oceans |
By Kenneth Richard on 23. August 2018
Coral 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 few […]
Posted in Alarmism, Natural Variability, Oceans |
By Kenneth Richard on 9. August 2018
Recent 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 conclusion […]
Posted in CO2 and GHG, Emissions, Oceans |
By P Gosselin on 8. August 2018
Using 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, a […]
Posted in Arctic, Oceans |
By Kenneth Richard on 20. July 2018
A 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 times […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Natural Variability, Oceans |
By P Gosselin on 15. July 2018
40-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 hurricanes […]
Posted in Arctic, Cooling/Temperature, Oceans, Sea Ice |
By P Gosselin on 14. July 2018
Another 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 a […]
Posted in IPCC, Natural Oceanic Oscillations, Oceans, Scepticism |
By P Gosselin on 13. July 2018
Despite 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 keep […]
Posted in Drought and Deserts, Medieval Warm Period, Natural Oceanic Oscillations, Natural Variability, Oceans |
By P Gosselin on 30. June 2018
The following Arctic sea ice area chart from the Bremerhaven-based Alfred-Wegener Institute shows a current sea ice area that is about 1 million square kilometers below the mean. Chart: Alfred Wegener Institute, University of Bremen. But don’t let the lower than normal sea ice area fool you into thinking the ice is disappearing, and that […]
Posted in Arctic, Oceans, Sea Ice |
By P Gosselin on 8. June 2018
Unusually cold tropical Atlantic could suppress hurricane activity this year, says Colorado State University hurricane expert Phillip Klotzbach. However cold tropical Atlantic sea surface temperatures don’t necessarily mean reduced hurricane risk. Colorado State University (CSU) hurricane expert Phillip Klotzback at Twitter commented that the tropical Atlantic sea surface temperatures are the 2nd coldest on record […]
Posted in Hurricanes/Tornados, Oceans |
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