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By P Gosselin on 22. September 2021
Share this…FacebookTwitterGerman Green Party chancellor candidate Annalena Baerbock warn sea levels will rise 7 meters by the year 2100… The German Greens, who weeks earlier surged to the No. 1 position in opinion polls, before falling back behind the socialists and conservatives, like to tell us that we have to follow the science when it […]
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By P Gosselin on 12. September 2021
Share this…FacebookTwitterNorwegian data show September minimum Arctic sea ice has risen over the past 10 years, contradicting earlier predictions of a death spiral By Kirye and Pierre Friday NTZ posted on Arctic sea ice extent. This year Arctic sea ice has just about reached its minimum. and so we plot the new data (see below). […]
Posted in Arctic, Stupid Predictions |
By Kenneth Richard on 8. April 2021
Share this…FacebookTwitterA new peer-reviewed paper published in the International Journal of Global Warming identifies 79 “apocalyptic” predictions formulated since 1970 by “researchers and activists” who “predict cataclysmic events” resulting from “catastrophic climate change.” Already 48 of these “truly apocalyptic forecasts” have failed. The other 31 are likely just as wrong, but the prediction end dates haven’t […]
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By P Gosselin on 19. February 2021
Share this…FacebookTwitterMany climate policies are based on scenarios generated by models. Depending on what these models churn out, actions and costly regulations get enacted to mitigate the worst consequences. So we hope that the modelers get it right. Unfortunately they are still shooting in the dark. Even short term models are failing miserably. TWC forecast […]
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By P Gosselin on 20. November 2020
Share this…FacebookTwitterDespite all the money-generating gloomy predictions of sinking islands, we reported in 2013 on how the Maldives was planning to build 30 new luxury hotels for future tourists. The resort island of Landaa Giraavaru (Baa atoll), photo by: Frédéric Ducarme – CC BY-SA 4.0. Underwater in 7 years? We recall how in 2012, the former President […]
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By P Gosselin on 15. November 2020
Share this…FacebookTwitterLast year Germany’s Potsdam Institute (PIK) boasted that it had a superior El Niño one-year forecasting model, claiming 80% certainty. Today, a year later, its forecast emerges totally wrong and the prestigious institute is left humiliated. Hat-tip: Snowfan In 2019, Germany’s Potsdam Climate Institute (PIK) boasted that it had a superior El Niño forecasting […]
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By P Gosselin on 25. July 2020
Share this…FacebookTwitter Image: NASA (public domain) By Die kalte Sonne Do you remember the wild story that cold winters in Central Europe are supposedly a consequence of the Arctic turbo-heating? A great sideshow hypothesis in those years when winters were suddenly colder than expected. A study by Dai & Song 2020 has now brought the idea […]
Posted in Arctic, Models, Sea Ice, Stupid Predictions |
By P Gosselin on 24. June 2020
Share this…FacebookTwitterNowadays as soon as there’s any hint of some heat in the forecast, the European press immediately jump to holler a “record hot” summer is in the pipeline. Brace yourselves! A total miss For example, just last week The Weather Channel Germany warned of 40°C temperatures for Germany, probably after some model results sniffed […]
Posted in Models, Stupid Predictions |
By P Gosselin on 13. June 2020
Share this…FacebookTwitterOn May 26, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) issued a press release warning of “another record-breaking heat season” for the northern hemisphere this summer, along with the potential of the COVID-19 pandemic amplifying the health risks of the hot weather. Media outlets picked up the WMO warnings and spread panic stories of mayhem and […]
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By P Gosselin on 7. June 2020
Share this…FacebookTwitterSo far no signs of another super hot-dry summer for Europe, which media have been alarming about. Veteran Swiss meteorologist Jörg Kachelmann tweeted the 45-day projections for Europe. In terms of precipitation, Europe saw drought conditions over the past two summers (2018 and 2019) and climate alarmists claimed this would be the new normal. […]
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By P Gosselin on 28. December 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterGerman site Alles Schall und Rauch (Everything is smoke and mirrors) here reminds us how back in 2004, “leading experts” warned the planet would likely be going down in flames by 2020! Forecast 2004 – Global doomsday by 2020 By Freeman (German text translated/edited by P Gosselin) Only three more days and the first […]
Posted in Alarmism, Stupid Predictions |
By P Gosselin on 28. May 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterSeasoned Swiss meteorologist calls out sloppy, click-baiting journalism peddling sensational AccuWeather scorcher summer forecast for Central Europe. Even weirder, AccuWeather is simultaneously predicting near record cold summer for Europe. Prominent Swiss meteorologist Jörg Kachelmann recently tweeted his reaction to an AccuWeather seasonal forecast reported by the Swiss online Tagesanzeiger here who warned Europe would […]
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