By P Gosselin on 28. September 2016
Science journalist and geologist Axel Bojanowski at the online German Spiegel news weekly comments on the drive by activists to proclaim an “Anthropocene” age because they claim that man has so much altered the planet and is adding a new geological layer in doing so. It all stems from accusations that man has altered the surface […]
Posted in Activism, Tectonics/Volcanoes |
By P Gosselin on 19. June 2016
The correlation between seismic activity (geothermal flux) as a natural mechanism in the 1979 to 2015 global warming is stronger than the correlation with carbon dioxide during the same period. Hat-tip: Kenneth Richard Viterito, 2016 The Correlation Of Seismic Activity And Recent Global Warming The latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change states with high confidence […]
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By P Gosselin on 28. April 2016
Guest author Kenneth Richard examines the impacts of past volcanoes on climate. The findings will surely be controversial. (Title above is my own). -PG ============================================ Volcanic activity explains long-term climate change better than CO2 By Kenneth Richard Long-term (decadal and even centennial-scale) volcanic influence on climate has recently gained more and more attention in […]
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By Ed Caryl on 29. June 2015
By Ed Caryl In my last article, we discussed the Greenland ice core temperature record. In this article we will discuss the Greenland thermometer record. All the long record thermometer readings are from villages and stations on the coast. Some of these records go back to the early 1800’s, though GISTemp only posts records going […]
Posted in Arctic, Tectonics/Volcanoes |
By P Gosselin on 13. October 2014
Volcanic activity in Iceland has risen dramatically over the past few weeks. Yet, thankfully, the big eruption many feared never materialized and signs show that the pressure has been subsiding. Good news, many among us may think. Bárðarbunga Volcano, September 4, 2014. Picture taken by Peter Hartree , CC BY-SA 2.0. Yet science journalist and […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Tectonics/Volcanoes |
By P Gosselin on 3. June 2014
A Short History of the Human Race Part 1, The Late Pleistocene, A Story of Survival By Ed Caryl The story of the human race, Homo Sapiens, is really a story driven by climate, particularly temperatures, rainfall, and sea level. Most of that history has taken place in the last 20,000 years, since the Last […]
Posted in Agriculture, Cooling/Temperature, Drought and Deserts, Glaciers, Paleo-climatology, Tectonics/Volcanoes |
By P Gosselin on 14. February 2014
I don’t have any solid information on the Kelud volcano’s explosivity index, but preliminary indications show it may have a VEI of 3, possibly 4. The plume has reached 17 km. This would have very little impact on climate. But still, look for desperate warmists to seize upon it and to blame it for cooling over […]
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By P Gosselin on 28. December 2013
In Germany climate science used to be considered completely settled. Global temperatures had been pretty much steady for a thousand years before skyrocketing upwards as soon as man really started industrializing about 150 years ago, Germans were told again and again. But today Germany’s major media are beginning to realize that this view is perhaps quite naïve […]
Posted in Media / Bias, Paleo-climatology, Scepticism, Solar Sciences, Tectonics/Volcanoes |
By P Gosselin on 22. December 2013
Why The Hiatus? By Ed Caryl One of the climatologist’s explanations for the 17-year hiatus in global warming is the effect of aerosols. This explanation seems weak for the simple reason that we don’t see aerosols in this time period. We do see the impact of aerosols from volcanic activity in previous periods, however. Here […]
Posted in Misc., Models, Pollution, Tectonics/Volcanoes |
By P Gosselin on 29. July 2013
Hans Labohm sent an e-mail with sad news: Swiss scientist Peter A Ziegler has passed away. Professor Dr Dr Peter A. Ziegler, 1928 – 2013. Photo credit: Ziegler family archive, GNU Free Documentation License. Prof. Ziegler made a tremendous contribution to the fields of geology, energy, climate and our understanding of how the planet evolved. Arthur […]
Posted in Paleo-climatology, Scepticism, Tectonics/Volcanoes
By P Gosselin on 28. May 2012
Scientists keep finding major knowledge gaps in their “science-is-settled” field of climatology. The latest gap is revealed by an experiment by an international team of scientists that shows evidence of a new mechanism where light causes atmospheric aerosols to increase in size. Aerosol pollution over India and Bangladesh, 2001. (Photo source: NASA) The results of the research by […]
Posted in Models, Solar Sciences, Tectonics/Volcanoes |
By P Gosselin on 24. April 2012
By Ed Caryl The sun supplies about 1360 watts per square meter to the Earth as seen by satellites at the top of the atmosphere. This power varies by about 1.3 watts over the 11-year solar cycle. Energy is reflected back to space by clouds and the earth’s surface. Some energy is radiated to space […]
Posted in CO2 and GHG, Models, Oceans, Solar Sciences, Tectonics/Volcanoes |
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