By Kenneth Richard on 27. January 2022
Media outlets are pressured by “green groups” to opportunistically claim every extreme weather event – including the ensuing damage – is caused by human greenhouse gas emissions. In recent decades there has been a deintensification of extreme weather (precipitation) events. Image Source: Koutsoyiannis, 2020 Deaths and property losses from extreme weather events have also been […]
Posted in Alarmism, We're To Blame, Weather |
By P Gosselin on 31. December 2021
Germany 2021 – “an average weather year” Despite drought-ending wet periods, Germany saw “an average weather year” in 2021, says the German DWD National Weather Service. Photo: P. Gosselin “Quite average” Offenbach, Germany, 30 December 2021 – The weather year 2021 was quite average in Germany overall, says. Tobias Fuchs, Climate Director of the German […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Weather |
By Kenneth Richard on 4. October 2021
A new study (Burkart et al., 2021) reports that for every 356 deaths attributable to warm weather across the globe there were 1,337 attributable to cold weather in 2019. The cold weather death attribution in 2019 was up from 1,021 (thousands) in 1990, a 24% increase. Warm weather deaths also rose – from 205 (thousands) […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Warming/CO2 Benefiting Earth, Weather |
By P Gosselin on 27. August 2021
Summer snows hit northern hemisphere… Many parts of Europe have not had much a of a real summer, having seen much cool and wet weather this year. Days of snow forecast down to 2000 meters in the Austrian Alps Today the Austrian site heute.de here reports “snow flakes have colored many mountain regions of Austria […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Weather |
By P Gosselin on 13. August 2021
Typhoon trends contradict alarmist clai9ms made by the IPCC’s latest report By Kirye and Pierre The latest IPCC AR6 report claims there is a likely link between extreme weather events and human activity, particular so-called greenhouse gas emissions. The media wasted no time in spreading panic and magnifying hysteria. But is it true that extreme […]
Posted in Hurricanes/Tornados, Weather |
By P Gosselin on 7. August 2021
From Die kalte Sonne The German Weather Service (DWD) published its weather summary for July 2021: July 2021 was significantly too wet, slightly too warm and lacked sunshine. […] In July, an average of about 110 liters per square meter (l/m²) fell nationwide and thus almost 40 percent more precipitation than the average of the […]
Posted in Drought and Deserts, Weather |
By P Gosselin on 31. July 2021
Cool and wet weather expected to plague Europe into August The previous three hot and dry European summers of 2018, 2019 and 2020 led “experts” to declare this was all the new normal for future – unless we surrender our freedom to regulatory masterminds. But no sooner was the ink of that declaration dry, did […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Misc., Weather |
By P Gosselin on 6. July 2021
A study of Czech extreme weather fatalities show that the trend has been “significantly falling”. Most weather extreme fatalities were related to cold…less than 2% “heat related”! German climate site Die kalte Sonne reports on on new study that looked at fatalities due to weather extremes in the European landlocked country of the Czech Republic. […]
Posted in Alarmism, Hurricanes/Tornados, Weather |
By Kenneth Richard on 10. June 2021
Scientists have calculated the years of life lost (YLL) attributed to exposure to “non-optimum” temperatures. It turns out that during the 2000s – supposedly the warmest years on record – people were still far more likely to die from exposure to cold temperatures than warm temperatures. The country with the largest human population has recently […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Warming/CO2 Benefiting Earth, Weather |
By P Gosselin on 23. May 2021
Our fellow Dutch climate blogger and friend Klimaatgek writes about how cold this spring has been in the Netherlands this year, namely April and May. Not long ago I reported how Germany had seen its fourth coldest April since recordings began in 1881. May so far hasn’t been warm either as the DWD German weather […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Weather |
By P Gosselin on 16. May 2021
Wet, cold…very little sunshine. That’s been the month of May so far for many parts of Europe The halfway point of May has been reached and Snowfan here has looked at the the mean temperature so far this month in Germany. Citing the German DWD national weather service, he reports: May in Germany so far […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Weather |
By Kenneth Richard on 15. April 2021
With data showing individual death risk from natural disasters (floods, droughts, hurricanes, tornadoes…) declined from 7.2 per million population in the 1990s to 5.6 in the 2010s, a new study takes aim at the IPCC’s “subjective opinion” labeling method in the manufacture of climate alarm. Per an exhaustive data analysis (Broccard, 2021), both the global-scale […]
Posted in Alarmism, Climate Politics, Drought and Deserts, Flood, Hurricanes/Tornados, IPCC, Weather |
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