By P Gosselin on 23. February 2021
By Kirye (photo, right) and Pierre Why has January, the dead of winter, been cooling at so many locations over the recent decades? End of warming? Looking at the data for mean January temperature for a number of places shows something we would not expect in a warming world: the mid winter month has been […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature |
By P Gosselin on 15. August 2020
CORRECTION: The chart below is misleading. The ARD has not changed its color scheme. The chart for 2009 shows the 3-day forecast, whose color coding according to ARD in fact has not changed. The 2019 is the forecast chart for the day, and this 1-day chart uses a different color code for temperature. It too […]
Posted in Alarmism, Media / Bias |
By P Gosselin on 15. January 2020
At his German news commentary site, Gabor Steingart reports on the results of the latest ARD German public broadcasting trend analyses. Here it’s clear that German citizens are speaking loud and clear on the topic of climate protection: not so fast! Rush to Green Deal without support Lately the media and politicians have been pushing […]
Posted in Climate Politics, Cooling/Temperature |
By P Gosselin on 8. January 2020
Hat-tip: Die kalte Sonne In 2019, weather-related events in Germany caused insured damage to houses, household contents, commerce, industry and motor vehicles amounting to 3.2 billion euros. This is the result of preliminary figures published in a press release by the German Insurance Association (GDV). The level is thus at the previous year’s level and […]
Posted in Hurricanes/Tornados, Misc. |
By P Gosselin on 6. November 2019
New IPCC report under doubt: models out-of-control and a new hockey stick By Die kalte Sonne [German text translated/edited by P Gosselin] IPCC authors “politically handpicked” The IPCC climate status report serves as an important reference for climate policy and public discussion. However, very few people are aware that the authors of the report are […]
Posted in Models, Paleo-climatology |
By P Gosselin on 12. October 2019
It’s unusual to see rationality over climate change in the German media, but sometimes it manages to get through. In April this year I missed an important podcast interview with one of the world’s most prominent Sahara Desert researchers, geologist Dr. Stefan Kröpelin, by the Düsseldorf-based German daily, Rheinische Post. Image: University of Cologne The two […]
Posted in Alarmism, Drought and Deserts |
By Kenneth Richard on 12. September 2019
Since the 1980s, deaths attributable to excessive heat have declined, whereas deaths attributable to cold weather have not. Image Source: The Guardian Rising energy poverty with wind and solar energy penetration Heating a home in the United Kingdom became 63% more expensive in the last decade, and electricity prices have risen by 80% in Germany […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature |
By P Gosselin on 24. August 2019
Although Europe is expected to enjoy summerlike temperatures over the next few days, the globe as a whole is showing a number of large areas of cooling, the latest NCEP GFS forecast shows. Hat-tip: Snowfan here. The trend forecast for global 2m temperatures from August 24 to August 31, 2019 (forecast day 7 minus forecast […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Weather |
By P Gosselin on 23. August 2019
By Kirye and Pierre Gosselin It is a fact that land surface temperature records going back before 1900 globally are very few and sparse. Worldwide there are only 116 stations Version 3, unadjusted datasets that go all the way back to January 1880 – most of them are located in USA and Europe (northern hemisphere). […]
Posted in Antarctic, Cooling/Temperature, Data Manipulation |
By P Gosselin on 9. July 2019
Where have all the globe-trotting climate ambulance chasers gone? Well, they’re nowhere to be found in Europe nowadays. Hat-tip: Snowfan in Germany The reason is the unusual cold that has swept across a large swath of the continent and which has sent temperatures plummeting to near freezing. Icebox July: Parts of Central Europe saw ground […]
Posted in Arctic, Cooling/Temperature, Weather |
By P Gosselin on 7. July 2019
AMO cycle on the downward side: Red Sea to cool in the coming decades By Die kalte Sonne (German text translated by P Gosselin) Seven years ago, in our book “The Forgotten Sun”, we proposed using ocean cycles for medium-term forecasts. At the time, the climate establishment was strictly opposed to this. Today fortunately times […]
Posted in Misc. |
By P Gosselin on 15. June 2019
The weather sensitivity of activists By Frank Bosse and Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt (Translated/edited by P. Gosselin) Have you noticed it too? Over the last years it’s been climate change that is to blame for everything. Whether it’s storming outside or snowing, whether it’s not storming or not snowing, whether it’s thunderstorming with a lot of […]
Posted in Activism |
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