By P Gosselin on 17. April 2012
German flagship news magazine Der Spiegel reports here on new satellite measurements of Himalayan glaciers. Not long ago IPCC scientists, among them Prof. Hans-Joachim Schellnhuber and train engineer Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, claimed with grave tones that the Himalayan glaciers would disappear by 2030. Hat-tip: a NTZ reader. That, among other errors, fantasies and exaggerations, turned out […]
Posted in Glaciers, Green Follies, IPCC, Models, Sea Levels |
By P Gosselin on 9. November 2010
Not long ago, the IPCC got one on the knuckles for grossly exaggerating Himalayan glacial ice melt, preposterously claiming the glaciers there would be gone by 2035. Now it comes to light that the IPCC has also grossly exaggerated the importance of glaciers as a source of fresh water supply for populations. This is what […]
Posted in Glaciers |
By P Gosselin on 27. August 2010
Ed Caryl has become a regular contributor here, and today he presents insights on the causes of glacial melt. Here he discusses how absorption of solar energy by soot and Black Carbon contribute significantly to glacial melting and that CO2 is a minor factor. Glaciers – The Dark Side. It’s Not the CO2 Carbon […]
Posted in Arctic, Pollution |
By Kenneth Richard on 30. September 2025
The mechanisms driving the meters-higher sea levels a few thousand years ago do not support claims that CO2 is a driver. A comprehensive analysis (Zhang et al., 2025) of the South China Sea region indicates warmer sea water was fundamentally responsible for sea levels that were, on average, 2-3 meters higher (and in some regions […]
Posted in Paleo-climatology, Sea Levels |
By Kenneth Richard on 22. September 2025
Throughout the last 10,000 years there have globally been much warmer and more extensive iceless periods than observed in the modern era. “There is reliable geological evidence that the temperature of most warming phases in the Holocene were globally higher or similar to that of the current warming period, Arctic sea ice was less extensive, […]
Posted in Paleo-climatology |
By Kenneth Richard on 2. September 2025
The evidence keeps piling up. Climate sensitivity to an increase in atmospheric CO2 is effectively zero. Scientists Hermann Harde and Michael Schnell published a paper in 2021 entitled “Verification of the Greenhouse Effect in the Laboratory.” The study alleged to experimentally determine the atmospheric CO2 greenhouse effect not only exists, but functions in concert with physical […]
Posted in Climate Sensitivity, CO2 and GHG |
By Kenneth Richard on 14. July 2025
The narrative that says relative sea level changes are driven by variations in atmospheric CO2 concentrations has taken another hit. Before relative sea level (RSL) declined to its present position over the last millennium, Africa’s Atlantic coast RSL ranged anywhere from 0.8 to 4 meters higher than today between 5000 and 1700 years ago (Vacchi […]
Posted in Paleo-climatology, Sea Levels |
By P Gosselin on 13. May 2025
By Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt If you look at the climate website of the Helmholtz Association with the ambitious name “Climate Facts” under Antarctica, you will read the following: “The important mainland ice of Antarctica is disappearing, and at an increasing rate”. According to the Helmholtz Association, this is of great significance for rising sea levels. […]
Posted in Antarctic, Arctic |
By P Gosselin on 9. April 2025
“Will dissuade people from climate doomism,” researcher hopes. Ice sheet runoff at the coast has much less impact on the AMOC than melting ice bergs ou to sea do. We hear it again and again: the melting ice in Greenland due to global warming will soon lead to a collapse of the Gulf Stream system, […]
Posted in Alarmism, Arctic |
By P Gosselin on 30. March 2025
“There’s a link between the climate crisis and earthquakes,” former German Green Party leader suggests. Image generated by Grok AI Germany’s online Apollo News here reports on what Germany’s former Green Party leader, Simone Peter, suggests a cause of the huge earthquake in Southeast Asia: climate change. And Europeans better worry about that, she adds! […]
Posted in Alarmism, Green Follies |
By Kenneth Richard on 13. March 2025
“Until now, the origin of the climate dynamics of the Central Andes during the last millennium has been speculative. On the basis of statistical evidence, we have identified solar variability as its origin.” – Schittek et al., 2025 In a new study, scientists have determined: 1) The Little Ice Age (LIA) was a global-scale cold […]
Posted in Little Ice Age, Medieval Warm Period, Paleo-climatology, Solar Sciences |
By P Gosselin on 2. March 2025
Forgotten aerial photos from 1937 have given researchers at the University of Copenhagen the most detailed picture of the ice evolution in East Antarctica to date. The results of a comprehensive analysis: The ice has remained stable and even grown slightly over almost a century. Hat-tip: Klimanachrichten Photo: Norwegian Polar Institute in Tromsø The area […]
Posted in Antarctic |
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