By P Gosselin on 12. September 2010
The last two years of minimal solar activity did not prevent the earth from warming, and thus shows that the theory that the recent abnormally low solar activity could lead to a little ice age is false, so writes German FOCUS magazine. Online FOCUS magazine here reports on how solar activity has awoken, and thus the prospects […]
Posted in Solar Sciences |
By P Gosselin on 23. April 2024
Due to changing solar activity, the Earth is heading into a new Little Ice Age, according to Northumbria University astrophysicist Prof. Valentina Zharkova, Newcastle, Great Britain. “There’s nothing we can do about it.” This was reported by German online Report 24 here last week. NASA image of a blizzard. Image soutce: NASA, public domain. “This […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Solar |
By Kenneth Richard on 1. March 2024
Ice flowed out of the interior of the Greenland ice sheet at much stronger rates and with much greater variability than today throughout the Holocene – or until about 2,000 years ago. New research (Jansen et al., 2024) has determined Greenland’s ice streams vary according to internal processes, and not necessarily due to external changes […]
Posted in Arctic, Glaciers, Paleo-climatology |
By Kenneth Richard on 1. January 2024
Arctic regions with 6+ months of sea ice coverage today were ice-free nearly year-round 9,000 to 5,000 years ago (2°C warmer) and 130,000 to 115,000 years ago (7-8°C warmer). And yet polar bears survived these periods. Per a new study, today’s Scandinavian Arctic climate is so cold it is actually “comparable” to that of the […]
Posted in Arctic, Paleo-climatology, Sea Ice |
By P Gosselin on 26. August 2023
Germany’s so-called Energiewende is leading to lots of economic pain as energy prices are projected to keep rising until 2040. Some 20 years ago, the German Greens and Socialists, who were in power, promised green energies, primarily from wind and sun, would be cheap, plentiful and clean in the future. In 2004, then Environment Minister […]
Posted in Alternative Energy |
By P Gosselin on 9. August 2023
A Nature study finds there’s very little risk that global warming would lead to more methane escaping from the oceans into the atmosphere. Hat-tip: EIKE here. Global warming alarmists have often used the scenario of increased methane in the atmosphere accelerating warming and climatic change. But a recent study appearing in Nature, Negligible atmospheric release […]
Posted in Misc. |
By P Gosselin on 4. August 2023
Comparing July. 2023, data to the up to dat6e 1991-2020 reference period, July in Germany was practically dead normal in terms of temperature, sunshine and precipitation. But that’s not what the DWD national weather service wants the media and public to hear. The latter part of July in Germany was wet and cool, thus putting […]
Posted in Misc. |
By P Gosselin on 26. May 2023
Moving goalposts Sediment samples show Arctic was warmer 10,000 years ago and was ice free in the summertime. Moreover, the researchers say “it’s uncertain” if Arctic sea ice will disappear in the summertime before 2063. Image: NASA (public domain) The Aarhus University conducted a study that confirms sea ice disappeared from the Arctic during the summer […]
Posted in Misc. |
By P Gosselin on 19. February 2023
Green energies making life in Germany unaffordable…we’ll have no heat and lights and be happy We’ve all heard about the excruciatingly high energy prices Germans are forced to pay in the wake of the Energiewende (transition to green energies). Yet, due to the fact that my own household had made a contract in 2021 that […]
Posted in Misc. |
By P Gosselin on 4. January 2023
Hybrid vehicles prone to catch fire…difficult to extinguish Symbol image. It’s safe to say most people are compelled to buy an hybrid or electric car because they wish to reduce their impact on the environment and climate. Unfortunately, many don’t seem to be aware of an electric car’s poor lifetime carbon budget and wind up […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Fire |
By P Gosselin on 31. December 2022
Is Tesla falling apart? Elon Musk’s dream company is becoming everything except sweet… Electric cars are the technology of the future and by 2030, combustion engine cars won’t even be sold in some countries, we are told. Reality collides with dream Yet, the inconvenient economic and technical realities of electric cars refuse to go away: […]
Posted in Alternative Energy |
By P Gosselin on 6. November 2022
How was October in Germany in 2022? An extremely warm October, 2022, with record potential is how the German Weather Service describes the month from a weather and climate perspective. October 2022 was extremely warm in Germany. It is still open, as it is a matter of tenths of a degree, whether the previous record […]
Posted in Misc. |
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