Germany's Compounding Energy Woes: Even Wind Power Industry Is "Sliding Into Crisis"

Germany’s Compounding Energy Woes: Even Wind Power Industry Is “Sliding Into Crisis”

Germany’s Blackout News here reports that not only is Germany’s energy supply faltering profoundly, but so is its wind industry as well, reporting  that it is “sliding into a crisis”.

Gloomy outlook also for Germany’s wind energy industry. Photo by P. Gosselin

Wind energy is supposed to step in and play a key role in supplying Germany with energy as other sources get cut off. But that too is not going to plan.

“Nordex is closing its plant in Rostock, Siemens Gamesa is sliding deep into the red and at Vestas the workforce is on strike,” reports Blackout News.

The German government aims to solve the country’s massive energy woes by doubling wind energy output over the next decade or so, but wind parks just aren’t getting built and orders are “collapsing sharply”, falling by “more than a third in the third quarter” at Siemens Gamesa year-on-year.

The result: thousands of lost jobs.

Blackout News cites “incalculable record raw material prices and supply chain problems” and a lack of profitability. Companies like Nordex are closing plants in Germany and moving production offshore to places like China.

The unplanned lack of wind energy expansion in combination with the massive supply stop of Russian natural gas is acting to further compound the German government’s problems as it struggles to keep the country supplied with energy while it suicidally pushes for the electrification of transportation and the closure of nuclear and coal power plants.

“Siemens Gamesa made a loss of almost one billion euros in the past fiscal year and sales fell by four percent,” according to Blackout News. “Vestas has already made a loss of just under one billion euros, compared with a profit of 135 million euros a year earlier.”

Government reforms have  to have “driven turbine manufacturers into cutthroat competition” and the German market “has collapsed in recent years,” Blackout News adds. “For the market leaders Vestas, Siemens Gamesa, Nordex and Enercon, it is becoming increasingly difficult to find financiers willing to invest in wind turbines.





Russian Temperature Records Are Not Cooperating With The CO2-Driven Climate Narrative

Two new studies indicate there has been no modern warming in the last centuries in western (Urals) and eastern (Kolyma) Russian mountain ranges.

A new 27,000-year temperature reconstruction assesses it was ~2.5 to 4.8°C warmer than today from 8.9-5.2 ka BP in the Ural Mountains, or when CO2 is said to have hovered in the 265 ppm range.

Summer temperatures were also warmer during the Medieval Warm Period, or from 1.2-0.7 ka BP. After a post-Medieval cool-down fostering in the Little Ice Age, the reconstructed record suggests there has been no warming since 0.5 cal ka BP, or for the last several centuries.

The smoothed temperature record shown in the study indicates there was only one brief period in the last 10,000 years that was not warmer than today.

“The reconstructed TJuly [8.9-5.2 cal ka BP] are the highest recorded, reaching up to 4.8 °C higher than today’s air temperature. … Present day TJuly have persisted since 0.5 cal ka BP.”

Image Source: Lenz et al., 2022

Another new temperature record from a northeastern Siberian mountain range, the Kolyma Lowlands, reports the winter and/or January temperatures from two weather stations reveal no obvious trends in the last 80 years, or during the period when CO2 has risen by about 100 ppm.

Image Source: Vasil’chuk and Budantseva, 2022

Green Fascism Looms Behind Veil Of Fake Benevolence…”Much More Radical Groups”

Greens: fascism looming behind a veil of fake benevolence

By Fred F. Mueller

In just a few years, an alarming new trend has gone viral. The “classic” green climate warriors like Greenpeace and the WWF are rapidly being outflanked and overtaken by much more radical groups who have given themselves frightening names such as “Extinction Rebellion” or “Last Generation”. Instead of taking to the streets simply placards and banners, these “activists” are swarming out in small groups armed with superglue, mashed potatoes or tomato soup. Their intention is to break the law in spectacular ways, without regard for the damages or consequences caused to others. Their indiscriminate attacks have targeted airports, artworks, museums, offices or the premises of ministries or administrations.

Claim the ends justify the means

But their favorite tactic is causing traffic jams by gluing themselves to the asphalt, forcing people to lose time and money or to even miss cancer treatments, court hearings and police deadlines for probation exemptions. In one recent case in Berlin, such a blockade had fatal consequences. After an accident, emergency rescue services could not reach a woman who had been caught under a truck in time. The victim suffered serious injuries before she died. Notwithstanding such events, the people causing the mayhem have shown no remorse and maintain that climate change dangers are so urgent that they are mandated to take action no matter how severely they interfere with other people’s lives.

Panic-driven defiance of democracy and the rule of law

Interestingly enough, quite a number of them are not typical troublemakers or hooligans, but rather ordinary citizens. A typical example is a grey-haired, 54-year-old married mother of two, working part-time for a minimal wage to help her family make ends meet. After travelling several hundred kilometers to glue herself on the asphalt in Berlin, she was arrested and recently put behind bars for the first time in her life. Far from being repentant, she read a long, well-prepared statement pleading for the judge to disregard the law and let her go without fine. In her view, she acted in despair, driven by the imminent danger the current human-induced climate change posed for mankind and the planet. Fighting against this disaster would justify carrying on her activities. In her final statement after receiving her verdict, she made it clear that the penalty would not deter her from continuing to undertake such actions – unless society acts against climate change.

Catholic priests joining “glue-ins”

“The whole earth is on fire. We are the first generation to start feeling the coming climate collapse and the last to still have a chance of doing something against it,” the woman claimed. This mass phenomenon underscores how fear of an allegedly imminent climate disaster has been whipped up to such an extent that we are currently seeing a panic-driven mass phenomenon. Ordinary people are now prepared to abandon any respect for democracy and the rule of law if the rest of society is not willing to align with their views. In other words, a rising fascism masked by the friendly faces of neighbors and sport club mates. Meanwhile, even some Catholic priests are joining these glue-ins.

The agitators

Normally, one would expect that in the exclusive world of high-level natural sciences, the involved experts would be restrained, well-tempered characters hardly inclined towards extremist views of societal issues. In other words, the likes of Lord Rayleigh, Nils Bohr, Pierre and Marie Curie or Johannes van der Waals. But these times seem to be long gone. If we look at what Swiss Professor Reto Knutti, atmosphere physicist at the renowned University ETH Zürich, he told the highly circulated tabloid “Sonntagszeitung” in an interview published on October 30, 2022, that the four main environmental threats are mankind, which is:

  • Stupid
  • Lazy
  • Egoistic
  • Short-sighted

This remark lays bare a shocking mindset of one of the most prominent European and international experts of climate alarmism. Holding posts in many high-level political institutions and academic circles, Knutti is a frequent interview partner for the media. He contributed to IPCC publications since 2001 and has been one of the lead authors of the IPCC Assessment Reports number 5 and 6. His H-index in the scientific world is 87, a value only attainable by “unparalleled personalities”.

Not even Stalinist leaders admitted to rejecting humanity

This statement from such a prominent person is really breathtaking. It might be difficult to find any politician or scientist of comparable significance who publicly admitted to such a damning stance concerning mankind as a whole. Neither fascist nor Stalinist leaders admitted to rejecting humanity in total, rather pretending to support “the masses” against a minority of oppressors.

In stark contrast, the “green” philosophy is fundamentally different in that is does not intend to lift humanity out of poverty. Rather it focuses on impoverishing it, preaching austerity and renunciation, stopping growth and the creation of wealth – at least for the masses. So no wonder Reto Knutti advocates harsh measures against citizens. Without much regard for the free will of the individual, people should be forced to renounce the use combustion-engine cars, and to pay much more to fly or to heat with affordable oil or gas.

Hardship, grim choices for the ordinary

Notwithstanding the hardships greens envision for ordinary people, allegedly green-minded entrepreneurs such as Elon Musk, whose high-priced battery electric vehicles are in line with green philosophy, have amassed incredible fortunes in a record time. Musk has become one of the richest men in the world, while millions of poor households face grim choices between eating and heating.

Highway to hell 

Unfortunately, Reto Knutti is not alone. We currently can admire a mass pow-wow of tens of thousands of climate fear spreaders of his caliber in Sharm El Sheikh. The UN Secretary-General does his best to instill fear and panic to countless millions of people with his sayings like: “We’re full throttle on the highway to hell”. Unfortunately, he’s right, but not because of climate change itself, but rather because of the climate change policies of our governments. Europe, hitherto a haven of financial and societal stability, is now experiencing double-digit inflation rates, skyrocketing energy prices and a looming tsunami of layoffs and company closures. And there is little hope that the coming years might bring about any significant relief.

The executors

In many western countries, the greens have taken control of at least a part of the levers of power und are eager to win control over the rest. Their aim is to exert full power over their citizens. Exploiting electronic communication is the name of their game. While complaining loudly about surveillance in China, they transform your smartphone into the eyes and ears of Big Brother. App after app is made available with the aim of nudging citizens to carry the device constantly with them as soon as they leave home or office. Take a flight? Your boarding card is on your smartphone. Have to prove that you received the latest Covid jab? The document is on your smartphone. Train ticket? On your smartphone, together with your museum ticket. Want to pay cashless in the supermarket? Use your smartphone. Pay for the parking? Just scan the QR-Code. Want to monitor your health and fitness activities? Use your smartphone, of course.

Big Brother via your mobile phone 

And what does your smartphone do? It collects and sends everything you do and every place where you go straight to Big Brother. One of the latest trends is to eliminate the use of cash, as one can see taking place in some Scandinavian countries. In the near future, one will not be able to spend the slightest amount of his money without some faceless authority knowing every detail of the transaction: Who to whom, when, where, and what for.

With the help of giant Artificial Intelligence (AI) computer programs, every aspect of your whereabouts and deeds are processed and a detailed analysis of your preferences and mindset is permanently updated and kept in giant computer memories.

Greens putting AI to use

Do you think China is a surveillance state with all these cameras at every street intersection? The people in charge of the Chinese secret service would pay handsomely in exchange for the sophisticated AI software and hardware gadgets that their Western counterparts have at their disposal. And the greens know how to put such instruments to use. In Germany, they are running key ministries such as the foreign ministry and the ministry of economics.

Have taken over key ministries

Another interesting aspect of the greens is their astonishing flexibility with respect to political principles. In their early years, they counted Yassir Arafat among their acquaintances and were foes of the military and especially the NATO alliance. Having morphed into staunch supporters of the latter, green foreign minister Annalena Baerbock and economic minister Robert Habeck did all they could to cut off Germany from cheap Russian pipeline gas in favor of US and Qatari LNG gas with a sixfold higher price. As a result, the German Government has to shell out at least 200 billion euros for this heating period alone to help people over the next cold months.

But even this enormous sum is nothing more than a short-term patch aimed at averting immediate revolts. With the relations with Russia in shambles and the 20 billion North Stream pipeline reduced to a heap of rusting scrap on the bottom of the Baltic Sea, how do they intend to help their population and their industry over the long-term disadvantages resulting from their feud with their key energy supplier?

Citizens’ views no longer matter

During an interview, Annalena Baerbock gave an answer highlighting her disdain for her own population when she told journalists that she would maintain her political course “no matter what my German voters think”. Any questions about the mindset of these “saviours of the planet”?

As a result of skyrocketing energy prices, German aluminum smelters are currently experiencing a 25% loss in sales. And don’t expect them to step down when anger grows. In stark contrast to the swift retreat of Liz Truss when she realized the swing in public mood after her gaffes, German greens can be expected to stay glued to their political posts, come hell or high water.

Fred F. Mueller

Also see:

Mankind is dumb, lazy, egoistic and shortsighted.

No matter what my German voters think





Veteran Chemical Engineer: CO2 Evaporation Reduction 11 Times Larger Global Warming Driver Than CO2

Solution: Increase Ocean Evaporation (<4% of CO2 Reduction Cost)

Guest poet by David R. Motes, November 10, 2022

Climate change is real and cycles over Earth’s geologic history.  We are in a global warming trend for the past 140+ years.  Contrary to prevailing climate theory, this man-made warming trend is primarily driven by a CO2 induced Evaporation Reduction (ER), not CO2 Green House Gas (GHG).   The CO2 driven ER is irrefutably an 11 factor larger Anthropogenic (man-made) Global Warming (AGW) driver than CO2 GHG.  AGW is indeed driven by CO2, just not CO2 GHG as theorized, but rather CO2 ER.  Per the chart below, the tropospheric relative humidity steadily decreased 0.13%/year since 1970, requiring a similar precipitation and ER, which generated the measured temperature increase.  The proposed ocean evaporation solution (shown in photo below) costs <4% of current GHG solutions and only ~2.4% of the US federal budget.  This paper only uses consensus scientific data, facts, and diagrams provided by various CO2 GHG proponent sites such as the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), NASA, NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency), and the IEA (International Energy Agency) to make the calculations presented.

Global relative humidity has fallen steadily across the troposphere since prior to 1970.  The photo on the right is a proposed floating ocean evaporator. 

The full 33-page paper pdf including all calculations, discussions, details, explanations, figures, references, a 2-page abstractand David’s email may be viewed or downloaded at docdroid.com.  The 5 main quantified facts along with a proposed new cost-effective solution follow:

1. Warming will reverse only when the above relative humidity decrease is reversed.

Relative humidity drives precipitation and evaporation which is responsible for absorption of 24% of the solar energy reaching the earth’s surface per the NOAA solar energy balance below. Evaporation transports this energy to the upper troposphere for radiation to space.  1. This ER radiative energy imbalance (watts/m2) from the above 0.13%/year relative humidity decline is calculated to be an 11 factor higher than the IPCC CO2 GHG energy imbalance.  Thus, the CO2 GHG energy imbalance is relatively small in comparison.  2. Even the fossil fuel energy release (watts/m2) is a 3.2 factor higher.  3. This same ER generates a calculated temperature rise 4.0 times more than the actual measured temperature rise using the IPCC Climate Sensitivity factor.  These quantitative comparisons between ER science and CO2 GHG theory are this paper’s most convincing calculations.

2. Above Evaporation Reduction is 81% generated by a CO2 induced 0.70%/year plant Water Use Efficiency (WUE) increase.

In the photosynthesis reaction, higher CO2 concentration allows plants to use less water (WUE increase), causing less evapotranspiration. Per the Hydrologic Balance above, a significant 15% of evaporation is from plant evapotranspiration.  Man generated the atmospheric CO2 increase, causing the WUE increase, yielding less evaporation, resulting in our global warming.

3. Plant biomass increases / decreases caused by solar elliptical cycles drove the below irrefutable 800k year geologic correlation between CO2 and temperature, not CO2 GHG. Temperature increases decreased plant biomass which increased CO2. As calculated in the linked paper, the solar elliptical cycles increased temperatures by 10oC, which caused a 46% humidity decrease, which reasonably caused the 33% plant biomass decrease, causing the measured CO2 increase from 180 to 280ppm.  Conversely, per the IPCC’s max factor, CO2 GHG contributed at most 17% of that 10oC temperature rise, and CO2 GHG theory has no plausible source for that CO2 increase.

 

4. Water vapor is 192 times stronger GHG than CO2 when you factor in both infrared absorbances and atmospheric concentrations. Yet, CO2 GHG proponents continue pushing CO2 causation rather than water vapor

5. Calculated energy and temperature impacts from CO2 GHG are much smaller than CO2 ER. An insignificant 123 ppm CO2 GHG increase did not increase temperatures by a significant 1.5 °C since the 1880 fossil fuel expansion. However, that same CO2 increase from 292 to 416 ppm (42% CO2 increase since 1880) did greatly increase photosynthesis and plant WUE which quantitatively drove the measured 1.5 °C AGW.

Moreover, CO2 GHG theory is a rather simplistic, unquantified, problematic theory that does not fit CO2 / temperature historical correlations and cannot be modeled directly using GHG infrared absorbances.  In the linked paper, 9 CO2 GHG theory problems are graphically presented and discussed in detail, all resolved by ER science.

The implementation advantages of our proposed ocean evaporation above over the prevailing CO2 emission reduction plans follow:

  1. Ocean evaporation uses proven, reliable technology that is substantially more cost effective: <4% of the current CO2 GHG solutions and only ~2.4% of the US federal budget. This cost comparison is this paper’s second most convincing calculation.
  2. Other advantages- Higher success probability, simpler, uses existing technology, no detrimental side effects, and more environmentally friendly.
  3. CO2 Emission reduction will certainly fail by focusing on the 1%/year annual contribution while completely ignoring the 99% existing atmospheric CO2, per the Carbon Mass Balance below.

Our paper focuses on engineering calculations, versus the hereto date presentation of GHG data and theories.  The authors calculated and quantified the many impacts using peer-reviewed consensus scientific data and then summarized these facts in a logical explanation in the link provided below.  This fresh chemical engineering perspective from a high-altitude sheds new quantified insights on the old climate change subject.  These engineering calculations identify the new root cause of AGW, revealing a much more cost-effective and greener solution (a paradigm shift).  Again, click the 33-page paper pdf at docdroid.com for all the details.

David Motes is a 44-year professional chemical engineer residing in Houston, TX.





Now It’s Claimed Anthropogenic Global Warming Is Driven By Aerosol Emissions Reductions, Not CO2

An increase in effective radiative forcing from human activity is now said to be mostly driven by a decline in aerosol pollution, superseding the effects of CO2 emissions.

The majority of an alleged acceleration in anthropogenic global warming in the 21st century “is driven by changes in the the aerosol [effective radiative forcing] trend, due to aerosol emissions reductions” (Jenkins et al., 2022).

Image Source: Jenkins et al., 2022

This is supported by other studies reporting a direct radiative forcing increase of +1.59 W/m² over the US from 1996-2019 and +2.0 W/m² impact over Europe from 1980-2018 (Augustine and Hodges, 2021, Kejna et al., 2021) due to these countries reducing their sulphate aerosol emissions through policy initiatives.

Image Source: Augustine and Hodges and Kejna et al., 2021

Considering it reportedly takes 10 years and 22 ppm for CO2 to exert a total surface forcing impact of just 0.2 W/m², reducing our aerosol emissions has a much larger impact on Earth’s radiation budget than reducing our CO2 emissions.

So if we want to more efficiently (and with far less cost) reduce global warming, apparently what we need to do is increase our aerosol pollution rates.

The science is now settled. Right?

Bicyclist Dies After Emergency Rescue Vehicle Delayed By “Last Generation” Protesters

From Die kalte Sonne 

Background here.

Sad but true, the cyclist who ended up under a concrete truck and whose rescue was delayed by a traffic jam caused by the “Last Generation” is now brain dead [the cyclist in fact died after this posting]. This is reported by the Berliner Zeitung. The legal questions are likely to arise anew.

In the social media, supporters of the activists blame the danger to cyclists on trucks and the lack of rescue lanes. However, no car driver drives off with the firm intention of causing a traffic jam. The activists however don’t take this into consideration. It remains to be seen whether the “Last Generation” activists continue to carry out this endangerment to third parties. The bad PR, which their actions have already had to date, have been topped by the recent events once again.

What follows is a reader’s letter by Dipl. Ing. Martin Krohn:

Ref: Actions by Last Generation

Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,

In the post of November 2, 2022, it was reported about an action of the “Last Generation”, which has spread through the media in recent days. The activists had blocked a road by once again sticking themselves  to the asphalt. Nearby a serious accident took place: a woman on a bicycle ended up under a concrete truck and was trapped. A special rescue vehicle, which was on its way to the accident site to free the woman, got obstructed by the activists which posed a danger to the life of the woman or a greater risk for permanent damage.

Thus, these actions have once again crossed a line. The obstruction of rescue vehicles had probably already occurred several times, but not with this degree of explosiveness. And then still one activist issued a rallying cry with respect to the accident: “Climate fight, not climate cuddling” is insolence not to be surpassed.

I had seen several years ago, after a demonstration of Fridays for Future, a sign with the inscription ‘No tolerance for climate ignorance’. I wondered back then just how far this would go. Is the latest street blockade the answer? And will it cause the activists to pause and think? judging from the recent rallying cry, I rather don’t think so.

I have since heard that obstructing emergency vehicles is a criminal offense and can be punished with one year imprisonment. I think that’s ridiculous. The penalties should be much higher. What if the woman had died or suffered permanent damage. Can that be compensated with one year of imprisonment?

Many greetings,

Dipl. Ing. Martin Krohn





Belief Of Steady 5300 Year Climate Unravels: Ötzi Got Exposed “Again and Again”

Changing Holocene climate…was never steady

Researchers say the 5300 year old Ötzi corpse didn’t remain covered by ice 5300 years long, but in fact was exposed again and again!

Figure 1. Orthophoto of the findspot in the Tisenjoch (1) and other locations mentioned in the text (2: Kesselwandferner, 3: Weißseespitze, 4: Hintereisferner, 5: Langgrubenjoch, 6: Gurgler Eisjoch). Orthophoto: Land Tirol – data.tirol.gv.at, attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)/geoland.at – Creative Commons Namensnennung 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Source: The Holocene journal. 

Lots of experts believe that Ötzi, the corpse found at the Tisenjoch in the Alps in 1991, got uncovered for the first time in 5300 years due to the ice melting – from 20th century manmade global warming.

However, glacial archaeologists from Norway, Austria and Switzerland now believe Ötzi had been exposed “several times in the past 5300 years” and have published their findings in the journal The Holocene. This is reported in an article appearing here in the Swiss online NZZ.

In general, Ötzi researchers are quite sure about what had led to the ancient traveler’s death, but little was ever asked about what happened after he died. It was simply assumed that he stayed covered by ice 5300 years long – until modern manmade global warming caused the ice to melt and expose the body for the first time, allowing it to be discovered in 1991 in a hollow at an altitude of 3210 meters. Freed for the first time by global warming!

But now a team of glacial archaeologists think the body must have slid into the hollow afterwards and did not spend the millennia constantly covered by the ice, “but lay exposed again and again”.

“Ötzi’s body and its equipment are not the pristine time capsule they are portrayed as,” reports the NZZ.

This means the climate cycled between warm and cold phases during these 5000 years and the melting like that of today happened again and again. The climate had not been “more or less constant” like many researchers like to suggest.

The authors of the new study conclude that Ötzi likely died on the snow at a higher elevation, and then afterwards his corpse and equipment slid into the hollow. The ice field formed was “relatively small and thin and therefore probably melted several times”.

“The state of preservation also speaks against Ötzi being a time capsule from the ice. Twenty years ago, examinations of hairline cracks in the skull already showed that the corpse had repeatedly thawed and refrozen, reports the NZZ.

Also: “The part of the fur coat lying under the body was much better preserved than the rest, and on the back of Ötzi’s head – he was lying face down – the skin had disappeared. This also indicates that the body was exposed several times.”

Moreover, if Ötzi had actually been under the ice for 5300 years, nothing younger than the corpse should have been found on the floor of the hollow. But that is not the case, as a large number of much younger articles like plants, animal droppings, feathers and a piece of wood were found there as well, meaning the ice had to have melted again and again.

“Thus, even thousands of years after Ötzi’s death, material landed in the hollow again and again; consequently, it was not permanently covered by ice.”





New Paradigm-Shifting Study Finds Annual CO2 Flux Is Driven By Temperature-Dependent Sea Ice Flux

Annual carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4) change rates lag behind changes in sea ice extent by 7 months and 5 months, respectively. This robust correlation is consistent with the conclusion that CO2 (and CH4) changes are responsive to temperature, not the other way around.

It is commonly believed that the annual “squiggle” of the Mauna Loa CO2 cycle variations are driven by hemispheric seasonal contrasts in terrestrial photosynthesis.

But scientists (Hambler and Henderson, 2022) instead find it is variation high latitude temperatures affecting sea ice extent changes that dominate as drivers of the CO2 (and methane) annual fluxes, not photosynthesis.

They affirm temperature (T) changes lead CO2 change rates by about 7-10 months, suggesting the causality direction is T→CO2, and not CO2→T.

Temperature also drives sea ice peak melt vs. accumulation rates. This cause-effect directionality can also be clearly seen in analyses of sea ice flux vs. annual CO2 rate changes.

“The phase relationship between temperature and carbon dioxide has been examined to help elucidate the possible direction of causality and the lags we find between timeseries are consistent with carbon dioxide being the response variable.”
“Carbon dioxide is very strongly correlated with sea ice dynamics, with the carbon dioxide rate at Mauna Loa lagging sea ice extent rate by 7 months. Methane is very strongly correlated with sea ice dynamics, with the global (and Mauna Loa) methane rate lagging sea ice extent rate by 5 months. Sea ice melt rate peaks in very tight synchrony with temperature in each Hemisphere.”

Image Source: Hambler and Henderson, 2022

Germany Sees Record Warm October, Helps Ease Heating Costs And Gas Shortage

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 from 2001 with a mean temperature of 12.5 ° Celsius will be set or exceeded. Uwe Kirsche, press spokesman for the German Meteorological Service (DWD): ‘We have experienced an October with temperatures more in line with May, which is typical in this country. Again, a glimpse into our climate future.’

From the middle of the month, October sent summery warmth once again, especially to the south of the country. Only sporadic low pressure systems moved in, which also brought heavy precipitation and thunderstorms. Characteristic to the season, the weather chronology also included dense morning fog, but only rarely frosty early temperatures. This is reported by the DWD after initial evaluations of the results of its approximately 2,000 measuring stations.”

The German DWD weather service is still working with two reference periods, although one is no longer valid. However, October was warmer than the respective 30-year average in both comparisons. The difference is 0.4 degrees Celsius, depending on which period is used.

The average temperature in October was 12.5 degrees Celsius (°C), 3.5 degrees above the value of the internationally valid reference period 1961 – 1990. Compared to the current and warmer period 1991 – 2020, the deviation was +3.1 degrees. Completely contrary to the otherwise typical temperature course of October, the month began comparatively cool and the highest values  reached especially in the south only at the end of the month. In Müllheim, southwest of Freiburg im Breisgau, the mercury climbed the most nationwide with 28.7°C on the 28th. Wielenbach, west of Lake Starnberg, as well as Munich city experienced exceptional four summer days, i.e. a temperature maximum of ≥ 25°C. In some federal states and at numerous stations, old temperature records were surpassed. The lowest October value was reported by Karlshagen, east of Greifswald, on the 20th with -2.3°C.”

The Economics Minister may well have enjoyed the month. He already orated before the autumn that Germany would get through the gas crisis with a little weather luck. October 2022 is likely to have had an impact on the level of heating costs.





Tokyo Mean October Mean Temperature Has Been Falling For Decades

Charts produced by Kirye

This October, according to the (untampered) data from the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA), the mean temperature in Tokyo came in at 17.2°C, making it it one of the coolest over the past decades:

Data source: JMA

More significant, however, is the trend over the past 33 years – it’s been downward. As we reported last month, the Tokyo mean temperature trend situation for September is similar – no warming.

Hachijojima island

Tokyo’s rural island of Hachijojima is located some 287 km out in the Pacific, thus making it rather free of massive urban heat island effects. The island saw an October, 2022, mean temperature of 20.9°C:

Data source: JMA

Going back to 1987, the October mean temperature trend has been slightly downward as well. No sign of warming.

NASA “adjustments”

Yet, when you compare Hachijojima JMA annual temperature data to that from NASA unadjusted and then its homogenized data going all the way back to 1950, readers can get a good idea where all the “warming” is really coming from:

There was no warming, until that is NASA tampered with the data to produce a “warming” trend. NASA’s trend starts to look like forgery and fakery.





Dramatic Cooling And Recent Ice Shelf Advance Over The Antarctic Peninsula

Scientists struggle to keep their stories straight regarding the anthropogenic CO2 impact on polar climates.

It is claimed that anthropogenic CO2 emissions from burning fossil fuels are responsible for amplifying warming (“polar amplification“) and ice melt in polar climates, consistent with pronouncements pertaining to anthropogenic global warming.

However, Antarctica’s Larsen Ice Shelf station indicates a massive cooling trend, -1.1°C per decade, has been ongoing since the late 1990s (Bozkurt et al., 2020).

Image Source: Bozkurt et al., 2020

About 85% of the East Antarctic Peninsula ice sheet has sustained “uninterrupted advance” since 2003 (Christie et al., 2022).

Image Source: Christie et al., 2022

East and West Antarctica have been significantly cooling since 1979. Overall cooling rates of -0.7°C and -0.42°C per decade from 1979 to 2018 indicate -2.8°C and -1.68°C total cooling, respectively, for the mainland continent during these decades (Zhu et al., 2021).

The Antarctic Peninsula only began significant cooling in the 1990s (Oliva et al., 2017), and thus the 21st century cooling has not yet overtaken or reversed the overall trend since 1979.

Image Source: Zhu et al., 2021

Other scientists suggest rising CO2 leads to cooling, not warming, in Antarctica. The CO2 greenhouse effect forcing is also “comparatively weak”, or close to 0 W/m², for Greenland (Schmithüsen et al., 2015). 

Image Source: Schmithüsen et al., 2015

None of these trends or attributions are consistent with claims of anthropogenic global warming or polar amplification as a consequence of rising CO2 emissions.

Study: Incidence Of Acute Cardiac Involvement After mRNA Booster “800 Times Higher”

“Alarming: 1 in 35 booster patients has lab values indicating acute heart damage.”

That’s the headline of an article by at transparenztest.de

The finding is based on results by a Swiss observational study by Prof. Christian Eugen Mueller published here.

1 of 35 individuals showed laboratory values indicative of acute cardiac injury after booster mRNA vaccination.

Researchers led by Prof. Christian Eugen Müller of the University Hospital Basel investigated the extent to which cardiac involvement occurs after mRNA booster vaccinations. Heart damage from the mRNA booster shots appears to be a much higher risk than previously thought, the recent findings show.

777 employees of Basel University Hospital, median age 37 years and 69% female, had received booster vaccination. After 3 days, their troponin levels (hs-cTnT) were measured. Troponin is a laboratory value that indicates acute damage to the heart.

Much higher in women

“40 subjects showed elevated troponin levels. In 18 of these cases, other causes were present. The remaining 22 cases corresponded to an incidence of 2.8%. The incidence in women was 3.7% and in men only 0.8%,” reports transparenztest.de. “Most of the subjects had no cardiovascular history. Three days after vaccination, their troponin levels (hs-cTnT) were measured to detect cardiac damage. If levels were elevated, another hs-cTnT measurement and imaging examination followed the next day.”

The surprising results were presented at the 2022 ESC Congress.

It had been previously suggested that such complications were very rare, with an incidence in the range of only 0.0035%. But the new study results suggest it’s far worse.

800 times higher than previously shown

According to Prof. Christian Müller: “The study confirms the hypothesis that the incidence of acute cardiac involvement is higher than thought. At 2.8% it was 800 times higher than in passive observational studies. But now that we need annual booster vaccinations, there could be a lot of vaccine-related cardiac involvement.”

Prof. Christian Müller adds. “From day 3 to day 4, we observed a clear drop in troponin in almost all participants, indicating that this was an acute problem.”

“Alarmingly high”

“The incidence of 2.8% of acute cardiac involvement is alarmingly high,” transparenztest.de warns.  “Thus, 1 out of 35 boostered persons shows such values shortly after the mRNA vaccination. Converted, one would have e.g. with 350,000 booster vaccinations consequently 10,000 persons or with 3.5 million 100,000 persons, who show such laboratory values of an acute heart damage.”

Also see: Dr. John Campbell 





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