The oceans are still the greatest unknown in the climate change scenario. Oceans cover 71% of Earth and they contain 99.93% of the therma l energy (“heat”) on the surface. Is it a too big issue for increasing understanding the matter? Certainly if you lump everything together! Progress requires selection! Focus on smaller regions, distinction between the Continue Reading
Climate, a term ignored by the most prominent treaty, the UNFCCC-1992
Abstract: While the debate on the climatic change issue has reached unprecedented global prominence over the recent years, the content is often a fierce clash of opinions rather than a fruitful discussion. One reason could be the use of insufficiently defined terms in climatology. The key term ‘climate’ is used by lay persons, politics, and Continue Reading
BACK TO WATER – CHEERS
The most fascinating thing about the day on which the 1982 Law of the Sea Convention comes into force in a few months’ time will presumably be the fact that hardly anyone will be fascinated. While the Earth Summit forced 170 countries to fly their leaders and delegates to Rio in order to plan the planet’s Continue Reading
People defend your ‘climate’ – as you use it for 2000 years
Weather and climate are everyday slang words and misleading when used by science. By Dr.Arnd Bernaerts; Posted 22nd December 2019 During the last half of the Century the world has a big problem. Science abuses the laymen terms used since time immemorial: weather and climate. Every term is connected closer to every body than their Continue Reading
The incapability of science to define weather and climate undermines a useful debate.
By this failure, they lie to themselves and to the public Posted: July 20, 2019, by Dr. Arnd Bernaerts, Translation from www.ozeanklima.de, Amended: 25 July The English philosopher John Locke stated 350 years ago: The achievement of human knowledge is often hampered by the use of words without fixed meaning. This is now the case Continue Reading
Climate – A never ending Story?
Never for layman! – For science it should soon! Posted May 19, 2019 Let’s face it. Except on some religious and faith expressions, the word climate has managed to become the most magical common term in modern time. Our previous post explained, that the word has a several thousand year’s history, but, during the last Continue Reading
A Surprising Surge at Vavilov Ice Cap by Adam Voiland
The Arctic has still many secrets, one is the warming that started 1918 Post: April 08, 2019, with reprint from NASA Earth Observatory (below) Today the NASA Earth Observatory published an image-of-the-day the Vaviloc Ice Cap on an island in the Kara Sea. That is high in the North, at 79°30′N 97°00′E, and well in Continue Reading
How Climate gets Europe winter free
Do human activities at sea keep heavy cold at bay ? Posted: 15th March 2019 The same procedure as last year, when the winter 2017/18 was here discussed as well, basically with the same text. In Europe’s winter are getting warmer at a pace faster than global average (Details HERE). The current winter proves it Continue Reading
How big is the human influence on the low sea ice?
This winter sea ice is shockingly low, practically not existing in early March 2019. Why is there such a big difference between now and the first three war winters 1939/40ff. A previous post asked: “Europe winter free – Thank to off-shore windfarms” one year ago? Comparing the current sea ice conditions with those of long-term Continue Reading
Ocean warming dominates the energy change for roughly 93%
About the aspect: Dimensions matter Posting: February 25, 2919 It looks miraculous how easily some scientists show how ocean temperatures behave. But can it be taken seriously, if considering the vastness of the ocean, its low mean temperature (merely + 4°C), and its overriding impact on the global weather/climate system? Any research on global warming Continue Reading