Admin/04/11.04.2015 Forward! Forward! Let’s proceed to the largest and probably most senseless investment ever. Big money for climate science in sight! Paris will soon host a meeting (COP21) based on the Framework Convention on Climate Change, 1992 (UNFCCC), to replace the Kyoto Protocol (1997) that commit States to reduce greenhouse gas emission, to establish a Continue Reading
Not the Sun – The Ocean is the Driver.
Posted: 10 August 2015 The time may end soon eventually that the sun is responsible for significant climatic changes, as new research indicates: “Rising global temperatures since the industrial revolution cannot be attributed to increased solar activity”, reports Phys.org. (August 7, 2015); by concluding “The apparent upward trend of solar activity between the 18th century Continue Reading
California Drought and El Niño
Anthony Watts’ recent post (30. July 2015) cites a study by Andrey Savtchenko et al. (NASA) indicating “that El Niño contributes only six percent to California’s precipitation variability and is one factor among other, more random effects that influence how much rainfall the state receives. While it’s more likely El Niño increases precipitation in California, Continue Reading
Russian research assumes new ice age.
The other day Lomonosov Moscow State University got worldwide attention. By press release (16.July 2015) a new study was presented: “New Ice Age may begin by 2030”, assuming that: “The arrival of intense cold similar to the one raged during the “Little Ice Age”, which froze the world during the XVII century and in the Continue Reading
Dr. Tim Ball on: „Generalization, Specialization and Climatology”. Does it mean he explains what climate is?
Actually Tim Ball does not say what climate is, he only refers to climatology and climate science. Is that sufficient to understand, respectively enshrines a definition for the term “climate”. In a recent post at WUWT (29:June2015) that is what he said: Climatology is the study of weather patterns of a place or region, or Continue Reading
EXXON’s failure in climate affairs
EXXON’s failure in climate affairs [h/t Dave; Ref.: http://www.exxonmobilperspectives.com/2015/10/21/when-it-comes-to-climate-change-read-the-documents/ ] Excerpt EXXON’s fault is not strongly opposing a meaningless language with regard what ‘climate’ is, but accepting that. WMO/IPCC regard that “ Climate as the statistical description in terms of the mean and variability of relevant quantities over a period of time ranging from months Continue Reading
Hopeless! UK – Policy paper defines “climate change”, without saying what “climate” is!
A UK Policy paper (2012/2015),: “2010 to 2015 government policy: climate change international action”, assert in Annex 5 to provide a definition on “climate change” (Link and full text below), but instead speak about statistics related to components of the atmosphere, oceans, cryosphere, and land surface. Actually they say: “Climate is a statistical characteristic“. Such Continue Reading
The oceans have stripes
In the last post Willis Eschenbach was cited: “we can say nothing about whether the ocean might be warming, cooling, or standing still.” We doubt that it will be possible soon, as the “oceans have stripes”. A paper by Ethan Gutmann (2008) HERE explains: “These stripes are not visible without looking very closely, but they Continue Reading
The lid over oceans. Big volcanic eruptions.
Cause big volcanic eruptions a warmer or colder world? The lid over oceans! Post:: April 12, 2021 A volcanic eruption in Iceland hit the headlines a few weeks ago. After a break of 800 years, another volcano erupted on Reykjanes peninsula, just 20 miles south of Reykjavik, on 19th March 2021, at 20:45h. The event Continue Reading
Validation required! Climate impact of offshore wind turbines serious!
Offshore wind turbines “consume wind”, a force which is no longer available in the West Wind Drift to flow smoothly eastwards, explained a recent post (Link 1) with reference to work by Mark Z. Jacobson. Chien Wang and Ronald G Prinn (2011) found that offshore wind turbine installations cause a surface cooling over the installed offshore regions whereby Continue Reading