Is Red Sea warming exceeding the global rate a matter of climate change? The warmest semi-enclosed sea in the Northern Hemisphere is more warming than the global average. The Red Sea basin experienced a rapid warming, at an overall rate of 0.17 ± 0.07 °C per decade, exceeding the global warming rate of 0.11°C per Continue Reading
Suicidal ignorance – Weather extremes in WWII
Completely irresponsible not to understand how the naval war caused an ice age winter 1939/40 Post 02 December 2017 The recent climate talks in Bonn (COP23) worked on the pledge to limit global warming below two degrees Celsius. The target is extreme naïve, as long as climate science is not able and willing to analyze Continue Reading
Warming & Climate – Confusing Terminology – Accidentally?
Judith Curry’s reflection: “Well, increasing temperatures say nothing about the causes of climate change.” Post 15th January 2018 The terminology climate science use is all but helpful. Is it accidentally or consciously misleading? There is no scientifically sustainable definition of weather, climate, and natural variability (MORE). Only when it comes to “warming”, we know that Continue Reading
Europe winter free – Thank to off-shore windfarms?
Climate Science ignorance helps to keep heavy cold at bay Post: 3rd February 2018, by Dr. Arnd Bernaerts It seems time to praise science, but only if you do not care and prefer warming. In Europe winter are getting warmer at a pace faster than global average. The current winter proves it again. Whereas North Continue Reading
Tim Ball’s lesson by court Judgement
Can the courts say something about global warming? Post by Dr. Arnd Bernaerts, 17th February 2018 Are jurists able to deliberate climate cases? That was a question asked by Ron Clutz in a recent post (22.Dec.2017): “How many other jurists have prepared themselves for this battleground?”, referring to a discussion by Jason Scott Johnson, et al; Continue Reading
The ‘Beast from the East’ – Off-Shore windfarms paves the way – Spring 2018
Europe’s cold snap inevitable man-made? Watch out! Post 24. February 2018 Recently we discussed here: “Europe winter free – Thanks to off-shore windfarms?”; showing that when reginal seas are cooled to ‘unusual levels’, Siberian icy cold air can easily travel to the Atlantic shore. Something similar just occurs right now outside. Don’t believe that this Continue Reading
Global Heat Account – Not without Shipping etc
Ships push more heat into than out of the ocean – A major source of global warming since industrialization. Post by Dr. Arnd Bernaerts, 10th March 2018 In a world which is getting steadily warmer it sound a good question to ask for the main source for the incremental rise in temperatures on earth. The Continue Reading
Europe’s Cold Spring – Man Made?
2nd Shivering in mid-March 2018 Posted: 17th March 2018 The Cold’s arrive again. Only three weeks ago our post “The ‘Beast from the East’ – Off-Shore windfarms pave the way” discussed the sudden cold snap in Europe, because it is highly possible that human activities at sea, contribute to unexpected low temperatures influx from the Continue Reading
Court hearing on global warming! Clarity by tutorial?
Ocean relevance was not an issue! Post: 30th March 2018 Anthropogenic global warming (AGW) has reached the court room. A lawsuits by State of California vs BP, Chevron and others, charge that oil products are a public nuisance (court documents). The Judge William Alsup ordered to held a Tutorial on 21st March 2018 , inter Continue Reading
Serious Terms? Climate Sensitivity? Natural Warming?
Bad Definitions? – Negligent climate science? Post: 15th April 2018; Reference: http://www.whatisclimate.com/ A clear language matters. Meaningful definitions are essential in science. Climatic science seems a hopeless case in this respect. They brought themselves to prominence three decades ago, but for them “Climate in a narrow sense is usually defined as the average weather”. It Continue Reading