Nothing To Sea Here Folks transcript Narrator: One of the scariest talking points about global warming is sea level rise. Climate alarmists are warning that coastal areas, seaside landmarks and...
...small, as we’ve been showing in our Sea Level Check series, and also, very variable. And where cities are seriously threatened, it has nothing to do with sea-level rise at...
...“The claim: Post implies falling sea level in Norway shows global sea levels aren’t rising”. Implies? You’re fact-checking the implication not the facts? Strange. Why not call it “implication check”...
...of global sea level rise and continuing advances in technology make adaptation to future sea level rise eminently possible.” We’ll start believing there’s a sea level crisis when the activists...
...than sea-level rise in the Netherlands, pushing the country even further below sea level. A temperature rise of 2 degrees and record-breaking summers, has lowered groundwater levels and drained the...
According to Euronews.green “Rising sea levels and climate change mean London’s flood defences are due for an upgrade”. Boo. Rising sea levels and climate change. A double-whammy. But here’s the...
...build a dyke. And be glad you don’t live in an era of rapid sea level rise. The studies Richard reviews look at relative sea-level changes around Japan, New Zealand,...
...story “especially with rising sea levels”. The nearest tide gauge to Miami shows local sea level rising by just under 3 mm per year. Which is under a foot per...
Over the years we have had some fun taking viewers around the world in our Sea Level Check series. Now you too can get in on the action by going...
...listening carefully to the joke. Thus “Thresholds of mangrove survival under rapid sea level rise” warns us that mangroves cannot cope with the supposed recent doubling in sea-level rise although...
We are told to panic about the modern pace of sea level rise, which is at most about two to three millimeters per year averaged globally. But thanks to NoTricksZone...
...the 1970s. Maybe you’re just living in a swamp. The sea level record goes back to 1910 and it tells a simple story: Sea levels rose up to the late...
As our “CDN by the Sea” tour has shown, the notion of relentless, even accelerating sea level rise due to climate change is highly suspicious since the seas are rising...
...climate models show lake levels could fall by one metre or more over the next 50 years.” 2007: “Global warming may drop Great Lakes water levels” “Water levels could take...
...who’s checking sources, growling: “The rising sea is becoming harder to ignore. Scientists tracking ocean levels found that 2024 saw an unexpected surge in sea level rise. The rapid increase...
...gauge data is maintained by the Permanent Service for Mean Sea Level in Liverpool, England, and it too is all available online. According to the Government’s 2001 pamphlet, sea levels...
Sea level rise is not the same everywhere in the world. A glance at the world sea level rise map maintained by NOAA shows some places rising slowly, some fast...
...food, or more likely sea cucumber food. Especially as it is on a coastal plain with an average elevation of fully 2 metres above sea level, though it does have...
...above 2013 levels by 2070, the report said.” Might. Then again, might not. Boston’s sea level record is online at the Permanent Service for Mean Sea Level website. And sure...
...climate change, when researchers looked for evidence tying global patterns of sea-level change to greenhouse gas forcing, answer came there none. One study concluded the sea-level trend is “mainly due...
...far on the government’s predictions, we’re zero for two. Narrator: Rising BC Sea Levels. John Robson: Global tide gauge data is maintained by the Permanent Service for Mean Sea Level...
...observation and modelling studies.” From an observational standpoint, however, most studies on sea ice extent have been conducted on high latitude frozen seas. Long-term changes in the variability of sea...
...sea level rise”. Well, we went to Judith Curry. Specifically her November 2018 “Special Report” on “Sea Level and Climate Change”. Which tells us that the situation is complex without...
...resulting in a surrounding seawater pH of 8.1. It turns out the extra CO2/acidification is a positive benefit for the seaweed. Paper Reviewed: Kumar, A., Buia, M.C., Palumbo, A., Mohany,...
...higher than it is now. Even with modern industry’s contribution to CO2 levels, by geological standards, the level of atmospheric CO2 today is close to being as low as it...
It’s always worse than expected in the world of climate research. But in the case of sea-level rise it’s the models that are turning out to be worse than expected,...
...sea level increases predicted by the IPCC would cause major problems, if they actually happened. Turns out (stop us if you’ve heard this before) the models were wrong. While sea...
...them, it’s amazing how far the conventional wisdom is from the facts. Including on Chapter 8’s topic of sea levels. After reviewing some geological-scale evidence of sea level variability (which...
The Dutch know a great deal about living with rising seas. Since they managed long ago to carve out an existence below sea level by building dykes and canal drainage...
...a famous graph summarizing the progress of sea level change over the past 24,000 years. And despite the fact that it shows, inconveniently, that most sea level rise happened a...
...was built, sitting right at sea level in 1914 as it is today. Sea level measurement is a tricky thing because the Earth’s surface is not rigid and immobile. The...
...disastrous melting/destabilization of the Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS), which melting is subsequently projected to raise global sea level by several meters. But how likely is this scenario to occur? And...
...sea rises. And the most stable islands tend to be the largest ones where humans live. Seems the only thing washing away is the myth that rising seas will drown...
...levels have not risen by the thermal expansion effect or the melting of ice,” and that (9,10) “true measurements conflict with theoretically derived ocean temperatures and sea level changes.” Thus...
...argue, as they put it in the Guardian, that on three key environmental topics, “acid rain, ozone depletion and sea level rise predictions from the west Antarctic ice sheet” the...
...Arctic Ice Could Slow Sea-Level Rise”. No they couldn’t. The seas have been rising at essentially the same pace for over 6,000 years, since the end of the big pulse...
News stories wail that “Climate change wiping out billions of sea stars: study”. Except they then change gears: “Sea stars in the waters off British Columbia that died off in...
...sea ice trends. The only negative trend witnessed is in the Bellingshausen-Amundsen Seas, where trends have become less negative in recent years due to advancements in sea ice extent occurring...
...something changed. The level of CO2 in the air has been steadily declining, especially in the last 65 million years, and we’re now in a period of severely low CO2...
...guess what, “Global sea-level rise associated with the possible collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet has been significantly underestimated in previous studies, meaning the sea level in a warming...
...crustal deformation in the North Sea and Wadden Sea, thus revealing the actual contribution of current climate change to the regional relative sea-level changes.” Which we don’t currently know. Surprise!...
...ahead of projected sea-level rise.” Obviously having the place you live sink into the sea is bad regardless of how much the sea is rising or why. But here’s a...
...be one population in which changes in sea ice alone have not accurately predicted population dynamics. Despite substantial declines in summer sea ice in the Chukchi Sea between the 1980s...
It’s not that sea level rise (SLR) itself is getting worse. Probably not, at least. What is getting worse are the excuses for government experts continuing promoting extreme high end...
...rising sea levels will only be amplified by the moon’s gravitational pull causing persistent high tides.” Now look. Sea levels are rising. They have been since the end of the...
...thinks so, with the unsubtle headlines “Ice shelf holding back keystone Antarctic glacier within years of failure/ Breakup of the Thwaites eastern shelf will ramp up sea level rise”. No...
...decades (which is quite a lot considering the islands are only a few meters above sea level to begin with). But wait, don't these authors know rising sea levels will...
...bit of fun ourselves on the sea level topic. And evidently Humlum does too because he compares simple extrapolation of past trends in Scandinavian sea levels with projections in the...
With winter stretching into its sixth month here in Ontario, CDN needs a holiday. And where better than by the seashore somewhere warm? Except we hear the seas are rising...
...If you’re ready to start chewing the ocean here, “Seaweed pancakes, seaweed tartare and even chocolate seaweed mousse should be on the menu in homes and restaurants, according to Vincent...
...more sea ice around Antarctica today than there was in 1980, 1981, 1989, 2006, 2011, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2022 and 2023.” Even Brahic concedes that “That 60-metre sea-level rise is...
From the CO2Science Archive: Southern elephant seals (Mirounga leonina) are apex predators of Antarctic marine food webs; and the authors say that knowledge of the status of elephant seal populations...
From the CO2Science archive: In a recent study of Antarctic sea ice extent (SIE), Turner et al. (2016) note that Arctic sea ice reached a new record minimum extent in...
...the Atlantic seaboard.” So it’s not exactly firm, is it? Eight to 13 hurricanes and a five in six chance of an above-normal season along the Atlantic seaboard. World doesn’t...
...both done a second “Fact check” on our Sea Level Check videos, again saying our facts are true (the video “describes authentic National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration sea level rise...
From the CO2Science Archive: Ford and Kench (2015) begin their analysis by noting that “sea level rise is commonly expected to destabilize island shorelines and lead to widespread loss of...
...the Model T? Or was it just weather back then? Whatever it was, it was pretty bad: “The 1933 Atlantic hurricane season is the most active Atlantic hurricane season on...
...sea level since 2008. What happened instead, unfortunately, is that it became horribly polluted and we don’t mean with carbon. Showing once again that a fixation on imaginary problems leads...
...all along England’s coastlines. Rising sea levels and increasingly powerful winter storms driven by climate change are battering the country’s coastal history. It released a list of six sites most...
From the CO2Science Archive: The authors of this week’s paper write that “over the last four decades there has been a trend to earlier summer breakup of the sea ice...
...an above-normal season, a 25% chance of a near-normal season and a 10% chance of a below-normal season.” They then said “The way in which climate change impacts the strength...
...stronger climate consequences as Arctic sea ice dwindles. Bright, shiny sea ice helps reflect sunlight away from the planet. As it disappears, the Arctic warms even faster. And studies suggest...
...atmospheric carbon levels. Scientists investigating the impact of increasing carbon dioxide on global staple foods like rice and wheat have made some concerning findings: Higher CO2 levels make many foods...
...reason, including tropical islands near the equator whose bases are narrower than their tops due to 7000 years of wave erosion at the same level, to suspect that sea levels...
...hasn’t arrived, because sea levels are declining, continuing a trend that started 5,000 years ago. Based on analysis of sediment layers in the area, the authors conclude that sea levels...
...Island Glacier “is already responsible for much of Antarctica’s contribution to sea-level rise, causing about one-sixth of a millimeter of sea level rise each year, or about two-thirds of an...
Our second stop on the CDN tour of seaside destinations in search of rising sea levels takes us to the city of Victoria, on the southern tip of Vancouver Island...
...will be pleased to learn that Arctic sea ice is at higher levels now than it has been in 13 of the past 15 years. According to Perspectaweather, the North...
...that even with local sea level rise they are growing and getting larger. But journalists and politicians keep repeating the claim that they’re disappearing, and no one bothers to check....
...into islands and bays are localized threats to coral ecosystems.” John Robson: So far, so reasonable. But what else do they say? Narrator: “Broader threats are sea temperature rise, sea...
...show lake levels could fall by one metre or more over the next 50 years.” In 2007: “Global warming may drop Great Lakes water levels” “Water levels could take a...
...and diminishing Arctic sea ice. Should warming reach or exceed 1.5°C, the world could experience even more extreme consequences, including still higher sea levels and greater loss of Arctic sea...
...of sea level rise where the level of risk could be quantified have been presented accurately, informing public bodies effectively. But when conveying sea level uncertainties that have been and...
...and now, or how we survived it. Including, to quote Ms. May’s article again, “Sea level rise has begun with noticeable storm surge damage on Canada’s coasts. Extreme drought conditions...
The Morris Animal Foundation reports that climate change is killing seal pups cruelly, giving them hookworm as their mothers neglect them. Dang that climate change. Seal pups! But in South...
...exactly shy about our opinions and turnabout is fair play, we decided to fact-check the fact check. It’s not looking good, folks. For starters, they objected to our saying “Satellite...
...chart “RCO2” on the vertical Y axis means the CO2 level relative to the mean average of the past million years. So R=5 means 5 times the atmospheric CO2 level...
...the data they can, check their reconstructions against what can be measured, and refine the model accordingly, which is commendable. But it’s not easy. As they rightly caution: “Sea ice...
...likely exceed precipitation causing a trend toward lower levels. Yesterday's concerns about declining levels, are now worries about record high levels. In bouncing back, rather than looking like a system...
Here comes the melting Antarctic again. No really. Three authors on The Conversation say that there was a massive sea level rise due to melting Antarctic ice 129,000 years ago...
...assertions that Tuvalu’s citizens will become the first “climate refugees,” forced to relocate because of rising sea levels caused by anthropogenic global warming, which rising seas they claim will soon...
...is lower than the level in 1954. A few more years and we’ll see. And in the meantime we’ll keep searching the world for the sea level crisis we keep...
...coastal development. Then the waters rose, the storms came, and the sea exposed and undercut the castle’s foundations…. The past 100 years have seen five inches of sea-level rise on...
...and two from the Barents Sea near Svalbard, which show that current sea ice levels in the Arctic are in fact remarkably high compared to most of the current interglacial...
In one of our earliest Fact Check videos we looked at the tragedy of the climate-driven drop in Great Lakes water levels. We reviewed the countless pronouncements over the years...
...weather along the way including “Halsey’s Typhoon”. (Meanwhile Canadian readers might want to check out Frank Curry’s War at Sea: A Canadian Seaman On The North Atlantic for descriptions of...
...map by rising sea levels. In fact small Pacific islands like the Maldives [as a number of viewers have pointed out, the Maldives are of course in the Indian Ocean]...
...debated”), and… what’s this? Oh dear: “Around 34 million years ago, Earth changed course again. Temperatures dropped, and Antarctica became shrouded in ice for the first time. Sea levels fell,...
...that, in the words of the lead author, “Previous investigations have suggested that marshes can keep up with rates of sea-level rise as high as half an inch per year...
...the persistence of coral atolls amid changing sea levels has something to do with coral growing into new regions if the water goes up a bit. Who knew? Other than...
...part of the 1987 Montreal Protocol, helping restore ozone levels and presumably cooling the ocean and helping raise levels of Antarctic sea ice.” Not a great theory though because of...
...the sea ice in the Labrador Sea was in retreat and there was a lot of open water. Around 8,500 years ago as the melting continued, the Hudson Bay Ice...
...as Antarctic Sea Ice Disappears/ Record-low sea ice caused Emperor Penguin chicks to die across Antarctica last year. This year could be just as bad”. Notice how it’s never a...
...will also help promote weaker-than-normal upper-level winds that favour increased storm organization. Meanwhile, record-warm water temperatures will provide ample fuel to make storms stronger. Storm activity so far this season...
Scientific American, between bouts of wokery like claiming sex is not binary in mammals, tells us “Melting sea ice is opening new pathways through the Arctic such as the famed...
...on seabirds and eggs instead of seals. However, due to lack of experience, most bears observed were not ‘efficient’ seabird egg predators, the study found, noting that instead of visiting...
...that, our oceans will continue to become warmer and more acidic, sea ice and glaciers will continue to melt, sea level will continue to rise and our weather will become...
...chart of local sea levels for the last 120 years, which he summarizes with “A very steady increase with little sign of recent acceleration upward. The sea-level rise has been...
...deficient treatments. Elevated CO2 levels also improved wheat biomass, which stimulation was consistent among the three levels of nitrogen supply and across years; averaged across both growing seasons, the 207...
...works by focusing the discussion on the “seasonal amplitude” of the annual CO2 level. Here’s what they say in the Chapter summary (p. 427): “The main driver of the observed...
...silly about sea levels by warning that “San Diego is experiencing the fastest increase, with sea levels rising by 2.6 millimeters per year”, which doesn’t pass the smell test. At...
...predicted, as usual, and is “now irreversibly committed to at least 10 inches of sea level rise”. By next year? The year after? Er, not quite. What the actual study...
...60 cm of sea water by the 13th century, then sea levels oscillated for hundreds of years before a modern decline that, by 1970, brought the bones back to the...
...thing ever, we figured the rising seas would have put the whole place under by now. Not quite yet, as it turns out. Tromso sea levels are going up by...
...the Permanent Service for Mean Sea Level in the UK. And with air travel as messed up as it has become, especially here in Canada but probably many other places,...
From the CO2Science Archive: Noting that dust storms are common features adjacent to the Aral Sea, the authors investigated the grain-size distributions of wind-blown sediments found in a core retrieved...
...Raffles Light House record, Singapore faces a tiny rate of sea level rise which, some time in the next few centuries, might require them to build a new sea wall....
...in the sea level record. The Mediterranean is one of many regions where it is surprisingly difficult to find long term continuous sea level data, and even when long records...
From his valuable Sealevel.Info site, Dave Burton calls for brave souls to step forward as expert reviewers for the IPCC’s forthcoming 6th Assessment Report Working Group One Second Order Draft....
...Sea record shows sea ice coverage reached a minimum in the 1500s, then expanded through the 17th and 18th centuries, reaching its current levels shortly after 1800 and remaining remarkably...
...is dropping by about 3.8 mm per year. It’s like rising sea levels, only the opposite. We admit a bit of surprise at this one. In northern Europe it’s expected...
...greenhouse-gas emissions.” Then it lists a series of positive feedback loops with “more rapid melting of the ice sheets, coral bleaching, stronger storms and higher sea levels” and also the...
...realistic global warming trend didn’t predict much change at all in Arctic sea ice. And they all predicted retreat of Antarctic sea ice, which is opposite to what actually happened....
...ice volume back to 2007, forecasts for this year’s ice melt from 29 modeling groups in the Sea Ice Prediction Network, and the monthly sea ice extent data for this...
...Sea, not to mention the Aral Sea, it’s a bit much to think climate change was the big deal here. Except for that rule about all effects of climate change...
...In fact, by coincidence one of Scientific American’s E&ENews piece not two weeks later warned that “Deep-Sea Mining Can Chase off Marine Life for Months” and that: “Even small deep-sea...
...said there was a climate crisis. The fact-checkers also cite without fact-checking it that the 2018 IPCC report “said the planet — which has already warmed 1 degree Celsius (1.8...
Here’s another reality check for the AGW set, courtesy of Climate Home News. It seems governments are not meeting their Paris targets and aren’t going to. Indeed, in what they...
...in the way. As the piece says, in its section on “Implications for Global Sea Levels”: “This complex balancing act makes predicting future sea-level changes more difficult. The current growth...
...warming throughout that period as the Little Ice Age ended. So why, if warming causes more early-season hurricanes, has warming not caused more early-season hurricanes? It’s not very good raw...
...communities are already being affected by rising sea levels. Again on steroids, with big banners saying “ALREADY MILLIONS OF PEOPLE ARE BEING DISPLACED BY RISING SEA LEVELS” as well as...
...Post”, Labour actually staggered rather than swept to power in early July. Yes, it won a massive 411 seats, a gain of 211 in Britain’s 650-seat House of Commons. But...
...on the sea ice charts at climate4you.com. The chart looks like this: The top line is the global total, the middle line is Arctic sea ice area and the bottom...
...climate change for everything including “Pregnancy Risks, Affecting Black Mothers Most” and peddling absurd emissions- and sea-level-rise scenarios as “experts say” or “according to researchers”, it would be good too....
...was that Baligar et al. set out to examine this possibility via an experiment studying the response of six tropical legume cover crops to CO2 enrichment at low light levels....
...for centuries. As such, high concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere contribute to higher global temperatures and other negative consequences of climate change, including rising sea levels, melting polar...
...warming by 2100” and “Even if the world sustains today’s level of warming, at 1.2 degrees, it could still trigger rapid ice sheet retreat and catastrophic sea level rise, the...
...sea-level rise. A reanalysis of available data, which cover 30 Pacific and Indian Ocean atolls including 709 islands, reveals that … 88.6% of islands were either stable or increased in...
...become the independent republics of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. Their people have been pummeled by extreme heat, erratic monsoons, melting glaciers and sea level rise – all telltale signs of...
Hurricane season is approaching, so residents of the Caribbean need to take all the usual precautions in case a big one blows in unexpectedly. As for the sea level issue,...
Because the sea ice is melting out from underneath them. We’ve all seen the heart-wrenching video from National Geographic of an emaciated bear starving due to climate-induced loss of sea...
...Labrador Sea) through a narrow set of passages between Canada and Greenland, called the Canadian Archipelago. The traditional view had mostly considered liquid freshwater transport in the form of sea...
...Sea. Paper Reviewed: Bo, X., Xinning, D and Yonghua, L. 2020. Climate change trend and causes of tropical cyclones affecting the South China Sea during the past 50 years. Atmospheric...
...of those states that, being near the Arctic, is especially hard hit by climate change along with all the others. So its sea levels must be rising rapidly. And as...
As those of you with long memories will recall, Canada’s unusually harsh wildfire season in 2023 was touted as proof of global warming. The quiet American one was ignored, as...
...size coming off a record warm start to May”. CBC chipped in “Alberta could be headed for active fire season, experts say”. And Heatmap pounced with: “May is ‘classic’ fire...
...Labrador Sea Water,” which is produced in the Labrador and Irminger seas of the North Atlantic Ocean, while noting that “since the mid-1990s, convection in the Labrador Sea has been...
...500 million years the world has mostly been warmer than at present, and sometimes a lot warmer. Fact check: true. Obviously, overwhelmingly, indisputably so. In the movie Dr. Steven Koonin,...
In our earlier fact check on the exaggerated northern hemisphere land warming record we made passing reference to the temperature record from weather satellites, which was discussed in Climate The...
...is happening.” We asked Professor McKitrick if he could show us the numbers, which he did. Fact check: true. McKitrick writes: “A good comparison of rural and urban warming is...
...the water levels shot up — which the experts then blamed on climate change and claimed they’d predicted it all along. In point of fact water levels continued to fluctuate...
...ozone levels have slightly recovered. The transgression level has increased for all boundaries earlier identified as overstepped. As primary production drives Earth system biosphere functions, human appropriation of net primary...
...the broad outlines including warmth well above modern levels with atmospheric CO2 well below. Narrator: Earth scientists refer to the HCO interval as the “Hypsithermal”. And a search on Google...
...seems almost to be putting us to sleep instead.” Except that what arrived was a hurricane during hurricane season, which is not without precedent, and this season, despite one bad...
...why people don’t just toss them into the pot since, generally speaking, crab is a delicacy. So we checked and discovered that green crabs actually are regarded as a delicacy...
From the CO2Science Archive: We’ve written a number of times about individual studies looking at the response of rice plants to elevated atmospheric CO2 levels. Now we turn to the...
...to future CH4 is significant at the 5% level. On the other hand, the effects of CO2 and CH4 on future temperature are statistically insignificant at the 10% level, and...
...ppm) CO2 over a period of 13 weeks in a controlled-environment setting, while also being subjected to one of three water treatment levels (where the water level was filled to...
...and Antarctic “contain enough ice, that if it were to melt all at once, would raise sea levels by nearly 215 feet” without mentioning, as E. Calvin Beisner promptly did,...
...bedrock under Thwaites Glacier sits below sea level and slopes downward going inland, so the glacier gets deeper toward the interior of the ice sheet. Once the glacier begins losing...
Just not recently. CNN blares that “Scientists discover an alarming change in Antarctica’s past that could spell devastating future sea level rise”. Which is the sort of thing the scientists...
...to dramatically higher sea levels around the world. Weber says ice loss has picked up over the last decade, and the question is whether it’s already kicked off a centuries-long...
...to. According to Wikipedia, “The Torres Strait Islands are threatened by rising sea levels, especially those islands which do not rise more than one metre (3.3 feet) above sea level....
...glacier will tumble in after since the lower shelf is all that is holding it in place, and this plunge will raise global sea levels by 10 feet or so...
...science of 10 years ago which declared “Melting Sea Ice Threatens Emperor Penguins, Study Finds”. So you can see that there’s no way out of this climate extinction maze. Even...
Arctic sea ice data from satellites only goes back to 1979, so evidence of recent thinning has tended to lack historical context. But Science Daily recently reported on a new...
...come this hurricane season” eventually conceded that it’s not because “Usually, early-season activity doesn’t have much bearing on the rest of the season’s activity.” But when things are unprecedented, precedent...
...as that the climate is complicated and full of surprises. Gosh. Really? Who knew? The scientists review the available data on both sea ice area and sea ice volume in...
...to affect autumnal phenology of A. saccharum Marsh through altering the length of the growing season directly, although the productivity increase [over the growing season] should be considered carefully in...
...in the Weddell Sea, when it finally got with the program and shrank: “the unexpected, decades-long overall increases in Antarctic sea ice extent are still being puzzled out, the sea...
We’ve already discussed Arctic sea ice volume in this series. But today we’re going to focus on the Canadian Arctic because the records go back to the early 1970s. You...
...The data are available at the Danish Meteorological Institute website. The sea ice volume record looks like this: Even at its lowest there is still lots of ice. (If you...
From the CO2Science Science Archive: Previous studies of a Rarotonga coral-based sea surface temperature (SST) reconstruction from the Cook Islands, South Pacific Ocean, have focused on documenting and interpreting decadal...
...accused alarmists of a double standard with regard to windy seasons or even just predictions of one being proof of climate change, and calm seasons being unworthy of mention. So...
...comes the seasonal upsurge in claims that windstorms are proof of man-made climate hysteria. For instance Matthew Wielicki notes that “It’s Tornado Season Again, Again, Again...” So gotcha? Well, no,...
...Hoelzel, A.R., Baroni, C., Denton, G.H., Le Boeuf, B.J., Overturf, B. and Topf, A.L. 2006. Holocene elephant seal distribution implies warmer-than-present climate in the Ross Sea. Proceedings of the National...
Continuing our Fact Check series on Martin Durkin’s new movie (which you should watch) we turn to the part where the movie discusses the interval over the past 20,000 years...
...happens every 1,000 years,’ he said. Hydro workers discovered earlier in the day the millennial level of water had been reached.” Arguably the utility made a poor estimate of what...
...this century in conjunction with the decline in man-made emissions (Fig. 1c). The sea level rises monotonically to around + 3 m in 2500 (Fig. 1e).” So eliminating all fossil...
...points that will lead to catastrophic environmental damage, including dangerous sea level rise, entire species going extinct, and even greater suffering in many nations, especially the poorest.” So no fact...
...and always has been? For the Climate Discussion Nexus I’m John Robson, and this is a CDN Fact Check on the 2025 Los Angeles fires. As so often, we at...
...define the pre-industrial level. This interrupts a period of 21 months out of 22 where the global average temperature was more than 1.5C above the pre-industrial level.” Oh, there’s a...
...levels drop and ozone levels rebuild, the stratosphere should warm especially in the polar regions. Inconveniently for the CO2 theory, the stratosphere stopped cooling around 20 years ago and even...
...CO2 levels rose, none of these things happened. Antarctic sea ice extent has varied but shown no trend since 1980. The speed of sea-level rise rose then fell in the...
...frequent with extreme events like floods, wildfires and heatwaves on the rise. Gradual changes, like thawing permafrost in the north and rising sea levels in coastal regions, are also affecting...
...never experienced much in the way of aerosols. And finally the Antarctic sea ice boundary has hardly changed at all so there is no confounding effect of sea ice loss...
...a dangerous man-made catastrophe. Soon we'll be releasing our fact check video on this slogan, which emphasizes that the high level of agreement only covers the uncontroversial ideas, especially the...
...as the cooling oceans sucked it out of the air, levels apparently fell to just 180 ppm before rebounding slightly. That decline took us perilously close to levels that really...
...were applied during lighted hours only (during the dark period the chambers were all ventilated to return the CO2 level to ~400 ppm). For light intensity, three levels with an...
...be accounted for by standard measures of technological improvement. Using satellite-measurements of changing CO2 levels from 2015 to 2021 matched to county-level crop yields these economists found not only that...
...and have only a small effect on simultaneous acute stressors,” adding “pink salmon populations that experience high CO2 levels in their yearly migration may be pre-adapted to high CO2 levels.”...
...is currently four one-hundredths of one percent, or 400 parts per million, only about 1/25th the level of argon. But CO2 is harmless to humans even at far higher levels....
...it reduces the credibility of this sort of thing? Then there’s this tired prediction: “Warming oceans and melting ice caps could cause sea levels to rise by more than a...
...in volume. Or not. As the case of 2012 illustrates, sea ice can fluctuate. We may see lower levels later in 2024 relative to the average (we will certainly see...
...we better make a bunch of stubborn peasants flee now because the IPCC thinks sea levels might rise 77 centimetres by 2100 if warming is held to 1.5˚C, or a...
...at all to 250 a year. Because, you see, “Until 100 years ago, the global sea level had been consistent for more than 3,000 years. Since people started burning significant...
...was around 1.5 degrees warmer than pre-industrial levels” whereas in fact (apart from it being a preindustrial level) the Eemian was markedly warmer than it is today, somewhere between 1...
...guess, we just quote the scientists themselves. To wit: “Over the past decades, atoll islands exhibited no widespread sign of physical destabilization in the face of sea‐level rise. A reanalysis...
...Bjorn Lomborg’s False Alarm: “Rising sea levels get a huge amount of attention in the media, and they are often portrayed as uncharted territory for humanity. In fact, sea levels...
We previously reported on the fakery surrounding the claims about small Pacific coral atolls drowning due to rising sea levels (due to global warming, due to greenhouse gases, due to...
...a pair of studies in the journal Nature show” and “the unprecedented rate of melt has already contributed 0.7 inches (1.78 centimeters) to global sea level rise in the last...
...any of these regions ignite in April? Um no. Even if the PM hallucinated a blazing mass from sea to sea to sea and the hapless Harjit Sajjan, who has...
...gas concentrations over the past several decades. In doing so, twelve temperature-related parameters were examined on annual, seasonal, and crop growing-season-relevant scales for 115 stations over the period 1951-2010. Paper...
...can tally up at least a billion dollars in damages then it’s truly an occasion for celebration. But as Roger Pielke Jr. notes, that the 2023 US hurricane season came...
...ice cap is meant to be a major threat because if it melted sea levels would rise about 6 metres. However, for some reason Greenland’s “Surface Mass Balance” is rising...
...context of the North American Regional Climate Change Program (NARCCAP; Mearns et al., 2009) with regard to the seasonal snow regime in the Upper Colorado River Basin. This they did...
...2020. And we like it so much that now we return to assess the threat of sea level rise. And it’s a good thing we did, and that we included...
It recently occurred to us that we have been using sea levels data collected in Liverpool UK on our virtual tour of sunny and not so sunny beachfronts. But we...
...also notes that a plot of Antarctic sea ice from another source we recommend, Ole Humlum’s Climate4you, shows absolutely no trend in Antarctic sea ice since 1978. None at all....
...all little island settlements it must contend with the horrors of rising sea levels. At least it would if they were rising. Instead at Adak they are falling at a...
...of Jurassic-era climate oscillations. And after settling in by the sea shore with a pleasant little Beaujolais and some fromage and baguette we looked with alarm at the rising seas,...
...away where seawater pH averaged 7.95. In the laboratory, natural seawater was supplied to a series of outdoor experimental tanks that were kept at control (8.01) or low (7.80) pH....
...of the sea and so if the sea rises, the beach that is washed away at the low edge will be replaced by new beach at the high edge. It...
...manner, causing the seas to overflow and drown us all, winter or not? But the data don’t seem to agree. Antarctica isn’t even submerging itself. At this rate, just over...
Among the 1950s-drive-in-horror-style warnings routine on the topic of climate, we’re told corals are as fragile as they are beautiful and if the seas warm, well, bye bye to that...
...long-term systematic warming trend, it has a variability. Every 50 – 60 years or so. Kind of a variation.” Fact check: True. From the Soon et al. paper we get...
...that “When the average goes up it’s really more due to the coldest temperatures getting warmer. So the temperature’s getting milder rather than getting hotter.” Here our official fact check...
...obscure committees and backrooms in your community too, at every level of government. And unless sensible people learn how to push back with facts and sound arguments, bad decisions will...
...2023 into a devastating event, a study has found. The drought was the worst recorded in many places and hit the maximum ‘exceptional’ level on the scientific scale.” Ooh, the...
...reading and so forth. Or in this case let’s check the computer. Instead “‘They are opposite seasons. You don’t see the north and the south (poles) both melting at the...
...of the extent of its devastation) killed at least 25,000 people in a continent whose population was not 1/10th of what it is today. Do these people not have search...
...to limit dangerous levels of global heating... If delivered in full, countries’ 2030 climate plans put the world on track for 2.4-2.6C of warming. Pledges and policies still don’t offer...
...reader who mentioned the latest EU pledge to cut emissions 55% from 1990 levels by 2030 and asked us when emissions were last at that level. Which you’d think would...
...Antarctica’s sea ice limits were thousands of kilometers less extensive than today’s back when CO2 concentrations were at ‘safe’ pre-industrial levels (~265 ppm).” Even if the name of one of...
...was a predictable consequence of climate change. The piece also said “The 2021 season is estimated to be the fourth-costliest Atlantic hurricane season, with economic losses expected to exceed $70...
...their historical levels. But that doesn’t seem to be happening.” The concept that Lake Michigan would “always remain” near historical levels is nonsensical to anyone with the slightest familiarity with...
...dramatic shift that would disrupt global climate patterns, ocean temperatures, and rising sea levels.” Now from our “18 Ways To Hype Trivia” series, you’ll note that “rapidly weakening” in the...
...“the cumulative distribution function of the annual maximum precipitation levels remains constant throughout the period 1906-2002,” concluding that “precipitation levels are not getting higher.” What it means Over the period...
One of the stranger attempted refutations of climate skepticism hurled at us recently (on Facebook) was a 2018 Harvard study saying that rising CO2 levels were making plants less nutritious....
...a phenomenon now fingered for flooding and high water levels, it says “While experts work to better understand effects of climate change on Great Lakes water levels, they are seeing...
We have previously noted that the climate models currently in use are too sensitive, meaning on average they predict too much warming from rising CO2 levels than we see in...
...pollutant at ground level though a helpful protection higher up) is present in varying concentrations from the surface to the top of the stratosphere. And so of course there aren’t...
David Middleton takes aim at yet another Guardian panic piece on climate that says atmospheric CO2 is about to reach levels not seen in 15 million years, when the Earth...
...history, which have been the consequence of boosting both the atmosphere’s carbon-dioxide level and its sulfate level. We’re already pumping CO2 into the sky, they argue. Why are we so...
...in extreme weather, rising sea levels, and devastating loss of biodiversity. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) stresses the importance of keeping warming below this level to prevent catastrophic...
...then, a supposed increase of hurricanes or at least in their intensity, an explosion of wildfires from Fort McMurray to Australia and the Amazon to California, accelerating sea-level rise, jellyfish...
...How to Invade the Capitol for some reason) because “from 2017 to 2019 investments in new fossil fuel infrastructure projects have grown…. Meanwhile, the polar icecaps melt, sea levels rise,...
For some reason the claim that Miami is going under is trending again. Unlike the reality. Indeed the whole notion of accelerating sea level rise is under extreme downward pressure,...
...would create a sudden sea level rise of perhaps 6 metres. As coauthor Genti Toyokuni rightly said, “Knowledge about the Greenland plume will bolster our understanding of volcanic activities in...
Global warming means polar ice caps melting which means sea levels rising which means ... well let's back up a step. Are the polar ice caps melting? The Arctic (except...
...which fact suggests that these remote reefs possess the capacity to grow at rates exceeding measured regional mid-to-late Holocene and 20th century sea-level rise, as well as IPCC sea-level projections...
...heat content, ocean acidity, sea level, area burned in the United States, and extreme weather and associated damage costs have all been trending upward”. These statements, alas, belong in the...
...“one phase of a sea level cycle”. As in “Rising, Highstand, Falling, Lowstand”. Probably also known as a peak. And while the term “Warmunist” might seem overwrought, if clever, there’s...
Wow. Sea-level rise sure did a number on Venice last week. Or rather human stupidity did. The famously waterlogged Italian tourist attraction built a barrier variously estimated at €6bn or...
...using the Canadian Seasonal to Inter-Annual Prediction System version 3. This system is designed to forecast seasonal climate conditions up to a year in advance. Results are currently updated monthly...
...know the wolf is at the door with fur as well as eyes blazing. Third, he points out that sea-level rise has not increased. Rather, it’s steady, and “no different...
The West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) is the big one that people worry about because, as we explain in our video on the sea level scare, if it melts and...
...the global average, which will “push up sea levels around Britain’s coastline.” Calling the Arctic a continent when it’s an ocean is like a clock striking 13, calling into question...
...that “While cities across the world must contend with the growing tide as the Earth heats up, developing nations face the greatest risk. Rates of sea level rise have more...
...Richards noted, some researchers reported similar findings in 2016 and told the BBC at the time “We expected that the coast would start to retreat due to sea level rise,...
...accounting for the effects of the sun and the sea there were strong upward trends to be explained, we all know what the story would have been. So what’s the...
...has relied on sea walls – or, more accurately, one gigantic, 280-mile long sea wall, for protection. The sea walls is Georgetown’s main defence because most of the coastline is...
...sea-surface temperatures some 6,000 years ago were 3 to 4 deg C warmer than what they were over the decade of the 1990s, and (2) sea-surface temperatures of that earlier...
...a long time. At just over 2.5 mm per year it will take about 390 years just to rise one meter. We notice too that sea levels at Adelaide have...
...figured out the patterns the distribution of each of the diatoms reveals. The result was this graph showing (top) August Sea Surface Temperature and (bottom) April sea ice cover from...
...sea levels than ice that is currently sitting on land, in Greenland or the Antarctic. And it’s highly improbable that all this heat would get released at once. But periodically...
...species this deep-sea robot just discovered/ Alien-looking lobsters, sponges, urchins, sea stars and sea lilies are among the creatures deep-sea explorers found off the coast of Chile”. Of course everything...
...showing stable or declining hurricane activity, and last year we pointed out that experts are very reluctant to claim a link between greenhouse gases and hurricane activity. As hurricane season...
...from the Beaufort Sea off Alaska to the Siberian Arctic, would face being wiped out because the loss of sea ice would force the animals onto land and away from...
...the canal bounced back, with one of its longest seasons in recent memory.” Gad. One of the longest seasons in recent memory is the death knell… of your scare story....
...presence of an ongoing La Niña event in the tropical Pacific Ocean, warmer-than-average sea surface temperatures in the Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea, an enhanced west African monsoon and weaker...
...every six hours and reported by radio.” But here’s the problem: “The sea surface temperature was obtained with a special narrow rubber bucket, attached to a long line, which was...
...deadly hurricane season/ Warming oceans mean more fuel for hurricanes, and 2020 brought proof of that in spades.” Um except it wasn’t an unusually active hurricane season and, as we’ve...
...in, among other places, a 2015 study by a group of climatologists and statisticians who examined an 800,000 year ice core record pairing CO2 and temperature levels. As we explained...
...that somehow no one saw coming. And yes, you’re being fooled. Debates over alternative energy, including its alleged cost advantages, often take place at a very high, almost abstract level....
...2030 to 2050. Dad gum. What we need now is a society-level commitment like we had for the Manhattan Project in the 1940s, or the Apollo moon landing program in...
We take a look at the actual data on the health of the Great Lakes. To watch the full-length video with our own Dr. John Robson, click here....
...Steven E. Koonin.” Followed by Koonin’s debunking of an increase in heat waves, hurricanes, tornadoes, sea level rise or famine. Thiessen wraps up with “Mankind has adapted to climate change...
...warming, you should look there. So it’s what we’re about to do. For the Climate Discussion Nexus I’m John Robson and this is a CDN Crystal Ball check on the...
Kelowna Fact Check TRANSCRIPT John Robson It’s often said that a lie can travel halfway around the world before the truth even gets its boots on. It seems especially the...
...Nexus, and this is a Fact Check video on the Simple Physics slogan. Narrator Al Gore called it “high school physics.” NASA shows cartoons of a greenhouse to explain how...
...sea levels are not rising uniformly, relentlessly and ever-faster. Or that much of the warming since Bismarck’s day has been natural. Actually it turns out that the next to go...
...already done what might plausibly happen based on what they might do next. What then do they conclude? Well, for starters, “Sea level rise – which very likely has a...
...of lurid details including that Bobbi Eugene Shaw, the guy in the barrel, was in the mafia according to his own sister and that “The lake’s water levels are at...
People skeptical of the “CO2 = death” view not infrequently observe that atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide actually got down to a hair-raising 180 ppm or so in the last...
...dioxide levels” which is a cause not an effect, “Alaska got hotter than NYC this summer” which was due to checking the temperature on an airport runway, “Arctic fires were...
...indicates that the bank believes the planet is hurtling toward a future in which severe droughts and harvest failures become widespread, sea-level rise is measured in feet rather than inches...
...a low in 1980 then rebounded. OK, that one just brought security to escort you from the premises. As with those infamous charts where the rate of sea-level rise changes...
...quickly, depending on the baselines scientists use for comparison and which geography they include in assessments.” Also depending whether they know the difference between altitude and latitude. But who’s fact-checking...
...and unpredictable ways.” Their report itself says all the usual stuff. “Canada faces risk from the physical impacts of a changing climate, including floods, heatwaves, wildfires, and sea-level rise. By...
...plants exposed to present-day CO2 levels. But exactly how this suppression occurs at the cellular or molecular level remains to be elucidated. Shedding some light on this topic, the eight...
From the CO2Science Archive: The plant Conium maculatum earned its place in history as the deadly brew drunk by Socrates to comply with the death sentence passed on him by...
From the CO2Science Archive: While it is a fall flower in Canada, not a spring flower, Chrysanthemum morifolium Ramat. or ‘mums’ as they are called do sometimes make an appearance...
From the CO2Science Archive: From 1984 to 2020 there were 18 experiments showing that an additional 300 ppm of CO2 boosts cucumber growth by 40.6%, 11 experiments showing that an...
From the CO2Science Archive: Solanum dulcamara L. is an invasive vine that seems to grow everywhere. It apparently doesn’t have any fans in the plant naming world since it has...
Cutting greenhouse gases down under would have been a big help according to the New York Times. Or, turning to a sensible source, cutting forest fuel levels, according to Australian...
Yet another professor of communication has a plan for curing denialisticism. “Warming oceans. Shrinking ice sheets. Intense rainfall events. Rising sea levels. These indicators provide compelling scientific evidence that climate...
...a region of the Philippines famous for marine biodiversity and to their surprise found underwater CO2 vents connected to nearby undersea volcanic activity were raising ocean CO2 level to double,...
...high levels.” But then it rallies with: “Humans are also heating up the planet, lifting sea levels, amplifying downpours, and exacerbating the conditions for massive blazes.” Because nothing exacerbates the...
...dime a dozen in climate, including such gems as “‘Doomsday glacier,’ which could raise sea level by several feet, is holding on ‘by its fingernails,’ scientists say”. Glaciers got fingernails?...
...growing sea level rise, reaching several meters in 50-150 years.’” (The quotation marks are because here they’re quoting themselves, as in another paper by Hansen and 18 co-authors including nine...
...rising sea levels, which could result in catastrophic damage to the harbour and the sea crafts that use it” carries a price tag of “nearly $20 million”. Of course the...
...because of Antarctica” file, a new paper announces that “Ocean-driven melting of floating ice-shelves in the Amundsen Sea is currently the main process controlling Antarctica’s contribution to sea-level rise. Using...
...say, Hebron, while not too busy staging a pogrom to write it down? But don’t be deterred. Next comes, yes, obviously, “Gaza’s coastline is under threat from rising sea levels.”...
...sea level has been rising at about 2.2mm/year since 1930 just as global sea levels seem to have been going up at a steady pace since 1880. No lobsters were...
...area is warming faster than the average? The one about uniform relentless sea level rise? In point of fact the extreme range of weather patterns, and changes in weather patterns,...
...it’s all due to climate change. Ah, but what about the relentlessly rising seas? Well, the nearby tide gauge at Wick has data back to 1965. Relative sea level (the...
...an online search for how bad it is for the climate, vice versa or both. They won’t be disappointed. As in that Christmas tree piece that also snarls: “The holidays...
...via email “Should we sink CO2 into the sea?” our confident answer is no, you should not. How would you? Well, according to the actual article, with the slightly more...
...al. (2003), who additionally demonstrated that this cooling-induced response was likely due to “reductions in vertical wind shear and increases in low-level vorticity” in La Niña conditions. This connection was...
...the sea usually fluctuate only slightly.” The latter claim is in fact suspicious since so little reliable sea-surface-temperature data exists prior to 1950; in The Little Ice Age, which we...
...with the warming sea surface temperatures in the region attributed to climate change.” Had Mann, or NBC, or other alarmists, told us there’d be a quiet hurricane season but a...
...signal trouble/ Marine life off the Antarctic Peninsula needs protection as sea ice declines and fishing boats move in to take more krill.” How bad is it? “Gentoo numbers on...
Just in time for the IPCC's special report on warming oceans and melting ice comes news that Nature magazine has retracted an influential 2018 paper alleging that the oceans were...
...season, another time of intense FEMA activity, and in recent years, fires have broken the bounds of any usual seasons…” That the actual hurricane season is unusually, even eerily quiet...
...confirmed a negative effect of reduced seawater pH (i.e., ocean acidification) that has at times been observed in laboratory-based studies. Results of their analysis revealed a minimum seawater pH difference...
...And getting farther as it turns out: since 2007 there has been an upward trend in the minimum summertime Arctic sea ice extent. Data on Arctic sea ice are available...
No sooner did a freak accident on a Singapore Airlines flight kill a passenger and injure dozens of others, seven critically, than the vultures swooped on the wreckage to blame...
...forests at over 100 mph. (Hint: you need to hide in a cave on the other side of the world and well above sea level because of the tsunamis.) But...
This January we mentioned Tony Heller’s observation that Arctic sea ice was at its highest level for January 9 in 20 years, and that there has been no downward trend...
...and rain and less by sea ice and snow.” You mean like the last time it was warm there? The Arctic has seen cyclical periods of more sea ice and...
...the signal and to multiple drivers. There is however high confidence that the amount and seasonality of peak flows have changed in snowmelt-driven rivers due to warming. There is also...
...of seasonal atmospheric GCM predictions. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 76: 335-345. Madden, R.A. 1976. Estimates of the natural variability of time-averaged sea-level pressure. Monthly Weather Review 104: 942-952....
...result of temperature increases and rising sea levels, like the world’s lowest-lying country, the Maldives.” Talk about cherry-picking. The Maldives, like many other low-lying tropical islands, are not sinking. And...
...high) tops out just under 5,000 metres above sea level (4,978) and the ice field in question is on Pico Humboldt (please give now to alleviate the name shortage), at...
...paper still remembers when fact-checking meant checking facts not censoring opinions, the study in question wasn’t even published in 2019. It was published in 2017. And it’s remarkably coy about...
...triggered by the trivial temperature increases alleged to have happened since the mid-20th century, we’d all be in huge trouble if we ever get back to Roman Warm Period levels...
...but because it’s politically useful in scaring people. For the Climate Discussion Nexus, I’m John Robson, and this is a CDN Fact Check video on the RCP8.5 Scam. Narrator If...
...check things out for yourself. But a good rule of thumb on what to check and from what angle is to be wary of boosterism. For instance, a Substack post...
...a Viscount, we strongly recommend that you check into his writings and, if you’re a denizen of the Twitter swamp, that you follow him there. His thoughtful investigations into the...
...any quick check whether they’re remotely plausible. No one fact checks off-hand lines like “an unprecedented surge of extreme weather as wildfires devastated the American West, hurricanes lashed tropical coastlines...
...it’s all bad news. Fewer sharks means more sea urchins as all life perishes, and more sea urchins means more sore feet. No, wait, it means decimated kelp forests. Again,...
...record that gets the biggest trend boost. He then discusses the IPCC’s desire to move away from using sea surface temperature records (i.e. water temperature) and instead switch to air...
...“By poring through 65 million years of deep-sea sediment records, researchers analyzed Earth’s history of ocean current behavior. They sampled nearly 300 drill cores, which documented how these currents behaved...
...of higher temperatures and worse weather in “recorded history”, for instance the 1930s or 1970s, also observes that: “Corals have thrived through many thousands of feet of sea level rise...
...he thinks are far more important (“forcings” being how insiders refer to things they think are forcing temperatures upward) start leveling off after 2000. According to his CRE model, Lu...
...level, plus depleted fertilizer rates and scorching heat waves of 43 degrees C. Those un-woke peppers grew better with higher CO2 levels, didn't show any heat stress, and the elevated...
...Canada would reduce its greenhouse emissions levels 40 percent to 45 percent from 2005 levels by 2030, compared with its previous target of a 30 percent emissions reduction in the...
...the ice cores are good on long-run levels. But it takes those famous bubbles a long time to form completely and seal, sometimes centuries or even millennia. So we don’t...
There has been a considerable hoo-hah about the news that atmospheric CO2 has hit levels “not seen for 3 million years”. And of course “scientists” are “sounding the alarm over...
...sure, but that assumes people stand slack-jawed staring at sea level increases and do nothing in response. If that’s how people are going to behave in the rest of this...
...like the one with Leonard Nimoy. But on the whole, they say, everybody knew about man-made warming even back then, and the level of agreement on warming today vastly exceeds...
...EurekAlert! saying the recent intensification of the Walker Circulation has now definitively been ascribed to natural not human influences, ending “a long-standing debate”. Evidently the intensification drove sea level increases...
From the CO2Science Archive: According to Soulé and Knapp (2019), the climate of central Oregon has become “warmer and drier during the western juniper growing season” over the past two...
...Reef, including (1) rising nutrient levels caused by runoff from agricultural activity on land, (2) outbreaks of the coral-devouring crown-of-thorns starfish, (3) the barbed hooks and scything nets used in...
...played out between powerful lobbies. For those in school today, there’s nothing abstract about a potential sea level rise of two metres in their lifetime. We need to hear more...
...to happen about rising seas.’” In point of fact Delaware’s average elevation is 60 feet and its highest point is nearly 450 feet above sea level; Mr. Biden has long...
...is not new. Meltwater has been included in the sea level rise data for centuries. And as I’ve shown here [his link], we’re not seeing any acceleration in the rate...
...the survival of many of the world’s most at-risk linguistic populations.” How, pray tell, does the purple dragon do this thing? Rising sea levels, or something. They say: “As these...
...the Earth’s surface, which would affect the sea level. The changes of the sea level and the Earth’s rotation may affect the global atmosphere circulation and temperature. The resonance of...
...adapt to increasingly severe storms, drought, heat and rising sea levels.” It did not say who the scientists who say are. Everybody knows. Speaking of friends like these, Al Gore...
...smoky air. Cars shouldn’t melt glaciers or raise sea levels threatening our cherished beaches and coastlines.” In the first place, the opening sentences are rubbish. “We” did nothing of the...
...amphipods.” But consider that the Washington Post recently reported that “London’s River Thames, now home to sharks, seals and sea horses, is no longer ‘biologically dead’”. It’s not an entirely...
...you get a stomach-ache from reading yet another breathless claim that “1.5°C above preindustrial levels”, which means 0.4°C above current levels which you’d never notice if it happened inside your...
...“(Work, 2020) found reduced spring flow due to increased groundwater abstraction in 26 out of 56 springs studied in Florida (USA).” “sea level rise is expected to lead to the...
...Is Sinking” and “A major culprit: overpumping of groundwater”. So all that hype about global-warming-driven sea level rise was overdone? Heck no. “New satellite-based research reveals how land along the...
...China. The country-wide average annual and seasonal mean effects of urbanization, as well as their relative contributions to the overall warming trends observed over the 1961-2004 period, are presented in...
...issue. In 2019 he posed on the cover of Time Magazine photoshopped into rising sea levels on Tuvalu. Since that media splash, he has not let up on the promotion...
...the SUVs those penguins were driving. Funny it didn’t lead to disastrous sea level increase in the Middle Ages. Ha ha but seriously folks. Further evidence of past warmth in...
As we head into hurricane season, be prepared for the climate alarmists who, when a cyclone inevitably hits, will have you believe such things have never happened before, or never...
...that while the spring season there is off to a slow start, the real action normally comes later. And so: “Fire seasons are growing longer. Hotter temperatures zap fuels of...
...who never met a climate scare he didn’t like, wrote in May that the seething seas were a comprehensive, looming disaster and self-inflicted wound. Moreover one cause of the disaster...
...there? The story follows up that “early signs of weakening” straw-clutch by claiming “The research offers new insights that enhance predictions of ice changes and sea level rise.” But not...
...least, waaaaay more carbon is going down the river and into the sea than we thought. As usual the details are complicated, involving the ratio of carbon 12 to carbon...
...it will be the quietest start to hurricane season since 1970. And while an unusually quiet start to the hurricane season doesn’t teach us anything about climate change, or even...
...them exhibits too much warming, and the bias shows up even when programmers tweak their creations to try and reproduce the known sea surface warming trend (which the models also...
...and manmade causes. In any case melting of sea ice, which much Arctic ice is, is not a big deal for the catastrophic sea level rise we’re often threatened with...
We recently noted that Northern Hemisphere records show the fall and winter seasons have been getting snowier on average even though many people believe the opposite, namely that winters in...
...Thus CTV seethes that “Earth has sweltered through its hottest Northern Hemisphere summer ever measured, with a record warm August capping a season of brutal and deadly temperatures, according to...
...thickness that is ‘sandwiched’ between the skeleton and the calcifying calicoblastic epithelium” and “separates the ECM from a direct contact with the surrounding [seawater] environment.” It is widely accepted by...
...the main paper with the sentence: “Arctic sea ice cover – including sea ice area (SIA), sea ice extent (SIE) and sea ice thickness – has declined conspicuously since the...
...weather in the U.S. It involves cooler sea surface temperatures and strong east-to-west winds in the Pacific Ocean, and it affects weather around the globe.” Eh? Cooler sea surface temperatures?...
...seasons are becoming earlier and shorter.” Wait. Shouldn’t warming make the flowering season longer and the frosts end sooner? No. “Due to late frost and rains, there will be virtually...
...that we may have been too flippant. Apparently ARs are important contributors to ice sheet formation during cold seasons but even bigger contributors to melting during warm seasons. And this...
...Forty years ago, it was easier to understand, but as of late, it is pretty mind-blowing that some people can have this level of cognitive dissonance.” But does the journalist...
The Great Amazon Fire Scare of 2019 Fact Check TRANSCRIPT Narrator In August 2019, news stories around the world declared that the Amazon rainforest was burning up. Actor Leonardo di...
We told you we told you so The cold spell that gripped North America through mid-February is a reality check for climate alarmism that it is failing badly. All the...
...and suffering in order to burn fossil fuels just a bit longer.” John Robson: You see? The U.S. “climate czar” doesn’t bother to check things. Not even basic background checks....
...check things out. And this one does check out: “Formate (IUPAC name: methanoate) is the conjugate base of formic acid. Formate is an anion (HCO2) or its derivatives such as...
...Facebook, despite all its existing fact-checkers. The usual pattern of big tech climate fact-checking is that a youngster with an arts degree deletes anything that doesn’t fit the alarmist orthodoxy...
...the paper was published in the prestigious International Journal of Climatology, which is published by the UK Royal Meteorological Society. After checking and re-checking their results, and looking for any...
...it’s a give-away that it's time to check the numbers. And that they probably didn’t bother. For instance, we've grown accustomed to our Environment Minister and others pointing to forest...
...would also be a failure of delta levees in the Sacramento region of California that would cause an inland sea to form in the Central Valley. We checked some local...
...checked against periodic observed temperature readings, but only where they are available, otherwise they are checked against model-generated data, so we haven’t solved the problem of all the missing thermometers....
Urban Flooding – It’s Not About Climate Fact Check TRANSCRIPT John Robson We used to call it rain. Now it’s climate change, and that means it’s your fault. I’m John...
...this is a Climate Discussion Nexus Fact Check on the 97 percent consensus slogan. To begin with, there are some ideas that pretty much all scientists accept. For instance that...
...on? John Robson: Let’s find out. I’m John Robson and this is a Climate Discussion Nexus Fact Check on the 97 percent consensus slogan. To begin with,...
...it causes about 84 times more warming than carbon dioxide does.” On a tonne-by-tonne basis it may be true. We didn’t check the math, or the assumptions behind it. But...
...scientists who are not experts in statistical methods. So what happened when two professors of statistics decided to check the results? “We find that the proxies do not predict temperature...
...huge new data set on the harm from CO2-driven warming on global agriculture. Unfortunately no one checked their math until University of Guelph economist Ross McKitrick decided to take a...
...assesses literature on the scientific, technological, environmental, economic and social aspects of mitigation of climate change. [FOOTNOTE 1] Levels of confidence [FOOTNOTE 2] are given in () brackets. Numerical ranges...
...wealthy alarmist tells you the seas are rising in implacable fury then buys a seaside mansion, you believe the home not the hype. Instead this mountain of misery and ruin...
...here.) So it stands to reason that as greenhouse gas levels go up, since they are supposedly the control knob on the climate, the amount of downward or “downwelling” longwave...
...now looks unlikely that countries will be able to limit global warming to the levels they agreed to under the 2015 Paris climate agreement.” Now looks unlikely? When did it...
...April-like weather returns”. Also, why does Canada’s tool and craft store Lee Valley Tools promote a very cool-looking “Softwood Kindling Splitter” with the statement that “Cottage season may be around...
...“No” we say… “No.” And add “Why do you ask?” For instance we checked the day after the story appeared and the high in New York City was 25C (77F),...
...Har har. But when we searched their site for “Ukraine” all we got was two-year-old stories rubbishing the place as a hotbed of CO2. So then we searched “China” and...
...dry season greener” and “Amazon dry season browner” or “Avalanches may increase” and “Avalanches may decrease” or “Bird migrations longer” and “Bird migrations shorter” and “Bird migrations out of fashion”....
...warming seas.” And of course “Plankton are hardly the only marine creatures at risk. Over 40 percent of reef-building corals are at risk of going extinct, according to a report...
...they admit that “Hotter summers and a prolonged growing season may create conditions that increase agriculture and food production opportunities”, “Changes in weather patterns may result in more lands suitable...
...show you a similar map for a date, in say, 1940. It would look the same (I checked). Extreme temperatures happen all the time in a somewhat random fashion. They...
...greenhouse gas, or is it slightly warmer now than it was 150 years ago and that’s why they get high levels of agreement. On the more contentious details the level...
...forest fuels don't burn this fall, they could make for an explosive wildfire season next year. The long-term trend, he says, is an occasional wet summer like the one B.C....
...seasons, lower quality wine, and restricted plant growth. Yet here’s something to toast to: In Bordeaux, France, one of the world’s premier wine-growing regions, climate change may actually make wine...
...It was a wet and dull season for many, with the UK seeing its wettest spring since 1986 and the sixth wettest on record” and the second “Why is June...
...point where the fall is approaching the spring. Wildfires in January and February indicate that these two seasons are growing toward one another and providing a much longer season. Our...
...as early as the 2030s because the sea ice that helps them hunt for food is thinning, a new study suggests.” Could. One study. Or not. Because polar bear numbers...
From CO2Science: Phytoplankton play a key role in ocean ecosystems, providing carbon and energy to higher trophic levels of the marine food web. Consequently, discerning their responses to environmental change,...
...fact is made painfully obvious in a recent study by Faltein et al. (2020), who examined the impact of low levels of CO2 (relative to present, ambient CO2 air) on...
...the issue with the Eocene is that late in that epoch the planet started cooling. Despite high levels of CO2. Wikipedia of course ties the cooling neatly to CO2 dropping....
...um… uh… give more lofty speeches and… and… well, to get a sense of the level of thought involved, Climate Home News chortles that “After nearly a decade of capture...
Suppose in a wild worst-case scenario, instead of just doubling atmospheric CO2 over pre-industrial times, we somehow doubled it again (going to 4 times the starting level) and again (eight...
...previous studies – end-of-century ocean acidification levels have negligible effects on important behaviours of coral reef fishes, such as the avoidance of chemical cues from predators, fish activity levels and...
...subsequent sea level rise. So what happened to the ice sheet’s ablation zone (which is characterized by a negative specific surface mass balance: SSMB, kg/m2/year) over the past quarter-century, when...
...information at the local level, the data for reconstructions at the global level are far too sparse and imprecise to be conclusive especially given the ease with which scientists can...
...seems to grow with the lack of eating. Once upon a time we were told Paris was the promised land. Then we were told no, 30% cuts from 2005 levels...
...fuel “a non-carbon source of affordable energy for every global citizen over the coming centuries.” It may not get them a lot of friendly notes about getting that “high-level waste”...
...aims to cut net emissions by 51-55% from gross 2005 levels. That compares with an existing 2030 goal of a 50% cut – hardly a heavy lift.” Boo right-wing governments....
The claim that on climate “the science is settled” is plainly a rhetorical hammer not an intellectual position, not least because it coexists seamlessly with the claim that things are...
...in the amounts of low clouds and high plus mid-level clouds that occurred between 2000 and 2004 on total radiative forcing (solar plus thermal). Paper reviewed: Palle, E., Goode, P.R.,...
...that the world has already warmed about one degree Celsius from pre-industrial levels.” But hang on. If she believes the IPCC, there’s been a total of one degree of warming...
...growth studies involving CO2, which tend to examine its impact at higher concentrations, the team of four researchers investigated the effects of subambient CO2 levels. More specifically, they measured “the...
...of the Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, rising CO2 levels in the air have not only allowed the world to keep greening, the process is accelerating despite extended...
...phylum Cnidaria” because, as Nova explains, the 3% who say the reef is at record coral levels are correct, and everyone else is wrong. Dang, turns out science isn’t a...
...and CO2 levels. But doing so would also take us back to preindustrial child mortality levels, which would really give the Elizabeth May’s of the world something to get upset...
...that we honestly doubt some of this language means anything. For instance “Successive IPCC reports have given assessments of the level of anthropogenic global warming, but no equivalent assessment of...
...the gas locked beneath the seabed. Although seabed greenhouse gas thawing has been foreseen – and feared – for some time, it was only suspected to become a serious problem...
...globalforestwatch.org. Their Australia summary shows that the current fire season is bad, but not as bad as 2011 or 2012. In fact up to the end of November the fire...
...gall, saying harsh winters are caused by global warming too. See, it melts Arctic sea ice, which releases warm air, which bends the jet stream, which sends the polar vortex...
From CO2Science: A large fraction of tree-ring-based temperature reconstructions are based on warmer months of the year. Relatively few are those that reconstruct winter season temperatures, especially in colder regions...
...to be by far the biggest contributor to sea level rise.” Yeah. Or it may not. The article continues “By some estimates the oceans have taken up about 25 percent...
...Let’s squander it by calling it “tar sands” and aiming for windmills from sea to sea to sea instead. Speaking of windmills, Evans also notes that abundant energy has been...
...Alaska represents a profound risk in a state that accounts for about 60% of the nation’s seafood harvest. They’re also almost impossible to remove. Nowhere in the world have green...
...cap and with it, the cuddly iconic polar bears. People jumped to the conclusion that since bears hunt on Spring sea ice, the loss of sea ice would mean the...
For years we have been treated to graphs showing the decline of Arctic sea ice based on satellite measurements, which began in 1979. The Canadian Ice Service also maintains detailed...
...climate change. But when they’re down, alarmists say climate change caused it. This spring the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season was going to be worse than the worst thing ever and...
...2010 when sea ice in the Arctic Ocean was substantially diminished, Francis’ team noted. “As the Arctic sea-ice cover was rather low in June 2020, around the lowest on record...
...a half of this difference was due to an overestimate of the Sea Surface Temperature trend during this period (Flato et al., 2013). Since the AR5, additional studies based on...
...longer growing season coupled with shorter-season varieties will allow expansion of production of crops such as corn and soybeans in Western Canada.” The Health Canada survey also found that Canadians’...
...You measured the temperature across the entire 500 million square kilometres of the Earth’s land and sea surface to two decimal places? How? Even at the more sophisticated monitoring stations...
...on Russia’s Northern Sea Route despite the dangerous growing presence of a bunch of hard cold white stuff in the water closing the passage well ahead of schedule, be assured,...
...heat had about the same, but lower, risk levels. And, interestingly, neither type of extreme had much effect on mortality late in the season, indicating that people eventually get around...
...American seafood consumption to shrimp, but never mind. The point is that in the world of climate change, everything is bad or nearly so. Thus the Times laments that of...
...demonstrated, notwithstanding Canada’s bad wildfire season in 2023, the overall trend here has been down for decades. And the United States had a very quiet wildfire season in 2023 so...
...bears. And as our Climate Emergency Tour has highlighted, the rapid warming of Canada is not reflected in temperature measurements in cities from sea to sea to sea. Nor have...
...begins “Spring is in the air” which we, being grouches, would ban along with “‘Tis the season” at a different time of year. But ‘tis always the season for loaded...
...report, once again, that there was no significant impact of DTR on mortality risk during the warm season. However, in the cold season, the cumulative relative risk of non-accidental (NAD),...
...twist the venue had no windows. It was literally as well as figuratively a hermetically sealed “homo conferensis” event where an ideologically and sociologically homogenous if nationally diverse group went...
...may be a sign the region has entered a ‘new regime’ of low sea ice coverage driven by warming, research suggests…. ‘While for many years Antarctic sea ice increased despite...
...was average, though the imaginary fire was out of control by them. Now with the season well-advanced, the data confirm that this season sits somewhere in the middle of the...
...right? Paper reviewed: Hagen, A.B. and Landsea, C.W. 2012. On the classification of extreme Atlantic hurricanes utilizing mid-twentieth-century monitoring capabilities. Journal of Climate 25: 4461-4475. What was done In an...
...two difference seawater pH regimes over a period of 37 days. Their experiment was conducted under controlled-environment conditions at the Italian Mario Zucchelli research station (Terra Nova Bay, Ross Sea)...
...and 25°C) and three seawater pH treatments (8.1, 7.7 and 7.4). Key data measurements included oxygen production and depletion in order to estimate net primary production and respiration. In describing...
...and enjoying life and some bore in the next beach chair starts berating you about sea level rise. Are we right? No. Instead the piece starts “Weather, once a reliable...
...the world’s fresh water, and 90 per cent of its ice. If the whole continent melted completely, global sea level would rise by 60m.” Yeah. If. Mais revenons à nos...
...scientist Katharine Hayhoe refers to as ‘global weirding.’ All last year effects were glaringly present, from heat extremes over the summer to a record hurricane and wildfire season and, now,...
...induced by climate change are just getting worse and worse’.” The Economist grunted “Until recently, January wouldn’t have been considered part of fire season. But planet-warming greenhouse-gas emissions have also...
...shows a vast red northern-nation-sea-to-sea-to-sea “Notional Corridor” then a feeble blue “Existing corridor” that for some bizarre reason is almost entirely in the warm southern inhabited part of Canada. And...
...sea floor by Ocean Networks Canada in an effort to study the sponge’s response to the changing climate and weather patterns.” Sea sponges being, we say based on research the...
...which was part of the “Seattle Center” (neither of which is a very imaginative name, to be fair) when it hosted the 1962 World’s Fair. Its long and variegated history...
...told? In the wacky world of climate alarmism, every silver lining has a cloud. Thus “After decades of Arctic sea ice getting faster, models suggest a dramatic reversal is coming”....
...be right and it is possible to check. Reuters agrees, rejecting fashionable relativism on this topic at least. Nevertheless you can guess which side it thinks is right: it sides...
One of the graphs that will not be making an appearance in our #CheerfulCharts series is fertility rates around the world, which are crashing to levels that foretell a depopulated...
...to bounce back to a January 2020 economy when half the country lived paycheck to paycheck; unchecked carbon pollution endangered our future; and racial inequalities made people of color so...
...on it, that as NBC just put it, “Presidential victory? Check. Inauguration complete? Yup. Now comes the harder part: governing”. Please tell us your crack elite reporters and analysts knew...
...nutritional contents. It’s since become second nature to check the calorie, sugar, salt, and fat content of food or drinks before buying them. But this isn’t enough for consumers anymore....
...because we do fact checks and those words are from a consensus statement among climate scientists posted on the NOAA web page and quoted by our source for this week’s...
...and this is a CDN Fact Check on the case of the disappearing glaciers. We begin with Iceland’s Ok glacier. While most of the world’s warming since 1901 happened after...
...climate change.” Everybody knows global wildfires are raging out of control and are the worst they’ve ever been. And because everybody knows, there’s no need to check the data. But...
...check on Climate Change and Heatwaves. Narrator: Are heatwaves caused by climate change? Are they becoming more common or not? What even is a heatwave? All these questions are all...
A number of people have asked for a link to the pamphlet whose predictions are assessed in our first "Crystal Ball Check" video, "The 2001 'Canada Action Plan' Crystal Ball...
Speaking of not checking facts or logic, Bloomberg recently ran a column saying, and we are not making it up, “$266 Trillion in Climate Spending is a No-Brainer”. To which...
...Checkerspot butterfly to polar bears, penguins and pikas and finds that, as so often, the facts don’t fit the hype. One genuinely alarming feature of climate “science” is the way...
...of those greasy boilerplate statements, namely “All Hindawi journals employ a series of substantial integrity checks before articles are accepted for publication”, but if it were true the scandal would...
...economic damage compared to other types of extreme weather. If you want to know more about the shady science of heat waves be sure to check out our new video...
...Climate Discussion Nexus, I’m John Robson, and this is a CDN “Crystal Ball” check on the can’t-miss bet that re-bankrupted an auto-rental giant. Narrator: The Hertz Corporation was an innovative...
...caused it, and if there’s a flood, alarmists say climate change caused it, and if there are both or neither ditto. And because they often fail to check those boring...
Another reality check last week that didn’t check out, or in, was the reliability of alternative energy. It is one thing to say that Texas windmills were not ready for...
...check the accounting at least twice. For instance, as Ron Barmby argues in Schachter Energy Report (paywalled there but now published here), Canada’s Clean Fuel Standard looks like a tax...
...by misrepresented science. Moore’s tweet provides a link worth checking out. Before you click it, if you didn’t already, we invite you to make a list of news organizations you...
...usual checklist including aboriginals and youth paves the way for “launching adaptation advisory tables led by environmental organizations, adaptation experts, Indigenous Peoples, and other key partners, including youth, from across...
...gas companies, which fuel global warming, should pay climate damages, the lawsuit argues.” In point of fact the “research” in question, as we detailed in our “Fact Check” video Turning...
...Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in Indonesia”.) And that same July 12, “The Honourable Seamus O’Regan Jr., Minister of Labour, will be in Hamilton to tour a housing construction project. They will...
...and “New angles on climate stories”. Though speaking of new angles, and at the risk of causing controversy by being genuinely original, another approach would involve checking the facts. For...
...nobody, least of all a journalist, should bother checking whether it is supported by any evidence. This week alert reader Gary Puckering noted an August 16 story on the CBC...
...one thing to sweep aside checks and balances and hope nothing bad happens. It’s quite another to know what you’d do with power if it turned out you could get...
Wrapping up our fact check of Al Gore’s rant in Davos, we now turn to his claim that global warming is “causing these waves of climate refugees predicted to reach...
...the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council to fund such a lying, denying, obfuscating project, well, Bassnett checked one box, albeit eccentrically, with “A lot of the response to climate...
...of Journalism with a minor in political science. And an “Editorial Code of Conduct” that says “Information from another publication must be checked or credited before it is used. This...
...hurricanes in the gulf at the same time.” In USA Today “Opinion contributor” Monica Medina asked “How can Trump ignore climate crisis with twin hurricane-season storms barreling toward us? Climate...
...is due to you-know-what: “The damaging no-name storm system coincided with the early June start of hurricane season, which this year is forecast to be among the most active in...
...levels. Elevated CO2 concentrations were maintained between the hours 0330 and 1930 each day. Plants were harvested for aboveground biomass measurements 33, 36 and 38 days after transplanting in 2014,...
...temperature on every single part of the land and sea throughout a 24-hour period, or of the temperature at some particular instant? Actually it’s meant to be the daily average,...
...energy programs. Altogether, the bill could allow the United States to cut greenhouse gas emissions about 40 percent below 2005 levels by the end of the decade.” Probably you should...
Or at least back to 1970. And only considering hurricanes that made landfall. Roger Pielke Jr. and Ryan Maue have written a summary on the 2024 hurricane season, when there...
...you’ll definitely fail the exam, unable even to remember the difference between the Holton-Tan effect and the Dobson-Brewer circulation. Which is, again, a demonstration that even in this reasonably high-level...
...would be the level of atmospheric CO2. Low CO2 levels cause NOAA to “adjust” temperatures downward, and high levels cause it to adjust them upward. Almost as if they were...
...the next level in this new decade.” The next level. Wow. Such PR wizardry leaves us with just one more question. Does a person emit more CO2 if snoring vigorously?...
...2015 Paris climate deal. Scientists say the world needs to cut greenhouse gas emissions by around 43% by 2030, from 2019 levels, to have any hope of meeting the Paris...
...major costs on some people, while one that fails will batter the populace. So best to level with them, get buy-in, and admit when things aren’t working, rather than sneering....
...1950: Notice that the numbers rise dramatically from 1950 to around 1970 then leveled off at just over 4 tonnes of CO2 per person. Then from 2000 to 2010 the...
...and its connection to rising CO2 levels. The authors summarize several independent studies that have used changes in atmospheric chemistry and satellite imagery, all of which conclude that the world...
...after 40 years of rising GHG levels should look a lot like the patterns predicted by the models under rising GHG levels over the coming 40 or 80 years. Instead...
...Aliniaeifard, S., Mashal, M., Ghorbanzadeh, P., Seif, M., Gavilan, M.U., Carrillo, F.F., Lastochkina, O. and Li, T. 2020. CO2 enrichment and increasing light intensity till a threshold level, enhance growth...
...task harder is worrisome. Extreme storms, heat waves, droughts and wildfires are already becoming more common. Some species are facing potential extinction. Glaciers are melting, and sea levels are rising.”...
...it is becoming politically and environmentally toxic. As the world wakes up to the catastrophic impact of climate change, from rising sea levels and drought to wildfires and crop failure,...
...let alone surge past 1951 levels. And awkwardly, that warming appears to have stopped in 2009 despite record CO2 levels blah blah blah. There’s obviously lots more in this report...
...1.5 degrees isn’t a magical tipping point for Earth’s demise, the United Nations has warned of severe and potentially irreversible consequences above that level.” Which admittedly doesn’t have to be...
...under controlled conditions at the Institute of Cellular and Organismic Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan. Fertilized grouper eggs were exposed to one of three seawater pCO2 levels (~650, 1500 or...
...blankets with all the money they’re saving. The quote was from the BBC’s “Question Time” and it added “This #bbcqt audience feels we are witnessing a level of poverty “we...
...4 dozen cities in Spain, it intoned “The country is vulnerable to rising sea levels and rapid desertification.” And despite the Paris Agreement “the world has already warmed by 1...
...we really could set the global thermometer to any level we chose, what level we would choose. It is far from obvious that the climate of 1970, or 1950, is...
Canada’s former Environment Minister Catherine McKenna, now gone on to her reward as the unelected “Chair, High‑level Expert Group on the Net Zero Emissions Commitments of Non-State Entities”, produced a...
...vehicles, from people who knew as much about economics as they did about engineering, is dangerous make-believe not just at the level of national economies and budgets but in the...
...23 priority bird species killed at wind and solar facilities in California, USA. Bayesian hierarchical models suggested that 48% of these species were vulnerable to population-level effects from added fatalities...
...wrong about sea level rise, polar bears, Arctic ice, and virtually everything else. Don’t tie yourselves to him and let yourselves and the level of debate be dragged down in...
...the game, FCM president and Strathroy-Caradoc ON mayor Joanne Vanderheyden “said that, as the first level of government to respond to natural disasters, municipalities are on the front lines of...
...estimate by researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. They reckon that number could increase to $47bn annually if global temperatures rise to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels (a threshold that...
...atmospheric CO2 increases the productivity and growth of bell pepper, fully ameliorating the retarding effects of water stress under all but the severest level of water stress. What is more,...
...only a tepid conclusion regarding whether such increases are observable globally. As for average Northern Hemisphere snow cover, season-specific data show reductions in Spring and Summer since the 1960s, but...
...when forests took root in the Arctic and sea levels flooded where the cities we live in exist today. That’s not a world I want to pass on to him...
...true, the Northeast is experiencing intensifying humidity and sea level rise. But the 11 Southeastern states are uniquely susceptible to much of that and more.” Only nobody noticed. Then “Debby...
...sector, 27% below imagined 2026 levels and 35% below actual 2019 levels by “the first compliance period, 2030-2032”, whatever that means, that cannot possibly be met except by drastically reducing...
...Rebellion wants, or 2050 as the Paris crowd prefers, what next? How long does it take for CO2 to start falling to “safe” levels and then when do temperatures fall...
From the CO2Science Archive: Recognizing that “more CO2 is beneficial to plant growth because plants feed on CO2,” Fu et al. (2015) say they “tested the effect of CO2 levels...
...overshoot the amount of fossil fuels consistent with limiting warming to 2 degrees Celsius – the level scientists say would result in vastly more life-threatening heat waves, drought and coastal...
...world evolved under conditions of far higher CO2 levels and react to additional CO2 availability with what can only be called conspicuous enthusiasm. The indispensable CO2Science.org maintains an exhaustive data...
...average GHG emissions target levels from the existing MY 2026 standards.” With the usual practical business approach of “can’t we all just get along?” and “surely cooler heads will prevail”,...
...warmer still over the next decade.” OK then, government-funded media dudes, if CO2 the “warming gas” is at its highest level in 2 million years, why isn’t temperature? Why, indeed,...
...be nearly twice as rich as the US is today. And that, we’re told, is what we need to avoid at all costs. Courtesy of OurWorldinData.org, here are the levels...
...a bit of difference to the global climate because atmospheric CO2 levels will continue to rise at pretty much the same rate. In case anyone was thinking we were just...
...that sea level rise is causing shorelines to shrink around the world and everyone will nod along. Wail about the rising threat of floods and you’ll be hailed as a...
...Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, and itself home of the “Chatham House Rule“ and ostensibly a forum for serious thought, got into the spirit of the season, blaring “What is...
...contradicts what they really promised so it manages to be incomprehensible and deceitful simultaneously. Typical of the level of discourse is the Ontario minister of the environment chirping on Twitter...
...2019 levels, but within the data sets there are some national/regional differences. Whilst global gasoline consumption (25 mbpd) was just above its 2019 pre-COVID level, kerosene, although growing strongly (17.5%...
...Humans have boosted the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere by about half in the past 250 years, to its highest level in around 3m years. That spike will...
...track to meet its United Nations target of lowering Canada’s emissions to 30% below 2005 levels by 2030, and to net zero by 2050.” And one reason why it’s nonsense...
...figure below, Mariani notes that a “return to a glacial period would reduce by 51% the global productivity for thermal (low temperatures) and nutritional (low levels of CO2) reasons,” whereas...
...instance, “A government-commissioned report by the respected New Zealand Institute of Economic Research (NZIER) shows that just reducing emissions to 50% of 1990 levels in 2050 would cost NZ$28 billion...
...in the U.S., according to a report released by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and prepared by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. With levelized costs of just over $30...
...terms of its ability to produce biomass (plant growth) and support higher trophic levels up the food chain than it was two, three, five, or even ten decades ago. The...
...energy source is not legal in Australia. Carbon-capture and storage was left out ‘due to the low technological readiness level’, but green hydrogen was included in a contradiction that ‘gobsmacked’...
If climate change wasn’t already scary enough, a new comprehensive meta-analysis of over 100 studies published over nearly 60 years looking at how vegetable plants respond to higher levels of...
...million daily mortality records from 3,000 Mexican municipalities from 1998 to 2017, which they matched to local weather records and income levels. They estimated that about 75,000 deaths annually in...
...change is probably to blame”. And if we plant more they will catch fire and defeat the purpose. It’s not obvious on what cue the chorus switches seamlessly from polar...
...raised before the question of what alarmists think would be the ideal level of atmospheric CO2 and global temperature and how they know. And a follow-on: why do they very...
...also the greenest? But that possibility isn’t stopping the lineup of would-be copycats. For instance President Biden with his pledge to cut US GHG emissions by half from 2005 levels...
...temperature “handle” for millennia until the Industrial Revolution and then with a variable delay around 1900 or 1950 temperatures shot up the “blade” in an unprecedented way to unprecedented levels....
...children seem less susceptible to the influence of worldview or political context, it may be possible for them to inspire adults towards higher levels of climate concern, and in turn,...
...at temperatures well above those observed today, despite low CO2 levels. Now comes evidence that the warming was not confined to the far North. The US Southwest was also much...
...the other inhabitants of the Earth for whom rising CO2 levels are nutritious food, not poisonous “pollution”. The authors summarize several independent studies that have used changes in atmospheric chemistry...
...Canada amped up its commitment from a 30% cut from 2005 levels by 2030 to a 41-45% cut, our environment minister told reporters they wouldn’t be increasing the carbon tax....
...cent below their 1988 level (they were 17 per cent higher). Since then, Canada has made a succession of emission reduction commitments but has yet to achieve any of them....
...the period in question. And the final row shows sea levels, which don’t drive temperature but respond to it, at least while the planet is warming out of a glaciation,...
...temperature (GMST) and meridional sea surface temperature gradient (MTG) from a key CMIP6 model against a historical benchmark period -- the early Eocene climatic optimum (~50 million years ago), a...
...Mahmoud, E.A., Abdelmohsen, S.A.M., Abdelbacki, A.M.M., Elansary, H.O. and Abdel-Hamid, A.M.E. 2021. Assessing the impact of higher levels of CO2 and temperature and their interactions on tomato (Solanum lycopersicum). Plants...
...high likelihood of irreversible damage to coral reefs worldwide.” Searching for real-world observations that might support these dire predictions, the seven-member research team focused on studying coral reefs located within...
...keep 1.5°C Within Reach”) But 1.5C never was within reach. As we pointed out years ago, the same computer models that claimed man-made emissions were causing an RCP8.5-level heating catastrophe...
...(medium confidence). The lack of trend is explained by strong internal variability and/or the competing effects of low-level Arctic amplification and upper-level tropical amplification of the equator-to-pole temperature gradient (medium...
...and human-related drivers is difficult… within the uncertainties of past sea level rise and coral reef growth, most coral reefs seem to have kept pace with the recent sea level...
...and soaring demand for metals, especially for copper, has brought this street crime to new levels.” It creates public safety hazards and even desecration of cemeteries. And as the piece...
...Arabia, with Russia the odd one out and the US divided…. The bad news is that the transition has hardly begun at the global level…. fossil fuels … still made...
...and one of two light levels (low or high, corresponding to approximately 7.5 and 16 mol photons m-2 d-1, with the low light level achieved via black nylon nettings that...
...starts on Nov. 30 and runs through Dec. 12, including the “Summit” or “WCAS” to insiders on Dec. 1 and 2 “when the first part of the high-level segment for...
...lives of working-class Americans better. Advancing a clear argument on this front will be make-or-break for Biden’s re-election chances.” He then takes a fairly level-headed look at the implementation challenges...
...the new plant growth: “the main driver of growing pollen is increasing levels of carbon dioxide. While higher temperatures extend the growing season, carbon dioxide fuels photosynthesis, enabling plants to...
...week, when we cheerily swap the C in CO2 for an S, and show you SO2 or Sulfur dioxide levels in the US since 1980. This actual pollutant used to...
...frankly ominous cooling trend. It means that each of the past four interglacials saw temperatures at or above the level the alarmists claim would constitute a crisis if we returned...
...between the two parameters is 0.89 at a probability level (P) of < 0.0001. Figure 1. Yearly global temperature relative to its 1980 value (ΔT) vs. yearly EESC normalized to...
...tipping points in the wrong direction, that we manage to get carbon levels falling then cannot halt the process when we get to the “right” level. Remember, in the boringly...
...temperature” around head level. It’s not level-headed. Heat index, the U.S. National Weather Service explains, is “a measure of how hot it really feels when relative humidity is factored in...
...see the rise in global sea level from that, the human eye would have been able to see the rise in global sea level”. Sure. And Greta Thunberg “can see...
...include “the collapse of Greenland’s ice cap, eventually producing a huge sea level rise, the collapse of a key current in the north Atlantic, disrupting rain upon which billions of...
...extent are temperature levels changing due to greenhouse gas emissions?” The awkward part isn’t trying to grasp the subtleties of Norwegian since it’s also available in English. It’s that the...
...Question. Narrator The whole discussion about climate change ultimately comes down to one question: How sensitive is the climate system to increased greenhouse gas levels? How much does adding CO2...
...river levels to drop to near record levels.” But if so, how were people carving there a thousand or even two thousand years ago? Were they holding their breath? Or...
...and that crowd), “the bubbles form in slow motion – taking anything from 10 years to 2000 years to completely seal off from the air above…. spikes or dips in...
...preparation for extreme weather in the province has been just as shocking. Ed Fast, the MP for Abbotsford, one of the worst affected cities, said all levels of government have...
...is the notion that “the scientists said it was still possible to avoid the most dangerous levels of warming by keeping the rise in global temperatures under 1.5C this century....
...it gives instructive warnings about present circumstances. For instance, Mediterranean sea level increases 7000 years ago shed light on our own day. Or when scientists proclaimed five years ago that...
From CO2Science: Because nearly all plants on Earth are carbon-limited, rising levels of atmospheric CO2 are having a profound impact on plant physiology, development and growth. This CO2 fertilization effect,...
...not problems. He explains the (again, standard) calculations showing that a further doubling of carbon dioxide levels above the present level would have only minimal effects on the greenhouse blanket,...
...variables across monthly, seasonal, annual, and multi-year time scales and (2) to identify the environmental and climatic drivers of interannual CO2 flux variability at this mixed temperate forest.” So what...
...and even if Prime Minister Carney reopened it, the opposition wouldn’t be able to ask him any questions because he doesn’t have a seat in the House of Commons. Indeed,...
...with the cold comeback aimed more toward Western Canada. The forecast is for a colder season with near- or above-normal snow totals across parts of the west.” Further south “Massachusetts...
...which historically has done its most noticeable damage closer to sea level, now reaches higher. From 1960 to 2017, the Alpine snow season shortened by 38 days – starting an...
...you toss it 10 times and get 8 heads or more. Crooked or not? Hard to say. That happens roughly 5% of the time. And Atlantic hurricane seasons are a...
At CDN we’re old enough to remember that summer has always been the hot season in the Northern Hemisphere. And that journalists used to know this. For instance a writer...
...of many seats in Quebec, any party that wishes to form government in Ottawa — including the incumbent Liberals — must account for the extraordinary zeal Quebecers have for ‘green’...
...now we get such compelling practical measures as “In Feni, Bangladesh, young people stood waist deep in water and one boy held a sign that read: ‘Like the sea, we...
In a perilous confrontation over the Black Sea, two Russian SU-27 combat aircraft harassed and ultimately downed an American drone in international airspace. An action which the U.S. promptly slammed...
...in recorded history. Polar bears wander further south in search of food because Arctic ice has receded. Climate refugee is now a recognized term as humanity flees to escape.” To...
...“Wednesday morning was also the coldest of the season so far for much of the East Coast, including as far south as Florida, with New York City reaching the frosty...
...change because they will be some of the first affected. Farmers should expect wetter springs, delays in the growing season, changes in crops that can be planted, crop yields and...
...in the South China Sea, Symbiochlorum hainanensis, the four Chinese researchers examined its individual and combined response to ocean acidification and warming. The full-factorial design included a control (26°C, pH...
...century. This time, however, we note a new study in Nature in which scientists go the other way: arguing that the sea surface temperature record from 1900 to 1930 is...
...temperatures, sea level rise, and drought, as well as related effects such as decreased arability of farmland, decreased habitability of land, and decreased availability of fresh water.” What of the...
...season to climate change…. ‘Every expert that we talk to indicates the significant factor that climate change is playing on our susceptibility to wildfire and on the conditions that lead...
...western Europe. ‘This faunal turnover is often attributed to the connection of landmasses due to the dramatic sea level drop from the growth of Antarctic ice sheets,’ she says.” And...
...to my preseason idea. Tornadoes have fallen below the average despite a favorable temperature pattern this spring season. Temps what I thought, but response with tornadoes not. Dang climate change...
...this winter. The state-wide snowpack is running far below average to date and there is little relief in sight before the season ends.” Which is pretty bad, right? Right. As...
...the longstanding demands of the Davos set has been that financial markets must take account of the world-ending, extinction-level risks of climate change, in response to which the market has...
...environmental policy beyond scrapping the carbon tax , but if he is searching for policy ideas, one place he best not look – except for examples of what not to...
...exquisitely well adapted to the rhythm of a usual year. But instead of reliable seasons, they’re getting weather chaos”. Bosh. Even leaving aside that modern fruit trees are the product...
...All estimates from one paper. (By the way if you’re thinking of doing your own search, the U.S. National Institutes of Health says there are “approximately 300 to 500 bacterial...
...vulnerable.” And he illustrated his point with illustrations from the Seattle Times of burning forests and someone with a burning world for a head, before noting that “Some local Seattle...
...Snowmageddon” “Record Hurricane Season and Canada Wasn’t Spared” “The Year’s Most Powerful Tornado” “Frigid Spring Helps Canadians Self-Isolate” “Fall in Canada – Winter in the West and Summer in the...
...of the U.S. National Academy of Science 114: 2946-2951. The six scientists report that “humans have vastly expanded the spatial and seasonal ‘fire niche’ in the coterminous United States, accounting...
...data, Ahmad et al. (2020) evaluated spatio-temporal trends in annual and seasonal snow cover in the Chitral River Basin of Hindukush, Pakistan, over the period 2000-2016. Located between 36°-37° N...
...average temperature by 0.16°C for 20% coverage, and 0.39°C for 50% coverage.” And you know the next bit: “the polar regions would warm more than the tropics, increasing sea ice...
...of the most damaging effects of climate change, including rising sea levels, deadlier storms, and more devastating heat, droughts and wildfires, are irreversible.” So we can stop? No, of course...
...was that tropical rains are seasonal “and with climate change, some of these tropical ecosystems are expected to become even more seasonal”. So the jaguar figured why wait? Or the...
...and scientists expect to be forced to relocate by rising sea levels in the coming decades.” So urgent is it that the relocation has… been on hold since 2017 while...
...for more water that’s expected to come this year. The state’s rainy season could be complicated by El Nino – the natural, temporary and occasional warming of part of the...
...she reflected on the 2019 hurricane season, and in particular on the weird habit of blaming each and every cyclone on man-made greenhouse gas emissions despite the absence of a...
...Europe and Africa. A heat wave, of all things, in Greenland. Climate change and its effects are accelerating, with climate related disasters piling up, season after season.” This piece quoted...
...especially in California are ‘straightforward,’ said Park Williams, a bioclimatologist at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory.” Should California have a quiet fire season next year, be advised that the link...
...plants were frozen.” Yet the July 15 issue kicked off with: “For gardeners who try to grow food crops, no two seasons are alike: it’s either late frost, hail, August...
...exact temperature, to a hundredth of a degree, on every single speck of land or fleck of sea on the vast planet Earth every single second, half-second or whatever it...
...extreme precipitation (Section 11.7). Also, changes in sea surface temperatures (SSTs) alter land-sea contrast, leading to changes in precipitation extremes near coastal regions. There has been new evidence of the...
...record was set in 1935, followed by 1992 and 2018. So, for the record, if you live in Florida, be aware that during the season they call “hurricane season”, you...
...Not that we don’t already have seaweed, occurring naturally in vast amounts throughout the seven seas and doing its thing, which alas includes the bit where it gets eaten or...
...Newsom, a Democrat, said in his announcement. It was the clearest sign yet that this year’s destructive wildfire season had shaken up the debate over what to do about climate...
...in 1850 was so vast that the Sacramento Valley became an inland sea and Sacramento itself was described as a “second Venice.” Flooding continued in the winter of 1851-52 when...
...both, back and forth, sometimes (like in the late 1800s) a stretch of dry seasons, sometimes a stretch of wet seasons, but no trend. Whatever your prediction of the effect...
...Sea, sending warmer air and water north and warming the Arctic, while also weakening the polar vortex with winter storm consequences. But it can also form over the Gulf of...
...Figure 1b-e, large discrepancies between models and observations exist when comparing snow cover trends by season. For spring and summer, the observed trends in snow cover decline were much stronger...
...change. But its city council is refusing to run away from it, saying it’s more cost-effective to restore beaches, reinforce seawalls and dredge a nearby river. The state is not...
...question: If “global” warming is causing Canada’s record wildfire season, why (h/t Judith Curry) is the American one “setting up to historically be one of the slowest years on record”?...
...In the southwest prairies a “longer growing season would expand cropping options, e.g. fall crops or double cropping.” And in southwest Ontario “Temperature increases may extend the growing season which...
From the CO2Science Archive: Although some climate alarmists contend that CO2-induced global warming will increase the number of hurricanes in the future, the search for such effect on Atlantic Ocean...
...although studies have shown this parameter can vary significantly over hours, days, weeks, seasons and other time scale. Instead, far too many keep experimental seawater pH constant, thereby introducing potentially...
...beat in the newsroom’.” And to peddle not lies but the sorts of wild exaggerations typical of true believers. Like that rubbish about a 20-foot rise in sea levels. Or...
Supposedly the very active Atlantic hurricane season in 2020 was more proof that global warming is upon us. As you will recall, when there was a long hiatus in major...
...what’s killing off the sea stars. (Spoiler: Climate change is involved.)” Crocodiles in the streets. Sea stars in the grave. Students protesting. Never mind the model failures. It’s the apocalypse....
...its longest season on record in its usual Closing Day fashion on Sunday, with hundreds of skiers and snowboarders celebrating on top of the mountain. And even though it was...
...an idea of the problem, we searched the BoE website on June 10 and got 557 hits for “climate change” while “inflation” got 6,844. And you might think, at least...
...a year.” Moreover, should you for some reason undertake one, “A Google search for ‘Despacito’ activates servers in six to eight data centres round the world – consuming very real...
...start an inter-glacial period.” Now it bears repeating here that if you want to determine precisely how many interglacial periods the planet has seen since Megalodon bit the seabed, cooling...
...went extinct. But then they started flourishing, especially once a legitimate issue of overhunting was largely addressed. But they might disappear if the sea ice melts, in which case the...
...happening. In fact we’ve mentioned it several times. So we are not surprised to hear (h/t Benny Peiser) of yet more research showing that as sea levels rise, those Pacific...
...prediction that it will. Figure 1. Plot-scale responses of fine-root growth to warming and drying conditions during the growing seasons of 2014-2017 of an ombrotrophic peatland in northern Minnesota. Data...
...research team “combined wind data, satellite observations of sea-ice drift and climate-model simulations to understand how wind patterns near Antarctica have evolved since the 1920s (which is how far back...
...company abandons $250 million plant to make subsea cables that would have wrecked the sea floor. And a wind project in Maine is on the ropes.” Which is better than...
...since to them everything is a potential meal. As for reality, the AP story buried the observation way down that “Polar bears’ dependence on sea ice makes them highly vulnerable...
...North Sea oil and gas, she has overturned a ban on fracking, and she has chosen Jacob Rees Mogg, one of the few fierce opponents of climate action in British...
...has summoned an emergency meeting for… six months from now, is all in a lather that sea levels supposedly rose 3.7mm last year with more and worse to come! But...
Earlier this year we reported on new evidence that global greening due to rising CO2 levels is not only continuing but accelerating. Which is great news, if you’re the sort...
...wildfire seasons can be attributed to climate change.” As we said in February about record lows across the Northern Hemisphere, “If these were record highs, you know what they’d say:...
...season of long, lazy days, ice cream cones, and sand somehow getting into everything. But it’s also a season of extreme weather, from heat waves to hurricanes”. We shall see....
...Northwest Territories government says damage to a fuel hose played a role in delaying this year's shipping season for resupply barges headed to coastal communities. The territorial government announced earlier...
...in lake-effect snow if the current rate of greenhouse gas emissions continues. By midcentury, the amount of seasonal lake-effect snow is projected to increase modestly, as the Great Lakes will...
...focusing primarily on its growth and yield and its nitrogen content, concentration and use efficiency. The experiment was conducted over the course of three consecutive growing seasons at the experimental...
...and slopes. There is nothing climate change cannot do. Indeed in December it snowed in California and Seattle, prompting NBC to shrug “Snow reported in Seattle, California as parts of...
Apparently climate change is producing such favourable conditions for Alaska sockeye salmon that they’re skipping an entire year in fresh water and heading out to sea big and strong. But...
...the fastest-warming season, leading to a trend in less snow overall. The East is also seeing more “yo-yo” winters of very snowy versus no snow at all because of extremes...
...system can be thought of as a set of large-scale slow-moving cyclical mechanisms that interact with each other through their effects on the oceans, sea ice, and other major components...
...AGCM) forced with observed sea surface temperature and sea ice data for the period 1951-2003, where the only difference between the ensemble experiments was the land cover change (LCC) that...
Over at CNSNews, which bills itself as “The right news. Right now”, Craig Bannister observed that “The 2022 Atlantic hurricane season is off to its slowest start in 30 years,...
...Yangtze River. This they did via phytolith analysis, after which they compared their results with paleoclimatic indicators derived from stalagmites, peatlands, North Atlantic deep-sea sediments (Bond et al., 1997, 2001),...
...announced the Australian permanent drought.” Specifically on January 4 2008, though a couple of years later it rained so hard it supposedly lowered global sea levels. Despite which the experts...
The alarmists keep telling us the Antarctic is melting and sea levels will soon start rising rapidly. Despite their habit of sending scientific expeditions to the South Pole to prove...
...there’s more seasonal variation. Also that it wobbles on its axis on roughly a 41,000-year cycle, and the more it tilts, the more sunlight hits high altitudes in summer, also...
...the southwest US. There are important changes in the seasonality of peak flows in regions where snowmelt dominates, such as northern North America and northern Europe, corresponding to strong winter...
...decreased in the southwest US. There are important changes in the seasonality of peak flows in regions where snowmelt dominates, such as northern North America and northern Europe, corresponding to...
...over the past 5,500 years. As their contribution to this important topic, the team of eight researchers reconstructed sea surface temperatures (SST) in the Sicily Channel based on Mg/Ca ratios...
...than just traffic – they’re also dodging a growing number of potholes.” Winter storms? And here we were told that season was vanishing even in chilly Canada. What’s it doing...
...website and a Google search came up empty. In a way it’s unnecessary, because a surprising number of news stories read exactly like JSO manifestos, especially CTV’s “Climate and Environment”...
...well short of that standard.” Note that Koonin correctly describes that statement as “attributed to Einstein”. Many sources pin it on the great physicist without checking, and with varying wording,...
...they found them. And we’d say even louder kudos if such scientists would, once in a while, speak up to fact check the endless stream of politicians and journalists who...
...people very concerned about the health of the planet will rush to check it out, fervently hoping it’s true, right? I mean, surely they don’t want there to be a...
...warming should affect the daytime highs as well as the nighttime lows. So a good way to check what's driving the changes is to compare trends in the highs and...
...be checked, and jury-rig today’s data in ways that may not work tomorrow. Does it matter? Only if getting reliable answers does. The Atmospheric Research authors write: “Blind tuning until...
...readings. And one way is always down in the past, and the farther back you go, the farther down go the readings. Whenever they check them, from Colombia to the...
...of science to test hypotheses against evidence, to ask them to make predictions and then to check how well those predictions fare. So in response to this claim we ask:...
...of Climate Change News are casting a suspicious eye on the Chinese government's propaganda and checking up on its performance, it can only help us debate and make policy intelligently....
...at the Remote Sensing Systems corporation in California found an error in the UAH work, which was promptly corrected, and since then the RSS and UAH teams have checked each...
...a taste of what to expect with warming of 1.5C.” So shrieks AFP, whose journalists do not seems to be tasked with checking whether there were an unusual number of...
...traveling up the chain into the food supply or simply from one shopper to another via the post-checkout conveyor belt. (For the same reason, San Francisco has also banned bringing...
...happening: Les Johnson on Watts Up With That? pulls the “check actual data” dirty trick and finds that the Global Fire Data site shows that 2019 is not an unusual...
...dictionary already contains words like “fiery” and “disastrous” and “apocalyptic” and “we’re all going to die”. But it also contains words like “exaggeration” and “absurd” and “better check it out”....
...York. Germany is the true ‘climate leader.’ Perhaps we should check in on how it is going over there.” Badly. Including on the transparency and good sense front. He cites...
...was warmer by far than it is today. But again we hasten to add that it is fraud driven by conviction not cynicism, an irresponsible failure to check facts due...
...from 1970 to 2000. Spot a claim in the media that everybody knows is true but you’re doubtful about? Send it to us at admin@climatedn.com and we’ll check it out....
...you’re producing vital numbers for a crucial policy debate, you desperately need a “blue team” or some other mechanism for checking that you’re not making important mistakes, either from sheer...
...in hurricane strength beginning in 1980. But the underlying paper, Koonin discovered when he checked into it, said “there are no significant trends beyond natural variability in hurricane frequency, intensity,...
...to tell which it is by going and looking. If one person says it’s dying, and another would like to say I checked and it looks pretty good to me,...
...we can check on that statistic-like object “extreme weather events like this one” becoming “more common around the world”. Also the “climate crisis” which is only just now happening in...
...a particular month tends to flip extremes. Check out July in Australia or January in Alaska. But not always. October in Europe was cooler than normal over much of the...
...more vocally it will be necessary for skeptics to call time-out, or off-side or even a personal foul, when people say things like the seas around Florida will rise by...
...time for a reality check. But no. Instead Stiell said, and these Reuters journalists parroted, that: “We still have a chance to make greenhouse gas emissions tumble, with a new...
...living by making energy unaffordable, their hated rival is not. Perhaps they need to get out more. No, really. Get out. Then there’s the trash. Did anyone check on it?...
...ugly. Only after which we checked the actual piece and there goes an elk, deer or moose, the polar bears, a flock of geese, Crush (son of Mr. Turtle), a...
...fact-checkers. Then, after they’ve canceled your account and got you fired from your job, you can show them the source, which we reveal below the fold comes from official sources...
...we always need to check the numbers before accepting alarmist claims at face value. As an added bonus, the web page at No Tricks Zone provides updated Arctic sea ice...
We've talked about the problem of estimating Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity (ECS) before. We even made a video we invite you to check out, because ECS is shorthand for a vital...
...them Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs), and just like their exploded RCP8.5 scenario the SSPs run into the problem that in the intervals where we can check them against what actually...
...accepted. I know this because I am one of them.” Indeed, part of the impact of this piece is its searing honesty: “When I began the research for this paper...
...let us note that while you can find anything at all online whether it exists or not, a Google Search of “PhD in Climate Science” on May 20 yielded a...
...as always we encourage everyone to check the facts for themselves, and to avoid conspiracy theories. The problem here is that a lot of people who think the same way,...
...the one for last year? Or is it a century old while the green dashed line reflects the crisis? Take your guess then check out the answer below. Here’s the...
...to pick, production costs are rising along with temperatures — which means lower returns for farmers and could lead to a price hike at the checkout for consumers.” Of course....
...windmills, recycled water in glittering well-lit eco-homes and so forth. When asked about the possibility of building LNG facilities on Canada’s east coast, he doesn’t have to check his briefing...
...nearly 17,000 scientific studies have been published using RCP8.5, a bogus over-the-top emission scenario that is known to be hopelessly exaggerated, and which makes impossible assertions about future CO2 levels....
...if we all vanished tomorrow, the greenhouse gases we’ve pumped into the atmosphere will take tens of thousands of years to return to pre-industrial levels.” So much for that natural...
...that we’re seeing unprecedented extreme weather without bothering to look it up. They don’t check current records to see whether the number of forest fires and floods is increasing before...
...Canada and we’ve got the record wildfire season as well,’ said Nathan Gillett of Environment and Climate Change Canada. ‘Yes, it has been busy.’ Gillett heads the Rapid Extreme Event...
It’s spring here in Ontario and that means we are heading into the warm season (yay!) which sometimes brings thunderstorms (yay! unless you’re stuck outdoors) and once in a while...
...the catbird seat academically: “Michael Mann’s $1 Million Defamation Verdict Resonates in a Still-Contentious Climate Science World/ A D.C. jury hands a win to the climate scientist behind the ‘Hockey...
...check out our March 2020 video that explains how in recent years scientists have repeatedly found that actual temperature data indicates that ECS is much smaller, more like 1.5C or...
...online weather enthusiast and we invite you to check your own local records as well, we were forecast to have our coldest Jan 26 since 1930 and our coldest day...
Continuing our fact check of Al Gore’s rant in Davos we come to his claim that CO2 emissions are causing “the rain bombs”. The what? We hadn’t heard of rain...
...Davies of the U of Plymouth. Details, details. But if you do check it out, funnily enough, the only mention of climate in the actual paper is: “Darkening has typically...
...As we observed earlier this month, despite the newsroom adage “If your mother says she loves you, check it out” reporters and opinion writers credulously assert things like that “Increasing...
...also subject to a number of limitations. They typically do not adequately account for all sources of risk, including low probability high impact events, sea-level rise, extreme events and societal...
...another. But it’s very important that the press stop grabbing things they wish were true and yelling them without checking whether they are in fact true. And that requires a...
...Mind you Wikipedia also describes it as having been “a regional superpower” from around 1200 to 1500 so it never hurts to check your sources. But we digress. The point...
...is to build a model that says we’re ruining it, then check the model’s findings against the model’s findings, or feed the model’s outputs back in as inputs in a...
...at the World Economic Forum, the gnomes of Davos. But if you’re looking for plotters on a Dan Brown or Jason Bourne level, guess again. Instead he writes that for...
...dioxide emissions into helpful perspective. Relative to natural variations in the factors that drive warming and cooling, changes to greenhouse gas levels only affect the energy budget by about a...
...on plausible assumptions because there’s no good data. But here there is. So why doesn’t someone go check it? Not long ago a pair of researchers did, and you’ll never...
...to coral reefs to consensus to droughts to tipping points and on. Check it out. The handy sheets, readily downloadable as PDFs, offer bullet-point summaries, facts, charts and, crucially, links...
...check hypotheses. As a Canadian Press story celebrated, “When heat waves strike, Environment Canada can link it to climate change – fast”. Er, that should be quickly, the adverb, not...
...longer, dumping ever more water and being Worse Than ExpectedTM. Alas, someone has checked the numbers, and found no evidence that tropical cyclone translation speed has declined since the 1950s,...
...nobody’s perfect. So we do suggest that anyone still thinking the green energy transition is blossoming all around us at least do a quick check that they could in principle...
As we somehow survive another spring flood season unwashed-away, we are reminded of the nonstop nightmare of climate change making floods bigger and more frequent, except where they are becoming...
...that if your mother says she loves you, check it out; peddling a study by “the London-based International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)” without citing a single dissenting or...
...only offered the usual “Last year was another 12 months of record-breaking heat and extreme weather” framing but fact-checked Trump in advance: “Trump has falsely claimed that climate change is...
...website https://climate.weather.gc.ca/ and search for themselves. It might seem surprising that with so many people working in his embassy, including many intelligence agents, ambassador Cong could not find someone to...
...have the Internet on our computers so we checked and guess what? Same dismal weather. Someone better tell “the scientists”. Actually the data we obtained was not from within Glasgow...
...TV station to big oil backed Al Jazeera, buying a seaside villa, and having his most famous climate prediction fall flat, Al Gore might have settled into a very comfortable...
...in 2020 and almost 50 per cent over the 10-year average of 816.2.” We checked the facts. And according to the National Forestry Data Base there were, in fact, just...
...the summaries and checks to see what the chapters have to say, they can claim to have discussed it. Just not in a way that anyone would notice. Unlike greening...
...that could “destroy” the Earth to hear Al Gore and others tell it, you’d probably want to check your solution for practicality. Twice even. So Fenske did. Let us repeat...
...people doing the yelling seem inclined to check the facts. And it seems to be inducing a certain fundamental carelessness. It’s especially blameworthy, and careless, because many governments keep fairly...
...molecules in it would be, well, outer space but we digress.) Based on 40 crabs in Yorkshire it seems a plastic additive called oleamide is leaking out under the sea...
...no gray area.” And Post reporters being what they are, they didn’t bother to check whether Kossin was making stuff up, including by failing to tell them what the IPCC...
...with a series of predictions about drought, crop failure, heat waves and sea level changes that the Canadian government made in 2001, every single one of which was a bust....
...turn to courts to impose their preferences on dopey citizens. And the fact checks continue: an alert viewer sends us screen-capture video that reveals that if you turn off Facebook’s...
...only the energy-sector being at “net-zero” by 2035. He has a plan, just no details. So it’s OK because nobody thinks he really intends to do it. He’s just checked...
...and checking the R2 values and testing the null hypotheses as fully as anyone could want. And then he declares that something isn’t right. Apparently those dratted El Niños are...
...on climate science where critics of the consensus were given time to present some arguments, which led him to check more of the basic data and scientific literature for himself....
...hold? What if something else changes the growth pattern from time to time? It might sound like a weird thing to worry about. But when you start checking tree rings...
...check” on people citing that passage to claim the long-term prediction of future climate states is not possible arguing such a claim: “misrepresents the IPCC statement by treating the phrase...
...the substance of this finding is elsewhere. It’s that basically the conventional numbers for the carbon cycle are simply wrong. And nobody checked. “To date, however, no attempt has been...
...it is a scientific theory like others, and like others must be treated as something to be investigated, checked against evidence, explored and refined, rather than worshipped with the fury...
...uneasily, is more than half a century ago. But what of Boston? Alas, it was on Independence Day in… 1911. And just as Albany never fails to disappoint, we checked...
...examples from the same week). It might even be argued that when a handout is billed as climate-friendly, it’s just checking a particularly attractive PR box. Given the policy of...
...But of course it generally suffices to check your power bill and, in some cases, your tax bill as well to convince you to beg politicians not to save us...
...mad… at least not the first three or four times. But periodically we do check what temperatures they predicted against what actually happened that same day and it annoys us...
...famous rethinking of how we’re arranging our affairs in the face of various catastrophes, let’s reconsider believing the sales hype instead of checking under the hood. Among other things, Lomborg...
In our new series “Everybody knows” we invite CDN readers to send us (via admin@climatedn.com) a climate truism so universally repeated that nobody bothers to check if it’s true, even...
...should expect of a projection is that it got the part right that the modelers could already check, and then that it lines up fairly well with short term future...
...as we have also lamented, the old journalistic mantra of “check it out” seems to have been replaced by “spew it out”. In this case, if they had to write...
...has sailed, we know rising CO2 correlated with rising temperatures in the 20th century. But have you checked? Someone or something on YouTube called “Philosophical Investigator” just did, and rather...
...The Spencer-Christy data set has been an incredibly important reality check on alarmists inside and outside the scientific community, and despite various efforts to discredit it over the years, their...
...people like Nic Lewis, who know what to look for, check it to see how that affects the ECS estimate. Over the past decade the revisions have always led to...
...turning into a global hit. Do check it out. The link is to a Rumble version which should escape the censors. The Daily Skeptic reports that “Green billionaires are pouring...
...it’s very hard to see how to tax cloud permeability. Authors Hans-Rolf Dübal and Fritz Vahrenholt checked the SW and long wave (LW) radiation flows into and out of the...
...Irving considered climate change “a very, very significant and important issue". Then he said there are electric-car charging stations at several of its gas stations. Wow. Guess we can check...
...were to return to its typical state, especially if it did it rapidly, it could cause all kinds of problems, from rapidly rising sea levels to plants and animals struggling...
...to Russian gas supply drove European electricity prices to record levels, hiking bills for households and forcing some industries to close ⛔. ‘We need to make the electricity market design...
...who provides a useful check on the buddy system known as “the science”. Especially its hypnotic fixation on computer models whose actual performance is highly suspicious. For instance “A computer...
...become a bit more common under greenhouse warming. To check if that has happened, the authors used a model to reconstruct past hurricane formation counts. And then they showed that...
...newsroom slogan that “If your mother says she loves you, check it out.” And journalists have been famous since press-card-in-the-porkpie-hat-and-flask-in-the-hip-pocket days for distrusting the word of government officials. Mostly they...
It might seem like a fool’s errand to fact check Al Gore. But the man does have a big audience and someone’s got to do it so we rush in....
...and other symptoms that may indicate seasonal affective disorder, according to the National Institute of Mental Health.” And here someone was telling is it’s heat that’s making life unbearable if...
...assumes facts it should have checked, demonstrating that the temperature pattern is quite complex. Including that it rather appears that winter temperatures are increasing but summer maximums are not. Which...
...far you can guess what the analysis does: it gathers up all the temperature data they can find, gets estimates of greenhouse gas levels and other important climate variables, then...
...of climate science studies is checking predictions of current effects against actual evidence. Which is apparently an attack on “climate science”, even if it’s a defence of normal science that...
...archipelagos. You get the idea? If not, check the map. Most of us survive in the hottest parts of the world, and do so despite the poverty there compared to...
...in the last six years. Which didn’t stop NBC from writing: “The water temperatures recorded Sunday and Monday would challenge the record for hottest sea surface temperature in the world....
...to tell the difference. If you want to check your answer, just look below. Here’s the answer: Once again, while you might have guessed right, you probably had to look...
In keeping with the sound methodology of looking at the big picture, a recent paper from the Global Warming Policy Foundation checks the British Environment Ministry's claims, based largely on...
...trend from around 1940 to 1970 that made your childhood snowier than, say, that of your parents. Indeed, if you check the Canadian government’s own data at yourenvironment.ca and look...
...a few rubes vent, while privately scoffing and checking their social media feeds, then go ahead with their marvellous plan. Evidently they know all and see all. Environment Minister Guilbeault...
...time for some serious fact-checking. Narrator On May 15, 2018, the Globe and Mail published an article by Glen Hodgson, formerly a senior fellow with the Conference Board of Canada,...
...the ocean? Spraying saltwater into clouds? Injecting reflective particles into the sky? Scientists are resorting to once unthinkable techniques to cool the planet because global efforts to check greenhouse gas...
...meant to happen “by 2020” which means it is time to check how clear the crystal ball was. Thus over at Junk Science they praise a video by Climate Resistance...
...a dependable entry. But we urge people, in addition to minding their manners and checking their facts, to be sure to communicate with the corals as well, telling them they’re...
In this feature we give you some inane sounding, anti-science denialist propaganda which the ever-vigilant Facebook fact-checkers can pounce on to censor, if not get you banned for life and...
We continue our fact check of Al Gore’s rant in Davos, turning now to his claim that CO2 is “sucking the moisture out of the land and creating the droughts”....
...“community”? A Google search “community definition” on April 1 yielded a result with no link beyond one explaining how it generates such results. But as this image shows, it begins...
...Maybe it means the rains are less common now. Or maybe they are more common. Or neither. Guess which line is for which year, then see below to check your...
...noted, a lovely document, with attractively coloured charts and diagrams. But if you assumed an emissions reduction plan would provide a detailed checklist of policy actions the government would be...
...– currently out of service”. So there’s a reality check that didn’t bounce. Instead it went thud. The energy crisis is global. And yes, as the Australian Business Weekend story...
...film that is only two tenths of a millimeter thick.” And some pointed observations about the unsettled nature of climate science. So again we recommend that you check it out....
...(Classics) from Oxford, which doesn’t impair his confidence in his climate science fact-checking chops. Whereas the guy he’s dissing studied physics.) Whereupon the piece waves Mann’s hockey stick without alerting...
Thanks for the suggestions for our new Everybody Knows series, where we take on climate claims so universally repeated that no one bothers to check if they’re true. If you...
...their statistical model to project far into the past, they identified several years where it predicted floods in the US Northwest, then checked those predictions against historical records. And they...
...yes, history, and surprises keep turning up. Inside Climate News tries to fact-check Donald Trump’s debate statement “Germany tried that”, claiming that “For German audiences or anyone who has followed...
...coastal areas at risk of flooding as sea levels rise. Towns along dry riverbeds can also flood rapidly when heavy rain falls and the parched earth struggles to absorb it.”...
...1999”. Bottom line: the people complaining about misinformation are, in many cases, precisely the same people who are spreading it. For instance Politico “fact-checked” Florida governor Ron de Santis on...
...most interactions, eight either denied climate change or promoted conspiracy theories. None included a link to Facebook’s Climate Science Information Center or a fact check. TikTok also failed to rein...
...then our thermometer says hot is hot and cold is cold, so we’re a bit behind the times. Or ahead depending which you check. As has been noted, including by...
...rate of increase can be reduced by appropriate human actions that lead to rapid reductions in GHG emissions". But when Willis Eschenbach at Watts up With That tried to check...
...to find a headline. So we say on finger-pointing oh yes we can. As we note in our latest “Fact Check” video on the fires, one of the strangest things...
...debating opponents are sinister deliberate liars, and second that anyone who persists in thinking that money buys friends in this matter at least check where the money is going. If...
...and check). Here is what the global record looks like: Since 1980 the total snow coverage around the world has gone up by 3.3 percent. But the hemispheres haven’t progressed...
...admitting that far from vanishing, the ice is so thick an icebreaker can’t break it. Poor babies: AFP takes time off from fact-checking us to whimper “Climate scientists flee Twitter...
...post he discusses a recent report from the IPCC modeling group which rejects scientific advice to quit the high emissions fix and instead declares it’s checking out of rehab and...
...news people like to use as a bit of b-roll to start their climate change horror stories with. Courtesy of weatherstats.ca we can check the data for Hamilton which go...
...in the history of our planet, it almost never checks out. That it seemed to from 1980 to 2000 may cause nostalgia in people who were young then. But once...
...of warming from CO2 so ECS must be high too. Pauling and his coauthors then checked the argument in the context of the Mount Pinatubo eruption of 1992 and found...
...climate sensitivity to levels that would be consistent with observed warming since pre-industrial times, Nic Lewis and Judith Curry showed that the gap is so large, with models projecting too...
...ECS best estimate of just 1.64° C. And to check that that wasn’t a fluke of the hiatus, they extended the final period to 1971-2011 and the ECS best estimate...
...don’t worry. At least not by yourself. Instead check out the “Group Interventions for Climate Change Distress“ touted by Psychiatric Times. It’s a growth industry. Part, we suppose, of this...
...Worlds. (Even if the MSM cover for them with “fact checks”.) Just as there’s nothing bucolic about massive solar farms that disrupt ecology and disfigure the landscape on an industrial...
...a compelling reality check on the pace and scale of the transition. And news just keeps coming in, like the bit where New York’s troubled offshore wind projects have already...
Climate activists, including those in the media, are so totally convinced that the weather is getting worse that they no longer bother to check. And so when Hurricane Hilary approached...
...factor in a lot of slop and wobble.” But apparently when they denounce climate change they don’t. Just as nobody checks facts. Achenbach writes that: “Twenty-seven leap seconds have been...
...we have found traces of, and again the story rather naively blurts it out without first ringing up Michael Mann, Al Gore or the CRU to check whether it’s inconvenient....
...subsidies where climate boosters fail to check the math. An alert reader sends us a Newsweek puff piece on a high-speed, all-electric, “zero emissions” rail link between Rancho Cucamonga outside...
...of the seats but not any one party is able to form a majority government,’ May told reporters. ‘That will instill in our Parliament a spirit of co-operation. That means...
...emissions of what the New York Times describes in a news story as “planet-warming pollution”. But Biden, never much of one for fact-checking including whether the words he’s using are...
...always choose the least efficient options. So when he looks at government projections of the costs of their latest climate policy he checks it against either independent estimates from peer-reviewed...
...designed to prepare decisions for adoption at COP28 in the United Arab Emirates, is seen as a mid-way check for how ambitious international climate talks will take shape at COP28...
...been determined to be the hottest month ever recorded before rather than after checking. And thinking “ever recorded” is covered by “estimates of temperature across the earth that date back...
...a shocking 85% reduction”), avocado and, well, check for yourself. Salmon, maple syrup, blah blah blah and yes, oranges, chocolate, pasta and Tabasco sauce. Not on the list: poison ivy,...
...shifting the terms of the work. Less sea ice means the wrecks are more vulnerable to waves and currents generated by winter storms”. It is one more example of the...
This week’s provocation concerns trees. Specifically the forests that are going to be wiped out by climate change. Except they’re not. So if you want to irritate the fact-checkers at...
...then again, maybe we should check the data, which is easy to do if you know where to #Lookitup. So here is the monthly record of drought severity (negative means...
...has not been depressed, apart from the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which nobody blames on climate change. (After writing that sentence we checked, following the scientific method of prediction first,...
...emergency activist. And if you really want to startle your alarmist relatives at the holiday dinner table, check out the Accumulated Cyclone Energy record. Here it is: The nice thing...
Note: this post has been edited to correct an earlier version. Continuing with our fact check on Al Gore’s epic rant in Davos, this week we turn to his claim...
...even know if the thermometer reading was accurate, or the event unprecedented. But never mind. Some stories are just too good to check. On Watts Up With That, Michael Kile...
...33% of studies, so it stands to reason at least some of the pristine climate scientists weren’t reporting their connections. And evidently the journals weren’t exactly checking rigorously. P.S. They...
...entire countries will vanish, seas will rise 70 metres (230 feet) and, on the last remaining piece of dry land, the very tip of Mount Ararat, COP105 will blather on...
...like: “So get this: the world’s coral reefs disappear at 1.5C. We are past 1.5C now and heading for 2C.” And don’t bother asking if they, for instance, checked how...
...by comparison. In honour of the new Facebook fact-check brigade now prowling your pages in search of climate heresy, we decided to introduce a new feature where we offer some...
...change means more frequent and more severe wind storms. How does the government know? As with everything else, they know because everybody knows. So who needs to check? We do,...
We talked last week about a proposal to refreeze the poles, which last we checked are already frozen. But the aspirations of geotinkerers don’t end at messing with the Arctic....
...you’d want to determine just how big the negative and positive impacts were, and check both the data and reasoning that led to those determinations, and keep your voice level...
...Canada rushed to declare a Climate Emergency in 2019 without bothering to check if the weather was different in any important respect from what it had been 100 years earlier....
...to get RCP8.5-level warming by 2100 would require CO2 levels in the atmosphere to rise by 150% over the next 80 years, compared to the 50% they went up over...
...bogs are going to go whoosh crackle releasing more CO2 causing temperature to increase etc. and we’re all going to die. Anyway, check your backyard for ants. We bet you...
...reading in British cities by 1.5 degrees just since 1990. Still, we do want to note that we checked the all-time temperature records by continent and they show Africa’s peak...
...1929 and 1930 showed snowlines at the level of or higher than what we observed in recent years. This is even true for the extreme summers of 2012 and 2019.”...
...year in our Fact Check video on the Great Amazon Fire Scare of 2019. You all remember the Amazon fire scare, don’t you? It was when global warming was burning...
...this chart is pretty childish. We will also point out that we checked the source of this data and it was from the NOAA, which is reputable apart from its...
...that “If your mother says she loves you, check it out.” To be fair, the New York Times did worry that Biden’s climate plans generally might favour white people with...
...it has torn loose from its evidentiary moorings. Those who believe in this mythical beast do not bother to check, oh, say, the Historical Total Precipitation page at the Weather...
...that ? Ohhh I checked His doctorate is in history, I guess he didn’t want us to know that. Well, if not I must be pretty stupid, because I put...
...calling it a trend.” Or not, if the goal here is to panic people into agreeing to act before we can check it out properly. Among our objections to the...
...experiencing so much rain, but it could be connected to an especially quiet Atlantic hurricane season, scientists say.” So they don’t understand the climate system well enough even to explain...
...and dissemination of knowledge since its launch in 2001. Virtually nobody today beginning to research a topic or needing a fact-check would look first at a paper encyclopedia. Thus the...
...term encompasses sociologists whose “primary interests are environmental, feminist, labour and political issues.”) Think USA Today will fact-check that nuclear is “dirty”? Or is it all about forcing a transition...
...our “Say What” quotations. You can check it out here but be warned that it is as obscene as it is discreditable. If climate change is about not burning up...
...is prompting a shift away from fossil fuels in many nations.” Oh really? Which nations are using less of the stuff today than a decade ago? Oh. You didn’t check....
...by Sun et al., they had better get their eyes checked, it hasn't gone anywhere of late! Figure 1. Inter-annual variation of the Snow Cover Area Index (SCAI) over the...
...we’ll be hurtling past Venus trailing smoke anyway. But its cabinet also pledged last summer “to reduce the ‘emissions intensity’ of India’s GDP by 45% below 2005 levels by 2030.”...
...Bedlam in response to this story). Meanwhile admirers of online searches will already know that Belém is also: “the capital and largest city of the state of Pará in the...
...colleagues don white coats, go into the lab and redo the experiment themselves. But it doesn’t. Peer reviewers rarely check the data and almost never try to replicate the analysis....
...we checked out said Eviston and found that he does have a Master of Science. In fact he has two. So he would know about scientific disgraces because… um… one...
...significantly warmer than today, despite pre-industrial CO2 levels.” And he then reminds readers of all the proxy data from ancient tree lines to Bronze Age artifacts beneath retreating glaciers which,...
...think very hard about the meaning of the words they’re using. Nor about the fact that Denver had its “snowiest November day since 1994”. But if you check the patterns,...
...the benefit of more time to check the numbers, the same scientists have revised their estimate... downwards. Way downwards. Their computer now says Florence might have been 5 percent wetter....
...the IPCC jumped on a study that told them what they wanted to hear, without checking the math. And once again they got caught. The new study employed a method...
...and without digital thermometers we would not have noticed. Hurricanes are not increasing worldwide. Wildfires are not increasing worldwide. Sea levels are not rising faster now than they were a...
...of indignant fact checks on Donald Trump before getting to a claim as brazenly untethered to reality as that China is cutting emissions. And what’s her evidence? Why: “Though it...
...been set alight to clear the land for cattle. In the dry season these roads are strewn with the charred bodies of wild animals caught in the fires or beasts...
...“could not tell countries what to do” or “draw back the seas, placate the winds or dim the noonday sun”. And who doesn’t wish politicians could turn down the sun...
...don’t agree we do periodic conscience checks, including pondering what evidence would lead us to switch our views. It is those who customarily go unchallenged, even inhabiting a carefully self-constructed...
...temperature is likely to be at least 1° Celsius above pre-industrial levels (1850-1900) in each of the coming five years (2020-2024) and there is a 20% chance that it will...
...News dutifully recycled the mayor’s fictions about torrential rains, extreme heat, pestilence. The famous skepticism of journalists failed to kick in even for a moment and they didn’t check. The...
...meantime Greenland will contribute about seven-tenths of a mm per year to sea level rise, or 1 foot every 417 years. Not a reason to panic, unless you enjoy panicking....
...you couldn’t because RCP8.5 is a worse than worst case scenario and they know it, as we have repeatedly observed, including in our new “Fact Check” video “The RCP 8.5...
...accelerate pre-existing trends and increase inequities.” Social scientists say. And who could doubt their wisdom, even if they are not named so we can check? Of course National Geographic also...
...critics, the less he checks his words on the way out of his mouth to make sure they are not preposterous. And thus a heated competition is arising as to...
...RHARM line. They’re all pretty close and they all say there’s hardly any warming going on. A few years ago when John Christy and Ross McKitrick checked the data against...
...it continues to employ an outfit called Climate Feedback to perform fact checks that are in fact heresy trials. From the “you just cannot win with these people” file, Mother...
...foes alike. Without going and checking how the temperature fits your preconceptions, make a list of 10 places chosen on non-climate grounds. Places you’ve been. Places you’d like to go....
Hide The Decline Fact Check TRANSCRIPT Narrator 20 years ago, in April 1998, a paper appeared in the prestigious journal Nature that would go on to be one of the...
...in one’s trade motivates firms to treat customers and staff as valued human beings in ways that transcend checking activist boxes and that rather evidently has no equivalent in government....
...off its 1912 record. Then we checked the average temperatures for neighboring Washington State since 1895 and found that the hottest by a whole degree was 2016. But in 2nd...
...hitting the RCP8.5 again, haven’t you? And of course they have. RCP8.5 is known to be a worse-than-worst-case scenario, a check on any modeling exercise because if your computer program...
...other” but “intend to investigate in the near future what influence the reduced wind speeds have on life in the sea. Wind and waves mix the sea. This changes the...
Continuing with our fact check of Al Gore’s rant in Davos we come to his claim that you-know-what is “creating these atmospheric rivers”. And “atmospheric rivers” is, admittedly, a very...
...not doing is melting away because the Earth is getting hotter (or because Al Gore said it would). It just isn’t. And anyone who says it is either hasn’t checked...
...from lack of moisture, not from too much. Or both because the problem is “extreme weather” and anything will do. OK, we’ll go to the same source and check for...
...kind of Green New Deal lite that accomplishes everything on the left wing checklist by next Tuesday. “In addition to declaring a climate emergency, the NDP’s motion urges the Liberal...
...denier. With pleasure. Narrator We actually dealt with that claim at length in our video on the 97% consensus myth. The truth is there is a high level of agreement...
...way to cut fossil fuel use is to reclassify oil as not a fossil fuel, or indeed the ongoing purchase of seaside mansions by climate-alarmist celebrities, it suggests that we...
...their ancestors did back when it was much warmer, CO2 levels were much higher and giant beasts roamed lush landscapes. For some time alarmists ignored or denied the phenomenon. But...
...during the 20th century where it reached, according to some analyses, its strongest level in 10,000 years. And unless you pretend there was no Medieval Warm Period (or Little Ice...
...to help themselves sleep better at night.” Got it in one, Mr. President. Except in truth the general level of originality and compelling analysis in speeches at these conferences could...
...sink under the waves, Time had to resort to photoshop with its “rising seas” cover. Meanwhile back in the real world coral atolls adjust to local conditions, which is why...
...of interest to us. Paper reviewed: Bahr, K.D., Jokiel, P.L. and Rodgers, K.S. 2017. Seasonal and annual calcification rates of the Hawaiian reef coral, Montipora capitate, under present and future...
...on a global level, an increase in extreme precipitation is observed for a limited number of stations and with strong regional differences. The absence of generalized growth trends in extreme...
...that deaths per 100,000 from weather and climate disasters is also declining and is likely at its lowest level in human history. Economic growth is not causing a climate emergency....
...below “dangerous levels” (one trillion tonnes). The 95% certainty number was handed to Dr. Norman Fenton, a now-retired Professor of Risk at Queen Mary University and author of over 350...
...Hence if you drill down into the “livable climate” section of the “strategy”, once you get past the hoo-hah about “more intense heat, rising sea levels, and more extreme and...
...the spring was cold and the summer has been chilly, “If the global average temperature rises 3 degrees Celsius (5.4 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels — which some scientists say...
...carbon dioxide (GMCO2) levels, and they concluded: “In none of the four regions defined in this study is there strong statistical evidence for flood magnitudes increasing with increasing Global Mean...
...hands and ask private firms to do it for them. But it’s even more serious with unemployment at record levels and Western alienation driven in significant part by federal hostility...
...1.1 degrees C at the point in time when carbon dioxide levels double. This is not a very alarming number. If we perform the same calculation on the climate models,...
...1986-2015. Lower portion: spatial display of (c) average NPP, (d) its 30-year trend, and (e) trend significance. The significance level (p) was set at 0.05. Source: Xu et al. (2020)....
...the continent face higher levels of risk to extreme weather events, that study adds, as climate change makes them more frequent and more severe, outpacing the countries’ ability to adapt.”...
...a group of satellites going back as early as 1982 (h/t Zoe Phin). The area burned drifted downwards until the early 1990s, then went up for about 10 years, leveled...
...just how much CO2-induced greening has done over the past century: The two green lines show the expansion of green biomass by direct leaf-level enlargement (dark green), expansion of green...
...that: “Hot weather – along with extreme humidity levels that are usually associated more with the sultry U.S. Southeast – has enveloped much of the Midwest and will move into...
...Ecosystem Loss $ Ocean Acidification $ Our Way of Life $ Infrastructure Loss $ Infections Diseases $ Climate Refugees $ Sea Level Rise… And much, much more” to quote one...
...ice sheet is on the brink of a tipping point, which would lead to 7 metres of sea level rise over time.” All tipping points, all the time. Data shows....
...says. Right. “Nitrous oxide emissions from human activities have ballooned 30 percent over the past four decades, barreling past the highest emission levels scientists have projected in climate models, according...
...that “the biggest flash floods of the LIA, in most catchments, experienced water levels in the valleys that exceeded the most extreme floods of the last 100 to 150 years.”...
...growing reporting capacity of individual states and [since] this capacity has stabilized on a reliable level, the number of disasters has become stationary or has even gone down.” And so...
...very near future the observed warming rate will likely soon fall outside the significance levels of the ensemble model mean, removing any remaining credibility left in the model projections of...
...and Wales. But you can hardly expect a famous scientist and climate activist like Sir David King to, you know, look this stuff up. Such basic statistics are undergraduate level....
...be affected by water shortages, and some are located in coastal areas that are vulnerable to sea-level rise or flooding.” But what’s really striking is what they did not say....
...levels). Projections suggest this is possible under existing policies – if everything goes according to plan. The biggest driver of this should be the capacity investment scheme, a program to...
...a dull thud. The graph McKitrick displays contrasts a sequence of model projections of atmospheric CO2 with actual measured levels since 1970. And it’s not pretty, in the usual way:...
...rapidly to a level much warmer than today, stayed warm for thousands of years, then began a cooling trend about 6,000 years ago which has left it colder than any...
...it is foolishness to shut down nuclear reactors in the name of fighting climate change and replace the power with coal. It is, one might think, a high-school-level insight. But...
...to climate change.” Presumably that would be the same climate change that has, for the past 36 years, helped the coral grow to record levels. Well, what were they going...
...And in fact, as the Hindustan Times had written just before the Times story appeared, “Emergency in China as temperatures hit lowest levels ever”. Elsewhere in the hottest year ever...
...a drying of the mid-troposphere, likely caused by surface warming, was “the primary reason for the decrease of warm-season storm days in the TP.” And, they add that weaker wind...
...and air that puts dangerous levels of cobalt, lead, uranium and other heavy metals into their bodies. The cobalt ore is sent to China for processing by the Chinese-owned Congo...
...gas emissions from 1990 levels, from the current 40%.” It will be most interesting to see what ordinary Europeans desperate for a revival of wealth-creating activity have to say, and...
...mess it up, they assume that outgoing radiation matches incoming radiation to keep temperature at whatever the ideal level is or at least that it did until the mid-20th century....
...471-478. In commenting on the significance of these findings, Orizaola and Laurila write that “the detection of high levels of developmental plasticity in isolated marginal populations suggests that they may...
...to remove CO2 from the air. Cost-effective here means for under $100/tonne, well below the level of carbon tax many people think necessary to meet various emissions targets. We have...
...“If 80% of emerging markets reach western levels of clothes shopping, carbon dioxide emissions could increase by nearly 80% per person. By 2050, total clothing sales could reach 175 million...
...“In Canada, the federal Liberal goal to reduce fertilizer-related greenhouse gas emissions to 30 per cent below 2020 levels by 2030 has spread fear among this country’s farmers about the...
...stranded in Britain and around the world after a fire shut Heathrow Airport for at least 24 hours – with Net Zero being blamed and the level of global travel...
...when we’re “warming at twice the rate of the rest of the world” which has already “meant extreme heat, melting glaciers, thawing permafrost and rising sea levels” and “If you...
...in winter, or up in summer, in the last three years? And if not, what level of carbon taxes would it take? We’ve heard various numbers, from the Trudeau Administration’s...
...his pledges to expand American gas, oil and beautiful clean coal production and CO2 levels rise as a result, the Christmastime crop of Mandarin Oranges may be yuge this year....
...quite reach the level of 1956 (135 km/h). But both are records not reached since, and the last time wind went above 120 km/h was 1964: Strange to think they...
...one in six of its people.) And Mark Mills of the Manhattan Institute warned that as energy use surged back to pre-quarantine levels in nations emerging from lockdown (like China,...