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...the ever-present tides and flooding coming in off the Adriatic Sea and liable to sink into the swamp. And it gets even more complicated. While the average sea level near...
02 Oct, 2023| Fact Checks
...the ever-present tides and flooding coming in off the Adriatic Sea and liable to sink into the swamp. And it gets even more complicated. While the average sea level near...
...“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”...
...further corruption and bungling. In our “Sea Level Check” series we have pointed out that apparent sea level rise varies enormously from place to place on our complex, dynamic planet....
On our popular Sea Level Check series we took CDN readers on a round-the-world tour of coastal spots where long term tide gauge data mostly revealed sea levels rising very...
...here it comes. Instead you have to combine computer-model data with careful selection of starting points: “A reconstruction of global sea level using tide-gauge data from 1950 to 2000 indicates...
...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...
...John Robson: That means most of the warming in climate model experiments comes not from CO2 directly, but from hypothetical secondary feedback processes that are much more complex and uncertain...
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...
...decline in lake levels.” 2000: “The warming effects of climate change pose more of a threat to the Great Lakes than commercial water exports, says Environment Minister David Anderson… Computerized...
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...
...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...
...rise here, destroying hundreds of homes.” How? How does less water coming down the river and into the, whaddaya call it, oh right, the sea, accelerate the level of sea...
...ocean acidification) has “the potential to alter the carbon physiology of seaweeds and levels of metabolites, including bioactive compounds and nutritional value.” Therefore, they acknowledge it is important to understand...
...especially one practicing common ownership” as in “a community of nuns”. That “community” implies “communism” is a new one on us. Plus nuns don’t usually own their convents. They generally...
...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...
...Meltwater from glaciers and ice sheets account for the rest. ‘For climate science, what we need to know is not just sea level today, but sea level compared to 20...
...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...
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...
...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...
...declined to comment or didn't respond by publication time.” Likewise: “Nature also reached out to the following companies for comment on the study’s findings but did not receive a response:...
...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...
...its content from its website, social media and other public communications. On its website, Pathways cites amendments to the Competition Act that would create ‘significant uncertainty’ for Canadian companies that...
...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...
...One big implication is that it predicts a lot less melting of Antarctic ice, which translates into 25 percent less sea-level rise over the coming century. You can learn about...
...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...
...we noted in June, dizzy with success, the fellow travellers at CNN touted a study where: “Using a combination of scientific theory, modern observations and multiple, sophisticated computer models, researchers...
...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...
...level instead of just running computer simulations, they might not look at it as a threat at all. For instance, here is the sea level record from Den Helder, north...
...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!...
...a communication about communicating about communication: “Scientists have long struggled to find the best way to present crucial facts about future sea level rise, but are getting better at communicating...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...melting contributed to a rise in global sea level of “between 0.5 and 4.2 m.” Thus, in comparing the present interglacial to the past interglacial, atmospheric CO2 concentrations are currently...
...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...
...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...
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...10,000 parts per million, but again that a level enormously higher than ambient ones, or what you get inside a greenhouse. Ah, and the other thing that commercial greenhouses do...
...phenomenon is actually hugely complicated because any given piece of land may be subsiding, rising, eroding or accumulating in ways that interact with whatever the base sea level rise might...
...clearly indicates that sea-level in this region is rising. We expect that the continued and increasing rate of sea-level rise and any resulting increase in the frequency or intensity of...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...You see, “If the loss of ice becomes so severe that the glacier collapses — something computer models predict could happen in 50 to 100 years — sea levels would...
...along the East Coast before turning farther out to sea” but might cause waves. After a lot of nothing, except some idiots swimming in stormy seas and needing and getting...
...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...
...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...
...you’d expect from an iterated series of interdepartmental committees. Projections of 21st century sea level rise are not getting worse. The bureaucratic abuse of science, on the other hand, is....
...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...
...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: 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...
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...
...conceded that the data adjustments are “still a matter of active debate and have prevented the TSI community from coming up with a conclusive TSI composite so far.” But, she...
...behind the transition to renewable energy, which might make investing in an oil company a bad long-term bet.” So if “a company’s diverse board… has been shown to improve performance,”...
...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...
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...
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...
...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...
...Times went with a mere “harbinger of what is to come this hurricane season”. But Scientific American said “Hurricane Beryl’s Unprecedented Intensification Is an ‘Omen’ for the Rest of the...
...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...
...floor. It turns out that certain unique biological compounds form in sea ice and from there settle to the bottom of the ocean, and variations in the density of these...
...I was an anti-communist before it was cool, I was an anti-communist while it was cool, I’m still an anti-communist when it’s not cool anymore, and you should be too....
...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...
...Drive Me From My Mountain Home”. And David Wallace-Wells galloped through the streets of the New York Times hollering the climate is coming, the climate is coming while the populace...
...autonomous communities will be 2.2C hotter on average than they are currently.” Now La Manga is in Murcia. So what about those rising seas? Oh yeah. Coming in fast. “As...
...will continue to rise for several hundred years. Higher sea levels mean more powerful waves coming closer to the shore, and faster coastal erosion.” This tosh was printed by the...
...parameter that occurred in the late 1980s. References Agnew, T.A. and Howell, S. 2002. Comparison of digitized Canadian ice charts and passive microwave sea-ice concentrations. Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium,...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...this kind: “Further, climate change raises environmental justice concerns because it will disproportionately and adversely affect human health and the environment in some communities, including communities of color, low-income communities,...
...complex, let alone that it is possible to make them worse. In that interview Peterson added immediately and bluntly that “Most people will make a complex system worse.” Which is...
...Robson Do you hear that Mr. Mayor? No compelling evidence. So, what did cause the 2017 Okanagan floods? Well, here we do have some compelling evidence. It was government error....
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...
...tastes lousy.” Or, as Earth.com just put it “Rising carbon dioxide makes crops grow bigger but less nutritious”. Rats. If only farmers could adjust nutrient levels in crops through fertilizer...
...change have to go home because it’s all frozen. Instead “The researchers then compared these observations with computer model simulations of Arctic sea ice declines over the same period.” The...
...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...
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...
...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...
...early 2010s, is likely to extend until roughly 2030-2040. Given the strong coupled relationship between the NAO and Arctic sea ice, the slowdown in the September Arctic sea ice melt...
...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...
...a go at the world’s battered oceans. Whose complexities we do not begin to understand well enough to come up with another of those suspiciously round, talking-point-like statistics about it...
...toward the handing out of vast sums of money from rich Western governments to other kinds. Which would have to come from, well, companies and customers. The sheer nebulosity of...
...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....
...Diversity” pitch, undated and still current, says: “In just a few decades, scientists warn, these ‘rainforests of the sea’ and all their rich biodiversity could disappear completely.” Climate change isn’t...
...melting sea ice upends the habitat it needs to breed, feed and protect itself from predators. ‘This listing reflects the growing extinction crisis,’ Martha Williams, the federal wildlife agency’s director,...
...levels.” In 2000: “The warming effects of climate change pose more of a threat to the Great Lakes than commercial water exports, says Environment Minister David Anderson… Computerized climate models...
...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...
...the one that actually did come. The British Red Cross advises that: “In the coming decades, it is predicted periods of hot weather and heatwaves will be longer and more...
...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...
...rising sea levels, affecting the safety and quality of life of our communities.” OK, so, they lost the “on the rise” in the Ctrl-C Ctrl-V process. But hey, they’re trying....
...report. And he complained about the sea-level data getting a thorough massage. Specifically, there’s a habit of adding in a 0.3mm/year “adjustment” to make the oceans rise faster than they...
...year’s season has come early and the intensity and overall numbers are higher.” No. Wait. That was 2021. And even they had to admit that from an average of nearly...
We cannot help feeling flattered that the mighty fact-checkers at AFP have come after us because “A video viewed tens of thousands of times on social media claims that satellite...
...the scientific community is just plain wrong,’ Ben Santer, a climate researcher and an honorary professor at the University of East Anglia, told, [sic] Wired’s Molly Taft. ‘Complete decarbonisation in...
...spreading along the Sea of Marmara near Istanbul, damaging marine life and the fishing industry.” And you just know what’s coming, right? Right. “Experts blame pollution and climate change.” Because...
...that we keep coming back to is the gap between rhetoric and reality on climate, including when it comes to hurricanes. The problem isn’t just that the reasoning is wrong,...
...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...
...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...
...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...
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...
...release it said, of all things, that the scary story was based on a computer model and should be checked against… common sense? Evidence? No, of course not. Other computer...
...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...
...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 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...
Dr. Javier Vinós, who recently joined us for our third live webinar whose recorded version you can watch here, has written a compelling book Solving the Climate Puzzle that offers...
...plaintiffs are recycling a legal strategy deployed during the 1990s, when states alleged that tobacco companies knew cigarettes cause cancer. Four large companies settled the cases by paying billions to...
...have regular meetings with Sean Boyle, Twitter’s former head of sustainability, who was laid off in Musk’s mass cull of staff shortly after he began his takeover in April 2022....
...to see a webpage from the BC government, specifically “Public safety and emergency services”, saying “Be prepared for floods”. Why? Because “Floods are common in B.C. and can happen at...
...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....
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...
...becoming more common, surprisingly, despite the common claim that heat waves will be more common under global warming, scientists believe that one of the key components of heat waves, atmospheric...
...The Maldives will be completely under water within 30 years. And within the next 11 years, entire nations could be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea...
...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,...
...he slips the horseshoe into the boxing glove. They went and looked at periods of rapid sea-level rise because their computer models say it’s going to happen again. In doing...
...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...
...1.5°C above preindustrial levels. The figure comes from the Paris Agreement… But here’s the thing: 1.5°, or 2.7° Fahrenheit, isn’t based on any scientific calculation. It doesn’t represent a specific...
...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...
...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...
...more Canada! Or so we think; the world hasn’t really said. But here we come anyway: “With a strong commitment to environmental stewardship, Canada can be the global leader in...
Guess what? Discover magazine has discovered Antarctica melted again. It’s all over but the drowning: “Gigantic Expanse of Sea Ice Breaks Free From Antarctica and Disintegrates”. Willis Eschenbach may comment...
...their website under the heading Coral Reefs). The latest review comes from the work of Gong et al. (2020). Working with a unicellular alga commonly associated with tropical reef corals...
...tank found not sincere commitment to a greener future, and their own survival be hanged, but the usual denialist conspiracy: “Despite the sector’s net-zero commitments, the industry ‘remains strategically opposed...
This week in #CoolClimateData we’re continuing our dive into the large collection of up-to-date climate data hosted by Professor Ole Humlum at Climate4you.com. Today it’s the compilation of surface air...
...modern “Internal Combustion Engine” vehicles, which are miracles of efficiency and ecology compared to their 1970s predecessors. Following the introduction of catalytic converters, and decades of engine design improvements, new...
...you can guess where it comes from: “The researchers used historic data on Arctic fog conditions, combined with model simulations, to investigate how these conditions might affect shipping routes in...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...And what just happened was bound to happen sooner or later, so the authorities should have seen it coming, especially those committed to climate change orthodoxy in which wildfires become...
...skepticism and proceed to fill in the blanks with stuff made up by computers. And then to circle around, notice that the computer-made data agree with the computer-made predictions and...
...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...
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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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....
As in, rip-roaring, or at least coming back as it always does, and lately faster than expected. Ron Clutz’s Science Matters website shows satellite-based measurements of the September minimum sea...
...tools are and how complex the climate system is. Yes, complex. One of the popular slogans in the climate debate is that 97% of scientists agree that climate change is...
...about Fred Flintstone’s car. Or maybe we are. Just in a long dull way. For now we want to sidestep the “aaaaah, modern levels are unprecedented, here comes the climate...
...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...
...5 storm of the 2025 Atlantic season – just the second season on record to ever see more than two Category 5 hurricanes. The only other Atlantic season to achieve...
...law relies on a key question: “Did the companies understand that their activities were potentially harmful at the time they engaged in them?” And you know what’s coming, right? Right....
...how to set premiums in a hot climate, on the say-so of experts with neither climate expertise nor experience running insurance companies. Which is counterintuitive since insurance companies have skin...
...still really only pertains to products. But the Commissioner of Competition has big green dreams: “A significant portion of the greenwashing complaints the Competition Bureau receives do not involve claims...
...decision to step in to protect the company has shone a spotlight on other areas of critical infrastructure in which Chinese firms have a stake. Not all companies in China...
...of its stronger passages the fact-check quotes Drew Shindell of Duke University, a lead author of that IPCC’s “mitigation chapter”, that “To save computer time, the research community typically evaluates...
...the treaty rather than asking honest questions about whether participants were willing to incur the costs of complying with it. In the comment section on our video on the failed...
...common to all models, from errors in the observational data sets, or from a combination of these factors. The second explanation is favored, but the issue is still open." “The...
...necessary for the models and generally when it comes to climate science, reality is expected to strive to reach the elevated level of computer simulations rather than some weirdo preoccupation...
...the actual science” we don’t just cheer. (And add that the computer models seem to be tearing loose from “the actual science” rather than comprising it.) We urge everyone who...
...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...
...material for a panic, unless you’re committed to panicking before checking the data and, indeed, without checking it. Vislocky points out that if you count both June and July hurricanes...
...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...
...modest headline “Can we fight climate change by sinking carbon into the sea?”, it seems that: “Two Israeli companies are betting that by trapping biomass deep underwater, they can keep...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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,...
...the bears when it comes to hunting seals, which is what they do. So the bears seem to like having less sea ice, even if melting ice causes climate alarmists...
...season loomed, meteorologists worried that above-average tropical activity, combined with cuts to the federal government’s weather agency, could result in disaster. But so far, the season’s effects have been mild....
...whole planet. Fortunately we live in our surprisingly robust real world, not in the authors’ computer. As with so many such studies it’s all just computer models guessing at stuff,...
We noted elsewhere this week news items expressing surprise at the lack of loss of Arctic sea ice. And there’s more, because the underlying study, by Harry Stern of the...
...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...
...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...
...count all the atoms in a star in a millisecond” and responds “The Milliard Gargantu-Brain? A mere abacus. Mention it not.” And compared to the actual Earth, the massively transcomputably-complex...
...cent higher in 2030 than they were in 2005, despite Canada’s international commitment to reduce emissions by 30 per cent by 2030. The Commissioner’s retrospective analysis of Canada’s record on...
...the atmosphere began to level off in the 1990s and their “radiative forcing” (in common parlance “greenhouse”) effect has slowed down. And it could happen not only because some politicians...
...ought not to be surprising, not because 2020 was a cursed year but because the Earth is a very large and complex object with complicated internal processes. But since the...
...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...
...letting climate computer models blot out sunlight could be a dreadful idea” and its reply included “Manipulating sunlight is a complex task with unpredictable consequences. Climate computer models, despite their...
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...
...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...
...particularly pointed recommendations for the energy industry’s climate commitments: companies need to stop investing in new fossil fuel supply if they want to claim they are committed to net zero...
...seas will rise. Thus, he writes: “The ‘climate-related risks’ the SEC now requires companies to disclose are not facts the company has distinct access to but instead opinions about climate...
Apparently corporations will be first against the wall when the revolution comes. At least so we gather from a piece in Bloomberg that asks “As Companies Abandon Climate Pledges, Is...
...the fuel.” Just as we at CDN have plans to become taller, better-looking and younger. Just a few details still to be nailed down. Scholz is coming to Canada to...
...Evidently the researchers used 31 entire computer models to compare the current state of the planet with what would be happening “without the burning of fossil fuels that spews billions...
...temperature would improve production, increasing the combined production of wheat, maize, rice and soybean by 15 and 24 percent above today’s values. Commenting on his findings and looking to the...
...is very complicated with subtle feedback effects, a major reason computers are so bad at modeling it, so it could be that reducing the aerosol particulates we release that reflect...
...dangerous than deliberate deceit and does not diminish culpability. Consider Communism, for instance. But with that caveat entered, we turn to the facts presented in the movie because, ironically, ferocious...
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...
...various contributing factors becoming more common or more intense, so that these “unusual” heat domes become more common over time? Or to be more exact, that they are becoming more...
...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...
...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...
...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....
...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...
...the marine biologists he works with, the most immediate cause of snow-crab death is one that even seasoned fishermen and scientists didn’t see coming: a mass cannibalism frenzy.” And guess...
...rising temperatures will cause peatlands to release much of their stored carbon back to the atmosphere in the form of CO2, thereby providing a strong positive feedback to anthropogenic CO2-induced...
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...
...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...
...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...
...a complete muddle. Conclusion: the science is settled and it’s all humans. (And again no points for guessing that no mention was made of the quiet 2023 U.S. wildfire season...
...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...
...hoo-hah about American climate plans seems excessive since the United States is doing fairly well by world standards when it comes to reducing emissions while other nations are blasting off,...
...brief stay of execution on the basis that other oil companies are worse. As Churchill rightly said, “Each one hopes that if he feeds the crocodile enough, the crocodile will...
...study using satellite data, ship logs and computer modeling that reconstructed Arctic sea ice thickness and volume back to 1901. The result was an inverted hockey stick which implies the...
...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...
...is not comparable since the ice season hasn’t ended. As you can see the percentage ice coverage in the Canadian Arctic in the early 1970s was low compared to the...
...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...
...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...
...major support for on-farm solutions to combat climate change in agriculture” in Calgary. And she’s from Compton-Stanstead in Quebec’s “Estrie,” aka the “Eastern Townships” until somebody noticed the name was...
...us “It is a case study of the complex threats from a warming planet.” Or the complex, nay tortuous reasoning of journalists who think they are climate scientists. (In this...
...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...
...line is the result from combining all the data together. John Robson: Clearly when you include the more complete data the blade of the hockey stick disappears and the 20th...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...people at the UN like we do. The vital purpose of this new group is to blame companies for being evil and crooked. The same companies who thought all their...
...Carney’s new ‘climate competitiveness’ strategy is in a state of severe disrepair.” But the industrial carbon tax of which he speaks, far from being in disrepair, is functioning at full...
A Heatmap newsletter warns about an Inflation Reduction Act program which supposedly installed 50,000 solar projects in “Low-Income Communities” yet “New data provided exclusively to Heatmap shows just how complicated...
...to addressing climate change includes assessing how we operate as a company and an employer. With more than 18,000 mission-driven crew members working around the world, we are committed to...
...boost the overall feedback level of the whole climate system, putting us into a positive feedback loop. Up until now, the story goes, the pattern effect has hidden the real...
...clarity from complexity. And, as Mr. Koonin makes clear, few areas of science are as complex and multidisciplinary as the planet’s climate.” Sadly, few areas are as simple and nasty...
...and Green political factions more than 40 years ago.” And the hits just keep on coming. Science magazine promptly ran a piece on climate computer models admitting that “many of...
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...
This week Ottawa joined cities around the world in proclaiming trendy “climate emergencies” that enable them to leap into committee about how to stop CO2 from coming out of our...
...to God that humans are making milk from nuts. But the big non-surprise was that the piece we were invited to ingest started “It comes as no surprise that among...
...of Public Affairs warns: “empowers an unelected government agency, the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA), to impose enormous fines on social media companies unless those companies censor so-called ‘misinformation’....
...taking the role of CO2 in promoting tree growth seriously might eventually lead people to notice that climate consists of complex feedback loops. Including for instance that if we manage...
...sensitive. But since today’s CO2 levels (about 400 parts per million) are still low compared to much of the Earth’s history, the authors thought, let’s feed in conditions observed 50...
...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...
...theory started coming apart at the seams over things like, for instance, findings that aerosols in the pre-industrial era played a larger role than climate orthodoxy likes to believe, and...
...a quiet season. We mean a quiet season after loud predictions. Of course as with everything, half of seasons are below average. And now, with a hat tip to the...
...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...
...of fiddling and fudging is going on instead of good old-tyme “If your mother says she loves you, check it out” journalism that asks where numbers come from and who’s...
...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...
...the peer-reviewed journal Geophysical Research Letters in which a team of American climate scientists compared forecasts of CO2 levels in the atmosphere from the 1970s onwards to observations, the actual...
...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....
...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...
...sought to “determine whether CO2 enrichment can maintain desirable plant growth under reduced light levels while maintaining comparable energy consumption, production cost, and high quality seedlings,” while also seeking to...
...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...
...favour “carbon capture and storage” just to stabilize current levels. But many others want to reduce those levels, and they warn us of disaster if they fail to do so....
...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....
...a $150 per tCO2e carbon tax on emissions from agriculture on global commodity prices (panel a) and regional food price index (panel b). CIS-Commonwealth of Independent States, EAS-East Asia, EU28-European...
...because the St. Lawrence Seaway won’t be open until April because of high water as the International Joint Commission works to drain Lake Ontario. And of course, in a throwaway...
...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...
...like changing ocean currents and complex interactions between ice and solid Earth were also at play. It’s also not clear whether the sea level rise would be drawn out over...
...increased in area, while only 11.4% contracted. Atoll islands affected by rapid sea‐level rise did not show a distinct behavior compared to islands on other atolls. Island behavior correlated with...
...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...
...namely the Colorado State University Real Time Tropical Cyclone Tracker. Selecting the North Atlantic region opens a chart of Accumulated Cyclone Energy (ACE) to date, comparing the observed level to...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...slightly. One commentor attempting to educate us about vanishing Arctic ice referred us to the Danish Meteorological Institute’s Arctic Sea Ice data. But their chart shows that there’s more of...
...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...
...a melting catastrophe? Well, Stanford University, along with MSN and others, peddle a “Mongabay” piece with the headline “No new record low for Arctic sea ice loss in 2025”. No...
...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,...
...had revealed that the situation is complex. The spot is rich in nutrients because it’s where the “Antarctic convergence” brings cold water coming north from Antarctica into contact with warmer...
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...
...as an opportunity for grim polemics. Many years ago Joseph Epstein of Northwestern University complained that radicals’ “leaflets... resemble not so much political argument as a ransom note.” And Green...
...events increasingly common.” Well, if you don’t know what causes it how can you know what’s causing it to become more common? Simple. Global warming causes everything bad. Including freezing...
...be 32,520 megatonnes of emissions, but reality only coughed up 30,490. Even when the IPCC has the actual level of emissions to compare with their scenarios, they publish overestimates instead....
...fail and taste bad, Miami Beach will become Miami Seabed and poison ivy will grow legs and a long poisonous tongue and eat us all up if RCP8.5 comes true....
In the Financial Post Parker Gallant complains about rising insurance costs related to climate. To which the obvious retort is get with the program, buddy, you and your stinking CO2...
The establishment environmental movement gazes into its sweaty navel and asks “Is it OK to accept money from fossil fuel companies?” Nice to have that luxury. But see even if...
...it. And the CEO of As you Sow, a “shareholder advocacy group”, whatever that is, said “A powerful signal has been sent to every oil company, to every company that’s...
...domestic and international, wielding something called “power” before which governments cringed. Which was essentially the Communist Manifesto claim that “The executive of the modern state is but a committee for...
...origin, whether some complex process that operates on complex cycles lasting centuries has produced complex changes in complex ocean currents that, in turn, impact the complex temperature record for complex...
Uber-green Europe is ramping up coal and gas plants in an effort to keep the lights on. The enthusiasts genuinely didn’t see this one coming, apparently. As Sophie Mellor wrote...
...Instead kiss the U.S. manufacturing base goodbye (and wonder why people support Donald Trump): “Take the Changan Lumin, for example. It is a sleek four-seat hatchback complete with high-tech headlights...
...to sneer, but instead say “Better late than never”. Although since these are commitments they took on just a year ago, from a combination of inertia and invertebria, we say...
...temperature from the actual temperature levels.” 1.3 degrees. So on a day when the mercury reached 33°C, the number of deaths tripled compared to if it had only reached 31.7°C....
...after a self-congratulatory DEI-bingo “The Government of Canada is committed to working in partnership with Indigenous communities to support the clean energy transition” they tell us “Michael McLeod, Member of...
...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...
...Effect itself is another very interesting negative feedback mechanism. According to Lindzen, a vital impact of warming is that it diminishes upper-level cirrus clouds. But such clouds themselves contribute to...
...direction. So some of the heat will come back down and some will come back up. So it’s a bit difficult for that infrared radiation to just go out into...
...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...
...learned is that experts and computer models are a dangerous combination. A third, and this to me is the most important, is that when it comes to making major decisions...
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...CO2 level, cooling feedbacks due to cloud formation get strong enough to more than offset the new warming and create intervals where big CO2 increases make the planet cooler than...
...course they kept on using the data anyway. Durkin also interviews Dr. Willie Soon whose coauthored 2023 paper compared the official warming rates with warming measured using only rural records....
...thought of as cold season temperatures in comparison to, say, Mississippi or Texas, so arguably it is another instance of more warming where it was colder to begin with. For...
...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...
...an extra 900 ppm boosts cucumber growth by 105.4%. Those crunchy green summertime veggies can look forward to better days ahead with more CO2 in their air to feed on....
...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...
...on climate change, the science is clear that such disasters could become more common, experts warn.” And threw in the heat dome out of nostalgia. Or that Yahoo! News did...
...over the railing? And of course a claim that climate change is at fault is never complete without the obligatory warming-faster-than-average claim: “The seas around Korea are warming more rapidly...
...and this is a Crystal Ball Check on the Pentagon Climate Report. In 2003, the Department of Defence commissioned a report on the risks climate change posed for the US...
...different climates: the climate of the 1800s, based on levels of atmospheric gases that existed before the Industrial Revolution; and the climate of today, based on observed levels of greenhouse...
...and global mobilization, the result is comfy drowsiness not the sort of informed alertness that would have us questioning whether any of these people really know what they’re talking about...
...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...
...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...
...a very narrow band of about one degree C. But as Matthew Wielicki complains, complete with typical diagram advancing that claim (and making absurd projections of dark red temperature increase...
...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...
...is just something that comes out of impenetrable computer models.” No it’s not. It’s another example of that phenomenon. The only place global warming can come out of is a...
...an oil company. As Wikipedia notes snarkily: “During his tenure as head of Shell, the company was ordered by a Netherlands court to reduce its carbon emissions by 45% by...
...“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...
...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...
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...
...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,...
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...
...the temperatures in the Medieval Warm Period to sea levels in the Holocene Highstand and go hey, what’s happening today isn’t unprecedented. So these comrades are not to be mentioned....
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...
...all that has gone before and all that comes after, not least in this case because the ice is already floating so if it melts it won’t change sea levels....
...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...
...is in isotopic equilibrium with that of seawater. Hence, the d18O compositions of both modern and ancient otoliths can be used to develop temperature proxies for surrounding ocean waters. The...
...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...
...link between human behaviour and often-alarming climate swings including those “D-O events” that, long before internal combustion engines and with atmospheric CO2 at half the present level, produced sudden temperature...
...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...
...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,...
...methods, scientists have used a variety of historical methods including contemporaneous news records to measure how often hurricanes made landfall and their apparent strength. The new paper combines the data...
...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....
...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...
...could turn most of the inhabitable portions of our planet into a polar desert. Narrator: When it comes to climate, there seems to be violent disagreement about everything from whether...
...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?...
...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...
...those nations with a comparatively excellent public service including when it comes to tracking, recording and publicising data. As is the United States. But, as The Daily Sceptic also points...
...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”...
From the CO2Science archive: Eichhornia crassipes (Mart.) Solms, also known as Pontaderia Crassipes, also known as Common Water Hyacinth is a pretty aquatic plant that was native to South America...
This one will take us more than a week to go through, because it’s a whole website full of cool climate data. Climate4you.com is a project of Ole Humlum, Emeritus...
...government, not hurricanes. Many people in disaster-prone regions have come to expect to be bailed out by the state, literally and figuratively, and a significant part of the rescue and...
...Canadian Indicator Framework for the Sustainable Development Goals and reflect the diversity of directly and indirectly affected workers and communities * establishing results to be achieved for workers and communities...
...of Sciences have taken issue with that notion, wryly noting: “The combination of warming and absence of adaptation leads to alarming scenarios regarding climate-induced reductions in yield. However, the presumption...
...happen? Instead they reaffirmed the global commitment to multilateralism. The commitment. Like: “Canada announced new endorsements of the Kananaskis Wildfire Charter by Andorra, Chile, Costa Rica, Norway, Peru, Türkiye, and...
...The red up arrows show where unusually hot days are becoming more common and the blue down arrows where they are becoming less common. The open circles are where there...
Continuing our dive down into Ole Humlum’s Climate4You.com data collection, this week we get our heads up into the clouds and our metaphor in a knot to learn about clouds...
David Leonhardt of the New York Times denounces “A flood of lies” because it rained hard in Washington, D.C. on July 8. The lies are, of course, coming from Republicans,...
...fortify our region’s security, prosperity, sustainability and inclusiveness through commitments across six pillars: 1) diversity, equity, and inclusion; 2) climate change and the environment; 3) competitiveness; 4) migration and development;...
A lot of people believe that inadequacies in modeling weather and climate are due to the fact that the computers are not yet fast enough to do the complex calculations...
...than California.” Well boo oil companies. And for that matter, if you want, boo the Ecuadorian “state-run oil company that subcontracts its field operations to the Chinese… building a road...
...that would actually change the picture on GHGs significantly including, as we also said about Newsom, not closing a major nuclear plant. So come on, man. Approve a Canadian pipeline....
...an internal-combustion-engine vehicle even if you somehow kept your job. It’s also interesting how commentators are as free as politicians with advice to companies whose executive teams or Boards they...
...that Mann’s “hockey stick” didn’t come from nowhere. It had to be there if the entire theory were not to perish within a few decades of coming to prominence because...
...Home News suddenly switches complaints to: “The UN is now admitting that the lower temperature limit of 1.5C contained in the Paris Agreement will be exceeded in the coming years...
...lectures us and the Commons environment committee pompously that “I will be the first one to recognize it is complex. If you want simple answers, I am sorry. There is...
...combination of belligerence, obtuseness, naivete and malice. As Shellenberger further observes: “Last November, a Chinese solar company named Deye remotely shut down solar power systems in the United States, the...
...billion ($515 billion) in assets, cited recent legal developments that have changed how such commitments are interpreted. CPPIB’s investment portfolio is too complex for standardized emissions metrics and interim targets,...
A prominent peak among the hills on which climate alarmists are determined to die politically is forcing everyone to buy electric vehicles rather than internal combustion engine vehicles (ICEVs). And...
...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....
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...
...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...
...have to take the possibility seriously. You also have to maintain your healthy skepticism, especially about a proposal that “The report comes after the government announced that four commodities linked...
...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...
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 a Twitterstream began with Emily Atkin tweeting “The scary storm system developing off Louisiana’s coast couldn’t have come at a worse time – and it’s a sign of things...
...admit that their boast about “the complex feedbacks” was a bit boastful, since “Some important processes are still missing from our model, such as dust blown from large deserts.” But...
...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...
...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....
...is factually wrong but because it’s too offensive to the sensibilities of most of the research community.” And we mustn’t offend the delicate sensibilities of the research community, must we?...
...“Canada’s climate is changing. Higher temperatures, more frequent and extreme weather events, and rising sea levels are just some of the changes affecting many aspects of our lives, including our...
...out on a level playing field isn’t a revolution, it’s a bubble. P.S. Some people claim it’s not a “level playing field” because of alleged subsidies to hydrocarbon energy and...
...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...
...As everybody knows, except when discussing man-made climate change, the cycle is a complex and dynamic one with negative gain feedbacks. Which is a polysyllabic way of saying that, rather...
...the corporate world is stuck on 1.5 degrees. Companies including Apple, Google, and Saudi Aramco – the world’s largest oil company – claim to be transitioning their operations in alignment...
...online, National Geographic asks “WILL EVERY HURRICANE SEASON BE LIKE THIS?” and comes down firmly on the side of “if climate change continues unabated, scientists predict that more intense hurricane...
...Australia had already reached warming of above 1.5C and that no community would be immune from ‘cascading, compounding and concurrent’ climate risks.” The three Cs of the apocalypse. We are...
...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...
...even campaigned on. In the National Post satirist Rex Murphy reminds us that Joe Biden, who thrashed about in the runup to the just-concluded Congressional midterm elections blaming oil companies...
Here at CDN we’re seaing stars over a Scientific American story “Mysterious Illness Decimating Sea Stars Finally Identified” that says “A devastating bacterium has decimated populations of sunflower sea stars,...
...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...
...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...
...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...
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...
...mainstream media outlets are already proudly and publicly committed to slanted reporting. Just what we need with a geopolitical crisis erupting that is due in part to daffy policy driven...
...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: 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...
...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,...
...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...
...years in a negative Atlantic multidecadal oscillation period.” What it means Finding that when the ENSO and AMO are considered in combination, the compounded relationship they bear to Caribbean tropical...
...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...
...make this epic voyage more common for the birds as they go in search of fish.” What? What scientist said global warming would cause penguins to swim to New Zealand?...
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...
...coming decades, if the climate continues to change as we expect,’ he said.” What? How would anyone know how much turbulence there was in 1979? And how about 1939? How...
...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....
When it comes to open debate, courtesy and dialogue, you can apparently forget about climate change. The posse has come for Steven Koonin and done hung him high. They being...
...computer on her desk. Her little venture into time travel is problematic, because the whole man-is-boiling-the-planet theory depends on unprecedented changes happening after 1970. And if we’ve really been messing...
...the world, with the scientific community saying the increased episodes are most likely linked to the climate crisis.” The scientific community, no less. Someone give us its phone number so...
...among advocates. Some environmentalists and academics argue the companies or states that are most significantly contributing to the climate crisis should be made to compensate the people bearing the brunt...
...it’s hard to defend the notion of climate change making hurricanes more common as well as more deadly if you look at the record not the hype. It really isn’t...
...Hoppe et al. say these findings “suggest that coastal Arctic and subarctic phytoplankton assemblages employ efficient mechanisms to compensate for the effects of differences in CO2 availability and proton levels...
...Meteorology data show no trends in rainfall or drought in the hard-hit burn regions or in global wildfire rates. When it comes to climate alarmism, whenever there's pressure for a...
...which may have something to do with the company being a darling of the renewables movement rather than an oil company and it was wind turbines, not a pipeline rupture...
...his broader Paris Agreement pledge to slash U.S. carbon pollution in half by 2030 as compared to 2005 levels. But the EPA’s proposal would not achieve a zero-carbon power grid...
...2.9 degrees Celsius, compared with preindustrial levels, by 2100. That’s far higher than the goal of 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) set by the landmark Paris agreement in 2015,...
...to come”. Don’t they read UN press releases? The BBC is up to the challenge. It reported “Coldest November night in 13 years for parts of UK” with more to...
...its worst bush fire seasons on record.” And if businesses really thought floods and fires were coming, they’d be dumping shorefront property, factories near trees, everything in Australia and so...
...any need for Amazon to fire anyone because the company will fold and they’ll all be laid off. The Guardian is of course horrified at this formerly woke company suddenly...
...shocks and, yes, a metronome. And his experiments revealed the principle of a conditioned reflex, where you can make the brain connect two completely different things just by repeating the...
...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....
...on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second” and is widely grown because its toughness compensates for its foul flavour. And excelsa is um well unpopular for...
...and communities of color to the highest levels of toxic pollution. As the current COVID-19 crisis demonstrates, the interconnection between environmental and health risks has created crisis conditions for communities...
...home town? Oh, right. The computer models again. As the CBC adds: “The same University of Maine climate calculator – based on satellite data and computer simulations – forecasts a...
...when the California Public Utilities Commission’s controversial ‘net metering 3.0’ decision, which cuts about one-third to one-half of the compensation value of newly installed solar systems for households compared to...
...people get work and pay. The thing is, Gates says the rising tide of nature’s wrath will soon wash away the smug aristos in their fancy seaside chalets. But he...
...to reality including recently in Australia. At the same time it’s comic because it’s such a silly threat. Not because being eaten by a tiger is a laughing matter if...
...And so “Italian marque will double number of traditional combustion engine models as it delays EV plans”. Delays. Yeah. Until the Second Coming of Greta Thunberg or some such. Meanwhile...
...the issue. So brace yourself intellectually and psychologically because the abuse is coming. But it will come from people who by and large don’t know what they’re talking about, they...
...of agriculture. Look at the Jurassic, with high levels of CO2, warm wet surroundings, and… oh dear… that Allosaurus over there preparing to pounce. What really seems to be in...
There’s one headline that never gets old when it comes to climate. “Global Warming Is Shrinking Glaciers Much Faster Than Scientists Thought, Study Finds”. That AP story, with minor variations,...
...GHG emissions below what the computers said would take the planet over that level at least briefly. What one might call an inconvenient truth if in a snide frame of...
...rendered ugly by too many pesky stinging facts that don’t fit. And in our case we acknowledged in March that Arctic sea ice was at its lowest level in a...
...China – has resulted in a commercial ecosystem where pricing is dominated by everything but the solar panels themselves.” This piece hypes a company focused on a very different issue....
...people had not been migrating to the United States for centuries in search of a better life and fleeing bad governments with worse economic policies for even longer. But now...
...proclaims that “the United Nations says that climate impacts are happening faster, and hitting harder, than anticipated.” The science being settled, you understand. But also wrong. And of course “Sea...
...a better-than-average driver, the drumbeat of “twice as fast” warmings ought to have raised eyebrows. World Ends! Everyone Hit Hardest. Now one might think in watching his video compilation that...
...it would. Thus the Global Warming Policy Forum commented in early September that “The entire UK wind fleet was in effect completely absent for much of the day, only rising...
...to infinity and beyond including geoengineering. Among the conspiracy theories we find ourselves combatting in our social media comments is that jet airplane contrails are not frozen mist but sinister...
...now say about warmth being bad, during which the Sea Peoples sacked Troy and made life miserable (or ended it) in Egypt. But either way, science suggests that between 3000...
...facing grasping landlords. But in doing so it overlooks the not-as-hard-as-it-looks issue of where wealth comes from including nice housing. The historical answer to the renter-activist’s question is that an...
...business. And Wall Street needs to keep putting the heat on companies, and companies need to keep doing the right thing.” Which they’re not. “So far, company actions have been...
...We enjoy sunshine, rainstorms, fog, windy days, still days and with proper clothing a winter landscape. And we often use fascinating details from the “Ottawa Weather Records” Twitter feed because...
...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...
...the ocean, ice sheets and global sea level.” But such rhetoric avoids the Scylla of complacency only to be sucked into the Charybdis of despair because if it’s really true,...
...atmosphere warms they will act like a thickening blanket and trap more heat, a positive feedback effect amplifying the surface warming. It was a convenient assumption back in the early...
...between 1.4C and 1.7C. They also checked other ways of estimating their model, first by estimating climate feedbacks instead of ECS itself (which dropped ECS even further) or by including...
...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...
...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...
...the seasonal and annual means of these environmental variables and the CO2 fluxes revealed a complex set of relationships. However, in the concluding paragraph of their Discussion, they write “the...
...or 238, gets absorbed at the surface) but it’s large in comparison to the contribution alleged to come from greenhouse gases. As Roger Pielke Jr. notes (quoting James Hansen), it...
...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...
...even “experts say”, that “Climate change will make heat waves more common and more intense, even in places where people are used to staying cool.” As noted, Portland promptly returned...
...Eocene, warm temperatures in the arctic allowed for the growth of azolla, which is a floating aquatic fern, on the Arctic Ocean. Compared to current carbon dioxide levels, these azolla...
...the President himself told a Joint Session of Congress “I kept my commitment to rejoin the Paris Accord — because if we do everything perfectly, it’s not going to ultimately...
From CO2Science: For those concerned about the modern rise in atmospheric CO2 and its potential impacts on climate, a solution most commonly put forward is to slow or even halt...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...where wealth comes from, we want to ask a nitpicky question: According to your beloved computer models, how much difference would this drastic step make to global temperature in 2100?...
...“unconventional spin on capitalism” and gush-snarled “The unusual move comes at a moment of growing scrutiny for billionaires and corporations, whose rhetoric about making the world a better place is...
...the matter including its seductive appeal. Joe Fassler writes “Between 2016 and 2022, investors poured almost $3 billion into cultivated meat and seafood companies.” Only to discover consumers didn’t want...
...Committee and really harness the nimble efficiency of… um… uh… That the US government might create lower energy costs is unlikely even if it were not committed to creating higher...
...gases in a simple stable mix. It’s an incredibly complicated dynamic system with endless feedback loops and mechanisms whose interactions defy calculation, the very opposite of “simple physics”. In such...
...“Third of the kid trips this summer: Italy with Ella-Grace. Loved exploring Rome, Siena, Florence and Lake Como with her.” The others were to Switzerland “for some mountaineering, hiking, via...
...did not have a pat answer, and to come up with something credible we had to take into account not just the obvious fact of the seas being interconnected, and...
...he says.” Boo greenhouse gases that cause climate change. Shtum whales and seabeds. Likewise the New York Times propagandizes in, in a timely fashion, about the first commercial offshore wind...
...passengers, and even with diesel engines emits 75% less than comparable plane freight “and 100pc once hydrogen fuel cells come of age.” Yeah. Once. Meanwhile let’s do the math. 130...
...direct input of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere from burning fossil fuels that’s responsible for changing Earth’s atmospheric composition over the last century, rather than climate feedbacks from the ocean...
...Verge of are to reinvent “how we produce food and treat waste” and “more complex efforts to genetically engineer rice or produce cattle feed that reduces methane emissions.” Just that?...
...is a complex interlocking set of systems one of whose key dynamics is the way in which grasslands become forests then burn and become grasslands again. Complete with “weeds” that...
...to a point of clarity several times. Including that: “The Earth is an unfathomably complex place, a nesting doll of systems within systems. Feedback loops among temperature, land, air, and...
...consistently play fast and loose with historical dates. Historical Lake Mead water levels are as follows: Source: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/06/24/is-lake-mead-shrinking-because-of-climate/ There was a time when the idea was that if we didn’t...
...how communities and ecosystems might fragment, as each ecosystem component responds to warming in different ways and at different speeds.” But notice that they have their verdict already (“how communities...
...in either hemisphere experiences an average temperature swing much larger than the 1 degree C change supposedly experienced since the mid-1800s. But that warming estimate comes from the surface temperature...
...“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...
...actually experience it. At least Maclean’s billed their verdict on 2024 as part of their trite predictions for the coming year, claiming: “Wildfire season will get more intense…” and also...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...(7) the 6-10 tons of “bycatch” for each ton of prawns netted that are caught and die, which dramatically changes the composition of reef life, (8) sea life depleted to...
...nothing abstract about a sea level rise predicted by computer models and unconfirmed by empirical observation, it makes you wonder what the editors think “abstract” means. Oh well. Go ask...
...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...
...communities get displaced due to rising sea levels and climatic changes that disrupt their agricultural and fishing industries, it becomes inevitably more difficult for small languages to remain viable as...
...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...
...“(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...
...coast is slumping into the ocean, compounding the danger from global sea level rise.” It isn’t cool to say so. But “The rate of global greening caused by recent increases...
...the table below, all of which values are significant at the 0.05 confidence level. In commenting on these numbers, the authors caution that they “should be regarded as the lowest...
...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...
...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...
Chapter 8 of the Clintel Report on the IPCC’s AR6 presents a review by Guelph University’s Ross McKitrick of how well computer climate models compare to observations. The evidence that...
...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...
...their younger days were far snowier. Our faulty memories appear to have something in common with climate models. A recent paper in the peer-reviewed journal Geosciences compared observed snow cover...
...the scientific community that the chemical composition of the ECM is the key factor controlling calcification and that corals can biochemically modify the carbonate chemistry within the ECM by raising...
...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...
...the Daily Mail’s “A monster blizzard is set to dump the heaviest amount of snow of the ski season and bring gale-force winds and heavy rain to large parts of...
...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?...
...submarine fleet is based in the Barents and White Seas, where climate change is making the seas more dangerous.” Is it now? Was the Barents sea safe in days of...
...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...
...“cost” isn’t just this Scrooge & Marley thing. It means people’s valuable time and effort being used up unnecessarily or, worse, being unavailable when needed. When it comes to plastic...
...they want climate papers that support certain preapproved narratives – even when those narratives come at the expense of broader knowledge for society.” It is also significant that Brown is...
When it comes to climate change, whatever ordinary rules of common sense have survived into the 21st century seem to be discarded with remarkable unconcern. For instance the piece whose...
...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...
...competitiveness strategy. Same as the old climate competitiveness strategy. As Green’s piece concluded, so do we: “This policy fixation will come at a significant cost to future generations of Canadians.”...
As the “Theme from New York, New York” said, in Liza Minelli’s original, “If I can make it there, I’ll make it anywhere,/ Come on, come through, New York, New...
...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.”...
...said weather.com senior meteorologist Dina Knightly. ‘Now, some cities in the South have more snow this season than some cities in the North.’” Oh, like the ones with “frigid cold...
...its scurvy companions being clearly unrealistic, climate modelers and authors of so-called “impacts” studies just kept using 8.5, like an addict who can’t quit the drug that once brought pleasure...
...into a vast speculative theoretical construct that not only hasn’t been tested in a laboratory, it couldn’t be, because you’d need one as big and complicated as the Earth, with...
...unique and complex challenges to the mental health and wellness of individuals and communities.” To which we respond that whatever its other effects, climate change certainly seems to inhibit the...
...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...
...the digital era because computers hate them. And then things get even more complicated: “Many metrologists anticipated that leap seconds would only ever be added, because on the scale of...
...Thursday, Climeworks, one of the leading companies developing machines that suck carbon dioxide from the air, published a manifesto of sorts to fend off the risk that its technology is...
...B+ on making commitments and a D- on the trivial matter of keeping them. And one wonders whether if all these grandiose promises only earn a B+ what you’d need...
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...
...grudgingly admitting that “Lusaka’s angry taxi drivers” have a point about so-called “subsidies for fossil fuels” in that “In many cases, they are not just a hand-out to oil company...
...people can master two or maybe three components of the topic. In my experience very few people in climate science have advanced training in statistics and don’t realize common errors...
...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...
...people have Zoom on their computers now. So is there a climate crisis or isn’t there? As usual, it’s yes for thee and not for me. And not just on...
Britain’s spy agency has announced that it’s making monitoring China’s compliance with its Paris commitments a top priority. Agent 007, meet Inspector Clouseau. Because China has no Paris commitments worth...
...Journal reports that “Central banks, the most powerful financial institutions in the world, want to become the guardians of the environment as well…. They believe rising sea levels, more wildfires...
...messages on climate change, capture academia, and protect their interests, much like tobacco companies did half a century ago.” Given the state of academia, especially when it comes to rational...
...Urban Development for Community Planning and Development/ Principal Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development for Community Planning and Development/ Deputy Assistant Secretary for Operations/ Deputy Assistant Secretary for Economic...
...companies. Which may be amusing, even peanuts, to Mark Carney. But it’s a huge loss for companies. And for what? Remember, if we’re not going to freeze in the dark...
...negotiation sessions completely excluded observers without explanations, leaving the impression of an untransparent and inefficient process.” It isn’t easy being woke. And it can’t have helped that “Canada is determined...
...make climate change a top priority. She understands the critical urgency of this issue and she knows what is at stake – especially for the Commonwealth’s most vulnerable communities.” But...
...fires was different back then so the numbers can’t be compared to the recent data. Which frankly is rather suspicious, since when it comes to measuring hurricane severity the historical...
...remember hearing about the Population Bomb, the coming crisis of overpopulation that would wipe out the planet’s ecology and leave everyone crowded and starving. As with all eco-panics the Population...
...we suck a trace gas out of the air and stuff it into the dirt and it doesn’t come back. Alas, it turns out that the settled science and economics...
In what will no doubt come as a relief across the UK, “We are absolutely not saying everyone needs to be vegan” according to Emily Nurse, “head of net zero...
...reduce this complex phenomenon to one “temperature” as though the Earth were running a fever or, indeed, catching beeping fire, a surprisingly common alarmist trope. If it were true that...
From time to time people, and by people we mean people like us, will compile a list of climate scare stories that didn’t come true and suggest that we should...
...co-exist peacefully, and to love their family and friends.” And before lunch, world peace. But where is this comfort and dignity to come from? Oh come now. You can fill...
Bezos Does Venice Transcript John Robson: [Sung to the tune of the classic Wedding March by Mendelssohn] “Here comes the bride, All dressed in white,/ Trailing clouds of carbon, something...
...radicals led by Victoria want to send a nasty letter to the oil companies demanding compensation for their climate-related costs as a prelude to suing them. A major problem with...
...by the Suess Effect, a shift in atmospheric carbon isotopes that seemed to pin the rise in CO₂ squarely on fossil fuel combustion. The evidence was compelling: burning ancient coal...
...and compare it to what happens with it which you can’t. For more see Leonard Read’s “I Pencil” and give up economic forecasting for common sense. If you do rely...
...progressives would denounce if it were used to fund, say, a conservative political party or political action committee. But when it comes to greens, there’s nothing to see here folks,...
...in community. Cognitive traditions and thought communities thus shape how and whether groups of people think about climate change and whether they perceive the topic as relevant for everyday life....
...See it turns out trees are complex living organisms that absorb CO2 when they’re growing big and tall. But then they go and die and rot and give it all...
...Dec. 31 for the good seats? Will there be ration books with coupons? Is it a lottery? Or can companies just offer them for purchase then sell us all good...
...manager. The company said it was concerned about proposals to stop financing fossil fuel companies, including forcing them to decommission assets and setting absolute targets for reducing emissions in their...
...might it prove Pyrrhic? Mann was suing two people or organizations, down from the original four which included National Review magazine and the Competitive Enterprise Institute through which Steyn and...
...asked whether every other company building a battery plant can expect the same deal, Trudeau said no. ‘We are prepared to step up and make sure that we’re competitive’ with...
...our emissions in Canada come from our industry. In fact, almost 30 per cent of our emissions from Canada come from the production and shipment of oil to the United...
...major changes in Earth’s carbon cycle…” So while Wikipedia commendably observes that the fossil record is pretty patchy when it comes to mass extinctions, the crucial point isn’t what happened...
...in light of the climate crisis, and, in an age irrevocably scarred by pandemic, these lifestyles may come to be seen as grossly irresponsible. Maybe among the relatively wealthy, jumping...
...what didn’t get into her outbox, namely effective solutions to pretty much any of that stuff including “climate change”. One commentator allowed that “it’s perhaps understandable, if disappointing, that the...
...literally trying to snatch carbon dioxide from the air. And it turns out “There’s only one commercial power plant in North America that uses the technology, and it’s not as...
...spot one, send a note to admin@climatedn.com (being sure to send the link to the story) and we’ll have at it. This week we look at a very strange CTV...
...for our “Everybody Knows” series. We’re looking for stories that make alarmist assertions about anything climate-related without bothering to check the numbers, with links please. Send your suggestions to admin@climatedn.com....
...about a heatwave coming on the Canadian prairies “with temperatures forecasted to exceed 30 C, triggering heat warnings”, which sounds pretty bad, and a harbinger of worse to come because...
...to lower the “twitter ranking” of skeptics. Basically instead of engaging you mute and block them, a “very effective double whammy”. Actually debating science, apparently, is beneath him. Or above...
...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...
...same ones who cheered the shutdown of the Keystone Pipeline – now can’t believe the prices they must pay for gas.” He comments that “It is remarkable that Buzzfeed can...
...to a survey conducted by the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication and the George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication, one in 10 Americans reports experiencing anxiety because...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...‘It all depends on the feedback loop that your model gives us’. So you’re caught in a loop.” Pfui. In the first place, you’re caught in a computer model whose...
...no less. But actual evidence is that cloud feedback is incredibly complex, depends on the kind and location of cloud, and cannot be modeled with any hope of completeness or...
...all feedback mechanisms are positive, so warming causes methane which causes warming which causes methane. “The spike has caused many researchers to worry that global warming is creating a feedback...
...food. As politicians also have PR departments good at pretending they have the common touch, open minds and only our best interests at heart. Thus the OSFI’s request for feedback...
...warming. One study was done a few years ago putting Lindzen’s Iris Effect into a climate model. As expected, it provided an overall negative feedback and, in combination with the...
...turbines” could “harm or destroy zooplankton feeding grounds.” The wind firms are acting like greedy oil company planet-trashing bullies in one more green nightmare: “wind developers are demanding higher speed...
...Gore disaster wetter. Just full of the things living beings need to flourish, like moisture and the CO2 that feeds the plants that feed the animals that feed the animals...
...For instance is it possible atmospheric CO2 is not rising primarily due to human action? Spencer tackles the iconic Mauna Loa CO2 data with commendable enthusiasm, normalizing the ramp-up graph...
...plankton support more fish and seals, which in turn feed more polar bears. Like the Inuit who steadfastly claim it is the ‘time of the most polar bears’, my 2012...
As we reported in our April 14 newsletter, Facebook is setting up a large fact-checking unit to “combat misinformation” about climate change that they worry is making the rounds on...
...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...
...a one-variable system. It's complicated. But it’s also complicated when something you don’t want is becoming more common. The real enemy to progress in scientific understanding is the pretense that...
...and virtually none anywhere else other than Europe. But in order to double-check the supposed relentless warming trend, another thing Heller has done is to compile statistics on the number...
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...
...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...
...done absent “drought” from 1984 to 2015, including due to huge Communist Party planning blunders. But since the world is already, we are told, 1.2°C above “pre-industrial levels” (a term...
...to invest your savings in a stable climate. Uncover the incentives in the Inflation Reduction Act. Meet the bugs that will feed the future. Repower communities in coal country. Swap...
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...
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...
...to cloud feedback – that is, the amplification of surface warming through changes in clouds.” In commenting on these findings Zhu et al. say their study “illustrates that the development...
...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...
...startups say seaweed is a multi-pronged solution to climate change: It can absorb carbon, curb the effects of cattle’s methane burps, and feed biofuels – not to mention the world.”...
...realism. The critical components of survival are food, clothing and shelter and they’re taking aim at two. Or three if you understand how much modern fabric depends on petrochemicals for...
...or even 6. All their computer models work with that range, and past IPCC reports have said if ECS is low, around 1.5 degrees, it's no big deal whereas if...
...annual human greenhouse gases, so try to guess what rounding error comes from HVAC in new construction in Vancouver. Still, it didn’t matter when Net Zero in 2050 was safely...
...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,...
...habitually generates. By way of comparison, we asked the computer algorithm at ChatGPT (https://chat.openai.com/chat) to “write a speech by Rishi Sunak promoting innovation.” In less than ten seconds this is...
...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...
...Instead of declines in maize, rice, wheat, soybean and other crops, the combination of extra CO2 and warmer temperatures is a net benefit. This finding won’t come as a surprise...
...impacts”. Who saw that coming? Not the snark who searched the text for “worst impacts”. But why quibble? As for the last chance at a last chance, the Times for...
...investments.” But him being on the board doesn’t mean the company itself said it. It’s very sloppy journalism. Especially as there’s a world of difference between companies refusing to offer...
...American has essentially abandoned science when it comes to climate. They are no longer interested in testing hypotheses, double-checking unusual results and expressing skepticism about initial claims of a breakthrough....
...they’re transparent to visible light coming in, hitting the Earth’s surface and warming it, but they then absorb long wave or infrared radiation coming back from the warmer ground and...
...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...
...with frostbitten feet and a sunburned head is on average perfectly comfortable rather misses the mark. Checking the UAH satellite data, which do present a global average, we do see...
...“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”....
...also released Wednesday by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.” We are all going to die. Or not because, having Google on our computers, we checked and “There are...
...to the community than the city core given the lack of farms in urban Ottawa.) Actually some highly-paid public servant or consultant did come up with “Continue to explore agricultural...
...Robson: Again this common claim is completely lacking in factual support. The “world’s scientists” have never come together to say such a thing, so you should stop believing whoever told...
...It’s not obvious whether climate alarmists or religious people should be more annoyed by comparisons between global warming and dogma. But a major problem with the theory of man-made climate...
...come together as a country.” (Like politicizing everything.) But Canada is not experiencing more floods, hurricanes or wildfires. Or politicians checking facts. So again, a tip of the beret and...
...communicating its risks.” Because not only are we too dim to notice the record-breaking temperatures, and we do invite you to check whether wherever you live actually broke any records...
...more common across the U.S., including in the Southeast and the Carolinas.” And the dreaded “weather whiplash” strikes instead of the dreaded fact check, common sense or courageous dissent. The...
...the rest of the world combined. And China’s clean energy boom is going global. Chinese companies are building electric vehicle and battery factories in Brazil, Thailand, Morocco, Hungary and beyond.”...
...combination and, remarkably, yields lower CO2 emissions. Meanwhile a 50/50 nuclear/gas combination is second cheapest at $76 with 50/50 gas+solar/battery next at $90. Of course models have their limits. But...
In a welcome development, the firmly alarmist Climate Change News reports skeptically on China pitching its strategically ominous “Belt and Road” as green. The communist government may burble that “The...
...Because as we noted last week, our home planet is a complicated object exhibiting very complicated patterns of temperature change in both directions at the macro and even the micro...
...and an ill-trained one at that; even her BA is in “Comunicação Social-Jornalismo, Comunicação e Jornalismo” which basically sounds like the Portuguese for “activism” twice. Thus she writes, among much...
...previously. Pielke Jr. duly complained to the journal about this misconduct. But to no avail. The journal argued that the G18 authors had checked their calculations against two other data...
...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...
...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...
...pair of high-level champions to connect decision-makers across industries, cities and communities. Meanwhile, the host nation’s COP team spends months in the run-up to the conference doing the diplomatic rounds...
...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...
...New Zealand said that it would make a commitment that by 2035 the country would have reduced emissions by 51% to 55% compared to 2005 levels. Its initial commitment had...
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...
...effect, precipitation changes have had no effect and warming contributed a bit to the greening, but all these taken together were small potatoes compared to rising CO2 levels which explained...
...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...
...our 2007 book, Break Through, ‘will cause the sea levels to rise and the Amazon to collapse and, according to scenarios commissioned by the Pentagon, will trigger a series of...
...it’s remarkable not so much for the content, important as it is, as for the source. As David Whitehouse underlines at Net Zero Watch, it comes from the University of...
...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...
...“is one of the most common crabs throughout much of its range.” Which doesn’t include the warm Mediterranean though that sea is the scuttling ground of “the closely related species...
It’s apparently such a common Google query that if you search “Polar bears” it’s the first “People also ask” option. Google may or may not be much use at pointing...
...low ice cover in recent years, they’re not even records compared to the early 1970s, never mind earlier in the 20th century. Further support for the early ice record comes...
...forecasters and reset their expectations. And the whole thing could be a glimpse at what’s to come as the planet gets hotter.” See “Despite ideal conditions that fueled pre-season predictions...
...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...
...wheat field or orchard in autumn and pray for snow to ruin the harvest, before complaining of rising food prices. Even the Canadian government, which commissioned the survey, knows the...
...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)...
...of elevated pCO2 on both calcareous and non-calcareous macroalgae are needed,” especially research that examines “the combined effects between raised temperatures and increased CO2, as these effects may combine to...
...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...
...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,...
...gave a very scientifical explanation of the sky being like a sponge, complete with exceptionally cheesy graphics about how when it rains and snows a lot of water comes from...
...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...
...Like the recent NHL game at the “Climate Pledge Arena“ (yes, its real name) which boasts of being “carbon neutral”, where the lights wouldn’t come on and teams had to...
...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”....
...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...
...computer simulations of the impact of “1-in-30 events” (also known as “very rare”) and computer simulations of worst-case climate scenarios (also known as “very unlikely”) to say theoretically bad stuff...
...where access to water has triggered unrest or become a weapon of war,” and “A hotter planet often makes dry places drier and hotter, supercharging competition over an already-scarce resource.”...
...X out a comment that “I don’t think it will surprise anyone that this summer has been cooler than average for the UK”. Why wouldn’t it, since we’ve been hearing...
...car any time. If you value fuel efficiency above, say, comfort, performance and safety, you can get as tiny a car as you want. You don’t need the government to...
...which are present during the submission of data and are outside of our control (local computer viruses, unsecured/compromised internet connections, etc.), we cannot guarantee and are not responsible for compromised...
Or behind the curtain, or wherever they’re telling you not to look because it’s messy or distracting. But Willis Eschenbach, a computer programmer with many decades of experience, just did...
...projects on America’s East Coast to those in Europe’s North Sea. In the U.K., another offshore wind hot spot, investment tripled compared to the first half of last year, rising...
...search “geopolitical” and you’ll get multiple instances such as “A great many watermelons have enthused about China’s supposed commitment to net zero by 2050 although apparently the idea is that...
...their plausibility. Including the extent to which this supposed transition creates a scary geopolitical dependence on communist China. On the first point Harry Stevens in the New York Times “Climate...
...offenses against science and journalism that this piece does not commit. Including a complete lack of distance from its subject: “Thanks to Otto, named one of Time magazine’s 100 most...
...a complaint with a U.S. labor board claiming the tech company unlawfully fired about 50 employees for protesting against its cloud contract with the Israeli government.” What has any of...
...banks, we got them to make empty promises, and now comes the “plumbing work” whose purpose is to “operationalize those commitments into net-zero plans and transition plans.” Don’t hold your...
...easy for someone to sit at their computer and write “police supply chains”. But for an actual company, faced with a profit squeeze, a gloomy economic picture and an out-of-touch...
...even said 10 degrees or more). It reminds us of Susan Sontag’s bombshell complaint back in 1982 that people who read Reader’s Digest understood Communism better than those who read...
...out go old, lumbering companies that failed to move with the times; in come their disruptive rivals in a blaze of creative destruction…. The economy that emerges should be more...
...over the 21st century. Atmospheric CO2 would still have gone up, just very slightly more slowly. Instead of reaching its forecast “no Kyoto Accord” level of 680 parts per million...
...Canada annually combined and is the largest in our history. As Aaron Wudrick of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute groused about that “historic investment” by a company face-down in the government trough,...
...so perhaps the press are dressing it up? Not at all. As the Post added, PBO Yves Giroux testified bluntly before the House of Commons finance committee that he and...
As the energy crisis unfolds, and a larger crisis of productivity and inflation, the people committed to climate alarmism are behaving exactly as though this evidence had made no impression...
...of Russia’s attacks on Ukraine. That company being Nord Stream 2 AG, “a registered Swiss firm whose parent company is the Russian gas giant Gazprom.” His excuse was that “to...
...Norwegian company Equinor have also scaled back plans to invest in green energy and US President Donald Trump’s ‘drill baby drill’ comments have encouraged investment in fossil fuels.” As for...
...the Canadian government could not meet its Kyoto commitments or really even try because it had no idea where the emissions were coming from or in what amounts. Even if...
Recently we noted a website that lists all the things that have been blamed on climate change, from the disastrous like floods to the comic like sheep changing colour. And...
...from 1600 to 1880. Even our supposedly record-setting years are, by comparison, remarkably calm. The authors do note that some locations are experiencing increasingly intense wildfire events because fire suppression...
...intense downpour, which was equivalent to months’ worth of rain for the area.” As if not having seen it coming were a good defence against not having seen it coming....
...or worse, he got away with slippery public conduct and scandalous personal behaviour as long as he apparently stood for limited government and the common man. It was when he...
...who interviewed them, all completely out to lunch, and in the thrall of computer models that were mathy make-believe? For that matter, what is “this” that Shaw refers to that...
...is that scientists do not yet completely understand the inner workings of our star.” No. Not completely. Nor do they “completely understand” how the outer workings of our star impact...
...economic debates: If something needs a subsidy to compete it isn’t secretly more efficient and only government knows. It is less efficient, so subsidizing it destroys wealth and takes you...
...operating complex EV charging projects.” Well no. They’re not fools. So here comes 3V, scooping up investment capital and: “installing chargers at hundreds of sites in 17 states, and hopes...
...well as hot. What Carl Sagan derided as “a hunk of rock and metal” is far more complex than scientists had thought, with huge mountains 1000 km underground and Australia-sized...
...of people find comfortable.” Then he showed a graphic from Science Notes that: “shows the range of comfortable room temperatures as defined by three different organizations. They say: ‘Room temperature...
...effects were complex and variable. In the Southern Hemisphere and some areas of the Northern Hemisphere, such as southeastern North America, a slight warming occurred.” Climate is complex and variable?...
...that Venus business. Well, it is. And when somebody makes wild predictions of imminent disaster that fail to come true and wild predictions of future disaster that can’t possibly come...
Mind you when it comes to settled climate science there’s a surprising amount of new stuff being discovered here on Earth as well. Thus Judith Curry points to a Washington...
...of flipping back and forth is perfectly normal, is getting less common or is getting more common. You just label everything a “hazard” and then go here come the hazards....
...Like “could” and “many” and “if”. But who reads the fine print when “The new models suggest Earth could approach Permian levels of marine extinction by 2300 if emissions continue...
...amount and phase in the Community Atmosphere Model version 5 (CAM5), which is the atmospheric component of a widely-used state-of-the-art global coupled climate model dubbed the Community Earth System Model,...
...especially disadvantaged communities that are most impacted by climate change…. we committed to Canada and California co-hosting an Expert Roundtable on Wildfires and Forest Resilience at UN Climate Week. This...
...a trend computer models say will likely continue. After last year’s IPCC report about 1.5˚ warming scenarios the media breathlessly declared such an increase catastrophic. Yet we not only survived...
...“Oh Dear, There’s a Downside to this Wonderful Material”. Heck no. Instead “To keep profits rolling in, oil and gas companies want to turn fossil fuels into a mounting pile...
...world it wasn’t just thinkable, it really happened. The Manhattan Contrarian weighed in with a warning that: “For years, many in the climate skeptic community have warned that expansion of...
...zealot,’ as economist Ross McKitrick describes, who ‘lobbied to defund and drive out of existence Canada’s oil and gas companies, steel companies, car companies and any other sector dependent on...
Children of activists generally learn early not to depend on their parents for amusement. Long-ago there were the “red diaper” babies of committed Communists whose sense of fun stretched from...
...percent of the scientific community that is basically bought off by lobbyists and oil companies”. Two decades ago Elizabeth May, now leader of Canada’s Green Party, told the Ottawa Citizen...
...committed to getting rid of fossil fuels are committed fanatically to getting rid of fossil fuels. Who knew? It also turns out that appeasement doesn’t work. Who knew? Not Moe;...
...“The ongoing fires in Greece come as the United Nations released a new climate report Monday that warned of worsening global warming in the coming years. ” So why wasn’t...
...in the anti-greenhouse effect. Or else climate is more complicated than just a CO2 trigger and a bullet to the planet’s head. Climate orthodoxy is strong in this one. The...
...already underperforming when it comes to energy output, and overperforming when it comes to money consumption. If you really break down the numbers, as Larry Brown recently did for one...
The rubber continues to hit the road, or the ditch, when it comes to saving us all from global heating by 2050, this time putting skid marks across President Biden’s...
Canary Media says “Landmark transmission reform could dramatically speed US energy transition”. Transition to complete dysfunction, apparently. The New York Times blares that “New Rules to Overhaul Electric Grids Could...
...first and second generation under elevated CO2 (see Figure 1 below), with the decline becoming more pronounced in the six week treatment compared to the 2 week treatment, and in...
...But as the Chinese authorities are in a dominant global position when it comes to ignoring facts and breaking rules, and are Communists who hate markets, we deride them and...
Britain’s Daily Mail runs a scathing piece on the high-living Committee on Climate Change, the great and good demanding we all do without income and energy so the country can...
Metro Vancouver has asked two federal Liberal ministers to let it off the hook for price-fixing because it was in the sacred name of climate. The federal Competition Bureau has...
There go those islands, apparently. Earth.com thunders that “The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) recently reported that the sea levels in the vast Pacific Ocean are climbing faster than the global...
...far as you’ve gotten? Naturally he also claimed: “COP29 comes at the close of a brutal year – a year seared by record temperatures, and scarred by climate disaster, all...
We told you a few months ago that summer heat was coming and you need to get ready to douse the hype. On cue Heatmap attempts to run a thoughtful...
...They are a root cause of climate change. The new commitments comes [sic – apparently the three Rs have been displaced in modern pedagogy] as scientists say fossil fuel use...
...as members of the Commons trade committee questioned the feasibility of cabinet’s mandate to abolish new sales of gasoline and diesel powered cars by 2035.” Well, we’re glad someone did....
...Lorne Gunter noted last month, “In the past six years, the federal government alone has spent or committed to spend over $50 billion on electric vehicle (EV) production and sales....
...sparingly in public debate. But to compare Communist China to the Communist Soviet Union is not a stretch because of the “both Communist” thing and the hideous record of atrocities,...
...of what could become more common in the future.” But there’s a big difference between becoming more common in the future and having become more common in the present. And...
...somewhere on their summer holidays, to the scolds at CHN “in a warming world, flying comes at an environmental – and for climate-conscious passengers – a moral cost.” So the...
Canada’s Ecofiscal Commission huffs and puffs and announces in its final report that all will be well if we impose a carbon tax of $210/tonne by 2030. And you can...
...classic illustration of how on climate you can say just anything is that it claims “Using a combination of scientific theory, modern observations and multiple, sophisticated computer models, researchers found...
...passed that same year) because they figured they could afford to comply and their smaller competitors would be driven out of business. Which was by no means entirely a bad...
...state of the climate debate that, before being able to point out that climate is complicated and the planet is blazing and complex within, the ES feels obliged to fend...
Many companies in Canada and elsewhere, including energy companies, seem to think that they can meet climate alarmists half-way. Or more; some actually seem determined to lobby for their own...
It’s official. 2020 is among the hottest years ever. And no silly complaining that it hasn’t technically happened yet. Gavin Schmidt has spoken, and when Gavin Schmidt speaks, computers speak....
...it’s a complicated picture because the Earth is a complicated place. Some places really do have fairly stable weather over long periods. Others, not even briefly. But they need something...
...‘foreign entities of concern,’ a category that includes companies and individuals linked to China as well as any ‘material assistance’ from Chinese companies, their subsidiaries, or even non-Chinese companies that...
...gas,’ Lord Deben, chair of the Committee on Climate Change and Sir John Armitt, chair of the National Infrastructure Committee wrote in a joint letter to Truss. ‘Greater domestic production...
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...
...be a footnote, just as it was over the past century. Join us online at climatediscussionnexus.com, follow us on Twitter, like us on Facebook, subscribe to our YouTube channel and,...
...Cambridge, a father of three, didn’t specifically mention population growth, reports Newsweek, but his comments have been condemned on Twitter, with many accusing him of racism, hypocrisy, and privilege.” You...
Climate scientist Patrick T. Brown wrote a thread on Twitter discussing claims in the New York Times that climate change is making hurricanes more intense. Brown is, unusually for climate...
From no less an authority than Experts we learn via Twitter that “Experts say climate change is making drought and flooding worse across the globe”. The story goes on: “Climate...
A great many watermelons have enthused about China’s supposed commitment to net zero by 2050 although apparently the idea is that western nations cripple their economies and geopolitical capacities first...
...South America, central North America, and southeast Australia. Causes of greening include combinations of an extended growing season, nitrogen deposition, CO2 fertilisation, and land management (high confidence). Vegetation browning has...
...begin to live. The problem is that an economy is, very like a climate, a transcomputably complex agglomeration of unpredictable processes with immensely complicated self-crossing feedback loops that is sensitively...
...Trump’s Twitter feed would have seemed mild, including the 1820s in the United States and the Roman Republic. But it is discouraging, wearisome and degraded. So we are happy to...
It’s astounding, and discouraging, how much abuse substitutes for argument on Twitter, in YouTube comments, etc., and how much of the abuse is mindlessly obscene. It bothers us even when...
Ryan Maue (@RyanMaue for those of you on the Twitter) runs a website called Climate Atlas with two cool data products. Next week we will look at his hurricane data...
...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...
...the climate change pigeonhole problem. Narrator Suppose you’re new to this topic of manmade global warming, or “anthropogenic climate change”. After looking at some of the complex issues you figure...
...to decline instead of going up, which would mean the water vapour feedback effect isn’t as simple as modelers thought. Once again, climate is complicated and the models are rubbish....
...including 200 years of high sunspots) for that to come true. In short, I see a balancing act natural to the system occurring, and humans are observing it… Negative feedback...
...it says researchers found that situation complex. Including that apparently climate change involves feedback loops. And that these loops involve moisture, aerosols and particulates and, oh no, but oh yes,...
From CO2Science: Coupled carbon-climate models predict a positive feedback to global warming will occur if accelerated soil carbon decomposition offsets vegetation growth in a warming climate. Given that soil carbon...
Continuing our look at Dr. Patrick Brown’s essay on the social feedback loops that govern climate science, we come now to the problem that leading scientific journals are led by...
...standard. By another very credible set, the HadCRUT data out of Britain (specifically “the sea surface temperature records compiled by the Hadley Centre of the UK Met Office and the...
...change to our company.” The guy explains to Dilbert that they feed climate data “into dozens of different climate models and ignore the ones that look wrong to us. Then...
...in the concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2), the concentration of volcanic aerosols or the output of the Sun.”) R is a feedback called the “radiative response” or tendency of the...
...to come up with some sort of plan for preserving the latter as well, especially in regions not as spectacularly blessed with space as Canada or Australia. Also known as...
...science. Rather, as our simple physics slogan video noted, it’s widely agreed that doubling atmospheric CO2 wouldn't do much to temperatures unless some big hypothetical feedbacks kick in. And some...
...Ministry of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO to insiders) thinks North Atlantic Right Whales might make it perhaps: “The research found: * Known feeding areas for NARW have expanded to as...
...misguided: These models completely lack some critically important climate processes and feedbacks, and represent some other critically important climate processes and feedbacks in grossly distorted manners to the extent that...
...up regularly in my yard – Northern Cardinal, Blue Jay, American Robin, Black-capped Chickadee. Gulls were just ‘seagulls’; terns were just terns.” And yes, the Seagull Fanciers’ Club may be...
...heat and devastating floods it’s clear that, although climate models have provided good information about overall rising temperatures, they can’t be sure what level of destruction each notch on the...
...First let’s hear the case for the prosecution. Your honour: “Don’t mess with moose. They’re big, they’re strong… Wherever they feed, the large mammals trample vegetation, affect tree growth and...
...the animals that you feed at your bird feeder might look very different,’ said Alessandro Filazzola, the study’s lead author”. And if not, there won’t be a follow-up story, just...
...an incredibly complex and dynamic system with very poorly understood feedback mechanisms, and it is composed of the various things we call weather including big phenomena like atmospheric rivers, ocean...
...they are complicit in the spread of this mind-numbing pseudo-certain panic. The world-ends story in question starts by invoking “Australia’s top climate scientist”. Without explaining how this person got that...
...even be attempted. In our view both the climate and the economy are “transcomputable”. They are just too complex, with intricate interlinked feedback mechanisms, to use linear algebra as in...
...same, including hopeless vagueness. But they went on “And you’d like more honesty and straight-talking and less jargon, misinformation and accounting tricks when it comes to climate policy and action.”...
...exception of places where bad government prevents people from feeding themselves properly as in the Soviet Union for seven decades, or at all as in communist China during the Great...
...from happening (with the exception of a commendable and courageous few). That’s where you, dear reader, come in. Check out our video on the RP8.5 Cheat. Read our blog posts...
Cory Doctorow in the New York Times “Opinion Today” swooped on the chaos at the aggressively pagan “Burning Man” party/art festival and complained about the “unprecedented rain“ as proof of...
...aim to be taller and better-looking. How’s it going so far? Better for them than us, supposedly: “The models incorporate cutting-edge technology, such as machine learning algorithms, to analyze complex...
CDN readers are familiar with the RCP8.5 cheat in which climate modelers use a grossly exaggerated emission scenario to project grossly implausible warming over the coming century and then claim...
...to observe that “Kinsey said that the leadership of the fund decided to do so in order to comply with a 2021 law that restricts investments with companies that engage...
...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...
...really are poor, if Canada’s rich and self-satisfied were, as Parker Gallant notes, willing to spend some of their billions on dull useless stuff like feeding the hungry, clothing the...
...skeptic Myron Ebell of the Competitive Enterprise Institute says he “has falsely claimed that ‘the rate of warming according to the data is much slower than the models used by...
...common is a total lack of competence and relevant credentials? Funnily enough, National Geographic did allow that “IDA ILLUSTRATES HOW DEATH TOLLS ARE DECLINING FROM NATURAL DISASTERS” (unfortunately these emails...
...CO2 accumulation.) It’s to be expected that models of complicated systems will make mistakes. But the initial distribution should be more or less random and the feedback mechanism of measuring...
...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...
...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...
...or tropospheric warming. The results are as follows: The top chart uses models checked against surface warming and yields just under 2.5 C warming (compared to 1850) by 2100. The...
...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...
Just when you thought it couldn’t get any more woke, Forbes reports that “Carbon Labels Are Finally Coming To The Food And Beverage Industry”. That “Finally” is a nice teleological...
...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...
...alarmists to push the claim of a climate emergency. In 2019, activists and celebrities, including Iceland’s Prime Minister Katrín Jakobsdóttir and the former UN human rights commissioner Mary Robinson, even...
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...
...with “Planetary health check reveals oceans have breached critical acidification boundary”. As in “Humans are pushing the planet “beyond the limits of a safe operating space” as yet another critical...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...all we can as a global community to avert the worst impacts of global warming,’ says Green Party Leader Annamie Paul” just feels like going through the motions. Likewise after...
...who have gone beyond facts might want to come back for some. For instance, Reuters “Sustainable Switch” just emailed, as if it were self-evidently compelling, that: “Thousands of people around...
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...
...how much oil companies had to pay these long-departed Britons to conjure up tales of sleet and even tornadoes. But they got their money’s worth because it didn’t just turn...
...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...
...who wanted all scorching all the time and even proclaimed it ahead of time. As Climate Change Dispatch observed, despite a prediction of “summer of hell with almost complete certainty”...
...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,...
...change. After an all-night session that stretched from Saturday evening into Sunday afternoon, Democrats voted along party lines to pass the first comprehensive climate law in American history.” It just...
...decade, it projected tropical cyclone numbers in the Atlantic could more than double compared to 1970s levels, while East Pacific activity could increase by more than a third.” On which...
...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?...
...comparison to IPCC projections it is not, as we can see by marking that range on a chart recently compiled by Dr. Roy Spencer at the University of Alabama in...
...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...
...CO2 and other key factors contributing to plant growth. In their recent work Esmaili et al. (2020) focused on light intensity, studying its combined effects with CO2 on lettuce (Lactuca...
...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...
...be expected from each relative doubling of atmospheric CO2. And as our new series “#ECS in the real world” began cataloguing several weeks ago, the computer models have consistently made...
...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...
...people who can’t afford energy how much they’d be saving if only they could afford it. Which might come as a relief to a group of BBC viewers who recently...
...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...
...their existing cars underground. It would not be a minor inconvenience or a comic little news item. It would be a disaster. (And in the miracle of markets, insurance companies...
...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...
...waves”. Yeah whatever. But in the midst of all this commotion there are two key points to keep in mind. When one level of government gives money to another it...
From CO2Science: Every year water stress causes significant crop reductions across the globe. To combat its effects, farmers and land managers often apply irrigation, though its application is not always...
...other public commentator on the subject when he says (p. 130) “We’ll turn to the data to answer those questions.” And that approach makes it inevitable that this chapter would...
...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...
...grow in the coming years. If current projections hold, the United States will drill for more oil and gas in 2030 than at any point in its history, our colleague...
...rainfall and soil moisture worldwide. Wait, what, greening? Yes. It turns out all that extra "carbon pollution" combined with slightly warmer weather has added so much foliage since the ‘80s...
...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,...
...on Earth, compared to the 2020 average of $13,302. Yes, more than a ten-fold increase in average annual income globally, to a level nearly double the current US per capita...
...doomed to disappoint its backers is that even if everyone fully complies with their promises (which they won’t) despite the costs being staggeringly high (which they are), it won’t make...
...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...
You’ve all seen this one. A winter comes and goes with minimal snow cover, and the usual experts furrow their brows and tell us it’s just what they expected due...
...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...
...Paris targets because you know climate change man? Not that doing so would, according to the computer models, stop climate change or even slow it down. Not even if everyone...
...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...
...WindPower says it’s all coming together. “Value of Wind Energy Far Exceeds Costs”. Also “EIA: Renewables Will Comprise 22 Percent of Electricity Generation in 2022”. And the Inflation Reduction Act...
...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...
...You’d think people smart enough to run large complex companies could figure out how to explain that “the science” everyone claims to follow has never supported the Net Zero agenda,...
...even the status quo, when it comes to preventing death. Second because it finds that even when hot weather causes excess deaths, the effect is short-lived and only tends to...
...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...
...dilemma of Microsoft, committed to “sustainability” including “low-carbon building materials” but cranking out data centres at a massive pace. Alas those centres are made of concrete and apparently there is...
...of which, their Executive Director, Caroline Brouillette, was quoted that: “For the first time at COP30, the world has committed to center justice for workers and communities in the UN...
...about their real goals. But taking the high road, we ask that as the other options come up short, they reconsider. Because other options are coming up short. Way short....
...Those charts can look scary the way the axis is always compressed, but the DOE team drew it differently, starting at zero: The blue squiggly line is the CO2 level,...
...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....
...too. It’s apparently young women who are best at changing the minds of stupid old men, aka dads. So all good things come in bundles. The story also does the...
...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...
...though agricultural practices have also improved. The combination means rising food production per hectare, and the authors point to evidence that a return to pre-industrial CO2 levels would entail an...
...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....
...now project sea levels could rise by up to 1 meter by 2050 if current melting trends hold.” Or not, since a “could” followed by an “if” isn’t a scientific...
...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...
...using the same dreary slogans we have heard for years, many of which (like this one) we have compiled and offer Quick Comebacks to on our website. Underlining our earlier...
...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,...
...“the impact of elevated CO2, elevated temperature alone and their combination on tomato plants and the extent to which enhanced CO2 concentration negotiates the harmful effects of elevated temperatures resulting...
...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...
...such levels following the subsequent super 1997/98 El Niño event. Commenting on their work, Romero-Torres et al. say that “after repeated thermal stress disturbances, such as those caused by the...
...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...
...copper, saying “Metal theft has been an urban plague for decades, often rising alongside commodity prices. But the combination of the economic ills and social malaise lingering since the pandemic...
...again? Gosh. Seems there wasn’t one. As Blacklock’s Report explained po-faced “The panel did not elaborate but promised recommendations by year’s end.” The report is particularly problematic because it comes...
...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...
...oh so pleased with themselves and one another, boasting that “Our common values and principles are why we are positioned to grow circular, nature positive and climate-neutral economies across Canada...
...benefit to smashing windows: Glassmakers get more business, a conclusion glibly summarized in one commentary: ‘It’s a good thing to break windows — money gets circulated and the industry thrives.’”...
...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...
...graph above comes courtesy of Professor Ole Humlum's helpful website climate4you.com. It shows the average temperatures relative to the present (the dotted line) as inferred from an ice core drilled...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...a bit sooner. And you could also have mentioned earlier that: “A major challenge in communicating complex messages about climate change is that the more simplified media reports of these...
...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,...
...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,...
...or the other. How many tosses would it take? Well, if the thing were actually rigged to come up heads every time, not a whole lot. Yes, a proper coin...
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...
...policies. The political implication for the Trudeau Liberals, who hold 35 of the province’s 78 seats in the House of Commons, is that Quebec is in a position to have...
...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...
NBC reports on how “Climate change is shaping Iowa's physical and political landscape”. In case you’re thinking of Blofeld’s dismissive comment about Kansas in Diamonds Are Forever, well, it’s worse,...
...Worth a look: ventusky.com. The site presents real time visualizations of current temperature and wind patterns around the world. You can see where your weather patterns are coming from over...
...grow are connected to climate change. Smith again didn't acknowledge his comment, instead suggesting the Alberta government needs to do a better job building fireguards around communities.” Of course neither...
...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...
...journalism or even science. Because the story immediately adds “This is a stark comparison to last year when California was walloped with above-average snowfall and ended the season 175% of...
...of impoverishing energy policies, climate alarmism, excess spending, and virtue-signalling regulations that afflict consumers and businesses without any compensating environmental benefit”. In response to which columnist Matthew Lau and architect-turned-author...
...causes massive economic losses and pushes up premiums. And when we say “keep hearing” we mean even when it’s cold. As in the Atlantic headline “Fruit Chaos Is Coming/ Climate...
...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...
...do NBC went to the experts who say. “Persuading the world to trust America again when it comes to its international commitments will be a challenge in light of Trump’s...
...invasive beasties that are munching up indigenous wildlife. Which sounds like a commendable if, as its authors admit, audacious scheme. Especially when it comes to stoats, a “perfect predator” that...
...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...
...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...
...let alone incredibly detailed exact numbers. Especially as this data is then heavily processed into “TLT (lower-tropospheric deep-layer average temperature” which is: “computed as a linear combination of the values...
...they rightly or wrongly thought was working, not pie-in-the-sky or, even more comical, donuts-in-the-sea. It is both sad and amusing to read in National Review that “The Sierra Club has...
...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...
...change.” The network then committed the venerable journalistic sin of conceding that time may tell: “And there may be more change to come, especially if a new sense of determination...
...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...
...and you point out that it’s not cooling and they say of course warming doesn’t cause cooling. And it gets more complicated. And not only because in Japan it seems...
...so all the usual cautions apply. But they report on lots of reconstructions of sea surface, mid-ocean and bottom-water temperatures over the past few years and they all look remarkably...
...on climate from an alarmist outlet. But you would be mistaken because the subhed was “Scientists warn that climate change is threatening the seaweed’s ability to store carbon and support...
...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...
...pleased since its “managed retreat” policy requires communities to remove structures from land that computer models say will get washed away later. Those being ordered out don’t seem convinced. Del...
...of our vast forest. As for the subsequent “One thing is certain: More extreme smoke days are coming” we could have told her they promptly ended. But here’s the big...
...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...
...decline in the North Sea cod population compared with simulations that ignore environmental change” the 2005 paper, after noting that cod stocks would grow in some places and shrink in...