A rising tide lowers all standards
...beat in the newsroom’.” And to peddle not lies but the sorts of wild exaggerations typical of true believers. Like that rubbish about a 20-foot rise in sea levels. Or...
12 May, 2021| OP ED Watch
...beat in the newsroom’.” And to peddle not lies but the sorts of wild exaggerations typical of true believers. Like that rubbish about a 20-foot rise in sea levels. Or...
Supposedly the very active Atlantic hurricane season in 2020 was more proof that global warming is upon us. As you will recall, when there was a long hiatus in major...
...what’s killing off the sea stars. (Spoiler: Climate change is involved.)” Crocodiles in the streets. Sea stars in the grave. Students protesting. Never mind the model failures. It’s the apocalypse....
...its longest season on record in its usual Closing Day fashion on Sunday, with hundreds of skiers and snowboarders celebrating on top of the mountain. And even though it was...
...Calvin Coolidge telling a delegation of farmers who rattled off all the usual complaints, “Better get religion”.) Farmers aren’t the only ones complaining, but for others the problem isn’t climate,...
...saying the whole thing is just made up inside some scientists’ computers? Yup. In fact there aren’t fewer bears, there are more. “As the town dwindled, bears began coming to...
...happening. In fact we’ve mentioned it several times. So we are not surprised to hear (h/t Benny Peiser) of yet more research showing that as sea levels rise, those Pacific...
...research team “combined wind data, satellite observations of sea-ice drift and climate-model simulations to understand how wind patterns near Antarctica have evolved since the 1920s (which is how far back...
...company abandons $250 million plant to make subsea cables that would have wrecked the sea floor. And a wind project in Maine is on the ropes.” Which is better than...
...way is coming to people.’” It glitters. But it’s counterfeit currency. For starters, if it were a pattern there wouldn’t be just one bear. The story also said “Environmentalists said...
...now is not the time for constitutional questions… in the country. Mr Albanese even went so far as to suggest he would be ‘very comfortable’ with the monarch, 73, expressing...
...has summoned an emergency meeting for… six months from now, is all in a lather that sea levels supposedly rose 3.7mm last year with more and worse to come! But...
Earlier this year we reported on new evidence that global greening due to rising CO2 levels is not only continuing but accelerating. Which is great news, if you’re the sort...
...wildfire seasons can be attributed to climate change.” As we said in February about record lows across the Northern Hemisphere, “If these were record highs, you know what they’d say:...
...start ditching the much-needed rainfall And replace with flooding comments. My over and under is 15 days from now”. As opposed to Heatmap’s “blissful season of long, lazy days, ice...
...Northwest Territories government says damage to a fuel hose played a role in delaying this year's shipping season for resupply barges headed to coastal communities. The territorial government announced earlier...
...in lake-effect snow if the current rate of greenhouse gas emissions continues. By midcentury, the amount of seasonal lake-effect snow is projected to increase modestly, as the Great Lakes will...
From CO2Science: In a recent paper published in the journal Field Crops Research Lenka et al. (2021) investigated the single and combined effects of elevated CO2 and temperature on wheat,...
...and slopes. There is nothing climate change cannot do. Indeed in December it snowed in California and Seattle, prompting NBC to shrug “Snow reported in Seattle, California as parts of...
...the vast majority of planet-warming gases come from people burning fossil fuels, a separate study released Tuesday suggests that last year’s sudden spike was likely driven by a different force:...
...new forms of power that private companies are too dumb to stumble across and recognize, “barring all new fossil fuel leases, phasing out fracking, and instituting a carbon fee” will...
...would go hey, wait a minute, if nobody’s actually emitting less carbon it’s basically Vladimir Putin selling indulgences. Which is all too common when it comes to carbon, almost as...
...weatherbell.com whose Saturday Summary videos offer a chatty blend of near and medium term US weather forecasts, commentary on climate alarmism and complaints about how Penn State’s football team is...
A piece from Reuters complains that “Asia’s coal sector has gone from thinking they are in terminal decline as the world shifts to a net-zero carbon future to seeing themselves...
...proving we should not have come back. This time it was the former: While we were away the BBC unmasked the great conspiracy to deny climate change of which hostile...
...also blocked bridges and intersections across London during two weeks of protests. The wave of demonstrations comes as the British government opens a new licensing round for North Sea oil...
...times you roll a pair of dice, were coming up once every four times.” Which we can’t help noticing statistically would mean such events are now nine times as common...
From the CO2Science Archive: A group of authors painstakingly analyzed the composition of air bubbles trapped in glacial ice cores retrieved from the Taylor Dome area of Antarctica, determined the...
...is bad.) Well, that idea won’t do because, again, everything is bad. So the authors went out and with different computer models refuted the other computer models and showed that...
...The politicians want Net Zero and they want it now, and investing in hydrocarbon infrastructure that will take years even to come online is not compatible with their vision. (Nor,...
...is right that there is substantial agreement on the desirability of substituting taxes for regulations if reducing GHGs is your priority. He quotes the “self-appointed Ecofiscal Commission” that “Regulations are...
...of energy. But the latest leaked United Nations scare stories say exactly what they always say. “‘The worst is yet to come,’ stated a draft of the report.” Which it...
...begun to search for evidence of more frequent and/or severe flooding over the past several decades. The latest team of scientists to conduct such an investigation is Hodgkins et al....
...(reminding us that computer modeling of the economy is about as reliable as computer modeling of climate.) His and other studies, Rivers says, “suggest consumers have indeed reduced their consumption...
...by human activity and consumption, with 28 per cent of our emissions coming from transportation alone.” So all that technology won’t come close to getting the job done and we...
...like “If you need more evidence that climate is all about communism”. But that assessment may be giving it too much credit, since the communists at least tried to be...
...considered serious. In fairness, it was serious, and serves as a reminder that renewables come at a cost. This problem of tradeoffs and opportunity costs keeps popping up when it...
...are in danger of eroding, and production has stalled to a halt.” But as we believe we have mentioned previously, the reason companies sell gasoline is the same reason they...
...new tack: forcing companies to put warning labels on gas stoves.” Aka Fox was right. From the government and here to poison you sanctimoniously: Canada’s Environment Minister just banned compact...
...if any was to be had. Even though Ukraine’s ambassador to Canada had pleaded with us not to, telling the Commons foreign affairs committee “Since this step has obviously failed...
...ruckus writing: “Last month, Commissioner Richard Trumka Jr. announced that the agency would issue a request for public comments by March on possible regulations on gas stoves, which he said...
...paper tweets “Net-zero is one of the most complex missions facing business leaders today.” Yeah. “Complex” as in “impossible”.) Of course we could always try an open-minded debate. But no....
...reader informs us, that “Researchers are also worried that forests are losing their ability to soak up carbon, which could be contributing to record levels of warming gas in the...
Relief from climate breakdown global heating thingy really can’t come too soon. Here in central Canada the forecast is for temperatures to soar to -16. In metric; for Americans it’s...
...what we’ve done, and we now see operation coming back.’…National Grid did not respond to a request for comment about the substation.” And there is indeed, again, really no way...
Britain’s Guardian, mighty guardian of political correctness including on climate, stoutly bans ads by fossil fuel companies to teach them a sharp one about the “decades-long efforts by many in...
...peat bogs are secretly saving us from climate change though they’re not, but evil companies will soon rip them up in a frenzied fit of greed involving, um, building roads...
...story in a publication called oilprice.com, which might soon have to change its name to lackofoilprice.com, says that thus far “gas hydrates”, which are “molecules of natural gas, most commonly...
...RCP8.5). [It’s] bias, not uncertainty, and until the modeling community finds a way to fix it, the economics and policy making communities are justified in assuming future warming projections are...
When climate alarmists deny that they’re coming for your gas stove it’s time to padlock it in place. And not only that. Climate Depot alerts us to a Bloomberg piece...
...says it has uncovered another sewage leak that has been dumping waste into Lake Ontario for more than two decades, with the mayor saying they will continue to search for...
...it’s not innocent. Consider a press release like “Government of Canada contributes to major clean energy projects in Indigenous communities in Quebec”. Again, very woke, combining aboriginals with climate and...
...Real Clear Energy, new and improved NOAA data show no warming there since at least 2005. Atmospheric CO2 keeps rising but no matter how much computers and politicians shout at...
...comes to climate change, it’s all bad news: “Rainbow trout are roughly equivalent to factory-farmed chicken. When they breed with native cutthroat, they adulterate thousands of years of wild genetic...
...NBC agrees that they should do so: “The action comes as scientists warn that chances are slipping away to limit future warming to 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit since pre-industrial times. At...
Yes, they are coming for your gas stove. For your own good you see, since progressive starlet Congressperson Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tweeted “Did you know that ongoing exposure to NO2 from...
...are worth more than they cost to make because they generate a profit. (If they don’t generate a profit they stop being made because the company discontinues them or creditors...
...um government. And Meta, fresh from its disastrous failure to launch the metaverse. “Sage Geosystems has unveiled a huge generation deal with Meta, just after announcing its first commercial geothermal...
...snow season can’t forestall dire supply concerns.” And showed a car in a ditch for good measure. Mind you, it did concede that: “Paul Miller, a service coordination hydrologist for...
...again. Dabrusin was just put on the hot seat because Canada’s Environment Commissioner told Canada’s Senate Energy Committee that our nation has the worst record on greenhouse gas emissions in...
...be... 5.8 percent smaller. In other words the benefit of doing “something” comes down to 0.8 percent of GDP 80 years from now. And obtaining that sub-atomic sized benefit by...
...You might even take a second look at the science. Especially since the Canary Media editorial charter commits them to “Provide context and avoid oversimplification or misrepresentation of complex issues.”...
...strike, it is good news that they are not becoming more common, and may indeed be becoming less common. And if it’s due to global warming, so much the better....
...a mass exodus the poor will at least see property prices fall. But anyway, the computer says that which is to come will be unburdened by what has been: “The...
...shiny green virtue. Within a year over 450 companies with US$130 trillion, yes trillion, in assets had joined. But they are now rushing out, trailing clouds of panicky red ink....
...commentators, starting with the usual bit about the settled science being wrong and therefore right that commands a certain admiration for its mental gymnastics if not its intellectual soundness. The...
...EVs are the future. But we think it’s time to pull the plug on that widespread misconception. To send us a tip for Everybody Knows, email us at admin@climatedn.com and...
...surest sign of a dying coral reef is it growing to record size. Feel free to send us tips for our “Everybody knows” series (with story links please) to admin@climatedn.com....
Dr. Kate Marvel, one of those scientists whose social media activities make it hard to believe she’s a neutral observer, has some bad news for all her Twitter followers. ECS...
...data, removing the current blade altogether, then they re-ran the algorithm. Bingo, the computer stuck the same blade back on, just shifted back 25 years. The computers are programmed to...
...to weigh the tribute the Romans complained that it was rigged, only to have Brennus theatrically throw his sword onto the balance and cry “Woe to the vanquished.” Aka Vae...
...‘I’m still struggling to comprehend how a single year can jump so much compared to previous years.’” And indeed in almost any other field the initial reaction would be to...
...Polar bears. The coral. Vanishing Pacific islands. Something. I saw it somewhere on Twitter… Even the government plays along. For instance the Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Canada press release...
...to Twitter. Back then a handful of major think tanks coordinated the policy battles. Now a handful of extreme populist movements (from the Yellow Jackets to Extinction Rebellion) dominate. Skeptics...
...went to a family wedding in India and it rained hard during monsoon season. “I knew about global warming, but I didn’t think it would affect me so soon,” she...
...ask his friends “Have I inadvertently said something foolish?” But he died in 318 BC and even then was regarded as an outlier. When it comes to climate, it’s typical...
...why not a Committee of Public Safety while you’re at it, to silence “enemies” in this crisis? One of the strangest things about the whole climate alarmist movement is that...
...from Indigenous, black, anti-patriarchal and diverse marginalized communities to get their lands back, giving resources to the most affected communities by the climate crisis for adaptation, loss and damages –...
...competing priorities that are perceived as more pressing. Some advocates of mitigation may also fear that allocating resources to adaptation might undermine commitment to the tough policies needed to meet...
...show a lot more variability than the PAGES2k version, as the Clintel team shows in this comparison chart: The red and green lines are from other research groups and they...
...stations. This week’s uses reanalysis systems to accomplish the same goal. A reanalysis system takes the dribs and drabs of data where the observations exist and feeds them into regional...
...an attempt to be accommodating, Mann insists that “Greta’s heart is completely in the right place, she’s a real leader, and the youth climate movement has been such an important...
Climate is complicated, and no one faults climatologists for using simplifying assumptions to make their computer models manageable… within reason. But two scientists recently pointed out that among the worryingly...
...footprint is shrinking including using energy a lot more efficiently than before. So why would anyone think things are getting worse? Perhaps because they read a news feed full of...
...feed livestock. But like it or hate it, it benefits from more CO2. From 1985 to 2011 there were 8 experiments reporting an average 24.4% boost in photosynthesis from an...
...feed in observed CO2 emissions the vast majority of models still spit out too much warming. It’s noteworthy, first of all, that the amount of warming in the models even...
...for practical purposes it’s the same thing unless feedback mechanisms somehow get stronger as time passes after an increase in CO2. Spencer and Christy proceed by constructing what they call...
...corn seed at a warehouse in central Missouri. It was a hint of a revolution underway in American agriculture, driven by a desire to combat climate change while still feeding...
...people ready for” stories Florence Schulz of Euractiv.de deplores the emissions of methane from cattle, and also from producing their feed. Wait until she gets a whiff of nitrous oxide....
...saw it coming, climate change causes weight gain. And of course weight gain causes climate change. Seriously. Take anything bad, and do an online search of it and “climate change”...
...cereal pests worldwide, inflicting economic damage directly through feeding and through the spread of viruses. And so it was that the scientists chose to focus on the bird cherry-oat aphid...
As we’ve repeatedly complained, the obsession with climate change is sucking all the oxygen, attention and money out of the environmental room. And we’ve fingered Scientific American, or Scientific Alarmism,...
...nothing that comes of warming is good. Why, climate change will raise food prices in Canada by 4% next year. But wouldn’t warmer weather mean a longer growing season, unlike...
...misrepresented in models... Efforts to distinguish between these and other possibilities must be guided by the fact that the issue is common to all models, the trend discrepancy is most...
...the teeming herds of human meat across the globe mean they will mutate to feed on us even if we never eat another bat. It also means our problem here...
...predict it and they don’t attribute it to greenhouse gases. Moreover it boosts the overall warming since 2000, notwithstanding the hiatus, to a level that doesn’t seem to fit with...
...livestock feed.” Hence, they add, “there is an urgent need to address this yield gap by developing better land management practices under different environmental conditions.” And so it was that...
...of contemporary warming was going to cause a runaway greenhouse death trap, why didn’t it happen before? It stands to reason that there are negative feedbacks and stabilizing mechanisms that...
...that has recently come to our attention: Climate criminals must be brought to justice. Seems we deniers are like people who deny there’s a fire in a crowded theatre while...
...that feeding the crocodile in the hope of being eaten last is just exactly as bad an idea as it sounds. But in any case private companies no longer dominate...
...is the flea beetle (Agasicles hygrophila), which feeds upon and ultimately destroys the plant. Seeking to understand the effects of CO2 enrichment on the flea beetle and its host plant,...
...of course Scientific American isn’t just trying to feed you a cricket as though you were, in fact, a frog. Heck no. Instead, the linked article insists, “Gene-Edited Insects Are...
...feed millions. Meanwhile, in the places where warming is observed, it's not automatically known that CO2 is the cause, but in any case the locals seem to like it. So...
...of man-made global warming is very reductionist, overlooking the existence of complex feedback cycles in favour of amplifying effects and tipping points all based on an essentially monocausal explanation. OK,...
...to few km deep) and transient corridors of strong horizontal water vapour transport that are typically associated with a low-level jet stream ahead of the cold front of an extratropical...
...so if making a habitat for a cardinal is worthwhile for its own sake it must somehow automatically fight climate change too. The Times piece appeals on many levels including,...
...core records (available at Professor Ole Humlum’s website climate4you.com) show that Greenland was substantially warmer for a long interval from about 8,000 to about 3,000 years ago. And Paul Homewood...
...the model outputs match the historical surface record. But since aerosol pollution occurs mostly in the Northern Hemisphere, it should be possible to compare the model outputs between hemispheres to...
...“would take 15 years or more to build. And while such a programme would slow the rise of the sea, it could also disrupt weather systems like seasonal monsoons depending...
The CBC, Canada’s state broadcaster ran a glowing self-profile by a guy who “got a vasectomy due to climate grief”. A failing media company with a collapsing audience share going...
“Combating misinformation” is all the rage these days, at least among government officials who want ever-expanding censorship powers to deal with the supposed menace of false, distorted and harmful rhetoric...
...for those who consider CO2 pollution because: “Producing cement and concrete contributes around 8 percent of human-caused carbon dioxide emissions every year. About 40 percent of those emissions comes from...
If the eco-conscious activists thought that not having children and instead having a pet meant they were doing their bit to save the planet, tough luck. The alarmists are coming...
...of whales and would like to see thousands more ply the seas. And humans need to change many of their ways from plastic pollution to ocean shipping to help these...
...seen this year is because of that eruption. Instead we’re going to say, as we have before, that climate is very complicated, its feedback mechanisms are transcomputable, and that we...
...that “Because nature doesn’t always behave the same in a lab, test tube or computer program as it does in the real world, scientists and engineers have come up with...
...to start more wildfires with “faulty transmission lines” has “made the apocalyptic future of the climate crisis immediate and visceral for some of the nation’s most comfortable people. It is...
...a common feedstock, or production material, for nitrogen-based fertilizers, and prices began climbing in September.” And it gets worse, because “By November, prices for nitrogen-based fertilizers were hitting all time...
...progressive cause or another, the countervailing factor, the negative feedback mechanism if you like, is that over the years that youth has been telling the party to get hep on...
...statistics. Increasing temperatures mean more melting ice, higher sea levels, more heatwaves and other extreme weather, and greater impacts on food security, health, the environment and sustainable development.” But, Whitehouse...
...owns two New York apartments to which he does not commute the 115 miles from his 50-acre Catskills home complete with “eco-friendly guest house” by dog cart, we presume. Nor...
...tax if Ottawa made it possible. This comes less than a year after he declared that British Columbia would be the last stand of Canada’s carbon taxes, come hell or...
...once-annual Shinto ceremony that revolved around the freezing of a lake is no longer possible most years. In Minnesota, ice fishing competitions that feed local economies are expected to get...
...went on to describe how Atmospheric Model Intercomparison Project [AMIP] simulations of low cloud responses to sea surface temperature (SST) compare with satellite observations in the southeastern Pacific subsidence region....
...apparently the big threat is… no, not that. It’s plastic. The famously useful and therefore evil substance almost as vital to our civilization as, uh, the fossil fuel petrochemical feedstocks...
...major study suggested that the total number of trees in the world was not 400 billion but three trillion. Again when you consider the complex feedbacks that models must attempt...
...come along and eat it. It’s a very complex feedback system and one with considerably greater capacity for self-balancing than environmentalists often suggest at least when climate change is involved....
...Northern Hemisphere, sea level rise in the Atlantic, an overall fall in precipitation over Europe and North America and a shift in monsoons in South America and Africa, Britain's Met...
...period 1980-2008, together with detailed radiative transfer and modeling information, in order to calculate the global climatic impact of this important greenhouse gas and compare it with trends in mean...
...or videos we delete the comments.) Adding insult to injury, Murphy notes that “Seamus O’Regan, Newfoundland’s minister in the federal cabinet (wherever it is these days, and whatever it is...
...a west-east asymmetric internal mode amplified in austral winter originates from the harmony of the atmosphere-ocean coupled feedback off West Antarctica and the Antarctic terrain.” But we can at least...
...in Mexico and California, while pesticides and herbicides used in intensive agriculture across the range kill butterflies and milkweed, the host plant that the larvae of the monarch butterfly feed...
...blame on global warming. Or, for the denialists out there, one more piece of evidence that climate is incredibly complicated, with unpredictable feedback loops that make modeling a mug’s game....
Moving forward on the climate justice front, the New York Times’ “Climate Forward” complains that air conditioners are “a prime example of how global warming is unfair.” And while you...
...would not feed and care for them either. But neither has anything to do with whether scaring you out of the meat aisle is sound science. Apparently such a question...
...“in contrast to common assumptions of positive feedbacks, we find that insects generally reduce the severity of subsequent wildfires,” noting that “specific effects vary with insect type and timing,” but...
...her statement was a disquieting compelled lie. What the angry response really indicated is not that an ad failed to communicate the complexity of some research. It’s that the truth...
...lack of grazing is forcing French farmers to feed cows hay… even though there has not been an increase in climate-driven drought or any other kind. Nor does it matter...
...paid a whole lot more to be alarmists. Research costs money. We don’t begrudge academics the salaries they need to feed their families and afford hobbies as well as basics....
...wrong, up to and including the departure of major energy companies from Canada for the United States in the face of bad world markets for oil and gas rather than...
...parties: Because economies are incredibly complicated ecosystems full of transcomputably complex feedback loops, central planners can never do anything other than blunder in and smash up supply chains. Which is...
...a committee of government planners to tell the forests how to grow better. To wit: “As manager of France’s public forests – 17 million hectares in mainland France – the...
...that in the most up-to-date crop models, projected warming and enhanced CO2 levels increase global wheat, rice, and perhaps soybean yields while only decreasing corn yields. The title and abstract...
...overestimation mainly comes from the exaggerated heating contribution from the Arctic sea ice melting.” Which means, they add, “future secular Arctic warming may have been over‐projected.” Add one more item...
...companies save whales and environmentalists casually slaughter them. We’re particularly drawn to this story because of a recent CDN item about how oil saved the whales… twice. First, major advances...
...simplest nuclear systems.” But we know everything about climate feedback. Matthew Wielicki reminds us that researchers say “Climate change is making birds smaller” even as researchers ask “Climate Change: Why...
...has to come from “light duty passenger vehicles” (cars, pickups and SUVs) whose total 2017 figure was 85.1 megatons. So we’re already supposedly going to reduce our miles driven by...
...are programmed to show. Isoprene is a very common organic vapour which has long been known to be emitted by forests, especially tropical rainforests. But since the sources were near...
...complex feedback system and reducing it to a manageable set of variables and functions. Ten years ago there weren’t iPads. Who saw that coming? And on energy alone, how do...
...we raise our crops is fertilizer. We use as little of it as possible. And by harnessing technology and computer power over a generation, we have already drastically reduced our...
...them all out? Well, in the late 1960s there were an estimated 12,000 polar bears spread out around the Arctic. But with disappearing sea ice causing the bears not to...
...27: 846-855. As shown in the figure below, drought negatively impacted the net photosynthesis of the soybean plants, where it declined by 52% and 23% in comparing the well-watered to...
...than just traffic – they’re also dodging a growing number of potholes.” Winter storms? And here we were told that season was vanishing even in chilly Canada. What’s it doing...
...their protests, but these stunts are becoming increasingly common as the threat of climate change increases, those behind the actions say” and moreover “It’s a combination of shock value, exposing...
...anything, the 15-year running average is lower now compared to the late 1800s. Nor are hurricanes becoming stronger: The chart below shows the ratio of major hurricanes to all hurricanes....
...And we’re happy to see that new research by van Wijngaarden and the distinguished Princeton physicist Will Happer has found that when you take the complexity into account, it seems...
...warming should affect the daytime highs as well as the nighttime lows. So a good way to check what's driving the changes is to compare trends in the highs and...
A recent project by Tony Heller, whose work in the archives has long commanded our admiration, has been to examine the ways in which U.S. government scientists “adjust” historical temperature...
Atmospheric temperature data from weather satellites has long been a thorn in the side of alarmists because it tends to show less warming than computer models predict or surface thermometers...
...a taste of what to expect with warming of 1.5C.” So shrieks AFP, whose journalists do not seems to be tasked with checking whether there were an unusual number of...
...happening: Les Johnson on Watts Up With That? pulls the “check actual data” dirty trick and finds that the Global Fire Data site shows that 2019 is not an unusual...
...York. Germany is the true ‘climate leader.’ Perhaps we should check in on how it is going over there.” Badly. Including on the transparency and good sense front. He cites...
...you’re producing vital numbers for a crucial policy debate, you desperately need a “blue team” or some other mechanism for checking that you’re not making important mistakes, either from sheer...
...storms and hurricanes are becoming more common and more severe, and greenhouse gases are going to make it all worse. But what everybody doesn’t hear is those claims are groundless....
...ramifications will be felt primarily there. In a world in which the alarmists have seized the commanding heights of politics, celebrity culture and academia, and proceed ruthlessly against all who...
...on climate. But when it comes to where people put their money you discover what they really think. With billions on the line, they checked. Here doesn’t come the flood....
...energy-related CO2 emissions increased to a record high. Current commitments to fight climate change would barely cut global emissions at all by 2030.” And they know from their point of...
...hyped as being, now is it? (He is apparently now suing. Without, we trust, petrochemical communication devices.) The self-immolation of Greta Thunberg continues. The latest incident being her chanting “crush...
...legacy media can’t or won’t up its game, the competitors will leave it in the dust. All the news you can’t ignore: We mentioned a few weeks back that even...
...fact-checkers. Then, after they’ve canceled your account and got you fired from your job, you can show them the source, which we reveal below the fold comes from official sources...
...we always need to check the numbers before accepting alarmist claims at face value. As an added bonus, the web page at No Tricks Zone provides updated Arctic sea ice...
We've talked about the problem of estimating Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity (ECS) before. We even made a video we invite you to check out, because ECS is shorthand for a vital...
...in the endless scenes of smoke and fire. Europe is the world’s fastest-warming continent, and the searing heat and drought that fueled this summer’s blazes will intensify in the coming...
...let us note that while you can find anything at all online whether it exists or not, a Google Search of “PhD in Climate Science” on May 20 yielded a...
...in China where it plans to get stinking rich on coal including linking up with China’s state financial juggernaut. And progressives seem very comfortable with it, indeed downright cozy. Tom...
...the one for last year? Or is it a century old while the green dashed line reflects the crisis? Take your guess then check out the answer below. Here’s the...
...to pick, production costs are rising along with temperatures — which means lower returns for farmers and could lead to a price hike at the checkout for consumers.” Of course....
...or angrily patronizing comments on our social media from people who are so certain the green transition is happening now that EVs running on solar power are fast overtaking gross...
...spiralling forever out into the inky blackness of the Universe.” In other news, youth are mysteriously depressed. From the “all climate all the time” file, apparently “Mandatory Composting Is Coming...
...that we’re seeing unprecedented extreme weather without bothering to look it up. They don’t check current records to see whether the number of forest fires and floods is increasing before...
It’s spring here in Ontario and that means we are heading into the warm season (yay!) which sometimes brings thunderstorms (yay! unless you’re stuck outdoors) and once in a while...
We recently recorded a rant about a new study in Nature magazine supposedly attributing hundreds of heatwaves to the emissions associated with specific oil companies with eerie precision, decimal place...
...to deal with it had been developed many decades earlier by mainstream statisticians. The IPCC once again invented their own method and never checked whether it’s correct, and I showed...
...for journalists, respected promoted professor, winner of grants beyond number, showered with awards and honours by the “community”? Apparently the journalist didn’t check that on cross-examination Mann had to admit...
...online weather enthusiast and we invite you to check your own local records as well, we were forecast to have our coldest Jan 26 since 1930 and our coldest day...
Continuing our fact check of Al Gore’s rant in Davos we come to his claim that CO2 emissions are causing “the rain bombs”. The what? We hadn’t heard of rain...
...Davies of the U of Plymouth. Details, details. But if you do check it out, funnily enough, the only mention of climate in the actual paper is: “Darkening has typically...
...can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject. The New York Times story is a classic because it takes a complex problem, admits it has complex roots, gets them...
...also subject to a number of limitations. They typically do not adequately account for all sources of risk, including low probability high impact events, sea-level rise, extreme events and societal...
...another. But it’s very important that the press stop grabbing things they wish were true and yelling them without checking whether they are in fact true. And that requires a...
...to point to the magnitude of its release being simply too comparatively minute.” Since La Niñas cause cooling it’s all a bit complicated with cooling snuffing out cooling and all....
...at the World Economic Forum, the gnomes of Davos. But if you’re looking for plotters on a Dan Brown or Jason Bourne level, guess again. Instead he writes that for...
...dioxide emissions into helpful perspective. Relative to natural variations in the factors that drive warming and cooling, changes to greenhouse gas levels only affect the energy budget by about a...
...cost of carbon, aka why you’re a bad person to drive to work. They do their estimating via computer models, of course, which rely on assumptions like when it gets...
...comments on our own website show all too well, alarmists very often take an “extreme weather has increased, case closed” approach to the complexities of climate. The first step in...
...more comfortable temperatures for all.” Of course if you’re looking for it you can find it. Ottawa Weather Records noted on June 23, as the heat broke, that: “After 4...
...longer, dumping ever more water and being Worse Than ExpectedTM. Alas, someone has checked the numbers, and found no evidence that tropical cyclone translation speed has declined since the 1950s,...
...of EVs to difficulties transforming the grid to failures to invest in nuclear to Third World poverty to the weakness of batteries. Oh, and they also complain about capitalism but...
As we somehow survive another spring flood season unwashed-away, we are reminded of the nonstop nightmare of climate change making floods bigger and more frequent, except where they are becoming...
...Annual Reports to see how much of its money comes from governments seeking confirmation of their alarmist views and policies and after a struggle through the links and search bars...
...and then arm-waves that: “Economic losses from climate change are mounting and adding billions of damage to roads, bridges, seaside communities and critical infrastructure.” Facts? We don’t need no stinking...
...website https://climate.weather.gc.ca/ and search for themselves. It might seem surprising that with so many people working in his embassy, including many intelligence agents, ambassador Cong could not find someone to...
...have the Internet on our computers so we checked and guess what? Same dismal weather. Someone better tell “the scientists”. Actually the data we obtained was not from within Glasgow...
...TV station to big oil backed Al Jazeera, buying a seaside villa, and having his most famous climate prediction fall flat, Al Gore might have settled into a very comfortable...
...are eggs: To the science-trained OMA this looks like failure. When it comes to global forest fires, needless to say the OMA don’t have any data to offer, but we...
...vegetation products vary in their spatial and temporal completeness as well as resolution and are sensitive to contamination from atmospheric composition, clouds, snow cover, and anisotropy, as well as orbital...
...that could “destroy” the Earth to hear Al Gore and others tell it, you’d probably want to check your solution for practicality. Twice even. So Fenske did. Let us repeat...
...people doing the yelling seem inclined to check the facts. And it seems to be inducing a certain fundamental carelessness. It’s especially blameworthy, and careless, because many governments keep fairly...
...no gray area.” And Post reporters being what they are, they didn’t bother to check whether Kossin was making stuff up, including by failing to tell them what the IPCC...
...with a series of predictions about drought, crop failure, heat waves and sea level changes that the Canadian government made in 2001, every single one of which was a bust....
...harder and harder: “This week, the European Commission and Australia are increasingly cracking down on greenwashing as the EU proposes new rules on environmental labeling, while Australia’s competition watchdog considers...
...said “if he wins the Nov. 3 election he will ask Congress to pass a comprehensive COVID-19 bill that he would sign within the first 10 days of taking office”...
...on climate science where critics of the consensus were given time to present some arguments, which led him to check more of the basic data and scientific literature for himself....
...again, as debating the finer defects in Keynesian economics and the computer models it spawned. But it’s still worth pointing out, given the extraordinary faith many people have in them,...
...change, which they call an unproven theory based on computer models whose predictions do not match the evidence. Their surprisingly strong statement and the number of signers gives the lie...
...uneasily, is more than half a century ago. But what of Boston? Alas, it was on Independence Day in… 1911. And just as Albany never fails to disappoint, we checked...
...combined with a carbon tax is lousy policy as well as lousy politics. It is obvious that in one sense the grant to Loblaws is just part of the federal...
...But of course it generally suffices to check your power bill and, in some cases, your tax bill as well to convince you to beg politicians not to save us...
...(we are not making this up) that “Windows Update is committed to helping reduce carbon emissions” to random vehicles lurching about proclaiming “Zero carbone.” The difference is that it annoys...
...famous rethinking of how we’re arranging our affairs in the face of various catastrophes, let’s reconsider believing the sales hype instead of checking under the hood. Among other things, Lomborg...
...veteran Canadian journalist and commentator Peter Stockland, who just wrote: “An editor I knew years ago used to reprimand young reporters for using the word ‘could’ as a basis for...
...data too. And from 1850 to 2019, from a distance, you seem to see something like a hockey stick. Aha? Not really. Because again, PI had the computer search that...
...we ran our model and saw what we were expecting, not we looked at the real world and checked. For the green neo-colonialists wanting to shut down African energy development...
...Depot’s third-quarter was mixed with fewer violent storms reaching shore, more anxiety among U.S. consumers and a housing market that is in a deep funk. The company lowered its fiscal...
...balance method of computing ECS yielded an estimate of about 1.6° C. But afterwards the IPCC released new data on aerosol forcing, and some new compilations of surface temperature data...
...left for changing greenhouse gas concentrations. Further evidence on this point is found in another new study by Dübal and Vahrenholt which compared radiation trends in clear sky regions versus...
...a year from its St. John refinery alone in 2016), says it supports carbon pricing as long as it’s completely ineffective. Not in those exact words, of course. But Irving...
...were to return to its typical state, especially if it did it rapidly, it could cause all kinds of problems, from rapidly rising sea levels to plants and animals struggling...
...short-term swings in fossil fuel prices ⛽, the European Commission said. The EU is reforming its power market ⚡ to attempt to avoid a repeat of last year, when cuts...
...become a bit more common under greenhouse warming. To check if that has happened, the authors used a model to reconstruct past hurricane formation counts. And then they showed that...
...newsroom slogan that “If your mother says she loves you, check it out.” And journalists have been famous since press-card-in-the-porkpie-hat-and-flask-in-the-hip-pocket days for distrusting the word of government officials. Mostly they...
It might seem like a fool’s errand to fact check Al Gore. But the man does have a big audience and someone’s got to do it so we rush in....
...And third, come to think of it, is that expensive is bad. The actual piece lays it on: “Even if you’re a big fan of snowy mornings and cozy nights,...
...assumes facts it should have checked, demonstrating that the temperature pattern is quite complex. Including that it rather appears that winter temperatures are increasing but summer maximums are not. Which...
...of climate science studies is checking predictions of current effects against actual evidence. Which is apparently an attack on “climate science”, even if it’s a defence of normal science that...
...archipelagos. You get the idea? If not, check the map. Most of us survive in the hottest parts of the world, and do so despite the poverty there compared to...
...is a microcosm of the many challenges that come with trying to predict – and speak definitively about – how our planet will change in the future.” So how come...
...to tell the difference. If you want to check your answer, just look below. Here’s the answer: Once again, while you might have guessed right, you probably had to look...
In keeping with the sound methodology of looking at the big picture, a recent paper from the Global Warming Policy Foundation checks the British Environment Ministry's claims, based largely on...
...trend from around 1940 to 1970 that made your childhood snowier than, say, that of your parents. Indeed, if you check the Canadian government’s own data at yourenvironment.ca and look...
...policies. The claim is extremely common. But what if it’s not true? Narrator In a recent report on climate change in Canada since 1948, Environment Canada scientists confirmed that while...
...How much does he really know about the complex interactions that drive planetary conditions, or even about the past history of the outcomes? Any rational examination of temperature data reveals...
...meant to happen “by 2020” which means it is time to check how clear the crystal ball was. Thus over at Junk Science they praise a video by Climate Resistance...
In the repetitive “what’s wrong with you morons” lists of obvious man-made climate disasters that come our way in comments and emails from climate alarmists, the death of corals is...
In this feature we give you some inane sounding, anti-science denialist propaganda which the ever-vigilant Facebook fact-checkers can pounce on to censor, if not get you banned for life and...
We continue our fact check of Al Gore’s rant in Davos, turning now to his claim that CO2 is “sucking the moisture out of the land and creating the droughts”....
...Maybe it means the rains are less common now. Or maybe they are more common. Or neither. Guess which line is for which year, then see below to check your...
...perhaps by the Ministry of Administrative Affairs, into a seamless whole which will miraculously become efficient through the multiplication of steering committees and strategic plans. And after all, how hard...
Well, we did tell you so. Just two weeks ago we told you Australians had blundered by entrusting power to a deep green Labour party committed to getting them out...
...Stevens is a leader in his field who pulls no punches when it comes to criticizing the alarmist bias of so many of his colleagues (“If you look closely, the...
...times on social media features a man claiming that global warming is natural, CO2 has no provable effect on the climate, the greenhouse effect is negligible, and computer models used...
...with western Europe, for example, tending to have less streamflow activity over time. And for the world as a whole, the combined flood index had no trend. When they used...
...meaning SA has succumbed to the childish partisanship wrecking so many things in our society including science, as even a writer in The Atlantic complained. Naturally it is possible that...
...1999”. Bottom line: the people complaining about misinformation are, in many cases, precisely the same people who are spreading it. For instance Politico “fact-checked” Florida governor Ron de Santis on...
...New York State which “enacted its Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act in 2018, announcing its ‘climate leadership’ to the world for all to envy.” Alas, “five years into the...
...steer floodwaters to other communities, said state Sen. Charles Perry, who chairs the Senate Committee on Water, Agriculture and Rural Affairs.” How installing flood-warning sirens might send the waters to...
...rate of increase can be reduced by appropriate human actions that lead to rapid reductions in GHG emissions". But when Willis Eschenbach at Watts up With That tried to check...
...to find a headline. So we say on finger-pointing oh yes we can. As we note in our latest “Fact Check” video on the fires, one of the strangest things...
...not to worry because a computer whiz blogger named Zoe Phin has done it for you. (But if they are, she posted the code, so you can run it yourself...
...news people like to use as a bit of b-roll to start their climate change horror stories with. Courtesy of weatherstats.ca we can check the data for Hamilton which go...
...ECS likely is. Yes it’s lame and contrived. But once the idea was out there, and given a fancy name, the climate science community ran with it, proposing that CO2...
...observed in the 20th century. As physicist William van Wijngaarden notes in our latest video, comparing predictions to data would have made for better models. Instead the new generation is...
...previous decade. Meaning ECS had to be as well. Doing the usual number crunching that is Lewis’s particular speciality, comparing the 1995-2011 period to the 1859-1882 base period indicates an...
...Worlds. (Even if the MSM cover for them with “fact checks”.) Just as there’s nothing bucolic about massive solar farms that disrupt ecology and disfigure the landscape on an industrial...
Climate activists, including those in the media, are so totally convinced that the weather is getting worse that they no longer bother to check. And so when Hurricane Hilary approached...
...we have found traces of, and again the story rather naively blurts it out without first ringing up Michael Mann, Al Gore or the CRU to check whether it’s inconvenient....
...subsidies where climate boosters fail to check the math. An alert reader sends us a Newsweek puff piece on a high-speed, all-electric, “zero emissions” rail link between Rancho Cucamonga outside...
...which we mean one that combines the insights of traditional “blue” conservatives (which in the US would be “red”) about the organic nature of society and markets with those of...
...even committed to phasing out coal, to the horror of climate activists who say it’s essential to meet the Paris Accord targets. But again, meeting the Paris Accord targets would...
In this installment in our review of Bjorn Lomborg’s massive analysis of 21st century climate policy, we come to his assessment of the costs and benefits of the Paris treaty....
A particularly comic example of seeing what you expect to see on climate came from (again) Britain’s GB News courtesy of an alert reader. An August 1 story shrieked that...
...the occasional celebratory meal? Finally, and please make it stop: “Eating locally sourced products can solve that problem, but you must combine that with choosing seasonally to avoid plants grown...
...to last for hours.” But did anyone actually look at a map, and check just how solidly frozen this region was, before believing climate change was coming for Franklin’s ships?...
This week’s provocation concerns trees. Specifically the forests that are going to be wiped out by climate change. Except they’re not. So if you want to irritate the fact-checkers at...
...then again, maybe we should check the data, which is easy to do if you know where to #Lookitup. So here is the monthly record of drought severity (negative means...
...More and worse weather extremes can be expected.” So they had it both already here and coming soon, a common habit. And alarmists today say the same sort of stuff...
...death watch: the Daily Mail actually hollers yet again “West Antarctic Ice Sheet is on the verge of a ‘catastrophic’ COLLAPSE – sparking 9.8ft of irreversible global sea level rise,...
...emergency activist. And if you really want to startle your alarmist relatives at the holiday dinner table, check out the Accumulated Cyclone Energy record. Here it is: The nice thing...
Note: this post has been edited to correct an earlier version. Continuing with our fact check on Al Gore’s epic rant in Davos, this week we turn to his claim...
...even know if the thermometer reading was accurate, or the event unprecedented. But never mind. Some stories are just too good to check. On Watts Up With That, Michael Kile...
...their work is not yet peer reviewed, the results are statistically significant and, if confirmed, may go a long way to clearing up this complex puzzle. As we have noted...
...planet. Most of all the ice on the world will melt. Cities we love and live in will be gone.” Oh really? We don’t even believe a computer model said...
...values instead of their current ones. And with that much cash how can he miss? For instance: “In 2023, while visiting a summit of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Trudeau announced...
...by comparison. In honour of the new Facebook fact-check brigade now prowling your pages in search of climate heresy, we decided to introduce a new feature where we offer some...
Canada’s Department of Natural Resources is worried that “communities across Canada face the consequences of more frequent and more severe floods and wind storms, heavier snow loads and longer, hotter...
...ways to help prevent serious incidents.” But ordinary people are not hesitating to get on planes lest their carry-on baggage come hurtling out of the overhead compartment just because scientists...
We talked last week about a proposal to refreeze the poles, which last we checked are already frozen. But the aspirations of geotinkerers don’t end at messing with the Arctic....
...you’d want to determine just how big the negative and positive impacts were, and check both the data and reasoning that led to those determinations, and keep your voice level...
...foregone conclusion that the weather now is completely unlike the weather that befell the city back when Sir Robert Borden was Prime Minister. You be the judge. One of the...
...to get RCP8.5-level warming by 2100 would require CO2 levels in the atmosphere to rise by 150% over the next 80 years, compared to the 50% they went up over...
...need to do. We all know.” Right. And we know what comes top of the list: “Lower carbon emission, regulate chemicals, protect ecosystems” even though with all those factors, lowering...
...reading in British cities by 1.5 degrees just since 1990. Still, we do want to note that we checked the all-time temperature records by continent and they show Africa’s peak...
...their trend lines upward. So it’s nice when hard data comes along that provides a check against such revisionism of past thermometer data. Climate is not a stable thing and...
...year in our Fact Check video on the Great Amazon Fire Scare of 2019. You all remember the Amazon fire scare, don’t you? It was when global warming was burning...
Periodically viewers and readers comment about the annoying warnings social media giants put on our videos not to believe a word we say. For our part we find it funny....
...amount? Compared to what? Or is it just another story by someone with a degree in grievance studies whose last encounter with science went badly in high school? Naturally the...
...it has torn loose from its evidentiary moorings. Those who believe in this mythical beast do not bother to check, oh, say, the Historical Total Precipitation page at the Weather...
At CDN we try not to bore you. But sometimes things are at once technical and important. Including Parker Gallant’s tireless spelunking into the Ontario power system and the complacent...
...with “Common Climate Myths: What Scientists Want You to Know”. Scientists no less. OK, it’s trite unsourced sludge. But you know, they think we’re stupid and so they’re going to...
...that “Unusual strong and persistent winds from the east caused the low extent”. This admission comes well after the bit about how: “The average Arctic sea ice extent for May...
Extinction Rebellion, which may soon become Incarceration Rebellion, marches with a banner saying “Socialism or Extinction” complete with hammer and sickle. It is a mystery why this emblem of repression,...
...complex public-sector “expert” bureaucracies. So here the Department writes to the Senate national finance committee that “The department understands the importance of ensuring there is sufficient public charging infrastructure and...
...by Sun et al., they had better get their eyes checked, it hasn't gone anywhere of late! Figure 1. Inter-annual variation of the Snow Cover Area Index (SCAI) over the...
...his son’s school turned off the lights to celebrate Earth Day and, in the darkness, let the kids play computer games. But: “Canadians need to accept such incongruencies if they...
...Bedlam in response to this story). Meanwhile admirers of online searches will already know that Belém is also: “the capital and largest city of the state of Pará in the...
...colleagues don white coats, go into the lab and redo the experiment themselves. But it doesn’t. Peer reviewers rarely check the data and almost never try to replicate the analysis....
...people who think an important aspect of solving complex problems is to break them into manageable steps. Such people seem to include European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, somewhat...
...year of the rest of your life.’” Which could prompt a sardonic comment on the odd way that legacy media outlets, instead of competing with one another, now all appear...
...with climate change? Nothing, apparently. The Times story simply reports that “foul weather disrupted plans during one of the busiest travel weeks of the year” without comment or analysis. Had...
...the benefit of more time to check the numbers, the same scientists have revised their estimate... downwards. Way downwards. Their computer now says Florence might have been 5 percent wetter....
...a fancy new method to combine not just recent climate data but model and paleoclimate data, yielding an ECS best estimate of 3.2°C and a likely range between 2.3°C and...
...ended with historic blazes in California. Over the course of the year, communities around the world were left reeling from extreme heat, record storms and rising seas. It was also...
...policy issues, why is the British Green party completely committed to transgender radicalism and unable to say what a woman is? Surely there’s not much that’s more natural than gender....
...been set alight to clear the land for cattle. In the dry season these roads are strewn with the charred bodies of wild animals caught in the fires or beasts...
...to 2011 in the United States and performs a conceptually simple if technically complex check on it. He compares what temperatures seem to be doing in densely populated areas with...
...Wielicki also observes, their screed about cherry-picking seems to imply that the data do in fact show increases in extreme weather, sea level rise and so forth. But it doesn’t,...
...purposes of naming, framing and deepening our commitment to protecting our economy, our ecology and our community from climate change.” Which should at least get their ugly offshore wind turbines...
...meantime Greenland will contribute about seven-tenths of a mm per year to sea level rise, or 1 foot every 417 years. Not a reason to panic, unless you enjoy panicking....
...assured have become much warmer. But it does show malaria disappearing in places that get wealthier so they can afford better housing. And it gets worse. As Eric Worrell complains,...
...won’t cope”. Which attains a politician-level combination of meaninglessness and inaccuracy. (And cross-scripting since it is, as such stories surprisingly often are, illustrated by a stock photo of two attractive...
...like this: This chart shows temperatures right in the centre of the expected warming hotspot. The black and blue lines are older data sets for comparison with the new orange...
...be in a climate emergency, you know. But temperatures haven’t changed since I was a student.” Does it matter? Some say no; we have had some odd comments on our...
...a coin, you get pseudo-patterns, like those apparent paths in the woods that peter out after a few meters or tens of meters. Sometimes heads are on a roll, coming...
...hitting the RCP8.5 again, haven’t you? And of course they have. RCP8.5 is known to be a worse-than-worst-case scenario, a check on any modeling exercise because if your computer program...
...of “heat pumps” that are basically two-way AC units that can compress refrigerant outside to use the external air as a “heat sink” in summer, and compress it inside to...
...Can it do that? Well yes. It can. Climate is complicated, as we keep saying, and it’s dangerous to posit simple, not to say simple-minded, linear trends. But to the...
...from lack of moisture, not from too much. Or both because the problem is “extreme weather” and anything will do. OK, we’ll go to the same source and check for...
...cut fossil fuel use in half by 2030 and completely by 2050. Such draconian cuts don’t come for free. But if you believe that the planet is on fire, she...
...there! Totally get it if you’ve never bothered to read the legislation you’re commenting so authoritatively on.” But it went quickly from obnoxious to obtuse, saying “The Green New Deal...
...their ancestors did back when it was much warmer, CO2 levels were much higher and giant beasts roamed lush landscapes. For some time alarmists ignored or denied the phenomenon. But...
...climate models all have amplification mechanisms built into them to translate small forcings from CO2 into large temperature effects. But when it comes to the sun, the IPCC is completely...
One major difficulty in committing a murder is hiding the body. Especially if you’re climate change and your victim is the Great Barrier Reef. As a correspondent notes, the Internet...
...to catch our attention comes from Bahr et al. (2017), but not quite in the manner that one might think; it is what this study did not find that was...
...on a global level, an increase in extreme precipitation is observed for a limited number of stations and with strong regional differences. The absence of generalized growth trends in extreme...
...do it by ignoring the fact that economies are larger and there is more stuff, and more valuable stuff, in the path of whatever storms come along. Once you adjust...
...below “dangerous levels” (one trillion tonnes). The 95% certainty number was handed to Dr. Norman Fenton, a now-retired Professor of Risk at Queen Mary University and author of over 350...
...Hence if you drill down into the “livable climate” section of the “strategy”, once you get past the hoo-hah about “more intense heat, rising sea levels, and more extreme and...
...and communities, advance reconciliation with Indigenous peoples, and ensure good projects can go forward, creating good jobs and economic opportunities for middle-class Canadians.” Yay. Good projects. Just nothing that emits...
...1.1 degrees C at the point in time when carbon dioxide levels double. This is not a very alarming number. If we perform the same calculation on the climate models,...
...1986-2015. Lower portion: spatial display of (c) average NPP, (d) its 30-year trend, and (e) trend significance. The significance level (p) was set at 0.05. Source: Xu et al. (2020)....
...a group of satellites going back as early as 1982 (h/t Zoe Phin). The area burned drifted downwards until the early 1990s, then went up for about 10 years, leveled...
...In which case knowledge shall increase as CO2 levels go up. In 2004 there were 8 experiments finding that an additional 300 ppm CO2 yielded an average 165% increase in...
...bigger tastier veggies, comes in a new peer-reviewed journal article, summarized by Patrick Michaels at Judith Curry’s Climate Etc. blog, showing that the rise in atmospheric CO2 has yielded a...
...Ecosystem Loss $ Ocean Acidification $ Our Way of Life $ Infrastructure Loss $ Infections Diseases $ Climate Refugees $ Sea Level Rise… And much, much more” to quote one...
...ice sheet is on the brink of a tipping point, which would lead to 7 metres of sea level rise over time.” All tipping points, all the time. Data shows....
...that “the biggest flash floods of the LIA, in most catchments, experienced water levels in the valleys that exceeded the most extreme floods of the last 100 to 150 years.”...
...growing reporting capacity of individual states and [since] this capacity has stabilized on a reliable level, the number of disasters has become stationary or has even gone down.” And so...
...Arctic warming rate mainly comes from inaccurately simulated change of Arctic sea ice extent or effects of associated physical processes under increasing anthropogenic emissions.” Our bet is on the latter...
...10,000 deaths. The heat wave, it should be noted, lasted all of 2 days, and the death toll for the month of July compared to the average of previous years...
...to come: “Climate pollution needs to be reduced on average by 15m tonnes a year between now and 2030 to reach the government’s legislated target (a 43% cut below 2005...
...rapidly to a level much warmer than today, stayed warm for thousands of years, then began a cooling trend about 6,000 years ago which has left it colder than any...
...it is foolishness to shut down nuclear reactors in the name of fighting climate change and replace the power with coal. It is, one might think, a high-school-level insight. But...
...being the target of a Russian attack is the main problem but having temperatures in the “hottest year ever” fall to -18°C compounds the problems for combatants and civilians alike....
...shear combined with an increase in the height of the atmospheric melting level, mainly after 1980, led to the decline in the number of hail days. Consequently, they conclude that...
...appallingly dangerous conditions for minimal pay to build these subsidy-dependent baubles. Where’s the outrage? One of Driessen’s examples involves copper. “A typical internal combustion engine uses about 50 pounds (23...