Al Gore: ‘Bitter cold’ is ‘exactly what we should expect from the climate crisis’
Former Vice President Al Gore has weighed in on the record cold and snow in the U.S. “It’s bitter cold in parts of the US, but climate scientist Dr. Michael Mann explains that’s exactly what we should expect from the climate crisis,” Gore wrote on January 4 on Twitter. Gore linked to one of his […]
Analysis: Global weather related disaster loss trend is downward from 1990 to 2017
https://theclimatefix.wordpress.com/2018/01/04/weather-disasters-as-proportion-of-global-gdp-1990-2017/ Weather Disasters as Proportion of Global GDP: 1990-2017 JANUARY 4, 2018 ~ By ROGER PIELKE JR The figure above shows the annual costs of weather disasters (data from Munich Re) as a proportion of global GDP (data from the UN), from 1990 to 2017. Takeaways: 2017 ranks 2nd to 2005; The dataset is dominated by US hurricanes […]
‘Insanity…It’s Witchcraft’ – Meteorologist Joe Bastardi on claims that cold & snow caused by ‘global warming’
WeatherBell Meteorologist Joe Bastardi on January 4, 2018: “This is flat out insanity and deception now To tell the public that events that have occurred countless times before with no climate change attribution, is now just that, is not science, its witchcraft. NO PROOF AT ALL. Its climate ambulance chasing, nothing more.” (Bastardi was reacting […]
Warmists Wheel Out “Record Cold Due To Global Warming” Argument Again
Alarmists Wheel Out “Record Cold Due To Global Warming” Argument Again JANUARY 4, 2018 tags: jet stream, Winter By Paul Homewood Whenever we get a warm summer, it’s a sign of climate change. And when we get a cold winter, it’s climate change as well! According to Breitbart: Jonathan Overpeck, a climate scientist at the […]
Bombcyclone — ‘A bad storm with good branding’
Via: http://joannenova.com.au/2018/01/bombcyclone-a-bad-storm-with-good-branding/ “The Bomb Cyclone isn’t a winter hurricane — just a bad storm with good branding” — Vox A “Bombcyclone” off the East Coast of the USA is verging on, or has broken a record for the fastest drops in pressure. It’s now at 965mb. It’s not a bomb, nor a cyclone, just a common winter […]
Global fossil fuel emissions are once again on the rise – China leading the emissions increase
Global fossil fuel emissions are once again on the rise – An end to flat growth for CO2 Despite their “Paris Commitments”, China is increasing emissions – This is a commentary on a report by The Global Carbon Project: “Despite a recent policy shift towards greener thinking, the reports site (sic) China as leading the increase, where emissions are projected to grow […]
Analysis: NOAA Erase ‘Anomalously Cold Winters’
NOAA Erase “Anomalously Cold Winters” JANUARY 4, 2018 By Paul Homewood https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/03/climate/cold-climate-change.html We looked at this NYT article earlier today. It focussed on this paper by Marlene Kretschmer: ABSTRACT Over the last decades, the stratospheric polar vortex has shifted towards more frequent weak states which can explain Eurasian cooling trends in boreal winter in the […]
Flashback 2000: ‘Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past’ – ‘Children just aren’t going to know what snow is’ – UK Independent
Flashback 2000: ‘Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past’: According to Dr David Viner, a senior research scientist at the climatic research unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia,within a few years winter snowfall will become ‘a very rare and exciting event. Children just aren’t going to know what snow is.’ Snowfalls are now […]
New England Wanted To Use All Renewable Energy — Then It Got Cold
By JAZZ SHAW During a recent trip to Maine, my wife and I noticed the large number of wind turbines cluttering the peaks of the ridges around the otherwise scenic New England countryside, particularly in Vermont. There really are a lot of them, and that’s the result of an ongoing push to get the region onto […]
New England Power Plants running out of fuel
Electricity providers and state officials are bracing for widespread power outages and fuel shortages as a powerful storm system roars into Massachusetts today with near-hurricane force winds. National Grid expects nearly 120,000 of its Bay State customers — about 9 percent — to lose electricity sometime today and is making preparations for the tedious, cold […]