ScienceMag: Medieval Warm Period global, 0.65 °C warmer than present: ‘The largest ocean was 2 °C warmer than today when ancient civilizations exploded’
The authors argue that the Pacific temperatures used to be much warmer sometime during the Holocene (last 11,700 years). For example, some 6,000 years ago, we had the middle Holocene Thermal Maximum. That’s when the great civilizations were born and the Pacific waters near Antarctica and North Pacific were 2.1 °C and 1.5 °C warmer […]
Analysis: Satellite sea level data has been ‘adjusted’ upward by 34% over past 9 years alone (by 1 mm/yr, equivalent to an additional 4 inches per century)
‘One has to wonder what all the excitement is about if for the last twenty years there has been no acceleration of the rate. Couple that with the fact that it’s rather easy to determine that there’s been a good deal of inflating the rate of sea level rise by those same CU Sea Level […]
America’s Deadliest Hurricane And Tornado Both Occurred During The ‘Coldest Years Ever’
Virginia Hurricanes Have Disappeared: ‘During the 19th century hurricanes in Virginia were quite common, but thanks to evil man-made CO2, Virginia hurricanes almost never happen any more – with only one hurricane in the last 60 years’
Atlantic hurricane season quietest in 45 years — ‘It has been one of the weakest seasons since modern record-keeping began about half a century ago’
New paper debunks claims that fossil fuel use could cause a mass extinction: Published in Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology finds that ‘The total amount of carbon needed [to cause a mass extinction] exceeds the modern fossil fuel reservoir’
New paper debunks claims that fossil fuel use could cause a mass extinction http://hockeyschtick.blogspot.com/2013/10/new-paper-debunks-claims-that-fossil.html Climate alarmists have claimed that Earth is on its way to the 6th mass extinction as a result of use of fossil fuels. However, a paper published today in Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology finds that “The total amount of carbon needed [to […]
New study finds the natural Pacific Decadal Oscillation controls tornado activity, not CO2 – ‘Higher CO2 is correlated with fewer severe tornadoes’
New study finds the natural Pacific Decadal Oscillation controls tornado activity, not CO2 http://hockeyschtick.blogspot.com/2013/10/new-study-finds-natural-pacific-decadal.html A new study finds that the severity and locations of tornadoes is strongly influenced by the natural Pacific Decadal Oscillation, with more severe tornadoes occurring during the warm phase and fewer during the cold phase. The cold phase of the 60-year Pacific Decadal […]
Polar Bear expert: September sea ice ballyhoo and why it doesn’t matter to polar bears – ‘It is the extent in June that is important to polar bear survival. June is the end of the critical spring feeding period for polar bears – healthy bears eat more seals over a shorter period of time from March to June than any other time of year’
September sea ice ballyhoo and why it doesn’t matter to polar bears http://polarbearscience.com/2013/10/20/september-sea-ice-ballyhoo-and-why-it-doesnt-matter-to-polar-bears/ The end of September sea ice summary from the US National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) finally became available late last week (October 3, “A better year for the cryosphere”). The summary figure NSIDC provides are the average ice extent for […]
New Study: ‘2013 ranks as one of the least extreme U.S. weather years ever’– Many bad weather events at ‘historically low levels’
[Also see: Gore still warning of ‘extreme’ weather, ‘increasing storms’ and ‘other extreme events‘] # Prof. Roger Pielke Jr.: ‘Interesting from @TheSIWeather 2013 ranks as one of the least extreme US weather years ever’ According to the latest analysis of data by the The SI Organization, Inc. 18 OCT/13 FRI 11:50 AM | 2013 – a year […]