By Cliff Mass Reposted from The Cliff Mass Weather Blog During the past week, the Pacific Northwest experienced the most severe heat event of the past century. All-time high-temperature records were broken throughout the region, often by large margins. Many in the media, several local and national politicians, and some activist environmental scientists have [...]
Thomas Wysmuller (right) with Rick Sanders and his wife Leonore in 2018. By Rick Sanders Thomas Wysmuller passed away on June 29, 2021. He was born into the famous Dutch Wijsmuller Zeesleeper family, and briefly sailed on Wijsmuller Tugs as a youth. Moving with his family to the United States, he studied Meteorology – even working [...]
By Lucas Bergkamp & Katinka M. Brouwer June 21, 2021 Repost from: The Human Right to a Safe Climate – Putting Democracy Under Judicial Guardianship | RealClearEnergy Climate change litigation pending before the European Court of Human Rights is designed to arouse extreme forms of judicial climate activism. These cases pose serious threats to the rule [...]
Climate change, relative to the pre-industrial baseline, is alleged to cause already over one third of all heat-related deaths globally. If this is true, the number of cold-related deaths due to climate change must have decreased much more. But that is never addressed by climate researchers. Extreme heat can kill, even in the Netherlands. [...]
Reposted from TheNoTricksZone By Kenneth Richard on 14. June 2021 Scientists continue to publish new drought reconstructions indicating there were far more frequent and severe drought periods in the past several thousand years than anything observed in the modern period. A new study (Berg and McColl, 2021) indicates there has long been “qualitatively incorrect” estimates [...]
By Paul Homewood Sea Level Rise Fastest in 2000 Years (Or Not!) | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT (wordpress.com) The rate of sea-level rise in the 20th century along much of the U.S. Atlantic coast was the fastest in 2,000 years, and southern New Jersey had the fastest rates, according to [...]
by Patrick J Michaels Earlier this year, Eric Kaufmann of the University of London published a remarkably detailed and comprehensive study of bias in academia, “Academic Freedom in Crisis: Punishment, Political Discrimination, and Self-Censorship.” Kaufmann’s writing is a product of California’s Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology, a small think-tank set up to do research [...]
Dr. Peter Ridd writes on his Facebook page: In 2016, there was a major bleaching event in the northern section of the Reef. There were doom headlines around the world and Prof Hughes, who led the monitoring of the coral, famously tweeted“I showed the results of the aerial surveys of bleaching on the GBR to [...]
Reviewed by Rupert Darwall May 20, 2021 On January 8, 2014, at New York University in Brooklyn, there occurred a unique event in the annals of global warming: nearly eight hours of structured debate between three climate scientists supporting the consensus on manmade global warming and three climate scientists who dispute it, moderated by [...]
Kees de Jager in 2016 during an interview at his home on the island Texel. © 2021 De Loods mediaproducties / Stichting Beeldlijn Guest article by Prof. Ed van den Heuvel Professor Cornelis de Jager (“Kees”), world-renowned astronomer, pioneer of Dutch and European space research, inspiring teacher, great popularizer of science and fighter against [...]
