From The Cliff Mass Weather Blog Last week we witnessed a major failure in science communication regarding the Northwest heatwave. A failure that misinformed you and millions of others, and a failure that highlighted glaring weaknesses in the media’s ability to cover important scientific issues. And it revealed the disappointing behavior of some members [...]
Original post of Ronald Stein can be viewed here Ancient tree stumps found under glaciers in Southeast Iceland are confirmed to be roughly 3,000 years old, RUV reports. A specialist believes the remarkably well-preserved stumps were part of a massive forest that disappeared after a long period of a warm climate. It is believed [...]
Comunicado de prensa de la Climate Intelligence Foundation (CLINTEL). Ensayo “El ensayo Desproporcionada Prisa Climática fue encargado por el Grupo ECR del Parlamento Europeo en Bruselas.” 13 de julio de 2021 El resultado económico óptimo se verifica con un calentamiento al 2100 de 3,5 grados Celsius. La mortalidad por condiciones meteorológicas extremas disminuyó [...]
Een bijdrage van Kees le Pair. Kees le Pair Nu zelfs in de publieke media wel eens wat twijfel opduikt aan de wijsheid kernenergie in de ban te doen, is het tijd voor rationele bezinning. En daarbij vooral de lange termijn in het oog te houden. Dat heeft dan vanzelf consequenties voor wat nu [...]
John Ledger (right) at the Katse Dam, Lesotho. Name: John Ledger Residence: Johannesburg Country: South Africa What is your background? I am primarily a biologist, having a BSc in Zoology and Botany (1964), a BSc Hons in Zoology (1965) and a PhD in Tropical Pathology (1976). I have had three different [...]
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 [...]
