7 12, 2023

New study of consensus entrails shows 67% of papers don’t accept Man-made-climate-catastrophe

By |2023-12-07T18:45:13+01:007 December 2023|Australia, News|Comments Off on New study of consensus entrails shows 67% of papers don’t accept Man-made-climate-catastrophe

By Jo Nova A new paper tries to clean up the chicken entrail decrees of Mark Lynas  (and earlier of John Cook) and concludes that their methodology is so bad, a 99.85% consensus could just as easily have been 32%. All the papers in between 32 and 99% were neutral on the cause [...]

11 10, 2023

“Hottest Ever September” — is just headline clickbait for heat loving mammals that live across a 90 degree range

By |2023-10-11T18:32:51+02:0011 October 2023|Australia, News|Comments Off on “Hottest Ever September” — is just headline clickbait for heat loving mammals that live across a 90 degree range

By Jo Nova The “hottest ever” headline ignores most of history While the UAH satellite measurements are the hottest by far of the 44 year satellite record, nothing about the “hottest ever” media frenzy makes sense — not for health, history, the long term, or human biology. It’s only the “hottest ever” if [...]

26 09, 2023

World’s largest reef secretly recovers and has record high coral cover two years in a row

By |2023-10-13T17:43:44+02:0026 September 2023|Australia, CLINTEL, News|Comments Off on World’s largest reef secretly recovers and has record high coral cover two years in a row

Wise Hok Wai Lum Almost no one is aware that the Great Barrier Reef has had two bumper years of record high coral cover. The excellent results of 2022 were repeated in 2023, showing that the grand recovery of the corals, after years of bleaching, was no fluke result. The Great Barrier Reef [...]

7 01, 2023

The year without a summer? In 2022 Sydney didn’t even reach 32 degrees

By |2023-01-09T12:47:07+01:007 January 2023|Australia, News|Comments Off on The year without a summer? In 2022 Sydney didn’t even reach 32 degrees

By Jo Nova reposted from her Blog Sydney Observatory in the centre of the city in 1864. (Courtesy of the State Library of NSW.) For the first time in 163 years of records at Sydney Observatory the temperature didn’t even crack 32 degrees C (or 90F) for the whole year of 2022. [...]

23 08, 2022

Bureau of Meteorology unclear on record rainfall in NSW

By |2022-08-23T10:44:17+02:0023 August 2022|Australia, News|Comments Off on Bureau of Meteorology unclear on record rainfall in NSW

The NSW Premier handed down the 2022 Flood Inquiry report last week and at the same time many of the 1,498 written submissions were made public. The submissions make for harrowing reading, especially the first-hand accounts from the Lismore community. There are very personal stories explaining how there had been limited flash-flooding up to [...]

7 02, 2022

Record-high coral cover of the Great Barrier Reef, despite doomsday scenarios of mass deaths

By |2022-02-07T08:34:50+01:007 February 2022|Australia, News|Comments Off on Record-high coral cover of the Great Barrier Reef, despite doomsday scenarios of mass deaths

Great Barrier Reef Guest post by Hans Wolkers The Dutch public broadcasting company NOS recently reported on the Australian government's plans to provide additional protection for the Great Barrier Reef by improving water quality, reducing erosion and combating illegal fishing. However, critics find these measures pointless, as climate change, which they believe is [...]

13 01, 2022

“Green Murder” – a new book by Professor Ian Plimer

By |2022-01-13T18:55:38+01:0013 January 2022|Australia, Book review, News|Comments Off on “Green Murder” – a new book by Professor Ian Plimer

by Ian Plimer An Interview with Professor Ian Plimer on his latest book “Green Murder”: It has never been shown that human emissions of the gas of life drive global warming. Large bodies of science that don’t fit the narrative have been ignored by IPCC, COP and self-interested scientists paid by [...]

13 10, 2021

Peter Ridd Case: Academic Freedom Just Died in Australia

By |2021-10-13T10:16:48+02:0013 October 2021|Australia, News|Comments Off on Peter Ridd Case: Academic Freedom Just Died in Australia

Guest essay by Eric Worrall on Watts Up With That? James Cook University professor Peter Ridd. Picture: Cameron Laird Australia’s High Court has ruled that University administrators have the right to fire academics for breach of employment code of conduct, which has precedence over academic freedom. It is with a heavy heart that I [...]

27 07, 2021

Fact check : What the floods really have to do with “climate”

By |2021-07-27T16:18:35+02:0027 July 2021|Australia, Canada English, News, United Kingdom, USA|Comments Off on Fact check : What the floods really have to do with “climate”

By Sebastian Lüning In medieval times, the priest would have declared that it would have been a punishment from God for the wicked behavior of sinners. Today's explanation is unfortunately not far from that. In mid-July 2021, prolonged heavy rain caused severe flooding in western Germany. There were many dead and missing, [...]

20 07, 2021

A world protected by windmills? In 1717 Christmas Floods in Germany killed 14,000

By |2021-07-20T12:38:47+02:0020 July 2021|Australia, News|Comments Off on A world protected by windmills? In 1717 Christmas Floods in Germany killed 14,000

By Joanne Nova reposted with her permission – original here – With great sympathy for all our European friends. It’s like European history doesn’t exist. In 1717 on Christmas Eve a flood started that killed 14,000 people and spread across the Netherlands, Denmark and Germany. It was followed by savage frosts, and more floods in [...]