Frostbite Falls

Guest post by E.M.Smith Temperature Inversion  Original Image The Event We’ve recently had some very cold days in International Falls. This posting: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/01/21/new-record-cold-tempertures-in-minnesota/ has a nice write up of the…

Keeping It In Balance

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach [Note update at the end] A short post. I came into my obsession with the climate by a side door. Back around the turn of…

Marcel Crok Speaks in the Danish Parliament

By Andy May Clintel’s Marcel Crok gave the Keynote Lecture at the Climate Realism conference: The Climate Emergency is Canceled. The conference was in Copenhagen, Denmark in their beautiful Parliament…

A Much Larger Greenhouse Effect – But Temperatures Dominated by Cooling

Guest post by Wim Röst Abstract The Earth’s greenhouse effect is much larger than suggested so far. If surface radiation and the greenhouse effect set surface temperatures, our oceans would…

Temperature Regulated Cooling Dominates Warming and Why the Earth Stopped Cooling At 15°C

Guest Post by Wim Röst Abstract It is said that the Earth’s surface temperature variations are controlled by [human-induced] greenhouse gases1. This is not the case. When cooling systems dominate,…

A Robust Balance

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Albedo is the percentage of incident light that is reflected by an object. For years, I’ve read claims that the loss of Arctic sea ice…

There Are Models And There Are Models

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I’m 74, and I’ve been programming computers nearly as long as anyone alive.  When I was 15, I’d been reading about computers in pulp science…

Changing Climate Debate History

By Andy May While researching my next book, I found a bit of interesting deception on the Intelligence Squared web site. This is the organization that hosted the famous March…

The Surface Energy Budget

Guest post by Wim Röst Abstract The energy budget for the surface is different from Earth’s energy budget. A look at the surface energy budget reveals that radiation is not…

From Green Blindness to a New Reality

Guest opinion by Wim Röst The Virus Nature is beautiful, romantic and the best there is on Earth. But, nature is also fully unpredictable, dangerous and deadly. For example, by…

Dutch Cabinet Postpones New Climate Measures because of Virus

Guest opinion by Wim Röst Introduction The Dutch government has been in the forefront for ‘Climate Action’. But a remarkable switch in policy has been caused by the economic reality…

The Corona Epidemic – A Dangerous and a Less Dangerous Form

Guest Post by Wim Röst Abstract Nearly all the deadly infections of the corona virus are localized in the centre of the epidemic in and near Wuhan in the province…

HOW THE EARTH BECAME A HOTHOUSE: BY H2O

  Guest Post by Wim Röst  ABSTRACT Water, H2O, determines the ‘General Background Temperature’ for the Earth, resulting in Hothouse and Ice House Climate States. During geological periods the movement…

Oceanic Downwelling and our Low Surface Temperatures

Guest Post by Wim Röst Introduction The creation of ‘Hot Worlds’ and ‘Glacial Worlds’ during past geological periods was only made possible by warm and cold deep oceans, respectively, that…

Cooling Deep Oceans – and the Earth’s General Background Temperature

Guest Post by Wim Röst Introduction Five million years ago, average temperatures were higher than they are now. During the Pliocene, the era just before the period of the Quaternary…

Warm is stable – Cold is change

Guest Post by Wim Röst Introduction Today ‘warm’ is strongly connected with ‘climate change’, if not with ‘dangerous climate change’. In the minds of people ‘cold’ should be more stable.…

The Role of ‘Ocean Upwelling’ and ‘The Deep Ocean’ in the Glacial Cycles

Guest Post by Wim Röst Abstract Glacial cycles show a gradual diminishing temperature during the slide into the glacial period, but a steep increase of temperature at the start of…

'Warming' and 'The Pause' Explained By Wind, Upwelling And Mixing

Cooling and warming the surface of the Earth without energy loss or energy gain: a natural mechanism Guest Post by Wim Röst Abstract Upwelling is a massive force, well visible…

Warming by [less] Upwelling of Cold Ocean Water

Guest essay by Wim Röst The best kept secret in the ‘climate world’ probably is: the cooling capacity of the deep sea. Some attention is paid to the heat uptake…

IPCC ≠ SCIENCE (2) A SEPARATION OF POWERS

Guest essay by Wim Röst The French Baron de Montesquieu (1689 – 1755) is well known for his theory of ‘separation of powers’: “He is famous for his articulation of…

IPCC ≠ SCIENCE ↔ IPCC = GOVERNMENT

Guest essay by Wim Rost Sometimes you know that something “stinks” somewhere. But you don’t know what and you don’t know where. You can search everywhere and don’t find it.…

The Insane World of Intersectional Climate Change

With this distressing thought in mind, I have one final question for all those Intersectional Environmentalists out there, then: what are the CO2 emissions of the average Pride parade?

TOO HOT TO HANDLE: NIWA’s misleading temperature records

“Claimed record after claimed record, there’s evidence that NIWA’s cherrypicked data is being used (and coloured in dark red for the most extreme bits) to bolster the narrative that extreme…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #591

“The cavemen had the same natural resources at their disposal as we have today, and the difference between their standard of living and ours is a difference between the knowledge…