Did you fry in July? It “was Earth’s hottest month on record” according to a report from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) 13 August 2021. Similar alarmist headlines were also published on ScienceDaily 13 August 2021, BBC News and ABC News 14 August 2021, and Science Alert 16 August 2021 (and numerous other news […]
Antarctic Notable Quotable from the Director of the British Antarctic Survey, Dame Jane Elizabeth Francis, broadcast on BBC 29 November 2019. Interviewer Martha Kearney asked: “Now your own work on ancient climates shows such a different world in Antarctica. Well we go back 100 million years to the age of the dinosaurs as you showed […]
Is CO2 warming the earth? In an article entitled “Climate facts to warm to”; The Australian, 22 March 2008, Dr. Jennifer Marohasy, a PhD Botanist and senior fellow of the Institute of Public Affairs stated; “there has been cooling, if you take 1998 as your point of reference. If you take 2002 as your point […]
Europe freezes as temperatures plunge to lowest in three decades, Rome has snow for the first time in 27 years, flights are grounded, governments argue over gas supplies, the UK Met Office issues nine warnings for ice disruptions to transport, and over two hundred people die of cold or in accidents caused by freezing weather […]
“Alternate warming and cooling has occurred about every 27 years since 1470AD, well before atmospheric CO2 began to increase,” wrote Geology Prof Don Easterbrook (2 Nov 2008), for Global Research. Easterbrook is Professor Emeritus of Geology at Western Washington University, Bellingham (USA) and has correlated historical records of climate cycles with data from the Greenland […]
2,500 years of climate variability reported in Science, vol. 331, p278, 4 February 2011, DOI: 10.1126/science.1197175, ScienceNOW 13 January 2011 and SciencDaily 14 January 2011. An international team of archaeologists, climatologists, geographers and historians have used thousands of tree ring measurements from Germany, France, Italy and Austria to draw up a record temperature and rainfall […]
Roman Empire warms up, according to reports in ScienceDaily 9 July 2012, New Scientist 10 July 2012, and Nature Climate Change, DOI: 10.1038/nclimate1589. An international team of scientists led by Jan Esper of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz has studied density of tree rings in old trees and preserved trees in Finnish Lapland. According to Esper, […]