Holocene Climate Change In The Arctic
By Paul Homewood
I came across this paper again the other day. It’s from 2016, but still highly relevant:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0277379116300427
It’s quite a powerful study because of its wide geographical coverage, unlike other studies that focus on one particular proxy in one location.
Below is the key graph. It’s measured in SDs, but illustrates how temperatures plunged around 3000 years ago, and notably since the Middle Ages:
BBC Planet Earth III Exposed
By Paul Homewood
h/t Philip Bratby
Real experts expose Attenborough’s latest pack of lies:
BBC Planet Earth III left viewers in tears on Sunday evening with scenes of soggy flamingo chicks struggling to survive storm surges and turtle hatchlings battling sea level rises.
“The planet has changed beyond recognition,” warned Sir David Attenborough gravely, “Transformed by a powerful force. Us.”
Yet despite the gloomy tone set by the programme, many of the animals featured in the episode are faring surprisingly well, thanks to global conservation efforts.
On Raine Island, at the northern tip of the Great Barrier Reef, programme-makers suggested that the world’s largest turtle rookery was facing annihilation through a double threat of warming sands and sea-level rise.
“If sea levels rise as predicted within the next 30 years, Raine Island will disappear beneath the waves,” said Sir David.
But research by James Cook University, in Australia, suggests that Raine Island has actually been growing in recent years.
OFCOM Find GB News Broke Impartiality Rules–But What About The BBC?
By Paul Homewood
It is abundantly clear that the establishment will do all it can to shut down anybody who challenges its control of the media narrative, as OFCOM’s continual vendetta against GB News shows:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-67194055
If OFCOM are finding GBN guilt of breaching impartiality rules, why have they failed to take any action against the BBC over the years, who often breach the same rules.
Take, for instance, Roger Harrabin’s campaign against the Cumbria coalmine a couple of years ago.
Floods & Tornadoes in 1954
By Paul Homewood
h/t John Hughes
Did climate change cause the floods in 1954?
What Caused Severe Floods In The 1950s, Sky News?
By Paul Homewood
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2023/10/22/sky-blame-babet-floods-on-climate-change/
Sky think that climate change is making floods worse.
Maybe they might like to explain why flooding was so bad in the 1950s:
A trawl through the Met Office monthly weather reports of the time finds these references to severe floods:
Want More Miles From Your EV? Lose Weight!
By Paul Homewood
h/t Philip Bratby
Some wonderful tips from the useless Telegraph for squeezing a few miles more out of your EV!
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/consumer-affairs/how-get-most-miles-out-your-electric-car/
The tips include:
‘Britain will need gas to avoid blackouts for decades’
By Paul Homewood
Thank heaven there’s a grown up in the room!
The man running Britain’s gas network has said the country will need fossil fuels to prevent blackouts for decades to come despite calls for the Government to begin shutting off the pipes.
Jon Butterworth, chief executive of National Gas, said a growing reliance on intermittent power sources such as wind and solar meant Britain would be increasingly reliant on gas to make up for shortfalls when renewable energy sources are not generating power.
Mr Butterworth said: “In 2022, the wind didn’t blow enough or at all for 262 days. And in those 262 days, we would have had rolling blackouts, or a full blackout across the UK if it wasn’t for gas.”
Antarctic Sea Volume Higher Than In The 1980s
By Paul Homewood
NOAA’s Zachary Labe has updated the Antarctic sea ice data for September.
As the first chart shows, sea ice extent is still the lowest on record:
By Paul Homewood
More bad news for the EV rollout!
Do we really want to put our whole economy at the mercy of President Xi?
Crocodile Eats Woman–Must Be Because Of Climate Change!!
By Paul Homewood
h/t Paul Kolk
They still can’t resist mentioning climate change!
When Sariah went to fetch water in a pit near her home in Bangka Island, Indonesia, last September, she was unaware that a 3m-long saltwater crocodile had been resting in the crater, watching as she filled one of her buckets.
"The water was calm and there was no sign of a crocodile, so I decided to take a bath. Suddenly, it appeared out of nowhere and bit me, dragging me by my left arm into the water," the 54-year-old says.
Indonesia sees the most saltwater crocodile attacks in the world. In the past decade, there have been about 1,000 attacks, killing more than 450 people. Nearly 90 of these attacks took place in Bangka and its neighbouring Belitung island, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
Bangka island is one of the richest tin-mining regions in the world.
The island – almost the size of Hawaii – has a population of one million, and about 80% of them are miners. More than 60% of the island’s land has already been converted into tin mines, says wildlife conservation group Walhi. Many of these mines are illegal.
Decades of tin exploitation have stripped the island of its forest, leaving behind thousands of vast craters and pits that resemble a lunar landscape. And as land deposits diminish, miners are turning to the sea.
That means saltwater crocodiles, which can also live in freshwater, are squeezed out of their natural habitats. Now they are living in abandoned and active mining pits close to people’s homes, contributing to the rise in attacks.
Last year’s prolonged dry season, driven by climate change, dried up the well in front of Sariah’s house. Her water supply was cut after she fell behind on payments for three months. So, the abandoned pits were the only source of water for her family and many others.
Five days after the attack on Sariah, a miner in the island was almost killed by a crocodile when he was washing tin ore in another pit. He suffered injuries in his head, shoulder and an arm.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-67004770
There is no evidence that “last year’s prolonged dry season was driven by climate change”.
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