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NY Times Claims Brazil Is Turning Into Desert, As Foliage Growth Surges

Climate Realism By James Taylor – December 6, 2021 The New York Times published an article Friday titled, “A Slow-Motion Climate Disaster: The Spread of Barren Land.” The article claims global warming is causing drought in northeastern Brazil, turning the region into a desert. Objective satellite measurements of vegetation, however, show increasing vegetation in northeast Brazil and throughout Brazil as a whole, not the other way around. The Times article is merely another example of agenda-driven fake climate news. In its subtitle, the article claims, “Brazil’s northeast, long a victim of droughts, is now effectively turning into desert. The cause? …

Complete Madness In The Biden Administration: Energy Policy

Manhattan Contrarian By Francis Menton | November 27, 2021 Is President Biden doing anything right? To this observer, his policies range from at best merely incompetent, to at worst malicious hatred of the country and people whose interests he was elected to advance. Somewhere in between those two extremes we have Biden’s energy policy. In this arena, appropriate adjectives would be inconsistent, incoherent, and destructive. Don’t even attempt to make sense of it. To summarize in one word, it is complete madness. I’m old enough to remember the 1970s, and the two “oil shocks” that occurred during that decade. A …

Weather Lulls: Germany Forced To Burn 20% More Coal, The Very Energy Source That’s To Be Phased Out

No Tricks Zone By P Gosselin on 27. November 2021 The energy source that Germany moves to shut down, rescued the country from widespread blackouts in 2021. Blackout News reports that more of Germany’s power is being produced by coal and nuclear fuels. In 2021, due to unfavorable weather conditions, wind and solar energy production plummeted in 2021 compared to 2020. “Germany’s power mix is getting dirtier.” The figures were compiled by the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Energiebilanzen (Working Group for Energy Budgets) and based on the first 9 months of the year. Compared to 2020, the first nine months of 2021 saw a …

Not a lot of people know that By Paul Homewood | Nov. 23, 2021 Get the popcorn out! A rare clash has emerged between the two ‘big boys’ of UK weather forecasting after they made hugely different long-term predictions for the winter ahead. Britain’s two biggest forecasters have predicted polar opposites for this winter. The Government-run Met Office has forecast a mild few months ahead but the BBC, which gets its information from DTN, warned of a deep freeze. Experts say energy and road transport firms, airlines and supermarkets will all be hit by the uncertainty. John Hammond, a former …

Biden Advises Americans Who Can’t Afford Gasoline to Buy an EV

By Eric Worrall | Nov. 23, 2021 Biden does not understand why people are finding rising gasoline prices such a struggle, when the obvious solution is to buy a $112,595 electric Hummer pickup. Joe Biden Addresses High Gas Prices: Americans Can Save Money if They Buy Electric Cars CHARLIE SPIERING 23 Nov 2021 President Joe Biden promoted his efforts to lower gas prices on Tuesday, but he reminded Americans they would save more money on gas if they owned electric cars. “For the hundreds of thousands of folks who bought one of those electric cars, they’re going to save $800 …

By Leif Svalgaard | Nov. 23, 2021 In a talk featured in our Monday Weekly Climate and News Roundup at the 14th International Conference on Climate Change Willie Soon [at time 26:49] took me, (Svalgaard) to task for arguing that there has not been any trend in solar activity the past 300+ years. He showed their new reconstruction of solar activity as support for his criticism: Here is the video cued up. I also show the reconstruction by me and Ken Schatten [2016, https://svalgaard.leif.org/research/Reconstruction-of-Group-Number-1610-2015.pdf ]. To my eye there is no difference between our reconstruction and theirs [based on Machine …

EU to Restrict Coffee Imports to Combat Climate Change

By Eric Worrall | Nov. 18, 2021 Has the European Union finally crossed a line? Coffee importers who cannot pinpoint the exact geographical source of their product, and prove their product is “deforestation free”, are set to be locked out of the common market, potentially starving European coffee lovers of their morning fix. E.U. seeks to block import of commodities that drive deforestation By Bryan PietschToday at 5:04 p.m. EST The European Union on Wednesday proposed a measure that would seek to restrict imports to “deforestation-free” goods and materials for countries in the bloc, in an effort to fight consumer trends that …

Eureka Alert Nov. 12, 2021 Researchers find repeated link between volcanic eruptions and dynastic collapse in China’s Imperial Era Trinity College Dublin Volcanic eruptions may have triggered abrupt climate changes contributing to the repeated collapse of Chinese dynasties over the past 2,000 years, according to new research published today [Thursday, 11 November 2021]. The study also illustrates how volcanic eruptions can profoundly impact vulnerable or unstable regions and highlights the need to prepare for future eruptions. The research, which combines historical evidence with polar ice-core records of volcanic eruptions, was led jointly by historians and environmental scientists from Trinity College …

Greenland Sees Significant Snow, Ice Mass Loss Slowdown Over Past Decade, Danish Data Show

No Tricks Zone By P Gosselin on 14. November 2021 Data from the Danish Polar Portal shows Greenland ice melt slowing significantly over past 10 years. Increasingly rapid mass loss is a myth. German climate site Die kalte Sonne here looks at whether Greenland is really melting faster or not in its 78th climate and energy video (3rd segment). Satellite measurement has allowed accurate measurements over the years and so reliable trends are detectable. Greenland has added mass since July Over the past year, since September 2020, Greenland has seen a number of heavy snowfalls, as depicted by the solid …

Greening of the Earth Mitigates Surface Warming

NASA Nov 23, 2020 A new study reports that increased vegetation growth during the recent decades, known as the “Greening Earth”, has a strong cooling effect on the land due to increased efficiency of heat and water vapor transfer to the atmosphere. A new study published in the journal Science Advances titled “Biophysical impacts of Earth greening largely controlled by aerodynamic resistance” reports that the entire land surface would have been much warmer without the cooling effect of increased green cover during the recent decades. The study used high-quality satellite data from NASA’s MODIS sensors and NCAR’s state-of-the-art numerical …