Roger Pielke: All the apocalyptic “climate porn” in your Facebook feed is solely a function of perception […] And no matter what President Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron say, recent costly disasters are not part of a trend driven by climate change. The data available … Continue reading
The first week of December 1876 was marked by extreme weather conditions that affected the south-western sector of the Iberian Peninsula, leading to an all-time record flow in two large international rivers. As a direct consequence, several Portuguese and Spanish … Continue reading
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We keep hearing the drought in Australia as ‘proof’ of Climate Change which it is as climate is not static. What it is not is proof of man made climate change. In March 1876, as with 2014, Australia was suffering … Continue reading
Paul Homewood has an interesting post on the wet and windy spell of winter 1876/77, part of a series highlighting previous precedented periods of ‘unusual’ rainfall and storminess . Whilst reading the British Rainfall Publication for 1877 that he highlighted, … Continue reading
In late October 1876, a Cyclone hit the Bay of Bengal and killed an estimated 200,000. The highest storm surge from a Bay of Bengal cyclone is reputed to be the 44.6 foot (13.6 meter) storm surge (Shrestha, 1998) attributed … Continue reading
We can also play the variablity cherry picking game… “Temperature wise, 2013/4 was far less extreme with far less variability. From mid November until the beginning of March the mean values varied by only ~7 degrees Celsius compared to ~12 … Continue reading
Lord Lawson takes direct aim at Slingo [my emphasis] The unusual persistence of heavy rainfall over the UK during February, which led to considerable flooding, is believed by the scientists to have been caused by the wayward behaviour of the … Continue reading
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