From the Weather Isn’t Climate Department. I have relatives on the picturesque island of Jersey, in the Channel Islands, and they have just experienced the worst snow in decades. Jersey is close to the Normandy coast, and the maritime influence of… Read More ›
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The debate is over: climate models work on Mars
Therefore they should work on Earth too, right? And we should trust their projections to base trillions of dollars of spending which could otherwise be directed towards real problems, right? Computer models have accurately forecast conditions on Mars and are… Read More ›
Snowfalls in New South Wales – in October…
Another from the Weather Isn’t Climate Department. October is Spring down here in Oz-shire. Snow isn’t unheard of, but it’s pretty rare. Global warming sure is tricky – as we all know it can cause any weather phenomenon you care… Read More ›
Sydney's coldest weekend in four years
It certainly felt like it. Another from the Weather Isn’t Climate Department: The skies are finally clearing in Sydney, allowing it to warm up above average after the coldest weekend in four years. Today’s sunshine enabled it to reach 19… Read More ›
Australia's shivering start to August
More from the Weather Isn’t Climate Department – I can hardly keep up! It’s all meaningless of course, it’s just weather after all.But you don’t hear the mainstream media, or Tim Flannery, or Clive Hamilton or David Karoly or Will… Read More ›
Adelaide's coldest August morning in 13 years
From the Weather Isn’t Climate Department: It has been a chilly start to August for Adelaide, plunging down to 2.2 degrees this morning, making it the coldest August morning in 13 years. Just before sunrise, Adelaide dipped down to its… Read More ›
Perth on track for 'coldest month on record'
From the Weather Isn’t Climate department. Damn you, global warming: Perth is on track to have the coldest month on record. This morning the temperature dipped to 0.4 degrees at 6.24am – and at 8am, it was still only three degrees…. Read More ›
Canberra's coldest mornings since 1965
From the Weather Isn’t Climate department. Cue Tim Flannery, Will Steffen or David Karoly saying that this is “consistent with global warming” in 3, 2, 1… Canberra has shivered through its eighth straight freezing, frosty morning, the coldest stretch of winter… Read More ›
Australian temperature records 'shoddy, inaccurate, unreliable'
From Jo Nova: The BOM say their temperature records are high quality. An independent audit team has just produced a report showing that as many as 85 – 95% of all Australian sites in the pre-Celsius era (before 1972) did… Read More ›
Scientists predict… more of whatever we've just had
The role of natural variability in climate must be squashed at all costs. Just think of the consequences if natural variability were allowed to persist: we wouldn’t be able to “control” the climate by tinkering with a harmless trace gas, and… Read More ›