There has been no trend in the Arctic sea ice minimum, mean, or maximum extent since 2007, but Google Gemini boldly asserts that there has been a decline. “Arctic sea ice extent has significantly declined since 2007.” https://ift.tt/0PYnVKy
via Real Climate Science
September 28, 2024 at 07:43AM
By Paul Homewood
We are now getting more information in on Hurricane Helene, which has widely been reported as “one of the most powerful” to hit the US.
For instance, Sky:
There is absolutely no evidence to support this claim at all. It is based on the myth that Helene had winds of 140mph, but as we have already seen, satellite data only supports speeds of 130mph.
http://rammb-data.cira.colostate.edu/tc_realtime/storm.asp?storm_identifier=al092024
And even that figure is overstated according to the Digital Dvorak data. Warning intensities always tend to get exaggerated on the basis of “better safe than sorry”.
The photos from Sky also show that claims of a Cat 4 storm are nonsense. You can see them all here, but this selection tells the story.
The first couple show little damage to homes, the telegraph poles are still standing and even the trees are still intact.
The third shows part of the canopy gone, but the rest intact. The final two picture a few small trees down, but most still standing.
Then we have some from the BBC. The first is Tarpon Springs. The second is Cedar Keys, where landfall took place; this damage was caused by tidal surge, not winds. The third shows a partially damaged mobile home, which would not have withstood a Cat 4 storm at all:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwylvy7enrgo
None of this damage is consistent with a Cat 4, which would be expected to totally destroy doors and windows, and mobile homes.
Even a Cat 3 should have brought down large trees, but there is little evidence of this either, just a few smaller trees blown down.
At most, based on satellite data, Helene was a Cat 3.
There have been 98 Cat 3 hurricanes and above , which have hit the US since 1851, so there is frankly nothing unusual at about Helene at all.
via NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT
September 28, 2024 at 04:50AM
The authors claim to have assembled the most rigorous reconstruction of Earth’s past temperatures ever produced.
via CFACT
September 28, 2024 at 04:38AM
By Paul Homewood
h/t Ian Magness
It gets worse!
Labour’s new climate envoy has previously expressed support for Extinction Rebellion, The Telegraph can reveal.
Rachel Kyte donned a badge bearing the environmental protest group’s logo in 2018 and warned people to “act now or get out of the way” as it prepared to launch a week of global action the following year.
She also praised Farhana Yamin, an activist who glued herself to the forecourt of the Shell’s headquarters in London as part of an Extinction Rebellion (XR) protest in 2019.
Ms Kyte, who has been appointed as the UK’s special representative for climate, does not hold an “official role” with Extinction Rebellion. It is understood Ms Kyte has never been a member of Extinction Rebellion.
However, a spokesman for the organisation said that if she supported its demands for the Government to “tell the truth about the severity of the climate and ecological emergency”, then they are “hopefully pulling in the same direction”.
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This woman is totally unfit to represent the country.
via NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT
September 28, 2024 at 04:14AM
