Climate Change > Paris's clever cooling system; Sahara getting hammered with rain, hundreds die

 

Paris's plan to ditch ACs and expand

urban cooling system

By:Valérie DEKIMPE|Alexandra RENARD

Around the world, record-shattering temperatures are feeding demand for air conditioning. 135 million individual ACs are sold every year, a figure set to triple by 2050 according to the International Energy Agency. 

This rush to cool air could in turn become a major driver of electricity consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. 

In Paris, a little-known network of underground water pipes aims to cool down buildings, without resorting to polluting AC units. 

Before climate alarmists claim that global warming is causing flooding in the Sahara Desert, it has yet to be proven. It is certainly possible as an El Nino like effect in the Atlantic is causing the deluge, although Chad's Met. service say it is something that happens every 5 or 10 years. 

Floods in Chad have killed hundreds of people and affected 1.5 million, UN says

Every single one of Chad's provinces have been hit by intense floods brought on by severe rainfall that have left 341 dead and affected a total of 1.5 million inhabitants since July, the UN said on Monday. 

By:NEWS WIRES

Weeks of severe flooding in Chad have left 341 people dead and some 1.5 million affected since July, the United Nations said Monday.

The UN's Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said the flooding had hit all of the country's 23 provinces.

It cited government data which said some 164,000 houses had been destroyed and almost 70,000 heads of cattle lost with 259,000 hectares (640,000 acres) of fields ruined.

The government has yet to publish a breakdown of the damage wrought by the deluge which has broken over the nation of some 16 million.

Last week, 14 students and their teacher died when a school collapsed after torrential rains battered the province of Ouaddai in the semi-arid east.

By mid-August, at least 54 people had lost their lives in flooding in Tibesti province, in Chad's desert far north.

Typically, "rainfall hardly reaches 200 mm per year" in the mountainous region, but severe rainfall does occur "every five or 10 years", according to Idriss Abdallah Hassan, director of meteorological observation and forecasting at Chad's National Meteorological Agency.

The UN warned last week of the impact of "torrential rains and severe flooding" in the region generally, particularly in Chad, while urging immediate action and funding to tackle the climate crisis.

More than 700,000 people have been affected by severe flooding in South Sudan, according to a September 5 OCHA tally.

This summer has been the hottest ever recorded globally with a slew of record temperatures, heatwaves, drought and severe flooding.

Climate alarmists make a big deal out of the fact that Lake Chad is a fraction of the size it used to be. I suspect that argument will quickly disappear.

(AFP) 

The credibility of America's Climate Data Base is being adulterated with invented data

 

Hidden Behind Climate Policies, Data From

Nonexistent Temperature Stations

Hundreds of ‘ghost’ climate stations are no longer operational; instead they are assigned temperatures from surrounding stations.

By Katie Spence

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April 09, 2024

Updated:

April 10, 2024

, Epoch Times

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) predicts July, August, and September will be hotter than usual. And for those who view warmer temperatures as problematic, that’s a significant cause for concern.

“Earth’s issuing a distress call,” said United Nations secretary-general António Guterres on March 19. “The latest State of the Global Climate report shows a planet on the brink.

“Fossil fuel pollution is sending climate chaos off the charts. Sirens are blaring across all major indicators: Last year saw record heat, record sea levels, and record ocean surface temperatures. … Some records aren’t just chart-topping, they’re chart-busting.”

Notice the wildly hyperbolic language intent on generating climate hysteria.

President Joe Biden called the climate “an existential threat” in his 2023 State of the Union address. “Let’s face reality. The climate crisis doesn’t care if you’re in a red or a blue state.”

In his 2024 address he said, “I don’t think any of you think there’s no longer a climate crisis. At least, I hope you don’t.”

When recalling past temperatures to make comparisons to the present, and, more importantly, inform future climate policy, officials such as Mr. Guterres and President Biden rely in part on temperature readings from the United States Historical Climatology Network (USHCN).

The network was established to provide an “accurate, unbiased, up-to-date historical climate record for the United States,” NOAA states, and it has recorded more than 100 years of daily maximum and minimum temperatures from stations across the United States.

The problem, say experts, is that an increasing number of USHCN’s stations don’t exist anymore.

“They are physically gone—but still report data—like magic,” said Lt. Col. John Shewchuk, a certified consulting meteorologist.

“NOAA fabricates temperature data for more than 30 percent of the 1,218 USHCN reporting stations that no longer exist.”

He calls them “ghost” stations.

Mr. Shewchuck said USHCN stations reached a maximum of 1,218 stations in 1957, but after 1990 the number of active stations began declining due to aging equipment and personnel retirements.

NOAA still records data from these ghost stations by taking the temperature readings from surrounding stations, and recording their average for the ghost station, followed by an “E,” for estimate.

Up until the end of the last century, we at Environment Canada would venture to estimate a few temperatures in a month where there were not quite enough data to produce Mean Monthly Max and Min temperatures for a particular station. Never more than a few temperatures were estimated based on surrounding temperatures, otherwise, we would be inventing data. This is exactly what is going on here. The precious database is being adulterated.

The addition of the ghost station data means NOAA’s “monthly and yearly reports are not representative of reality,” said Anthony Watts, a meteorologist and senior fellow for environment and climate at the Heartland Institute.

“If this kind of process were used in a court of law, then the evidence would be thrown out as being polluted.”

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Climate Change > Warming is a good thing, CO2 is a good thing, Hurricanes are getting smaller not worse

 

This brilliant article reveals how little atmospheric scientists with a bent toward climate alarmism actually know about how the world works.

'There's Been No Increase': Scientists Debunk Climate Change Claims About Hurricanes

Hurricanes are now 'smaller and more compact' says a meteorologist, but the predicted ferocious season will become a 'political football' for climate alarmism.  l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l V

(Illustration by The Epoch Times, Getty Images, Shutterstock)

By Katie Spence | March 20, 2024  Updated: March 21, 2024   This year’s hurricane season, which officially starts June 1, is being predicted by WeatherBELL as the “hurricane season from hell,” with weather patterns similar to those of 2005, 2017, and 2020.   Along with it, says the firm’s meteorologist and chief forecaster Joe Bastardi, will come the climate change blame game, which he calls a false narrative.   In 2005, Hurricane Katrina hit Louisiana, killing an estimated 1,833 people and causing approximately $161 billion in damages. In 2017, Hurricane Harvey hit Texas, Irma hit the Caribbean, and Maria hit the Caribbean and Puerto Rico, resulting in at least 3,364 fatalities and a combined cost of over $294 billion in damages.   In 2020, six major hurricanes landed, resulting in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) dubbing 2020 the “most active season in recorded history.”   Following each season, government officials, committees, and scientists were quick to blame climate change.   “There is perhaps no better example of the potential for devastating global warming impacts than the Gulf Coast and Hurricane Katrina,” the U.S. Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming stated after Katrina.   “While the contribution of human-caused warming to Hurricane Katrina is difficult to quantify, scientists have unearthed a trend towards larger, more intense storms as oceans around the world warm.”   After Irma, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres called the 2017 season “the most violent on record.”   “Changes to our climate are making extreme weather events more severe and frequent, pushing communities into a vicious cycle of shock and recovery,” he stated.   After the 2020 season, Jim Kossin, an atmospheric research scientist at NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information, blamed “warmer-than-average ocean temperatures” for the hurricane “hyper-activity.”   He said an increase in more ferocious hurricanes over the past 40 years was linked to climate change.   Mr. Bastardi said he expects to hear similar messaging this year if it pans out like he’s predicting.   “If you hang around people constantly spouting negative stuff and how bad it is, guess what you’re going to believe? … It’s a great strategy for pushing this thing—if I wanted to argue the CO2 [carbon dioxide] argument, I'd do exactly what they’re doing,” Mr. Bastardi told The Epoch Times.   “But there’s been no increase. And the size of the storms is getting smaller. That’s the other thing: hurricanes are smaller and more compact.”   Oceanographer and certified consulting meteorologist Bob Cohen concurred.   He said there’s currently a transition from El Niño patterns to La Niña, which is “correlated with higher-than-normal hurricane activity.”   “Right now, the subsurface temperatures are much cooler than during El Niño,” he told The Epoch Times. “The immediate near-surface temperatures are still warmer, but the subsurface water pool and the warm water pool have dissipated, and so once that pops to the surface, it becomes La Niña,” Mr. Cohen said.

People walk along the beach looking at property damaged by Hurricane Ian in Bonita Springs, Fla., on Sept. 29, 2022. (Sean Rayford/Getty Images)

He said he expects “we'll hear a lot more alarmist messaging” if 2024 is a busy hurricane season, as predicted.   But, like Mr. Bastardi, Mr. Cohen said hurricanes aren’t getting bigger or more intense. He said that as temperatures naturally warm coming out of the Little Ice Age, hurricanes and weather events will get less intense—not exponentially worse. Basic Physics and Temperature The Earth endeavors to exist in a state of equilibrium; it tries to equalize the temperature between the equator and the poles, which drives weather, according to Mr. Cohen.   “When you look at the 50,000-foot big picture, the Earth is a heat engine,” he said. “The tropics remain fairly constant in temperatures, and it’s the poles that have the greatest change.   “The gradient drives the storms. … If the poles warm, the temperature gradient decreases, which would mean less of a requirement for more intense storms from Mother Nature. It’s basic physics.” Basic physics that the climate alarmism mission doesn't understand or refuses to understand because it counters their fearful narrative.   Mr. Bastardi agreed.   “Look at Ida versus Betsy,” he said. “Betsy’s hurricane-force winds extended out 150 miles to the west and 250 miles east. Ida 50 miles to the west, and 75 miles to the east. They’re both category 4. They both had similar pressures. Which was the worst storm? The bigger storm. But they don’t tell you that.”   NOAA’s hurricane division shows Hurricane Betsy hitting Florida and Louisiana in 1965 with a central pressure of 946 millibars and a maximum wind speed of 132 miles per hour. Hurricane Ida hit Louisiana in 2021 with a central pressure of 931 mb and a maximum wind speed of 149 miles per hour.   However, NOAA data doesn’t include the overall size of a hurricane.

NOAA’s continental United States hurricane impact, landfall data from 1851 to 2022. (The Epoch Times)

“Hurricanes now are like fists of furry rather than giant bulldozers that come in and plow the coast,” Mr. Bastardi said. “But [NOAA] won’t show the entire picture. Because if they did, people would say, ‘What the heck!’”   He said the reason hurricanes are more costly now is because of increased infrastructure along the coasts, not because of increased severity.   NOAA’s historical hurricane data dating back to 1851 supports the premise that hurricanes aren’t getting worse.   It adds as a caveat to its data that “because of the sparseness of towns and cities before 1900,” hurricanes may have been missed or their intensity underestimated.   NOAA’s data also shows hurricanes are getting less severe in terms of central pressure.   Even with possible missing data, the NOAA data show an average central pressure decline of 0.00013mb per year between 1851 and 2022 (2023 data isn’t included yet), and max wind had a marginal average increase of 0.00011mph per year for that same period... There is much more on this story at Epoch Times. Click on the link above.

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Climate Change > White Dzud - Snow and Freezing Temperatures killing millions of animals in Mongolia, endangering people

 

This seems to be a bigger crisis than anything attributed to global warming. Have you seen it in the news? No, of course not! It doesn't fit the climate alarmism narrative of global warming.

Severe weather kills 4.7 million Mongolian livestock

By Patrick Hilsman

Over 4.7 million livestock animals have died in Mongolia as a result of severe weather conditions, according to the International Federation of Red Cross Societies. Photo Courtesy of IFRC

March 22 (UPI) -- Over 4.7 million animals have died due to freezing conditions, according to the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.

The IFRC says that about 76% of Mongolia is now experiencing weather conditions called Iron Dzud and White Dzud, where livestock cannot feed due to the terrain being blanketed and waterways are obstructed.

According to the IFRC, Mongolia is experiencing the worst winter conditions in 50 years.

"Over 7,000 families now lack adequate food, and heavy snowfall has buried more than 1,000 herder households' gers (traditional homes) and shelters. To date, 2,257 herder families have lost over 70% of their livestock, with thousands more needing basic health services, fuel and coal," the IFRC said in a statement Monday.

Mongolian gers

The IFRC says livestock deaths have surged by 75% since February, which has gravely impacted food security in Mongolia.

"With the current toll of lost livestock exceeding 4.7 million, official forecasts predict the situation to worsen," the IFRC said.

The Red Cross says it is trying to mobilize an emergency response.

"The Mongolian Red Cross Society is working tirelessly to provide humanitarian assistance to the affected people together with partners in this difficult time," said Mongolian Red Cross Society Secretary General Bolormaa Nordov.

The IFRC Emergency Appeal wants to raise $5 million in emergency funds to help 10,000 herder families with cash assistance.

"The ongoing livestock deaths, diminishing resources and deteriorating conditions of hundreds of thousands of people in Mongolia this winter is a stark reminder of the urgent need for assistance," said IFRC Asia Delegation Head Olga Dzhumaeva.