Watch Tony Heller “CNN Climate Reporting Circa 1935”

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.H. L. Mencken https://youtube.com/ watch? v=XiFGaUEDPUU

#GreenColonialism : “600 million Africans have no lights”

Alex Epstein is trying to highlight lesser heard voices from poorer nations about the need for access to cheap reliable energy, highlighted by Nigerian Vice President Yemi Osinbajo who recently wrote: limiting the development of fossil fuel projects and, in particular, natural gas projects would have a profoundly negative impact on Africa. Natural gas doesn't … Continue reading #GreenColonialism : “600 million Africans have no lights”

Watch @Adapt2030 “Signs Earth’s Climate Is Starting to Fall Out”

Excusing the hyperbolic headline, Dave does highlight some extreme weather systems popping up across the northern hemisphere...and winter has really only just begun. https://youtu.be/hIz6Pc_z-Q8

Watch @Tony_Heller “Carbon Sins Causing Locust Plague”

Locust plagues are a sign of our changing climate. They were probably a sign of witches and not enough child sacrifices too. đŸ€Šâ€â™‚ïž https://twitter.com/Harry_Hardrada/status/1229385598802288640?s=19 https://twitter.com/Harry_Hardrada/status/1229392935944409088?s=19 https://youtube.com/watch?v=mPyn39xUukI

Watch “Julia Hartley-Brewer meets Matt Ridley”

As your children grow you have to let them down gently of course but you have to tell them the truth because it really won't help them in life if they still believe in unicorns and worse go out protesting about unicorns as fully grown adults. Please stop engaging in unicorn debates 😐 https://youtube.com/watch?v=9867GkwNeTg

Watch “Your Life is About to Change Are World Events Adding Up Yet (843)”

Chiefio put an interesting piece up last week titled Crop Failure Year Looms which I highly recommend - and the comments. Now David Dubyne who runs the Adapt2030 channel has put up a video synthesising much of the global news reports of droughts and floods as the jetstream changes into a deep meridional flow in … Continue reading Watch “Your Life is About to Change Are World Events Adding Up Yet (843)”

Leave Them Kids Alone

My children are younger than media darling and propaganda prop Greta Thunberg and what I refuse to do is allow a cult of Malthusian's with dubious funding and end times fervour rob my children of their future. I also have no wish to bequeath upon any child extortionate energy costs and a world where we … Continue reading Leave Them Kids Alone

Cold Snap Brings Snowfall to the Sahara Desert – for the second winter in a row

https://twitter.com/bbcweather/status/950674395835531267

The note on the video below states in fact the area of Ain al-safra follows geographically the high plateaus of the western cold continental climate and is in fact not a desert but it has been subjected to creeping sand and desertification because it lies on the gateway to the Sahara Desert

https://youtube.com/watch?v=0Wy3ceTfLrM

Details on last winter’s Saharan snow can be found here

Watts Up With That?

As much of the northern hemisphere endures record cold temperatures, we get this report from Severe Weather EU via Twitter:

Spectacular scenes today in Algeria as snow covered the sand dunes in Ain El Safra! Snow visible also in imagery by NASA’s Terra satellite.

After a 40 year absence, this is the second winter in a row for this occurrence. In late 2016 it was reported by the Telegraph as being not seen in 40 years:

Incredible photos capture freak snowfall in the Sahara Desert, believed to be first time it has fallen on the unforgiving red dunes in almost 40 years.

Now, it’s happened again. Have a look.

Photos by rt Sidali, Gian Alonso, Rabah Ripou Ouchen, Issam Bouchetata Bouchetata

You can also see the snow on the MODIS/TERRA satellite image service from NASA. Ain El Safra is the lone white section in the center of the


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Watch “2017 Hurricanes and Aerosols Simulation”

This is stunning to watch and the evolution of #Ophelia as it moves east and interacts with the Saharan Dust is illuminating although the Ellie Gouldings of the world will still blame #ClimateChange (see here). https://youtube.com/watch?v=h1eRp0EGOmE

‘Snowmania’ in Zambia

https://youtube.com/watch?v=j2ogB3WurH8 h/t Argiris Diamantis THE Zambia Meteorological Department says the recent hailstorm in some parts of Lusaka was due to a cool vertical atmosphere that did not support its melting into rain. In a statement following Sunday’s heavy hailstorm, senior meteorological officer Victor Bupe said a cold front over the southeast coast of South Africa tilted towards … Continue reading ‘Snowmania’ in Zambia