Massive, unprecedented, 10 out of 10, life threatening storm hits, drops 2...
It was all yellow: A warning was in place for the whole of Victoria. Massive flooding forecast across “whole state”: The Bureau of Meteorology has warned an “unprecedented” amount of rain is expected...
View ArticleDeadliest droughts in India were before 1924
Next time someone tells you how extreme the climate is today remind them that five million people died in a drought in 1896 in India. That was the same year a brutally hot summer in Australia caused...
View ArticleBlockbuster: 178 years of Australian rain has nothing to do with CO2, worst...
Remarkable! A new study by Ashcroft, Karoly and Dowdy pieces together an extraordinary 178 years of rainfall data from Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide. This is a rare study that brings in much older...
View ArticleFlash floods will be more common, say climate scientists right after flash...
In the Great Pagan Tradition of neolithic fortune telling, modern climate witchdoctors predict everything right after it starts Last year it was droughts and bushfires. This year its floods. If only...
View ArticleAustralian – Asian rainfall linked to solar activity for last 6000 years
A new study by Steinke shows that the sun could have been a driver (somehow) of some of the monsoonal rain changes over the last 6,000 years over Indonesia and Northern Australia. h/t to The Hockey...
View ArticleMegadroughts in past 2000 years worse, longer, than current droughts
What hockeystick eh? A new atlas shows droughts of the past were worse than those today — and they cannot have been caused by man-made CO2. Despite the claims of “unprecedented” droughts, the worst...
View ArticleInnovative work: Predicting rainfall with neural nets – Jennifer Marohasy
Predicting seasonal rainfall months ahead has surely got to be the Holy Grail of weather forecasting. Imagine the billions of dollars, the man-hours, and the anguish-prevented if we can do it. What if...
View Article500% more rain over a million square kilometers – Wettest September across...
It is not surprising there are floods all over the East coast at the moment September brought 500% of normal rain to 2 million square kilometers of Eastern and Northern Australia. There are floods...
View ArticleLow solar activity means more Central European floods
Yet another paper showing the spooky non-relationship with the local thermonuclear reactor. Thanks to climate models we all know that jiggles in solar radiation mean nothing much to Earth, otherwise we...
View ArticleFive years after rain returns, climate modelers redo models and “predict”...
The same modelers were predicting drought and letting their friends nail their reputation to statements about how the dams would never fill, and Perth would be a ghost town. When Australia wasted...
View ArticleWas the 2nd heaviest day of rain in Australia caused by a volcano in Chile?
Photo of the 2015 explosion of Calbuco Volcano in Chile, by Keraunos ob, posted on the Earth of Fire blog by Bernard Duyck. By Jo Nova A year ago I wrote about the odd link between the Hunga Tonga...
View ArticleOnly 6,000 years ago the world was warmer and the Sahara was lush green and wet
Image by Hoeneisen from Pixabay By Jo Nova Perhaps Africa could use some global warming? Thanks and credit to Kenneth Richard at NoTricksZone: New Study Finds The Early-Mid Holocene Sahara Had Lakes...
View ArticleModels wrong again: Looks like Climate Change is making rainfall *less*...
By Thomas K By Jo Nova Despite twenty years of media stories telling us how every rain-bomb was “climate change” a new satellite study of rainfall suggests that in the last 20 years the intensity of...
View ArticleNo changes in global droughts since 1902 when horses and carts were common
By Jo Nova Any which way you look at global drought measures in the last 120 years this is not the CO2 doom scenario of the IPCC prophesies either in rainfall patterns or in water supplies. The graphs...
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