January 2018: Worst-case global warming scenarios not credible: Study
PARIS (AFP) – Earth’s surface will almost certainly not warm
up four or five degrees Celsius by 2100, according to a study released
Wednesday (Jan 17) which, if correct, voids worst-case UN climate change
predictions.
A revised calculation of how greenhouse gases drive up the
planet’s temperature reduces the range of possible end-of-century outcomes by
more than half, researchers said in the report, published in the journal
Nature.
February: ‘Sinking’ Pacific nation Tuvalu is
actually getting bigger, new research reveals
The Pacific nation of Tuvalu — long seen as a prime
candidate to disappear as climate change forces up sea levels — is actually
growing in size, new research shows.
A University of Auckland study examined changes in the
geography of Tuvalu’s nine atolls and 101 reef islands between 1971 and 2014,
using aerial photographs and satellite imagery.
It found eight of the atolls and almost three-quarters of the
islands grew during the study period, lifting Tuvalu’s total land area by 2.9
percent, even though sea levels in the country rose at twice
the global average.
March: BBC forced to retract false claim about
hurricanes
You may recall the above report by the BBC, which described
how bad last year’s Atlantic hurricane season was, before commenting at the
end: “A warmer world is bringing us a greater number of hurricanes and a
greater risk of a hurricane becoming the most powerful category 5.” I
fired off a complaint, which at first they did their best to dodge. After my
refusal to accept their reply, they have now been forced
to back down
April: Corals can withstand another 100-250 Years
of climate change, new study
Heat-tolerant genes may spread through coral populations
fast enough to give the marine creatures a tool to survive another
100-250 years of warming in our oceans.
May: Climate change causes beaches to grow by 3,660
square kilometers
Since 1984 humans have gushed forth 64% of our entire
emissions from fossil fuels. (Fully 282,000 megatons of
deplorable carbon “pollution”.) During this time, satellite images
show that 24% of our beaches shrank, while 28% grew. Thus we can say that
thanks to the carbon apocalypse there are 3,660 sq kms more global beaches now
than there were thirty
years ago.
June: Antarctica not losing ice, NASA researcher
finds
NASA glaciologist Jay Zwally says his new study will show,
once again, the eastern Antarctic ice sheet is gaining
enough ice to offset losses in the west.
July: National Geographic admits they were wrong
about notorious starving polar bear-climate claims
The narrative behind the viral photo of a polar bear
starving, reportedly thanks to climate change, has been called into question by
the National Geographic photographer who took it in the
first place.
August: New study shows declining risk and
increasing resilience to extreme weather in France
This risk factor for French residents of cities stricken by
a disaster has been falling with
every passing decade.
September: Coral bleaching is a natural event that
has gone on for centuries, new study
Coral bleaching has been a regular feature of the Great
Barrier Reef for the past 400 years, with evidence of repeated mass events
dating back to well before European settlement and the start of the industrial
revolution.
October: Climate predictions could be wrong in UK
and Europe
Current climate change predictions in the UK and parts of
Europe may be inaccurate, a study conducted by researchers from the University
of Lincoln, UK, and the University of Liège, Belgium, suggests.
November: Number and intensity of US hurricanes have
remained constant since 1900
There’s been “no trend” in the number and intensity of
hurricanes hitting the continental U.S. and the normalized damages caused by
such storms over the past 117 years, according
to a new study.
December: Alarmist sea level rise scenarios
unlikely, says climate scientist Judith Curry
A catastrophic rise in sea levels is unlikely this century,
with recent experience falling within the range of natural variability over
the past several thousand years, according to a report on peer-reviewed
studies by US
climate scientist Judith Curry.
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