Weather and climate are everyday slang words and misleading when used by science. By Dr.Arnd Bernaerts; Posted 22nd December 2019 During the last half of the Century the world has a big problem. Science abuses the laymen terms used since time immemorial: weather and climate. Every term is connected closer to every body than their Continue Reading

By this failure, they lie to themselves and to the public Posted: July 20, 2019, by Dr. Arnd Bernaerts, Translation from www.ozeanklima.de,  Amended: 25 July The English philosopher John Locke stated 350 years ago: The achievement of human knowledge is often hampered by the use of words without fixed meaning. This is now the case Continue Reading

Never for layman! – For science it should soon! Posted May 19, 2019 Let’s face it. Except on some religious and faith expressions, the word climate has managed to become the most magical common term in modern time. Our previous post explained, that the word has a several thousand year’s history, but, during the last Continue Reading

The Arctic has still many secrets, one is the warming that started 1918 Post: April 08, 2019, with reprint from NASA Earth Observatory (below) Today the NASA Earth Observatory published an image-of-the-day the Vaviloc Ice Cap on an island in the Kara Sea.  That is high in the North, at 79°30′N 97°00′E, and well in Continue Reading

Do human activities at sea keep heavy cold at bay ? Posted: 15th March 2019 The same procedure as last year, when the winter 2017/18 was here discussed as well, basically with the same text. In Europe’s winter are getting warmer at a pace faster than global average (Details HERE). The current winter proves it Continue Reading

This winter sea ice is shockingly low, practically not existing in early March 2019. Why is there such a big difference between now and the first three war winters 1939/40ff. A previous post asked: “Europe winter free – Thank to off-shore windfarms” one year ago? Comparing the current sea ice conditions with those of long-term Continue Reading

About the aspect: Dimensions matter Posting: February 25, 2919 It looks miraculous how easily some scientists show how ocean temperatures behave.  But can it be taken seriously, if considering the vastness of the ocean, its low mean temperature (merely + 4°C), and its overriding impact on the global weather/climate system? Any research on global warming Continue Reading

The trouble starts when sloppy language is used Posting February 09, 2019 The State of the Union speech by the President of the United States on Tuesday the 9th February 2019 was modest with regard to climate change. It had been different from his assertion during the election campaign in 2016. A few months ago Continue Reading

Distant Implication by the “Siberian Express”? Posted on 30th January 2018 (seven images added 01/31/19,  below) With an excerpt from the essay: Northern Europe’s Mild Winters, 2016  Temperatures plunged to minus 26°Celsius in Chicago and minus 35°C degrees in Madison, Wis., last night (01/30/19). A polar vortex is triggering the coldest Arctic outbreak in the Continue Reading

The warming of the ocean remains a wide open question Posting: January 25, 2019 Is there some movement now in the discussion about ocean warming? A research paper published, in Nature Geoscience (January 21, 2019],* the following assessment: There is no definite connection between the solar cycle and the North Atlantic Oscillation debunking the solar-cycle Continue Reading