CYCLONE GABRIELLE: NOT AS BIG, NOT AS WET, BUT DID NIWA FAIL TO JOIN THE DOTS ON FATAL FLOOD RISK?

Investigate Magazine | 9 Mar 2023 By Ian Wishart (may be reproduced in full with credit to author and Investigate Magazine) Download report as PDF NIWA2Download Apparent errors in NIWA’s database may have caused the climate agency to fatally underestimate the threat Cyclone Gabrielle posed to Hawke’s Bay residents. Four massive flooding events hit the…

News media criticised for misleading hurricane reporting 

GWPF | 2 Mar 2023 A new study by computer modellers and published in Nature Climate Change has concluded that hurricanes impacting the US have become more intense in recent decades and will become stronger in future. The paper, “Increasing sequential tropical cyclone hazards along the US East and Gulf coasts” by Xi et al, bases its conclusions on probabilistic modelling. However…

Climate Revelations

Barry Brill | 16 Nov 2022 1. This Changes Everything! On the basis of recent science, the UN has halved to only 2.5°C its prediction of global temperatures by the year 2100.And that modest prediction is based on a “business as usual” policy environment – ie the assumption that no country around the world will add any…

CLIMATE CHANGE ALARMISM

NZCPPR | 17 Nov 2022 If the Covid pandemic taught us anything, it’s to be very cautious about the influence of modelling on government policy. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern used exaggerated predictions of potential deaths to justify the world’s harshest lockdowns. The inevitable conclusion is that the underlying assumptions behind all modelling should be challenged…

At last, sceptics are shunning the climate scaremongers

TCW | 5 Nov 2022 A HUGE international survey measuring public concern about the threat of climate change appears to indicate growing scepticism across the globe.    The Gallup Risk Poll, which questioned 125,000 people in 121 countries, reported that less than half of those surveyed saw anthropogenic climate change as a very serious threat. There is now, it appears, a consensus of sceptics.    The most…