Climate change through the years (and how we survived it)

TCW | 12 June 2023 DISCOVERED through groundbreaking research over the last 150 years, rapid climate change has been found to be so common in recent geological time (the last 2.5million years) that it has a name and a subset of geoscience of its own called ‘Abrupt Climate Change’. It attracts scientists from many different…

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…