The science of science is to robustly challenge the science, and not to just blindly accept it. Climate and energy news from Germany - by Pierre L. Gosselin
New research utilizing the DNA of dinoflagellate (Polarella glacialis) indicates that, 14,000 years ago, when the atmospheric CO2 concentration is thought to have been 230 ppm, the studied Arctic region (Yermak Plateau) was sea ice-free year-round.
“Around 14.0-13.9 cal kyr BP, a short-lived year-round, ice-free, open ocean occurred.”
During the Early to Middle Holocene (10,000 to 4,000 years ago), Arctic sea ice was seasonal, dominated by first-year ice that did not survive the summer melt season.
“The Holocene Yermak Plateau is characterized by a seasonal sea ice cover, which my consist mainly of first-year sea ice … a large part of first-year ice, as opposed to seasonally drifted multi-year ice.”
Today, at 430 ppm CO2, Arctic sea ice is increasingly first-year, but a “multi-year environment” persists. Multi-year sea ice has survived at least one summer melt season, and it continues to thicken over multiple years.
The current phase is similar to the sea ice conditions that predominated ~16,000 years ago, or during the last glacial.
“…a marginal sea ice cover ca. 16 cal kyr BP [characterized by] first-year sea ice in a multi-year sea ice environment, a setting not unlike today.”
If the Arctic can be sea ice-free year-round when CO2 is 230 ppm, but dominated by multi-year ice when the CO2 concentration is 430 ppm, this does not support the alarmist claims that high CO2 concentrations are responsible for enhanced Arctic sea ice melt.
German critical journalist Roland Tichy has posted a scathing commentary on German alarmist politicians who refuse to accept that the climate crisis has been called off by the IPCC and that their power-grabbing green policies must be suspended.
In recent years, media and political commentary has been dominated by a seemingly relentless cascade of doomsday scenarios. Anyone following the news got the impression that humanity was on the brink of an ecological collapse. Yet, an unexpected U-turn has just emerged —one that is, however, largely being met with a wall of silence in the mainstream media:
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has quietly walked back its most extreme projections.
The End of the 5-Degree Catastrophe
Under the leadership of renowned scientists such as Professor Detlef van Vuuren, 44 officials from the World Climate Council have conceded that previous scenarios predicting a global temperature rise of up to 5°C by the year 2100 are simply implausible.
These drastic model calculations, which for years were sold as indisputable scientific facts, have proven to be entirely untenable.
The paradox here is that while this correction should actually offer a sensational sense of relief to the global community, a telling silence prevails across German politics and the press. They fear losing the painstakingly established narrative of an impending apocalypse.
Political consequences
The real scandal, however, lies not in the scientific miscalculation itself, but in the far-reaching political consequences drawn from it. Based on these now-discarded horror scenarios, a profound transformation of the economy and society was set in motion:
The introduction of the CO2 tax and the ban on internal combustion engines strip the country’s key industry of its foundation, jeopardizing hundreds of thousands of jobs.
The premature shutdown of coal-fired power plants has driven electricity and heating costs sky-high, severely undermining Germany’s international competitiveness.
Whether it is excessive home insulation that leads to mold growth, the visual destruction of natural landscapes by “wind turbine deserts,” or the legal approval of powdered insects in food—no area of life remains untouched by climate-policy paternalism.
The role of the judiciary is particularly explosive in this context. The Federal Constitutional Court explicitly based its landmark 2021 climate ruling on the very IPCC reports that have now been exposed as exaggerated. Experts like the former Hamburg Environmental Senator, Fritz Vahrenholt, pointed out the methodical flaws in these projections early on, but were defamed in public discourse as “climate deniers.”
Global megalomania vs. realpolitik
While Germany and parts of Europe plunge headlong into an ever-accelerating vortex of climate neutrality, a glance at the global stage reveals the fundamental futility of this national solo run. Germany is responsible for a mere 1.2% of global CO2 emissions. In stark contrast, the industrial giant China accounts for over 30% of global emissions and—much like India or South America—would not dream of sacrificing its own economic growth for Western climate targets.
Conclusion: time for a return to common sense
The perpetuation of climate panic today is to serve as an instrument of power for an burgeoning bureaucracy and a business model for profiteers cashing in on public fear.
Abandoning this ideological dead end would not only pave the way for a new economic miracle, but also restore personal freedom and self-determination to citizens. It is time to turn our attention back to the real problems of the world instead of chasing a ghost whose doomsday scenarios have been canceled by its own creators.
Climate alarmists have been brainwashed to feel existential dread, says ex-climate activist Lucy Biggers in a new interview.
Ms. Biggers, once a leading climate activist until recently, provides the details regarding why she changed her mind and views on current climate alarmism, discussing a progressive timeline between 2020 and 2025 where she deprogrammed herself from climate alarmism.
Schellenberger and Koonin
One of the major turning points came around 2020, when she began secretly reading books that directly challenged the apocalyptic climate narrative. Specifically, she cites Michael Shellenberger’sApocalypse Never and Steve Koonin’sUnsettled, the latter of which opened her eyes to the idea that extreme weather patterns are not matching the catastrophic claims pushed by the media.
Glimpse at dystopia
Secondly, the 2020 lockdowns provided a massive wake-up call regarding what “Net Zero” measures actually look like in practice. She realized that despite the global economy completely shutting down and individuals losing their freedoms, global carbon emissions only dropped by about 5%. This made her question the authoritarian nature and feasibility of the movement’s goals.
Realization it’s a destructive mindset
Thirdly, having her first son in 2022 forced her to establish healthier emotional boundaries and take stock of her values. She realized she did not want to pass down a destructive mindset of existential dread and perpetual guilt for consuming resources in a modern world to her children.
What’s really driving the alarmists?
Lucy notes several overlapping psychological, social, and ideological reasons why activists adopt an alarmist mindset, explaining that within left-wing spaces, the prevailing narrative is that being Western, white, or privileged makes you inherently complicit in historical oppression. For many activists, the climate movement serves as a psychological mechanism to “atone for the sins of their birth” by fighting for oppressed or indigenous groups against “evil fossil fuel companies.”
Attention-seeking
Another factor is social pressure and the algorithmic fgeedback loop: Social media and workplace communication tools (like Slack) create an intense “groupthink” environment. Activists get hooked on a constant dopamine feedback loop of validation, moral superiority, and professional accolades when they post alarmist content.
I just started covering that as a 25-year-old… and all the videos that I made went really viral and so there was a feedback loop of I’m getting a lot of professional success from this and so I just made climate change my kind of whole personality and beat for my 20s…”
Conversely, pushing back causes severe social anxiety and the fear of being ostracized as an “enemy.”
Addiction to self-importance
Lucy highlights that the apocalyptic thinking has deep religious undertones, satisfying a modern craving for meaning and legacy. Activists become “addicted to the nihilism” and the intoxicating self-importance of believing they are saving the world from an end-times scenario.
…you get the nihilism, you get addicted to the nihilism, you get addicted to your your own sense of self-importance, you get addicted to the fact that you are right and other people are wrong and then the engagement you receive on social media—it’s a constant feedback loop.”
Biggers adds:
I remember anytime I used to get a critique when I was still in this groupthink, I would spiral… because my sense of self was built on sand. Like I truly was just constantly pinging the group to be like ‘What are my opinions, am I a good ally, am I a good ally, am I doing everything right to show that I’m like part of this movement?’ And it was so exhausting…”
Gore’s propaganda led to “existential dread”
According to Lucy Biggers, her intense anxiety and worry about the climate at an early age was triggered by watching the documentary film An Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore, explaining that she was a sophomore in high school (16 years old) in 2006 when her school played the film during a widespread high school assembly. Lucy describes the overwhelming psychological impact it had on her, which included existential dread and the feeling of having been handed a death sentence
Based on what she took away from the movie, she calculated a timeline for her own survival, stating, “I’m 16, I have till I’m 26… I have 10 years to live… I was racked by anxiety like in my nervous system”.
In the German video titled “Klima-Hysterie wissenschaftlich widerlegt?” (Climate Hysteria Scientifically Refuted?), Dr. Bernd Fleischmann presents a critical view of current climate policies and the scientific consensus on climate change.
Overuse of already refuted climate models
Firstly, Fleischmann questions the reliability of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and the IPCC, accusing them of using “alarmist models” to influence political decisions, such as the German Federal Constitutional Court’s climate ruling [01:40].
Positive climate findings get buried
On the subject of “tipping points”, Dr. Fleischmann argues that the concept is statistically and historically refuted. He claims that original tipping points, like the greening of the Sahara (which he views as positive), were removed from updates because they weren’t “alarmist enough” [03:53].
Moreover, Fleichmann asserts that climate models are based on “ignorance,” citing the wide range of temperature predictions (1–6°C) as proof that scientists do not actually know the impact of CO2 [05:30].
CO2 is an overall benefit
On the subject of CO2, Fleischmann argues that CO2 has a marginal effect on temperature (maximum 1°C increase if doubled) and is primarily beneficial for plant growth, leading to a “greening” of the planet, especially in the Sahel zone [05:51], [25:15].
Change mainly driven by more powerful, natural factors
Fleischmann attributes recent warming not to greenhouse gases, but to changes in absorbed solar radiation (less reflection) and natural oceanic cycles like El Niño [09:58]. He points out that historical temperature data (from 1850) is unreliable because there were almost no measurement stations in the Southern Hemisphere or Africa at that time, making high-precision global temperature claims “propaganda” [19:02].
Wind farms causing far more damage than benefit
Fleischmann further argues that wind farms actually cause local warming and soil drying by disrupting air layers and preventing the ground from cooling at night [31:02]. He explains how infrasound from wind turbines can make people ill by affecting “piezo channels” in human cells and the brain [34:55]. He also claims they kill thousands of tons of insects and numerous birds/bats annually [40:43].
Mass wealth redistribution scheme
Citing PIK Director Ottmar Edenhofer, Fleischmann shows that climate policy is actually a tool for the redistribution of global wealth from the middle class to the “super-rich” [36:46], [39:02].
Concertning the media, he accuses them (ARD, ZDF, Süddeutsche Zeitung) of spreading lies and failing to report scientific facts that contradict the climate narrative [21:07], [27:46].
“No climate crisis”
In summary, Fleischmann concludes that there is no “climate crisis,” warming is generally better for humanity than cooling (citing fewer deaths from heat than cold), and the “energy transition” is a scientific and economic mistake [40:19].
Three new tree ring reconstructions (spanning 1320-2021, 1720-2014, and 1657-2020 CE) document the dominance of natural variability in the paleoclimate record.
Extreme precipitation deficits (droughts) were much more common and pronounced across sub-Arctic Sweden and the Tibetan Plateau (TP) before 1950 than since.
For example, there were three TP megadroughts from 1865-1950, whereas only one occurred from 1950-2014 (Cai et al., 2026). TP severe drought years were worse in 1735 and 1914 than in 2009.
The Energiewende (transition to green energy) is often hailed as the future of urban logistics, but a recent development in Bielefeld, Germany, serves as a sobering cautionary tale. The city has been forced to mothball its entire fleet of seven hydrogen-powered garbage trucks.
Idled garbage trucks. Illustration image only, generated by Grok AI.
Poor logistics
Blackout News reports that for years, Bielefeld’s hydrogen trucks relied on a refueling station in Rheda-Wiedenbrück. Even then, the logistics were strained; drivers had to make an 80-kilometer round trip just to fuel up. Given that these trucks have a daily range of about 300 kilometers, nearly a third of their energy was being spent just getting to the pump.
When the station in Rheda-Wiedenbrück closed, the situation turned from difficult to impossible. The next available station was in Münster—roughly 180 kilometers away for a round trip. At that distance, the trucks would consume most of their fuel just traveling to and from the station, leaving virtually no range left to actually collect trash.
Massive financial investment
The scale of idling the buses is significant. Each of the hydrogen-powered trucks cost approximately €1 million—four times the price of a conventional diesel garbage truck (roughly €250,000).
To bridge the cost gap, the German federal government provided massive subsidies, covering 90% of the additional costs. In total, nearly €5 million in taxpayer money was pumped into this fleet. Today, those high-tech vehicles are now idle, doing nothing, representing a massive waste of subsidized resources.
Bureaucratic absurdity
The most frustrating part of the story is that Bielefeld actually has a hydrogen refueling station within the city. One might think the solution is simple: just refuel the trucks at the local station! However, due to the strict terms of the government subsidies used to build that station, its use is contractually restricted to hydrogen buses only. Despite both the buses and the garbage trucks belonging to the municipal fleet, formal funding rules prevent the trucks from using the local pump.
Trend of hydrogen snafus
Bielefeld isn’t an isolated case. Similar issues have been reported in Duisburg and Lübeck, where hydrogen-powered municipal vehicles have been sidelined due to fuel shortages or infrastructure gaps. It highlights a recurring theme in the “Energiewende” (energy transition): technology is often deployed far ahead of the practical infrastructure needed to support it.
Summary
The case of Bielefeld’s idle garbage truck fleet is an excample of bureacracy’s rank inability to operate a society, serving as a reminder that “green” technology is is a costly folly.
Another anthropogenic global warming (AGW) modeling failure emerges in observed tropical cyclone data.
According to climate modeling (Knutson et al., 2015 and 2020), everyday human activities such as driving cars and using cell phones (AGW) should lead to increases in tropical cyclone (TC) landfall frequency and intensity (i.e., accumulated cyclone energy [ACE], or maximum windspeed).
Instead, 45 years of satellite observations (Bell et al., 2026) indicate declining TC frequency trends over the western North Pacific (WNP, including the Philippines, Hong Kong, China, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, Micronesia), as well as a weakly declining trend (-7.6 ACE units per decade-¹) in TC intensity for the WNP.
“Landfall trends over individual nations are insignificant, but significant decreases are noted for the northern Philippines and parts of Micronesia, including for intense (> 33 m s-¹).”
“TC frequency across the region has been declining, linked to changes in the large-scale atmospheric circulation…as well as projected decreases in straight-moving TCs (i.e., those making landfall in southern China and the Philippines.”
“After removing the effect of ENSO [natural variability]…downward trend of 7.6 ACE units per decade-¹ for [the entire WNP].”
The cracks in the facade of the global climate science are getting wider, more glaring as a significant group of experts chooses to break rank.
Modern Galileos are increasingly challenging the alarmist IPCC climate dogma. (Illustrative image generated by Grok AI).
According to a recent report by the German online TKP, a movement is gaining momentum within the scientific community that threatens to dismantle the official IPCC narrative from the inside out. This rebellion is led by 46 scientists, many of whom have direct experience working with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, who are now publicly challenging the foundational claims that have dictated global policy for decades.
The heart of their argument lies in the fundamental failure of current climate models.
These prestigious researchers – among them Dr. Robert Balling, Dr. Lucka Bogataj, Dr. John Christy and Dr. Judith Curry – contend that the IPCC has relied on simulations that are heavily biased toward human-induced CO2 while systematically ignoring or downplaying natural variables. By prioritizing political consensus over raw data, these models have consistently overestimated global warming, creating a gap between alarmist predictions and the actual temperature trends observed over the last several years.
The scientists suggest that the “climate emergency” is less a scientific reality and more an ideological construct designed to drive the Net Zero agenda.
Power natural factors ignorerd by IPCC
Furthermore, this group highlights the critical role of natural drivers that are often missing from the mainstream conversation. They point to solar activity, atmospheric water vapor, and complex cloud cycles as the true drivers of Earth’s climate. By looking back at historical periods like the Medieval Warm Period, they argue that the planet’s current warming is well within the bounds of natural variability and is not the unprecedented catastrophe it is often portrayed to be.
Culture of scientific suppression
Perhaps most concerning is the article’s depiction of a scientific community under pressure. The rebelling scientists describe a culture of suppression where dissenting opinions are sidelined through the loss of funding, career gatekeeping, and media blackouts. This internal collapse suggests that the “science is settled” mantra is no longer sustainable.
Dogmna coming to an end
As these 46 voices come forward, they signal a shift toward a more skeptical, data-driven approach that prioritizes objective reality over the prevailing political narrative, suggesting that the era of unquestioned climate dogma may be coming to an end.
Natural atmospheric circulation patterns (like the Western Tibetan Vortex, or WTV) drive total cloud cover (TCC) change, which, in turn modulate the the amount of downward solar radiation reaching the surface.
Over southwest Asia, or the Tibetan Plateau, scientists (Wang et al., 2026) indicate the satellite-observed increase in downward shortwave (DSW) “is the primary driver” of modern warming.
For example, the WTV-induced 11% decline in total cloud cover produced a 7 W/m² increase in DSW, explaining the 1.87 K regional temperature increase.
CO2 is not indicated as a contributing factor in recent Tibetan Plateau warming.
The biological and health risks associated with the infrasound (low-frequency sound below 20 Hz) produced by wind turbines can indeed be profound.
1. Biological mechanisms: cellular “stress”
Low frequency infrasound from wind turbines acts on the body even when it cannot be heard.It triggers a process called mechanotransduction, where cells convert mechanical pressure waves into biological signals. High-intensity or chronic exposure can cause oxidative stress, mitochondrial dysfunction, and the accumulation of calcium within cells.
In extreme or prolonged cases, these stresses can lead to programmed cell death (apoptosis) in various tissues.
2. Effects on the heart and cardiovascular system
The TKP article highlights that the rhythmic, impulsive nature of wind turbine infrasound is particularly stressful for the heart. Research suggests that high sound pressure levels of infrasound can lead to the thickening of heart tissue (fibrosis).
It may affect blood pressure and the integrity of the vascular system by disrupting the “pressure-sensitive” ion channels (like PIEZO1) in the walls of blood vessels.
3. Impact on the brain and nervous system
The scientific review teported by TKP notes that the brain is highly sensitive to the vibrations of infrasound, which can be transmitted through the skull or the inner ear. Prolonged exposure is associated with reduced concentration, impaired memory, and difficulties with “higher-order” cognitive tasks (like logical reasoning).
Animal studies cited in the review showed that intense infrasound could trigger inflammatory responses in the brain.
Moreover, infrasound can disturb the inner ear’s balance organs, leading to dizziness, nausea, and the “sea-sickness” sensation often reported by residents near wind farms.
4. Comparison to natural infrasound
The article emphasizes a critical distinction: natural infrasound (like wind or ocean waves) is usually “harmonious” or random. In contrast, wind turbine infrasound is pulsating and repetitive. This rhythmic nature prevents the body from “tuning out” the stimulus, leading to chronic physiological stress.
TKP reports that current safety regulations are outdated and inadeqaute. Most noise regulations use the “dBA” scale, which filters out low frequencies to mimic human hearing. The article argues this is useless for infrasound because the damage is biological, not auditory.
Based on the findings, some experts cited in the article suggest that safety distances for wind turbines should be significantly increased (potentially up to 5–10 kilometers) to protect public health.
Germany’s Klimanachrichten reports on the recent phenomenon of extreme negative electricity prices on the European power exchange, specifically highlighting the role of solar energy (photovoltaics) in this development.
Oversupplying the power grid leads to negative prices, ineffciency. Symbol image generated by Grok AI.
Being weather-dependent, it’s become almost impossible to match supply to demand. Sometimes the prices go negative.
According to Klimanachrichten, electricity prices at the exchange reached new record lows in the negative range. This occurs when the supply of electricity significantly exceeds demand, and producers must effectively pay consumers to take the power off the grid.
A primary driver for this surplus is the massive expansion of solar power. During periods of high solar radiation (sunny days) combined with low weekend or holiday demand, the grid gets flooded with “must-take” renewable energy and there’s an increasing difficulty to balance the power grid. Unlike traditional power plants, which can be throttled more easily, the fluctuating nature of solar and wind requires complex interventions to prevent grid overloads.
Because renewable energy operators are often guaranteed a fixed feed-in tariff regardless of market prices, the “gap” between the negative market price and the guaranteed remuneration must be covered by subsidies (often financed through taxes or levies). Since solar owners often receive money even when their electricity has a “negative value,” there is little incentive to invest in storage technologies like batteries.
Klimanachrichten has long since been critical of current energy transition (Energiewende) policies, arguing that the rapid expansion of weather-dependent renewables without adequate storage or flexible demand leads to massive economic inefficiencies and puts the industrial base at risk due to high system costs.
“The record negative prices are the market’s loudest warning signal that we have an oversupply of unstable generation, but a dramatic lack of flexibility and storage capacity,” Klimanachrichten summarizes.
The article suggests that the current subsidy model is unsustainable and calls for a shift toward a system where renewable energy producers are more exposed to market risks, incentivizing the synchronization of production with actual demand.
“The results indicate that extremes in heat-related metrics for daily T [Max] in the summer have not increased and in fact often show modest declines since 1899, due mostly to the early heat events during 1925-1954.” – Christy, 2026
The contiguous United States (CONUS) has the most reliable and comprehensive long-term daily maximum and minimum temperature records, with over 1,200 stations recording these data since the late 19th century.
It is often reported that extremes in hot and cold temperatures – and especially heatwaves – have been increasing in both frequency and intensity in the last few decades as a consequence of rising greenhouse gas concentrations.
However, reliable data from temperature stations across the CONUS indicate extreme heat, extreme cold, and heatwave duration and intensity have been declining since 1899, due mostly to the much higher extremes recorded during the 1925-1954 period.
Conveniently, most alarmist claims about accelerating maximum and minimum temperature extremes start their analysis in the 1950s or later.
In recent decades, CONUS extreme heat (and cold) records fall well within the range of natural variability.
“The metrics for extreme summer heat, e.g., hottest values, number of heatwave days, etc., show modest negative trends since 1899. Extreme cold temperature metrics also indicate a decline in their occurrences especially since the 1990s. In sum, instances of both hot and cold extreme metrics have declined since 1899.”
“[T]he heat extremes occurring in the CONUS today are well within the range that natural variability already provides.”
“[T]here is no increase in the occurrence of 95°F (35°C) days within the CONUS, and in fact, the CONUS has experienced an 8.3% decline since 1899. None of the past 10-year totals [2015-2025] are in the top ten values.”
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