By P Gosselin on 16. March 2011
One reason for all the hysteria throughout Germany, and elsewhere, is because there are people out there who don’t know what they are talking about. Here’s an example: Cem Özdemir, a leader in Germany’s Green Party, said on national ARD television: You know, we know the arguments. The arguments are not that new. At peak […]
Posted in Activism, Climate Politics, Greenpeace |
By P Gosselin on 16. March 2011
There are lots of stories flying about, some quite wild. Here’s what the IAEA Director says. The situation at the Fukushima power plant is very serious. Damage to the cores of the three units, unit 1, units 2 & 3, have been confirmed. There has been no serious change since yesterday. The cores remain uncovered, […]
Posted in Alternative Energy |
By P Gosselin on 16. March 2011
UPDATE: http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/RS_Second_fire_reported_at_unit_4_1603111.html ========================================================= Indeed, for those of us reading reliable reports, we get the sense that they are slowly gaining the upper hand over the problems. On the other hand, listening to the media report on the Fukushima sitiuation is a bit like listening to a hysterical child who is convinced that he has just seen […]
Posted in Media / Bias |
By P Gosselin on 15. March 2011
As the hysteria reaches new levels and the anti-atomic power groups are ever more adamant about a nuclear-free Germany, Angela Merkel has been pressured to announce that some of Germany’s nuclear power plants will be closed. That’s probably good news for the gas industry, and for Germany’s neighbours. But right now, Germany does not have […]
Posted in Alternative Energy |
By P Gosselin on 14. March 2011
Japan’s earthquake has unleashed a massive wave of hysteria throughout Germany as media outlets hyperventilate over the danger of a meltdown at the Japanese Fukushima nuclear power plant. Sure nuclear power is deadly dangerous if not properly used, and the situation in Japan is critical. But listening to the media, you’d think nothing could be more […]
Posted in Alternative Energy |
By P Gosselin on 14. March 2011
The Sendai mega-earthquake not only sent a tsunami of water over parts of coastal Japan, but also one of hysteria over the German media and green establishment. As Japan struggles to get a grip on its damaged reactors, German environmentalists are seizing the opportunity in a bid to fan panic across the country, and are now […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Media / Bias |
By P Gosselin on 13. March 2011
Der Spiegel here gives us a good idea of the scale and magnitude of Japan’s massive Sendai earthquake, which weighed in at 9.0 on the Richter scale. It ought to remind some of us of nature’s fury and that we are powerless to steer it. The earthquake occurred in the western Pacific Ocean, 130 km (81 mi) east […]
Posted in Tectonics/Volcanoes |
By P Gosselin on 11. March 2011
By Matti Vooro, P.E. I recently read a news clipping from the Canadian Press headlined: Never mind that cold snap-fed stats suggest Canadian winters are getting warmer. According to the article, the figures were compiled by Environment Canada and released to the Canadian Press on January 25, 2011. I checked the Environment Canada data and […]
Posted in Arctic, Cooling/Temperature |
By P Gosselin on 11. March 2011
I won’t be blogging much this weekend. Unfortunately I won’t be any place warm – like what is shown in the photo below. I’ll be checking in from time to time to make sure the riff-raff doesn’t encroach. In the meantime, Matti Vooro has helped out and submitted this fascinating review of “the unprecedented warming” […]
Posted in Misc. |
By P Gosselin on 10. March 2011
Prof. Knut Löschke, a solid state physicist, who conducted research until 1986, founded PC-Ware AG, and then turned it into a European IT company before leaving in 2009, had some harsh words about climate science and policy in an interview with the magazine Smart Investor. This is reported in the German realist blog Ökowatch. Dr. Löschke: What is […]
Posted in Scepticism |
By P Gosselin on 10. March 2011
Various blogs and alternative media outlets like PR Week today are reporting on the disbanning of the anti-capitalist, anti-carbon radical environmental cult campaign known as the Camp for Climate Action. This is the crazed campaign that attempted to storm the Drax coal-fired power plant and blockaded the British Airports Authority. According to Wikipedia the campaign’s overall puprose was […]
Posted in Abnormal Climate Psych |
By P Gosselin on 9. March 2011
According to innovations-report.de, a new paper on Antarctic and Greenland ice sheet melt will be published in the Geophysical Research Letters later this month. Its title: Acceleration of the contribution of the Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheets to sea level rise. It’s authors: E. Rignot and I. Velicogna both of the University of California, Irvine, California; M. R. van […]
Posted in Antarctic, Arctic |
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