By P Gosselin on 13. February 2012
If an “expert” sits down for an interview with a leading media outlet, he should at least know what he’s talking about. Unfortunately this was hardly the case for Georg Feulner of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and Eicke Weber, Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems in Freiburg, Germany, both […]
Posted in Hockey Team, Scepticism, Solar Sciences |
By P Gosselin on 13. February 2012
We always knew they were going to get nasty – really nasty. That’s because we are truly dealing with intolerant zealots here who react viciously and emotionally when their religion comes under fire. Their latest reaction is proof enough. It’s enough to make any normal person sick. These Greenpeace fanatics are losing it. We saw it with […]
Posted in Activism, Greenpeace |
By P Gosselin on 13. February 2012
Another green company hocking yet another brilliant Co2-emissions reduction scheme is now laying off workers. Scant interest in its planet-saving product. Hat-tip Bernd Felsche. The German FAZ reports here that Hamburg-based SkySails will lay off half of its workers. Managing director Stephan Wrage, an industrial engineer, blames reluctance by shipping companies to invest in his “innovative […]
Posted in Green Follies |
By P Gosselin on 13. February 2012
IPCC Forecasts For Warm Winters Are Completely Wrong By Matti Vooro The headline on recent news clipping reads Toll from Europe Freeze tops 220, see here and here. Reading news clips about the current weather in Europe and Asia and then comparing that to what IPCC said in its 2007 report about what Europeans should expect for future […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature |
By P Gosselin on 12. February 2012
Lake Aussenalster in Hamburg, Germany rarely freezes over enough to allow tens of thousands to go skating on it. The ice has to be at leat 18 cm thick before officials declare it safe to walk on. The last time that happened was in 1997. This weekend it was thick enough to do so again. […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Weather |
By P Gosselin on 12. February 2012
With the book out 6 days, parts of the the German mainstream media and green activists are finding the the whole affair really tough to digest. Some of the reactions have been downright nasty and Medieval. The left wing German online TAZ here has a weekend article called “Climate Skeptics Are Like Viruses“, which looks at […]
Posted in Abnormal Climate Psych, Climate Politics, Media / Bias, Scepticism |
By P Gosselin on 11. February 2012
Natural Cycles by Ed Caryl Solar and ocean cycles indicate that cooling times lay ahead over the coming decades. One argument against the CAGW hypothesis is the influence of natural cycles controlling weather and climate. In nature, there are many phenomena that are cyclic. Figure 1. This is solar cycle variation 1975 to 2005, the […]
Posted in Solar Sciences |
By P Gosselin on 11. February 2012
The online DIE WELT today has a leading commentary here on the fallout of Fritz Vahrenholt’s and Sebastian Lüning’s skeptic book that has delivered a body blow to the German global warming movement.The DIE WELT piece, written by Ulli Kulke, is titled: “Climate science is the new replacement religion” In contains a plea for calm […]
Posted in CO2 and GHG, Solar Sciences |
By P Gosselin on 11. February 2012
It’s been interesting reading some of the reactions from the green, warmist sites. Of course they are all seething in rage and resignation as their unclean movement collapses.None of them up to now have presented any scientific arguments refuting the claims made by Lüning and Vahrenholt. Indeed many forget that geologist and climate-paleontologist Lüning is also […]
Posted in Scepticism |
By P Gosselin on 10. February 2012
More big news! If there’s a growing consensus about anything, it is that the man-made climate catastrophe is not going to happen, and that the scientists who believe to the contrary are becoming an ever increasingly obscure, fringe minority. Call them the natural-cause denialists. Maybe many scientists are starting to feel that blaming everything on CO2 and neglecting […]
Posted in Oceans, Scepticism, Solar Sciences |
By P Gosselin on 9. February 2012
Professor Werner Weber of the Technical University of Dortmund is the author of that infamous, consensus-shattering article “The CO2 Lies” appearing in Bild newspaper on Monday – also see here – which featured the new skeptic book that is causing an uproar in German climate science, written by Fritz Vahrenholt and Sebastian Lüning. Now he is throwing in a […]
Posted in Scepticism |
By P Gosselin on 8. February 2012
Here’s the Spiegel interview with climate maverick Fritz Vahrenholt – in English! “Will reduced solar activity counteract global warming in the coming decades? That is what outgoing German electric utility executive Fritz Vahrenholt claims in a new book. In an interview with SPIEGEL, he argues that the official United Nations forecasts on the severity of climate […]
Posted in Scepticism |
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