By P Gosselin on 31. March 2012
Yet another German solar manufacturer appears to be reaching the end of the line. The German TAZ here reports that profits for SMA Solar in 2011 fell by more than a half, to 166 million euros. In light of the fall in prices in the branch and planned cuts in subsidies in Germany, SMA anticipates a further decrease […]
Posted in Alternative Energy |
By P Gosselin on 30. March 2012
The Wall Street Journal Germany has an in depth analysis of the collapse of German solar module giant, Q-Cells: Too Close to the Sun – The Rise and Fall of Q-Cells. It’s worse than we thought! Last Tuesday the solar company based in Thalheim in Saxony-Anhalt, once the largest module manufacturer in the world, very quietly […]
Posted in Alternative Energy |
By P Gosselin on 29. March 2012
The warmists keep insisting that it’s CO2 and that the sun is not playing a role in our climate today. According to them, the sun has been on strike and stopped playing a role since mankind started its sinful use of CO2. Yet another study is out and shows that the warmists are off in […]
Posted in Misc., Paleo-climatology, Solar Sciences, Tectonics/Volcanoes |
By P Gosselin on 28. March 2012
What if scientists one day concluded that climate was influenced mostly by natural factors and that man had little impact? What would be the result? For one, lots of people would find themselves in the unemployment line. And for many, their companies and operations would have to close shop. Hat-tip: Reader DirkH. One person who likely […]
Posted in Hockey Team, Lifestyles of the Rich and Alarmist, Models |
By P Gosselin on 27. March 2012
Prophetic revelations of disturbing end of world visions… PIK Makes The Ice Melt Away By Meteorologist Klaus Eckart Puls (Translated, condensed by P Gosselin) The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and the Universidad Complutense de Madrid recently came out with computer-model generated scenarios showing that Greenland would melt away [1]. This scenario of […]
Posted in Arctic, Glaciers, Hockey Team |
By P Gosselin on 25. March 2012
The days when Europe considered the rest of the world its colony and servant are over. But some EU bureaucrats and bossy greens obviously haven’t grasp that yet. Hat tip: Manfred Messmer here. A group of EU climate commissars lead by Connie Hedegaard once got the idea they could boss the rest of the world, […]
Posted in Climate Politics, CO2 and GHG |
By P Gosselin on 25. March 2012
Yesterday we read how EU and German bureaucrats want to force homeowners make costly home renovations, for the sole sake of saving some energy. This of course would seriously drive up rental rates for tenants, hitting the poor especially hard. And if it isn’t difficult enough for the poor to pay for their housing, take a […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Climate Politics, Green Follies |
By P Gosselin on 24. March 2012
German daily Die Welt here reported last month how the transition to renewable energy development in Europe, particularly Germany, has not been progressing well lately. Offshore parks are being delayed, the expansion of the power grid is practically DOA and people are realizing that the energy the sun sends for free is actually awfully expensive […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Climate Politics |
By P Gosselin on 23. March 2012
Yesterday the Maybrit Illner talkshow on ZDF television was about Germany’s attempt to shift to renewable energy in the wake of the shutdown of 7 nuclear power reactors after the Fukushima tsunami disaster. The political talkshow, moderated by Maybrit Illner, asked if consumers are being asked to pay too much for the transition to a […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Media / Bias |
By P Gosselin on 22. March 2012
All the green jobs of the future that were promised – have now turned into dashed dreams. On the scrap heap along with the promises of communism, redistribution, third ways, etc. FOCUS magazine here brings us up-to-speed on the trials and misery of Germany’s much maligned solar industry. The situation is worse than we thought. It’s […]
Posted in Alternative Energy |
By P Gosselin on 21. March 2012
I was going to post this tomorrow, but what the hell… ATTENTION GERMAN READERS: 21:05 mark has a rather damning observation about Germans in general. So why is it Germans are so damn pessimistic?
Posted in Abnormal Climate Psych, Alternative Energy, Green Follies |
By P Gosselin on 21. March 2012
As it becomes more and more evident that renewable energies such as solar and wind are turning out to be far costlier than ever anticipated, and will do nothing to the climate, the masterminds behind them don’t want to hear it. Now they are going to do whatever it takes to make them work – no […]
Posted in Alternative Energy |
By P Gosselin on 20. March 2012
No April Fool’s joke here. Our friends at the German Science Skeptical here bring us a Youtube video on how kids are being taught out somewhere in East Germany that eating apples saves the climate. It’s all part of a German government sponsored competition to promote climate protection and energy savings. In fact officials found […]
Posted in Abnormal Climate Psych, Green Follies |
By P Gosselin on 19. March 2012
I’m a little short on time today, and so I will provide the translation of the latest Die kalte Sonne website’s piece on an interview of Fritz Vahrenholt by the HNA titled: “At Most One Degree More”. Although the interview is not available online, Die kalte Sonne website provides us with the main points: HNA: […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Cooling/Temperature, Scepticism |
By P Gosselin on 18. March 2012
It’s been 6 weeks since Professor Fritz Vahrenholt’s and Dr. Sebastian Lüning’s bestselling skeptic book “Die kalte Sonne” was released. The Greens have been attacking the book – but their arguments have been astonishingly weak. Some Greens wrote a paper listing their arguments against the book. The chart that’s driving the Greens nuts. Vahrenholt and Lüning […]
Posted in CO2 and GHG, Cooling/Temperature, Hockey Team, Paleo-climatology, Scepticism |
By P Gosselin on 17. March 2012
Greenland isn’t melting rapidly after all. We keep hearing that melting there has been accelerating, and that if it melted, sea levels would rise a catastrophic 7 meters. New data just released by the Helmholtz Centre in Potsdam, Germany, shows that over the last 10 years only 240 gigatons of ice have melted. http://www.gfz-potsdam. That ice […]
Posted in Arctic, Sea Levels |
By P Gosselin on 17. March 2012
What subsidies and government meddling in the free market could not accomplish, will probably soon be attempted by a government takeover. Flagship daily the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) here writes that there are 4 main obstacles in Germany’s energy transformation: 1. Wind supply is unpredictable. 2. There’s no good way to store electricity. 3. Increasing energy efficiency […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Climate Politics |
By P Gosselin on 16. March 2012
Slowly it seems that some greens are starting to wake up from their zombie condition and are showing signs that they may one day realize the disaster they’ve unleashed. German public television, the ZDF of all networks, has a clip on how the building of windmills has completely run amok in Germany. Hat-tip: www.kaltesonne.de/.
Posted in Activism, Alternative Energy, Climate Politics, Green Follies |
By P Gosselin on 15. March 2012
Steffen Hentrich of the liberty-oriented blogsite “Denken für die Freiheit” (Thinking for Liberty) writes a piece called “Climate-Killing Energy Transformation” about how Germany’s energy transformation from nuclear and fossil fuels to renewable energies is not working out very well.
Posted in Alternative Energy, Nuclear energy |
By P Gosselin on 14. March 2012
Nuclear meltdown, acid rain, ocean acidification, sea level rise, famine, obesity, drought, megastorms, floods, extreme weather, rain-forest destruction, species extinction… These are just some of the bogus scares the UN and activists use to keep the masses in a state of panic. The more, the better. Hardly a day goes by without the media fretting about […]
Posted in Activism, Agriculture, Drought and Deserts |
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