By P Gosselin on 20. March 2014
On March 17, Germany’s Helmholtz Association held a podium discussion in Berlin. The title: “What can we believe? The climate debate and its impacts”. Climate science and policy panel discussion in Berlin, March 17, 2014. Photo: Helmholtz Association I wrote about this almost 6 weeks ago, read here. What’s a bit special about this podium discussion […]
Posted in Scepticism |
By P Gosselin on 19. March 2014
By Ed Hoskins This short illustrated essay questions government efforts to combat global warming and climate change from three points of view: 1. The influence of CO2 on temperature 2. Decarbonisation outcomes 3. Politics This essay examines quantifiable and hopefully non-contentious aspects of the question. 1. Influence of carbon dioxide CO2 on temperature The temperature-increasing capacity of […]
Posted in CO2 and GHG, IPCC |
By P Gosselin on 18. March 2014
The print edition of the Swiss Die WeltWoche has a story on the IPCC and accusations that climate scientists have misled policymakers: The Silence of the Climate Scientists, authored by Markus Schär. In it Schär claims that “the IPCC lead by Thomas Stocker concealed good news in its report” and that “a new report shows […]
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By P Gosselin on 17. March 2014
On Climate Sensitivity – Thunderstorms By Ed Caryl Everyone Is Correct – Just At Different Times. Since the time of the patron saint of Climatologists, Svante August Arrhenius, climate researchers have been attempting to pin down climate sensitivity, the amount of warming that various constituents will cause when present in the atmosphere. This is not […]
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By P Gosselin on 16. March 2014
Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt, co-author of best-selling climate science skeptic book Die kalte Sonne (German) and The Neglected Sun (English) writes an opinion piece at the site of the German Employers Association here. His conclusion: Germany’s energy-feed-in act is a failure. What follows are some excerpts: On the costs, Vahrenholt writes: …wind, solar and bioenergy sources […]
Posted in Alternative Energy |
By P Gosselin on 15. March 2014
I’m short on time today, so this post will be a bit brief. Germany’s Energiewende and renewable feed-in act are often touted as huge, jobs-creating success stories. But as the prices for electricity skyrocket into the stratosphere and renewable energy companies bite the dust all over Europe, it’s turning out that the green jobs wonder […]
Posted in Alternative Energy |
By P Gosselin on 15. March 2014
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By P Gosselin on 14. March 2014
The Germany-based European Institute for Climate and Energy EIKE announces that the 7th International Climate and Energy Conference is taking place at the Steigenberger Hotel in Mannheim, April, 10 2014. The event is being held by EIKE. The planned speakers include renowned scientists like Richard Lindzen, Henryk Svensmark and Nir Shaviv. Complete program and info here. […]
Posted in CO2 and GHG, Cooling/Temperature, Models, Oceans, Solar Sciences |
By P Gosselin on 13. March 2014
A miracle may be taking place in Germany! A wave of sanity actually seems to rolling across the land! Yesterday I wrote how ZDF German television had produced a blistering parody of the country’s renewable energy project – dubbed the Energiewende. Well it seems that message may be even getting through to the country’s top […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Climate Politics |
By P Gosselin on 13. March 2014
) Explanation soon follows in my next post. First let’s rejoice!
Posted in Alternative Energy, Climate Politics |
By P Gosselin on 12. March 2014
This is a first and quite possibly a watershed event when it comes to media sentiment towards green energies. It appears it’s no longer taboo in Germany to mock green energy. In the past German public television and mainstream media always kept the wagons circled around the anthropogenic global warming theory and the Energiewende (transition […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Green Follies, Humour, Media / Bias, Scepticism |
By P Gosselin on 11. March 2014
Germany’s leading political daily, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) here reports on the efforts by a gaggle of Senate Democrats to wake up America to the “risks” of climate change, But as FAZ Washington correspondent Patrick Welter reports, the event wound up having the bounce of a dead cat. The FAZ writes: “The political happening was […]
Posted in Climate Politics |
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