By P Gosselin on 31. July 2014
Online engineering news magazine Ingenieur.de here writes how Germany’s largest offshore wind park, Bard 1, hasn’t delivered any power since March due to “baffling faults” in the power transmission system. Germany’s largest offshore wind park hasn’t delivered any power since March…due to baffling technical problems. Photo: Bard The sub-heading states: Baffling faults in the transmission systems […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Green Follies |
By P Gosselin on 30. July 2014
Meteorologist Dominik Jung is sort of Germany’s (younger) version of America’s Joe Bastardi. Like Joe, he also runs his own private weather forecasting company and site, wetter.net, which serve agriculture, industry and the public. Photo: Twitter And as any serious meteorologist knows, success depends almost entirely on product quality, i.e. forecast accuracy. There’s absolutely no room for politicized […]
Posted in IPCC, Stupid Predictions, Weather |
By P Gosselin on 29. July 2014
Here’s the weather craziness of the week story. Officials of the German town of Reutlingen have voted to allocate 50,000 euros in a bid to tame the bad weather that typically occurs during thunderstorms. The plan is to hire an airplane to spray silver iodide into storm clouds with the hopes of reducing the size […]
Posted in Abnormal Climate Psych, Green Follies |
By P Gosselin on 28. July 2014
Never has such a lousy product been given so many free passes: wind turbines. Yes, they are lousy products – sorry! In a free market, where poorly performing products get knocked out rapidly, wind turbines still can’t hold a candle to regular power plants. They only survive because of subsidies, and exorbitantly rosy promises. Burning […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Green Follies |
By P Gosselin on 28. July 2014
Geomar scientist dares to go public, criticizes publication censorship: criticism of IPCC models unwanted! By Sebastian Lüning and Fritz Vahrenholt (Translated/edited by P Gosselin) Vladimir Semenov is a scientist at the Geomar Institute in Kiel, Germany. In 2009, together with colleague Mojib Latif and other colleagues, he submitted a manuscript to the Journal of Climate in […]
Posted in Activism, CO2 and GHG, Hockey Team, IPCC, Models, Oceans, Scepticism |
By P Gosselin on 27. July 2014
The days of an open welcome to “environmentally-friendly” wind parks in Germany are over. When the turbines were small-scale and novel, people were generally open to them. But now that they have reached skyscraper dimensions, have proven to be unsightly, and have demonstrated poor performance, they are not welcome anymore. German developers plan to install […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Green Follies |
By P Gosselin on 26. July 2014
By Ed Caryl During the last three years, since 2011, the ice around Antarctica has been growing, in most seasons, more than during any similar periods of the satellite era where we have that data. At first, the climate catastrophists ignored this phenomenon. When that became embarrassingly inconvenient, they began to blame it on instrument […]
Posted in Antarctic |
By P Gosselin on 25. July 2014
It seems that it is beginning to dawn on some of Europe’s mainstream media: The transition to green energies is turning out to be ten or even 100 times more expensive than what they were led to believe just a few years ago. Increasingly we have been seeing reports featuring renowned climate economists such as […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Climate Politics, Media / Bias, Scepticism |
By P Gosselin on 24. July 2014
By Ed Caryl Several researchers have noted that the 11-year solar cycle does not show up in temperature or precipitation data. Most recently, Dr. David Evans has introduced his “notch filter” answer to the problem. I think the answer is much simpler. The solar influence on earth has several components. The Total Solar Insolation (TSI), […]
Posted in Misc., Solar Sciences |
By P Gosselin on 24. July 2014
Just a couple of anecdotes today to illustrate how wacky the climate-change religion is getting. First is a short blurb appearing at the online Linux Magazine bearing the title: “Mobile phones are climate killers“. This is for real. Using your mobile phone and sending text messages apparently is contributing to bad weather and the death of […]
Posted in Abnormal Climate Psych, Activism, We're To Blame |
By P Gosselin on 23. July 2014
Online German DW public radio brings us a report on the latest developments concerning the Prokon Holding GmbH & Co. Verwaltungs-KG wind-park investment debacle. Image: Prokon The Itzehoe, Germany based Prokon was founded in 1995 and specialized in the planning, financing and construction of onshore wind-parks in Germany, Poland and Finland. Prokon’s business model had […]
Posted in Alternative Energy |
By P Gosselin on 23. July 2014
Private commercial meteorologist are always under pressure to produce reasonably accurate forecasts for their clients and to stick to the best available science. If their models and work consistently produce false results, then it is not long before they find themselves looking for a new line of work. There’s no room for politics in their […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Drought and Deserts, Hurricanes/Tornados, IPCC, Models, Weather |
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