By P Gosselin on 16. July 2016
German real environmental activist Andreas Kieling here at Facebook has posted a video showing the gruesome and sickening destruction of birdlife by windmills and tells of an alleged premeditated criminal dismantling of rare black stork nests by the “wind power mafia”. The video is in German, but the pictures are of universal language. At the […]
Posted in Alternative Energy |
By P Gosselin on 15. July 2016
Germany’s “Energiewende” (transition to renewable energies) is threatening to cause widespread economic havoc. Not only have almost every major solar manufacturing company in Germany gone bankrupt, leaving economic blight in its wake, now traditional power giants, which hire tens of thousands of skilled workers, are threatened by bankruptcy. Today German flagship daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung […]
Posted in Alternative Energy |
By P Gosselin on 14. July 2016
A brand new paper is out on sea level, and guess what? The findings show that sea level is going nowhere fast and that in the Arctic it is rising only half as fast as the much IPCC ballyhooed satellite altimetry measured 3.3 mm/year and accelerating rise. Authors: Peter Limkilde Svendsen, Ole B. Andersen, Allan […]
Posted in Sea Levels |
By P Gosselin on 14. July 2016
UPDATE: Some Swiss mountain passes “had to be closed” Here in the north German flatlands, my wife this morning commented that it felt like fall this morning. Indeed it was a bit nippy outside. As already forecast here, snow hit the German higher elevations, but with snow falling to as low as 1500 early this […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Weather |
By P Gosselin on 13. July 2016
Hat-tip: Die kalte Sonne A new study by German GFZ research institute finds that extreme climate change also happened in the past before humans began emitting CO2 in to the atmosphere. What follows is the press release (emphasis added). ====================================== Strong fluctuations in lake level reconstructed for Northern Germany The lake level of the Großer […]
Posted in Drought and Deserts, Paleo-climatology |
By P Gosselin on 12. July 2016
Swedish site klimatsans.com posted a chart presented by Rolf Schuster showing Germany’s and much of Europe’s total wind power generation over the first 6 months of this year: Wind power production Germany and Europe. Chart by Rolf Schuster, from klimatsans.com. The first thing one notices is wind power’s extreme supply volatility. In February wind production peaked at […]
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By P Gosselin on 11. July 2016
Some predictions just couldn’t be more wrong. In the year 2000 some scientists claimed that snow and ice in the wintertime would become a thing of the past. Now today’s press release by German meteorologist Dominik Jung at Wetter.net here is forecasting snow in the mid Alps this week – at the peak of summer! […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Weather |
By P Gosselin on 10. July 2016
End-of-world warnings are as old as civilization itself. Of the thousands of charlatans who have prophesized end-of-world scenarios over the past thousands of years, none obviously have come true. So isn’t it only natural that sane people today would be a little, if not very skeptical of new announcements of a coming climate Armegeddon? A few […]
Posted in Activism, Models, Scepticism, Stupid Predictions |
By P Gosselin on 9. July 2016
The sun in May and June 2016 By Frank Bosse and Fritz Vahrenholt (Translated/edited by P Gosselin) Our sun in May was normally active for the cycle. The mean sunspot number (SSN) was 52.1, which was 2/3 of the mean value for month number 90 into the cycle. The mean is calculated from the previously […]
Posted in Solar Sciences |
By P Gosselin on 8. July 2016
By Kenneth Richard Last month, National Geographic and other news organizations ran the disheartening headline “First Mammal Species Goes Extinct Due to Climate Change“1. The small rat, whose only habitat was “a single island off Australia,” hasn’t been spotted since 2009. Bramble cay melomy Melomys rubicola. In 2016 declared extinct on Bramble cay. Photo: State […]
Posted in Activism, Media / Bias |
By P Gosselin on 7. July 2016
You wouldn’t be wrong to suspect EU elitist/establishment types fancy themselves as masterminds of some grand social-green, centrally-planned architecture. The future of EU lawn mowing. Image: Home Depot. Lately they have been fuming from the ears over Great Britain’s audacious vote to ditch the whole Franco-German dominated project. The gall! And ever since the British citizens […]
Posted in Climate Politics |
By P Gosselin on 6. July 2016
The online Munich-based Süddeutsche Zeiting here (SZ) reports that Bavaria’s recently upheld 10 H rule, which requires wind turbines to be set back away from residential homes a distance that is 10 times the turbine’s height, literally spells “the end for wind power” in the south German idyllic state. The SZ writes: At the state council […]
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