By P Gosselin on 19. August 2016
Germany’s largest circulation daily, BILD, recently wrote an article titled: The Multibillion Euro Madness With The Energiewende, which looks at the profound failure of Germany’s transition to renewable energies and the government bowing to the green energy lobby. The BILD article refers to a recent German ARD public television documentary. “Exploding costs” BILD begins by […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 18. August 2016
In examining the Skeptical Science (SkS) blog essay “How Increasing Carbon Dioxide Heats the Ocean“ written by Rob Painting (an “environmentalist, scuba diver, spearfisherman, kayaker and former police officer” who has “researched climate science, in an amateur capacity, for 4 years” according to his website bio), we learn that (A) the Sun heats the surface […]
Posted in CO2 and GHG, Misc., Oceans |
By P Gosselin on 17. August 2016
Ocean cycles instead of aerosols: Met Office hypothesis on North Atlantic refuted for good By Dr. Sebastian Lüning and Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt (German text translated/edited by P Gosselin) In April 2012 the German online news daily WAZ reported with vigor: Climate: air pollution leads to droughts and cyclones Air pollution enhances droughts in Africa and cyclones […]
Posted in Drought and Deserts, Hurricanes/Tornados |
By P Gosselin on 16. August 2016
German skeptic site wobleibtdieerderwaermung.de writes here on the upcoming Europe fall/winter and the unfavorable solar situation. What follows are some excerpts. ==================================== Cold North Atlantic – weak sun: Icy 100-year winter 2016/17 like 1962/63? In the first months of 2016, the North Atlantic has been significantly colder that the comparable El Niño year of 1998, and […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Oceans, Solar Sciences, Weather |
By Kenneth Richard on 15. August 2016
The conceptualization of “global warming” has become so entrenched in the lexicon that few give much thought to its dubious derivation. Many assume that “global warming” actually means that all or nearly all of the globe is warming as a consequence of the “well-mixed” greenhouse gases in the atmosphere (i.e., CO2 concentrations have indeed reached […]
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By P Gosselin on 14. August 2016
German public television ARD here has a report on how one of Germany’s leading environmentalists has been getting death threats because of his opposition to the destruction of forests by wind parks. Enoch zu Guttenberg. Photo cropped from here. According to the ARD, Enoch zu Guttenberg claimed: I am getting even threats to life and […]
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By P Gosselin on 13. August 2016
Yesterday I reported on the cold blast of polar air that had just frosted parts of Central Europe, surprising many Europeans as they stepped out of their homes early Thursday morning. Apprarently it got so cold that it even snowed down to 2000 meters (as predicted already last week). Wednesday wetteronline.de here presented a series […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Weather |
By P Gosselin on 12. August 2016
A blast of polar air swept across central Europe from Wednesday through Thursday, sending temperatures tumbling to record low levels for mid August in parts of Germany. Photo: wetter.net (for illustration only) Yesterday many locations saw new all-time mid August records set for the lowest “high” recorded, with many places failing to reach 15°C. Meteorologists called […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Weather |
By Kenneth Richard on 11. August 2016
While news journalists and internet bloggers are busy headlining scary stories invoking the presumed causal link between anthropogenic CO2 emissions and floods and droughts and global warming, robust scientific evidence of naturally-forced climate change has continued to rapidly accumulate. There is a claimed scientific “consensus” that climate changes in recent decades are only weakly influenced […]
Posted in Oceans, Solar |
By P Gosselin on 10. August 2016
Rising conservative media star Breitbart here writes that “A Donald Trump presidency would be way more beneficial to the environment than a Hillary Clinton presidency“. This could come as a bit of a surprise for some when you consider the turbo-level of economic growth and prosperity a Trump program would almost certainly usher in. Yet, contrary […]
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By P Gosselin on 9. August 2016
The sun in July 2016, and the AMO By Frank Bosse and Fritz Vahrenholt (Translated/edited by P Gosselin) Our sole relevant source of energy at the center of our solar system was quieter than normal in July for our current solar cycle (SC) 24. The entire cycle so far has only been 56% as active […]
Posted in Oceans, Solar Sciences |
By P Gosselin on 8. August 2016
by Kenneth Richard Bats are known to be some of the world’s savviest aerial acrobats. Using their mysterious sonar system and shape-shifting wings, bats adeptly swerve and swoop and dive in flight to avoid collisions with both stable and moving objects. And yet bats stand no chance against a 200-meter high wind turbine with blades […]
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