By P Gosselin on 9. November 2018
CNN and the Guardian just reported on a new study suggesting meat is bad for human health (even though humans and their ancestors have been eating and thriving on it for some 3 million years). The authors also suggest that the healthy alternative is the vegan diet! Meat tax “could save 220,000 lives per year”? The […]
Posted in Agriculture, Nutrition |
By Kenneth Richard on 4. January 2018
‘Consensus’ Science Takes A Hit In 2017 During 2017, 485 scientific papers have been published that cast doubt on the position that anthropogenic CO2 emissions function as the climate’s fundamental control knob…or that otherwise question the efficacy of climate models or the related “consensus” positions commonly endorsed by policymakers and mainstream media. These 485 new […]
Posted in Agriculture, Alternative Energy, Antarctic, Arctic, Climate Sensitivity, CO2 and GHG, Cooling/Temperature, Drought and Deserts, Glaciers, Hurricanes/Tornados, Models, Natural Oceanic Oscillations, Natural Variability, Paleo-climatology, Sea Ice, Sea Levels, Solar Sciences, Tectonics/Volcanoes, Temperature Bias/Urbanization, Warming/CO2 Benefiting Earth |
By Kenneth Richard on 21. December 2017
Post-1940s ‘Agricultural Intensification’ Caused Deep Cooling, 400% Crop Growth In a new paper published in Geophysical Research Letters, three MIT scientists assert that the human influence on the climate of the Central United States is dominated by agricultural activity rather than greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Human activity has caused a significant long-term cooling trend (-0.35°C between […]
Posted in Agriculture, Cooling/Temperature, Emissions, Models |
By P Gosselin on 7. October 2017
German public radio DLF here reports an astonishing finding by scientists: Global wind speeds globally are slowing down! A number of European scientist groups and a European science magazine of the EU Commission just reported on this. Global wind speeds are slowing down, European researchers believe. Image: anemometer, NOAA public domain photo. According to the […]
Posted in Agriculture, Drought and Deserts, Hurricanes/Tornados, Natural Variability |
By P Gosselin on 2. August 2017
“EU regulation madness” knows no limits What follows is a story that really reminds us why Britain opted out of the EU: British citizen (except for some Scots) don’t want every single bloody detail of their private lives regulated by a nanny super-state. They have had it! EU bureaucrats think the Europeans are first-graders, and […]
Posted in Agriculture |
By P Gosselin on 11. July 2017
Urban farming seems to be one of the latest trends among activists obsessed with environmental-footprints, and is being billed by some as the solution for all the world’s ills. In the following video urban farmer Curtis Stone is just the latest example of how people can get intoxicated by a dogma, become blind to their […]
Posted in Activism, Agriculture |
By P Gosselin on 2. April 2017
Winter in the US refuses to yield as snow falls in the Rockies and in New England. More is on the way. April Fools on global warming. Snow blankets parts of New England on April 1st. Photo: Reader Snowman. And according to veteran meteorologist Joe Bastardi at Weatherbell, more surges of cold and snow are […]
Posted in Agriculture, Cooling/Temperature, Drought and Deserts, Hurricanes/Tornados, Natural Oceanic Oscillations |
By P Gosselin on 7. March 2017
Reader David Reich left a comment in response to Kenneth Richard’s post on grape harvests and climate. I’ve decided to upgrade it as a post below. Both stories show that today’s climate is well within the range of our climate’s natural variability over the past 100 and 1000 years, and that today’s weather events aren’t […]
Posted in Activism, Agriculture, Media / Bias |
By P Gosselin on 22. February 2017
News site t-online.de here writes that visitors to the German Ministry of Environment will be served only vegetarian food, according to German daily Bild. The order comes from the Environment Minister Barbara Hendricks (Socialist Party) herself. According to reports, food service companies that cater events held at the Ministry are not to provide fish or […]
Posted in Activism, Agriculture, Climate Politics |
By P Gosselin on 27. July 2016
Puzzling drought history of Spain during the past 300 years By Dr. Sebastian Lüning, Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt (German passages translated by P. Gosselin) [NOTE: Comment moderation will be slow over the next couple of days due to limited WIFI access. -PG] Gradually word is getting out that the current climate trend has to be put in […]
Posted in Agriculture, Drought and Deserts, Misc. |
By P Gosselin on 27. February 2016
Over the past couple of days an “explosive scandal” has erupted in Germany. Apparently traces of Monsanto pesticide product Glyphosate has been detected in 14 of Germany’s top beer brands, read background here. OMG! Greens warn of a “health danger”: Those 50,000,000 micrograms of alcohol in 1 liter of beer might contain a whole 29 […]
Posted in Abnormal Climate Psych, Activism, Agriculture |
By P Gosselin on 11. March 2015
The Kelley et al study is increasingly looking like a politically bought panic paper, designed to send out a certain message and mislead the public. What is especially tragic about the whole nonsense is that the paper only serves to shift the focus away from the real causes behind the worsening tragedy in the Syrian […]
Posted in Agriculture, Drought and Deserts |
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