Climate Politics
The Economist On Germany’s Energiewende: “Web Of Grotesque Distortions” … “Will Kill German Industry”
The Economist here has an excellent analysis of the German “Energiewende” which is the country’s bold transformation to (80%) renewable energy by 2050. Right now the Economist is not too impressed, and its report should serve as a warning to other countries contemplating a similar move. Hat tip Judith Curry (must read). Some quotes: “Germany’s Energiewende [...]
Maxeiner, Miersch And Magdeburg: Superstitious Spiegel Devolves To The Dark Ages, Blames Floods On “Deniers”
When the Little Ice Age brought widespread crop failures, mass starvation, and disease in populated Europe some centuries ago, the enlightened ones blamed the climate-related misery and misfortune on the black magic of sorcerers and witches – who were promptly tried and burned at the stake. In other cultures, people performed rain-dances, human sacrifices, or other [...]
European Institute For Climate And Energy Calls Claims Of Climate Consensus “Absurd, Baseless And False”
The European Institute for Climate and Energy (EIKE) based in Germany has issued a three-part rebuttal to the German Ministry of Environment’s alarmist pamphlet, which blacklisted skeptical US and German journalists and scientists – including EIKE itself – last month. Scientists and experts at EIKE criticize Germany’s Ministry of Environment (UBA) for targeting dissenting views, calls notion [...]
Mark Levin’s Landmark Foundation Sues EPA: “Breathless Pattern of Obfuscation And Apparent Deception”
Mark Levin’s Landmark Legal Foundation has filed an opposition to the EPA’s motion for summary judgement in the “Greenhouse Gases” case in U.S. Supreme Court. Looks like the EPA has been much less than forthcoming when dealing with Freedom of Information Act requests and is hiding something. Mark Levin goes to the Supreme Court in an [...]
Long List Of Warmist Scientists Say Global Warming Has Stopped…Ed Davey Is Clueless About What’s Going On
“U.K. Energy Secretary Attacks Climate Skeptics Before Bill Vote” is the headline at Bloomberg here. U.K. Energy Secretary Ed Davey will make his strongest attack yet on climate change skeptics he accuses of purveying a what he calls a ‘seductive’ and’dangerous’ message that global warming has stopped.” Sir Clueless Ed Davey insists that global warming [...]
Another Association Of Journalists Demands German Government Retract “Blacklist” Of Skeptical Journalists
Another German association of journalists has publicly demanded the German Federal Environment Agency (UBA) stop the distribution of a government “blacklist” of US and German skeptics. The UBA is headed by the German Ministry of Environment – Germany’s version of the EPA. Today Germany’s association of science, the Wissenschafts-Pressekonferenz e.V. (WPK) issued a press release condemning the [...]
Blacklisted Science Journalists Taking German Environment Ministry To Court For Defamation, Violating Neutrality
Germany’s Süddeutsche Zeitung reports the latest development on the Umweltbundesamt (UBA) scandal. Recently Germany’s version of the Environmental Protection Agency (UBA) published a 120-page brochure that publicly named and branded renowned skeptic US and German journalists and scientists because they “did not conform to the level of climate science knowledge“. Minister of Bullying? Environment Minister Peter Altmaier [...]
Reference List Of Media Reports On UBA-Gate…German Environment Agency Goes After US And American Skeptics
What follows is just a list media reports on the German Umweltbundesamt abusing its power by singling out, naming and defaming climate skeptics in a 122 page pamphlet that was funded by tax payers. It’s for your reference and hopefully it will help German readers. Photo right: German Environment Agency defamatory pamphlet When a large [...]
German Business Magazine: UBA Federal Environment Agency Authors “Made Themselves Religious Warriors”
Just how radical has the environmental movement become in Germany? Well, to give you an idea, Germany’s Umweltbundesamt (Federal Environment Agency), or UBA, which is Germany’s version of the EPA, recently issued a 122-page pamphlet that fiercely defended the alarmists predictions of catastrophic global warming, and used harsh tactics to pillory skeptic US and German journalists and [...]
Vahrenholt Hits Back At German Government’s Pillory Of Skeptics: “Why Did You Falsify My Biography?”
Germany’s version of the EPA, the Umweltbundesamt (UBA) unleashed a wave of outrage with the publication of a 123-page pamphlet dubbed: “And indeed it continues to warm – What’s behind the climate science debate” (background here). The government pamphlet defames and blacklists US and German climate skeptic scientists and journalists. Among those targeted is Professor Dr. [...]
Is German Government Declaring Open Season On Climate Skeptics? Top Minister Defends Defamatory Pamphlet
The outrage over a defamatory pamphlet published by Germany’s version of the EPA, the Umweltbundesamt (UBA), has been spreading. The UBA is headed by Jochen Flasbarth, a former environmental activist with strong ties to Germany’s radical green party. It is a department within the German Ministry of Environment. Merkel’s Environment Minister Peter Altmaier defends [...]
German UBA Federal Environment Office’s “Declaration Of War” On US And German Skeptics Backfires Big Time
Germany’s version of the EPA, the Umweltbundesamt (UBA) and its hapless director Jochen Flasbarth have come under intense fire from much of the major German media for having published a pamphlet (background here) defaming and black-listing US and German climate skeptic scientists and journalists. The number of articles harshly criticising the German UBA’s heavy-handed tactics is [...]
Law Professor Labels German Federal Environment Agency Authoritarian Pamphlet Against Skeptics “State Propaganda”
Last week, the German Federal Umweltbundesamt (UBA), Germany’s version of the EPA, issued a one-sided alarmist pamphlet that attempts to declare the climate debate over and attacks prominent skeptics. Controversial 123-page pamphlet…in it the German Federal Environment Agency (UBA) declares climate debate over and names and portrays skeptics as “spreaders of half-truths and misinformation”. In [...]
Veteran Journalists Slam German UBA Environmental Agency…Suppression Of Dissent “Reminds Of Reichskulturkammer”!
A few days ago NTZ wrote about a recently published brochure released by the Umweltbundesamt (UBA), which is Germany’s version of the EPA. UBA Director Jochen Flasbarth lost control of the agency to radical zealots, now under massive fire. Photo: UBA. The notorious brochure not only included an alarmist summary of climate science today, but [...]
Climate Scientist Hans Von Storch Warns: Climate Scientists Have Been “Taking On The Roles Of Medicine Men And Priests”
What follows is a critical article written by Jens Meyer-Wellmann appearing in German national daily Die Welt that got by me a couple of weeks ago. The title: “Scientists should not play priest…Climate scientist von Storch accuses his colleagues of spreading panic – and sees no major consequences coming from a dredging of the Elbe River“. [...]
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