By P Gosselin on 4. February 2017
I was a bit hesitant to write about this because it could lead to trouble for the person with the courage to speak up. After all, we’d hate to see riots, violence and rabid fits of shouting. But the good fight must be fought, and we must never be forced into silence – even when […]
Posted in Activism, Climate Politics, Scepticism |
By P Gosselin on 27. January 2017
Only 5% of demand covered The Swiss online Baseler Zeitung here writes how the country’s Association for Pharmaceutical, Chemical and Biotech Companies is coming out against Switzerland’s recently proposed green “energy strategy”, saying that it is “fundamentally going in the wrong direction“. The association fears it will lead to higher costs. Energy politician Christian Wasserfallen “is […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Climate Politics |
By P Gosselin on 21. January 2017
NOTE: I was in Berlin the whole weekend and just got back. A bit tired, and so no new post today. ======================================== The skeptic European Institute for Climate and Energy (EIKE) here brings our attention to a documentary on electric cars by German flagship ARD public television broadcast recently The news on the electric car […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 16. January 2017
Note: Due to the very positive feedback of this post, I’ve decided to leave it up at the top spot for another day. -PG ============================================== In 1981, James Hansen was the Director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. He was also the lead author of a seminal paper published in the prestigious journal Science entitled […]
Posted in Climate Politics, Cooling/Temperature, Hockey Team, Paleo-climatology, Solar |
By Kenneth Richard on 9. January 2017
Source: http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/rss/from:2015.4/to:2017.1/plot/rss/from:2015.4/to:2017.1/trend “Climate models are unable to predict extreme events because they lack spatial and temporal resolution. In addition, there is no clear evidence that sustained or worldwide changes in extreme events have occurred in the past few decades.” —- IPCC AR4 (2007) Section 8.3.9.3 Page 232 According to no less of an authority than […]
Posted in Activism, Climate Politics, IPCC, Media / Bias, We're To Blame |
By P Gosselin on 17. December 2016
The online Germany-based International Business Forum for Regenerative Energies (IWR) here writes that the country will fail to reach its 2020 climate targets, despite tens of billions of euros invested in green energies such as wind and solar, and all its incessant green pontification. An expert commission appointed by the government recently released its 5th […]
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By P Gosselin on 13. December 2016
Some kudos to Die Welt for publishing the opinion piece by one of the rare remaining fighters for liberty in Germany, Henryk Broder. Leading German politician Volker Kauder (photo) of the CDU party aims “to ban lies from the Internet” thus suggesting the establishment of a Ministry of Truth. Image cropped from volker-kauder.de/index.html, CDU. With […]
Posted in Climate Politics |
By P Gosselin on 4. December 2016
Physicist Dr. Peter Heller wrote at the German language Science Skeptical here how the election of Donald Trump could mean “the return to reason in climate policy” and that there may be a course change: “one away from trying to do what’s good for the climate, to one that does what is good for man.” […]
Posted in Activism, Climate Politics |
By P Gosselin on 3. December 2016
Emissions trading was set up to entice fossil fuel intense companies to reduce their CO2 emissions, and thus in this way help bring atmospheric CO2 concentrations to a standstill, and thus rescue the climate, according to the man-made global warming theory. New report by Carbon Market Watch shows large corporations raking in billions in CO2 […]
Posted in Climate Politics, CO2 and GHG, Green Follies, Pollution |
By P Gosselin on 2. December 2016
We often hear claims from the media of how president-elect Donald Trump unfairly got help from Vladimir Putin and the Russians to win the election, and that it’s outrageous a foreign government would meddle with and influence the US political process. (Never mind these allegations continue to be based on practically nothing.) Germany’s Federal Ministry […]
Posted in Climate Politics |
By P Gosselin on 27. November 2016
German Klagermauer TV here shows a recent presentation made by veteran climatologist Prof. Dr. Werner Kirstein, in the lead up to the Marrakesh climate conference. Prof. Dr. Werner Kirstein calls climate protection a form of populism where governments hope to garner praise for their climate protection efforts. Image cropped from Klagemauer TV. Kirstein has become […]
Posted in Climate Politics, Media / Bias, Scepticism |
By P Gosselin on 13. November 2016
Some days ago we wrote about how Germany was headed to Marrakesh without any plan on how it would meet its “climate targets”. This of course promised to be a huge embarassment for a country that liked to massively boast about being a leader in fighting climate change. Merkel’s government and leading ministers had to […]
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