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By Kenneth Richard on 13. September 2016
Beginning in 2003, software engineer William Connolley quietly removed the highly inconvenient references to the global cooling scare of the 1970s from Wikipedia, the world’s most influential and accessed informational source. It had to be done. Too many skeptics were (correctly) pointing out that the scientific “consensus” during the 1960s and 1970s was that the […]
Posted in Climate Politics, Cooling/Temperature, Hockey Team, Media / Bias |
By P Gosselin on 3. September 2016
The mean temperature for Germany in August, 2016, was 17.7°C, which turns out to be 0.2°K colder than the figure reported in the overheated August 30, 2016 press release issued by the German DWD national weather service. The August result makes the month 0.7°C warmer than the 1981-2010 mean. Nothing extraordinary. However, the DWD has had a habit […]
Posted in Activism, Cooling/Temperature, Media / Bias |
By P Gosselin on 26. August 2016
As is the case in many countries, major media outlets are increasingly accused of having abandoned real investigative journalism, and rather have taken on the role of unquestioning propaganda mouthpiece for the state or a single political line. The following is an example in Germany. ============================= German public television TV host/science journalist Harald Lesch (astrophysicist) […]
Posted in Media / Bias, Scepticism |
By P Gosselin on 29. July 2016
I’m short on time today, as will be the case tomorrow as well, and so here’s something way off topic – from last week. Recall I recently wrote about the glaring hypocrisy and deceitfulness of an all-white German media here. It appears that the heydays of the media are almost over. Their credibility has been […]
Posted in Media / Bias |
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 9. June 2016
Parts of Germany have been hit hard by unusually harsh downpours, flooding and thunderstorms over the recent days, prompting some alarmist scientists to barge into TV and radio studios to announce it’s due to human-made climate worsening. Now Spiegel science journlalist Axel Bojanowski comments on this behavior in a commentary titled: “Heavy rains in Germany: […]
Posted in Hurricanes/Tornados, Media / Bias, Models |
By P Gosselin on 18. May 2016
Some alarmists are claiming that the devastating forest fires of Alberta (see NASA photo below) are the result of climate change, for example by the New York Times or the BBC. Credits: NASA Earth Observatory image by Joshua Stevens, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey “A ritual” Spiegel science journalist Axel Bojanowski here […]
Posted in Drought and Deserts, Media / Bias |
By P Gosselin on 16. May 2016
In Germany we keep hearing from some that spring in Central Europe is arriving earlier and earlier – due to climate warming. Unfortunately the data do not support the claim at all, it turns out. Data over the past 25 years in fact show that spring has been arriving later, and not earlier. Photo by: […]
Posted in Activism, Cooling/Temperature, Media / Bias |
By P Gosselin on 23. March 2016
Geologist and climate science site “Die kalte Sonne” operator Dr. Sebastian Lüning has written an e-mail to Deutsche Welle (DW) German public radio in response to their claims of “glaciers melting faster than ever before” made in a recent broadcast. Mont Blanc Massif, Photo by Gnomefililiere, CC BY-SA 3.0 Just days ago Kenneth Richard posted on the subject […]
Posted in Glaciers, Media / Bias |
By P Gosselin on 4. January 2016
Last week the media, led by the Washington Post, screamed and hollered the North Pole was in meltdown as temperatures there rose some “5 degrees above normal”. In Europe some media outlets did not even bother converting the 50° Fahrenheit figure to (the less impressive sounding) 32°C. It is true that the temperature right at the North […]
Posted in Arctic, Media / Bias |
By P Gosselin on 24. November 2015
Yesterday Munich-based national online daily Süddeutsche Zeitung (SDZ) here published a report on the heavy (unfair) attacks by skeptics on climate scientists, who see themselves as innocent victims.Tthe attacks, the SDZ writes, are stemming from “lobby groups of the oil and coal industry and by private people who have networked themselves together.” Unfortunately, but not surprisingly, the […]
Posted in Media / Bias, Scepticism |
By P Gosselin on 9. September 2015
Spiegel science journalist Axel Bojanowski here writes a harsh but well-deserved analysis of the heated debate now raging in climate science. One thing that we can gather from his analysis is that consensus is totally absent, and that it is very difficult to trust any report on climate science nowadays. He writes in the sub-headline: Reports […]
Posted in Activism, Media / Bias, Scepticism |
By P Gosselin on 17. July 2015
O/T I’ve been waiting patiently for the German media to react to the explosive undercover video of a Planned Parenthood (PP) director, Deborah Nucatola, rolled by the Center for Medical Progress. Warning – not easy to watch for people who even have just an inkling of compassion or any sense of humanity: Sadly all this evil […]
Posted in Media / Bias, Misc. |
By P Gosselin on 5. July 2015
Two small stories today. The first is the “heat wave” that has gripped Europe over the past few days. Europe saw weather patterns that were optimum for producing record heat in Germany and other countries. In Germany although a number of cities set new all-time highs, the country’s record high of 40.2°C set during the […]
Posted in Drought and Deserts, Media / Bias, Weather |
By P Gosselin on 15. April 2015
Hamburg-Based Max-Planck-Institute for Meteorology: Aerosols Cool Less Than Previously Thought By Sebastian Lüning, Fritz Vahrenholt [Translated, edited by P Gosselin] In our book “The Neglected Sun” we wondered a lot about the cooling effect of aerosols that was assigned in the climate models. Aerosols are tiny dust particles and droplets that act to diffuse sunlight and […]
Posted in CO2 and GHG, Media / Bias |
By P Gosselin on 31. March 2015
Some weeks ago the print edition of Der Spiegel presented the latest in its decade’s long series of climate scares, read background here and here. Last month leading German climate science critic Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt sent a deservedly harsh letter to Spiegel, blasting the news weekly’s poor journalistic quality. That letter has now been published at his […]
Posted in Media / Bias |
By P Gosselin on 23. March 2015
German public television seems to have gotten extremely sloppy and misleading lately. Gone are the days of critical reporting and fact-checking, it seems. Not long ago flagship ARD television, using tricky wording, sadly misled viewers into thinking that the more than 15,000 deaths caused by the Japan tsunami of 2011 were caused by the Fukushima nuclear reactor […]
Posted in Media / Bias, Sea Levels |
By P Gosselin on 4. March 2015
Some days ago I wrote about how German news weekly Der Spiegel had resorted once again to catastrophe-hopping when it recently rolled out its print edition whose front cover featured a burning planet caused by human climate change. Skeptics in Europe reacted harshly, but at the same time dismiss the doomsday piece as a desperate sensationalism stunt […]
Posted in Activism, Climate Politics, Media / Bias |
By P Gosselin on 28. February 2015
Not only last winter was a brutal one for the USA, which saw the Great Lakes freeze over, this year is also turning out to be an epic one as record cold temperatures continue their unrelenting grip across the nation and massive snowfalls bury large regions across the east. The UPI’s Fred Lambert recently wrote the […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Glaciers, Hockey Team, Media / Bias, Weather |
By P Gosselin on 26. February 2015
This week’s hard copy of Spiegel features the front cover story dubbed “Der verheizte Planet” – The heated planet – (see right image below). Thus, Spiegel is returning and keeping to its long tradition of promoting end-of world scenarios. The following image sequence shows how the burning planet is just the latest and newest climate catastrophe […]
Posted in Activism, Media / Bias |
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