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By P Gosselin on 20. February 2015
I’ve always found the discussion over consensus in science extremely annoying. History is clear: When it comes to science progress, consensus has ended up being the loser every single time. ======================= The ninety seven percent problem: which consensus? By Uli Weber (Translated/edited by P Gosselin) We constantly hear and read about the claim that 97 percent […]
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By P Gosselin on 12. February 2015
According to University of California pediatric endocrinologist Robert Lustig, the US had 6 million “seriously overweight” kids in 2001. Since then that number has skyrocketed to over 20 million. Worldwide there are 366 million people with diabetes. By 2030, if trends are not curbed, 165 million Americans will be obese and by 2050 100 million […]
Posted in Abnormal Climate Psych, Climate Politics, Hockey Team, IPCC, Scepticism |
By P Gosselin on 11. February 2015
German climate science critical group Klimakontroverse.de is holding its next meeting at the Freizeitheim Linden in Hannover, Germany, 19 February, at 7:30 pm. The group regularly has meetings on climate and is known for taking the discussions directly to the public, but doing so with respect, courtesy and politeness. It writes: The main topic of the […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Scepticism |
By P Gosselin on 1. February 2015
Many readers and myself have become quite dismayed by the Vatican’s new position on the junk climate science-based, anti-humanity movement against fossil fuels. Interestingly today I read a report in the Catholic Herald here where it is clearly miffed by how Britain’s UKIP party “now commands the support of an estimated one in six Catholics” and is […]
Posted in Abnormal Climate Psych, Activism, Greenpeace, Scepticism |
By P Gosselin on 31. January 2015
Spiegel science journalist Axel Bojanowski has an online interview with the Chairman of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, Bishop Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo: The Church believes in science“. Anyone with doubts the Vatican would abandon a neutral position on the science of climate change can now lay them to rest. Under Pope Francis the Vatican has […]
Posted in Activism, Climate Politics, Scepticism, We're To Blame |
By P Gosselin on 30. January 2015
Good article at Quadrant magazine here on the background behind the many failed predictions of disaster in climate science and the strange characters behind them. Hat tip: reader Stefan. ======================== Warmists Take the Hardest Hits Anyone can be a prophet of doom…. Why can’t the global-warming catastrophe industry convince the public that the scare underwriting […]
Posted in Scepticism, Stupid Predictions |
By P Gosselin on 28. January 2015
He looks more like a guru, even a prophet. In Switzerland 73 year old Swiss Alps mountain guide Werner Munter is known as the “avalanche pope”. No one knows more about avalanches in the Alps and their risks than he does. Werner Munter: Image credit: www.berge-im-kopf.ch. Having authored some 20 books, he is credited for having […]
Posted in Hockey Team, Scepticism, We're To Blame |
By P Gosselin on 23. January 2015
Geologist Dr. Sebastian Lüning believes it’s high time for the skeptic side to respond more forcefully to the often hyper-exaggerated claims launched by the government funded global warming alarmists and is calling for the founding of an independent Germany-based climate research initiative. Dr Lüning co-authored together with professor Fritz Vahrenholt the leading skeptic book, Die kalte […]
Posted in CO2 and GHG, Cooling/Temperature, Models, Scepticism |
By P Gosselin on 20. January 2015
A few days ago the German ZDF national television late evening news presented a profile of the 2014 Starmus Festival in Tenerife, which featured distinguished Nobel prize scientists and astronauts (last September). Hat-tip Wolfgang Neumann at facebook.com. Example of those in attendance were Harold Kroto, Steven Hawkins, and astronauts Charlie Duke, Walter, Alexey Leonov, and […]
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By P Gosselin on 18. January 2015
German skeptic site Die kalte Sonne here directs our attention to an article on Germany’s record warm 2014 year in German national daily, Die Welt. The Die Welt article quotes German commercial meteorologist Dominik Jung of wetter.net, who is often quoted in the German print media. Here’s the Die kalte Sonne post in English! ============================= […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Models, Scepticism |
By P Gosselin on 16. January 2015
When a science finds itself having to resort to using professional marketing campaigns to get the public to buy it, then you can be reasonably sure something is awfully wrong. Geologist Dr. Sebastian Lüning responds to and mocks the Potsdam Institute’s report released together with the World Bank. =================================== Learning from the PIK means learning […]
Posted in Activism, Hockey Team, Scepticism |
By P Gosselin on 12. January 2015
I was notified by reader Ken of an interview conducted by German daily Augsburger Zeitung (AZ), appearing in the hard copy edition. Now posted here in German. 44-year veteran meteorologist Klaus Hager. Photo credit: University of Augsburg Interviewed was meteorologist Klaus Hager. He was active in meteorology for 44 years and now has been a lecturer at […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Scepticism |
By P Gosselin on 6. January 2015
At EIKE distinguished German physicist and climate expert Prof. Dr. Horst-Joachim Lüdecke writes how we are witnessing a notable paradigm shift in climate research today: the resurrection of medieval scholasticism. In plain language: the science of the Dark Ages. German climate physicist Prof. Dr. Horst-Joachim Lüdecke says today’s climate science paradigm has shifted to a “medieval scholasticism” […]
Posted in Hockey Team, Models, Paleo-climatology, Scepticism |
By P Gosselin on 4. January 2015
I’m Catholic and this Sunday I’m announcing that I’m disassociating myself from the Vatican and its pope. I urge other skeptic Catholics to consider doing the same. This is not a step I’ve taken lightly. I’ll be opting out of Germany’s Kirchensteuer (Church Tax) and will not attend any services in the future. With their latest planned […]
Posted in Activism, Scepticism |
By P Gosselin on 2. January 2015
A reader posted a comment, which I’ve upgraded to a post (with some editing). ================================ Why there is global warming by Harold Faulkner People in the USA are being told by the U.S. government and media that global warming is man-made. If that is true, how can the government and media explain the high temperatures […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Paleo-climatology, Scepticism, Solar |
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