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VW E-Car Sales Plummet…Socialists/Greens Insist The Way Forward Is More E-Mobility!

By on 8. September 2024

VW teeters on disaster. Germany’s socialists, greens propose solving the problem that they themselves have caused. 

AI generated image. 

By Klimanachrichten here.
(Translated/edited by P. Gosselin)

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The bad news about Volkswagen never ends, but neither do the clever tips from politicians. The strangest things come to light. Lower Saxony’s Economics Minister, of the SPD socialists, Mr. Olaf Lies, (the state has a 12% stake in VW) had no idea about the events and problems at the manufacturer until the press release.

He was not on the supervisory board. The state’s Minister of Economic Affairs once sat on the board, but he was replaced by a Green Minister of Culture. Not for reasons of competence, but rather because she is a member of the Green Party and Lower Saxony Vice Prime Minister. Do they talk to each other? Hard to say.

So Mr. Lies was caught unprepared and also stated in the media that energy prices in Germany were causing Volkswagen problems. It’s hard to imagine what would have happened if the country had allowed the two nuclear power plants there to continue operating, though this is a federal decision. It is also somewhat crazy that energy prices are rising due to the green energies transition and grid restructuring. A self-fulfilling prophecy, except for Mr. Lies, who proposes solving the problem with new subsidies.

So the consumer is failing, and is buying too few electric cars, for whatever reason. The slump in registration figures is not only affecting Volkswagen, but are also falling for combustion cars, which says a lot about the economic situation in Germany. According to the Federal Motor Transport Authority, the number of registrations fell by 28% compared to the same month last year. The number of e-car registrations even fell by almost 70%. Yet Volkswagen has been told quite clearly that there is only one way forward and that is e-mobility.

Surprisingly, the plants that still produce combustion cars are doing very well.

We are increasingly reading that the current Federal Minister of Economics, Robert Habeck (Greens Party), stated back in 2019 that VW would only survive if it produced an e-car model for under 20,000 euros. The biggest proportionate cost factor for an e-car is likely to be the car’s battery. In a small car, it has a greater impact on the price than in a mid-range car. The battery can account for between 30-40% of a vehicle’s price. If even a small car like a Fiat 500 in the e-version is 30% more expensive than the combustion version, then the dilemma becomes clear. Battery prices will only fall with mass production and manufacturers are still a long way from achieving this. So it’s the chicken and egg problem. The manufacturer Volvo, which has Chinese owners, has put aside its plans for 100% electric by 2030, according to T-Online.

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Mysteries Surrounding The 2024 Atlantic Hurricane Season. CO2 Definitely Not The Driving Factor

By on 6. September 2024

A report from Germany by  Editors

“Science is still far from reaching the end of its knowledge”

Symbol image. Source: NASA

According to the NOAA US weather agency, the hurricane season lasts from June 1 to November 30 of each year. During this time, the conditions needed for extreme areas of pressure to build up prevail. First and foremost, the water temperature of the Atlantic is decisive, but so is wind shear.

Storms were actually predicted for this year too. However, there have been almost no storms so far.

At X, US meteorologist Ryan Maue ponders the possible reasons and asks colleagues to think about why the models have failed so far this year. Some storms moved far from land to the north, where they weakened and only affected parts of the east coast of the US or Canada. At some point, they arrived in Europe as an area of low pressure.

Sahara dust

Maue suspects various reasons: The eruption of the Hunga Tonga volcano or a lot of Saharan dust over the Atlantic. Maue notes that the absence of hurricanes does not completely contradict the conventional theories on climate change. Fewer storms are expected, but possibly more severe ones. They have so far failed to materialize, which is a blessing for the people who may be affected. The Sahara itself is also currently experiencing a very rare weather phenomenon. It is raining heavily for the conditions there. Meteonews.ch:

The reason for this precipitation pattern can be found in the so-called Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ). An area around the equator where the trade winds from the northern hemisphere and the southern hemisphere meet. The winds are weak here, but the humidity is very high. This zone is known for its heavy rainfall and thunderstorms, which occur when the warm, moist air rises, cools and then falls back to earth as rain. The ITCZ is a kind of low-pressure trough that stretches around the globe and follows the zenith of the sun with a delay of around 3 to 4 weeks. Depending on the ratio of land and water masses, the ITCZ is deflected regionally more to the north or south. As land masses have a significantly lower heat storage capacity compared to water masses, the land warms up faster than the sea and the ITCZ meanders more strongly here.”

On the hurricanes that have failed to materialize, the site writes:

Normally, wave-like weather systems (so-called African Easterly Waves, AEW) develop at this time of year, which move from east to west and typically move from the Guinea Highlands across the equatorial Atlantic and act to spawn hurricanes. Currently, this process is somewhat suppressed, which is currently reducing tropical activity in the Atlantic. At the beginning of the hurricane season, a much more active season had been forecast for this year due to the high water temperatures and the transition to La Niña conditions.”

Both events are good evidence that science is still far from reaching the end of its knowledge in this area and that research remains important.





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New Study Finds CO2 Is Merely A Climate ‘Spectator’, A Non-Factor In Explaining Paleoclimate Changes

By on 5. September 2024

“…sea surface temperature has been the primary determinant of baseline atmospheric P(CO2) across the entire Cenozoic” – Frank, 2024

A new study analyzes paleo atmospheric CO2 levels using the modern-day observation that oceans release more CO2 as they warm and less CO2 as they cool – a reference to Henry’s Law.

“…ambient CO2 is released or dissolved only after a positive or negative change in global mean ocean temperature.”

Application of Henry’s Law allows for the calculated interpretation that the reconstructed 100s of ppm (±200-800 ppm) CO2 variations over the last 66 million years (the Cenozoic), as well as throughout the last 420,000 years of ice core records, are driven or “primarily determined” by sea surface temperature (SST).

“Temperature-driven re-equilibration of carbon dioxide across the sea surface can explain the rise and fall of atmospheric P(CO2) throughout the 420 kYr glacial record of the VOSTOK ice core. The correspondence implies a glacial-interglacial global mean SST range of 11°C (280-291 K)…”

The study introduces undersea tectonics variability as a explanatory mechanism for warm and cool periods. High magma activity periods warmed the oceans, and the additional warmth led to elevated (>1000 ppm) atmospheric CO2 levels (net outgassing) as a consequence. During less active magmatic activity periods, the oceans cooled, and this cooling drove the drawdown in atmospheric CO2.

A Henry’s Law SST-induced CO2 concentration record implies glacial-interglacial global mean sea surface temperature amplitudes reached 11°C (280 to 291 K) over the last 420,000 years. 291 K is a few degrees warmer than the modern temperature calculation (288 K).

“…the general decline in SST across the Cenozoic may reflect a relative quiescence of submarine magmatism and thus of magmatic heating, rather than being caused by a secular decline in the radiative forcing of atmospheric CO2.”

“…the most parsimonious interpretation of the Cenozoic record is that ocean temperature rose with large-scale magmatic activity and fell in its absence. P(CO2) followed. In this light, atmospheric CO2 has been a molecular spectator of the changing climate.”

The presence of a geothermal mechanism explaining warm vs. cold SST periods precludes the need for orbital factors, such as the Milankovitch cycles, to drive glaciations and deglaciations.

“Milankovitch orbital forcing must have been present during the late Cretaceous and throughout the Cenozoic, but did not produce glaciations.”

CO2 radiative forcing is also not considered an explanatory factor in global climate changes over the last 66 million years.

“The notion of exogenous CO2 forcing adds no additional explanatory value.”

“A generalizing conclusion is that the dogma of atmospheric CO2 as the predominant driver of global surface temperature should be set aside.”

So, to summarize, temperature variations are the “primary determinant” of CO2 variations, with CO2 variation a consequence rather than a causal factor in climate. Atmospheric CO2 is thus a (1) “molecular spectator,” (2) has “no explanatory value” in ocean temperature variability, and (3) “should be set aside” as a considered causal factor in glaciations and deglaciations.

Image Source: Frank, 2024

It may be important to note that approximately 15-20% of current global warming (0.095 W/m² of the 0.48 W/m² heating rate) can be attributed to geothermal heat fluxes through the sea floor that “persistently heat the ocean” (Gebbie, et al., 2021). The value attained for geothermal heating of the ocean, 87 mW/m², is similar to that which is required to end a glacial period (melt ice sheets) and transition into an interglacial. In other words, a bottom-up ocean-warming mechanism is ongoing.

Images Source: Gebbie, 2021

Image Source: Heimbach et al., 2019

A magmatic ocean-warming mechanism driving glacial-interglacial transitions is supported by the conclusion that the ocean bottom waters warmed 2°C from 19,000 to 17,000 years ago. This is about 1000 years before the surface warmed and CO2 began rising (Stott et al., 2007), So, consistent with the conclusions of the new Dr. Frank study, geothermal heat fluxes can thus potentially explain a large portion of glacial-interglacial transitions – as well as millennial-scale global ocean temperature changes.

Image Source: Stott et al., 2007

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Russian Natural Gas Junkie EU Imports More From Russia Than From USA Again

By on 4. September 2024

Green energies cannot liberate EU, which remains Russian natural gas junkie. 

Showing support for peace initiatives to curb the Russia-Ukraine conflict quickly gets you labelled a Putin-appeaser here in Europe.

And just imagine the reaction you might risk getting if you called on ramping up more gas imports from Russia, where the energy is cheap and plentiful?

Incredibly, that’s what many European countries have been doing lately: importing lots of gas from Russia to meet their appetite for cheap, reliable and efficient energy.

Hat-tip: European Newsroom

Germany’s DPA news agency reports, citing a study by think tank Bruegel: “For the first time in almost two years, the countries of the European Union imported more natural gas from Russia than from the United States in a single quarter.”

From April to June this year, the EU purchased more than 12.7 billion cubic meters of natural gas from Russia, compared to 12.3 billion from the USA, the think tank reports. Currently Norway delivers the most gas to the EU.

Though Germany no longer purchases gas from Russia, Russia has risen to second place among suppliers across the EU.

Foreign affairs expert Norbert Röttgen of Germany’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) has called for an EU-wide ban on imports of Russian gas. “The Europeans are supporting Ukraine with billions and at the same time paying billions into Putin’s war chest – that is neither responsible, rational nor credible,” said Röttgen.

The policy contradiction illustrates just how desperate the EU is for low-cost energy, and how EU countries don’t always dance to the music they like to play.

Meanwhile other Europeans are calling for a complete ban of the Russian energy: “Importing Russian gas equals supporting the Russian war economy and its war on Ukraine,” says Ville Niinistö, a green Finnish MEP. “We must continue to push for a total ban of Russian gas to EU markets and to limit its markets elsewhere globally as much as possible,” he told Euractiv.

FDP energy policy spokesman, Michael Kruse, on the other hand, sees the Russian imports as a source of tax revenue, and is calling for “a surcharge” on the price of Russian import gas, which could be used to help finance weapons deliveries to Ukraine. In other words, German consumers should be forced to foot the war bills by paying more for energy that is already expensive.

In August, Austria made a commitment to “phase out Russian natural gas supplies by 2027”, but that commitment was “non-binding.” Europe has obviously realized that even though it is at war with Russia, the continent still has to rely on Russia to meet its energy needs.

All that green energy hasn’t done anything – except make energy and living far more expensive, and EU citizens poorer. It’s Games Without Frontiers. 





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New Study: Human Emissions ‘Irrelevant’ In Determining Changes In Atmospheric CO2 Since 1959

By on 2. September 2024

“The main factor governing the annual increase in atmospheric CO2 concentration is the SST [sea surface temperature] rather than human emissions.” – Ato, 2024

Another day, another new scientific paper has been published reporting efforts to curb anthropogenic CO2 emissions are “meaningless.”

In this study multiple linear regression analysis was performed comparing SST versus anthropogenic CO2 emissions as explanatory factors and the annual changes in atmospheric CO2 as the objective variable over the period 1959-2022.

The model using the SSTs (NASA, NOAA, UAH) best explained the annual CO2 change (regression coefficient B = 2.406, P = <0.0002), whereas human emissions were not shown to be an explanatory factor at all in annual CO2 changes (regression coefficient B = 0.0027, P = 0.863).

Most impressively, the predicted atmospheric CO2 concentration using the regression equation derived from 1960-2022 SSTs had an extremely high correlation coefficient of r = 0.9995.

Thus, not only is the paradigm that says humans drive atmospheric CO2 changes wrong, but “the theory that global warming and climate change are caused by human-emitted CO2 is also wrong.”

“SST has been the determinant of the annual changes in atmospheric CO2 concentrations and […] anthropogenic emissions have been irrelevant in this process, by head-to-head comparison.”

Image Source: Ato, 2024

This is not the first study to have addressed this lack of correlation between annual changes in atmospheric CO2 and anthropogenic CO2 emissions.

Wang et al. (2013) assessed that CO2 emissions derived from human activity (fossil fuel combustion and land use changes) only account for about +0.1 to 0.3 PgC/yr of the annual change in CO2 concentration. This is about “10% of the variance (σ²) of the CO2 growth rate.”

Image Source: Wang et al., 2013

Jones and Cox (2005) have pointed out that the changes associated with annual fossil fuel emissions are unlikely to explain CO2 growth rate anomalies.

“…it is unlikely that these anomalies can be explained by an abrupt increase in anthropogenic emissions, as the anomalies are much larger than annual increases in fossil fuel emissions.”

Image Source: Jones and Cox, 2005

Dr. Jari Ahlbeck (2009) also assessed the correlation between fossil fuel emissions and the increase in CO2 growth rates is “clearly statistically insignificant.” He therefore excluded this factor from consideration in his analysis of the mechanisms of CO2 variability.

A chart included in the body of the paper reveals 5-year periods where there was either a decline in the annual CO2 emissions trend (5.33, 5.17, 5.13, 5.11, 5.29 GtC/yr for 1980-1984) or a flattened trend (6.40, 6.53, 6.63, 6.59, 6.57 GtC/yr for 1995-1999).

Image Source: Ahlbeck, 2009

Even an analysis detailed in the Carbon Brief blog from a few years ago suggests “global CO2 emissions have been flat – if not slightly declining – over the past 10 years.” This obviously does not support the conclusion that an increase in the CO2 growth rate has been driven by flat to declining human emissions.

Image Source: Carbon Brief

An additional side note found in the Ato paper addresses the lack of a link between human methane emissions and atmospheric methane growth rates.

Although human methane emissions have risen dramatically in recent decades, “atmospheric methane concentrations have declined since the 21st century.”

“…natural fluctuations are far more powerful than human emissions in terms of the influence on atmospheric methane levels.”

Image Source: Ato, 2024

So we not only have a lack of correlation between human emissions and annual variations in atmospheric CO2 (and CH4), we even have flat to declining trends in annual anthropogenic CO2 (and CH4) emissions in recent decades – the opposite explanatory directionality.

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Rising Global Temperatures Saving Millions Of Lives, Study Finds. Cold Kills 30 Times More!

By on 1. September 2024

By Dr. Peter F. Mayer – https://tkp.at

Hat-tip: Linke Zeitung here. 

Over the past 11,000 years of the current interglacial period, phases of prosperity and cultural flourishing are clearly linked to warmer temperatures. A reduction in deaths with rising temperatures can also be observed for the last two decades.

Fact: Cold kills nearly 30 times more people than extreme heat, 4.6 million vs. 0.155 million. Rising temperatures drive up the number of heat deaths, but not in extreme heat, but in moderate heat, as TKP recently reported and broke down. However, rising temperatures also reduce the number of deaths from cold.

Bjorn Lomborg used this data to illustrate the ratios graphically:

Chart: Björn Lomborg

Overall, this has meant saving 166,000 lives per year over the last two decades. This is according to the Lancet study by Qi Zhao (2021), which TKP has already reported on.

“Globally, 5,083,173 deaths per year were associated with sub-optimal temperatures, accounting for 9.43% of all deaths. 8.52% were cold-related and 0.91% were heat-related. There were 74 temperature-related excess deaths per 100,000 population. The mortality burden varied geographically.”

Eastern Europe had the highest heat-related excess mortality rate and sub-Saharan Africa had the highest cold-related excess mortality rate.

So we see that global warming saves lives, exactly the opposite of what politicians like Health Minister Karl Lauterbach or EU-Leyen claim and of course the mainstream media.

Full article here: https://tkp.at/2024/08/11/steigende-temperaturen-retten-leben

(Translated/summarized in the English by P. Gosselin)





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Botched Green New Deal: Business Sentiment In Germany Is Now Free-Falling, “On The Brink”

By on 31. August 2024

Failing socialist-green experiment. Economists warn German economy is “on the brink”… “further decline”

Hat-tip: Blackout News

Despite all the earlier rosy promises of a flourishing green economy by the Socialist-Green government led by Olaf Scholz and Robert Habeck – and those made by the earlier Merkel CDU-led government, sentiment among German companies continues to erode badly.

Germany’s online FAZ here reports that Ifo Business Climate Index fell to 85.7 points in August 2024, down from 87.4 points in the previous month. Pessimism is spreading and deepening.

That’s the lowest level sentiment in 3 years

“The current economic slump is particularly evident in the renewed decline in the Ifo business climate index, which has left many economic experts downright perplexed. One thing is certain: the economy is in a serious crisis,” reports Blackout News. And: “no one can say exactly how far the German economy will fall.”

High energy prices, hostile business environment

The current socialist-green government has botched things so much, and now has no idea how to proceed further.

“The challenges are complex and a rapid improvement is not in sight,” comments Blackout News further. “In summary, it is clear that the German economy is currently in a serious crisis.”

Many factors are contributing to the pessimistic business sentiment. Foremost are the high energy costs, which are among the highest energy costs in the world – thanks to Germany’s botched attempt to move to green energies.

War and terrorism weighing down

Also the country’s massive regulation is hostile to free enterprise. Add to this the escalating Ukraine war, which is weighing down further on sentiment.

Another depressing factor: Germany’s uncontrolled flood of refugees from countries plagued by terrorism and war, all of which has led to rapidly rising violent crimes like the one recently witnessed in Solingen. Citizens fear for their safety, and have lost trust in the government’s ability and willingness to protect them.

Not only business sentiment is plummeting, but so is confidence in the government. Unfortunately, real change will remain elusive for the foreseeable future.

Germany is mired in pessimism and fear, with little hope in sight.





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New Study: CO2’s Atmospheric Residence Time 4 Years…Natural Sources Drive CO2 Concentration Changes

By on 30. August 2024

“Clearly, the atmospheric CO2 observation data are not consistent with the climate narrative. Rather, they contradict it.”  – Koutsoyiannis, 2024

Per a new study, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) utilizes “inappropriate assumption and speculation,” as well as non-real-world models of “imaginary data,” to claim CO2 emissions derived from fossil fuel burning function “weirdly,” far differently in the atmosphere than CO2 molecules derived from natural emissions (e.g., plant respiration, ocean outgassing) do.

“The ambiguity is accompanied by inappropriate assumptions and speculations, the weirdest of which is that the behavior of the CO2 in the atmosphere depends on its origin and that CO2 emitted by anthropogenic fossil fuel combustion has higher residence time than when naturally emitted.”

While the IPCC acknowledges emissions from natural sources have an atmospheric residence time of only 4 years, they have simultaneously constructed model outputs that assert CO2 molecules derived from fossil fuel emissions remain in the atmosphere for hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands, even several one hundred thousands of years.

Per the IPCC:

“15 to 40% of an emitted CO2 pulse [from anthropogenic emissions] will remain in the atmosphere longer than 1000 years, 10 to 25% will remain about ten thousand years, and the rest will be removed over several hundred thousand years.”

“Carbon dioxide (CO2) is an extreme example, its turnover time is only about 4 years because of the rapid exchange between the atmosphere and the ocean.”

Again, a four-year residence time for natural CO2, but hundreds of thousands of years residence time for CO2 molecules elicited from fossil fuel burning. It would seem just about any result can be derived from imaginary data.

Image Source: Koutsoyiannis, 2024

Instead of relying on models built on assumption and speculation, Dr. Koutsoyiannis utilizes a well-established, hydrology-based theoretical framework (refined reservoir routing, or RRR) combined with real-world CO2 observations to robustly conclude the residence time for all CO2 molecules, regardless of origin, is between 3.5 and 4 years.

The applied theoretical results match the empirical results so closely (e.g., an empirical mean of 3.91 years vs. a theoretical mean of 3.94 years at Barrow, and an identical 3.68 years for both empirical and theoretical means at Mauna Loa from 1958-2023) that the theoretical framework can be said to be “close to perfect.” In other words, the consistency of the applied calculation with real-world observations provides robust evidence that CO2 residence time is likely close to this range.

In contrast, the calculated probability for the modeled, imaginary-data-based claim that the residence time for a CO2 molecule persists for over 1000 years is 10⁻⁶⁸, which means the probability value is “no different from an impossibility.”

Image Source: Koutsoyiannis, 2024

A residence time of only 4 years for all CO2 molecules, regardless of origin, is consistent with the conclusion that nature is dominant in driving changes in CO2 concentration. Fossil fuel emissions serve only a minor role.

Since 1750, additions to the atmospheric CO2 concentration derived from natural emission sources associated with biological processes are about 4.5 times larger than the contribution from fossil fuel emissions (e.g., 22.9 ppm per year from nature, 5.2 ppm per year from fossil fuel combustion).

In other words, observed CO2 data contradict the climate narrative that says anthropogenic fossil fuel burning is driving CO2 concentration changes.

Image Source: Koutsoyiannis, 2024

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German Youth Have Woken Up! Green Party Loses 83% Of Its Young Voters In Thuringia!

By on 27. August 2024

79% in Saxony!

Greens perform catastrophically in East German polls among youth, losing near 80% of support!

The Green Movement in Germany is in free-fall collapse!

Just a few short years ago, Germany’s youth overwhelmingly leaned to the Bündnis 90 die Grünen (German Green Party). Recall how Greta Thunberg’s movement was in the news everywhere, and FridaysForFuture was leading a major youth movement to a new future.

At one point, the German Greens moved to drop the voting age to 16, in a bid to capture even more votes. Some people were even speculating that Germany would soon see a Green Chancellor!

Nosedive in polls

Then, in 2021, the German Greens came into power in a coalition together with the SPD socialists and FPD liberals. Immediately they began to implement all kinds of their nutty green ideas and, for the first time, Germans began to realize just exactly what it all really meant: energy supply problems and economic woes manifested by high inflation, skyrocketing interest rates and the collapse of industrialization.

Visions of a green utopia suddenly turned into a dystopian nightmare and a bleak future outlook. All the hype surrounding the Greens melted away faster than a snowman in hell.

One age group that has since really woken up is the German U18 group, i.e. youths under age 18.

Thuringia: Greens lose staggering 83% of the youth support 

Today Kolja Barghoorn at his Aktien mit Kopf site here reports that a stunning 83% of the youth have since turned their backs on the Green Party in the state of Thuringia, where in September there will be critical state elections.

In Thuringia, 9000 youths under age 18 were asked in a survey who they would vote for. The winner by a huge margin was the conservative AfD party – by a long shot, pulling 37.4% of the vote – more than double compared to the 16.5% in 2019.

In short, the AfD has gone from 16.5% in 2019 to 37.4% today among youths under 18.

The formerly conservative CDU party was able to get only 17.8%, though an increase compared to 2019.

Ergebnis der U18-Wahlen in Thüringen Grafik: JF

Chart source: Junge Freiheit (JF). 

Huge blow to the Greens

The real political bloodbath has occurred within the Green Party (Grüne). In 2019 the Greens pulled in 21.7% of the vote from youths. But in the latest results, only a measly 3.7% voted for them.

This means the Greens in Thuringia have lost a stunning 83% of their support from the German youth! 

Barghoorn calls the development “a blue miracle”, in reference to the official color of the powerfully rising AfD conservative party.

79% abandon Greens in Saxony

In the eastern state of Saxony (Sachsen) – where state elections are slated in September as well – the results are similar, with massive losses for the Greens and huge gains for the rightwing AfD, see Junge Freiheit here!

In Saxony, the Greens were only able to get 5.7% in the survey, compared to 27.3% in 2019 – that’s a drop of 21.6. This means 79% of their support among the youth has walked out in Saxony! 

It’s over – for the time being – for the green movement in Germany.





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Study: Sea Levels Rose 4.7 Centimeters Per Year 8200 Years Ago – 30 Times Faster Than Modern Rates

By on 26. August 2024

The modern rate of sea level rise is not even close veering outside the range of natural variability.

A new study reminds us that, 8200 years ago, near-global sea levels rose 6.5 meters in a span of just 140 years. This is 470 centimeters per century, 4.7 centimeters per year, during a period when CO2 levels were alleged to be a “safe” and stagnant 260 ppm.

Image Source: Nunn et al., 2024

To put this change rate in perspective, global sea levels rose at a rate of 1.56 millimeters per year from 1900 to 2018, including 1.5 mm per year rate during the more recent period from 1958-2014 (Frederikse et al., 2020, Frederikse et al., 2018). This is just under 16 centimeters per century or sixteen hundredths of a centimeter (0.16 cm) per year.

Image Source: Frederikse et al., 2020 and Frederikse et al., 2018

The net melt of the Greenland ice sheet (GIS) is thought to have been the largest contributor to sea level rise in recent decades. But, to put the GIS change in context, the entire ice sheet melt contribution to sea level rise was just 1.2 total centimeters from 1992-2020 (Simonsen et al., 2021).

Image Source: Simonsen et al., 2021

The Earth’s natural range of sea level rise rates, periodically reaching 4.7 cm per year, is thus 30 times greater in magnitude than the modern period’s (1900-2018) “anthropogenic” rate, which is 0.156 cm per year.

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Categorizing The mRNA-Vaccinated….Most Can Be Forgiven, But Some Cannot

By on 24. August 2024

When discussing the mRNA COVID vaccines, we need to be careful about dividing people into the two broad groups of the vaccinated and the unvaccinated.

The truth is that many vaccinated people didn’t want to be injected and now deeply regret it.

Symbol image: CDC. 

There are 6 categories of the vaccinated, ranging from the innocent victims to the wicked, unrepentant perpetrators.

1. Those vaccinated by force, against their will
These people were forced to get the jab against their will, and included babies and children who were unable to resist. By forced, we mean they were subjected to extreme duress through threats like job loss or being banned from performing their livelihoods. Many knew that the experimental mRNA shots were potentially dangerous, or didn’t work, and were just unnecessary, but were forced against their will to accept them. These people are victims serious human rights violations.  – injured or not.

2. The harassed and coerced
These people were not convinced and many were distrustful of the shot, or even fearful of the drug’s side effects. Many understood that the novel gene-manipulative drug was untested and could be potentially dangerous. Many understood the risk,and never would have allowed themselves to be vaccinated. But they did because the harassment at work, home and in public was just too much to bear.

3. The restriction dodgers
Many were convinced the novel vaccine would work or at least wouldn’t do any harm. Many had felt they didn’t need it, but simply wanted to go back to normal living. Unfortunately these people didn’t do the necessary research to make an informed decision. They were duped into thinking they weren’t harmful. We can forgive this category because at least they didn’t run around lecturing, persecuting and excluding those who resisted taking the mRNA shots. Like in category 1 and 2 above, many deeply regret allowing the injection and promise not to ever take these shots again.

4. The dimwitted follower sheep
They were gullible beyond belief, blindly following everything they were told, and refused to listen to informed experts and hard data contradicting the bogus claims made by the vaccine makers and tyrants. Even today many continue to insist the vaccine works, some even willing to roll up their sleeves again whenever instructed. Too many of them are simply too brainwashed, hypnotized are just flat out too dimwitted to learn. For them, denying is better than confessing and admitting to having been a fool. Yet, we can forgive them to some extent, but we need not give them much sympathy if things go wrong for them.

5. The mRNA vaccine tyrants 
We all know who these people are. They were in the media, institutes, governments and big corporations. They lied and hid the risks from us. These people will remain evil until they confess to their grave sins and change their malicious ways. Everyday we heard them ridicule, persecute, marginalize and coerce the unvaccinated. Many of these tyrants need to be punished, prosecuted for fraud, or forever fired from their positions. The late Dr. Vladimir Zelenko even called for the death penalty for the worst offenders. These people can be forgiven, but only through lots of repentance, remorse, apologies and making solemn pledges to redeem themselves.

6. The unrepentant mRNA tyrants
Those who don’t repent must know we will never forget and will not ever relent hauling you in to face legal justice. Your numbers are shrinking and your protection is crumbling. But it’s (still) not too late for you to redeem yourselves.





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Scientists: 100% Of 2000-2023 Warming Explained By Solar Forcing…Human Climate Forcing ‘Does Not Exist In Reality’

By on 23. August 2024

“Our analysis revealed that the observed decrease of planetary albedo along with reported variations of the Total Solar Irradiance (TSI) explain 100% of the global warming trend and 83% of the GSAT interannual variability as documented by six satellite- and ground-based monitoring systems over the past 24 years.”  – Nikolov and Zeller, 2024

A new, observation-based study makes extensive use of satellite data (CERES) to quantify the driving mechanism behind the global surface air temperature (GSAT) warming throughout the first 24 years of the 21st century.

Instead of agreeing with the prevailing narrative, the authors reject the hypothesis that accumulated “heat trapping” from rising greenhouse gas (GHG) concentrations in recent decades is the driver of global warming. Instead, satellite observations clearly indicate “100% of the global warming trend and 83% of the GSAT interannual variability” is explained by the increasing trend in absorbed shortwave radiation due to the downward trend in planetary albedo primarily induced by changes in cloud cover.

“According to CERES observations, the Earth’s all-sky albedo has declined by approximately 0.79% since 2000 causing an increase of planetary shortwave radiation absorption of ≈2.7 W/m².”

Image Source: Nikolov and Zeller, 2024

The authors point out that the prevailing narrative that says increases in downwelling longwave radiation from GHGs drive warming in the top 100 meters of the ocean is rooted in assumption. The proposed-but-never-observed (using GHGs as the causal variable) mechanism involves a hypothetical “thermal skin layer” temperature-gradient explanation for how GHG-induced water-warming might possibly work (see Wong and Minnett, 2018). In reality, thermal radiation penetrates less than one-thousandth of a meter and “cannot directly warm the deep ocean.”.

In contrast, satellite-observed increases in absorbed solar radiation – which penetrates 100 m and indeed directly warms the ocean water – explains not only the 0-100 m ocean-warming trend since 2000, but also 80% of the interannual temperature variability.

“CERES data do not support the hypothesis that the observed EEI [Earth’s Energy Imbalance] is a result of heat trapping by increasing atmospheric greenhouse gases. Instead, these data indicate that the Earth system has gained energy through an increased absorption of solar radiation…”

“Our analysis of the CERES EBAF 4.2 shortwave fluxes showed that the observed surface and subsurface ocean warming since 2000 (including the 2023 extreme heat anomaly) was exclusively caused by an increased uptake of solar energy due to a decreasing planetary albedo…”

Image Source: Nikolov and Zeller, 2024

Drs. Nikolov and Zeller further explain “the atmospheric longwave radiation is merely a byproduct (i.e., an effect) of the air temperatures rather than a driver of climate.”

This is because Earth’s Energy Imbalance (EEI) – the energy budget presumed to be the determinant of atmospheric and ocean warming (positive imbalance) or cooling (negative) – “is not caused by heat retention (i.e., impedance of cooling) due to increasing atmospheric greenhouse gases, and therefore does not carry excess energy that can be stored in the oceans and later released to cause more warming.”

In other words, the anthropogenic global warming conceptualization is not a real-world phenomenon. It does not exist.

“[A] global longwave radiative forcing predicted by climate models and attributed to rising concentrations of atmospheric trace gases does not exist in reality.”

“Thus, the available empirical evidence does not support the existence of an anthropogenic radiative forcing disturbing the energy flow within the Earth’s climate system.”

Image Source: Nikolov and Zeller, 2024

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