By P Gosselin on 28. February 2011
Share this… Facebook TwitterWhy do I get the feeling this Accenture/Barclay’s report is going to have a serious backlash? Good if it does! The warmists outlets are already out there doing pre-emptive damage control, going into denial and wishful thinking. A study carried out by consultants Accenture and Barclays Bank confirms that “climate protection” is going […]
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By P Gosselin on 27. February 2011
Share this… Facebook TwitterIn the older days, whether selling detergents, applicances or food products, marketers often used the slogan: “new and improved!” to con consumers and to boost sales. The German online DIE WELT reports that companies have changed their marketing slogans to make their business more profitable and sustainable. The new slogan used to pitch products […]
Posted in Abnormal Climate Psych, Humour, We're To Blame |
By P Gosselin on 26. February 2011
Share this… Facebook TwitterSweden’s meteorological agency reports that ice coverage on the Baltic Sea is greater than it’s been in nearly a quarter century. Read more here. About 250,000 square kilometres of the Baltic Sea are now covered in ice according to the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI). The last time so much of the Baltic […]
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By P Gosselin on 26. February 2011
Share this… Facebook TwitterH/T: Rudolf Kipp at Skeptical Science (see first reader comment). That is about the same as the US annual GDP. That’s the number reported in a recent article appearing in the online Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung FAZ), Germany’s leading political daily. Europe set to climax with green bloody self-flagellation. The FAZ writes: In the […]
Posted in Abnormal Climate Psych, Climate Politics |
By P Gosselin on 26. February 2011
Share this… Facebook TwitterWhen it comes to renewable energy, you can call them “Jesus technologies”. These are technologies that went the way of the dinosaurs a long time ago due to their inefficiency and impracticality. But in order to serve a political purpose, they seem to keep getting resurrected every 30 years or so. I […]
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By P Gosselin on 25. February 2011
Share this… Facebook TwitterThe online leftist Die Tageszeitung (TAZ) from Berlin has an essay by Stefan Rahmstorf, who attacks Dr Fritz Vahrenholt, head of RWE Innogy, for his comments in a December essay that casts doubt on man-made climate change appearing in the somwhat more conservative Die Welt from Hamburg.Interestingly, instead of appearing in the Science section, Rahmstorf’s rant appears […]
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By P Gosselin on 24. February 2011
Share this… Facebook TwitterWhen you have an institution that can longer function because of incompetence, corruption, or whatever human element, it is impossible to repair it without first replacing the bad personnel behind the problem. Anything else is like trying to cure someone with a bad liver by treating everything else except the liver itself.That’s […]
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By P Gosselin on 23. February 2011
Share this… Facebook TwitterThat’s what one of Germany’s leading national dailies, DIE WELT, writes here at it’s online site.Who knows! Maybe parts of the German media are beginning to see the the big block-letter writing on the wall and are now slowly taking baby-steps towards acknowledging the claims and science behind catastrophic global warming are […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Oceans |
By P Gosselin on 22. February 2011
Share this… Facebook TwitterSome of us may be wondering whatever happened to the dana who we all love and miss so much. Well, Lubos Motl at the Reference Frame has a nice little update on the adventures of dana:H/t: Mindert Eiting Why Dana 1981 Hasn’t Proved… By Lubos Motl Dana1981 is a 30-year-old Prius driver […]
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By P Gosselin on 22. February 2011
Share this… Facebook TwitterAlthough the Potsdam Institute For Climate Impact Research (PIK) gives the impression that it is a climate research facility, it also appears to have become an institute for formulating novel economic policy. H/t: reader Ike The PIK, commissioned by the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, has […]
Posted in Climate Politics, Stupid Predictions |
By P Gosselin on 21. February 2011
Share this… Facebook TwitterMinus 30°C for days…13°C below normal…homeless people dying…hands and feet are freezing… That’s what we are hearing from a few media outlets in Europe, those who have dared to mention the “cold-snap” word and to write about reality. It’s been cold in Scandinavia, much of Europe, North America and Russia too. Where’s […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Weather |
By P Gosselin on 21. February 2011
Share this… Facebook TwitterOr to call it what it is: theological propaganda. Google is also responding to the growing skepticism in climate science by starting “an effort to foster a more open, transparent and accessible scientific dialogue aimed at inspiring pioneering use of technology, new media and computational thinking in the communication of science to […]
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