By P Gosselin on 9. March 2011
The proposed 270 billion per year plan (€10.8 trillion total by 2050) for Europe to reach its target of becoming a low-carbon economy and society presented by Climate Commissar Connie Hedegaard yesterday has received a cool reception. While the industry says not no fast – it’s too expensive, the environmentalists are complaining that it is not […]
Posted in Climate Politics |
By P Gosselin on 8. March 2011
A damaged power cable led to a power outage at the German Parliament earlier today, interrupting government activities, parliamentary sessions and shutting down several government offices in the area, according to the Financial Times Deutschland. Hat-tip: DirkH The schadenfreude here can hardly be contained, I have to admit. In Great Britain citizens are being told not to […]
Posted in Climate Politics |
By P Gosselin on 8. March 2011
Physicist Dr. Rainer Link brings our attention to the EU’s new 20/20/20 climate scheme designed to inflict intense pain on citizens with literally zero benefits, read it here at his German blog RL Rational (in German). This 20/20/20 program aims to reduce CO2 emissions by 20% by 2020, and to increase the share of renewable energy to 20% […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Climate Politics |
By P Gosselin on 7. March 2011
Italy is about to join the growing list of European countries cutting back subsidies to solar and wind energy, so reports the online Berlin TAZ. A complete stop to solar energy and deep cuts in wind energy: Italy’s government passed a decree that could spell an abrupt end in the recently started renewable energy boom.” This […]
Posted in Alternative Energy |
By P Gosselin on 6. March 2011
Former German Chancellor (1974-82) Helmut Schmidt of the center-left SPD Social Democrat party gave a speech at the Max Planck Society earlier this year, which in part was focused on “the responsibility of science and a personal word on the relationship between science and politics”. He also commented on the topic of global warming, see […]
Posted in Climate Politics, Hockey Team |
By P Gosselin on 5. March 2011
H/t: Reader Dirk H CO2 being the primary cause of global warming is disappearing – fast. Now a new UNEP-sponsored study says. Half of the temperature increase in the Arctic can be traced to black exhaust dust (soot). We’ve always known that CO2’s greenhouse impact on global warming was inflated, maybe 10-fold. The T-Online News […]
Posted in Arctic, CO2 and GHG |
By P Gosselin on 4. March 2011
The media today in Germany are filled with the news of the ethanol debacle. The government has mandated that super grade gasoline be sold with a minimum content of 10% ethanol in Germany, so-called E10 gasoline. But as always, when the wishes of the government clash with the wishes of the markets and citizens, then […]
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By P Gosselin on 3. March 2011
This is a story on how some good ol boys are pushing extreme scenarios to make big money. Fiduciary duty is getting thrown overboard by banks, insurance companies and investment houses as they race to capitalize on carbon schemes and the “green economy” – all under the guise of “saving the planet”. When large financial institutions like […]
Posted in Abnormal Climate Psych, Hockey Team |
By P Gosselin on 1. March 2011
Boy I’ll tell you- climate science is getting more and more convincing with every passing day. Remember how we were always told that climate change would impact poor Africa the most…and negatively? The German language Die Presse has an online report called: Warming: Will Africa starve or flourish? It’s about the PNAS 28.2 paper just out, […]
Posted in Agriculture, Drought and Deserts |
By P Gosselin on 1. March 2011
Back when I was a boy in the 1960s and 70s, northern New England was as conservative as could be. My home state of Vermont (which is French for “green mountain”) was George Aiken and Winston Prouty country. Back then the revolutionary Yankee-spirit of Ethan Allen, fighter for freedom, was alive – but rapidly dying. Vermont has long since […]
Posted in Climate Politics |
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