By P Gosselin on 10. May 2011
I’ve had a number of things that have kept me from blogging over the last couple of days, and so I’m happy to have something quick today. Although it’s on the light side, it is profoundly true and insightful. This ought not be a surprise, though, as it comes from a profoundly insightful and critical mind. Science […]
Posted in Scepticism |
By P Gosselin on 8. May 2011
The English language online The Local, here, brings us an example of how overzealous and authoritarian greens masquerading as concerned environmentalists can be. Hat-tip DirkH. Winfried Kretschmann, the newly elected green governor of the German state of Baden-Württemberg, has not only announced that he will decide the course of the southern German state, but also the course of […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Climate Politics |
By P Gosselin on 6. May 2011
According to klimaretter.de, a warmist site operated by socialists and green Utopians, Dave Roberts was invited by the Heinrich Böll Foundation as a speaker for climate blogs at the network conference re:publica in Berlin last month. Roberts, you will recall, is the activist at Grist who in 2006 called for Nuremberg-type trials for bastards who […]
Posted in Activism, Climate Politics, Gore |
By P Gosselin on 6. May 2011
Private meteorologist Dr. Carsten Brandt of donnerwetter.de here predicts a hot and dry barbecue summer for Central Europe. Graphic from: www.donnerwetter.de news, click here But don’t worry, his forecast does not come from the Met Office, and so there is a good chance it’ll be more or less right. Indeed many of Brandt’s seasonal forecasts have been […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Weather |
By P Gosselin on 5. May 2011
If you wish to bail out someone in dire financial straits, then you’ll want to make sure that the party receiving the bailout funds will break its old spending habits and not continue its wasteful ways. This is the case with insolvent Portugal, as the IMF, European Commission and the European Central Bank prepare a […]
Posted in Alternative Energy |
By P Gosselin on 4. May 2011
German public radio Deutsche Welle has a recent online report about climate skepticism here titled: Scientists Request Honest Dialogue, which quotes two experts from the fields of climate and meteorology: Professor Hans von Storch and Sven Plöger. This post here focuses on the views of Professor Hans von Storch. Exaggeration damages credibility The Deutsche Welle writes about […]
Posted in Scepticism |
By P Gosselin on 3. May 2011
Sometimes the old wisdom turns out to be the better one – that is wisdom from the analog world, during a time when there were neither bits nor bytes, nor model calculations to explain the world to people. One of these wisdoms is: The search for missing persons using concentric circles around the last known […]
Posted in Innovation, Oceans |
By P Gosselin on 2. May 2011
Media jubilation in the wake of the killing of Osama Bin Laden. And there should be. But back in 2006, under a different President, the media reacted much differently when the US forces whacked another equally brutal and cold-blooded killer – Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. He’s the butcher who taped the decapitation of Nicolas Berg (a video […]
Posted in Media / Bias |
By P Gosselin on 2. May 2011
Not much really going on today so just a couple of interesting items. First, don’t let anyone tell you that renewable energy is not a hot growth sector – at least that’s what Germany’s most populous state, North Rhine Westphalia, would like you to believe. What follows is yet another example of tricks used by climate […]
Posted in Activism, Climate Politics |
By P Gosselin on 1. May 2011
Enjoy it while you can. I have no way of knowing if it will stay that way.Yesterday I was sure the German media were gearing up for yet another assault on science, getting ready to turn the US tornadoes into a Katrina-type event. For example on Friday NDR public radio linked the tornadoes to man-made climate […]
Posted in Hurricanes/Tornados, Media / Bias |
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