By P Gosselin on 31. August 2011
Share this…FacebookTwitterIt wasn’t long ago a PNAS study led by Stefan Rahmstorf had come out claiming sea level rise is “accelerating”. This of course was followed by the mainstream media jumping on the global warming bandwagon and trumpeting doom and gloom would strike sooner than we ever thought, maybe even before we die. Unfortunately, the […]
Posted in Oceans, Sea Levels |
By P Gosselin on 30. August 2011
Share this…FacebookTwitterProf. Claes Johnson’s blogsite here reports on how an IPCC Vice Chair recently used his UN position to suppress scientific dissent and discourse. Hat-tip: Hans Labohm.Johnson, professor of applied mathematics at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, had been asked by the Société Européenne des Ingénieurs et Industriels (European Society of Engineers and Industrialists) […]
Posted in IPCC, Scepticism |
By P Gosselin on 29. August 2011
Share this…FacebookTwitterGerman online daily DIE WELT reports here on how Nestlé CEO Peter Brabeck-Letmathe says that the farming of biofuels dramatically exacerbates global hunger. Nestlé is the world’s largest food conglomerate. Hat-tip: oekowatch.org. Recently a truly lame-brain study (later debunked here) was published claiming that global warming caused war. It would be advisable for the incompetent authors […]
Posted in Agriculture, Alternative Energy, Green Follies |
By P Gosselin on 28. August 2011
Share this…FacebookTwitterh/t: Dirk H Note how the reporter is upset about people going out in the storm when he himself is outside right smack in it. Then again, the winds are only 50 mph (and not the 500 mph the media was telling us yesterday :)). I noticed the report is from “The Weather Channel”. […]
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By P Gosselin on 28. August 2011
Share this…FacebookTwitterIrene is the first hurricane to hit the US mainland in almost 3 years since Ike hit back in September 2008. So much for global warming causing more hurricanes. In fact, if no hurricanes had hit the United States this year, it would have been the longest lull between U.S. hurricane landfalls in recorded history, this according […]
Posted in Hurricanes/Tornados, Media / Bias |
By P Gosselin on 26. August 2011
Share this…FacebookTwitterHere is a sampling of the media reaction coming from Germany on CERN’s cosmic ray cloud seeding experiment. Normally the German mainstream media is quick to report on new scientific developments, especially anything indicating catastrophic global warming. But this time they have been slow and cautious. FOCUS magazine online starts with: Climate skeptics doubt that […]
Posted in Climate Politics, CO2 and GHG, Green Follies, Media / Bias, Solar Sciences |
By P Gosselin on 26. August 2011
Share this…FacebookTwitter??? =========================================== UPDATE: Oh wait! Here’s something: http://www.focus.de/wissen/wissenschaft/wissenschafts-dossiers/tid-23443/neue-studie-bestaerkt-klimaskeptiker-die-sonne-unter-verdacht_aid_658937.html I need to be more patient with Germans. They have a habit of thinking about things from different angles before shooting off. That’s good of course. Will write more about the FOCUS report later today. Share this…FacebookTwitter
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By P Gosselin on 25. August 2011
Share this…FacebookTwitterA recently released BP report here shows that global coal consumption has risen over the last 10 years by almost 50%. So wouldn’t you think that all those millions of tons of emitted CO2 (food for plants) as a result would drive the global temperatures up? Have temperatures risen along with all that extra coal burning? No […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, CO2 and GHG, Nuclear energy |
By P Gosselin on 24. August 2011
Share this…FacebookTwitterRecently the German Weather Service (Deutsche Wetterdienst DWD) released its 100-year temperature prognosis chart to the public, claiming that Germans should expect more hot days in the future. German Weather Service: More hot days in the future Light blue line (before 2010): temperature record from 1881-2010 Yellow line (before 2010): 5th degree polynomial smoothing (annual […]
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By P Gosselin on 23. August 2011
Share this…FacebookTwitterSolar panels, electric cars, windmills, biofuels – It’s all been ballyhooed as the next socio-technological revolution. One that would transform our energy supply and ensure “sustainability”, thus saving the earth from climate doom. “Go green” was the motto.All that was needed was a little help from the state. Now it looks as if even a […]
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By P Gosselin on 22. August 2011
Share this…FacebookTwitterHere’s something you won’t find in the MSM, but thanks to NoTricksZone, a few of us out there will hear about it. (Just imagine if they had been tea-partiers).It’s official: Some of Greenpeace’s members have found guilty. Eleven activists from Britain, Denmark, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United States were found guilty […]
Posted in Activism, Greenpeace |
By P Gosselin on 22. August 2011
Share this…FacebookTwitterI’ve been writing lately on the folly that is the Green Economy, citing a number of examples here in Germany, read here for example. Walter Russel Mead at The American Interest has a must read on how the once much ballyhooed Green Jobs Initiative stands in the USA today. It isn’t pretty. Feeding The Masses […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Climate Politics |
By P Gosselin on 20. August 2011
Share this…FacebookTwitterTwo short reports today… 1) Solar jobs in Germany overstated The idea was to shift from dirty fossil and dangerous nuclear fuel power generation over to clean, climate-friendly renewable energy, and thus create thousands of new green jobs that would usher in the German Green Revolution and so make Germany a model for the rest […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Climate Politics |
By P Gosselin on 19. August 2011
Share this…FacebookTwitterUPDATE 8/20: For whatever reason, Frank Abel has completely taken down his post. Most likely it did not amuse some particular persons. ==================================We all know that seasonal forecasts looking 90 days or so into the future are not easy to make and have considerable uncertainty. But that hasn’t kept some bold meteorologists from going out […]
Posted in Models, Scepticism, Stupid Predictions, Weather |
By P Gosselin on 18. August 2011
Share this…FacebookTwitterAnd he used to be a supporter of Al Gore! h/t: Huffington Post Share this…FacebookTwitter
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By P Gosselin on 17. August 2011
Share this…FacebookTwitterThat means start kissing German green jobs good bye. Yet another Soviet-style propped up industry begins to bite the dust. According to co2-handel.de here, rising raw material prices on the purchasing side, falling prices on the sales side, falling market demand, and reduced subsidies are spelling big trouble for the once booming German solar industry. […]
Posted in Alternative Energy |
By P Gosselin on 16. August 2011
Share this…FacebookTwitterIs our climate becoming more extreme? By Paul Homewood There has been much discussion recently about “Climate Disruption” or “Global Weirding”. John Holdren has talked about “increases in floods, wildfires, droughts, heat waves and hurricanes” while Rajendra Pachauri says: “Based on observation, we know that there will be more floods, more drought, more heat […]
Posted in Drought and Deserts, Hurricanes/Tornados, Weather |
By P Gosselin on 15. August 2011
Share this…FacebookTwitterThe Germany-based European Institute for Climate and Energy (EIKE)has a piece called: First The IPCC and Now The DWD: Tricked Series With Alleged Warming After the Year 2000. The piece alleges that both the IPCC and the German Weather Service (DWD) are playing it loose with temperature data sets to produce the illusion of global warming for […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Models, Paleo-climatology |
By P Gosselin on 14. August 2011
Share this…FacebookTwitterIn a piece titled Under Deniers, science publicist Dirk Maxeiner writes about how dissent over any politically touchy topic in Germany is increasingly being suppressed lately: by applying the label “Leugner” (denier). Especially when one considers what Germany went through during its history, I find it appalling that a person’s right to speak up and to […]
Posted in Climate Politics, Scepticism |
By P Gosselin on 13. August 2011
Share this…FacebookTwitter“Rick Perry to delight climate sceptics by running for president Texas Governor Rick Perry’s bid for the Republican expected nomination has cheered climate sceptics who share his view that global warming is a ‘phony mess’,”… read more here Well, now we know who the front-runner is right now. BUT EVEN BETTER: Michele Bachmann! Share […]
Posted in Climate Politics |
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