By P Gosselin on 31. August 2011
Share this… Facebook TwitterIt 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. […]
Posted in Oceans, Sea Levels |
By P Gosselin on 30. August 2011
Share this… Facebook TwitterProf. 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 […]
Posted in IPCC, Scepticism |
By P Gosselin on 29. August 2011
Share this… Facebook TwitterGerman 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 […]
Posted in Agriculture, Alternative Energy, Green Follies |
By P Gosselin on 28. August 2011
Share this… Facebook Twitterh/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 […]
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By P Gosselin on 28. August 2011
Share this… Facebook TwitterIrene 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, […]
Posted in Hurricanes/Tornados, Media / Bias |
By P Gosselin on 26. August 2011
Share this… Facebook TwitterHere 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 […]
Posted in Climate Politics, CO2 and GHG, Green Follies, Media / Bias, Solar Sciences |
By P Gosselin on 26. August 2011
Share this… Facebook Twitter??? =========================================== 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… Facebook Twitter
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By P Gosselin on 25. August 2011
Share this… Facebook TwitterA 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 […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, CO2 and GHG, Nuclear energy |
By P Gosselin on 24. August 2011
Share this… Facebook TwitterRecently 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 […]
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By P Gosselin on 23. August 2011
Share this… Facebook TwitterSolar 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 […]
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By P Gosselin on 22. August 2011
Share this… Facebook TwitterHere’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 […]
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By P Gosselin on 22. August 2011
Share this… Facebook TwitterI’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 […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Climate Politics |
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