By P Gosselin on 30. November 2011
While reps from European countries are in Durban demanding we go green, CO2 Handel here reports that the very same governments are cutting back on “climate protection” investments. That makes Durban a farce. According to a report called Durban Dynamics: Navigating for progress on climate change“, by consultancy Ernst & Young, governments around the world […]
Posted in Alternative Energy |
By P Gosselin on 28. November 2011
German “intellectual” online daily Die Zeit here interviews four (state-funded) alarmists (some more, some less) just to reassure its readers that the world is indeed coming to a catastrophic end. Here it’s interesting to compare the remarks of Hans von Storch and Stefan Rahmstorf on the subject of sea level rise of the North Sea, as […]
Posted in Sea Levels |
By P Gosselin on 28. November 2011
CFACT was one of the sponsors of the 4th International Climate Conference, which took place in Munich last weekend. What follows is a worthwhile interview with the Chairman of the European Institute for Climate and Energy (EIKE), Holger Thuss, presented by CFACT. ================================================= On Friday and Saturday, November 25 & 26, as the UN prepared to kick […]
Posted in Scepticism
By P Gosselin on 26. November 2011
What happens when you take the work of energy production and management away from the experts and power companies, and transfer it to government bureaucrats and environmental ideologues who surround themselves with clueless media cheerleaders? Guenter Keil tells us here at Science Skeptical. In a nutshell, it’s like taking a country’s central bank and putting it […]
Posted in Alternative Energy |
By P Gosselin on 25. November 2011
Portuguese skeptic site Ecotretas reports on the crashing carbon market: It’s nothing new. It started over a year ago, when US carbon trading crashed. Two weeks later, it closed. Now, it’s our turn in Europe. It had already started earlier this Summer. But now, as can be seen in the left graphic, obtained from Bloomberg, […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Gore, Green Follies |
By P Gosselin on 24. November 2011
Der Spiegel here reports on Climategate 2.0, first reminding us that although Climategate 1.0 showed that a group of scientists had indeed stonewalled revealing the data and engaged in gatekeeping, they were cleared by several investigations of misleading and manipulating data. Der Spiegel also admits Climategate 1.0 scarred the image of the science. Now we have […]
Posted in Hockey Team, Misc. |
By P Gosselin on 23. November 2011
Look how cozy Revkin is in bed with alarmists like Rahmstorf. And they really detest skeptics, don’t they? Rahmstorf writes to Andy: Hi Andy, from over here, it is hard to see this kind of Inhofe speach as anything else than an irrelevant piece of absurd theatre. It doesn’t even bother me any more – […]
Posted in Hockey Team |
By P Gosselin on 23. November 2011
Rahmstorf writes to Overpeck and co-authors: Dear Peck and IPCC coauthors, – I know it’s Easter, but I’m having to deal with Augusto Mangini, a German colleague who has just written an article calling the IPCC paleo chapter “wrong”, claiming it has been warmer in the Holocene than now, and stalagmites show much larger temperature […]
Posted in Hockey Team |
By P Gosselin on 22. November 2011
Looks like Thanksgiving is early this year. Here’s a feast for kings. 🙂 http://foia2011.org/index.php?id=2 Update: The real doozies are marked in bold print. having gone through them, I have to say sorry, but these scientists are nothing but liars. If the governments don’t act now on this, then we are truly living in anarchy. It will […]
Posted in Hockey Team |
By P Gosselin on 22. November 2011
Dietmar Doering of the think tank Denken für die Freiheit (Thinking for Freedom) brings our attention to this exposé of green energy in Germany.Germany is a country completely obsessed with saving the planet from man-made CO2, and has been pursuing renewable energies with unmatched abandon, pouring tens of billions into green energy. Lots of countries use Germany […]
Posted in Alternative Energy |
By P Gosselin on 21. November 2011
Just a few miles away from my hometown, Green Mountain Electric Power Company of Vermont and Quebec’s Gaz Metro are now building a monster mountain-top wind park that will be home (for 25 years) to twenty one 135-meter tall turbines that will go into operation by the end of next year. To build the windpark […]
Posted in Alternative Energy |
By P Gosselin on 20. November 2011
Axel Bojanowski of the German flagship news magazine Der Spiegel blasted the UN for its Extreme Weather report saying the: UN presentation was dubious: research results are ignored, the report remains secret.” and Only the summary of the report was officially made public on Friday. This is a document that politicians and lawyers of the […]
Posted in Climate Politics, IPCC |
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