By P Gosselin on 29. February 2012
Share this…FacebookTwitterMore bad news for the catastrophe-insisting climate alarmists who claim 95% of climate change is due to 0.04% trace gas CO2. Yet another prominent scientist, this one a big-league heavy hitter, has expressed serious doubt on CO2’s sole dominance during a recent interview. The once much ballyhooed consensus keeps falling apart. Professor Wolfgang Baumjohann, Director of […]
Posted in Scepticism, Solar Sciences |
By P Gosselin on 28. February 2012
Share this…FacebookTwitterOilprice.com has conducted a very interesting interview with the well known climatologist Judith Curry, who runs the excellent Climate Etc. blogsite. You’ll recall that Professor Curry was once a staunch AGW proponent. Later the scientific evidence cooled her down to lukewarm. The interview is balanced and readers may be interested in reading about Judith’s […]
Posted in IPCC, Scepticism |
By P Gosselin on 27. February 2012
Share this…FacebookTwitterLast week parts of Germany’s media were reporting on the latest (again) alarmist findings of the Max Planck Institute (MPI), which announced that the Arctic was melting faster than expected, and that its latest model scenarios projected an ice-free Arctic in the summertime by the middle of the 21st century and, should CO2 emissions continue their rise, […]
Posted in Scepticism |
By P Gosselin on 26. February 2012
Share this…FacebookTwitterIt’s not a well known fact but it’s pretty much just the EU and a few other activists scattered across the rest of the world who are supporters of forcing CO2 emissions reductions through binding greenhouse gas emission treaties. Indeed about 86% of the world opposes binding, Kyoto-type treaties, and so disagree with the remaining […]
Posted in Climate Politics, CO2 and GHG |
By P Gosselin on 26. February 2012
Share this…FacebookTwitterDonna Laframboise attended the 4th International Climate and Energy Conference in Munich, Germany last November, and granted an interview with Achgut.TV here. Die kalte Sonne 3 from Tim Maxeiner on Vimeo. We know that one third of the 34 authors of the IPCC summary report are connected to either Greenpeace or the WWF. Professor […]
Posted in IPCC |
By P Gosselin on 25. February 2012
Share this…FacebookTwitterGerman veteran meteorologist Klaus Eckhart Puls writes a piece at the European Institute for Climate and Energy (EIKE) on what he calls the “glaring contradiction between IPCC prognoses and reality”. Rather than increasing 0.2°C per decade, global temperatures over the past decade have actually declined. Warmist Max Planck Institute now in a state of […]
Posted in Climate Politics, Cooling/Temperature, Stupid Predictions |
By P Gosselin on 24. February 2012
Share this…FacebookTwitterNASA has recently issued a press release, here. A recent study by Davies & Molloy (2012) appearing in the Geophysical Research Letters shows that clouds have gotten lower over the first decade of this century. Hat tip: Die kalte Sonne. Here’s the NASA press release (emphasis added): February 21, 2012 Earth’s clouds got a little […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Models, Oceans |
By P Gosselin on 23. February 2012
Share this…FacebookTwitterWarmist Spiegel journalist Axel Bojanowski presents today a story on Peter Gleick’s Fakegate scandal and on what it means. In a nutshell: climate science is far from settled and there is a bitter war waging between the skeptics and alarmists. Consensus does not exist! Climate scientist pilfers secret documents from a lobbyist group“ Spiegel […]
Posted in Climate Politics, Hockey Team, Scepticism |
By P Gosselin on 23. February 2012
Share this…FacebookTwitterHere’s Germany’s solution to saving energy and reducing its carbon foortprint- make electricity affordable only to a few rich people! German online DIE WELT daily has an article titled: Hundreds Of Thousands Have Had Their Power Turned Off. Germany’s power and gas has become so expensive thanks to its Renewable Energy Feed-in Act that […]
Posted in Alternative Energy |
By P Gosselin on 22. February 2012
Share this…FacebookTwitterAlthough Peter Gleick confessed almost 2 days ago to stealing and leaking documents designed to damage the Heartland Institute and others, one of Germany’s leading warmist climate blogs continues to ignore it and is still actively spreading rumors about them. About 12 hours after Anthony Watts’s story Breaking: Gleick confesses appeared, Klimaretter.de went ahead and published […]
Posted in Activism |
By P Gosselin on 21. February 2012
Share this…FacebookTwitterDutch scientist and chemical engineer Dr. Arthur Rörsch has distributed a working paper to Dutch officials in his country to request a comprehensive review of the results and recommendations of the IPCC, especially its upcoming 5th assessment report.H/t: http://www.kaltesonne.de/?p=926: In his paper Rörsch, former vice-president of the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Research, writes that […]
Posted in Hockey Team, IPCC |
By P Gosselin on 21. February 2012
Share this…FacebookTwitterNow that Christian Wulff has resigned in disgrace from the office of President of Germany in the wake of a scandal, a new nominee has been found: former pastor and anti-communist Joachim Gauck. He is expected to be appointed easily. If you’re like me, the question that comes to mind is: How skeptical is he when […]
Posted in Climate Politics |
By P Gosselin on 20. February 2012
Share this…FacebookTwitterMUST READ! Boy, I’m sure our great grandchildren will be thanking us for that one extra day! Here’s a sad, yet funny evluation of one of the greatest engineering follies of all time. H/t DirkH Björn Lomborg has a new article out that assesses Germany’s solar energy “boom”. Germany’s Sunshine Daydream By Bjørn Lomborg: […]
Posted in Alternative Energy |
By P Gosselin on 20. February 2012
Share this…FacebookTwitterMatthias Iken has written a piece at the online German daily Hamburger Abendblatt here on Germany’s reaction to Fritz Vahrenholt’s and Sebastian Lüning’s climate skeptical bestselling book “Die kalte Sonne“. His piece is titled: The Intolerant Society. Needless to say, the reaction to Germany’s bestselling skeptic book has been brutally harsh. In his piece, Iken […]
Posted in Activism, Climate Politics, Scepticism |
By P Gosselin on 19. February 2012
Share this…FacebookTwitterFritz Vahrenholt gives a comprehensive interview with leading Austrian daily KURIER here. The interview covers a number of areas. But a few points I found particularly interesting. On the lack of warming since 2000, the KURIER asks if it’s too short of a time period. Of course it is. But we still need an […]
Posted in Scepticism |
By P Gosselin on 18. February 2012
Share this…FacebookTwitterGermany’s media is sick and intolerant at times, seemingly continuing a once infamous tradition. Yesterday NDR German public television had an interview with Fritz Vahrenholt, co-author with Sebastian Lüning of the bestselling book Die kalte Sonne now sweeping through Germany. The NDR piece is dubbed: “Vahrenholt and the ‘CO2 lies’”. The clip first introduces the climate […]
Posted in Hockey Team, Media / Bias, Scepticism |
By P Gosselin on 17. February 2012
Share this…FacebookTwitterHere’s a presentation by the past Chairman of the American Solar Energy Industry, Armageddonist Chuck Kutscher, another person who can only be happy if he’s convinced the future is filled with doom and gloom. h/t: Chris Smith This is Al Gore repackaged. This is really a sorrowful, populist presentation. How did Kutscher get a […]
Posted in Climate Politics, Hockey Team |
By P Gosselin on 17. February 2012
Share this…FacebookTwitterAnyone wondering what some US leaders envision for the USA’s energy policy may wish to attend the following Harvard German Conference to find out. The energy part of the conference is taking place this weekend, Saturday morning, February 18, 2012: 9:30 – 10:30: Energy – Keynote Jeremy Rifkin. The Third Industrial Revolution: The New German […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Climate Politics |
By P Gosselin on 17. February 2012
Share this…FacebookTwitterToday whenever a North Sea storm blows over a tree, floods a basement, or knocks over a bistro table, the media screams global warming climate change – proof that storms today are harder and more frequent, they claim. The reinsurers echo that and jack up their premiums. Hamburg storm of 1962 Today is the 50th […]
Posted in Hurricanes/Tornados, Misc. |
By P Gosselin on 17. February 2012
Share this…FacebookTwitterThere’s been lots of disingenuous criticism from the CO2 end-of the world warmists and Armageddonists aimed at Fritz Vahrenholt’s and Sebastian Lüning’s new best selling skeptic book Die kalte Sonne. Much of it attacking Svensmark’s theory of solar amplification via cosmic rays. Again. none have really read the book, they simply repeat the same […]
Posted in Solar Sciences |
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