By P Gosselin on 20. July 2012
Green foundations in Germany, many supported by hundreds of millions of euros in funding from large corporations and political parties, are attacking skeptical European Institute for Climate and Energy (EIKE) for daring to practice the principles of science. ========================================== EIKE is having an impact! German foundation report bemoans the founding of EIKE in 2007. One […]
Posted in Activism, Scepticism |
By P Gosselin on 19. July 2012
New CO2 report! Expect the mainstream media to begin their chorus of impending doom and gloom now that the latest annual global CO2 report has been released. Warmist energy and climate website CO2-Handel reports here that once again global CO2 emissions have increased, reaching a record level in 2012! Yet CO2 Handel forgets to tell us […]
Posted in CO2 and GHG, Cooling/Temperature |
By P Gosselin on 18. July 2012
Good! If the skeptics ever needed the stamp of success for their efforts to curb the climate agenda, this is it. Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker, a prominent warmist scientist and politician in Germany, appeared on ZDF television and provided his assessment of today’s international climate policy. If any among us think that climate policy is a […]
Posted in Activism, Climate Politics |
By P Gosselin on 17. July 2012
Now that the inconvenient results of earlier models are coming in, the once esteemed German climate institutes, which we were not allowed to question, are sitting neck-deep in embarrassment. I’ve always said that the activist IPCC scientists, by abandoning the principles of science, had been setting themselves up to become the laughing stocks of future generations. They […]
Posted in Activism, Drought and Deserts, Green Follies, Hockey Team, Models, Stupid Predictions |
By P Gosselin on 16. July 2012
This summer in Western Europe has been a cool and wet one. People are now wondering about all those model projections calling for blast-furnace summers accompanied by killer droughts, which the media have been warning us about year after year. Not to worry, says meteorologist Mario Slongo, former weather expert for DRS 1; they are […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Drought and Deserts, Hockey Team, Models, Stupid Predictions |
By P Gosselin on 15. July 2012
Once again German Professor Hans-Joachim (John) Schellnhuber is calling for limiting democracy and transfering policy-making power to a wiser, elite group of scientists. Dr. Peter Heller here examines the answers given by Schellnhuber in a recent interview with the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) and then tells us why Schellnhuber’s power-grab will fail. =============================== Schellnhuber and Ruling the World […]
Posted in Activism, Climate Politics, Green Follies, Hockey Team |
By P Gosselin on 13. July 2012
Geologist Dr. Sebastian Lüning and Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt have sifted through recent scientific literature looking for evidence that global sea level rise has accelerated over the last 3 decades. Their result: “The scientific facts speak very clearly against it. It is only a question of time before the idea disappears from the public discussion.” Lüning and […]
Posted in Sea Levels |
By P Gosselin on 12. July 2012
We have a very informative exchange going on the topic of polar bears, initiated by Ed Caryl’s earlier post here. Zoologist Susan Crockford, Phd., responds to Authur C. Smith III’s comment here on polar bear behavior. ============================================== Arthur, Thanks so much for your detailed response. I am always fascinated to hear first-hand accounts of animal […]
Posted in Arctic, Oceans |
By P Gosselin on 11. July 2012
Now that climate models have been around for quite some time, we can assess their performance and whether it is a wise idea to rely on them. So far they appear to be much worse than random guessing. In fact it seems that climate models almost have a perfect record at making completely erroneous predictions. […]
Posted in Drought and Deserts, Hockey Team, Models |
By P Gosselin on 10. July 2012
It’s been a long time since I’ve heard such high-grade rubbish. At least not since Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth. Here’s an audio readers really need to listen to. Download and listen to the full recording of a press conference» Here we have three scientists doing their darnedest to whip up public fear and panic. Do […]
Posted in Abnormal Climate Psych, Drought and Deserts, Hockey Team |
By P Gosselin on 10. July 2012
All the talk since yesterday is about the new Jan Esper et al paper: Orbital forcing of tree-ring data published by Nature Climate Change. Press release here. The main focus of the paper is the modest long-term 0.3°C cooling per thousand years that has taken place over the last 2000 years, likely due to Earth’s orbital […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Paleo-climatology |
By P Gosselin on 9. July 2012
“Sea levels are not rising significantly.” Climate science is made up of “speculative and alarmist theories”. Dr. Sebastian Lüning’s and Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt’s Die kalte Sonne website presents a video showing British European Parliamentarian Roger Helmer delivering a statement before the European Parliament in Strasbourg on July 5, slamming Europe’s climate religion and energy policy. […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Climate Politics, Nuclear energy |
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