By P Gosselin on 14. January 2013
Share this…FacebookTwitterIf there ever was a confirmation that the UN climate conferences have been a total failure, then this is it. According to the German Press Agency (dpa), Germany is now looking for partners in order to found a “coalition of the willing” for implementing the transition to renewable energies. Apparently, the creation of green jobs […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Climate Politics |
By P Gosselin on 13. January 2013
Share this…FacebookTwitterAsia has been having one of its coldest winters in memory. And the headlines of bitter cold have not been limited to Russia, Siberia, Mongolia and China, but also to subtropical regions, way down in southern Asia. People there have been dying of record cold. FOCUS magazine here reports that also “Bangladesh is shivering under […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Weather |
By P Gosselin on 13. January 2013
Share this…FacebookTwitterEarlier this week I featured a shocking video of a workcrew taking down the active nest of a pair of bald eagles in Ontario – to make way for wind turbines. Video made by: http://ontario-wind-resistance.org/ Ever since, there’s been harsh media coverage about that event, for example here: No room for eagles in green […]
Posted in Alternative Energy |
By P Gosselin on 12. January 2013
Share this…FacebookTwitterAccording to the German Association of Energy and Water (BDEW) here, overall power consumption in Germany dropped a slight 1.4% in 2012, and natural gas consumption for heating increased 1%. Gross electricity production increased 1.3% from a year earlier due to colder weather and because 2012 had an extra day. Germany’s consumption of coal […]
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By P Gosselin on 11. January 2013
Share this…FacebookTwitterFrom 2009, a good refresher – especially if you haven’t seen it yet. Yes it’s a scam. 47:15 “The field is corrupt, without any question. I would say most scientists don’t believe this and didn’t believe it 20 years ago. But the young scientists know they have trouble if they say it, and so […]
Posted in Scepticism |
By P Gosselin on 11. January 2013
Share this…FacebookTwitterRight…and starvation leads to obesity. The alarmists at the German Potsdam Climate Institute now claim global warming leads to colder and snowier winters, which lead to accelerated ice melt in Antarctica. In their latest blog article, Dr. Sebastian Lüning and Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt say this is like claiming eating more makes you lose weight. =================================================== […]
Posted in Antarctic, Hockey Team, Sea Levels, Stupid Predictions |
By P Gosselin on 10. January 2013
Share this…FacebookTwitterProf. Fritz Vahrenholt and Dr. Sebastian Lüning have called HadCrut’s temperature prognosis scale-back “drastic” and say James Hansen’s “legendary prognoses” of rising global temperatures are on the verge of a “dramatic failure”. Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt (Photo credit: www.kaltesonne.de/) ======================================================= The avalanche starts to roll: British weather service drastically scales back its prognoses for warming […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Stupid Predictions |
By P Gosselin on 9. January 2013
Share this…FacebookTwitterA Look At Global Mean Temperatures in 2013: Cooling Ahead! By Fritz Vahrenholt, Frank Bosse (Translated with permission by P Gosselin) “Global Warming Is Taking A Break“ – that was the title of an article at the online Hamburger Abendblatt on 4 January 2013. And that’s hard to miss when you look at the latest […]
Posted in Antarctic, Cooling/Temperature, Models, Oceans |
By P Gosselin on 8. January 2013
Share this…FacebookTwitterIt took them 15 years to notice it: CO2 is not driving the climate. German online daily Hamburger Abendblatt here has a story titled: Global Warming Takes A Break, citing the leaked copy of the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report, which is due to be released in September, 2013. The Hamburger Abendblatt writes (emphasis aded): […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Media / Bias, Models |
By P Gosselin on 8. January 2013
Share this…FacebookTwitterFolks, if you care about the environment and precious habitats for endangered species, like the American bald eagle, then you are going to find the following video rolled in Haldimand, Ontario last Saturday profoundly disturbing: Video courtesy of: www.ontario-wind-resistance.org. The raw emotion of the protesters doing the camera work is clear and understandable. But […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Green Follies |
By P Gosselin on 7. January 2013
Share this…FacebookTwitterA year ago guest writer Ed Caryl wrote a report here telling us that Greenland was getting more snow cover, and not less. A year later we take another look to see if the trend is continuing: Chart source: www.climate4you.com/SnowCover.htm Greenland is melting? Where? The chart shows there is about 80,000 square km more […]
Posted in Arctic |
By P Gosselin on 7. January 2013
Share this…FacebookTwitterJoe Bastardi’s Weatherbell page here features the latest “Saturday Summary´, something I now look forward to every week. First in North America, weather models at about the 2:45 mark show that things could get awfully brutal for an extended period. Already the 7 – 14 day forecast looks ugly: Chart sources: National Centers for […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Weather |
By P Gosselin on 6. January 2013
Share this…FacebookTwitterHaving been born and raised in Vermont in the 1960s and 70s, I remember the state always being environmentally aware and active in the sense of clean water, clean air and beautiful landscapes. The drive behind this traditional environmentalism came from the natural beauty of the state’s rolling green hills, mountains, lakes, forests and rural […]
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By P Gosselin on 5. January 2013
Share this…FacebookTwitterMore than ever Germans are showing less and less interest in “climate protection”. It’s a worn out issue. The German Federal Ministry of Environment’s public information campaign dubbed Klima Sucht Schutz (Climate seeks protection) site here, among other functions, measures German public interest in protecting the climate every quarter using it’s so-called climate barometer index. Climate-barometer index […]
Posted in Activism, Media / Bias |
By P Gosselin on 4. January 2013
Share this…FacebookTwitterEarlier today a reader (I think Juraj) left a comment with a link to a snow cover chart that disappeared on me. Sorry about the accidental deletion, but I’ve managed to find the chart using Google. According to Rutgers University here, snow cover over the northern hemisphere reached record December levels last month, thus dumping cold […]
Posted in Arctic, Cooling/Temperature |
By P Gosselin on 3. January 2013
Share this…FacebookTwitterThe real story of 2012 is one of unextreme weather and natural events. Deaths globally in 2012 from natural disasters were 90% below the longterm average. Photo: Public domain photo, NOAA The online, eco-leftist TAZ from Berlin has an article about reinsurer Munich Re’s Natural Catastrophe Statistics 2012 report on weather and natural disasters, released yesterday. […]
Posted in Drought and Deserts, Hurricanes/Tornados, Weather |
By P Gosselin on 3. January 2013
Share this…FacebookTwitterBenny Peiser alerts us to this excellent feature story brought to you by the UK Spectator on the wildlife devastation being wrought by “climate-friendly wind turbines”. Hats off to the Spectator for this one. The story just goes to show you how little the environmentalist thought these things out: 1. Wind turbines don’t produce that […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Green Follies |
By P Gosselin on 3. January 2013
Share this…FacebookTwitterAt WUWT, Anthony brings our attention to the Best Weblog Awards, which his fine website has won 2 years in a row already. Last year Tallbloke’s Talkshop won the Best European Blog category. Well, this year I’d like to throw my hat in the ring and give Mr. Tallbloke a run for his money […]
Posted in Scepticism |
By P Gosselin on 2. January 2013
Share this…FacebookTwitterThe belief that humans are destroying the climate and that we can prevent “the catastrophe” simply by committing green acts is alive and well – especially in Hamburg, Germany. With a little brainwashing quality education, everything is possible. (Hat-tip Bernd Felsche). The European Institute for Climate and Energy (EIKE) here tells us how the German city of Hamburg […]
Posted in Abnormal Climate Psych, Activism, Green Follies, Scepticism |
By P Gosselin on 1. January 2013
Share this…FacebookTwitterIt’s little wonder that the German public is beginning an uprising against the mandatory fees that every citizen is forced to pay in order to fund the country’s vast public radio and television. Every year the widely hated GEZ shakes €8 billion from Germans. For German readers, here’s a stinging commentary on just how unbelievably […]
Posted in Media / Bias, Nuclear energy |
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