By P Gosselin on 20. February 2013
Preliminary figures show that Germany’s CO2 emissions for 2012 increased 1.5% – due to a cold winter and higher consumption of coal for producing electricity, writes Germany’s FOCUS magazine here. Environment Minister Peter Altmaier says Germany’s CO2 emissions are rising, and his country’s renewable energy transition will cost 1 trillion euros by 2039. Photo credit: Peter […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Climate Politics |
By P Gosselin on 19. February 2013
Countries considering implementing green energy feed-in schemes may want to look at what is going on in Germany. Michael Limburg warns that Germany’s EEG renewable energy act is driving the country to ruins. Photo source: Michael Limburg Few countries have moved as aggressively as Germany in promoting renewable energy. Some tout the German system as […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Climate Politics |
By P Gosselin on 18. February 2013
Not long ago the catastrophe-obsessed scientists of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research claimed that another 1.6°C of warming may be enough to melt all of Greenland’s ice and cause global sea levels to rise catastrophically. Keep in mind that the PIK is probably the biggest producer of catastrophe stories in the world after […]
Posted in Arctic, Hockey Team, Stupid Predictions |
By P Gosselin on 17. February 2013
Big, embarrassing news for German climate scientists. With 11 days remaining, Germany this year is set for its 5th colder-than-normal winter (DJF) in a row (a record), this according to high-profile German meteorologist Dominik Jung at www.wetter.net here (photo left). Jung is an often-quoted meteorology expert of the German media. I’m really quite (pleasantly) surprised because I […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Hockey Team, Scepticism, Stupid Predictions |
By P Gosselin on 16. February 2013
Reader Aetheress left a comment, which I’ve upgraded to a post. Here it is: ============================================ Post by Aetheress: I’ll try to keep this short – While all of the following scientists believe the globe is warming, the vast majority of them do NOT believe in the theory of “Anthropegenic” GW. Survey: “Peer-Reviewed Survey Finds Majority […]
Posted in Scepticism |
By P Gosselin on 15. February 2013
Sebastian Lüning and Klaus-Eckart Puls write the story of how renowned German climate scientists had for years predicted warmer winters with snow becoming increasingly more rare – before they turned on a dime and suddenly claimed global warming would cause colder winters. =========================================== Germany – A Winter Fairy Tale By Klaus-Eckart Puls and Sebastian Lüning (translated, […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Hockey Team, Models, Stupid Predictions |
By P Gosselin on 14. February 2013
While Vermonters in my homestate aren’t proud enough of their beautiful mountains to preserve them, and so have decided to install wind-parks on ridgelines, see here and here, Scotland has decided they want no part of such lunacy. Must be the fine whisky Scots produce and drink there. They ought to send some of those spirits over […]
Posted in Alternative Energy |
By P Gosselin on 14. February 2013
The European Institute for Climate and Energy (EIKE) has been the target of an Internet attack. The German climate science skeptic site was shut down earlier this morning by a “bot attack”. EIKE has issued the following statement: Dear Readers, Our website http://www.eike-klima-energie.eu has been shut down since this morning by a very specialized Internet attack. The breach […]
Posted in Misc. |
By P Gosselin on 13. February 2013
Meteorologist Prof. Dr. Horst Malberg has an article posted at the European Institute for Climate and Energy (EIKE) here. He tells us we ought to be preparing for a cooler 21st century first half. Meteorologist Prof. Horst Malberg. Photo credit: EIKE Professor Malberg starts his article by showing and discussing various solar activity charts. Today I’m […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Solar Sciences |
By P Gosselin on 12. February 2013
Germany’s version of David Viner is Prof. Mojib Latif (photo left) of the IFM-GEOMAR, Kiel, and the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences. Back in the year 2000, after Viner had gotten widespread publicity for his comments, Latif got in on the media act and told Spiegel just days later: “Winters with hard frost and lots […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Hockey Team, Models, Stupid Predictions |
By P Gosselin on 11. February 2013
The climate-catastrophe-obsessed Klimaretter brings us an amusing anecdote which illustrates the absurdity of the green economy. It shows that it’s not really green at all. It’s pure bullshit, and Germans couldn’t care less about scaling back their lifestyles. The 330-meter long indoor skiing facility in Wittenburg, Germany, gets €1 million in subsidies to install a […]
Posted in Alternative Energy |
By P Gosselin on 10. February 2013
A new study titled Snow variability in the Swiss Alps 1864–2009 appearing in the Journal of Clmatology by Scherrer at al doi: 10.1002/joc.3653 shows a temperature trend reversal has been taking place in the Swiss Alps since 2000. Aletschhorn, Bernese Alps. Photo credit: Tallin Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. The paper looks at nine Swiss Alpine […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Glaciers |
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