By P Gosselin on 13. March 2013
Donna Laframboise here at No Frakking Consensus refers us to a recent article on a “scientific study” that confirms dissent and skepticism over climate science is spreading globally and rapidly – in the form of books. In the field of science that’s really good news because that’s how science progresses. It’s also essential for assuring a thriving […]
Posted in Activism, Scepticism |
By P Gosselin on 13. March 2013
The local Austrian daily Vorarlberg Online has a summary of this year’s winter in terms of costs for its region, written by Geraldine Rainer. She writes that the winter of 2012/13 has been an expensive one for the state and municipalities. Arlberg. Photo released into the public domain by its author, Johnfmh. This year’s Austrian winter is typical […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Weather |
By P Gosselin on 12. March 2013
If you ever wonder if the Greens tell the truth when it comes to climate science, then just take a look at what they say about the Fukushima accident of 2011. Hat-tip Bernd Felsche. Green Party top honcho Claudia Roth left an astonishing message at Facebook where she comments about the 2-year anniversary of the […]
Posted in Activism, Climate Politics, Media / Bias, Nuclear energy |
By P Gosselin on 12. March 2013
Can we trust the media? Germany’s massive public funded radio and television demonstrates to us that the answer is: not always. Yesterday many media outlets reported on the 2-year anniversary of Japan’s “earthquake/tsunami/Fukushima” disaster. The way some German public television and radio outlets are presenting the disaster 2 years later would probably make even North Korean […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Media / Bias, Nuclear energy |
By P Gosselin on 11. March 2013
We know that according to the catastrophe-obsessed nut-jobs, everything bad is enhanced or caused by global warming. So this won’t surprise you. A new journal article appearing in Oceanography by scientists Charles H. Greene, Jennifer Francis und Bruce Monger at Cornell University now suggests that Hurricane Sandy was related to human-caused climate change. The article […]
Posted in Arctic, Green Follies, Hockey Team, Humour, We're To Blame |
By P Gosselin on 10. March 2013
Is CO2 the main driver behind climate? Warmist scientists would have us believe it is. One recent European study claims that CO2 and temperature rose simultaneously at the end of the last ice age, implying CO2 is a real driver. However, one prominent German meteorologist dismissed it and bluntly called the Laboratoire de Glaciologie et […]
Posted in CO2 and GHG, Paleo-climatology, Solar Sciences |
By P Gosselin on 9. March 2013
The Carbon Cycle, Nature or Nurture – Part 2 By Ed Caryl In the last post, The Carbon Cycle, Nature or Nurture, sea surface temperatures were shown to have a large influence on CO2 rise in the atmosphere. This influence is so large, that changes in fossil fuel burning cannot be seen. In this article, […]
Posted in CO2 and GHG |
By P Gosselin on 8. March 2013
UPDATE: Yesterday I left 2 regular comments at Kemfert’s Facebook site, but they have both since disappeared. Obviously she is not open to other views – we’re so surprised. Paul Hockenos at the European Energy Review (EER) reports that “energy expert” Dr. Claudia_Kemfert, Director of the Energy, Transportation, and Environment Unit at the prestigious Deutsche Institut […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Climate Politics, Green Follies |
By P Gosselin on 7. March 2013
Sun reveals its full climate power: Equator-pole temperature gradient fluctuates in sync with the sun By Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt and Dr. Sebastian Lüning (Translated with permission by P Gosselin) The geological factual basis is clear: Fluctuations in solar activity significantly influenced the development of the climate throughout the history of the Earth. Figure 1: […]
Posted in IPCC, Solar Sciences |
By P Gosselin on 6. March 2013
Over the last few days, Central Europe has been enjoying springlike sunshine with double-digit Celsius temperatures. Some readings rose to near 15°C (59°F). However, this will end brutally by the end of the week. At Twitter, meteorologist Dominik Jung of wetter.net posted the chart of what’s ahead, for example, for the central German city of […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Models, Weather |
By P Gosselin on 5. March 2013
Gerd Heidecke of the online WAZ daily reports on a new survey conducted by polling institute Forsa, commissioned by the Ruhr Region Initiative. The pollsters asked over 1000 people about energy in the industrial heartland of North Rhine Westphalia, Germany. Hat-tip Benny Peiser at Achse des Guten. The title of the WAZ report is: “People in […]
Posted in Misc. |
By P Gosselin on 4. March 2013
A couple of days ago we saw how wind power in Britain at one point had fallen to just a fraction of one percent in supplying national demand. The situation was hardly better in Germany. The following chart provided by Wilfried Heck here shows Germany’s electric power consumption and the energy fed in by wind […]
Posted in Alternative Energy |
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