By P Gosselin on 23. May 2013
Not surprisingly Dana Nuccitelli of SkepticalScience.com obstinately refuses to see the facts, even when they are staring him right in the face. Richard Tol at Twitter has thrown the now notorious John Cook survey, of which Nuccitelli was a co-author, into the dustbin of history. Here’s the exchange between the two: Tol’s last comment pretty […]
Posted in Activism, Hockey Team, Humour, Media / Bias, Scepticism |
By P Gosselin on 22. May 2013
The German media are now naturally asking what is behind the terrible tornado that struck near Oklahoma City. Tornado frequency. Source NOAA To fool the public, German ZDF public television here, Germany’s version of the BBC, sought out “one of Germany’s most renown climate scientists” Prof Mojib Latif of the IFM-GEOMAR, Kiel, the Leibniz Institute […]
Posted in Hockey Team, Hurricanes/Tornados, Media / Bias |
By P Gosselin on 22. May 2013
Last week, the German Federal Umweltbundesamt (UBA), Germany’s version of the EPA, issued a one-sided alarmist pamphlet that attempts to declare the climate debate over and attacks prominent skeptics. Controversial 123-page pamphlet…in it the German Federal Environment Agency (UBA) declares climate debate over and names and portrays skeptics as “spreaders of half-truths and misinformation”. In […]
Posted in Activism, Climate Politics, Media / Bias, Scepticism |
By P Gosselin on 21. May 2013
Major German dailies today are reporting that Europe is beginning to give up on the big green dream it once so deeply cherished and envisioned a great society powered by clean sunshine and wind. After trying for years to force renewable energies onto consumers, the bill came and eyes popped. Suddenly we are also seeing studies […]
Posted in Alternative Energy |
By P Gosselin on 20. May 2013
All the talk now is about the Otto et al paper that just has come out, which claims that, well, the warming isn’t going to be like we thought. Oops. Chart source: www.nature.com/ngeo/journal.pdf Spiegel provides a first glimpse of the reaction from Germany: New Study On Climate Change: Earth Warming More Slowly Than Feared. The […]
Posted in CO2 and GHG, Cooling/Temperature, Models, Stupid Predictions |
By P Gosselin on 20. May 2013
A few days ago NTZ wrote about a recently published brochure released by the Umweltbundesamt (UBA), which is Germany’s version of the EPA. UBA Director Jochen Flasbarth lost control of the agency to radical zealots, now under massive fire. Photo: UBA. The notorious brochure not only included an alarmist summary of climate science today, but […]
Posted in Activism, Climate Politics, Hockey Team, Scepticism |
By P Gosselin on 19. May 2013
The Latest On The CLOUD Experiment at CERN By Sebastian Lüning and Fritz Vahrenholt On May 10, 2013, at the online Austrian ORF, there was a rare interview with the CLOUD Experiment director of the European European Organization for Nuclear Research, Jasper Kirkby. Within the scope of the CLOUD project, it is being investigated to what extent solar […]
Posted in Solar Sciences |
By P Gosselin on 18. May 2013
German flagship news magazine Spiegel Online today has an article authored by Axel Bojanowski which takes a close look at the recent John Cook survey. German alarmists like the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research hailed it as proof that climate science was settled and done. But Spiegel draws a different a totally conclusion. First […]
Posted in Hockey Team, IPCC, Models, Scepticism |
By P Gosselin on 18. May 2013
What follows is a critical article written by Jens Meyer-Wellmann appearing in German national daily Die Welt that got by me a couple of weeks ago. The title: “Scientists should not play priest…Climate scientist von Storch accuses his colleagues of spreading panic – and sees no major consequences coming from a dredging of the Elbe River“. […]
Posted in Climate Politics, Hockey Team, IPCC |
By P Gosselin on 17. May 2013
With atmospheric CO2 concentrations reaching the 400 ppm level, the media and a number of alarmist scientists have set off the mega-alarm bells, claiming “record high levels” of CO2 had been reached, and that the planet is on the verge of an overdose. This is based purely on ignorance of the Earth’s history. Worrying that […]
Posted in CO2 and GHG |
By P Gosselin on 16. May 2013
When you look at what’s going on in some of the world’s leading democracies today, with some institutions running rampantly out of control without oversight, we should not wonder why people in droves are losing faith and trust in government. Government issues pamphlet identifying enemy skeptics The latest example comes from the powerful German Ministry for Environment: […]
Posted in Activism, Climate Politics, Hockey Team, Scepticism |
By P Gosselin on 15. May 2013
A few years ago, scientists were claiming that the Arctic would warm quickly in response to global warming. But then temperatures in the northern hemisphere began to drop. And before you knew it, scientists were claiming that cold temperatures actually proved global warming. No warming in sight for Alaska. Temperature anomaly forecast for May 15 – […]
Posted in Arctic |
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