By P Gosselin on 10. July 2013
In relatively windy Germany many people think wind turbines are a reliable investment. After all, especially near the North and Baltic seas, the wind blows almost all the time, and surely wind energy is competitive, even when generated onshore. But that’s proving to be a total myth, so reports Germany’s leftist-greenie daily, TAZ. According to […]
Posted in Alternative Energy |
By P Gosselin on 10. July 2013
Economist Professor Bjorn Lomborg agrees with an article appearing at the IEEE Spectrum titled: Unclean at Any Speed. Here’s Lomborg’s post at FaceBook: I’ve always wondered about all the huge mining operations that would be necessary to get the materials to manufacture hundreds of millions of huge batteries. Never mind the storage systems needed for […]
Posted in Alternative Energy |
By P Gosselin on 9. July 2013
Germany’s online Frankfurter Rundschau features an interview with climate scientist Stefan Brönnimann, Director of the Research Group for Climatology at the University of Bern in Switzerland. Sounding more unsure about CO2 than ever…climate scientist Stefan Brönnimann If Brönnimann represents what is going on among warmist scientists, it is that global warming scientists are no longer […]
Posted in Scepticism, Solar Sciences |
By P Gosselin on 8. July 2013
On 22 June 2013 the Swiss newspaper Basler Zeitung published an interview with climate historian Christian Pfister . Director of Business, Social, and Environmental History at the University of Bern, Switzerland. There’s been a lot of grumbling in Europe this spring due to the cold and wet weather, and so the Swiss daily decided to check […]
Posted in Abnormal Climate Psych, Drought and Deserts, We're To Blame |
By P Gosselin on 7. July 2013
Anyone who really does his homework and studies the roots of the green movement will soon find himself back in Nazi Germany. This is a conclusion that many independent scholars have arrived at. That feeling of intellectual superiority, infallibility, obsessive intolerance to other views, and being convinced you know what is best for everyone else […]
Posted in Activism |
By P Gosselin on 6. July 2013
As the sporadic, unpredictable supply of solar and wind energies increasingly become a part of Germany’s power mix, the country’s electrical grid is becoming more and more unstable and thus vulnerable to a massive power outage. Dr. Klaus Peter Krause has an article at www.freiewelt.net called “Renewable, but not controllable“, which looks at Germany’s ever more precarious […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Green Follies |
By P Gosselin on 5. July 2013
By Ed Caryl The climate calamitologists depend on a continuous calamity supply: high temperature records, the occasional flood, forest fires, tornadoes striking cities, and hurricanes wiping out coastal areas, preferably the heavily populated. Some tropical storm Sandy damage to Staten Island will probably remain un-repaired simply because it is proximate to New York City and […]
Posted in Hurricanes/Tornados, Media / Bias, Weather |
By P Gosselin on 4. July 2013
German EU Parliamentarian Holger Krahmer has posted a very interesting view on Obama’s recently announced new climate initiatives, which aim to reduce USA’s CO2 emissions 50% by 2030. Photo: MEP Holger Krahmer, EU The reductions are supposedly to come mainly from “the shut down of coal power plants and the introduction of more renewable energies“. […]
Posted in Misc. |
By P Gosselin on 4. July 2013
FOX NEWS here reports on the decommissioning of a NASA satellite which has provided lots of data for the climate change discussion over 11 and half years. Jason-1 satellite. Photo: NASA It has circled the globe more than 53,500 times. FOX writes that “the joint U.S. and French satellite was decommissioned this week after its last […]
Posted in Oceans, Sea Levels |
By P Gosselin on 3. July 2013
SMA Solar technology AG based in Germany issues a press release today, announcing job cuts. SMA Solar Technology AG Informs Employees About Necessary Corporate Downsizing The Managing Board of SMA Solar Technology AG (SMA) today informed the company’s employees at an employee meeting about further planned personnel adjustments. To respond to the changing conditions in […]
Posted in Alternative Energy |
By P Gosselin on 3. July 2013
Are you’re getting bored by all the repeated nonsense you hear when listening to a climate speech by an alarmist, or watching a climate report on TV, or just reading a newspaper report on climate? Then try playing “Climate Bullshit Bingo“: Whenever you here one of the climate buzzwords on the card above, check it […]
Posted in Humour |
By P Gosselin on 2. July 2013
Asthma – The New Climate Change Danger – Or is it? By Ed Caryl In the new state-by-state report from the White House, a new scourge caused by climate change has reared it’s ugly head. Asthma! (Gasp…choke…wheeze!). In nearly every state, asthma seems to be the big concern, with hospital admissions and costs described in […]
Posted in We're To Blame |
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