By P Gosselin on 19. September 2013
The timing for the scandal just couldn’t be worse for Germany’s third largest political party, the Greens. Only three days before Germany’s national elections, and it is now exploding out of control. This cat is out of the bag, and it’s not about to be put back in and forgotten. The German media, once coddlers […]
Posted in Abnormal Climate Psych |
By P Gosselin on 18. September 2013
Ulli Kulke, veteran journalist at Germany’s flagship daily Die Welt, writes at his Die Welt blog that “scientists from Potsdam not long ago were talking about a global temperature increase of four, five or even more degrees Celsius.” But with the recent news leaking out about the upcoming IPCC AR5, that scenario is looking more […]
Posted in IPCC |
By P Gosselin on 17. September 2013
Below Rainer Hoffmann presents Part 3 of his “10 Inconvenient Truths About Professor Hans-Joachim Schellnhuber“. I wrote about Part 1 here, and Part 2 focused on Schellnhuber’s claiming that climate models provide projections, forecasts, scenarios, prognoses, depending on the situation being served at hand. Part 3 below shows a whopper: Schellnhuber claiming that the complex, chaotic climate […]
Posted in Hockey Team |
By P Gosselin on 16. September 2013
And: “Extreme weather is the only card they have got left to play.” So says German Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt, who is one of the founders of Germany’s modern environmental movement, and agreed to an interview with NoTricksZone. He is one of the co-authors of the German skeptic book “Die kalte Sonne”, which took Germany by storm last […]
Posted in CO2 and GHG, IPCC, Models, Scepticism |
By P Gosselin on 15. September 2013
Not long ago, all of Germany’s political parties and media, whether socialist, green, liberal or conservative, embraced and voted into law the green energy feed-in act (EEG). The few remaining outspoken opponents were marginalized as political Neanderthals and climate deniers. Now fast-forward 5 years to today. My oh my how perceptions have changed. As the […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Climate Politics |
By P Gosselin on 14. September 2013
High profile, Swiss meteorologist Jörg Kachelmann has released his latest weather video: In the video (German) at the 1:10 mark he says Central Europe will be cooling down considerably at the end of the coming week and that winter weather with snow may be making its way down below 1500 m in the Alps. Of […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Weather |
By P Gosselin on 13. September 2013
It’s now halftime for the 2013 hurricane season (June 1 – November 30) and German meteorological site wetternet.de writes that “Hurricanes are less than expected“. Hurricane Irene, 2011. Photo by NASA Using the mean of the 1981 – 2010 period, normally three or four tropical storms form in the Atlantic in August, with one or […]
Posted in Hurricanes/Tornados |
By P Gosselin on 12. September 2013
Lately we’ve been seeing and hearing lots media reports of cooling and cold weather extremes. Global temperature data, such as HadCrut 4, show warming has disappeared altogether. Global temperatures have fallen over the last 8 years. Source: www.woodfortrees.org/. Looking at the data for the last decade or so, one thing stands clear: Global temperatures have […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature |
By P Gosselin on 11. September 2013
Georg Ehring of German Public Radio conducted an interview with climate scientist Professor Hans von Storch, Director of the German Coastal Research Center. The introductory text before the interview reads as follows: The Earth has warmed considerably less than expected over the past 15 years days, says Hans von Storch. That may be due to […]
Posted in Models, Oceans, Scepticism |
By P Gosselin on 10. September 2013
UPDATE: Happy marriages, too. Almost half of all marriages in Europe end in divorce. And it’s the happy Europeans who fret endlessly about the world-ending climate catastrophe. ========================== CNN reports here on the latest UN World Happiness Report, issued from the comfy confines of their New York or Geneva offices. I’m a little confused here. Is the report […]
Posted in Misc. |
By P Gosselin on 9. September 2013
It started with the Farmer’s Almanac. We’ve been hearing lots of talk about another brutal winter being in store. Photo right: weatherbell.com/ Although seasonal forecasts are speculative at best, meteorology indeed has advanced to a point where it is possible to get an idea of what direction the upcoming season is tending towards. Farmers have […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Weather |
By P Gosselin on 8. September 2013
Today we know that this claim should have been a very easy-to-detect gross blunder. The skeptic website klimamanifest-von-heiligenroth.de/ last week posted a freshly produced video (in German) that puts the spotlight on the director of the ultra-alarmist Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Hans-Joachim Schellnhuber. Klimamanifest video, Part 1 of 10. In 2009 Schellnhuber claimed […]
Posted in Activism, Glaciers, Hockey Team, IPCC, Models |
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