By P Gosselin on 23. October 2013
German meteorologist Dominik Jung has a commentary today at his wetternet.de site where he looks at the Atlantic Gulf Stream. The commentary is titled: “Is the Gulf Stream Now Losing Its Steam?” Over the last few days Central Europe has been enjoying almost summerlike temperatures as a weather system is drawing warm air from Mediterranean […]
Posted in Oceans |
By P Gosselin on 22. October 2013
The Voice of Russia today has a report titled Scottish in fear of bad weather more than terrorism. At first I thought it was about just another twisted survey to give the impression that people fear global warming climate change and the extremes it’s supposedly brings. But when you actually read the report, you quickly […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature |
By P Gosselin on 22. October 2013
Spiegel, for the first time that I can recall, reports on how sea ice in Antarctica refuses to melt and has reached a new maximum record. Antarctica’s record level sea ice is troubling those who were earlier convinced of the global warming science. Slowly, reluctantly, they are beginning to realize that something is wrong with […]
Posted in Antarctic |
By P Gosselin on 20. October 2013
Dieter Dürand and Sven Titz write at Germany’s flagship business weekly Wirtschaftswoche (English: Business Week) that it’s high time for a new climate policy in the wake of the massive IPCC failures. Germany’s “Wirtschaftswoche” publishes unusually harsh article on IPCC science. Fear-driven science is a failure The authors write of scientists using “horror scenarios” to scare leaders […]
Posted in Hockey Team, IPCC, Models, Scepticism |
By P Gosselin on 20. October 2013
Updated: 20 Oct 2013, 14:30 CET ======================================== New update: nofrakkingconsensus.com/look-again/ Greenpeace tweet from 17 September: “…we’ve got 4 boats in the water heading towards Gazprom’s Arctic rig. We’re going to try and stop the drilling.” ======================================== Online Spiegel today has an analysis by Benjamin Bidder and Christoph Seidler on the motives behind the detention of the […]
Posted in Activism, Climate Politics, Greenpeace |
By P Gosselin on 19. October 2013
The latest Greenpeace activist has been denied bail by a Russian court in the Arctic port city of Murmansk. The online Mail here features photos of a young Greenpeace woman-activist behind bars – the face of innocence. Greenpeace portrays itself as the moral and ethical conscience of the planet and insists it is simply an innocent victim […]
Posted in Greenpeace |
By P Gosselin on 18. October 2013
Always more expensive, never cheaper– renewable energy feed-in tariffs to climb to 6.24 cents in 2014 By Rudolf Kipp, Science Skeptical (Translated, edited by P Gosselin) “Payments for renewable energy will cost each household on average about 1 euro per month – that’s as much as one scoop of ice cream.” That’s what Jürgen Trittin, […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Climate Politics |
By P Gosselin on 17. October 2013
The Rise And Fall Of The Hockey Stick Charts By Michael Krüger, Science Skeptical Blog (Translated, condensed, edited by P Gosselin) The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was created in November 1988 by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) and the World Organization for Meteorology (WMO). The main task of the UN Climate Framework Convention […]
Posted in Hockey Team, IPCC, Paleo-climatology |
By P Gosselin on 16. October 2013
I watched the following Greenpeace video clip of Camila Speziale, the youngest of the 30 Greenpeace activists. I really wonder if Greenpeace is getting the message at all. I found it peculiar that at the end of the video Greenpeace added the text (my emphasis): “Camila is one of the 30 activists taken captive when […]
Posted in Activism, Greenpeace |
By P Gosselin on 16. October 2013
Germany’s online Bild newspaper here quotes German meteorologist Dominik Jung: “For the coming winter give a probability of 70:30% that it’s going to be a colder-than-normal winter.” Photo: SnowKing1, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported. Jung is not the only meteorologist forecasting a colder-than-normal winter. Bild also reports that also Michael Klein of […]
Posted in Greenpeace, Weather |
By P Gosselin on 15. October 2013
British politician, Nigel Lawson, former Chancellor of the Exchequer and Secretary of State for Energy, interviewed yesterday with the online Swiss daily Tagesanzeiger based in Zurich. He provides his views on climate change and energy policy. Photo right: Nigel Lawson, public domain photo A number of leading Swiss publications have recently expressed doubts over the claims […]
Posted in IPCC, Scepticism |
By P Gosselin on 14. October 2013
The Moscow Times here writes that a Russian court has denied the Greenpeace activists bail, and the prospect of spending a long time in a Russian prison is increasingly becoming a grim reality. But unlike in the past, Greenpeace is now also being sharply criticized worldwide. The English-language Voice of Russia aims harsh criticism at Greenpeace, writing that […]
Posted in Greenpeace |
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