By P Gosselin on 14. November 2013
Here’s one of the best speeches I’ve heard in a long time. On October 31 in the Lower Saxony capital of Hanover there was a parliamentary plenum. Dr. Gero Hocker, speaker for Energy, Environment and Climate Protection of the Free Democrat Party, made a speech calling on his parliamentary colleagues to acknowledge the facts on […]
Posted in Scepticism |
By P Gosselin on 13. November 2013
Germans generally are very critical people, and when things aren’t exactly as they should be, they tend to get awfully bent out of shape over it. Anything outside specifications quickly gets labeled by Germans as a “disaster”. And if it meanders beyond that, it gets labeled a catastrophe. Example: if Germany loses a World Cup football game, […]
Posted in Media / Bias, Misc. |
By P Gosselin on 12. November 2013
What would George Clooney have against brutally throttling the plentiful supply of affordable fossil fuel energy that billions of people living on the planet rely on? Nothing, he recently said. George Clooney puts on an Oscar-winning green act. And an act is all it is. Hollywood actor has a mammoth carbon foot print. Photo: Nicolas […]
Posted in Lifestyles of the Rich and Alarmist |
By P Gosselin on 11. November 2013
German meteorologist Dominik Jung comments on the near hysterical reaction of climate scientists concerning typhoon Haiyan at his www.wetter.net/ site. He slams them for lapsing into a “feeding frenzy”. Typhoon Haiyan. Photo: NASA In the last part of the article Jung writes: What’s climate change got to do with it? As always: immediately after an event is […]
Posted in Hurricanes/Tornados, Scepticism |
By P Gosselin on 11. November 2013
The Sun in October 2013 – Minimum lies ahead By Frank Bosse and Fritz Vahrenholt (Translated by P Gosselin) In October 2013 there was a considerable rise in solar activity as the sunspot number (SSN) climbed to 85.6. That’s 77% of the mean value reached at this time into a solar cycle since 1750. The […]
Posted in Solar Sciences |
By P Gosselin on 10. November 2013
Alarmist Stefan Rahmstorf of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and contributor at RealClimate has not wasted any time in climate ambulance chasing at his Scilogs site here, trying to get as much mileage as possible out of tropical storm Haiyan. His piece is predictably titled, “Tropical Storms Are Getting Worse“. What is remarkable […]
Posted in Activism, Hockey Team, Hurricanes/Tornados, We're To Blame |
By P Gosselin on 10. November 2013
The Brussels-based EU bureaucrats continue to spread their enviro and social tyranny. The German-language Turkish news site Deutsch Türkische Nachrichten here reports that the EU has passed another law designed to save people from dangerous drugs: a ban of chocolate cigarettes. Hat-tip DirkH The Deutsch Türkische Nachrichten writes: Also sweets are on the EU’s verboten-list. Chocolate that […]
Posted in Activism |
By P Gosselin on 10. November 2013
If Russia doesn’t behave responsibly soon, then there’s going to be a price to pay, Greenpeace is warning. Greenpeace thinks it can put the political pressure on Russia. We suspect that Russia as a result is getting really nervous by now and that she will soon cave in to Greenpeace’s mighty demands…maybe even within a few days. […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, CO2 and GHG, Greenpeace |
By P Gosselin on 9. November 2013
I had to shake my head when I came across Peter Gleick’s Twitter comment about a Toys R Us spot. Incredibly he writes: “My wife and I saw this ad and looked at each other speechless. And angry. Perhaps the most offensive we’ve ever seen.” Warning: If you hate happy kids, then you aren’t going to […]
Posted in Abnormal Climate Psych, Green Follies, Hockey Team |
By P Gosselin on 8. November 2013
Off the subject today: a short report on Obama’s popularity in Germany, which likely won’t get much attention from the US mainstream media. The NSA spying scandal and Edward Snowden have taken a massive toll on Barack Obama’s and the USA’s approval rating among Germans, new surveys reveal. According to Germany’s online Die Zeit weekly, […]
Posted in Misc. |
By P Gosselin on 8. November 2013
Polar scientist Dr. Peter Lemke of Germany’s renowned Alfred Wegener Institute was interviewed here about climate change, its affect on the Earth’s polar regions and about his recent winter expedition to Antarctica. In the Arctic part of the interview, Lemke repeats the usual man-is-melting-the-Arctic narrative that you often hear from many state-funded alarmist climate scientists. No surprise […]
Posted in Antarctic, Arctic |
By P Gosselin on 7. November 2013
Update: Reader Kåre Kristiansen comments below that electric vehicle owners also get “free electricity for electric cars at some public charging places and no payment for an electric car on ferries.” ===================================== Germany’s online daily TAZ has an article on how an electric car has reached the No. 1 position when it comes to new […]
Posted in Alternative Energy |
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