By P Gosselin on 7. November 2013
COP 19 in Warsaw is fast approaching and part of the ritual is the ringing of climate disaster alarms, much like churches ring their church bells on Christmas Eve. The Die Welt article here tries to explain to readers why the climate catastrophe is still approaching even if temperatures haven’t risen in 15 years. The […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Hockey Team, Scepticism |
By P Gosselin on 6. November 2013
Germany’s citizens are less willing than ever to accept higher costs for green electricity. Enough is enough, they are now saying. WDR German public television has a report at its website here on the results of an opinion survey conducted by polling institute Infratest dimap to find out if the public is willing to pay more for […]
Posted in Alternative Energy |
By P Gosselin on 6. November 2013
Despite the hundreds of billions of dollars diverted into CO2 reduction, man-made CO2 gas emissions continue to rise unabated globally. The latest UNEP report says it sees very little chance of the world reaching CO2 reductions targets. The ever widening gap Yesterday the online Die Welt here reported that UNEP is warning of “a growing gap” between the […]
Posted in Misc.
By P Gosselin on 5. November 2013
Veteran journalist Ulli Kulke of the German blog Die Welt has a report claiming that how sea levels are not rising anywhere near as fast as climate science alarmists are claiming. First Kulke reminds readers that measuring sea level is no easy task because, depending on the location, sea levels can vary by several decimeters – […]
Posted in Sea Levels |
By P Gosselin on 5. November 2013
A press release by the Max Planck Institute (MPI) describes how a recent study shows that people are not very willing to make sacrifices if the benefits follow only much later in the future. That’s no surprise. Immediate rewards make our brains rejoice and when such a reward beckons we’re happy to behave cooperatively. But if […]
Posted in Abnormal Climate Psych, Climate Politics |
By P Gosselin on 4. November 2013
Now that the global temperature has not risen in 15 years, part of the German media is actually beginning to take a serious new look at the possibility of global cooling and are slowly questioning the alarmist assertion that the sun played little or no role in the climate change of the last 100 years. […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Solar Sciences |
By P Gosselin on 3. November 2013
The Maldives in the Indian Ocean have long been used by global warming alarmists to drive home the dangers of rising sea levels should polar ice sheets keep melting because of man-made global warming. Male, Maldives. Photo by: Shahee Ilyas, the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version In 2012 former President of […]
Posted in Climate Politics, IPCC, Oceans, Sea Levels |
By P Gosselin on 2. November 2013
The Bundesnachrichtendienst (Federal Intelligence Service) BND is Germany’s version of the CIA, and it has just released a report on the threat posed by climate change and CO2 emissions. It claims that the conflicts of the future will be over CO2 emission allowances! Image: Cropped from photo by A.Fiedler, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 Generic […]
Posted in Activism, Alternative Energy, Climate Politics, CO2 and GHG, Humour, Models, Stupid Predictions |
By P Gosselin on 1. November 2013
Another tasteless, shock-effect promotion video has been released, this one produced by one of Germany’s most prominent environmental groups BUND – for fund-raising! The video, dubbed “Pesticides – manufactured to kill“, shows hundreds of beautiful babies in an agricultural field who end up getting gassed with pesticides sprayed by a passing airplane. Hat/tip: Reader DirkH This is […]
Posted in Activism, Green Follies |
By P Gosselin on 1. November 2013
The online German daily Die Welt here looks back at the month of October 2013 in an interview with meteorologist Dominik Jung, who is often widely quoted in the media and runs the German weather site Wetter.net. Photo: Meteorologist Dominik Jung, Wetter.net. Overall this year’s October was warmer and wetter than normal, and featured “surprising” snowfall early in […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Models, Weather |
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