By P Gosselin on 14. January 2014
If you think things couldn’t get more absurd with Germany’s Energiewende, think again. The German Bundesverbandes der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft (Federal Association of Energy and Water Management) or BDEW, released its latest report on electricity production in Germany. The BDEW represents about 1800 companies of the energy and power sector. Germany burns more coal, emits […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, CO2 and GHG |
By P Gosselin on 14. January 2014
Germany’s energy feed-in act is skidding out of control – and risks causing a social uprising. The power grid is becoming ever more precarious and electricity prices for consumers are at record levels. The German government, on the other hand, is reacting like a petrified deer caught in the headlights. It doesn’t know what to do. Yesterday, Germany’s […]
Posted in Alternative Energy |
By P Gosselin on 13. January 2014
I got an email from the head of an Ontario wind-turbine protest-group seeking information about wind power development in Germany. Ontario, it appears, is poised to industrialize its landscape – thinking this will somehow lead to nicer weather. The head of the protest group wrote that the Ontario windpark promoters and lobbyists “are continually referring to […]
Posted in Alternative Energy |
By P Gosselin on 12. January 2014
What implications could a low-activity sun have on earth? Fritz Vahrenholt’s and Frank Bosse’s latest solar report. =============================================== The Sun in December 2013: Coming Back To Life By Frank Bosse and Fritz Vahrenholt Translated and edited by P Gosselin) For solar observers there was quite a bit of activity last month, namely sunspots, and not too […]
Posted in Solar Sciences |
By P Gosselin on 11. January 2014
Warmest November since measurements began? An analysis of global satellite data leads to a different conclusion By Dr. Sebastian Lüning and Prof Fritz Vahrenholt On December 21, 2013 Spiegel Online reported: Worldwide temperature record: Warmest November since measurements began. Warm air over Russia resulted in the warmest November since 1891. The entire year 2013 jumps upwards […]
Posted in Arctic, Weather |
By P Gosselin on 10. January 2014
At his Wry Heat blog, the Tucson Citizen’s Jonathan Duhamel has a good commentary titled: A ship of fools. No mystery here over what he’s writing about. Duhamel writes: The good professor Turney, wanted to show how global warming was affecting the planet. He apparently had visions of clear sailing, but he picked a year in […]
Posted in Antarctic, Green Follies |
By P Gosselin on 10. January 2014
Former IPCC Author Kevin Trenberth admits in a new paper: PDO ocean oscillation contributed to the 1976-1998 warming phase By Dr. Sebastian Lüning and Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt (Translation, editing by P Gosselin) It took a while, but ocean cycles have finally been adopted by the IPCC as an important climate factor. With John Fasullo, Kevin […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Oceans |
By P Gosselin on 10. January 2014
The skeptics haven’t had this much fun for as long as I can recall. Global warming scientists getting trapped in ice, North America gripped by a record-breaking cold snap, activist climate scientists blaming cold on warming Derek Hunter interviews outspoken climate science critic Marc Morano at WBAL 1090, click on the following link: www.wbal.com/marc-morano Marc […]
Posted in Abnormal Climate Psych, Cooling/Temperature, IPCC, Models, Scepticism, Weather |
By P Gosselin on 9. January 2014
Veteran German journalist Ulli Kulke of Die Welt writes a summary of 2013 in terms of the global warming debate at his blog donnerunddoria.welt.de. He concludes: “Once again evidence has mounted that we are slowly but surely departing from the view of a global apocalypse.” On 2013 global temperature, Kulke writes: We will hear that 2013 […]
Posted in Climate Politics, Cooling/Temperature, IPCC, Scepticism |
By P Gosselin on 8. January 2014
Europe and especially Germany have been enjoying an unusual, weeks-long spell of mild weather with temperatures in the double-digit Celsius range. Southerly winds have kept the continent mild for weeks. Warmists have been coming out and saying: Aha! Just as we predicted! And they are even claiming the same about the deadly cold weather gripping North […]
Posted in Arctic, Cooling/Temperature, Models, Weather |
By P Gosselin on 7. January 2014
The online German daily Die Welt here has an interview with ARD public television chief meteorologist Karsten Schwanke on why it’s so cold in North America. He attributes the severe cold to an “unusually stable pattern by the Jet Stream“. As I read the interview I waited for the “is global warming the cause?” question. It […]
Posted in Arctic, Cooling/Temperature, Models |
By P Gosselin on 7. January 2014
Flood Analysis in Spain Shows No Trend In 40 Years By Sebastian Lüning and Fritz Vahrenholt (Translated by P Gosselin) For years the insurance industry toldus that flooding was becoming more common. The main reasons was man and his CO2 emissions. Homeowners living near rivers got scared, and rushed to buy new insurance policies. The insurance […]
Posted in Activism, Climate Politics, We're To Blame |
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