By P Gosselin on 10. March 2014
More an eight years ago Al Gore, according to Laurie David, prophesized that unless we acted immediately we had only “ten years left to save the planet from a scorching.” The ever skeptical Rush Limbaugh put up his countdown clock (see below) on January 27, 2006. Rush Limbaugh’s countdown to a scorching clock. Cropped from: www.rushlimbaugh.com/earth_cooks […]
Posted in Gore, Green Follies, Stupid Predictions |
By P Gosselin on 9. March 2014
The rich are mugging the poor – now in foreign countries, too. According to online Spiegel here, a general counsel to the European High Court has ruled that consumers in one country also have to pay green energy feed-in subsidies to producers in foreign countries as well. That means that heavily industrialized Germany may soon […]
Posted in Alternative Energy |
By P Gosselin on 8. March 2014
CORRECTION: David Lessmann, Communications Manager of the Copenhagen Consensus Center, has written by that it is indeed “For €100 billion Climate Change Delayed 37 Hours“. =========================== Hat-tip Die kalte Sonne. The online schwäbische.de here presents an interview with warmist Bjorn Lomborg. His conclusion on Germany’s Energiewende (transition to renewable energy): It’s “inefficient and too expensive.” […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Green Follies |
By P Gosselin on 7. March 2014
Last week I wrote how an expert government committee recommended scrapping Germany’s once widely ballyhooed EEG renewable energy feed-in act. Photo: Dr. Klaus-Peter Krause. Source: freiewelt.net Today at the Freie Presse here economics expert and veteran journalist Dr. Klaus-Peter Krause slams the EEG act, saying “it belongs in the dustbin”: “Too expensive, and too unstable.” Increasingly […]
Posted in Alternative Energy |
By P Gosselin on 6. March 2014
A couple years ago, Europe was acting deadly serious about forcing the rest of the world’s airlines flying in out of Europe to purchase airline emissions certificates. The rescue of the planet was at stake. Photo: NASA, public domain. European bureaucrats actually deluded themselves into thinking the USA, China, Russia and other global powers would […]
Posted in Climate Politics |
By P Gosselin on 5. March 2014
The high costs of wind power apparently are getting to be too much to take for even the wind-turbine-hugging Danes! Denmark’s online Borsen here quotes the country’s famous Jyllands-Posten concerning the souring acceptance of wind parks in the Nordic country and the growing discontent with regards to the astronomical wind power prices. Hat-tip: a reader […]
Posted in Alternative Energy |
By P Gosselin on 5. March 2014
Oh no! Our great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandchildren might drown in the ocean 2000 years into the future, in the year 4014! The idiotic UK Guardian reports today on a global warming theory of unprecedented absurdity, one fabricated with the help of crystal balls by Prof Ben Marzeion of the University of Innsbruck in Austria and Anders Levermann of […]
Posted in Oceans, Sea Levels, Stupid Predictions |
By P Gosselin on 4. March 2014
Wind energy country Denmark spying on and analyzing critical citizens By the European Institute for Climate and Energy Copenhagen/Hamburg: A Danish study that cost the taxpayer more than €2.6 million and supported by the freeloaders of the wind power, led by world’s largest wind turbine manufacturers Vestas, Siemens, and Vattenfall in Denmark, is to provide […]
Posted in Alternative Energy |
By P Gosselin on 3. March 2014
Meteorology professor emeritus Dr. Horst Malberg writes at the European Institute for Climate and Energy (EIKE): As is evident from the last 15 years, the CO2-driven climate models (and the people pushing them) have a fundamental problem: They did not, or falsely predicted, the current climate development.” Malberg writes in the conclusion: The anthropogenic CO2 impact on […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature |
By P Gosselin on 2. March 2014
At his latest Saturday Summary, Joe Bastardi serves up a few observations about the current weather across the globe. Let’s recall that global warming was really supposed to be having an impact over the land masses, especially during the winters. But the land masses, at least this winter, aren’t cooperating at all. Globally temperatures are in […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Weather |
By P Gosselin on 1. March 2014
Wild and crazy weather extremes really are nothing new. I got the following compilation from reader Jimbo: ================================ Hi Pierre, Please consider putting up the following as a post. It concerns 1935 bad weather events. It’s intended to put things into perspective for younger folks. Below is a small selection of newspaper headlines from 1935 […]
Posted in Abnormal Climate Psych, Drought and Deserts, Hurricanes/Tornados, Weather |
By P Gosselin on 1. March 2014
Germany’s WirtschaftsWoche here (Business Week) reports on German steel and engineering giant ThyssenKrupp’s reaction to rising renewable energy costs, warning that “unless the correct decisions are made concerning renewable electricity, Germany as a location for steel production is in jeopardy.” ThyssenKrupp is struggling to keep its steel-making operations alive in Germany in the face of […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Climate Politics |
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