By P Gosselin on 30. April 2014
In a bid to protect consumers and investors. The Berlin-based consumer investor protection organization Verbraucherzentrale für Kapitalanleger (VzfK) has issued a press release here warning Deutsche Bank AG of the high risks of investments in “dubious renewable energy companies” and their projects after a string of spectacular insolvencies. Hat-tip: EIKE. What follows is the VzfK press release, translated to English: The […]
Posted in Alternative Energy |
By P Gosselin on 29. April 2014
Germany’s Deutsche Wetterdienst cherry-picks its way to warming, hiding that the temperature has been cooling since 2000. ================================================ The German Weather Service has a problem with the climate By Dr. D. E. Koelle (Translated/edited by P. Gosselin) One typically regards the Deutsche Wetterdienst (DWD) as a serious organization that supplies us with reliable weather data. But […]
Posted in Activism, Cooling/Temperature, Hockey Team |
By P Gosselin on 28. April 2014
Germany’s eco-evangelical, leftie weekly Die Zeit has a surprisingly sober online piece that almost got by me. It actually harshly criticizes global warming science – unusual for Die Zeit, which is an influential “intellectual” weekly that has been preaching the science is settled for years. Not long ago it one-sidedly attacked skeptics and portrayed them as […]
Posted in Activism, Media / Bias |
By P Gosselin on 27. April 2014
The green energy orgy in Germany is over. The music has stopped and the wine that once flowed freely has long run out. The green energy whores and pimps can go home. In a stunning admission by Germany’s Economics Minister and Vice Chancellor to Angela Merkel, Sigmar Gabriel announced in a recent speech that the […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Climate Politics |
By P Gosselin on 26. April 2014
South Germany’s Bavarian Public television has a clip that looks at the permafrost conditions on Germany’s tallest mountain: the Zugspitze in the Alps. Bavaria’s Zugspitze. Permafrost shows no changes. Photo: Octagon, Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license. Roland Eichhorn of the Bavarian Office of Environment explains how the temperature of the mountain is being monitored. The fear is […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Glaciers |
By P Gosselin on 25. April 2014
German online Novo Argumente here features an interview with Greenpeace co-founder Patrick Moore. Today he is one of the environmental organization’s harshest critics. Photo right: Partick Moore, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license. Moore tells readers how things have run amok at the activist organization, claiming it has changed from one that “not only cared about the […]
Posted in Activism, Greenpeace, We're To Blame |
By P Gosselin on 24. April 2014
Nothing to do with climate directly, but it is funny and to me it serves to remind us skeptics of the people we are dealing with and their hopelessly warped lens through which they view the world. Such are the people we often find in the climate change movement and at Earth Day celebrations. The […]
Posted in Activism, Humour |
By P Gosselin on 23. April 2014
In early April, the 7th Climate Conference, featuring distinguished non-alarmist scientists and organized by the European Institute for Climate and Energy (EIKE), took place at the Steigenberger Hotel Mannheimer Hof in Mannheim, Germany. The 2-day conference featured heavyweights like Richard Lindzen, Nir Shaviv and Henrik Svensmark who brought the message that today’s climate science tells us […]
Posted in CO2 and GHG, Media / Bias, Scepticism |
By P Gosselin on 22. April 2014
Sea Level As We Experience It By Ed Caryl Nils-Axel Môrner is a Swedish sea level specialist. He claims that sea level is not rising more than about 1.1 mm/year, that the satellite data has been wrongly calibrated, and uplift and subsidence errors have contaminated the tide gauge records. In my research on sea level, […]
Posted in Oceans, Sea Levels |
By P Gosselin on 22. April 2014
Awhile back I wrote about a harsh German late night parody of the country’s failed transition to renewable energy. Now the video appears on Youtube and is accompanied by English subtitles. Hat-tip climategate.nl/videoondertiteld/ Enjoy (and share it!): Now you can send the video to your lawmakers so that they can think again about following Germany’s […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Green Follies, Humour |
By P Gosselin on 21. April 2014
Berlin’s leftist, climate-cultie TAZ here reports on how indoor pot growers are switching over to LED lighting to grow their clandestine cannabis. Like, we’re saving the planet too, dude! Image cropped from Cheech and Chong film: Up in Smoke, Paramount Pictures. The TAZ article features a photo of a US grower with the caption: Indoor growing in Denver: […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Humour |
By P Gosselin on 21. April 2014
“The state should never be the arbiter of what people can think.” In Australia we find a true warrior of free speech in Queensland Senator George Brandis, who has come out blasting what he sees as the “sheer authoritarianism” rampant in the global climate change movement, where anyone who challenges the science is labeled a despicable […]
Posted in Activism, Hockey Team, IPCC |
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