By P Gosselin on 20. April 2014
On other days, like Earth Day, Halloween, or holidays of other religions, we find Google putting up some kind of motive at their search page to mark the day. Here’s what Google.de has today for Easter, which is celebrated by over a billion people worldwide: Nothing, quite obviously. In fact according to a comment from […]
Posted in Misc. |
By P Gosselin on 19. April 2014
Just a few days ago, the IPCC WG III report claimed that CO2 emissions could be curbed with little pain involved. Well, go tell it to the more than 300,000 Germans who have had their power shut off in a single year because they no longer can afford skyrocketing electric bills. And these people live in […]
Posted in Alternative Energy |
By P Gosselin on 18. April 2014
330 Years of Sea Level By Ed Caryl Sea level data suffer from the same problem as temperature and other climate measures; there isn’t enough of it. Satellite sea level data only goes back twenty years, even less than the satellite temperature data. Fortunately, because the West was civilized by seafaring nations, we have some […]
Posted in Sea Levels |
By P Gosselin on 17. April 2014
Europe’s regulation bureaucrats are going out of control once again. Citizens, they feel, aren’t grown up enough to responsibly operate their own household applicances. They need to be nannied, the EU bureaucrats believe. So out they come with the European Ecodesign Directive, which originally was intended to regulate electric appliances like flat screen televisions, dishwashers […]
Posted in Climate Politics, Green Follies |
By P Gosselin on 16. April 2014
Veteran meteorologist Joe Bastardi tweeted here a chart showing Detroit not only has been struggling with a brutal, cold and snowy winter this year, but has been doing so for the last decade. Soon people won’t know what bare ground in the springtime is! Joe also adds that 6 of the top 15 snowy winters […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature |
By P Gosselin on 16. April 2014
The online Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ), Germany’s leading national political daily, has a commentary on the IPCC’s WG III report. It’s also online here. On the front page AGW believer Joachim Müller-Jung comments: The solution appears so simple – but collectively it is so difficult to achieve.” He adds that meanwhile Climate policy is now […]
Posted in Climate Politics |
By P Gosselin on 15. April 2014
Rebound and Sea Level By Ed Caryl During the peak of the last ice age, enough ice was collected in the great ice sheets that the global sea level was reduced by more than 120 meters. The ice sheets themselves were, in places, more than two kilometers thick. The great weight of that ice depressed […]
Posted in Arctic, Sea Levels |
By P Gosselin on 15. April 2014
Not long ago Austrian social critic and rap musician Kilez More produced and posted a climate science skeptic video. I reported on this awhile back, see here and here. The video also has English subtitles to help get the overall message across internationally. The video, watched mainly by young people, has surpassed the 100,000 views milestone. Congratulations […]
Posted in Scepticism |
By P Gosselin on 13. April 2014
Those of us following climate science are all familiar with the hockey stick hoax and NASA’s readjustment of past temperatures that have the effect of making it look like the globe is warming. Not only climate science seems to have been corrupted by unscrupulous scientists, but so has the food and nutritional sciences in what […]
Posted in Activism, Climate Politics |
By P Gosselin on 10. April 2014
Dear Readers, Blogging and approving comments will be on the light side for the next few days as there are important matters to take care of. I’ll be getting a story in, here or there. It’a also a good opportunity to to step back a bit and refocus. 🙂
Posted in Misc. |
By P Gosselin on 10. April 2014
Britain has the UKIP party; Germany has got the Alternativ für Deutschland (AfD) party, translated: Alternative for Germany. Both are equally hated by the establishment. The media do all they can to portray them as dangerous, right-wing, beer-hall populists. In a nutshell: they are a threat to the cozy establishment. Last September the AfD party barely […]
Posted in Alternative Energy |
By P Gosselin on 8. April 2014
That’s the title Die Achse Des Guten here bears at its website. Few countries have spent as much as Germany on measures to reduce CO2 emissions. Today German website Die Achse Des Guten here links to a blurb appearing in German “intellectual” weekly Die Zeit here which unwittingly tells readers what Germany has gained for its 100-billion-euro […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Climate Politics |
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