By P Gosselin on 9. September 2014
German scientists Fritz Vahrenholt and Sebastian Lüning ridicule the New York climate conference nobody is going to. Enjoy! ==================================== Imagine there’s a climate conference, but no one goes By Sebastian Lüning and Fritz Vahrenholt (Translated, edited by P Gosselin) Imagine there’s a climate conference, but no one goes. Already months ago South Korean UN General Secretary Ban […]
Posted in Climate Politics, IPCC |
By P Gosselin on 8. September 2014
One thing we can be predicted with very high certainty: On March, 20, 2015 most of Germany will see a partial yet substantial eclipse of the sun. 40 gigawatts of rated power blocked in just minutes! Normally that would be no big deal. But for the first time in history, due to Germany’s massive installed solar […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Solar Sciences |
By P Gosselin on 7. September 2014
Correction: Yesterday I had the wrong chart up (2013). Now the 2014 winter chart is up. ====================================== This September is bringing with it already the first hints of winter for North America with snow predicted to fall over a vast area of the upper western USA, perhaps as far south as Denver, says meteorologist Joe Bastardi […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Models, Weather |
By P Gosselin on 6. September 2014
What follows is the press release by GEOMAR on the very recent Muscheler et al paper showing the sun’s profound impact on northern hemispheric climate. Other sites touched on this paper, here and here. Now I’ve translated the entire GEOMAR press release from the German. The results of the study are impressive: ================================= The sun […]
Posted in Solar Sciences |
By P Gosselin on 5. September 2014
The online India Today here reports that India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Friday: Climate has not changed. We have changed. Our habits have changed. Our habits have got spoiled. Due to that, we have destroyed our entire environment,” he said while addressing students and replying to their questions through video conferencing in the […]
Posted in Scepticism |
By P Gosselin on 5. September 2014
Germany’s ambitious offshore wind energy project is increasingly threatening to become an expensive green energy folly. Originally the flagship North Sea wind energy project was scheduled to be delivering clean energy by August 2013. However technical failures beleaguered the project and delayed the opening 7 months: until March 2014. BARD I offshore windpark shut-down extends […]
Posted in Alternative Energy |
By P Gosselin on 4. September 2014
The polar-vortex-inducing “warming Arctic” seems to be doing strange things to the Arctic itself – defying the very laws of physics: The “warmth” there is causing the sea ice extent to explode. Compare 2012 versus 2014: Arctic images for September 3. Source: www.ijis.iarc.uaf.edu/htm. Depending on which dataset you use, the Arctic sea ice extent this […]
Posted in Arctic, Cooling/Temperature, Weather |
By P Gosselin on 3. September 2014
Scientific scepticism within the policy-driving field of climate science has taken another significant step in growth and reach in Europe and internationally. Photo: Benny Peiser, Lord Lawson (GWPF) Five years after its inauguration in 2009, the London-based Global Warming Policy Foundation has announced the launch of its new campaigning arm, the Global Warming Policy Forum. […]
Posted in Scepticism |
By P Gosselin on 2. September 2014
Here’s some double-barrel hypocrisy, again straight out of Hollywood. Photo by: Nicolas Genin, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license. Last week big Obamacare booster and anti-CO2 activist George Clooney took his private jet all the way from Las Angeles across the US, Canada, and the Atlantic, before finally landing in Germany…to seek […]
Posted in Lifestyles of the Rich and Alarmist |
By P Gosselin on 1. September 2014
Two years ago at about this time of year the media were overflowing at the brim with apocalyptic stories of high-speed Arctic meltdown. Everywhere the media used words like “dramatic”, catastrophic”, “accelerated”, “tipping point” and so on. Except for the story of an overall long-term trend claimed by one paper from the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) […]
Posted in Antarctic, Arctic, Media / Bias |
By P Gosselin on 1. September 2014
Update 01/09/2014 19:18 CET: The opinion poll presented at the Plenum link below just seems to be too wrong. To me it appears to be a national poll, and not of Saxony. The Plenum story does not specify exactly the region the poll was taken. ==================================== Germany’s version of the UKIP Party in the UK is […]
Posted in Climate Politics |
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