By P Gosselin on 30. November 2014
Veteran meteorologist Joe Bastardi at the Weatherbell Analytics Saturday Summary site sharply criticizes NOAA’s ongoing claims of all time high global temperatures being reached, the latest this past November. Early in the video the Weatherbell expert says NOAA has a habit of ignoring the other many (cooler) datasets and jumping on the warmest one they […]
Posted in Climate Politics, Cooling/Temperature, Media / Bias, Scepticism |
By P Gosselin on 29. November 2014
Last Wednesday Seva Energie AG, located at the north German Ecopark in Emstek, announced insolvency. According to company 160 employees are affected. The news is the latest blow to the German renewable energy sector, which has seen a long string of similar insolvencies due to reduced subsidies and strong competition from abroad. Seva Energie is specialized in […]
Posted in Alternative Energy |
By P Gosselin on 28. November 2014
What follows is no joke, and tells us how far the German government is prepared to go in order to get its citizens to be nice to the climate. Germany’s Ministry of Environment headed by socialist Barbara Hendricks has produced a series of video clips aimed at getting citizens to save energy, and thus do […]
Posted in Climate Politics, Green Follies |
By P Gosselin on 27. November 2014
Payback for blind climate alarmism: Media interest in the latest IPCC Report is small By Dr. Sebastian Lüning and Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt The climate alarm narrative just isn’t working anymore. People have seen through the blind climate alarmism and have had enough. The profiteers of climate fear are now becoming seriously worried about the future. […]
Posted in Activism, Climate Politics, Hockey Team, IPCC |
By P Gosselin on 26. November 2014
A number of media outlets are reporting on how a Russian Tupolev jet “froze” at Igarka Airport in Siberia, some 3000 kilometers east of Moscow, 160 kilometers above the Arctic circle. The Russian RT News Agency here reports that the plane “froze to the ground“. Yet another report says that it was actually the plane’s brake system […]
Posted in Arctic, Cooling/Temperature, Weather |
By P Gosselin on 25. November 2014
Right on schedule, winter will be making its real debut at the end of this week as a colder air mass pushes westward into Central Europe, so writes German weather portal donnerwetter.de here. This does not come as any surprise to those who ignore the warming hysteria in the media and follow the observed data. […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature |
By P Gosselin on 24. November 2014
Germany’s once formidable Green Party just held its annual convention in Hamburg. Over the past few years Germans in general have grown fatigued of the planet-rescuing Greens and their dire warnings that man’s technology was destroying the planet. So faced with the prospect of slipping into irrelevance, the Greens are now scrambling to find an […]
Posted in Activism, Climate Politics |
By P Gosselin on 23. November 2014
For decades the science told us that humans needed to cut back on fatty foods like red meat, eggs, chicken, cheese, butter and that we should switch to high carb diets, with lots of exercises. High carb, low fat was The Consensus. Backed by all the US medical associations and 99% of all doctors. Dissenters […]
Posted in Activism, Agriculture, Green Follies, Lifestyles of the Rich and Alarmist |
By P Gosselin on 23. November 2014
About three weeks ago Spiegel science journalist Axel Bojanowski wrote a highly critical piece of the IPCC’s recently released 5th Synthesis Report, claiming that the report IPCC misled the public and needlessly sounded the alarms, background here. Also at Twitter Bojanowski pointed to “gross problems” that “need to be discussed”. The Spiegel journalist in the […]
Posted in Activism, Climate Politics, IPCC |
By P Gosselin on 23. November 2014
The Heartland Institute here has available a poster with 58 experts who don’t believe there is a man-made climate crisis, and who aren’t afraid to show up for a little debate in public. Of course there are many other experts who could be added. Next time you run into an alarmist who insists there’s a consensus, […]
Posted in Scepticism |
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By P Gosselin on 22. November 2014
This week’s print edition of the Swiss news weekly Weltwoche has a commentary by economist Silvio Borner titled “Cardiac Arrest with Flickering Power“. His commentary focusses on the completely misleading and false claims often made by tax-payer funded proponents of renewable energies, mainly solar and wind power. Hat-tip: “Kurt in Switzerland” According to Borner, the Swiss canton […]
Posted in Alternative Energy |
By P Gosselin on 21. November 2014
Despite plunging energy prices on world markets, electricity prices in Germany refuse to drop anywhere near in proportion. The reason for this is in large part due to the fixed, guaranteed high prices that renewable energy producers get for the wildly fluctuating power they feed in – no matter what the market does. The result: […]
Posted in Alternative Energy |
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