By P Gosselin on 20. November 2014
The German media are reporting on the massive snowfall hitting Buffalo and parts of New York state, describing the “lake effect” and an “early start of winter”. Also meteorologist Christian Herold of Germany’s DWD Weather Service writes here how the story begins with the “remains of super-typhoon” Nuri, which developed into a low over Alaska’s Aleutian Islands a […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Weather |
By P Gosselin on 19. November 2014
From Sebastian Lüning and Fritz Vahrenholt at Die kalte Sonne here: ======================== The climate catastrophe is hitting without mercy. Bild reported on 28 October 2014: New climate study causes fear and trembling: How bitter-cold will winter be? The polar ice is melting. And so the jet stream is changing. Result: Lots of bitter cold winters – […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Hockey Team, Models, Scepticism |
By P Gosselin on 18. November 2014
Not very often does one see such an image… Image snipped here, 8 a.m. EST, 18 November, 2014. And it’s only mid-November…autumn! Weatherbell Models here has an assessment of the situation so far. It writes: America ‘as a whole’ awoke to the coldest it has been in November since 1976 — 38 years ago. The […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Weather |
By P Gosselin on 17. November 2014
Daniel Wetzel of the German online flagship daily Die Welt here tells readers the real reason why Chancellor Angela Merkel is sticking to the “senseless” and now impossible to reach CO2 emissions reduction target of 40% for Germany by 2020: She can sit back and enjoy watching her coalition partner SPD ministers rip themselves apart trying to […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Climate Politics |
By P Gosselin on 16. November 2014
Spiegel reports here that Germany’s sole plant for producing electric car batteries, owned by Daimler, is shutting down thus casting doubt Germany will reach its ambitious target of putting 1 million electric cars on the road by 2020. According to Wikipedia, as of September 2014 a total of 21,256 plug-in electric vehicles were registered in Germany. […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Green Follies |
By P Gosselin on 15. November 2014
Here’s a another example of how environmental activists like to beg, plead and claim real excuses when severe environmental accidents happen, yet when an accident is caused by anyone else they demand heads on a plate. The Cairns Post here has an article: Sea Shepherd guilty of diesel spill that dropped up to 500 litres of diesel into […]
Posted in Activism, Green Follies, Greenpeace |
By P Gosselin on 14. November 2014
Online Spiegel has a piece titled: Preaching travel by rail, but flying Business Class. It would be natural to expect environmentalist greens and climate activists to take commercial flights very rarely, opting for rail, bus, or bicycle instead. However, it turns out they do not practice what they love to preach. Spiegel news magazine writes of […]
Posted in Activism, Greenpeace, Lifestyles of the Rich and Alarmist |
By P Gosselin on 13. November 2014
Greens have been all excited about the recent, high publicity solar bike path put in operation in Holland this week. It’s a whole 100 meters or so long…a distance that allows the average cyclist to cycle over and to feel good about saving the planet for about 15 seconds. Photo (text added by author): Solaroad […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Green Follies |
By P Gosselin on 11. November 2014
Two days I ago reported on German Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel’s calling the swift end to coal power plants in Germany an “illusion”. Germany’s flagship daily Die Welt here has since posted a large part of Gabriel’s speech, where two Greenpeace activists attempted to steal the show from Gabriel on stage. When it was over, the Greenpeace activists […]
Posted in Alternative Energy |
By P Gosselin on 11. November 2014
Warning: This post will not be an easy article for the lovers of birds and nature. Not only do wind turbine make noise, disturb the surrounding natural environment, and create industrial blight in idyllic landscapes, but they also kill wildlife – especially protected birds. The latest example is presented by the website of the anti-wind […]
Posted in Alternative Energy |
By P Gosselin on 10. November 2014
Not only is North America bracing for a possible near record-setting cold blast from the Arctic, but also Siberia has been reporting massive snow cover and widespread cold. It’s only the first half of November and the dead of winter is still two months away! The CO2 blanket having no effect in Siberia. Image source: […]
Posted in Arctic, Cooling/Temperature, Weather |
By P Gosselin on 9. November 2014
Calls for rigid and draconian CO2 emissions reduction targets in Germany have been dealt a body blow. Germany’s Federal Economics Minister Sigmar Gabriel of Angela Merkel’s coalition partner the SPD socialists has dumped a load of cold water on the extreme demand for a rapid shutdown of the country’s coal power plants. German Federal Ministry of Economics […]
Posted in Activism, Alternative Energy, Climate Politics |
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