By P Gosselin on 20. December 2014
What About Climate Change? By Ed Caryl In last week’s on-line issue of the Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine (Volume 90, Number 4), Judith Curry and Kim Cobb contributed their thoughts on the issue of climate change in two short essays. Photo: Kim Cobb; source: Georgia Tech. These essays were obviously intended to oppose each other. […]
Posted in Activism |
By P Gosselin on 19. December 2014
Germany’s so-called Climate Consortium here has published a telling statement on this year’s “record warm year” in Germany and the reasons behind it. The Climate Consortium represents the collective position of all Germany’s scientific climate institutes. Although the statement claims the record year “fits very well in the picture of a long-term global temperature increase” it […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Oceans |
By P Gosselin on 18. December 2014
The online Swiss Handelszeitung (Trade News) reports on the world’s second largest reinsurer Swiss Re, and on the losses from natural catastrophes for 2014. Let’s recall that natural catastrophes are supposedly becoming more and more frequent due to the alleged man-made climate worsening from manmade CO2 emissions. Hat-tip: Kurt However the Handelszeitung writes that preliminary […]
Posted in Hurricanes/Tornados, Media / Bias, We're To Blame |
By P Gosselin on 17. December 2014
Dirk Notz of the Hamburg-based Max-Planck-Institute: Arctic sea ice could again expand in the coming decade By Sebastian Lüning and Fritz Vahrenholt (Translated/edited by P Gosselin) Over the past 30 years Arctic sea ice has shrunk considerably. Although both in 2007 and 2012 negative records were reached, the ice recovered in the years that followed. […]
Posted in Arctic |
By P Gosselin on 16. December 2014
Recently I published an opinion by Harvard astrophysicist Willie Soon concerning the dubious “2014 hottest year ever” claim. That post is doing very well and continues to be widely shared in the social media – so much so that the piece stung a sensitive nerve over at Climate Nexus. But instead of rebutting Dr. Soon point-by-point, […]
Posted in Activism |
By P Gosselin on 15. December 2014
Rainer Hoffmann of the German language Klimamanifest has produced a short clip on the 2°C target we keep hearing about. According to activists the globe mustn’t be allowed to warm up more than 2°C over its 1900 level, otherwise it will tip into an irreversible and unstoppable spiral to climate catastrophe that will lead to […]
Posted in Activism, Climate Politics, Hockey Team |
By P Gosselin on 14. December 2014
It’s clear: none of the intended aims were reached during the two-week UN mega climate conference in Lima. Some baby steps were made. And of course they are being sold to the public as important progress on the road to a binding treaty in Paris next year. No one believes it. What was achieved, unfortunately, were […]
Posted in Activism, Climate Politics, IPCC |
By P Gosselin on 13. December 2014
The Lima Climate Conference has been extended another day as countries are still unable to reach an agreement on how much to cut emissions and who has to pay how much. But there are mounting signs that the talks may have fallen apart. This morning NTV German public television writes that German Environment Minister Barbara Hendricks […]
Posted in Climate Politics, IPCC |
By P Gosselin on 12. December 2014
Harvard Astrophycist Willie Soon asks if hottest year ever claim is “a joke”. NoTricksZone sought out astrophysicist Dr. Willie Soon’s opinion on the claim that 2014 is the “hottest on record”. What follows is his reply: 2014 hottest year a manipulation Is this a joke or simply my BAD dream? Prostituting science like this is now […]
Posted in Scepticism, Solar Sciences |
By P Gosselin on 11. December 2014
Many outlets are reporting on Greenpeace’s desecration and exploitation of ancient Incan and Nazca historical sites for political and fund-raising purposes. See here. Photo: Craig Rucker questions Greenpeace spokesman. Photo cropped from C-Fact video. Today the online Spiegel covers (instead of buries) the story: “Nazca Lines in Peru: Greenpeace apologizes for cultural contamination“. That apology of course […]
Posted in Activism, Greenpeace |
By P Gosselin on 10. December 2014
Reader Kurt in Switzerland points out that Germany’s Climate Pope John Schellnhuber, Director of the end-of-times Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), has just postponed the timepoint when man’s CO2 emissions must reach a peak and start their (rapid) downward trend. Two days ago I quoted Professor Schellnhuber, who said: At the latest by 2030 […]
Posted in Green Follies, Hockey Team, IPCC |
By P Gosselin on 9. December 2014
German national weekly DIE ZEIT writes in its latest hard copy edition that one of Europe’s leading green energy thinkers now concedes Germany’s much ballyhooed Energiewende (transition to renewable energies) has been a “filthy blunder”. Page 4 of December 4, 2014, edition of DIE ZEIT. “Filthy Blunder” When the green movement itself makes such an admission, […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Green Follies |
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