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 |
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 |
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