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 |
By P Gosselin on 8. November 2014
Canadian philosophical researcher Shawn Alli has posted a highly critical series titled: The CO2 Climate Change Cult Series. Philosophy researcher, book author, Shawn Alli thinks global warming science has “cult-like status”. Photo source here. Though he does not appear to be some famous academic professor, his series does poignantly bring up a number of inconvenient points […]
Posted in Scepticism |
By P Gosselin on 7. November 2014
Germany’s formidable green/climate movement is deeply deflated over the GOP’s grand midterm election success. Especially the many German greens and socialists are struggling to fathom what happened and are only left to conclude that Americans must be just too stupid to appreciate all that President Obama and the Democrats have done and to understand the climate […]
Posted in Activism, Climate Politics, IPCC |
By P Gosselin on 6. November 2014
The online Salzburg Austria ORF site here writes: “Despite climate change, winters in the Salzburg mountains over the past 30 years have not gotten warmer, rather they have gotten colder.” 0.9°C drop since 1984 The ORF site writes that this is based on a study commissioned by the Schmittenhöhe Bahnen. The ORF site adds: “Independent meteorologists confirmed […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Glaciers |
By P Gosselin on 5. November 2014
The Germany-based European Institute for Climate and Energy (EIKE) presents a detailed analysis on the IPCC’s recently published final 40-page Synthesis Report released earlier this month. Image source: IPCC EIKE, however, concludes that the IPCC report is fraught with error and distortion. Author Klaus-Eckart Puls writes: Not only does it contain major contradictions, simplifications and […]
Posted in Activism, IPCC, We're To Blame |
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