By P Gosselin on 5. December 2015
Once again it’s time to look at how the Solar Impulse 2 project is coming along. Readers will recall that the Solar Impulse 2 plane was designed by a team of Europeans with the aim of making the first solar-powered “solo flight” around the world and thus show the world the endless possibilities of solar power. Unfortunately the only thing […]
Posted in Alternative Energy |
By P Gosselin on 4. December 2015
The online Spiegel here writes that India has no plans of cooperating when it comes to CO2 reductions: “In India economic development comes before climate protection. The country is massively embarking on coal-fired power.” Coal before climate The German weekly writes that the country has 360 million people suffering under grinding poverty and 400 million […]
Posted in Climate Politics |
By P Gosselin on 3. December 2015
Increasingly alarmist climate scientists, media members and politicians are openly challenging democracy, saying the people-represented system needs to be done away if there is to be any hope of averting major climate damage. Nico Stehr at the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung here describes the growing dissatisfaction not only among the Tea Party or the UKIP, but also […]
Posted in Climate Politics, Misc. |
By P Gosselin on 2. December 2015
TV station WPTZ here reports that developers planned to build seven 500-foot-tall wind turbines near the town of Swanton, Vermont, near Lake Champlain. However the industrial colossuses are no longer welcome in a state that proudly views itself as green. Hat-tip: Indomitable Snowman, Ph.D Vermonters are finding out quickly that wind parks are massively industrial, […]
Posted in Alternative Energy |
By P Gosselin on 1. December 2015
It’s ridiculous enough politicians are blaming the refugee crises on man-made climate change, even though everyone knows they are really caused by foreign policy ineptitude and debacles. But now climate change hysteria has taken on new, more extreme witch-hunting dimensions that are on par with, if not even surpassing, those of the Dark Ages – a time […]
Posted in Abnormal Climate Psych |
By P Gosselin on 30. November 2015
In Paris thousands, if not tens of thousands, of climate delegates, activists, government officials are now meeting for the 21st time with the aim of hammering out a binding climate treaty to “rescue the planet”. Not only has the endless string of conferences been getting on the nerves of informed skeptics, but also on those […]
Posted in Climate Politics |
By P Gosselin on 29. November 2015
The whole of this week’s Weatherbell’s Saturday Summary by high profile meteorologist Joe Bastardi of course is excellent, but this week especially the first 4 minutes or so dealing with climate are of particular interest. In it the veteran meteorologist, who has an unusual talent for making long-range forecasts, brings up some excellent points as the […]
Posted in Climate Politics, CO2 and GHG, Cooling/Temperature, Models |
By P Gosselin on 28. November 2015
A reader passed on some interesting investment advice. Market analyst Value Line, “the most trusted name in investment research” has issued warnings against investing in two major US solar energy companies: SOLARCITY CORP and SUNEDISON CORP. 234 million 3rd quarter loss Value Line informs market participants that Solar City reported “a much great-than-expected net loss” in […]
Posted in Alternative Energy |
By P Gosselin on 27. November 2015
Fritz Vorholt at Germany’s center-left national weekly Die Zeit here reports in a commentary that the country is “fouling up its Energiewende” (shift to renewable energies) and writes that experts say the country will not reach its stated CO2 emissions reductions target. He calls this situation “embarrassing”. Don’t look too closely Lately there have been a […]
Posted in Alternative Energy |
By P Gosselin on 26. November 2015
Question. What happens when the German public television puts out a report that happens to be honest and skeptical when it comes to climate change? Answer: Viewers are so surprised that they actually take the time to upload it at YouTube! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwuSl9zvpsY Hat-tip: here. The above clip by MDR German public television features seasoned meteorologist […]
Posted in Scepticism |
By P Gosselin on 25. November 2015
A few days ago I posted a piece about an article written by award-winning journalist Günter Ederer, who had reported on Prof. Karl-Friedrich Ewert’s analysis of NASA temperature data – data that he found to have been “incredibly altered” to show warming. That NTZ post has been shared or liked close to 20,000 times so […]
Posted in IPCC, Models |
By P Gosselin on 24. November 2015
Yesterday Munich-based national online daily Süddeutsche Zeitung (SDZ) here published a report on the heavy (unfair) attacks by skeptics on climate scientists, who see themselves as innocent victims.Tthe attacks, the SDZ writes, are stemming from “lobby groups of the oil and coal industry and by private people who have networked themselves together.” Unfortunately, but not surprisingly, the […]
Posted in Media / Bias, Scepticism |
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