By P Gosselin on 31. March 2015
Some weeks ago the print edition of Der Spiegel presented the latest in its decade’s long series of climate scares, read background here and here. Last month leading German climate science critic Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt sent a deservedly harsh letter to Spiegel, blasting the news weekly’s poor journalistic quality. That letter has now been published at his […]
Posted in Media / Bias |
By P Gosselin on 30. March 2015
It’s official. Germany’s Irsching power plant in Bavaria will be shutting down its recently built Block 4 and 5 gas-fired turbines. Both combined put out approximately 1.4 gigawatts of power. Online Spiegel here reports that its operators say it is no longer worth operating due to Germany’s Energiewende (transition to renewable energy). The sporadic supply of […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Climate Politics |
By Ed Caryl on 29. March 2015
The CO2 concentration in the atmosphere has been steadily increasing since regular measurements began at the Mauna Loa Observatory. This increase is partially driven by fossil fuel use but the year to year rate of increase is driven by ocean temperature. This was discussed in October 2012 here. The International Energy Agency (IEA) tracks fossil […]
Posted in CO2 and GHG, Oceans |
By P Gosselin on 28. March 2015
The Fraunhofer Institute has an excellent page for monitoring Germany’s installed electrical energy production capacity. Examining the charts, we see a stunning result for Germany: Despite the almost monster 70 gigawatts of renewable energy coming online since 2002, Germany’s fossil fuel capacity has risen and reached their highest level ever in 2014! The following chart shows […]
Posted in Alternative Energy |
By P Gosselin on 27. March 2015
Boy I’m glad lived in the time that I’ve lived in so far: a postwar period when we saw relative peace, prosperity, free markets, spreading democracy and freedom, and immense technical progress. Those days now seem to be going in reverse. Germany’s vision for the future family car: The new family “pedelec”, big enough for 2 […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Climate Politics |
By P Gosselin on 27. March 2015
According to the online Der Spiegel, northern Holland has been hit by “a widespread blackout” since earlier this morning. The flagship German news magazine writes that major infrastructure, such as the capital Amsterdam and its international airport Schiphol and rail system, have been severely impacted.” Spiegel cites a report from Holland’s daily “AD” (formerly the […]
Posted in Alternative Energy |
By P Gosselin on 26. March 2015
No matter what data one presents to hardline proponents of solar energy, they choose to bury their heads in the sand and hope it isn’t so. Today Spiegel presents data that are so striking that they could even jolt those caught deepest in fantasy back to reality. Online Spiegel has an article today dubbed: Market […]
Posted in Alternative Energy |
By P Gosselin on 26. March 2015
Global warming science nemesis Steve McIntyre of the solid Climate Audit site calls the new paper by Rahmstorf and Mann making claims about Atlantic Ocean currents based on proxies rather than on measurements “much worse than we thought.” Hat-tip: Reader BruceC Rarely does one see science get so harshly criticized. “Dreck” in peer-reviewed literature One problem, […]
Posted in Hockey Team, Oceans |
By P Gosselin on 25. March 2015
Michael Mann’s and Stefan Rahmstorf’s recent AMOC paper has been promptly and widely discredited since it came out, see here WUWT, WUWT, and NTZ. The sharp criticism has since picked up. Veteran meteorologist Joe Bastardi for example blasted the paper in a comment at WUWT, calling the claims “nonsense” and reminded that renowned climatology expert […]
Posted in Arctic, Hockey Team, Models, Oceans |
By P Gosselin on 24. March 2015
The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research has been loudly trumpeting its latest paper on Atlantic ocean overturning circulation today, claiming there’s been an “exceptional twentieth-century slowdown“. The authors, who include Stefan Rahmstorf and Michael E. Mann, even suggest that the “possible cause of the weakening is climate change“. Some sites, like Climate Central here, have […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Glaciers, Misc., Oceans |
By P Gosselin on 24. March 2015
Reader Frederick Colbourne put Bangladesh and its woes in what I feel is a proper perspective. I’ve upgraded his comment to a post. Once again it is a sad story that politicians are using computer-generated climate disasters of the far future as a cynical, lethal and obscenely expensive distraction of today’s real problems. The money […]
Posted in Climate Politics, Sea Levels |
By P Gosselin on 23. March 2015
German public television seems to have gotten extremely sloppy and misleading lately. Gone are the days of critical reporting and fact-checking, it seems. Not long ago flagship ARD television, using tricky wording, sadly misled viewers into thinking that the more than 15,000 deaths caused by the Japan tsunami of 2011 were caused by the Fukushima nuclear reactor […]
Posted in Media / Bias, Sea Levels |
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