By P Gosselin on 8. March 2017
Normally even the German conservative media have been supportive of Germany’s shift from fossil fuels over to green energies, and most leading conservative media outlets accept that climate change is mostly man-made and thus needs to be taken seriously. Climate science skepticism is scorned in Germany. So it’s all the more surprising that one of […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Climate Politics |
By P Gosselin on 7. March 2017
Reader David Reich left a comment in response to Kenneth Richard’s post on grape harvests and climate. I’ve decided to upgrade it as a post below. Both stories show that today’s climate is well within the range of our climate’s natural variability over the past 100 and 1000 years, and that today’s weather events aren’t […]
Posted in Activism, Agriculture, Media / Bias |
By Kenneth Richard on 6. March 2017
Grape Harvest Date Evidence: No Significant Modern Warmth Public domain photo. Source here In a late February (2017) interview on a U.S. news program, mechanical engineer Bill Nye claimed that the settled science says humans have been warming the planet at a rate that is unnaturally and “catastrophically” fast since the year 1750 . “It’s […]
Posted in Little Ice Age, Medieval Warm Period, Paleo-climatology |
By P Gosselin on 5. March 2017
Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt was interviewed by Switzerland-based Basler Zeitung concerning Germany’s ‘Energiewende’ (transition to renewable energies), and energy issues in Switzerland, on February 18, 2017. Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt. Image credit: GWPF Vahrenholt was once the head of RWE’s renewable energy arm, Innogy, and responsible for the installation of offshore wind parks. However, after years of poor […]
Posted in Alternative Energy |
By P Gosselin on 4. March 2017
Former Supervisory Board Chairman of German chemicals giant BASF Jürgen Hambrecht has “sharply criticized” the German government for “deceiving the public and giving them the runaround” when it comes to the Energiewende, reports the online N24/Die Welt here Hambrecht, considered one of Germany’s most influential executives, gave an interview to N24/Die Welt together with FDP politician […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Climate Politics, Green Follies |
By P Gosselin on 3. March 2017
The DPA German press agency reported yesterday on the rapidly spreading energy poverty now engulfing the country. The main driver is Germany’s skyrocketing electricity prices – primarily due to the legally mandatory feeding-in of wind and solar power. Currently regular household consumers are paying nearly 30 cents a kilowatt-hour – almost three times the rate paid […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Climate Politics |
By Kenneth Richard on 2. March 2017
Solar Forcing Of Modern, Historic Arctic Sea Ice Only Slightly Less Sea Ice Now Than Little Ice Age In a new paper (Stein et al., 2017), scientists find that Arctic sea ice retreat and advance is modulated by variations in solar activity. In addition, the sea ice cover during the last century has only slightly […]
Posted in Arctic, Paleo-climatology, Solar |
By P Gosselin on 1. March 2017
Plenty of superlatives have been used to describe President Donald Trump’s speech to the nation on Februrary 28. Fox News called it “one for the ages” as the newly elected President spoke on a wide range of pressing issues and daunting problems the nation faces, like immigration, drugs, crime, runaway debt, urban decay, economic stagnation, over-regulation, education, terrorism…to […]
Posted in Climate Politics |
By P Gosselin on 1. March 2017
Two recent papers dispelling claims often made by global warming alarmists have been presented by the Die kalte Sonne site. here. =============================================== No. 1 Insidious preindustrial warm phase: 4000 years ago glaciers in Norway had almost completely melted away By Dr. Sebastian Lüning and Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt (German text translated/edited by P Gosselin) The University […]
Posted in Glaciers, Paleo-climatology |
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