By P Gosselin on 28. December 2014
Share this…FacebookTwitterAs New Year’s Day approaches here’s something off-topic, but could make a real difference to your health. It has to mine. Probably the most common New Year’s resolution one hears is “I’m going to get back in shape“. Unfortunately it is also the one that fails the most often. A year ago, at the age […]
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By P Gosselin on 23. November 2014
Share this…FacebookTwitterFor 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. […]
Posted in Activism, Agriculture, Green Follies, Lifestyles of the Rich and Alarmist |
By P Gosselin on 3. November 2014
Share this…FacebookTwitterIt’s early November and now is a good time to look at some of this year’s global crop harvest results. Let’s recall that global warming models projected poor harvests and hunger in the future due to droughts (and floods). But that is hardly the case…at least certainly for this year. And recall how Joe Bastardi last […]
Posted in Agriculture, CO2 and GHG |
By P Gosselin on 28. June 2014
Share this…FacebookTwitterA new study by researchers in England claim that people who eat lots of meat emit much more CO2 than vegans. Worse: the nutty scientists are urging governments to change dietary guidelines. At the journal of Climatic Change, Peter Scarborough et al claim that “reducing the intake of meat and other animal based products can […]
Posted in Abnormal Climate Psych, Activism, Agriculture, Green Follies, We're To Blame |
By P Gosselin on 14. June 2014
Share this…FacebookTwitterA Short History of the Human Race Part 4/4. The Iron Age to the Present Research by Ed Caryl Climate historians usually recognize one Holocene Climate Optimum, from the end of the last ice age to about 4000 years ago. But as we have seen in this series of articles, there were three major […]
Posted in Agriculture, Cooling/Temperature, Drought and Deserts, Oceans, Paleo-climatology, Sea Levels |
By P Gosselin on 5. June 2014
Share this…FacebookTwitterA Short History of the Human Race The Climb Out Of The Ice Age Part 2 By Ed Caryl Below is a plot of sea level and temperature for the last 21,000 years, when the world warmed out of the last ice age, and civilization became possible. This is the end of the Upper […]
Posted in Agriculture, Drought and Deserts, Glaciers, Oceans, Paleo-climatology, Sea Levels |
By P Gosselin on 3. June 2014
Share this…FacebookTwitterA Short History of the Human Race Part 1, The Late Pleistocene, A Story of Survival By Ed Caryl The story of the human race, Homo Sapiens, is really a story driven by climate, particularly temperatures, rainfall, and sea level. Most of that history has taken place in the last 20,000 years, since the […]
Posted in Agriculture, Cooling/Temperature, Drought and Deserts, Glaciers, Paleo-climatology, Tectonics/Volcanoes |
By P Gosselin on 31. August 2013
Share this…FacebookTwitterBill Gates tweets Revkin on the need for Golden Rice. Green activists acting out of pure ideology and emotion sabotage sight-saving crop… The True Story About Who Destroyed a Genetically Modified Rice Crop By Mark Lynas Did you hear that a group of 400 angry farmers attacked and destroyed a field trial of genetically […]
Posted in Activism, Agriculture, Greenpeace |
By P Gosselin on 23. August 2013
Share this…FacebookTwitterBy Ed Caryl The natural CO2 flux to and from oceans and land plants amounts to approximately 210 gigatons of carbon annually. (Note that this is carbon. Multiply the numbers by 3.7 for the total weight of CO2 including the two oxygen atoms.) Man currently causes about 9 gigatons of carbon to be injected […]
Posted in Agriculture, CO2 and GHG |
By P Gosselin on 15. July 2013
Share this…FacebookTwitterRemember Paul Ehrlich’s prophesy of doom and gloom back in 1970 when he predicted rising global population (then 4 billion) would lead to mass global starvation already by the 1980s. Today more than 40 years later the planet has a population of over 7 billion and experts are warning of another global menace: obesity. […]
Posted in Agriculture, Stupid Predictions |
By P Gosselin on 11. July 2013
Share this…FacebookTwitterThe EU in partnership with the WWF has just released a strategy report dubbed: ADOPTING HEALTHY, SUSTAINABLE DIETS: KEY OPPORTUNITIES AND BARRIERS, which is part of LiveWell for LIFE, “a pioneering project which aims to contribute towards the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from the EU food supply chain, and demonstrate what sustainable diets […]
Posted in Activism, Agriculture, Climate Politics |
By P Gosselin on 1. March 2013
Share this…FacebookTwitterIt’s bad enough that the environment is taking a hit from millions of acres of land being converted to a vast monoculture of maize to supply biogas plants and ethanol producers that are supposed to rescue the environment. Food for saving the climate. Consumers get stuck with contaminated leftovers. Photo credit: Bill Whittaker, Creative […]
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By P Gosselin on 29. December 2012
Share this…FacebookTwitterEd Caryl today presents the latest of his essays. This one on CO2 and plant growth. ========================================== What Should We Do About CO2 Emissions? By Ed Caryl So, what should we do about CO2 emissions? The answer is: nothing. The evidence that Co2 is harmful, that it is raising the earth’s temperature dramatically, has been […]
Posted in Agriculture, CO2 and GHG, Drought and Deserts |
By P Gosselin on 23. December 2012
Share this…FacebookTwitterWhat follows is the story of how editors at renowned German weekly Die Zeit completely botched the translation of English text passages to German, thus making their German story completely erroneous, and far more sensational. Climate change threatens the global supply of noodles, Die Zeit claims. Source: www.kaltesonne.de ================================================ Embarrassing translation blunders in climate-alarm […]
Posted in Agriculture, CO2 and GHG, Drought and Deserts, Media / Bias, Stupid Predictions |
By P Gosselin on 19. December 2012
Share this…FacebookTwitterThis week’s print edition of FOCUS includes an interview with the producer of a new environmental film to be shown in German cinemas beginning in January: Climate Crimes – Environmental crimes in the name of climate protection. It will premiere soon in Vienna. Here’s the trailer (in German): The pictures tell the story… If […]
Posted in Agriculture, Alternative Energy, Green Follies |
By P Gosselin on 26. August 2012
Share this…FacebookTwitterFood prices have been in the headlines lately, with more than enough stories blaming the crop shortages on climate change. That’s what the German greens would like to have us believe. Today, with huge swaths of land being covered and devoured by industrial-scale biofuels agriculture and food prices rapidly climbing to politically dangerous levels, the […]
Posted in Agriculture, Alternative Energy, Climate Politics, Green Follies |
By P Gosselin on 10. April 2012
Share this…FacebookTwitter If you ever wondered why people in the Green Movement often seem to take on an air of arrogance, condescending superiority, to be masterful at propaganda, spiteful of human population, preoccupied with lebensraum, intolerant of other views and just plain bossy, journalists Michael Miersch and David Harnasch tell us what is probably behind it. It turns out […]
Posted in Activism, Agriculture, Alternative Energy, Climate Politics, Green Follies |
By P Gosselin on 14. March 2012
Share this…FacebookTwitterNuclear meltdown, acid rain, ocean acidification, sea level rise, famine, obesity, drought, megastorms, floods, extreme weather, rain-forest destruction, species extinction… These are just some of the bogus scares the UN and activists use to keep the masses in a state of panic. The more, the better. Hardly a day goes by without the media fretting […]
Posted in Activism, Agriculture, Drought and Deserts |
By P Gosselin on 1. October 2011
Share this…FacebookTwitterI know some Danes are not going to like my tone here, but too bad. Why is it the government needs to tell you how to eat?Have you never learned? As long as you full grown Danes are unable to feed yourselves, then you deserve all the ridicule the rest of the world can […]
Posted in Activism, Agriculture, Climate Politics |
By P Gosselin on 29. August 2011
Share this…FacebookTwitterGerman online daily DIE WELT reports here on how Nestlé CEO Peter Brabeck-Letmathe says that the farming of biofuels dramatically exacerbates global hunger. Nestlé is the world’s largest food conglomerate. Hat-tip: oekowatch.org. Recently a truly lame-brain study (later debunked here) was published claiming that global warming caused war. It would be advisable for the incompetent authors […]
Posted in Agriculture, Alternative Energy, Green Follies |
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