By P Gosselin on 15. October 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterRahmstorf way off: New study finds no robust relationship between shrinking sea ice, European cold waves By Die Kalte Sonne (German text translated/edited by P Gosselin) Photo: Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research A good six years ago, Potsdam climate researcher Stefan Rahmstorf was outraged by the German Weather Service (DWD) at his at […]
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By P Gosselin on 12. October 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterIt’s unusual to see rationality over climate change in the German media, but sometimes it manages to get through. In April this year I missed an important podcast interview with one of the world’s most prominent Sahara Desert researchers, geologist Dr. Stefan Kröpelin, by the Düsseldorf-based German daily, Rheinische Post. Image: University of Cologne The […]
Posted in Alarmism, Drought and Deserts |
By P Gosselin on 5. October 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitter What follows is a field report from Hanover, Germany, by AGW skeptic organization KlimaKontroverse, who have attempted on multiple occasions to seek a rational dialogue with FridaysforFuture (FFF) demonstrators. Though some demonstrators were civil and polite, others harassed, defamed and even brought in Antifa. Intolerant times Taking a different view at a political […]
Posted in Activism, Alarmism, Scepticism |
By P Gosselin on 28. September 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterTop politician Friedrich Merz of Angela Merkel’s CDU party told German daily Die Welt the climate movement “ultimately gets down to our freedom-based lifestyle”. CDU’s Friedrich Merz. Image: https://www.friedrich-merz.de/ Reacting to the harsh criticism launched by the German Greens, the media and Fridays for Future who claim that the German government’s recent proposal to […]
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By P Gosselin on 21. September 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterGood news: Germany’s “climate rescue” plan is light years away from FFF demands, thus postponing economic suicide leap, Bad news: plan means considerable hardship for German consumers and economy. Haunted by visions of a climate collapse, German government yet decides to postpone its economic death leap, instead proposes highly watered down climate-rescue plan. FFF’s […]
Posted in Abnormal Climate Psych, Alarmism, Climate Politics |
By P Gosselin on 18. September 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterIn a recent interview with the online Berliner Zeitung (BZ) here, economist Björn Lomborg said that 16-year old Greta Thunberg’s demands “will put people in danger”. Greta, the Swedish teenage activist is calling for radical cuts in CO2 emissions – on a scale that would have profound impacts on the world’s market system. Moreover, Lomborg […]
Posted in Activism, Alarmism, Climate Politics |
By P Gosselin on 15. September 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterThe “Green New Deal” is a multi-trillion-dollar plan proposed by Ocasio-Cortez in February of 2019 and backed by almost one hundred members of Congress, including most of the Democratic presidential hopefuls. Among a slew of other sacrifices, the program would force our prosperous society to replace diesel and gasoline-powered vehicles with electric vehicles and […]
Posted in Activism, Alarmism, Alternative Energy, Scepticism |
By P Gosselin on 18. August 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterThe German automobile industry today continues to be the real engine driving the country’s economy, but that may dramatically change for the worse – soon – according to economists Matthias Weik and Marc Friedrich in a commentary at the online news portal of the Deutsche Mittelstands Nachrichten (German Midsize Companies News – DMN). The […]
Posted in Activism, Alarmism, Climate Politics |
By P Gosselin on 16. August 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterClimate poster child Greta’s is sailing across the Atlantic instead of flying – in order to minimize the climate impact. Teenage climate rescue warrior Greta Thunberg. Image source: Greta’s Twitter site 5 crewmen to fly over to New York But German online leftist daily TAZ here has uncovered that Greta’s climate publicity jaunt is […]
Posted in Activism, Alarmism, Lifestyles of the Rich and Alarmist |
By P Gosselin on 31. July 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterGreen hubris: ARD German public television commentary labels its audience “consumption addicts” – mentally ill – and pleads they be punished with “so damn expensive” prices. Germany’s equivalent of the BBC, publicly (forced) funded ARD Broadcasting aired a commentary on Monday evening by journalist Lorenz Beckhardt. The commentary was to respond to the latest […]
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By P Gosselin on 24. July 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterThe online, center right Junge Freiheit of Germany here reports on how German award-winning economist Niko Paech is calling for a profound scaling back of industry in Germany, and a 20-hour workweek, in order to protect the climate. The DLF article on the interview here summed it up: “If working hours and hence income […]
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By P Gosselin on 21. July 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterNot 20,000, rather only 2000 people see Greta in Berlin! Michael Krueger (Text translated/edited by P. Gosselin) Four months ago in March, 20,000-25,000 pupils and demonstrators took part with Greta in the demonstration in Berlin. But last Friday, only about 2,000 people showed up despite the fact that the demonstration with Greta was greatly […]
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By P Gosselin on 20. July 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterWhat follows today is really quite cool, and highly encouraging in a country known for lockstep thought. Over the past months we’ve seen great media hype in Germany surrounding climate alarmist youngsters like Greta, FFF and more recently Rezo, who have played major roles in stirring up a lot of climate hysteria, all aided […]
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By P Gosselin on 12. July 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterAverting a bloody climate science civil war It’s time to take the debate away from the extreme factions and to move it to cooler heads, says veteran Swiss meteorologist Jörg Kachelmann Former German Public television meteorologist Jörg Kachelmann wrote an essay commentary for the Swiss online Die Weltwoche here titled “Tell me where you […]
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By P Gosselin on 2. July 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterHistory shows French heat waves used to be far deadlier. The year 1911 saw an uninterrupted scorching summer and tens of thousands of lives lost. As is the case with modern reports claiming all new “unprecedented events” written by the climate ambulance chasing media, we usually find out days later that such events have […]
Posted in Alarmism, Drought and Deserts, Media / Bias |
By P Gosselin on 30. June 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterWhen it was made public Friday that France had recorded its “highest-ever temperature”, the media went into a frenzy. But once again we are learning that it’s more fake than fact. Last Friday the mercury soared to 45.9°C (114.6°F) in Gallargues-le-Montueux in southern France according to French national weather service Météo-France. Media outlets not […]
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By P Gosselin on 29. June 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterAgain and again photos are being taken out of context and wild climate alarm stories are being fabricated from them. And once the pictures have made it around the world, those involved end up having to backpedal a few later. In June 2019 it happened again. This time it was a dog sled photo […]
Posted in Alarmism, Arctic |
By Kenneth Richard on 17. June 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterIn the first 5½ months of 2019, over 200 scientific papers have been published that cast doubt on the position that anthropogenic CO2 emissions function as the climate’s fundamental control knob…or that otherwise serve to question the efficacy of climate models or the related “consensus” positions commonly endorsed by policymakers and ²²²²mainstream media sources. […]
Posted in Alarmism, Antarctic, Arctic, Climate Sensitivity, CO2 and GHG, Cooling/Temperature, Drought and Deserts, Emissions, Glaciers, Models, Natural Oceanic Oscillations, Natural Variability, Paleo-climatology, Sea Ice, Sea Levels, Solar Sciences, Tectonics/Volcanoes, Warming/CO2 Benefiting Earth, Wind Power |
By Kenneth Richard on 13. June 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterDespite reports of relatively high regional rates of sea level rise, the Atlantic Coast of the United States has actually been expanding in recent decades after rapidly shrinking prior to the 1960s. A 2001 Salon magazine “terror in the skies” alarmism article featured a Dr. James Hansen late-1980s prediction that New York City’s West […]
Posted in Alarmism, Oceans, Sea Levels |
By P Gosselin on 9. June 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterBefore people jump into a debate about weather with veteran Swiss meteorologist Jörg Kachelmann, they’d first better make sure that they really paid close attention at school and did their science homework. In an debate at Twitter, the high-profile, seasoned meteorologist inadvertently exposed a shocking lack of comprehension of fundamental physics by some of […]
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