By P Gosselin on 28. April 2017
A shorter post today, as this afternoon I’ve got to prepare 50 lbs. of chili con carne (and let me tell you, I can taste it already). German meteorological and climate site Schneefan (snow fan) here writes on the recent changes by the DMI on its Greenland ice mass chart. Personally I wouldn’t be surprised […]
Posted in Arctic, Climate Politics |
By P Gosselin on 23. April 2017
What follows are two new papers that once again throw the policy paths promoted by climate activists into question. Hat-tip Kenneth Richard. Paris Agreement China pledge irresponsible The first by Harris, 2017, calls China’s Paris pledge on climate change “inadequate and irresponsible” and “little more than business as usual“. Today China is the largest national source of […]
Posted in Climate Politics |
By P Gosselin on 21. April 2017
Today we look at two new papers that reveal renewable energies don’t deliver what their proponents like to have us believe they do, i.e. clean, affordable and reliable energy, and another telling us that the Paris Agreement is a joke. Biofuel blends are more polluting The first paper by Emery et al., 2017, looks at […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Climate Politics |
By P Gosselin on 21. March 2017
Daniel Wetzel of online German daily Die Welt here writes Germany is hosting 1200 experts from 93 countries at its Foreign Affairs Ministry in Berlin to discuss reductions in global “climate gas” emissions and “climate protection”. But there is one small, highly embarrassing problem with the event: host Germany has not been able to reduce its […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Climate Politics |
By P Gosselin on 18. March 2017
Germany’s Deutsche Welle (DW) here presents a commentary by Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, the director of German ultra-alarmist Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. Professor Schellnhuber fears that the planet could warm even as much as 12°C if man does not act quickly to totally eliminate greenhouse gases. He adds that he “has all the evidence” […]
Posted in Activism, Climate Politics |
By P Gosselin on 12. March 2017
Germany appears poised to make a fundamental course correction in its climate and energy policy. Germany has long been a steadfast and influential proponent of “climate protection”. Also the country’s Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), directed by climate doomsday professor Hans-Joachim Schellnhuber, has been one of the most influential European players in underpinning the […]
Posted in Climate Politics |
By P Gosselin on 11. March 2017
“Do we have the next Solyndra at hand?” I had to shake my head when reading the recently published Fox News report: Another taxpayer-funded energy company files for bankruptcy. Image cropped from Aquion Energy. Hat-tip: Indomitable Snowman According to Fox News, Pennsylvania-based Aquion Energy had received “a $5.2 million stimulus-tied grant” (not a loan) from the […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Climate Politics, Green Follies |
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 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 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 28. February 2017
Once ballyhooed as a cheap source of energy (“The sun doesn’t send an electric bill”), Germany’s attempted transition to wind and solar energy is rapidly heading towards a full-blown central planning folly of historic dimensions. The German electricity consumer advocacy group NAEB projects that Germany’s electric power rates will continue to soar, possibly reaching an industry back-breaking […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Climate Politics |
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