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By Kenneth Richard on 19. September 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterA growing proportion of Sweden’s energy is derived from burning biomass (wood), which increases CO2 emissions 65% and 285% more than coal and natural gas energy generation, respectively. And yet because governmental policy – not science – has (wrongly) declared biomass burning “renewable” and “carbon neutral”, Greta Thunberg’s Sweden is falsely credited with reducing […]
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By P Gosselin on 7. August 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterThe President of the German Bundesamt für Bevölkerungsschutz und Katastrophenhilfe (Federal Office for Civil Protection and Disaster Relief, abbreviated BKK) is calling on citizens, government offices and companies to be prepared for widespread blackouts. In an interview with German national daily Die Welt, BBK President Christoph Unger warned that in the future Germany faced […]
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By P Gosselin on 19. July 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterOur German skeptic friend Snowfan here keeps us up to date on the latest ODEN “Ship of Fools” attempt to travel across an Arctic that is supposed to be ice-free by now. The incentive to cross the Arctic passages in the summer is huge. Doing so would mean at least a week of fame […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 15. April 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterA potential wind turbine installation on the island of Crete may be poised to drive an endangered raptor population to extinction. Recent studies have found the favored “renewable” energies – wind and solar – are not effective, even counteractive, when it comes to reducing emissions from fossil fuels. Solar PV installation, for example, results […]
Posted in Green Follies, Solar, Wind Power |
By Kenneth Richard on 8. April 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterAn empirical analysis using 2005-2015 data from 15 EU countries indicates that as more renewable energies (i.e., solar PV) are deployed, energy costs increase, household poverty risks rise, and incomes decline. Image Source: Pereira et al., 2019 In contrast to the negative consequences of switching from fossil fuels to renewables, Dr. Tadesse Weldu Teklu […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Climate Politics, Green Follies |
By Kenneth Richard on 18. March 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterFor those serious about taking concerted action to combat climate change, implications from a 2018 study suggest that the widespread abandonment of smartphone use — which is collectively on track to add 125 megatons of CO2 equivalent per year by 2020 — may be key to preventing the planet’s catastrophic demise. Image Source (adapted): […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 1. November 2018
Share this…FacebookTwitterGovernments vociferously promote bioenergy as renewable, sustainable, and carbon-neutral. But scientists are increasingly characterizing this “belief” as a “major error”, as bioenergy generates more CO2 emissions per kWh than burning coal does, and the projected rapid growth in bioenergy will serve to ‘increase atmospheric CO2 for at least a century’ as well as clear […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Emissions, Green Follies |
By Kenneth Richard on 29. October 2018
Share this…FacebookTwitterThe Paris Paradox: Sign the Agreement, Increase Emissions Reject the Agreement, Reduce Emissions China: Emissions Reduction Symbolism Over Substance A little over a year ago, China was hailed as a country that was “stepping up” to combat climate change. After all, the country had agreed to sign on to the Paris climate accord and […]
Posted in CO2 and GHG, Emissions, Green Follies, Solar, Wind Power |
By Kenneth Richard on 25. October 2018
Share this…FacebookTwitterTen years ago, polar bears were classified as an endangered species due to model-based assumptions that said the recession of Arctic sea ice would hamper the bears’ seal-hunting capabilities and ultimately lead to starvation and extinction. The Inuit, who have observed these bears catch seals in open water for generations (and likely know more […]
Posted in Alarmism, Arctic, Green Follies, Sea Ice |
By P Gosselin on 19. October 2018
Share this…FacebookTwitterGerman ZDF public television recently broadcast a report showing how electric cars are a far cry from being what they are all cracked up to be by green activists. Northern Chilean desert being ruined by widespread lithium mining. Image cropped from ZDF documentary: Die Schattenseiten der E-Mobilität The report titled: “Batteries in twilight – The dark side […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 20. September 2018
Share this…FacebookTwitterContending that “the current situation is particularly worrying”, authors of a troubling new paper assert that the bat habitat loss fomented by the presence of wind turbines is so pervasive that bat activity continues to decline precipitously from a range of “at least 1000 meters from a wind turbine”. Image Source: Millon et al., 2018 […]
Posted in Green Follies, Wind Power |
By Kenneth Richard on 9. July 2018
Share this…FacebookTwitterThe advocacy for widespread growth in renewable energy (especially wind, solar, and biomass) usage has increasingly become the clarion call of the anthropogenic global warming (AGW) movement. And yet more and more published research documents the adverse effects of relying on renewables. Image: Wasili Karbe, cropped from video here. Over the course of the last […]
Posted in Green Follies, Solar, Wind Power |
By P Gosselin on 29. May 2018
Share this…FacebookTwitterSince environmental elitists have taken the helm in Europe, they like to fancy themselves and pose as rescuers of the planet. The climate rescue delusion One example is Europe’s claim to being the global leader in climate protection. Leaders like having everyone believe that Europe reducing CO2 emissions 80% by 2050 will to save […]
Posted in Green Follies, Pollution |
By Kenneth Richard on 14. May 2018
Share this…FacebookTwitterGovernments promote biofuels as renewable, carbon-neutral resources that serve to reduce CO2 emissions. Meanwhile, scientists have determined that biomass burning generates more CO2 emissions per kWh than burning coal does, and the projected rapid growth in biofuel use will only serve to ‘increase atmospheric CO2 for at least a century’. Sterman et al., 2018 […]
Posted in Emissions, Green Follies |
By Kenneth Richard on 30. April 2018
Share this…FacebookTwitter ⇑ Wind Power Installation Amplifies The Growth Of Fossil Fuel Energies “[A]s RES [renewable energy sources] increases, the expected decreasing tendency in the installed capacity of electricity generation from fossil fuels has not been found.” – Marques et al., 2018 In late 2012, a prophetic article appeared in the Los Angeles Times that warned: “As […]
Posted in Green Follies, Wind Power |
By Kenneth Richard on 15. March 2018
Share this…FacebookTwitterMore Wind Turbines, More Habitat Harm, Loss Scientists (Krekel and Zerrahn, 2017 ) report that the installation of wind turbines near human populations “exerts significant negative external effects on residential well-being” and a “significant negative and sizable effect on life satisfaction” due to “unpleasant noise emissions” and “negative impacts on landscape aesthetics”. “We show that […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 12. March 2018
Share this…FacebookTwitter A remarkably unsophisticated paper was published a few months ago curiously entitled Internet Blogs, Polar Bears, and Climate-Change Denial by Proxy. Among the list of co-authors of Harvey et al. (2017) are two rather familiar names in climate science circles: Michael E. Mann and Stephan Lewandowsky. The 14 authors liberally utilize name-calling and […]
Posted in Alarmism, Arctic, Green Follies, Sea Ice |
By Kenneth Richard on 8. March 2018
Share this…FacebookTwitter Comedy clubs aren’t usually thought of as venues for serious debate about controversial topics like climate change. And yet in a rare debate opportunity, Harvard-Smithsonian Center astrophysicist Dr. Willie Soon took full advantage of the short time he had available to him. He critiqued “consensus” science, the ocean acidification narrative, the poverty-inducing reliance on wind […]
Posted in Alarmism, Green Follies, Humour, Scepticism, Sea Levels |
By P Gosselin on 20. January 2018
Share this…FacebookTwitterIt has long been dawning on most people that the costs of Germany’s Energiewende (transition to green energies) have been spectacularly underestimated. As Germany rushes into its foray with renewable energies, principally wind and sun, we are finding out that many of the costs involved were never taken into account. According to Die Welt: In […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 25. December 2017
Share this…FacebookTwitter Image Source: 22 December 2017 Newsweek Christmas Day has arrived. With the advent of this cheery holiday comes a somber warning from Newsweek, purveyor of climate doom. “[A]s global temperatures rise due to climate change, snow on Christmas Day could increasingly become a rarity—even a distant memory.” Contrary to Newsweek‘s claims, however, snow cover across the Northern […]
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