By P Gosselin on 1. August 2013
Right now as I write in Germany we are having nice comfortable summer weather with temps in the 20s C (70s F). But that is set to change today as a couple of hot days are in store. Here’s the forecast for my area: North Germany is set for a very brief heat wave (1 […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Media / Bias, Weather |
By P Gosselin on 5. July 2013
By Ed Caryl The climate calamitologists depend on a continuous calamity supply: high temperature records, the occasional flood, forest fires, tornadoes striking cities, and hurricanes wiping out coastal areas, preferably the heavily populated. Some tropical storm Sandy damage to Staten Island will probably remain un-repaired simply because it is proximate to New York City and […]
Posted in Hurricanes/Tornados, Media / Bias, Weather |
By P Gosselin on 1. July 2013
Online CO2 Handel here reports that German news weekly FOCUS recently commissioned a survey on how Germans view climate change: According to the survey of 1004 persons, conducted by Emnid at the end of May: 63% of Germans think that warnings of future global warming are justified. 28% feel they are exaggerated. 8% think that […]
Posted in Media / Bias, Scepticism |
By P Gosselin on 28. June 2013
In general, the media in Germany overwhelmingly welcome Obama’s plan to tackle CO2 emissions. But for many, Obama’s plan does not go far enough, or is just a front for something more sinister, like fracking. Others are skeptical whether action will actually follow his lofty rhetoric. What follows are some German media reactions. The Frankfurter Allgemeine […]
Posted in Climate Politics, Green Follies, Media / Bias |
By P Gosselin on 22. June 2013
Putting information together from various sources, Sebastian Lüning and Fritz Vahrenholt have written a short analysis of tornado activity in the USA. Despite what one hears from the media, the two German scientists describe recent tornado activity as being in “great doldrums”. ========================== The Great Tornado Doldrums: No Relationship Between Climate Change and Tornadoes By […]
Posted in Hurricanes/Tornados, Media / Bias |
By P Gosselin on 21. June 2013
A reader, currently in Dallas, and was compelled to photograph the headquarters of the Dallas Morning News. He sent me the following photo, where I’ve highlighted part of the text which I think would be good advice for certain media outlets here in Germany when reporting on global warming, and anywhere for that matter. Photo […]
Posted in Media / Bias |
By P Gosselin on 11. June 2013
When the Little Ice Age brought widespread crop failures, mass starvation, and disease in populated Europe some centuries ago, the enlightened ones blamed the climate-related misery and misfortune on the black magic of sorcerers and witches – who were promptly tried and burned at the stake. In other cultures, people performed rain-dances, human sacrifices, or other […]
Posted in Abnormal Climate Psych, Climate Politics, Media / Bias, Scepticism |
By P Gosselin on 3. June 2013
Another German association of journalists has publicly demanded the German Federal Environment Agency (UBA) stop the distribution of a government “blacklist” of US and German skeptics. The UBA is headed by the German Ministry of Environment – Germany’s version of the EPA. Today Germany’s association of science, the Wissenschafts-Pressekonferenz e.V. (WPK) issued a press release condemning the […]
Posted in Climate Politics, Media / Bias, Scepticism |
By P Gosselin on 28. May 2013
Well it looks like journalists are willing to go only so far when it comes to carrying water for Germany’s powerful Church Ministry of Environment, which oversees the Umweltbundesamt (UBA). The German Association of Journalists Chairman Michael Konken calls the UBA’s defamatory pamphlet targeting US and German journalists and scientists “unacceptable” and demands an apology […]
Posted in Media / Bias, Scepticism |
By P Gosselin on 28. May 2013
Just how radical has the environmental movement become in Germany? Well, to give you an idea, Germany’s Umweltbundesamt (Federal Environment Agency), or UBA, which is Germany’s version of the EPA, recently issued a 122-page pamphlet that fiercely defended the alarmists predictions of catastrophic global warming, and used harsh tactics to pillory skeptic US and German journalists and […]
Posted in Climate Politics, Hockey Team, Media / Bias, Scepticism |
By P Gosselin on 23. May 2013
Not surprisingly Dana Nuccitelli of SkepticalScience.com obstinately refuses to see the facts, even when they are staring him right in the face. Richard Tol at Twitter has thrown the now notorious John Cook survey, of which Nuccitelli was a co-author, into the dustbin of history. Here’s the exchange between the two: Tol’s last comment pretty […]
Posted in Activism, Hockey Team, Humour, Media / Bias, Scepticism |
By P Gosselin on 22. May 2013
The German media are now naturally asking what is behind the terrible tornado that struck near Oklahoma City. Tornado frequency. Source NOAA To fool the public, German ZDF public television here, Germany’s version of the BBC, sought out “one of Germany’s most renown climate scientists” Prof Mojib Latif of the IFM-GEOMAR, Kiel, the Leibniz Institute […]
Posted in Hockey Team, Hurricanes/Tornados, Media / Bias |
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