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By P Gosselin on 25. November 2017
Share this…FacebookTwitterSpiegel science journalist Axel Bojanowski here interviewed James Hansen, the former director of NASA GISS and one of the most prominent warners of CO2 induced global warming. Former NASA GISS director James Hansen calls exit from nuclear energy “a huge mistake”. Photo: NASA – nasa.gov, (archived) In the wake of the Fukushima disaster in […]
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By P Gosselin on 30. June 2017
Share this…FacebookTwitterPresident Donald Trump gave remarks at the “Unleashing American Energy” event. If there are still any lingering questions as to the president’s commitment to dumping the Paris Accord, they can now be laid to rest for good. In his remarks at an event also attended by both energy executives and trade unionists, the President described […]
Posted in Climate Politics, IPCC, Nuclear energy |
By Kenneth Richard on 24. November 2016
Share this…FacebookTwitterAs the reputed world leader in green energy policy, Germany plans to eliminate nuclear power as an energy source in the next 5 years. A 2011 decision to phase out nuclear power by 2022 has meant that renewables like wind and solar power are expected to swiftly take the place of nuclear energy on the German […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Green Follies, Nuclear energy |
By P Gosselin on 20. March 2015
Share this…FacebookTwitterIt’s a good thing Germany still has a lot of conventional power supply from coal and nuclear on line. Otherwise the entire country would have blacked out this morning during the partial eclipse of the sun. Conventional fuel saved the day. As the following diagram depicts, there was almost no wind output from Germany’s […]
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By P Gosselin on 18. February 2015
Share this…FacebookTwitterOne of the biggest miscalculations that the global warming alarmists have made is claiming that global CO2 emissions must reach their peak by 2020 and then begin falling rapidly. If they don’t, there will be no chance of reaching the 2°C maximum warming target. Planetary catastrophe will ensue, the alarmists claim. British energy behemoth […]
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By P Gosselin on 8. October 2014
Share this…FacebookTwitterSo much for Germany’s transformation to “green” energies. Germany’s Bundesnetzagentur (Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway) is the federal authority overseeing and regulating the German electrical power grid, among other networks. At its site it has a link to an expert assessment report that analyzes the needs of and risks to the […]
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By P Gosselin on 10. July 2014
Share this…FacebookTwitterPress release from the International Energy Agency =========================================== Around $80 billion wasted on power for online devices in 2013 Simple measures can keep problem of inefficient ‘network standby’ from worsening in years ahead, IEA report says 2 July 2014 Paris Today, the world’s 14 billion online electronic devices – such as set-top boxes, modems, printers […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Climate Politics, Innovation, Nuclear energy |
By P Gosselin on 2. June 2014
Share this…FacebookTwitter[Note: The report at Spiegel is one that comes from the DPA German news agency.] The online Der Spiegel writes how global CO2 emissions are projected to keep rising strongly, 1.1% annually, at least until 2035 – thanks to strong economic growth in emerging countries like India and China. Obama’s newly announced actions to curb CO2 […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Climate Politics, CO2 and GHG, Nuclear energy, We're To Blame |
By P Gosselin on 23. December 2013
Share this…FacebookTwitterAt yesterday’s online Spiegel, science journalist Axel Bojanowski reported on a discussion with ultra-alarmist, former NASA GISS director James Hansen. Photo by Bill Ebbesen, public domain. Hansen believes that nuclear energy is the only way of effectively preventing global warming from fossil fuel greenhouse gases. He called the policy of scaling back nuclear power “a […]
Posted in Activism, Alternative Energy, Nuclear energy |
By P Gosselin on 5. August 2013
Share this…FacebookTwitterAccording to preliminary findings of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Energiebilanzen (AGEB), Germany has consumed far more energy in the first half of this year than a year earlier, up 4 percent. Germany burns more coal because of cold weather. Image (cropped) by Arnold Paul, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 Generic license. Alarmist site Klimaretter here, quoting […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, CO2 and GHG, Green Follies, Nuclear energy |
By P Gosselin on 23. March 2013
Share this…FacebookTwitterInternational Doubt Over The Success Of Germany’s Energiewende growing by Sebastian Lüning and Fritz Vahrenholt (Translated/edited by P Gosselin) Germany’s Energiewende [energy transition over to renewables] is being watched closely in foreign countries. Already bets are being made on whether the expensive experiment is going to work. Meanwhile increasing numbers of international experts are […]
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By P Gosselin on 12. March 2013
Share this…FacebookTwitterIf you ever wonder if the Greens tell the truth when it comes to climate science, then just take a look at what they say about the Fukushima accident of 2011. Hat-tip Bernd Felsche. Green Party top honcho Claudia Roth left an astonishing message at Facebook where she comments about the 2-year anniversary of […]
Posted in Activism, Climate Politics, Media / Bias, Nuclear energy |
By P Gosselin on 12. March 2013
Share this…FacebookTwitterCan we trust the media? Germany’s massive public funded radio and television demonstrates to us that the answer is: not always. Yesterday many media outlets reported on the 2-year anniversary of Japan’s “earthquake/tsunami/Fukushima” disaster. The way some German public television and radio outlets are presenting the disaster 2 years later would probably make even North […]
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By P Gosselin on 1. January 2013
Share this…FacebookTwitterIt’s little wonder that the German public is beginning an uprising against the mandatory fees that every citizen is forced to pay in order to fund the country’s vast public radio and television. Every year the widely hated GEZ shakes €8 billion from Germans. For German readers, here’s a stinging commentary on just how unbelievably […]
Posted in Media / Bias, Nuclear energy |
By P Gosselin on 9. July 2012
Share this…FacebookTwitter“Sea levels are not rising significantly.” Climate science is made up of “speculative and alarmist theories”. Dr. Sebastian Lüning’s and Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt’s Die kalte Sonne website presents a video showing British European Parliamentarian Roger Helmer delivering a statement before the European Parliament in Strasbourg on July 5, slamming Europe’s climate religion and energy […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Climate Politics, Nuclear energy |
By P Gosselin on 2. July 2012
Share this…FacebookTwitterThe mid-Atlantic of the USA has no power. And so one really has to wonder about the sheer brilliance of Energy Secretary Chu’s latest idea – more electric cars for a country that can no longer provide its citizens with a steady supply of electricity. I have a question for Secretary Chu: Even if electric cars […]
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By P Gosselin on 3. June 2012
Share this…FacebookTwitterAn honest look at the data allows us to conclude only one thing: The path to protecting the planet is paved with energy and human prosperity. A shortage of either would mean big trouble for the environment. =================================== How Much Power Should We Consume? By Ed Caryl There have been many suggestions here on […]
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By P Gosselin on 15. March 2012
Share this…FacebookTwitterSteffen Hentrich of the liberty-oriented blogsite “Denken für die Freiheit” (Thinking for Liberty) writes a piece called “Climate-Killing Energy Transformation” about how Germany’s energy transformation from nuclear and fossil fuels to renewable energies is not working out very well. Share this…FacebookTwitter
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By P Gosselin on 18. January 2012
Share this…FacebookTwitterHave you ever been to a dinner party with lots of people when suddenly a mouse runs across the room and someone yells “mouse!” Most people simply ignore the intrusion, while others may ask “where?” But you can always count on someone flying into a fit of hysteria, jumping up on a table screaming […]
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By P Gosselin on 7. October 2011
Share this…FacebookTwitterDig baby dig! Germany has put the shutdown of all its nuclear reactors on the fast track since the Fukushima accident. Finally, Germany’s Renewable Energy Revolution to rescue the planet from nuclear power and climate-killing CO2 emissions appears set begin in earnest, at least that’s what the climate rescue heroes would like to believe. Unfortunately for […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, CO2 and GHG, Nuclear energy |
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