By Kenneth Richard on 1. June 2020
An “especially worrying” new study finds 2,206 onshore wind, hydropower, and solar PV energy generation facilities have “already encroached on many of the world’s most important places for conserving biodiversity”, degrading 886 protected areas, 749 key biodiversity areas, and 40 distinct wilderness areas. Image Source: Rehbein et al., 2020 Even more concerning, the number of active […]
Posted in Green Follies, Solar, Wind Power |
By P Gosselin on 12. May 2020
Elsevier has accepted a new paper by Lüdecke et al, 2020, showing natural oceanic and solar cycles play a large role in modulating Europe’s climate. Offers new chances for robust midterm temperature prognoses. The paper, in press, journal pre-proof, analyzes natural variability in European monthly temperatures on decadal and multidecadal timescales and their possible drivers. […]
Posted in Oceans, Solar |
By P Gosselin on 27. August 2019
How the sun impacts European climate By Die kalte Sonne (German text translated by P Gosselin) Images: NASA Observatory The gigantic nuclear fusion power plant of the sun reliably supplies the earth with energy. However, the IPCC’s current doctrine is that fluctuations in solar activity have no effect whatsoever on the Earth’s climate. Some climate […]
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By P Gosselin on 17. August 2019
Amazing: A proxy study of Laos finds natural variability in hydrometeorology, a little Ice Age, and other substantial climate changes in the pre-greenhouse gas era. Who would have thought! (sarcasm) Hat-tip: NTZ reader Mary Brown. University of California Irvine researcher Jessica Wang and her team of researchers find plenty of natural climate variability in Southeast […]
Posted in Drought and Deserts, Little Ice Age, Medieval Warm Period, Natural Variability, Paleo-climatology, Solar |
By Kenneth Richard on 30. May 2019
While it may seem counterintuitive, the expansion of wind and solar energy necessarily leads to the preservation and eventual growth in fossil fuel energy generation. This “paradox” hasn’t gone unnoticed. As good business practice, fossil fuel companies are now actively advocating for and investing in wind and solar technologies. In an analysis of energy return […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Solar, Wind Power |
By Kenneth Richard on 15. April 2019
A 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 in […]
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By P Gosselin on 17. February 2019
By Pierre Gosselin and Kirye Today any warming found anywhere almost always gets blamed on heat supposedly getting trapped by rising atmospheric CO2 concentrations. Moreover, activist scientists insist we ignore all other powerful factors such as solar and oceanic cycles. In fact these activists have become so extreme that they insist that record cold today is […]
Posted in Arctic, Cooling/Temperature, Solar |
By P Gosselin on 15. February 2019
A significant number of scientists say that the Earth’s climate is in large part impacted by solar activity, and less so by trace gas CO2 concentration. German scientists present new findings showing a link between solar activity and precipitation in Europe. ================================================= How Changes on the Sun Influences Rain A balanced level of precipitation provides […]
Posted in Solar |
By Kenneth Richard on 29. October 2018
The 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 to […]
Posted in CO2 and GHG, Emissions, Green Follies, Solar, Wind Power |
By Kenneth Richard on 15. October 2018
In the first 9½ months of 2018, 368 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 mainstream media sources. These 368 […]
Posted in Alarmism, Antarctic, Arctic, Climate Sensitivity, CO2 and GHG, Cooling/Temperature, Glaciers, Hockey Team, Hurricanes/Tornados, Medieval Warm Period, Natural Oceanic Oscillations, Natural Variability, Ocean Acidification, Paleo-climatology, Sea Ice, Sea Levels, Solar |
By P Gosselin on 17. July 2018
The upcoming 6th IPCC Sixth Assessment Report will be a “comprehensive assessment of the science” related to climate change and published in 2022. However, don’t expect it to be “comprehensive” at all as hundreds of scientific publications showing profound impacts by sun and oceans will go ignored. Climate science has turned into a religion that […]
Posted in Climate Politics, Solar |
By Kenneth Richard on 9. July 2018
The 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 year, […]
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