By P Gosselin on 14. January 2013
If there ever was a confirmation that the UN climate conferences have been a total failure, then this is it. According to the German Press Agency (dpa), Germany is now looking for partners in order to found a “coalition of the willing” for implementing the transition to renewable energies. Apparently, the creation of green jobs and […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Climate Politics |
By P Gosselin on 18. December 2012
The International Energy Agency (IEA) has issued a press release on global coal consumption. Many claim that last decade’s rapidly rising coal consumption is causing global warming. I beg your pardon: While coal consumption has “risen rapidly” over the last decade, the linear global temperature trend has dropped at a rate of 0.7°C/century! Source: woodfortrees.org. The IEA […]
Posted in CO2 and GHG, Cooling/Temperature |
By P Gosselin on 7. October 2011
Dig 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 the renewable […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, CO2 and GHG, Nuclear energy |
By P Gosselin on 25. August 2011
A recently released BP report here shows that global coal consumption has risen over the last 10 years by almost 50%. So wouldn’t you think that all those millions of tons of emitted CO2 (food for plants) as a result would drive the global temperatures up? Have temperatures risen along with all that extra coal burning? No they […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, CO2 and GHG, Nuclear energy |
By P Gosselin on 13. February 2024
Under the bottom line, the green movement is all about taxing people and restricting their choices. The rich, of course, will go unaffected. According to online Bild here, Germany’s Federal Agriculture Minister, Cem Özdemir, (Green Party) has recently proposed a consumption tax on meat. He calls this tax “animal welfare cents”. Özdemir sent a framework […]
Posted in Agriculture, Climate Politics |
A Warmer Past: Non-Hockey Stick Reconstructions Roy et al., 2023 Holocene air temperatures were reconstructed from δ18O measurements from the nearby Agassiz Ice Cap. The 25-yr mean annual air temperature record shows a rapid Early Holocene warming, with temperatures being 6–8°C warmer than today at 10,000 yr b2k followed by a gradual cooling to AD […]
By P Gosselin on 13. December 2022
Monthly newsletter from Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt (Translated, edited by P. Gosselin) ================================ Dear Ladies and Gentlemen The most exciting question in terms of energy policy in the coming months is just how intense is the winter going to be. The German DWD Weather Service reassured the German government and public in November: “The German Weather […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Green Follies |
By P Gosselin on 7. December 2022
Energy policy is sliding Germany ever closer to failure and disaster…”more CO2 emitted per kilowatt hour in electricity generation than India or China”… “landed in 127th place out of 147 countries in the ranking.” Earlier this year, even though the natural gas supply from Russia had been stopped, Germany remained hell bent on moving ahead […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Green Follies |
By P Gosselin on 15. November 2022
Germany’s Blackout News here reports that not only is Germany’s energy supply faltering profoundly, but so is its wind industry as well, reporting that it is “sliding into a crisis”. Gloomy outlook also for Germany’s wind energy industry. Photo by P. Gosselin Wind energy is supposed to step in and play a key role in […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Climate Politics, Green Follies |
By P Gosselin on 10. June 2022
Leading German economist Hans Werner Sinn sees 6 major problems with Europe’s green energy transition (Energiewende) and warns other nations against following the German energy model. Problem no. 1: The Paris Accord is non-binding The Paris Accord in fact has been signed by only 61 of 191 nations and so pledge to reduce their emissions, […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Climate Politics |
By Kenneth Richard on 23. May 2022
A new study finds “the total CO2 emissions will be much lower with continued use of the old but operational combustion car instead of buying a new electric one.” Image Source: Neugebauer et al., 2022 It has long been assumed that replacing internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles with electric vehicles (EV) will lead to dramatically […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Emissions, Green Follies |
By P Gosselin on 11. May 2022
Fritz Vahrenholt: The transition to green energies and the missing warming By Kalte Sonne Dear ladies and gentlemen, During the energy crisis that has become visible in Germany and Europe over the past few months, things have gotten quieter about the supposedly imminent climate emergency. On the one hand, energy prices and security of supply have […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Misc. |
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