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By P Gosselin on 13. April 2024
There’s been a drastic drop in the registration of new electric cars in Germany as sales of the “clean” electric cars have slumped nearly 30% compared to a year earlier, reports Germany’s online Blackout News here. Also: Germany’s transportation minister, Dr. Volker Wissing, threatens weekend driving ban (Fahrverbot) in order to meet climate targets! The […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Climate Politics, Green Follies |
By P Gosselin on 27. March 2024
Winter sea ice in Arctic stable over past 20 years…has even recovered somewhat. Hat-tip: Klimanachrichten Arctic sea ice extent as recorded by Germany’s Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) in Bremerhaven, Germany, looks at the situation in January 2024. Despite the record temperatures reported, the ice in the Arctic has recovered somewhat. The slight recovery trend since […]
Posted in Arctic |
By P Gosselin on 22. March 2024
At Klimanachrichten, Dr. Ludger Laurenz looks how solar influence on rainfall in Germany. Precipitation patterns linked to the 22-year Hale cycle. While droughts and periods of heavy precipitation in Germany are often blamed on CO2 climate change by the media and pseudo-experts, Laurenz sees a clear link to the 22-year solar Hale cycle. This can […]
Posted in Solar |
By P Gosselin on 8. March 2024
A damning special report just released by Germany’s Federal Audit Office on the implementation of the Energiewende (transition to green energy) concludes that the transition is lagging far behind its ambitious targets, both in terms of expanding renewable energies and building the necessary infrastructure. Symbol image. Collapsing turbine. Image cropped here. Things aren’t going well […]
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By P Gosselin on 3. March 2024
Germany’s DWD national weather service reports that the country saw it’s third warmest winter on record (since 1881) and the 13th warmer than normal winter in a row. Germany’s 2023/24 winter was among the warmest and wettest on record going back to 1881. Photo: Artland Region, northwest Germany, by P. Gosselin Record February high Moreover, […]
Posted in Weather |
By P Gosselin on 1. March 2024
When green energy ideology clashes with the laws of Engineering and physics… By KlimaNachrichten Editor Manfred Haferburg, power plant engineer, explains the problems of the German power grid in connection with the green energy transition at online site Achgut. The result is a very informative article. It is not primarily about blackouts due to a […]
Posted in Alternative Energy |
By P Gosselin on 28. February 2024
Blackout News: “EON chief warns of a cost explosion due to transition to green energies.” Blackout News here reports that there’s no end in sight for Germany’s self-inflicted energy crisis. Energy prices are expected to continue rising, thus posing a huge risk to industry. This is of course no surprise as Germany, driven by radical […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Climate Politics |
By P Gosselin on 25. February 2024
High cost, inconvenience, low range and battery issues continue to plague e-vehicles in Germany. Consumers not opting for e-cars. Currently sales of electric vehicles in Germany have stalled and the country is not even anywhere close to being on the sales trajectory to reach its 15 million vehicles target by 2030. Currently just over 1 […]
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By P Gosselin on 16. February 2024
Germany’s online NIUS.de here reports on the totalitarianism spreading across Germany This week, high ranking ministers of Germany’s socialist/green government, with its proposed “Democracy Security Act”, announced plans to crack down on dissent and free speech in Germany. Image: Phoenix, cropped here. “The German federal government is moving to ban what we want to say, […]
Posted in Climate Politics |
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 |
By P Gosselin on 4. February 2024
Germany’s energy crisis deepens further due to Biden’s halt of U.S. LNG projects. Germany is backed into a corner after over-reliance on green energy. The site of Germany LNG terminal, Wilhelmshaven, photographed in 2012. Later expanded in 2022. Image: RaBoe. CC BY-SA 3.0 de Germany has dug itself into an energy hole Due to the […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Green Follies |
By P Gosselin on 31. January 2024
Extended spring like weather also occurred in Europe 50 years ago It’s been mild across Europe, bringing some relief from the hardships of winter. Yet, the media again is reporting the mild weather as if it’s something bad, which has never happened before. But of course, this is not true. What follows is a newspaper […]
Posted in Weather |
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