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 |
By P Gosselin on 23. January 2024
Energy poverty is spreading in Germany. Citizens, especially seniors, can no longer afford to heat their residences Blackout News reports on how German senior citizens, who, due to high energy prices, are being increasingly forced into a life of poverty and struggling to keep warm at home. “Many pensioners can no longer pay heating costs […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Climate Politics, Green Follies |
By P Gosselin on 16. January 2024
Germany’s greening economy is falling ever deeper into crisis Blackout News here reports: “Germany is currently in recession and the economic outlook is anything but positive. The economic upturn through the green transformation promised by Chancellor Olaf Scholz is unlikely to materialize in 2024.”Moreover, the Financial Times here reports: “Germany was the worst-performing major economy […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Climate Politics |
By P Gosselin on 10. January 2024
Disconnected from reality: Despite heavy winter rains, flooding and DWD data, Germany’s Helmholtz Institute insists parts of Germany are “extremely dry”. The “climate change-induced drought” in January 2024 By Frank Bosse We already reported several times (here and here) on the Helmholtz Institute’s Drought Monitor. In the meantime, there have been major floods, especially in […]
Posted in Drought and Deserts |
By P Gosselin on 30. December 2023
Warm and wet… According to preliminary results from the data collected from Germany’s approximately 2000 weather stations, the year 2023 was the warmest on record. So reports the Offenbach, Germany-based DWD national weather service. Yet, official claims don’t always seem to correspond to real life observations. Despite 6th wettest year on record and mass flooding […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Drought and Deserts, Flood |
By P Gosselin on 27. December 2023
Germany’s Blackout News here reports on how Germany’s move into renewable energies has gone from “a boom to crisis”. The policies of (worst ever) Economics Minister Robert Habeck (Green Party) are leading the German economy to disaster. Photo: public domain. It wasn’t long ago, when interest rates and inflation were low, and the economy and […]
Posted in Alternative Energy |
By P Gosselin on 24. December 2023
We wish all readers a Merry Christmas! Photo: Hase River, Germany. P. Gosselin Flood damage Currently large parts of Germany are experiencing mild temperatures and heavy rains, which have led to plenty of flooding. Today while making photos of the flooding situation here for a blog post, I adventurously attempted to cross a flooded area […]
Posted in Drought and Deserts, Flood |
By P Gosselin on 23. December 2023
The only thing Berlin’s fueling is discontent… The German government’s CO2 price increase beginning from January 2024 will make petrol, heating and electricity more expensive. Already Germany’s industry is shrinking rapidly and farmers are now protesting nationally due to high fuels costs: These protests are rapidly expanding and a national day of protest in planned […]
Posted in Agriculture, Climate Politics |
By P Gosselin on 12. December 2023
“Basic rights in crisis mode” in Germany. The real threat to democracy. “How we live, heat, get around, travel and what we eat could soon no longer be an individual decision, but increasingly be dictated by the state,” a former German federal minister warns. Image cropped from Kristina Schröder’s Twitter account. Kristina Schröder, photo above, […]
Posted in Activism, Alarmism |
By P Gosselin on 1. December 2023
The preliminary data from the approx. 2000 DWD German national weather service have been tabulated for autumn (September-October-November) 2023. It is the second warmest in Germany since measurements began in 1881. The period from January to November 2023 is also in second place with an average of 11.2 °C. Uwe Kirsche, spokesperson for the German […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Weather |
By P Gosselin on 8. November 2023
No surprise: despite all the milk-and-honey promises of a green economy, Germany’s blind rush away from fossil fuel and over to “green energies” is turning into a nightmare of inflation and economic decline. Today Blackout News here reports on how one third of all German automotive suppliers are considering relocating investments abroad. Germany is no […]
Posted in Green Follies |
By P Gosselin on 31. October 2023
Germans are already completely fed up and frustrated with the costly transition to green energies, and the target remains very far off. Even Bloomberg calls it a “total failure” Federal Economics Minister Robert Habeck, Green Party, has been called by many the most incompetent in modern German history. Public domain image. Germany’s conservative Report 24 […]
Posted in Green Follies |
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