“Overly Overcast: Germany Weathers Darkest Winter in 43 Years” It seems that there’s a lot of gloom in Germany this Winter, more so than usual. This article in Spiegel explains…
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Lomborg: Electricity prices for German households have increased 61% since 2000 – renewables blamed
Pursuant to my earlier story today about the article in Spiegel, Bjørn Lomborg writes on his Facebook page: Real German electricity prices for households have increased 61% since 2000. One…
Germany’s new “renewable” energy policy
Wind and solar power + soaring electricity prices = outsourced jobs + more coal burning Meanwhile, eco activists demand “sustainable lifestyles” – for other people Guest post by Kelvin Kemm…
In other news…"Ten Reasons Why Fracking is (not) Doomed"
Guest Post by David Middleton I ran across a really funny story on Real Clear Energy last Friday… Once you get past all of the nonsense about fracking polluting groundwater…
Dark matter mapped in the universe for the first time
ANN ARBOR, Mich.—Scientists have, for the first time, directly detected part of the invisible dark matter skeleton of the universe, where more than half of all matter is believed to…
Newsbytes: Germany Faces Green Energy Crisis
From Dr. Benny Peiser at The GWPF Network Agency Calls For Suspension Of Emission Laws For Old Coal Plants Last winter, on several occasions, Germany escaped only just large-scale power…
Weather is climate, or loaded dice, or something
From the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) more instituitional worrying turned press release leading up to the upcoming WMO report. I wonder where they get the increase in…
German skeptics Lüning and Vahrenholt respond to criticism
Foreword: Dr Sebastian Lüning and Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt, authors of a new controversial skeptic book now hitting German bookstores, have asked me to post their response to comments made by…
Germany in skeptical turmoil on both Climate and Solar/Windfarms
I have two major stories out of Germany to report, one on the rise of Climate Skepticism into the mainstream, as Germany’s Top Environmentalist Turns Climate Sceptic, saying “I couldn’t…
Shocker: BP quits solar power industry
BP Exits the Solar Industry (via Planet Gore) By Greg Pollowitz Bloomberg: BP Plc, Europe’s second-largest oil company, will shut its solar power unit and quit the business entirely after 40…
A response from Chris de Freitas
In the post: The tribalistic corruption of peer review – the Chris de Freitas incident Dr. Chris de Freitas has left a response. Rather than argue his own position. Dr.…
Germany to shovel climate fund dollars into coal plants
Less than a month after the failed Bonn UN climate confab, Germany has announced a most audacious energy policy: in order to shutter nuclear plants (but not completely scuttle their…
How Germany's weather team views the "hottest year ever"
Translation via the GWPF Speculation Alert: “New Little Ice Age Cannot Be Ruled Out” Wednesday, 15 December 2010 09:16 Rickmer Flor, wetter.info Everybody is talking about global warming – but…
News bites: The Green Energy Collapse
From the GWPF, a collection of headlines: Across the world, unsustainable subsidies for wind and solar are being cut back.—Lawrence Solomon, – Financial Post, 3 December 2010 The French government…
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