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Prospects of Nuclear Fusion.

This is an interesting video with 3 specialists, whose conclusions mostly seems those of John Carr, the first presenter: Fusion is difficult, costly and in a more short time-frame can not be the solution to our carbon-free power needs. Watch John Carr who very clearly presents the pro and contras of fusion w.r. to fission; this is by far the most clear exposé I know of fusion reactor problems that are not often discussed in the media. The conclusion is that research into fusion should continue, at about 1/4 of the full financing for nuclear power, the rest going into fission research.


The Open Access Journal "Science of Climate Change" has a very interesting paper by Hans Schröder (Denmark) titled "Understanding the Carbon Cycle".

The author finds a fundamental fault in the IPCC model of the carbon cycle; with his model he calculates that the human caused part in the  increase of atmospheric CO2 levels represent only about 25% of the measured change, the rest of the increase having natural causes.

Website of SCC is here (click on the 3-bars at the top right of the page to access the menu).

You may also read this very clear essay by Eike Roth:
"Climate: Man or Nature?"


Dr. Stefan Kröpelin, a German geologue and specialist of the Sahara desert region, gives an interesting interview (in German)where he puts many fashionable myths right: the Sahara desert is shrinking (not increasing!), there are no climate tipping points and the refugies coming to Europe are not driven out by climate change.


Dr. Roy Spencer (Uni. UAH) has a very readable article on the difference between climate models and observations, titled:
Global Warming. Observations vs. Climate Models

One of his conclusions:
Public policy should be based on climate observations - which are rather unremarkable- rather than climate models which exaggerate climate impacts.
 

 

Impacts and risks of “realistic” global warming projections for the 21st century
New paper by Nicola Scafetta (University of Napoli Fedrerico II) on realistic estimation of future warming, knowing that IPCC's projection mostly run hot.
One of the conclusions:
Net-zero emission policies are not necessary because SSP2-4.5 is sufficient to limit climate change hazards to manageable levels.

Read also his comment on Climate etc.


Roger PIELKE Jr. ("The Honest Broker THB") has a marvelous comment on the weather and climate extremes during the post 1850 period that the IPCC and politically correct climate Zeitgeist considers as ideal. One big El-Nino event during the 1877's has caused about 50 millions deaths!
Please read this excellent comment "When the climate was perfect" ( and you might join the THB list)
He concludes: A careful look at history tells us that the global average surface temperature is not a control knob that we can set to a preferred value to "avoid suffering"
 

 


To conclude this year. I suggest to read the very interesting paper by Connolly, Soon et al. concerning the influence of TSI (total solar irradiance) on global temperature increase since 1850. The IPCC practically neglects TSI influence, and reaffirms that the observed warming is mostly anthropogenic. Here the authors show that choosing different TSI reconstructions or observations, you can conclude to the contrary (warming is mostly natural) or everything in-between: "for 4 of the Surface Temperature estimates the best performing TSI series in the "only natural forcings" fit can nominally explain more of the long term warming tha the "only anthropogenic forcings""
So the politically correct quasi exclusive fixation on human emitted GHG (mostly CO2) might be wrong.
 

 
 
Multi-part comment in the BLOG on the problem of air quality and the different and often confusing multitude of defining the air quality index.

Read here parts 1, 2, 3, 4 and the last part 5.
 


Excellent and very short video from Prager online University with Prof. Richard Lindzen from MIT who tells the essentials in crystal clear words .

An absolute ***must view***!

   

 

1. A look at the Shape of Temperature Change over Time. Interesting blog comment at WUWT by Mark Fife concluding "In every 10-year average, 99.7% of the stations fall within 2.25° and -1.75° of their 1920 – 2011 average".

10. A real cool 12 minute video by Dr. David Evans "Climate change in 12 minutes". Peek also into this animated video by Dr. Roy Spencer.

 

Bill Gates, who said poor countries “desperately need cheap sources of energy now to fuel economic growth that lifts families out of poverty. They can’t afford today’s expensive clean energy solutions and we can’t expect them to wait for the technology to get cheaper.” - See more at: http://www.thegwpf.com/new-climate-change-battlefront-pits-tony-abbott-against-the-anti-coal-brigade/#sthash.J5szcsdQ.dpuf
Bill Gates, who said poor countries “desperately need cheap sources of energy now to fuel economic growth that lifts families out of poverty. They can’t afford today’s expensive clean energy solutions and we can’t expect them to wait for the technology to get cheaper.” - See more at: http://www.thegwpf.com/new-climate-change-battlefront-pits-tony-abbott-against-the-anti-coal-brigade/#sthash.J5szcsdQ.dpuf



The free iPhone applet meteoLCD has been discontinued!
(by former LCD student Benoìt Frisch, also available for Android devices))


96.
James Lovelock: "They all talk, they pass laws, they do things, as if they knew what was happening. I don’t think anybody really knows what’s happening. They just guess. And a whole group of them meet together and encourage each other’s guesses." (link)

97. Words of the great physicist Freeman Dyson: "Unfortunately the global warming hysteria, as I see it, is driven by politics more than by science. If it happens that I am wrong and the climate experts are right, it is still true that the remedies are far worse than the disease that they claim to cure."

98. Words by the great French philosopher Pascal Bruckner: "All the foolishness of Bolshevism, Maoism, and Trotskyism are somehow reformulated exponentially in the name of saving the planet.
" (comments here and here)
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99. R. Lindzen: "Future generations will wonder in bemused amazement that the early 21st century's developed world went into hysterical panic over a globally averaged temperature increase of a few tenths of a degree and, on the basis of gross exaggerations of highly uncertain computer projections combined into implausible chains of inference, proceeded to contemplate a roll-back of the industrial age"


 "Le doute est le commen-cement de la science ; qui ne doute de rien n'examine rien ; qui n'examine rien ne découvre rien ; qui ne découvre rien est aveugle et demeure aveugle".
Jean Chardin, 1686. Journal du voyage du chevalier Chardin en Perse.

 

Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.
Fire and Ice, R. Frost, 1920

"The greatest challenge facing mankind is the challenge of distinguishing reality from fantasy, truth from propaganda."
Michael Crichton + 4Nov08
(best speeches here and here)
Josh cartoons

"Und denn, man muß das Wahre immer wiederholen, weil auch der Irrtum um uns her immer wieder gepredigt wird, und zwar nicht von einzelnen, sondern von der Masse. In Zeitungen und Enzyklopädien, auf Schulen und Universitäten, überall ist der Irrtum oben auf, und es ist ihm wohl und behaglich, im Gefühl der Majorität, die auf seiner Seite ist". Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1828.

A complete list (with links!) of all things caused by global warming! (video)

 


 

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The data of MeteoLCD are used to compute the UV-Index published by several Luxembourg periodicals. A research project done in collaboration with the Radiation Protection Office of Luxembourg studies the general UV pattern and the relationship between UVB irradiance and tropospheric ozone concentrations. 


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Lycée Classique de Diekirch
L-9233 DIEKIRCH ( francis.massen@education.lu)
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