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Donna Laframboise, a well-known Canadian
journalist, wrote a very extensive and clear
paper on peer-review: "Peer
review: Why skepticism is essential".
Only a small part touches climate science, the
majority is a very lucid exposé of what went
wrong since the second half of last century. A
time when the number of papers published became
the exclusive metric for scientific achievement.
As it is now common that over 50 percent of
published peer-reviewed research can not be
reproduced, the arrogance of equating
peer-reviewed with truthiness should be
questioned.The RetractionWatch website
has a stunning interview on
computer-generated fake peer-reviews. After
SCIgen, this seems to close the circle of fake
academic publishing.
Time to reread the
famous 2005 essay of John Ioannidis "Why
most published research findings are false"
which contains this wonderful corollary
"The greater the financial and other interests
and prejudices in a scientific field, the less
likely the research findings are to be true." |
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Global
Warming versus Global Greening.
Watch this crystal-clear presentation (40
minutes) given by Lord Matt Ridley at the GWPF
the 17th October 2016. This is one of the best
presentations of the last years, resuming nicely
all arguments of the climate-realist people
regarding anthropogenic climate change and the
supposed ravages brought by (slightly) higher
atmospheric CO2 levels .
See
blog comment. |
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South Australia had a "black event" (=
total electricity power breakdown) during a
heavy storm period the 28 Sep 2016. The
preliminary report of AMEO (Australian
Energy Market Operator) says the cause may be
sudden power loss from wind turbines: "..at
16:18, following an extensive number of faults
in a short period, 315 MW of wind generation
disconnected...The event resulted in the SA
regional electricity market being suspended."
This
comment writes that
"The state’s capacity to produce its own
baseload power from fossil fuels has rapidly
diminished...The combined lost capacity of
1250MW represents a third of the state’s
generating potential" |
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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***! |
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0. A preliminary version of the German "Klimaschutzplan
2050" is available
here (69 pages). No comment after a quick reading,
but count the occurrences of the word "ambitioniert" (ambitious).
1. Very interesting article on electrical storage
solutions by Dr. B.O. Peters: "Speicher
- die Lösung der Energiewende?": "Zusammenfassend
lässt sich sagen, dass für den großtechnischen Einsatz
von Stromspeichern die heute verfügbaren Technologien um
einen Faktor 100-1000 von den wirtschaftlichen und
technischen Notwendigkeiten entfernt sind." (h.t.
EIKE)
2.
Heartbeat of the Sun from Principal Component Analysis
and prediction of solar activity on a millenium
timescale. A new paper in Nature Science Reports
by Shepherd et al. predicting (as many others do) a
coming "Maunder-like" global cooling period due to a
decrease in solar irradiance and magnetic activity. The
authors point to a possible ~30-year long global
cooling starting in 2020 approx. What makes this paper
also interesting is that many scientists tried (in vain)
to prevent its publication, as it goes against the
"consensus" primarily CO2 induced global warming theory
(watch
here).
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
Free iPhone
applet
meteoLCD
(by 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"
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"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.
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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
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"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
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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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