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Prof. Mikko Paunio (University of
Helsinky) has a very interesting
paper (published by the GWPF), where he
suggests to stop recycling plastics and burn it
instead in incinerators. This to avoid the
leakage of disused plastic shipped (by many EU
countries) to Asia, where a big part finds its
way into the streams and the oceans. He
concludes that "Austria, Denmark and Sweden
have been at the forefront ... and should be
seen as environmental leaders. However, their
remarkable progress in managing MSW (municipal
solid waste)... is now being compromised by the
EU’s new anti-incineration stance." |
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A group of 33 geologists (current and former
fellows of the GSL) wrote an
open letter to its president contesting
the GSL's position on climate change. One
important argument is this one: "Why the
285 ppm of atmospheric CO2 estimated for the
beginning of the Industrial Revolution is in any
way, a desirable benchmark. It coincides with
the Victorian Little Ice Age, a period of
starvation and population decline, which cannot
possibly be a desirable target, unless you want
to depopulate the earth." |
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The "Bundesinitiative für vernünftige
Energiepolitik" VERNUNFTKRAFT has published a
large
Compendium on the German Energiewende,
whose "ambitious" targets for 2020 will not be
achieved (link to English translation).
The compendium says that "wind
and solar energy, which seem to promise a quick
fix, are not simple alternatives to fossil
fuels... What we therefore need is
a
large-scale and generous energy research
programme
that
covers all aspects of energy efficiency,
storage, transport and generation in a
technology neutral manner..."
Original German edition here. |
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A new break-through on the way for a
small nuclear fusion reactor. The privately
financed company
Tokamak Energy (Oxford, UK) has achieved
in its ST4 prototype reactor a plasma hotter
than 15 million degrees C.
More
here and read
here of the now defunct Alcator C-Mod
which set a world record in 2016 in the USA.
Watch this
time-lapse video of the construction of
the ST40 which gives a good idea of its small
scale.
Lockheed-Martin patented its Compact Fusion
Reactor recently in Feb.2018: look
here and
here. So there is much research
worldwide on smaller fusion reactors which might
become operational well in advance of the ITER
behemoth.
Speak about this to the people who think that nuclear energy belongs to the past! |
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Vaclav SMIL, emeritus professor of the
University of Manitoba, published a very
interesting article in the IEEE Spectrum
(3Jun2018): "A
Critical Look at Claims for Green Technologies".
He writes
"...many of today’s ambitions will not become
tomorrow’s realities..."
and concludes
"While it is easy to extoll—and to
exaggerate—the seductive promise of the new, its
coming will be a complicated, gradual, and
lengthy process constrained by many realities." |
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I started a 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.
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Four questions on climate change.
Read this very interesting article by
Garth Paltridge, published at Prof. Judith
Curry's blog. |
...These results imply that high ECS and TCR
values derived from a majority of CMIP5 climate
models are inconsistent with observed warming
during the historical period...
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..write N. Lewis and J. Curry in their
new paper in the Journal of Climate,
which finds in essence that the IPCC scenarios
run much too hot!
Read Dr. Roy Spencer's comment
here. |
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Prof. Ole Humlum (the author of the
climate4you.com website) has written the
GWPF report #30. This report uses only
observations (not the output of climate models)
and discusses the most important climate trends.
A crystal clear and sober writing style makes
this an absolutely must read ! |
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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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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
Free iPhone
applet
meteoLCD
(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"
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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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