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Watch this TEDx (Danubia) presentation by
environmentalist Michael Shellenberger: "Why
renewables can't save the world"
(and why nuclear can!). |
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Many of us believe that an Hydrogen economy might be
THE answer to a carbon-free energy world. Read his
older but extremely clear report by Ulf Bossel (a
fuel cell expert) and Baldur Eliasson (ABB) titled "Energy
and the Hydrogen Economy".Did you know that
for transporting the same energy amount as
compressed H2 than as gasoline you will need 15 to
22
times more trucks? Read also this
paper. |
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Click on the picture to look at one of the best
illustrations of the urban heat island effect (UHI).
Picture from NASA's
Ecostress
project shows how much warmer cities were during the
morning hours of the June 2019 European heat wave.
Do you still have big confidence in thermometer
readings located at airports or in cities?More
here. |
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Watch this very short but extremely clear
presentation by Dr. Roy SPENCER (UHA)
showing the discrepancies between climate models and
observations (both by satellites and 4 reanalysis ).
From the 102 CMIP5 models used by the IPCC only the
Russian model comes close to the observations. Click
here for the graph. |
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Wind turbines are big killers, and one of the causes
of insect population loss!
Read this comment in Forbes by M. Shellenberger:
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a rough but conservative estimate of the impact of
wind farms on flying insects in Germany is a loss of
about 1.2 trillion insects of different species per
year". Read
the full text of the German report by Dr. Trieb
here.
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Shocking new research:
trees are big emitters of the greenhouse gas methane!
So you much criticised cattle farmers, take
solace that you are not the only climate wrong-doers
anymore! (report from Yale University). |
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In these times where everybody aims to a
net-zero carbon future, the excellent presentation
of he late Sir David MacKAY "A
reality check on renewables" is still an eye
opener regarding the enormous land usage that
biofuels and other renewables demand.
David MacKAY passed away in 2016; he was the
Regius Professor of Engineering at the University of
Cambridge (more
here). Concerning intermittent electricity
storage in batteries, you may watch this interesting
video "The
Liquid Metal Battery: Innovation in Stationary
Electricity Storage" by MIT Prof. Donald Sadoway.
Listen what he says about the Lithium-Ion battery "a
yeasterday solution". |
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Prof. Uberto Crescenti has prepared a call for
reason titled "Pétition sur le le Réchauffement
Climatique Anthropique" which has be signed
until today by 91 professors, scientists and
researchers. Click
here for the text in French, which has this
sentence
"La
responsabilité anthropique du changement climatique
observée au siècle dernier est donc exagérée de
façon injustifiée et les prévisions catastrophiques
sont irréalistes....
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Original Italian text
here. |
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Read this
article (English translation) of Benny Peiser
and Matt Ridley on the positive influence of higher
atmospheric CO2 levels:
"The
unexpectedly slow rise in temperatures and the
failure of predicted climate disasters to
materialise has sparked growing concern among
climate scientists...70 percent of global greening
is due to the fertilisation effect of rising CO2
levels...the increase in CO2 emissions is beneficial
for maintaining and potentially enhancing the
recovery of rainfall in the Sahel region...”
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to original article in German) |
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It is interesting to read an opinion from a far away
and very important emerging country. Sanjeev Sabhlok
(an economist) writes a comment titled "The
warming effects of CO2 are benign" which
holds the very interesting sentences:
"The
problem with climate “science”, however, is that the
data – which are telling us to relax – fly in the
face of the strong tendency of its advocates to
bully us into a panic.....India
should take it easy and focus on more important and
urgent environmental issues. "
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During these hot days please remember that
meteoLCD was and still is the only station of
Luxembourg measuring and publishing the "official"
heat-stress (WBGT) in near real time, starting
in May 2001. This synthetic temperature is
calculated from those measured by a dry, wet and
globe thermometers, reflecting the incidence of
direct solar irradiation (globe), evaporation (i.e.
wind, wet bulb) and air temperature (dry bulb). Read
here a recent paper on the WBGT and the
article "Ambiance
Chaude" by Dr. Charles Bonert and
Francis Massen. Dr. Bonert was the head of the
medical service of Luxembourg's army, and our
installation in 2001 of the WBGT system was a joint
venture between meteoLCD and this service.
Here a picture of our WBGT system
(27Jun2019):
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Here is a 800 pages blockbuster
report by the NIPCC on the economics of
using or not using fossil fuels.
"...the
authors...find
that while climate change is occurring and a human
impact on climate is likely, there is
no consensus on
the size of that impact relative to natural
variability,
the
net
benefits or costs of the impacts of climate
change."
More than 100 scientists were involved in the making
of this report by the NonGovernmental International
Panel on Climate Change. |
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Watch this
excellent
presentation by Laurent ALEXANDRE (in
French) given at a conference of the "climato-réalistes",
where he talks about
climate religion, "collabsology" and exponential
hysterical political decisions: "le discours
religieux collabsologique prévoyant la fin du monde
s'est développé à une vitesse absolument sidérante".
Laurent Alexandre is a medical doctor (in
chirurgical urology) and entrepreneur; he writes
regularly in the "l'EXPRESS". |
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Climate's Uncertainty Principle Read this
very clear written article by atmospheric physicist
G. Paltridge, published in
Quadrant Online:
"...reasonably correct forecasts of the
average climate of the world might be
possible in principle. On the scale of regions
(anything much smaller than the scale of the major
ocean basins for example) it has yet to be shown
that useful long-term climate forecasting is
possible even in principle." |
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Non uniform contribution of internal variability to
recent Arctic sea ice loss by Marc England et al.
(Columbia University, New York, University of
Colorado at Boulder):
"...nearly
half of the observed loss of summer sea ice cover is
not due to anthropogenic forcing, but due to
internal variability...spring (April-May) sea ice
loss, notably in the Barents Sea, has so far been
dominated by internal variability."
Paper published by AMS. |
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A new 200 year spatial recontruction of West
Antarctica surface masse balance.
New paper by Yetang Wang et al. (JGR Atmospheres)
which concludes that
"significant negative trend (-1.9 ± 2.2 Gt yr-1
decade-1) in the SMB over the entire WAIS
during the 19th century,
but a statistically significant positive trend of
5.4 ± 2.9 Gt yr-1 decade-1
between 1900 and 2010".
So during a period of strongly increasing
atmospheric CO2 levels the SMB of the WAIS
increased!
(WAIS = West Antarctica Ice Surface , SMB = Surface
Mass Balance) |
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Kohlemotoren, Windmotoren und Dieselmotoren: Was
zeigt die CO2-Bilanz? Read this
extraordinary clear and easy to read paper by
Christoph Buchal, Hans-Dieter Karl and Hans-Werner
Sinn: E-cars emit more CO2 per km as modern
Diesel cars, if you make a serious calculation
and do not accept the politically correct
monster-lie. The authors propose to introduce
hydrogen as the best storage medium for excess green
electricity, and convert it to methane to power the
cars (or to use fuel cells to power E-cars): "Wir
vermuten in der postulierten vollständigen
Emissionsfreiheit der E-Autos eine
industriepolitische Täuschung..."
See comment on the
blog. |
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The State of the Climate 2018
Read the latest report by Prof. Ole Humlum
(Uni. Oslo, Uni.Center Svalbard, creator of the
climate4you
website) with clear data and no hype.
From the summary:
"Since 2004, when the Argo floats came into
operation, the global oceans above 1900m depth have
on average warmed somewhat. The maximum warming
(between the surface and 120m depth) mainly affects
oceans near the equator, where the incoming solar
radiation is at a maximum. In contrast, net
cooling has been pronounced for the North Atlantic
since 2004."
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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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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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| "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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