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We know that trans-continental flights at high
altitude are exposed to much higher radioactive
radiation (about 50 times that at ground-level). A
new research campaign focused on neutrons,
and found (rather surprisingly) that over 40% of the
radioactive dose comes from cosmogenic neutrons,
which are about 10 times more effective in creating
cellular damage than gamma rays.
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Look at this presentation given by Benny Peiser at
the De-Greening Day in Amsterdam:
Energy Revolts & the Crisis of Europe's Green Energy
Agenda: "...the EU's green energy
policies have failed to solve the technological
Achilles heel of intermittent renewables"
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Lying with science: a guide to myth debunking.
Read this article by Matt Ridley in "The Spectator":
"Newspapers, politicians and pressure groups have
been moving smoothly for decades from one forecast
apocalypse to another (nuclear power, acid rain, the
ozone layer, mad cow disease, nanotechnology,
genetically modified crops, the millennium bug…)
without waiting to be proved right or wrong...Some
people are willing to forgive exaggeration and error
if it is in a good cause, like increasing concern
about plastics or climate change. This is a risky
strategy because it encourages a Trump-like refusal
to believe evidence even when that evidence is good" |
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"La
transition énergétique est inutile, coûteuse et
injuste" writes Rémy Prud'homme in a report
contributing to the "Grand Débat National" in
France.
Prud'homme is a former professor invited to the MIT,
directeur adjoint at the OECD, consultant for the
World Bank etc..., so this report is not the work of
an amateur.
"Une
politique forte, qui contraindrait les pays de
l’OCDE à réduire de moitié leurs rejets annuels
d’ici à 2050, réduirait cette augmentation de la
moyenne des températures du globe à 0,23 °C. Par
rapport à l’évolution « naturelle », cette lourde
politique de transition aurait donc pour effet de
réduire la moyenne des températures de 0,027 °C" |
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Very interesting and easy to follow presentation by
Prof. Hermann Harde (Uni. Helmut-Schmit,
Hamburg):
Was tragen CO2 und die Sonne zur globalen Erwärmung
bei ?
Using a simple but complete 2 layer model
(which includes convection and evaporation) he
suggests that the observed global warming is caused
to 65% by solar influence and to 35% by rising CO2
levels.
Language is German. |
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There is a very interesting new report on
electricity storage by Prof. Jack Ponton (Uni.
Edinburgh) on storage technologies of intermittent
electricity producers like solar, wind and tidal.
The report is easy to read, sober and realistic. The
title is:
Grid-Scale Storage. "There
seems to be no possibility that any existing storage
technology can handle the intermittency of wind
generation and make it effectively dispatchable...Solar
plus battery storage is probably already
cost-competitive for locations in or near the
tropics...Only storage as hydrogen could provide
summer to-winter storage (in the UK), but cost and
lack of suitable storage sites would rule out this
approach...The combination of tidal stream
generation and pumped storage (are) worth
consideration. However, the number of tidal sites
with sufficient stream velocity to provide useful
generation in the neap tide-season may be limited"
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There is a
reprint of a comment of Prof.
Robert
G. Brown from Duke University on the use of the
term "climate change denier" in WUWT. His
text starts after the title "UPDATE" after Dr.
Bain's letter. Please read
this clear and sober comment from a theoretical
physicist:
"... if one examines the complete geological
record of global temperature variation on planet
Earth (as best as we can reconstruct it) not just
over the last 200 years but over the last 25 million years,
over the last billion years
— one learns that there
is absolutely nothing remarkable about today’s
temperatures! "
Read also this
article by Thomas Sowell, Stanford University. |
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Look how the global average heat content of
the upper 300m water layer of the oceans varied
since 1910 (ECMWF CERA-20C reanalysis ensemble). Do
you notice a continuous ongoing warming? (look
here at Fig.4 for more on the ECMWF reanalysis)
More in the paper by Prof. Ray Bates "Deficiencies
in the IPCC's Special Report on 1.5 Degrees".
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Beware of the unintended consequences!
"...maybe we should think about the climate benefits of
plastic"
says Rachel A. Meidl (PhD)
"Simply introducing single-use plastic bans without
first defining the problem and contemplating a
practical, holistic plan is premature and will
result in rudimentary, dead-ended and misguided
policies".
Read also this GWPF
paper on this subject. |
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Tehran (Teheran), Persia's capital, breaks the world
record in sinking: up to 25 cm a year. The cause:
not climate change but excessive extraction of
groundwater. Read
here! |
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Click on title to see the 1084 pages long list of the
22771 delegates at COP24. The relatively small African
country of Guinea sends 406 delegates! Read
comment (in German)
here. Luxembourg dispatched 25 persons, see
page 348. This makes 1 delegate per 30318 people for
Guinea and 1 delegate per 24080 people for
Luxembourg. |
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Extra-strong solar Coronal Mass Ejection triggers
more than 4000 sea-mines during the Vietnam War
(4 August 1972). Read this
paper based on declassified Naval documents.
(h.t. spaceweather.com):
"this
storm deserves a scientific revisit as a grand
challenge for the space weather community"
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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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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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