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500 scientists wrote a letter to the
UN Secretary-General with the message that there is
no climate emergency.They write that "warming is far slower as
predicted", that "climate policy must
respect scientific and economic realities" and
that "our advice to political leaders is
that science should strive for a significantly
better understanding of the climate system, while
politics should focus on minimizing potential
climate damage by prioritizing adaption strategies
based on proven and affordable technologies"
Read the text here with the (provisional)
list of the signatures. Read also
here and watch this
video
(3.2 min.) by Prof. Denis Rancourt. |
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Dr. Stefan Kröpelin (Uni Köln), one of the
best desert specialists, has been interviewed by 2
journalists of the Rheinische Post (in German).
Listen to this exciting
podcast (46 minutes) where he resists to
accept continuous suggestions to scary climate change:
Listen at minutes 10, 19, 21, 25, 29
(ht.
notrickszone) |
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Click
here for the International Energy Outlook
2019 published by the EIA (US Energy Information
Administration).
Consumption of petroleum and other liquid fuels is
expected to rise in 2050 from actual 50 to about 80
million barrels/day in non-OECD countries, and
remain more or less stable at 45 in OECD countries;
so total world consumption would be about 130
million barrels/day in 2050 (about 100 in 2018). |
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Even if some alarmist (German) climatists
speak of accelerating global sea-level rise, this is
not so. Read this
comment and this
report from Prof. Judith Curry.
Click
here for observational data from tide-gauges
(Prof. Ole Humlum's climate4you web site) for many
locations. The level measured by tide-gauges
(relative sea-level) is what counts for eventual
adaptation measures!
German (Wismar) and Dutch (Den Helder) tide
gauges show an unspectacular linear trend of about
1.41 mm/y since 1860 (i.e. the end of the Little Ice
Age cooling). |
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In these times where media news of Arctic and NH
glacier meltdown might drive you into depression,
recover to sanity by reading this paper by Khazendar
et al, published by Nature GeoScience: "Interruption
of two decades of Jakobshavn Isbrae acceleration and
thinning as regional ocean cools" (paywalled,
full version easy to find). This glacier is the
biggest contributor to Greenland ice loss. Since
2016 its retreat and thinning has stopped: it is now
thickening and advancing!
The cause is the well-documented
North Atlantic cooling, itself probably
influenced by the AMO (Atlantic Multidecadal
Oscillation).
Did you read about this in our news papers
climate-change frenzy ? |
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Propagation of Error and the Reliability of
Temperature Projections This paper by
Dr. Patrick Frank (SLAC, Princeton University) did
much furore and lead to many lively discussions,
also among climate realists. Applying standard
text-book error/uncertainty calculations, he shows
that the temperature projections by the climate
models can not be trusted, as the small predicted
increase is buried in a huge uncertainty (because
these models ignore/do not properly account for
cloud forcing uncertainty).
(read also the comments
here and
here) |
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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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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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