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Outstanding article by Thea Dorn in the German ZEIT
online
"Nicht predigen sollt ihr, sondern forschen!"
"...Wissenschaftler haben durch Zweifel zu
glänzen, nicht durch Rechthaberei...Eine der tragischsten Taten, die eine Demokratie
begehen kann, ist Selbstunterwerfung unter die
rigiden Handlungsvorschriften einer klerikal
auftretenden Naturwissenschaft aus Angst vor dem
Unterworfensein unter die Macht der Natur..."
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Impact des
EnR: Watch this very interesting video of
the presentation of Marc Jancovici on the impact of
renewable energy in France (French spoken). I do not
agree with Jancovici on his appreciation of climate
urgency, but as an engineer he has very clear and
solid arguments concerning intermittent renewables
and nuclear energy.
Especially interesting is his graph showing that
the price of "renewable" electricity risks becoming
negative above a certain percentage of produced
wind-power w.r. to the installed capacity (a more
and more frequent
situation in Germany, for instance).
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Open letter to the KNAW (Royal
Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences) by Prof.
Guus Berkhout, founder of CLINTEL (Climate
Intelligence Foundation), asking for not excluding
scientists with alternative views.
" What concerns me about this embarrassing state of
affairs is that science is being misused to provide
spurious justification for wishful climate policy
and that the scientific establishment is looking the
other way...The
IPCC was supposed to be a scientific initiative – I
was a strong supporter of it myself. However, it has
emerged as a political organisation that abuses
science."
Read also this open letter by CLINTEL
"Fight Virus not Carbon" |
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"On
Behalf of Environmentalists I apologize for the
Climate Scare"
writes well known environmentalist
and climate activist Michael Shellenberger. In his list of what to do
note this:
- 100% renewables would require
increasing the land use for energy from today's 0.5%
to 50%
- the most important thing for reducing air
pollution and carbon emissions is moving from wood
to coal to petroleum to natural gas to uranium
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Prof. Richard Lindzen has published a very
interesting paper "An oversimplified picture of
the climate behavior based on a single process can
lead to distorted conclusions".
Please read the
blog! |
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New study by Ulrich Schmidt (Kiel Policy
Brief 143, Jun. 2020, Institut für Weltwirtschaft)
on E-cars:
"...führen zu 73% höheren
Treibhausgasmissionen als moderne Diesel-PKW"
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Cooling
ICE SAINTS
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The Frost Saints or Ice Saints days ("Eisheiligentage")
are cooling since 1998 at meteoLCD, and still longer
in Germany. Did you hear about that in the media?
More on the
blog.
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Research done at a geothermal
power station in Iceland has shown that gazeous CO2
dissolved in water which is injected into
underground basalt rocks mineralizes in just 2
years, and such will be safely stored away
indefinitely without any risk of leakage as they may
exist in traditional CCS (Carbon Capture and
Storage) systems..
Read
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The ongoing solar minimum continues to increase
the cosmic radiation at the altitudes of
transatlantic flights (20000 - 40000 feet). The
hourly dose may reach about 3800nSv, to be compared
to the 80nSv common at ground level (look
at our radioactive measurements!)
More
here! |
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Read this
interesting article on HALEU (high-assay,
low enriched) nuclear fuel from disused ERBII
reactor and its planned use in the Oklo Aurora
micro-reactor at INL (Idaho National Laboratory).
HALEU is seen by many as the fuel for small reactors
and as a tool to recup energy from spent nuclear
fuel.
The Oklo Aurora reactor is a reactor
running on metallic fuel, without any liquid
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The German philosoph
Gunnar KAISER
asks 12 very logical, but easy to understand
questions regarding climate and its variation; he
asks these questions to the famous TV physics
professor Harald Lesch. Watch the
YouTube video
(German spoken, about 17 minutes) and just try to
follow the logic!
h.t.
Die Kalte Sonne |
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Look at these graphs which show a similar 60-year
sinus-pattern for the velocity of warming and the
change in ocean heat content. Note also that the
velocity of warming seems to be uncorrelated to the
yearly CO2 emissions (here gigaton C/year, right
axis, red plot).
More
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Clive BEST has a good article on the
baseline
problem of temperature series, and why the
choice of the baseline period is influencing the
concordance (or discordance) between models and
observational data:
"It
is the model projections which change dramatically
when using different baselines. One should always
bear this in mind whenever an ensemble of
models seem to perfectly match the data well."
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Why Greta Thunberg should go back to school |
Read this essay by Alessandro van den Berg, an
economics teacher from the Netherlands and also a
person with autism. (7 Jan 2020). |
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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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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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