Archive for September, 2010
Another Domino Falls: UK’s Leading Scientific Body Retreats on Climate Change Agenda
By Patrick Henningsen 21st Century Wire Sept 30, 2010 The UK’s leading scientific body has decided to rewrite its own definitive guide on climate change, now admitting that it is “not known” how much warmer the planet will become. The Royal Society has released a new guide which outlines its retreat from its former vanguard [...]
Climagte Changes – Scholarship Doesn’t
MALCOLM A. KLINE Einar Du Rietz is happy to introduce his old tutor as a guest at CFACT.EU. So entrenched is the belief in global warming in academia that even when critiquing its adherents, academics still feel compelled to pay it homage. “The IPCC [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change] does a very good job of [...]
Ernst Georg Beck died this week after a long battle with IPCC
My friend Ernst Georg Beck died this week after a long battle with cancer. Ernst Beck was a biology teacher at the Merian technical grammar school in Freiburg and co-founder of the European Institute for Climate and Energy (EIKE) in Jena. He was a teacher of the old school, whom nobody could lead up the [...]
Germany’s new energy plan is a bridge to nowhere
by Edgar L. Gärtner In early September 2010 the German government has presented its draft of the new energy plan . When reading this concept one feels strongly reminded of a common definition of ‘totalitarianism’ stated in Paul Berman’s ‘Terror and liberalism’ : „Mass mobilisation politics for unreachable goals. “, because this plan allegedly sets [...]
Everything You Do – I Can Do Worse
Einar Du Rietz takes a look at one of the world’s ongoing election campaigns Sweden: Tomorrow, Sunday, it’s time for general election in my country of birth. Though I somehow feel that the simultaneous process in Kabul would be more important, it’s hard not to follow the debate. If it is a debate. Customary televised [...]
The Mystery Panel
by Einar Du Rietz The InterAcademy Council has finally released its report on the workings of the IPCC. Fine. The review is not altogether clear, but the criticism of – in particular – procedures and methods, is strong. Many media have taken the shortcut reporting this as a criticism of the major mistake made by the [...]
