Archive for October, 2010
Frankly Sir, You Are an Embarrasment
Gore chooses Swedish government jet over public transportation, leaves car running while telling the rest of us to cut carbon By Einar Du Rietz He did it again. Recently, Nobel Peace Prize winner Al Gore was on tour again (or maybe he does that all the time). This time, he turned up in Gothenburg (Sweden) [...]
Stockholm temperatures freeze global warming claims
Lessons learned from the Swedish temperature record. In science, observations must be taken much more seriously than theories or computer models. October 20, 2010 by Dennis Avery CHURCHVILLE, VA—The ten coldest winter-spring temperatures out of the last 500 in Stockholm, Sweden, were almost all during the Little Ice Age. No surprise there. The coldest was 1569, [...]
President Klaus: Warming action not justified
“I am not impressed by heavily biased British scientific institutions.” Czech President Vaclav Klaus finds no evidence that government spending on global warming would be worth the cost. “I don’t see empirical evidence of human-caused global warming. I see so many mistakes in the methodology of science and modelling.” President Klaus, who recently served as [...]
Bright Idea: German entrepeneur markets light bulbs as heat bulbs
4,000 snap up incandescent light bulbs A German entrepeneur got around the EU ban on incandescent light bulbs over 60 watts by importing them as heaters from China. His shipment of 4,000 bulbs sold immediately. That makes at least 4,001 Germans who see the folly of restricting individual consumers from choosing their own preferred light. [...]
Expectations Low for Cancun after Chinese Failure
by Einar Du Rietz According to reports from the recent preparatory climate conference in China, the so called world leaders – most eager to show off in Copenhagen a year ago – are trying to avoid even showing up for the conference in Cancun, instead commissioning their ministers for environment to take the embarrassment. One enlightning [...]
Victory for Dutch Climate Realists
HANS LABOHM (Amsterdam) The draft Memorandum of Understanding of the new Netherlands government coalition (including the classical liberal party, VVD, plus the Christian Democrats, CDA, with parliamentary support by Wilders’ Party for Freedom, PVV, – the so-called ‘Danish Model’) contains only two – obligatory – references to climate change. Climate sceptics opined that backtracking from [...]
Let the Auction Begin
by Einar Du Rietz The – most likely – last preparatory conference before Cancun kicks off today in China. The fact that the debate has changed quite substantially during the past year, that the IPCC’s credibility is at an all time low, that more and more scientists have started questioning the validity of the entire [...]
