Author Archive for Einar Du Rietz
Einar Du Rietz is a journalist and communications consultant based in Europe. He has authored several environmental reports for the Electrolux Group and loads of blogs for the Center for the New Europe at CNE Environment.
With Adversaries Like This – You Don’t Need Friends
The IPCC report and work will undergo an independent review. It’s not a minute too soon, but neither is it too late. The debate will continue and most certainly will myths and false science continue to spread. The problem, as many sensible commentators have pointed out (a recent, rather objective summary with links is here) [...]
Imagine There’s No Science…
…it can get scary if you try. Einar Du Rietz has a bad dream.
The worst problem, according to experts, is not that the IPCC both screwed up on several points and tried to hide the facts. The real threat is that the “so called ‘Skeptics’” might try to gain momentum for their own obscure beliefs. [...]
Someone Will Have to Pay Somehow
by Einar Du Rietz
Greenpeace International has now issued a statementsaying that they do not support the earlier demand by their UK chief that IPCC Chair, Dr Pachauri resigns. And besides, their executive director UK John Sauven was probably misunderstood by the Times. And in spite of the record cold winter, it’s hard to find snow [...]
Operator – We are NOT Drowning
by Einar Du Rietz
The Dutch authorities would like us to know they are not sinking, at least not yet. The most recent report from Newsvine (quoting AFP) says:
“The Netherlands has asked the UN climate change panel to explain an inaccurate claim in a landmark 2007 report that more than half the country was below sea [...]
Live and Let Survive
by Einar Du Rietz
As tragic as it is, I can’t help being hopeful about the rebuilding after the catastrophe on Haiti. Emergency aid, especially coordination, is difficult to say the least. Sometimes it seems as coordination is what is not needed, but rather individual initiatives. Naturally, people tend to get in each-others way, but a [...]
It Can’t Be That Hard to Act Like A Gentleman
Einar Du Rietz on the latest IPCC blunder
So we have to wait another 300 years before the Himalayan ice melts. The IPCC has admitted it had the new predictions before the Copenhagen summit, but were to busy to consider them. The most recent account is by the environmental editor at The Times, Ben Webster.
“The chairman of [...]
Don’t Get Mad About the Weather – Get Even
by Einar Du Rietz
Two of the more intriguing accusations I got thrown at me in Copenhagen were: “Climate Hater” and “Weather Denier”.
Funny, but strange. I’m convinced that cursing along, hating the ever changing climate is about as constructive as trying to steer a sailing boat by shouting orders to the winds. Either one would just [...]
Happy New Year – The End is – Not – Near
Another seasons greeting from Einar Du Rietz
Dear fellow environmentalists,
holidays are supposed to offer a moment of reflexion, so please be my guest to this favourite (most likely your favourite too, at least if you are a Brussels ex-pat) New Years song. This year, it celebrates it’s 30th anniversary, being written and performed in 1979. That year [...]
Merry Christmas my Polar Friends
A Christmas card from Einar Du Rietz, CFACT.EU
After the Copenhagen farce, it’s finally time for joy and for good news.
So let me, as a seasons greeting, send a small reminder about he situation for the cute polar beers.
According to, among others, the international WWF the population is currently around 22-25 000 individuals, a stable population [...]
Freezing Cold and Meltdown Treaty
by Einar Du Rietz, Copenhagen
Obama is on his way, and the COP 15 is nearing climax, or meltdown. The results so far are the same as we predicted. Close to 1 000 activists arrested, some beaten. Some professional hooligans, others bystanders. NGO’s kicked out of Bella Center as too many accreditations had been handed out. [...]
Denmark Trades Dalai Lama for Climate Treaty
Ends Inconvenient Friendship With Tibet
By Einar Du Rietz, Copenhagen
Maybe these guys are serious about the Copenhagen treaty after all. Wednesday evening it became clear that Denmark has reversed its policy on China and Tibet by abruptly recognizing Chinese sovereignty over Tibet. Denmark promised to act with “caution” in future contacts with the Dalai [...]
Making Some Sense in Copenhagen
CFACT.EU reports from the climate summit in Copenhagen
The party, and the – doubtless – costly chaos is on in Copenhagen. During Tuesday and Wednesday, CFACT co-sponsored a well attended seminar on Climate Sense, featuring knowledgeable and often eloquent speakers, including Professor S Fred Singer and world leading oceanographer Professor Nils-Axel Mörner. Both print and TV media often [...]
Copenhagen – Not So Open City
By Einar Du Rietz
A few days before the Copenhagen summit, both the hooligans and the police are mobilizing. The saboteurs are rounding up people on the Internet and claim to have assigned delegates to sabotage the proceedings. The Danish parliament has passed new anti hooligan legislation and bought new barbed wire cages, intended as temporary [...]
The Hypocritical Oath – Save Yourself – Blame the Media
The leading energy company Vattenfall and it’s owner has been under attack recently. Einar Du Rietz tries to sort out the mess.
One of the largest energy companies in Europe, Swedish state owned Vattenfall has come under heavy media attack recently, and so has the responsible minister for industry, Maud Olofsson. The main reason is [...]
It’s Real Money – Your Money
By Einar Du Rietz
Maybe because most other topics seem to be covered and debated intensely in the media, finally some focus now start to fall upon the costs. The estimated and real costs for what the politicians will discuss in Copenhagen. And if media does this, chances are the general public will start to realize that [...]
