see details of new publication by Andrew Montford on “Institutional bias” in the Institute of Physics in London
Von: Terri Jackson
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Von: Rob Thomasson
Just found your website/blog following links from Climate Sanity, now added to my ‘Climate Folder’. Especially liked the Prof. Jan-Erik Solheim from Oslo. As an astrophysics graduate (1985) and science teacher I have always been scekptical of a ‘consensus’ that needs to trash the opposition rather than apply the rules of scientific debate.
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Von: bacchus
Dear Pierre,
I always read your blog first time in the morning.
But I have the idea that this has escaped your vigilant eye:
This is beyound my imagination.
Greetings,
Bacchus
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Von: DirkH
BTW Pierre, if you want to participate:
Petition against enforced financing of German public media
https://www.openpetition.de/petition/online/abschaffung-der-gez-keine-zwangsfinanzierung-von-medienkonzernen
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Von: ColdOldMan
It may be too late, Pierre, but you may like to get in touch with the producers of this upcoming BBC radio programme in order to put them right on a few things.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01q8mqh
Tom Heap is a fervent warmist of the worst kind and recently got into trouble for trying to say that the UK would soon be like Madeira as GW took hold.
Best of luck if you can get a hearing at the Beeb.
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Von: WellInformed
No offence but I really can’t take this page seriously!
First of all you’re advertising for “die kalte sonne”, claiming that you are non commercial and independent?
A German bestseller? Not at all by the way. The book is just silly, and people from within the field of climate research are smiling about it. Bitter truth.
Secondly: What you are propaganding is not at all a contribute to anything but pushing the confusion of peoples opinion on climate change. Too many people are already thinking of it as a big fraud.
We have to overcome that point of arguing about wheter or not it is happening!
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Von: John H. Harmon
I don’t remember how I found this site. You are frequently cited by Watts and others who think science ought to replace theology regarding climate.
I thought you were French living in Germany (UE, one big happy family) for lower taxes. Rather pleased you are a fellow American. I would like to believe (theological?) we learned our scepticism and belief in truth from our culture, history and Constitution. Perhaps as Barry said we are not really “exceptional” but I believe we are. It is not our air, but our traditions that sets us apart, for good or ill.
Thanks for the fine work.
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Von: DirkH
German bureaucrats are inventive when it comes to finding new areas to squander German taxpayer money and managing something that shouldn’t be their business.
We are financing solar-thermally driven desalination plants in North Africa.
I still have to find out how much money is wasted through this.
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Von: Lionell Griffith
wordsmith: ” I work with a lot of engineers and you don’t have to be that bright to get an engineering degree, especially from some no-name university. MIT, maybe, but not the ones you attended.”
An engineer is one who makes things that work. Many of the things that they make are life critical because people would die if they didn’t work. What this means is that they have to be a better scientist than the so called professional ones because they have to get it right.
All the typical scientist has to do is spin paper after paper never having to apologies for getting it wrong. Actually, getting it wrong is used as a good excuse for still more paper spinning. If they can analyze noise and come up with a p value less that 0.05 – bang! – another paper is on the way.
I will take one good engineer over a hudred scientists any day of the week. Largely becasue I will get difficult problems really solved and things that work. Out of the scientists, all I would get is a lot of paper and requests for still more money to buy still more papers.
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Von: JC Smith
P. So sorry to see that you deleted both (1) the article you posted this morning, and (2) my response to your note about “turning out the lights”.
The fact that the article pointed out that climate change (a) included a large dose of human help, and (b) that the 50 year uptrend in temperature was still firmly in place….should be no reason to remove the article AND the respones to it.
Ethics are an important thing in life……you should repost the article and responses.
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Von: jack dini
Pierre,
Thought you might appreciate this, since I reference you many times.
Your information is quite helpful to me. Thanks.
Jack Dini
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Von: Brian from Australia
http://notrickszone.com/climate-scandals/
In Australia we have bushfires not wildfires. On this page you mention brushfires. Please correct this typo.
The article on the link is correct though. The Greens still won’t take the blame for causing bushfires. The Victorian ones in 2009 were also electricity faults but the fires spread, but the more recent ones devastated the Green’s home state. The Greens have set the economy back so far in Tasmania that the biggest money spinner is a huge privately-owned art gallery. No one in their right mind will open a factory there.
Burning the bush in the winter to prevent bushfires is still very contentious here, and very political. The aboriginals did it for 10,000 years, but greenies hate it.
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Von: Private1066
After years of climate change language (remember acid rain in the mid 80s? Then weren’t we heading into a mini ice age, but was that before or after the hole in the ozone…) I’ve concluded that the biggest problem is that humans resent being content; as a species we seem to need to fear something. Climate change and threats ties in nicely in the west with the decline in mainstream religion. Consumerism fills the void a little, but there’s nothing better than banging around and wailing about how we are all doomed!
Sure, lets use less, recycle and push for each nation to be independent in their energy supply – but speaking personally, this hand wringing over us destroying the planet through irreversible climate change and co2 abuse is now beyond tired. In the UK we seem to have a government intent on enslaving the race and turning the clock back to the 1700s – alas so many who believe are endorsing their own enslavement and are pushing to let their elderly parents die of cold while handing great wads of cash to industry and landowners in the name of saving the planet for their childrens future. It’s not funny; it’s a catastrophe and without blogs like this becoming mainstream, it will continue.
Good work sir! Keep it up.
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Von: Michael Snow
If you have not seen it go to WUWT here,
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/04/17/watching-the-death-of-the-eu-carbon-market/#more-84396
and the last comment, currently, for two picture links…Der Spiegel and Fotoshopped steam and the real thing.
sorry not thinking, here is the whole comment:
vladimpala says:
April 17, 2013 at 2:55 pm
I clicked through to enjoy a little Schadenfrikkinfreude at the EU carbon price fall, and came across an article about it in Der Speigel On-Line International, illustrated with this abhorrent photo:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/bild-894842-462914.html
It looked like someone wanted to make the steam look like brown smoke, so they grabbed a big CONTRAST brush in Photoshop and swiped it over the clouds, leaving a glowing sky and weird color balances.
Sure enough, here’s the original unaltered DFA photo. The clumsiness of Der Spiegel is breathtaking.
https://www.focus.de/fotos/braunkohle-tagebau-von-vattenfall_mid_1230552.html
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Von: Ike
this study is worth to read. ´has nothing dircty to do with cc
http://www.newscientist.de/inhalt/statistik-wissenschaftler-konzipieren-studien-falsch-a-896695.html
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Von: DirkH
Some EV battery exchange project (I read about it years ago) closes shop after burning through 850 million Euro in 6 years.
http://www.focus.de/auto/news/autoabsatz/schwerer-schlag-fuer-die-elektromobilitaet-akku-pionier-better-place-ist-pleite_aid_999535.html
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Von: DirkH
Interestingly,
“Um zu erklären, wie irreführend Signifikanz sei, benutzt Krämer gern ein Beispiel aus der Finanzwelt: “An Börsentagen, die geteilt durch 7 den Rest 1 ergeben – also am 1., am 8., 15., am 22. und 29. eines Monats –, gibt es signifikant höhere Renditen an den deutschen Aktienmärkten.” Und schiebt direkt nach: “So ein Schwachsinn.”"
- Krämer’s example is one where he ignores the effects of options expiration days and of monthly inflows of pension plan money – which usually flows into the market on the first of the month. There are significant monthly patterns. The weakest day is asround the 20th.
He has indeed found a replicable effect but he doesn’t know the mechanism so he thinks it is an example of statistical arbitrariness.
My trading strategy optimizations have found that effect as well. ChiefIO has confirmed that he knows about this monthly pattern.
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Von: Dirkse
dear mr. Gosselin,
Some thoughts struck my mind:
A product is bought with warrenty from the manufacturer, who is responsible for the quality of the product. If the consumer modifies the product, the warrenty is lost.
However………. electricity producers must allow for individuals dumping power on the grid without caring for the quality at all!
The electricity producers (power stations) are forced to this practice by law: pure communism.
What would make sense is that anyone should be free to generate it’s own power (not subsidized of course) Excess power may be stored in a buffer and the grid managent (not the individual) then may decide to extract power from the buffer to the grid.
Again: these practises are unsuitable for a free enterprice society.
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Von: DirkH
The German FIT law for renewables was subject of a lawsuit at the EU court of justice, as it clearly violates the EU’s founding principle of freedom of exchange of goods and services. The court ruled that it does indeed violate the principle but would be tolerated anyway because of the importance of saving the planet from Global Warming.
So you see, the science of CO2AGW is crucial for the power grab of the Eurocrats and all the rent seeking cronyism it enables.
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Von: Joseph Yates
“I’ve always been a skeptic of the AGW hypothesis, and view myself as a mere spectator in the climate change debate and arena.”
So what you are telling us is that you have no expertize in climate science and that anyone reading your articles should take your general lack of expertize on the subject into serious consideration, and that seeing as you have always been a “skeptic”, there is not likely to be ANY scientific publication that could ever sway your opinion in the opposite direction. And seeing as how you have decided to run this little blog in opposition to mainstream science, how is it that we are to believe that you are a “mere spectator”, and not someone with some kind of vested interested in the outcome of the issue? Color me curious. 
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