Today, the Kestrel chased this guy out of the tree.
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September 23, 2017 at 03:06PM
Month: September 2017
Energy From The Daily Caller Michael Bastasch 2:50 PM 09/22/2017 A recent report claims Germany is not on track to meet its goal to reduce carbon dioxide emissions 40 percent by 2020, despite the country spending billions on green energy subsidies. German Chancellor Angela Merkel faces election on Sunday, and even though she’s expected to…
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September 23, 2017 at 12:19PM
This article looks at how the Germans are paying three times the price of USA electricity and yet 40% of it comes from coal. At a cost of $800 billion it’s a wonder that Merkel has any chance of getting re-elected, yet she has. Clearly the opposition are missing something
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September 23, 2017 at 12:16PM
By Paul Homewood
h/t stewgreen
The crooks don’t give up, do they?
As the Arctic continues to heat up, so does concern in the scientific community about climate change.
Researchers at the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) have discovered the Arctic sea ice has once again experienced ‘considerable melting.’
This September, the extent of Arctic sea ice shrank to roughly 4.7 million square kilometres – but a few decades ago, it averaged around seven million square kilometres at the same time of year.
Researchers measure the Arctic sea ice each September, when it reaches its minimum and can provide insight into the most drastic melting and its causes.
While the melting is slightly less than last year and isn’t a new record low, it’s described as ‘massive’ and is just as serious.
The minimum sea ice extent for 2017 is the third lowest in the satellite record.
The loss falls in line with the averages of the past ten years and falls far below the numbers from 1979 to 2006.
It’s due to an unusually warm winter that gave signs of extreme melting earlier this year – sea-ice coverage in March was lower than any March on record.
‘This year’s sea ice extent is again on a very low level,’ Marcel Nicolaus, sea-ice physicist from AWI at the University of Bremen and Universität Hamburg, said.
‘The observed September value of the past eleven years has consistently been lower than in any of the previous years.’
The researchers see the melting as an important indicator of climate change.
Even their own graph shows that the sea ice minimum this year was eighth lowest, not third as they claim. It also shows that sea ice extent has been very stable since 2007, and shows no sign of disappearing as they keep on claiming.
As for their claim that the Arctic continues to heat up, this is quite fake. RSS satellite data show that temperatures in the Arctic have changed very little since 2014.
Their scaremongering about Arctic ice has long been shown to be unjustified, so all they can now do is shout that it used to be more in the 1980s.
If Arctic ice did suddenly recover to those levels, then I suggest the world really would have something to worry about.
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September 23, 2017 at 12:09PM
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