Germany’s Offshore Wind: Wasted Resources, Environmental Blight — MasterResource

Barely two months after the inauguration ceremony for Germany’s first pilot offshore wind farm, “Alpha Ventus” in the North Sea, all six of the newly installed wind turbines were completely idle, due to gearbox damage. Two turbines must be replaced entirely; the other four repaired.

Friends of the project, especially Germany’s environment minister, Norbert Roettgen, talked of “teething problems.” The problem is far more serious than that, for wind turbines in the high seas are extremely expensive for power consumers, even when they run smoothly. When they don’t, the problem intensifies. Germany could face blackouts – a new dark age.

- Bishop Hill blog - Eco-schools

The Eco-schools movement is, as the name suggests, an environmental programme for children. The idea appears to be to have a green spin to as much of the curriculum as possible, but also getting children to raise money for green charities and to involve their families in green campaigning.

German Skeptics Hit Back At Industry-Funded Greenshirts

Well, the Berlin Manhattan Institute, together with the Internet blog antibuerokratieteam.net, have fired back a query of their own addressed at the greenshirts. Below it’s in English.

It has 16 questions for the Greens to answer, though don’t get your hopes up that they will.

If warmists wore the hairshirts they’re selling, I’d trust them more | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

[2-minute video] Meanwhile, at the UN Cancun conference on global warming, it’s party, party, party as 15,000 warmist activists, politicians and bureaucrats ration themselves nothing at all: