Energy: Germany to make coal-fired electricity compulsory

Thus, we have the absurd position where the only way the German people may be able to keep their lights on over the winter if their government makes the use of coal-fired plants compulsory.

And since coal has now become essential to keeping the renewables industry going, with another 11GW of coal-fired capacity due to come on stream, one wonders whether we can now coal production as a "green" industry? That should solve a few problems.

NASA Faked Moon Landing—Academic Psychologists Swoon, Tie It To Climate Change | William M. Briggs

One day a terrific psychological study is going to be written on the madness and mass lunacy which arose after climate change swan into the public’s ken. I don’t mean of the actions and thoughts of the man-in-the-street, which were and are no different in this area than they were and are in any matter of politics. No: the real curiosity is what happened to academia, inside departments which haven’t anything to do with climatology.
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The cornerstone of this future pathological report may well be the peer-reviewed Psychological Science paper “NASA faked the moon landing—Therefore (Climate) Science is a Hoax: An Anatomy of the Motivated Rejection of Science” by Stephan Lewandowsky, Klaus Oberauer, and Gilles Gignac, perhaps the completest, most representative work of its odd era.

Everything that could have been done wrong, was done wrong.

Antarctic Ice Area Sets Another Record – NSIDC Is Silent | Real Science

NSIDC does not mention the record Antarctic cold or ice on their web site, choosing inside to feature an article about global warming threatening penguins.

Remembering The Winter That Wasn’t | Real Science

Last winter brought record snow and cold to much of Europe, Asia and Alaska. But because it was warm in Washington D.C. US climate experts determined that it was proof of global warming. The could see Russia from the window of their house.
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This winter is forecast to be cold in the eastern US, and US climate scientists are already sandbagging by claiming that it will be due to low Arctic ice extent. This despite the fact that the coldest US winters occurred in the late 1970s – when Arctic ice was at its peak.

There seems to be no limit to how much nonsense US climate scientists are willing to produce to protect their jobs and funding.