International climate conference – Berlin June 15th

EIKE hosts a climate conference in Berlin on the very eve of the UN's Rio+20 conference on sustainable development.  More information and sign up here.

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|2012-12-31T04:41:23-05:00June 13th, 2012|Comments Off on International climate conference – Berlin June 15th

CFACT cosponsors climate conference in Munich

Good sense on climate on the eve of  COP17, the UN climate conference in Durban, South Africa On Friday and Saturday, November 25th & 26th, as the UN prepared to kick off COP17, the UN Conference on Climate Change, in Durban, South Africa, CFACT, the European Institute for Climate and Energy (EIKE) and others co-sponsored a climate conference of our own in beautiful Munich, Germany. EIKE was launched in 2007 in Berlin. CFACT is a proud founding member. Interview with EIKE President Dr. Holger Thuss CFACT: What has been the public mood in Germany about global warming? For years, large parts [...]

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|2016-06-21T14:08:32-04:00November 28th, 2011|Comments Off on CFACT cosponsors climate conference in Munich

£1.2 million to not produce wind power

The Daily Telegraph Reports that a Norwegian wind company was paid £1.2 million to not produce electricity during a period of high winds. This was a hair shy of 10 times the artificially above market rate wind farms receive to make power. British ratepayers will fit the bill.

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|2013-01-04T12:32:51-05:00September 18th, 2011|Comments Off on £1.2 million to not produce wind power

Play methane madness: Put a cork in Gore’s day of hype

Click to play Methane Madness! "Put a cork in it, Al!" That's the message students are sending Al Gore, radical climate campaigners and assorted other bohemians, grant-seekers and profiteers cashing in on the global warming craze. Al Gore is calling on folks to make September 14th a day of climate action through a series of propaganda videos he will be broadcasting worldwide.  CFACT calls for a day of genuine “climate realism” instead. CFACT Collegians are spreading the word with a bit of online levity. CFACT's Methane Madness game trains online players to help “Pal Gore” control the climate by corking cows [...]

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|2012-09-19T12:26:28-04:00September 14th, 2011|Comments Off on Play methane madness: Put a cork in Gore’s day of hype

Svensmark & CERN: cosmic rays influence climate

A cloudy day for global warming zealots Climate science is anything but settled. For years, physicist Henrik Svensmark of the Danish National Space Institute (who has presented at conferences organized by CFACT and EIKE) has been asking inconvenient questions about the relationship between the sun, clouds and climate.  He demonstrated in the lab that cosmic rays from the sun affect cloud formation.  Cosmic rays are a factor not meaningfully considered in the computer climate models which global warming proponents have declared to be so robust that they are beyond discussion. To the vexation of true climate believers, Svensmark's work [...]

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|2012-09-19T12:13:52-04:00September 8th, 2011|Comments Off on Svensmark & CERN: cosmic rays influence climate

London Olympics drops carbon offsets

When London submitted its bid to host the 2012 Olympic Games, it sweetened its offer with a promise "to purchase emission reduction credits and to invest directly in clean energy projects in the developing world to offset ... emissions." Harsh reality has sounded a wake up call for Londoners and the prospect of shipping millions of pounds overseas to finance projects with no connection to the Olympics (that will have no meaningful impact on our climate) no longer seems so sporting.

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|2013-02-22T12:38:37-05:00September 1st, 2011|Comments Off on London Olympics drops carbon offsets

Scottish wind subsidies slashed?

1,000 wind turbines gang agley 1,000 land-based wind turbines stand to be scrapped if government follows through and slashes millions of pounds in subsidies.  A report commissioned by ScottishPower concludes that reducing subsidies 25 percent will render the turbines a loss maker for investors instead of just rate and taxpayers. CFACT continues to conclude that alternative energy sources such as wind and solar should only be deployed when they can compete effectively with other sources of energy.  Locking in inefficient power generation and the subsidies and guarantees that goes with it will have a terrible long term impact on industry as [...]

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|2012-09-19T23:07:20-04:00August 29th, 2011|Comments Off on Scottish wind subsidies slashed?

British aristocrats cash in on wind

Regressive redistribution as working people pay landed rich to despoil the British countryside The Telegraph reports that British nobles, including Dukes and a cousin of the Queen are cashing in on tax and ratepayer subsidies to erect wind farms on their country estates.  Each turbine can net a noble £20,000 a year or more. Prime Minister David Cameron's father-in-law is a baronet who is pulling in "as much as £350,000 a year from eight turbines on his estate at Bagmoor in Lincolnshire."  This may give Cameron's un-torylike policy surrender to radical green interests some perspective. For generations the UK could count [...]

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|2012-09-19T23:07:20-04:00August 22nd, 2011|Comments Off on British aristocrats cash in on wind

35,000 jobs lost if Bayer bolts Germany over electricity cost

Deutsche Welle reports that Germany stands to lose 35,000 jobs if Bayer chemical & pharmacuetical follows through on threats to leave the country over Germany's high cost of electricity. Bayer CEO told Wirtschaftswoche (Business Week) that, ""It is important that we remain competitive in comparison with other countries ...  otherwise a global business such as Bayer would have to consider relocating its production to countries with lower energy costs." Following the Japanese tsunami and the resulting emergency at the Fukushima nuclear plant, German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced that Germany would end its use of nuclear energy.  German subsidies and tariffs for [...]

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|2011-08-15T18:14:28-04:00August 15th, 2011|Comments Off on 35,000 jobs lost if Bayer bolts Germany over electricity cost

Britain in rebellion over high energy prices

Reuters reports that with half of major energy suppliers in the UK announcing double digit price increases for electricity and gas the British public has had enough. 75 percent now favor abandoning Britain's green agenda if it means higher prices.

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|2013-01-28T15:33:19-05:00August 2nd, 2011|Comments Off on Britain in rebellion over high energy prices

Lord Monckton wins climate debate down under

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|2012-09-19T14:24:46-04:00July 21st, 2011|Comments Off on Lord Monckton wins climate debate down under

Otto von Habsburg-Lothingen, RIP

CFACT mourns the loss of Franz Joseph Otto Robert Maria Anton Karl Max Heinrich Sixtus Xavier Felix Renatus Ludwig Gaetan Pius Ignatius von Habsburg, a great European and advocate for individual freedom and dignity.  CFACT will be well represented at the funeral in Vienna with both Holger Thuss and Einar Du Rietz attending.   He will be buried together with his wife Regina, who died in February 2010, in Vienna's Imperial Burial Vault on 16 July 2011.  Funeral arrangements.  

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|2011-07-08T00:13:10-04:00July 8th, 2011|Comments Off on Otto von Habsburg-Lothingen, RIP

Poland blocks EU environment council on climate

Poland, which is about to assume the EU Presidency, is so fed up with EU climate policy that on June 22 it blocked the conclusions of the EU environmental ministers council. Polish good sense blocked the ministers from recommending the EU reduce carbon emissions by 80 percent by 2050 which would devastate European economies.  This would hit Poland and similar economies which have not yet recovered from their forced experiment with 20th century socialism particularly hard. EU climate policy has recently been shown to be rife with waste, fraud and abuse and the Poles have had enough.  There is a saying [...]

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|2011-07-01T17:41:21-04:00July 1st, 2011|Comments Off on Poland blocks EU environment council on climate

CFACT’s Morano receives award at 6th climate conference

We're not sure exactly what the hermit crab symbolizes and look forward to finding out.  Congratulations to Marc Morano who edits CFACT's Climate Depot on winning yet another award!

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|2011-06-30T22:44:32-04:00June 30th, 2011|Comments Off on CFACT’s Morano receives award at 6th climate conference

UN climate of desperation

DAVID ROTHBARD & CRAIG RUCKER – The Washington Times As the United Nations wrapped up its recent climate conference in Bonn, talks organizer Christiana Figueres proclaimed that climate change is the “the most important negotiation the world has ever faced.” Faced with real problems – financial meltdowns, unemployment, war and genuine human suffering – the world no longer agrees. It’s a good thing human productivity doesn’t threaten the global thermostat the way the U.N. would have us believe. If it did, we’d be cooked. Countries rich and poor are backing away from commitments they made years ago during rosier economic times, [...]

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|2012-09-19T12:13:53-04:00June 29th, 2011|Comments Off on UN climate of desperation
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