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To: Brumar89 who wrote (68115)	1/25/2016 11:55:05 AM
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Frau Merkel’s other disastrous policy By Thomas Lifson January 25, 2016 americanthinker.com A softheaded chancellor is in the process of ruining Germany. Angela Merkel is turning the very same Germany that rebuilt itself from wartime devastation into the world’s economic powerhouse, peacefully unified with communist East Germany and rebuilt it, and modeled a conversion to a democratic federal system. But now, in addition to adding a million young mostly male Muslims (and with “family reunification,” millions more to follow) last year and insisting on adding more, with the result that German females face rape predation, Frau Merkel is ruining the economy. We all know the unfortunate result of economic ruin on Germany in the early part of the last century, so even those who resent Deutschland should not revel in schadenfreude. She is doing this by buying into the global warming fraud and the anti-nuclear hysteria that followed the Fukushima reactor meltdown, itself the product of an old design that should have been decommissioned years earlier and a historic tidal wave produced by a major earthquake. Bruno Waterfield reports in the U.K. Telegraph: “For me, the most urgent problem is the design of the energy revolution,” said the German Chancellor in her first television interview after being re-elected last month. “We are under a lot of pressure. The future of jobs and the future of Germany as a business location depend on it.” She is not wrong: Europe’s largest country and economy faces a crisis. Such is the mess over energy that the future of Germany’s much-vaunted economic competitiveness is now seriously threatened. (snip) … despite Germany’s shift to renewable solar and wind energies, and amid a recession, its carbon emissions rose by 1.8pc last year. (snip) Germany’s shift to renewables was very much along the norms of the European model, with the aim of going beyond EU targets. Then along came Fukushima and the wave of anti-nuclear hysteria that followed the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami in Japan. The once-in-a-millennium event at the Fukushima reactor killed nobody, although the tsunami claimed 16,000 lives. However, it was enough to panic Germany’s green middle class. Ms Merkel caved in to shrill demands for the country’s atomic reactors to be closed. (snip) Germany has also stepped up energiewende, as it switches to meet a target of producing 80pc of the country’s electricity from renewable, wind and solar power by 2050. The fields carpeted with solar panels and the North Sea wind farms may have gratified the green conceits of Germany’s middle class but they have come at a terrible economic and social cost. According to Nature, the international science magazine, this year German consumers will be forced to pay €20bn (£17bn) to subsidise electricity from solar, wind and bio-gas plants, power with a real market price of €3bn. To pay for this green adventure, surcharges on electricity for households have increased by 47pc, or €15bn, in the past year alone. (snip) German industry is in trouble. Energy prices are 40pc more expensive than in France and the Netherlands, and the bills are 15pc higher than the EU average. Even though Germany’s energy-intensive manufacturing sector is given a break with reduced levies, industries such as chemicals and steel are among the hardest hit…. Frau Merkel resembles California’s elderly hippy Governor Jerry Brown, who has imposed huge “green energy” surcharges on consumers and industry mostly through mandates that utilities utilize expensive “renewable” energy and pass along the cost. Thanks to these and other liberal policies, California leads the nation in the percentage of impoverished residents. Germany may well follow this pattern. Hmm...Germans finding their livelihoods under threat and reacting to foreign elements that threaten their safety and security... What could go wrong?

To: Brumar89 who wrote (68115)	1/25/2016 6:54:18 PM
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Climatologist Debunks 'Extreme Weather' Myth, Says Current Weather is 'Business as Usual' By Alatheia Larsen \| January 25, 2016 \| 1:53 PM EST Share it Tweet it 5 shares Calm down, climate alarmists; the weather events taking place are nothing new. Climatologist Patrick Michaels said that recent droughts, warmer temperatures because of El Nino, and the blizzard of 2016 were “business as usual.” Michaels, a climatologist and the director of the Center for the Study of Science at The Cato Institute, wrote an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal Jan. 24, explaining that recent droughts, blizzards, and flooding “little to do with what recent headlines have been saying about the hottest year ever.” However, no one would know that from watching the broadcast news networks. Between 2013 and 2014, the media have increased their coverage of “extreme weather” by nearly 1,000 percent compared to the year before former Vice President Al Gore’s feature-length outcry over global warming known as An Inconvenient Truth was released. That film premiered at Sundance Film Festival ten years ago (2006). While the liberal media and climate change activists would have the world believe that “extreme” weather events are proof of climate change, Michaels said the current weather has little to do with “climate change” and nearly everything to do with established weather patterns. Even the claim that 2015 was the “hottest year ever” didn’t bolster the climate change alarmist arguments, according to Michaels. The temperature increase is a result of the “massive” El Nino that began in early 2015. “El Nino years in a warm plateau usually set a global-temperature record. What happened this year also happened with the last big one, in 1998,” Michaels explained. He said that the data shows that in 1998, the global average temperature was about a quarter of a degree higher than the previous year - just like 2015. But after the 1998 El Nino was over, the global temperature average dropped below what it had been in 1997. Michaels predicted that the same will happen once 2015’s El Nino has run its course. Michaels noted that even with the slight warming in 2015, the overall warming trend is far less than climate models predicted. Satellite temperatures made fools of those models, when a “hiatus” in warming took place from 1997 through 2015. However, Michaels explained how one government agency modified how they measure in 2015, to erase that pause. According to Michael’s op-ed, in 2015, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) overhauled their temperature data and threw out their “satellite-sensed sea-surface temperatures,” which they’d been recording since the 1970s. NOAA began relying on data from the “cooling-water-intake tubes of oceangoing vessels” — a method he and others have said is less accurate because ships conduct heat, absorb large amounts of energy from the sun, and don’t have uniform intake tube depths. “NOAA’s alteration of its measurement standard and other changes produced a result that could have been predicted: a marginally significant warming trend in the data over the past several years,” said Michaels. Because climate change predictions were made using this inaccurate data, Michaels concluded that it is “probably prudent to cut by 50% the modeled temperature forecasts for the rest of this century. Doing so would mean that the world—without any political effort at all—won’t warm by the dreaded 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit by 2100 that the United Nations regards as the climate apocalypse.” - See more at: http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/business/alatheia-larsen/2016/01/25/climatologist-debunks-extreme-weather-myth-says-current#sthash.wjRWHvY9.dpuf

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1/27/2016 1:58:17 PM

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YET ANOTHER FINAL COUNTDOWN EXPIRES: Rush Limbaugh’s Algore Countdown — created in 2006 after the Goracle claimed that “unless drastic measures to reduce greenhouse gases are taken within the next 10 years, the world will reach a point of no return,” expired earlier today. Rush promises “a surprise” today in honor of one of the most high profile of the many doomsday environmental countdowns since the first “Earth Day” in 1970* expiring without incident.

Related: State of the Climate: 10 years after Al Gore declared a ‘planetary emergency’ – top 10 reasons Gore was wrong.

* The Reefer Madness-style doomsday predictions made during the first “Earth Day” are also fun to look back on to see how the original Chicken Littles on the left got things so wildly wrong. Not the least of which, their not forecasting — or caring — that eventually, there would be a central information network where their predictions could be easily found and mocked.

In the two screenshots below, you can see the earth both in its final minute, and in its wrecked form after its final countdown expired. Viewer discretion advised concerning the horrors to follow:

Posted at 8:50 am by Ed Driscoll

January 27, 2015
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