Category Archives: Climate Change

𝙄𝙣 𝙢𝙤𝙙𝙚𝙧𝙣 𝙝𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙮, 𝙖𝙣 “𝙚𝙣𝙚𝙧𝙜𝙮 𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙨𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣” 𝙝𝙖𝙨 𝙣𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙩𝙖𝙠𝙚𝙣 𝙥𝙡𝙖𝙘𝙚, 𝙚𝙣𝙚𝙧𝙜𝙮 𝙨𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙘𝙚𝙨 𝙬𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙤𝙣𝙡𝙮 𝙖𝙙𝙙𝙚𝙙

I was honoured to be part of the review panel of this important paper by my friend Lars, an Energy expert who bases his views on facts and data, not leaning to magical thinking nor fashion. Boston Consulting Group (BCG) recently issued a new report “A Blueprint for the Energy Transition 2023” – I [Lars]… Read More »

The True Cost of Europe’s Green Energy Policies, with Michael Shellenberger

Great interview of Michael Shellenberger on the real cost of green energy policies. Apparently Russia funded green activists in Europe at the same time increasing Nuclear power capacity. Europe embarked on a fashionable trend to overspend on green energy and against Nuclear and fracking. Germany is closing Nuclear power which could be a good replacement… Read More »

“Unsettled” by Steven Koonin: why Climate Histeria is worse than Climate Change itself

Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn’t, and Why It Matters.By Steven Koonin https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57433539-unsettled This is a great book to understand why Climate Histeria is more threatening than Climate Change itself. Steven Koonin was Under Secretary for Science for Energy under President Barack Obama. He has a PhD in theoretical physicist from MIT… Read More »

Book review: Confessions of a Climate Scientist — Global Warming is an unproven hypothesis

A top-level climate scientist shows why the predictions of climate models are not reliable for dictating public action and energy policy despite being useful for weather and climate research. This is a remarkable book that describes the major features of climate models and their limitations to reflect the termodynamics of the oceans and the atmosphere.… Read More »

As the UN circus promotes climate hysteria Bjorn Lomborg sensibly proposes a different approach.

As we face the UN climate circus where hysteria prevails it is important to reflect on the policies that the World needs. Bjorn Lomborg, head of the Copenhagen Consensus Center and former director of the Danish Environmental Assessment Institute, is a leading expert on climate and environmental policies. Lomborg does not question whether climate change… Read More »

Two recent articles bring light to the media madness about the Amazon fires

We live in strange times when sensationalism prevails over reasoning. False memes spread faster than forest fires not only on social media but also on the maisntream media. Sometimes situations that can raise emotions are exploited for political ends and social media users innocently help them spread like a virus outbreak. In the last couple… Read More »

Global Warming Skepticism for Busy People – by Roy Spencer

A great book from a concerned scientist (Roy Spencer, one of the most prominent climate scientists) on a critical subject in today’s world. Just published. Quote: “There are five main questions which must be answered in the affirmative before energy policy changes to fight global warming should even be considered: 1) Is warming and associated… Read More »

Conferência ‘Basic Science of a Changing Climate’. Porto, 7–8 Set 2018

Conferência na Universidade do Porto ‘Basic Science of a Changing Climate’, 7–8 Setembro 2018 https://www.portoconference2018.org/ Há mais de 10 anos que sigo esta temática. Não confio na forma demasiado politizada como as questões climáticas têm vindo a ser tratadas, nomeadamente, como nos querem impingir um “consenso científico” que soa a falso. O que me levou… Read More »