Media start to change their tune on climate

[marchesarosa]

Media start to change their tune on climate and energy

The Climate Science Caricatures…Jyllands-Posten Features Massive 4 Full Pages Of Climate Science Skepticism!
notrickszone.com/2013/03/27/the-climate-science-caricatures-jylland-posten-features-massive-4-full-pages-of-climate-science-skepticism/

Supersized “XXL Winter…In Complete Contradiction To Climate Prognoses!” Reports Germany’s No. 1 Daily, Bilt!
notrickszone.com/2013/03/26/supersized-xxl-winter-in-complete-contradiction-to-climate-prognoses-reports-germanys-no-1-daily/

Flagship Daily DIE WELT Stuns Germany: “Scientists Warn Of Ice Age”, Cites New Peer-Reviewed Russian Study
notrickszone.com/2013/03/25/flagship-daily-die-welt-stuns-germany-scientists-warn-of-ice-age-cites-new-peer-reviewed-russian-study/


FOCUS Online news weekly reports on the overnight damage from Germany’s record March cold. March Cold Records Smashed Throughout Germany…Wind Chill Down To -33°C…”Event Of The Century!
notrickszone.com/2013/03/24/march-cold-records-smashed-throughout-germany-wind-chill-down-to-33c-event-of-the-century/

Worldwide Doubt Over Germany’s “Energiewende” (energy transition) Grows…German Flagship Daily, Die Welt Calls It “An International Flop”
notrickszone.com/2013/03/23/worldwide-doubt-over-germanys-energiewende-grows-german-flagship-daily-calls-it-an-international-flop/

Der Tagsspeigel "Berlin freezes in 100-year winter.
Lots of snow and bitter cold until the end of March – Berlin hasn’t seen this in more than 100 years.”
notrickszone.com/2013/03/22/berlin-freezes-in-100-year-winter-record-snow-blankets-germany-bitter-cold-grips-europe/

The Economist A Sensitive Matter
www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21574461-climate-may-be-heating-up-less-response-greenhouse-gas-emissions

The Economist Global Warming - Apocalypse perhaps a little later
www.economist.com/news/leaders/21574490-climate-change-may-be-happening-more-slowly-scientists-thought-world-still-needs

High-profile German meteorologist turns skeptic. '“Winters clearly have gotten colder,” says meteorologist Dominik Jung of the weather portal wetter.net. Moreover: “In the year 2000 the climate experts prophesied that winters with ice and snow in Germany would no longer exist. That this claim is false is shown by current facts, and in many regions with just a glance out the window!”
notrickszone.com/2013/03/20/berlin-sets-100-year-march-snow-record-high-profile-german-meteorologist-turns-skeptic/

Von Storch/Spiegel Slam “Climate Science Hijacked By Politicians Who Claim Decisions Are Without Alternatives”. Axel Bojanowski has written a piece at the online Spiegel titled “Madness of the Do-Gooders” where he reviews Hans von Storch’s and Werner Krauss’s new book: “Die Klimafalle” (The Climate Trap), which has harsh words for climate alarmism.
notrickszone.com/2013/03/18/von-storchspiegel-slam-climate-science-hijacked-by-politicians-who-claim-decisions-are-now-without-alternatives/

Klimazwiebel has a good excellent article written by one of the world’s leading meteorologists, Lennart Bengtsson, who writes that the alarmist hype needs to be toned down, and that the problem of energy be taken more seriously.
Lennart Bengtsson, a warmist, is the former director of Germany’s Max-Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg, which unfortunately has recently turned emotional and alarmist on the topic of climate change.
“…very emotional climate debate today…hardly possible to have a sensible and balanced exchange of views. If you do not support climate catastrophes…you are placed into a deniers box... Some of our colleagues are exposed to a powerful group pressure, …”
notrickszone.com/2013/03/17/warming-theory-doused-world-leading-meteorologist-climate-is-in-fact-warming-much-slower-than-anticipated/





Slowly, slowly the alarmist media worm is turning.

[alancalverd]

Plus ca change, plus ca change!

[marchesarosa]

"Standard gradualist tactic" is how DirkH on No Tricks Zone describes this media retreat from alarmism.

Spiegel (Unwittingly) Confirms Its Undeniable Movement Away From Climate Catastrophism!
notrickszone.com/2013/03/30/spiegel-unwittingly-confirms-its-undeniable-movement-away-from-climate-catastrophism/

He analyses Spiegel thus

I think this is a standard gradualist tactic. You constantly try to exert pressure in the direction you want to push people into. If you think you can get away with outrageous demands, you make outrageous demands. If people are more skeptical or in the case of the Germans already rather miffed by huge energy price hikes you make smaller demands. As soon as the opportunity arises you make outrageous demands again.

That’s how gradualism and Der Spiegel operate; it is a relentless machine without reason, wanting only one thing, change towards the socialist utopia and an eradication of free decisions.

We shouldn’t make the mistake of assuming they care one iot [jot or iota?] for reality.

[marchesarosa]

Spiegel front-page cover of Aug 11, 1986, issue no. 33/1986. Depicts what Spiegel used to think of climate change.


Courtesy of Pierre Gosselin No Tricks Zone

[alancalverd]

Which lunacy is driven by socialism - the forthcoming ice age or global warming?

[marchesarosa]

From Judith Curry Professor of Climatology at Georgia Tech comes this comment about the Economist articles:

The article is a must read, it effectively summarizes many of papers recently discussed at Climate Etc. Interestingly, the article relies entirely on analysis of published papers and blog posts (without interview quotes from scientists).

The article is written by The Economist’s new editor for energy and environment, John Parker. What an absolutely superb job by someone who has no obvious background in the climate area. He did email me for input, and I sent him a few pages from my forthcoming testimony, which he clearly paid attention to.

I would like to see the Committee on Climate Change also respond to the Economist article. And I would be pleased if the IPCC AR5 does as a good a job as John Parker has in terms of assessing the issue of climate sensitivity.