James Cameron é um tretas que já abordamos aqui várias vezes. Agora, os realizadores de "Not Evil Just Wrong" realizaram o filme abaixo, que expõe o hipócrita James Cameron. Cameron, que disse ao LA Times que tínhamos que viver com menos (We're going to have to live with less), poderia começar por dar o exemplo. Podia dar estas casinhas à sociedade e ir para longe, para o meio da verdalhada, por exemplo!
O filme abaixo é ainda parte da luta que se trava na California em torno do logro da Economia Verde. Hipócritas como James Cameron, que fugiram de Hollywood para realizar Avatar, devido a questões de impostos, deixando atrás os desempregados, tentam agora compensar com uns milhões. Enquanto os consumidores e contribuintes desse Estado, quase exterminado, vão sentindo o peso dos impostos, das taxas e do desemprego, os outros farsantes (Obama, Al Gore, Bill Gates, etc.) tentam forçar a tecla... Se estes vencerem, os californianos que paguem a factura!
Entretanto, e felizmente, os irmãos brasileiros dão-lhe o tratamento adequado!
domingo, 24 de outubro de 2010
O hipócrita James Cameron
Etiquetas:
Ecologistas,
economia verde,
políticos
sábado, 23 de outubro de 2010
Fartura de Ursos polares
Já há muito que não falavamos sobre ursos polares. Essa espécie fofa, como se pode ver no primeiro vídeo acima, que começa a ser encarada com a ternura de um peluche, mas que é simplesmente um dos animais mais ferozes da Natureza. E como pode ser visto no segundo video acima, ainda há humanos que devem pensar que nos podemos aproximar deles.
Vem isto tudo a propósito de notícias fresquinhas de Churchill, local predilecto de observação de ursos polares, e que tão boas indicações tinha dado em 2008 e 2009. Pois, este ano, são esperados ainda mais, dada a quantidade anormal de ursos vistos no Verão. E os alarmistas poderão dizer que os ursos, por não andarem no gelo, se aproximam de terra. Mas não é assim! Uma das melhores evidências é a quantidade de ursos polares fêmeas com três crias atrás, sinal de que vivem saudáveis...
Etiquetas:
urso polar
sexta-feira, 22 de outubro de 2010
The ClimateGate Secret Meeting
A usual reader of the blog sent me yesterday an interesting news from a Portuguese newspaper. It deals with the classic Medieval Warm Period problem, in the most green Portuguese newspaper. I immediately recognized one of the worst environmental journalists in Portugal, dealing with one of my favorite issues. Interestingly enough, Ricardo Trigo, a portuguese climatologist, was trying to explain the pseudo-science behind climate change and global warming, confusing things like Greenland's vikings and Maunder's Minimum.But what really interested me in the story was a reference to Phil Jones, the person in the center of the ClimateGate controversy. And references to a conference in Portugal, regarding the Medieval Warm Period. I spent some time trying to figure out what had happened. Turned out that I had not read the news with attention: the conference had happened a month before!
Between 22 and 24 of September, a symposium entitled "The Medieval Warm Period Redux: Where and When was it warm?" was organized in Lisbon, Portugal. The Climategate mob was here, including Phil Jones, Michael Mann, Malcolm Hughes and Raymond Bradley. I bet the main point on the agenda was how "to get rid of the Medieval Warm Period". The abstracts for the conference are available here. Probably, the best abstract of the symposium was for Malcolm K. Hughes (highlights are my responsibility):
| We meant the title of our 1994 review “Was there a Medieval Warm Period, and if so Where and When?” (Hughes and Diaz, 1994) to be read in two ways. Firstly, it was to be read quite literally. Secondly, it was meant to be ironic. The literal reading was rewarded by an attempt to identify and synthesize records thought to be appropriate to this task. Irony was used to imply that, since a clear and simple answer was not forthcoming from the review, it might be useful to reformulate the question. Please read the title of this abstract in the light of this explanation of the 1994 title. The trajectories of these two concepts (“Medieval Warm Period” and “Medieval Climate Anomaly “) will be traced. A case will be made for the abandonment of both of them, on the grounds that they are inappropriate, uninformative, and that they very probably divert attention from more revealing ways of thinking about the Earth’s climate over the past two millennia. It is clear from many recent publications, especially many of the abstracts submitted for this meeting, that high-resolution paleoclimatology has moved firmly from the mode of descriptive climatology to that of physical climatology. As a result, there is little utility in picking over definitions of the geographic and temporal extent of putative epochs, especially in the Late Holocene. The pressing questions concern the dynamics of the climate system, and the relative roles of free and forced variations, whether the forcings are anthropogenic or not. |
All the information I've got till now makes me believe that this was an almost secret meeting. No news transpired, not even here in Portugal. Given the abstracts, and the one seen above, their intentions are clear! If Ricardo Trigo kept his mouth shut, nobody would probably hear about it. So I wish to thank my loyal reader for bringing this to our attention.
Etiquetas:
Aquecimento Global,
english,
Fraude Científica,
Período Quente Medieval
Ainda os Custos de Interesse Económico Geral
Dêem uma vista de olhos às vossas facturas. Mas preparem-se para ficar indispostos!
Etiquetas:
economia verde,
energia,
energias alternativas
quinta-feira, 21 de outubro de 2010
Not so fine, Mr. Gore!
Al Gore was today in Lisbon, Portugal. He made a talk at the SAP Business Forum, and as can be seen in the video below, he seems to believe that everything is fine in Portugal. He brought along with him his old cow joke, but given the situation here in Portugal, the cow joke is just an excellent example!
Someone should tell Al Gore that Portugal is not coming out of the Great Recession. In fact, Portugal's economy is getting worse, as can be seen by the high sovereign risk, usually one of the highest 10 in the world in the last months. This is so because major bad economic decisions have been made in the last years, namely in alternative energy. Portugal has traditionally a lot of hydroelectricity, and this year a lot of energy was based on hydropower. Confusion has arisen about how much green energy is really produced, but greater values are typically associated with greater rainfall.
The truth is that more wind energy has been produced, but since storage is very limited, a lot of energy has been exported at zero cost. Water pumped storage with water had to be discharged because of heavy rain in the beginning of the year, with a duplicate loss. All this energy was lost, while paying the wind operators, due to feed-in tariffs. The total cost for Portuguese consumers and taxpayers is estimated at 700 million euros this year. But costs are growing exponentially. Electricity costs have risen in the last year, while they have gone down in European countries where alternative energy is less used. And they will have a mean rise of 3.8% next year, motivated essentially by alternative energy price rises, as the independent Energy Services Regulatory Authority has justified.
The truth is that the Green Economy is a black signal for the Portuguese Economy. EDPR, which owns Horizon, is on it's way down. The Portuguese Government has proposed major cuts for the 2011 budget, unseen since Portugal regained a democratic regime, in 1974. Just like Spain, we're going down, while unemployment keeps going up, and the promised green jobs are one of Europe's lowest. So, Mr. Gore: If some Portuguese told you that "I feel fine", I can bet he felt like the farmer in your nasty story! And I can't wait that he sues you in court, in a nearby future.
Someone should tell Al Gore that Portugal is not coming out of the Great Recession. In fact, Portugal's economy is getting worse, as can be seen by the high sovereign risk, usually one of the highest 10 in the world in the last months. This is so because major bad economic decisions have been made in the last years, namely in alternative energy. Portugal has traditionally a lot of hydroelectricity, and this year a lot of energy was based on hydropower. Confusion has arisen about how much green energy is really produced, but greater values are typically associated with greater rainfall.
The truth is that more wind energy has been produced, but since storage is very limited, a lot of energy has been exported at zero cost. Water pumped storage with water had to be discharged because of heavy rain in the beginning of the year, with a duplicate loss. All this energy was lost, while paying the wind operators, due to feed-in tariffs. The total cost for Portuguese consumers and taxpayers is estimated at 700 million euros this year. But costs are growing exponentially. Electricity costs have risen in the last year, while they have gone down in European countries where alternative energy is less used. And they will have a mean rise of 3.8% next year, motivated essentially by alternative energy price rises, as the independent Energy Services Regulatory Authority has justified.
The truth is that the Green Economy is a black signal for the Portuguese Economy. EDPR, which owns Horizon, is on it's way down. The Portuguese Government has proposed major cuts for the 2011 budget, unseen since Portugal regained a democratic regime, in 1974. Just like Spain, we're going down, while unemployment keeps going up, and the promised green jobs are one of Europe's lowest. So, Mr. Gore: If some Portuguese told you that "I feel fine", I can bet he felt like the farmer in your nasty story! And I can't wait that he sues you in court, in a nearby future.
Etiquetas:
Al Gore,
economia verde,
energia
Alemães engolem rico aumento
A política Verde da Alemanha começa finalmente a ser topada pelos alemães: vão pagar ainda mais pela energia eléctrica! Eles já pagavam a segunda energia mais cara da Europa. Enquanto nós nos queixamos do preço do kWh, os alemães pagam €0.229. Enquanto na Europa o preço da energia baixou em 2009 cerca de 1.5%, os Alemães suportaram um aumento de 4.5%! E todos sabem que as energias alternativas são as responsáveis por essa subida...Mas como os Alemães gostam muito das políticas Verdes, no próximo ano vão engolir mais um rico aumento! A sobre-taxa que os consumidores pagam pelos custos extra das renováveis vai aumentar uns estonteantes 70% em relação a este ano! Enquanto este ano pagam €0.0205 por kWh, para 2011 está previsto o pagamento de €0.0353 por kWh. Para uma família alemã, isso representará cerca de mais 10 euros ao fim do mês... Mas não fiquem invejosos; nós vamos pagar a mais o mesmo, e ganhar menos...
Etiquetas:
economia verde,
energia
quarta-feira, 20 de outubro de 2010
Pegada do Ministério do Ambiente
O estudo destes valores foi efectuada pela empresa inglesa de consultoria IPD - Investment Property Databank, depois de encomendado em 2008, e entregue ao Governo no ano passado. O estudo revela ainda que cada funcionário público tem um custo médio de ocupação de 8376 euros/ano, o que quer dizer que o valor do Ministério do Ambiente será certamente muito maior... O estudo estima ainda que o Governo pode poupar mais de 1.25 mil milhões de euros com edifícios!
Actualização: Um leitor atento apontou-me um link de um documento que parece conter os dados referenciados pelo Diário Económico.
Etiquetas:
Ministério Ambiente,
políticos
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