Our little Dutch sceptic community gave blogger and nature photographer Rypke Zeilmaker 1000 euro for his one thousandth blog posting to buy a new camera with which he now very sustainably shoots fabulous "localy produced" images. 62 investors amongst whom a number of government institutions gave 18.800 euro's to professional adventurer and "climate journalist" Bernice Notenboom who in order to portrait the "final [...]
Notrickszone.com is so valuable in that it shares purely German news with the whole world. Today with this announcement in Financieel Dagblad I feel that also the whole world should know. I heard about the new theme in a series of Energy Debates - "Is the European energy policy bankrupt?" - from an advertisement on [...]
On a day with particularly interesting weather (tornado's, hail, storm - see my picture), while surfing the web for my daily dose of news on climate and energy, I accidentally came across an online report by the Dutch Environmental Planning Agency (PBL) about tracking the goals of “Rio 1992”. There is a regular webversion here and [...]
Leading astrophysicist Kees de Jager is progressively toning down his warming scepticism. From predicting a Grand Minimum he backed down a few years ago to talking about a Dalton-like mini-ice age. In his very recent publication that is pretty much ripped at WUWT he now talks about slowed warming since 2007. To me it becomes [...]
Yesterday I visited the Amsterdam version of the London based initiative ‘Battle of Ideas’ in Felix Meritis. The debate was on two subjects, that are related. Multiculturalism, ethnic segregation was the first. And second was the modern first commandment in Western social intercourse, key to my interest and familiar to anyone reading Roger Scruton. Attacking [...]