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Not that much better
https://www.spiegel.de/auto/ak...

And yet, there are high levels of Cs-137 in wild boar from eating mushrooms in some regions of Germany:

http://www.spiegel.de/internat...

You know, theory is nice and all a that, but the underpinning of science is still to always look at the data.

1988 James Hansen New York will be Under Water in 20-30 years

https://www.salon.com/2001/10/...

1989 UN we have 12 years to save the planet

https://www.apnews.com/bd45c37...

1989 New York Times NOAA (No warming trend over the past 100 years )

https://www.nytimes.com/1989/0...

2000 Snowfalls are a thing of the past

https://wattsupwiththat.com/wp...

2005 UN we will have 50 million climate refugees by 2010

http://www.spiegel.de/internat...

2009 James Hansen, Obama Has 4 years to save the planet

https://www.theguardian.com/en...

2018 UN Only 12 years left to save the planet

https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/07...

2019 Greenland Glacier Reverses Decline.

And, of course, you have proof of this?

The NSA project is called Tailored Access Operations: http://www.spiegel.de/internat...

Actually, this is favourable for Cisco: it shows that the NSA actually has to break into things to get access. They've also intercepted shipments and tweaked the firmware.

If Cisco was in bed with the NSA, these types of steps would not have to be done. If the NSA has had to intercept physical boxes, it goes to show that the default stuff is (relatively) secure.

No. it is a lose-lose for Cisco because it means that no matter how hard they work to make their equipment secure, the US government will hack it and spy on you. In the case of non-US businesses this means that the NSA will be handing your trade secrets over to your American competitors which is something Airbus for one found out the hard way. There is a very real possibility that if this sort of behaviour continues for too long many non-US businesses will begin to eliminate all Cisco boxes they can at the earliest possible opportunity and this trend is likely to be irreversible even if the NSA stops it's bugging operations because the trust in Cisco simply isn't there anymore. It would be really ironic if the US government obsession with surveillance actually turns out to be what bankrupts Cisco. Needless to say, it would be pretty dumb of the Chinese government to follow the NSA's example with Huawei since when they would inevitably get caught it would likely destroy Huawei just like NSA meddling with their products could easily destroy Cisco.

And, of course, you have proof of this?

The NSA project is called Tailored Access Operations: http://www.spiegel.de/internat...

Actually, this is favourable for Cisco: it shows that the NSA actually has to break into things to get access. They've also intercepted shipments and tweaked the firmware.

If Cisco was in bed with the NSA, these types of steps would not have to be done. If the NSA has had to intercept physical boxes, it goes to show that the default stuff is (relatively) secure.

And, of course, you have proof of this?

The NSA project is called Tailored Access Operations: http://www.spiegel.de/internat...

Cisco got so pissed about it they went to visit the president to complain: https://www.techdirt.com/artic...

Warning of an erosion of confidence in the products of the U.S. technology industry, John Chambers, the CEO of networking giant Cisco Systems, has asked President Obama to intervene to curtail the surveillance activities of the National Security Agency.

" when we know the US government has been doing exactly this with equipment form US companies " = Backdooring switches? You're lying, or you could prove it.

Overly specific. They have been and are spying on e.g. Germany, I don't care so much how:
http://www.spiegel.de/internat...

Importing from America doesn't make much sense because of transport costs, but there are some imports.

None of this makes rational sense, but of course it makes economic sense. Importing coal means they don't have to worry about environmental and labor regulations. Germany even imports an increasing amuount of coal from Colombia.

TFA stating that "almost all" coal mines will close is far from the truth.

Germany -- which shuttered its last coal mine earlier this month

Wrong again. It shuttered its last anthracite mine. There is no end in sight for lignite extraction. Lignite is comparably low in energy and high in pollutants. It's a substantial part of German energy production. Villages are still being razed, and last year a journalist died during protests at the prospective Hambach surface mine.

According to Hansen
https://www.theguardian.com/en...

Still waiting for those 50 million climate refugees predicted by the UN
http://www.spiegel.de/internat...

Or how are things on the West Side of Manhattan these days ?
https://www.salon.com/2001/10/...

Then again snow is supposed to be a thing of the past as well
http://www.climatedepot.com/20...

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Computing was available. IBM sold tabulation machines and rented technicians to run them to the SS for use in the concentration camps.

That's mostly the point.

Even now 70 years later, IBM is still the poster child for assisting enemies of the first world in wartime, and specifically for aiding the group that itself is the poster child for war criminals.

This, despite the fact today and for a while now there are other companies than IBM who do the same and arguably do much much worse.

Think about that.
How often do you hear mentioned Chase Bank who ran a dollar exchange for the nazi government specifically to raise money for the german war effort?

How often are the names of Porsche and Volkswagen that designed aircraft engines and artillery for those armies?

Within tech circles basically never, despite some companies involved being well known names.
No one wants to risk this type of reputation, no one wants to risk being unfairly singled out as the only tech company that helped in mass murders.
(Unfair in that they were not the only ones directly assisting, not unfair in that such actions are horrible)

Now personally myself, I'm not at all sure this is something worth tarnishing or even possibly breaking the intent and spirit of open source licensing with in this way. But clearly there are opinions all over the board about it and mine are no more or less valid than anyone else's.

In war time all governments involved ban the cooperation and business interactions with all sorts of entities for all sorts of purposes.
Simply following this spirit of the law on top of already following the letter of the law would work as desired.

You'll notice only Chase Bank was violating the law completely, IBM was following the letter of the law but not the spirit of it, by doing business through subsidiaries and other companies they weren't explicitly prevented from doing so, but with full knowledge how those companies would use the tech.

All one needs to refrain from doing is finding legal loopholes that were not meant to exist and refrain from actively trying to profit off such deeds.

But this guy wanted to go even further and preemptively ban a specific list of named groups due to his own personal feelings without taking anyone else into account.
It is only a slight step up over that line, but over it none the less.

Many people already don't trust the reasoning behind or the unintended (possibly not so unintended) side effects of such choices and the damages that can be caused when you don't bother thinking an inch ahead of your own nose.
I trust this one single individual I don't even know FAR less to make any type of well thought out decision or long term plan regarding how to address any of those problems and concerns without, you know, actually going about detailing and sharing them which was not done.

Here is the reason why nuclear is so "inexpensive":

The demolition of a nuclear power plant is a technically complicated undertaking that can take between 15 and 20 years to complete. In the case of Obrigheim, dismantling the power plant will cost energy utility company EnBW, which owns the facility, an estimated â500 million ($684 million). Compared to other plants in Germany, this pressurized-water reactor is relatively small. The dismantling of larger plants like Gundremmingen B or Isar 2 in the state of Bavaria are estimated to cost as much as â1 billion each.

Most Germans have assumed that these costs will be picked up by the energy utility companies, which have gleaned billions of euros in profits from these plants. Besides, why should different rules apply to nuclear plant operators than to normal car owners, who have to pay to scrap their car when it's no longer fit for the road?

But the heads of Germany's three major electric utility companies -- E.On CEO Johannes Teyssen, RWE chief Peter Terium and EnBW head Frank Mastiaux -- have come up with what they think is a brilliant plan to transfer the billions in risks related to dismantling nuclear plants. They want to punt responsibility to the state and taxpayers.

Article: Utility companies want public trust for winding down nuclear plants

1. Make big $$$ while plants operate.
2. When it's time to shut down, involve taxpayer
3. Profit!

Believe it or not it has to do with sand.

Sand with sharp edges.
Sand from the desert is round and is not good for cement.

So stop worrying about the CO2, energy, etc needed to make cement. we are running out of sand.

https://science.slashdot.org/s...
http://www.spiegel.de/internat...
https://www.npr.org/2017/07/21...

IOW: we are fsked. Roads, buildings, bridges, etc will have to be built with something else and nobody cares to even worry.

This article summarizes the situation: http://www.spiegel.de/internat... So it's not a crime to operate an open Wifi network, but the network operator becomes liable for anything a user does. (Whereas the postal service, for example, is not liable for slanderous letters that may be posted.)

If you think that the parliamentarian Mrs. Storch was the only victim already censored via the "Netzwerkdurchsetzungsgesetz", you are under-informed. Multiple postings from comedians and satire magazines were equally silenced using the new censorship tool - read on e.g. here: http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt...

And even if only Mrs. Storch had been censored, it clearly shows that this is a tool of censorship, and nothing else. I hope the Bundesverfassungsgericht will stop that nonsense sooner or later.

The emergency move away from nuclear has been incredibly short sighted. I understand not wanting to build new reactors, but shutting down running reactors, with all the capital investment involved, just doesn't make any sense. Especially when there is little risk of natural disasters in Germany.

If people are serious about maintaining the same quality of lifestyle that we have today without burning as much coal, the current solution is Nuclear Energy. Yes it does pose many risks but so does burning coal, and the latter seems to be destroying our environment.

Nuclear energy is great up until the point the time comes to dismantle an aging nuclear plant and all the nuclear waste that goes along with it. Then the power companies duck away by buying themselves out of the equation and letting taxpayer money take over.

Nuclear power is a really nice deal. Reap all the profits and let the taxpayer take care of the dirty work.

And if the unthinkable happens and one of the things blows up in your face due to incalculable risks, as has happened before at least two times, well, the taxpayer will also have to step in because like Fukushima taught us, the costs of a nuclear meltdown are so immense, it will bankrupt any company.

Whatever way you look at it, nuclear is a shady deal with corporations reaping profits while carrying none of the risks.

Re "The US and UK of course don't block VPNs, because they don't need to - most VPNs are US based and the NSA can zap 'em with a national security letter if it needs to spy on them. "

In the West a person can think they have freedom but their VPN use can be well understood by the security services with efforts like TURMOIL, APEX, POISENNUT GALLANTWAVE, VALIANTSURF, MALIBU.

Inside the NSA's War on Internet Security (Dec 28, 2014)
http://www.spiegel.de/internat...

I go with the http://www.spiegel.de/ critics. It is super simple: bad critcs: go watch the movie, it is likely ok good critics: avoid it as hell, it is probaly the worst waste of money ever suoer good critics: try it, might be a matter of taste, can be good or not so good, but is usually not really bad

On the other hand the kast decade I nadically avoided every movie except Lord of the Rings, and watched The expendabkes in youtube. How old is the first Pirates of the Carebean movie?

I probbaly watch that blond fighter chick movie, thought ... ah, and I liked that 'monkey king' movie with Jackie Chan and Jet Li, but it was obvious that the movie would be good, regardless of online reviews (are the reviews paid for to be super good or super bad?)

I've got a great deal on replacement keyboards, if you're interested....

I go with the http://www.spiegel.de/ critics.
It is super simple:
bad critcs: go watch the movie, it is likely ok
good critics: avoid it as hell, it is probaly the worst waste of money ever
suoer good critics: try it, might be a matter of taste, can be good or not so good, but is usually not really bad

On the other hand the kast decade I nadically avoided every movie except Lord of the Rings, and watched The expendabkes in youtube. How old is the first Pirates of the Carebean movie?

I probbaly watch that blond fighter chick movie, thought ... ah, and I liked that 'monkey king' movie with Jackie Chan and Jet Li, but it was obvious that the movie would be good, regardless of online reviews (are the reviews paid for to be super good or super bad?)

I'm surprised no one else mentioned this, but from Edward Snowden's revelations, the docs highlighted the NSA has "major problems" getting into zoho, specifically their encrypted email service.

But I think zoho might be an Indian company (surprisingly); while the post mentions a "US Internet Company".

Snowdon's revelation also revealed that NSA didn't have much difficulty in monitoring hundreds of thousands of VPN's as well as having the ability to decrypt and intercept https comms [source].

'Microsoft-owned service announced a major redesign of its mobile app, which now comes with a feature called "Highlights" that lets users share photos and videos that will only be temporarily visible to their friends.' .. and there after permanently stored on the NSA Data Farm in Utah ..

I too did the same thing. I haven't gone back to look at it as I am not a Murdoch fan. I think he and his compatriots have really helped split up our country into one where people shout at each other rather than having a civil discussion. I like The Intercept and I think Amy Goodman is great with her show. I find the English edition http://www.spiegel.de/internat... gives another look from outside the US. ProPublica is another source. I still read my local newspaper, although it is usually fluff. The New Yorker often has well researched articles that go in depth. The Young Turks also have some good commentary. I would like to see more discussions rather than yelling.

Actually he is right, there are fewer and fewer birds in Germany.
If you can read German, then look no further than here:
http://www.spiegel.de/wissensc...

This article is based on the official data of the German government, so if you think that they are nothing credible or lunatics, then there is no point in arguing with you anyway.

And as for anecdotes, every winter I do see fewer birds at my feeder. Many used to come - great tits, blue tits, robins, thrushes, even wood pigeons. The last few winters, only a couple of great tits showed up.

The exact work? Probably not. In addition to lowering the total number of works published, copyright also tended to shift authorship from informative to fictional, since only the specific words are published, and thus rephrasing a scientific text allows a relatively trivial workaround.

So, we might have fewer blockbuster films (especially since we'd have competitive markets instead of oligopolies), but we'd probably be about 50 years ahead technologically by now, and more focused on learning. Of course, greater tech could mean greater standard of living, more education, and cheaper filmmaking, so perhaps we'd have even more well-produced films.

Nevertheless 30% of Germanies electricity over the cours of a year comes from renewables.
http://www.spiegel.de/wirtscha...

AC try How Electricity Became a Luxury Good (Sept 04, 2013)
http://www.spiegel.de/internat...

I'm sure all the relevant important traffic for these sites was and is at least TLS encrypted, right? Right?

And it's not as if that espionage on banks isn't a totally normal thing:
https://www.wired.com/2017/04/...
http://www.spiegel.de/internat...
http://www.reuters.com/article...

Not just a few banks or lowly consumer creditcard companies, but SWIFT itself, the system that all banks use to transfer money around the globe. Not just traffic but actual inside data.
Not to mention a ton of routers inside various banks all over the middle east.

At least this time it's post retirement and post death.
No real surprise seeing as short term predictions kept coming up wrong.

50 million climate refugees and entire countries gone by 2010 (UN)
http://www.spiegel.de/internat...

West Side Highway under water by 2010 (James Hansen)
http://www.salon.com/2001/10/2...

seriously?

Medical liability cases are increasing around the world, and the cost of insurance is driving many people from the profession. (See articles)
My wife wanted to give birth at home, it was both very difficult to organise and extremely costly.
All her friends said she was mad; plan the date with your Dr. for a C-section, fast, painless and no stress waiting for contractions to start.
It's as much a matter of convenience for both sides as a question of baby size IMHO.

http://www.medscape.com/viewar...

http://www.spiegel.de/internat...

In 2005, there was a prediction that 50 million people would be displaced by global warming by 2010. Didn't even come close to coming true.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/feared-migration-hasn-t-happened-un-embarrassed-by-forecast-on-climate-refugees-a-757713.html

This article has a rather strident tone but has solid links to document the above story.

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/04/15/the-un-disappears-50-million-climate-refugees-then-botches-the-disappearing-attempt/

These claims were put forward by Norman Myers. After the prediction didn't pan out for 2010, he made updated claims: now it will be 200 million displaced, by 2050.

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-23899195

I'm not a climate scientist, but as far as I can tell, the worries about catastrophic anthropogenic global warming have led to very few testable predictions, and the few that have been tested have not proven out. The predicted sea level rise and flooding by 2010 didn't happen, and the computer models that try to predict warming due to carbon dioxide are very far off their predictions.

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2016/01/13/the-abject-failure-of-official-global-warming-predictions/

People argue over whether there was a "global warming pause" or not, but I think it's pretty clear that even if global warming didn't pause, the total carbon dioxide concentration went up a lot during that time yet the predicted temperature rises didn't occur.

There is a saying: extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. I'm not convinced that the claims of global warming problems even rise to the level of ordinary evidence, let alone extraordinary.

So if someone could please post links to the most persuasive proof that we should all be worried about carbon dioxide levels, I'll take a look. But at the moment, I think we have plenty of other worries that are higher priority.

P.S. The article suggests that Boko Haram is being driven by climate change. Boko Haram itself says that it is driven by a desire to create an Islamic state and to impose Sharia law. I view this attempt to form a linkage between climate change and Boko Haram as unsubstantiated hand-waving. As I understand it, the claimed link is that global warming leads to displaced and impoverished people who are more likely to join Boko Haram, but I'd like to see some evidence. Are there any factors other than climate change that might lead to people being displaced and impoverished? How do you control for such factors in any predictions?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boko_Haram#Ideology

I think they should actually state where did the outages happen. One can guess it is somewhere in Germany, but geez...

And before the whole "the Russians are coming" starts on this topic, here is an interesting link

http://www.spiegel.de/internat...

Don't forget the Russians, who have a vested interest in fossil fuel consumption and use paid trolls in psy-ops campaigns.

I've had interactions here with people who are very likely Russian trolls: very pro-Putin, even pro-Yankuyovych, the disgraced and deposed Ukranian president who embezzled 70 billion dollars from the treasury and built this at a cost of a hundred million dollars of laundered money.

The parallels with the rise of Nazism in the 1930s are quite disturbing.

Indeed it is.

Trump wants to deport 11 million people

Well, yes, just like Germany.

persecute Muslims

No, just strongly scrutinize immigration from countries with lots of terrorists. You know, the same policy as Clinton or much of Europe.

force other countries to respect and build walls for America

Kind of like some European countries

and all on the back of a populist campaign of lies and blame

No argument there.

who is in private practice.
This is his second attempt, the first one was in October 2015 (German language). Here is a link for the new one dated 30 September (also German). The difference appears to be that the Munich prosecutors are actually looking at it.

The West has been placing devices in Russia for years.
"Russian 'spy rock' was genuine, former chief of staff admits"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...
"... accepted that Britain did indeed plant a "spy rock" despite attempts by the then-prime minister to dismiss the story and denials of improper conduct by the Foreign Office."
Britain admits 'fake rock' plot to spy on Russians
https://www.theguardian.com/wo...
A lot of spy devices are distance sensitive. So a good idea of the inner device location is needed and the location for a collection or helper device.
By altering the GPS, measurements for device placement by spies gets tricky. Any more power than needed a device risks detection. Not enough and signal is too week to get out of secure area.
Readers might recall the ANGRYNEIGHBOR, SURLYSPAWN, VAGRANT, DROPMIRE, SURLYSPAWN and the note about TAWDRYYARD and gps.
Catalog Advertises NSA Toolbox (December 29, 2013)
http://www.spiegel.de/internat...
A hired spy with local time limited access placing a device is then 10 feet out? 100ft ? Pacing the building with funny walk might be off limits or get seen on gait analysis from CCTV. Past sketches, plans or details might have altered with upgrades or have come from double agents sent to West with amazing stories of fiction about layout.
So expecting gps to work well at all times was needed to get fine tuning of device to outside support device by spy.

The idea that there's more money to be made shilling against burning petroleum than there is shilling for it is simply farfetched.

Oh, really?

Suppose a climate researcher, let's say Dr. Smith-Jones, is a professor at a university, and he likes his job and he likes his university. Suppose he wants grant money to cover his studies. Do you really think that he will get more money for a study based on the idea that catastrophic climate change isn't real, or more money for a study that will bolster the climate change idea? Keep in mind it is the Obama administration right now.

Now maybe, just maybe, he could make more money by jumping ship and shilling for Evil Big Petroleum company. (a) He doesn't want to; his friends would cut him off cold, he doesn't want to move, etc. (b) He likely doesn't have any idea how to do that. How do you reach out to Evil Big Petroleum company and say "I am willing to shill for you, give me money"?

Any scientist who can conclusively disprove AGW would be able to dine out on that for the rest of his life.

Maybe. Yet here's the thing. I don't understand why we are even talking about this. We believe that human-caused climate change is going to be catastrophic because of some computer models from two decades ago. Those models are outside their 95% confidence interval now. The temperature is nearly flat since two decades yet Carbon Dioxide levels have gone up significantly. We have no reason to think that warming will be catastrophic aside from these models, and these models have been shown to be completely inaccurate at predicting the future.

Yet the climate change believers are not phased in the slightest. I have seen a prediction that 50 millions people would be displaced by 2010 due to climate change. It didn't happen, now the prediction is 200 millions people displaced by 2050.

One might think that the person who proved that stomach ulcers are caused by bacteria would "dine out for life" on that. First he had to convince a sceptical world by giving himself ulcers. This radical step proved his thesis but how can one do the same for climate change? When the dogma is so entrenched how can one fight it?

Correct; you could google it yourself, instead of asking me to.

And I would find one misleading news story. How is that evidence of a large-scale, government-controlled desinformation campaign?.

About 258,000 results (0.49 seconds), according to Google over here. Doesn't Google work over there?

Here's the first page, with sources ranging from The New York Times to The Guardian to Der Spiegel::
http://www.atlanticcouncil.org...
https://www.theguardian.com/wo...
http://khpg.org/en/index.php?i...
http://www.dw.com/en/german-me...
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
http://www.spiegel.de/internat...
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08...
http://uaposition.com/kharkiv-...

You made a claim, you have flimsy evidence to back it up.

Since you're unwilling to look at any of the 258,000 results, I doubt that anything I can post is likely to affect your position.

Actually De Maizière was the one speaking out for the ban the loudest.

But please don't let facts get in the way of your "Lügenpresse" rants.

Your so called "facts" are just the opposite of the truth - it was indeed Thomas "Die Misere", Germany's minister of interior, who spoke out against the Burqa ban.

So I guess as you chide others for blaming the press, you're part of the "Lügenpresse", right?

I'm sure that EU was hoping that dangling the membership carrot (e.g. billions of Euros coming their way) would pacify Erdogan, in the sense to keep things at least looking civil from the outside. Erdogan knows how to game the politically-correct, pacifist Europeans perfectly. You can see that with the "refugees" (actually pawns in a huge political game) deal. Heaps and heaps of Euros coming his way, and a one-for-one swap of refugees (i.e. zero-sum). Erdogan has also taken control of the selection process (see here so you can imagine what that means. And gets away with this, the EU even lies for him (or to save their own face) by calling this "cooperation", while the fact is they only get the names that Erdogan allows them to have. So he knows exactly how to deal with the EU. And he will get away with this one. And he knows why: the floodgates can be opened in minutes, and bases can be overrun, of course with the foreign military allowed to leave with their tails between their legs.

You're wrong.

Yes, yes â" a tale oft-repeated by Russian scum. Please, cite the treaty, where that promise was made. Oops...

No such treaty was signed, but documents support the claim. Here is a reputable source for you:

http://www.spiegel.de/internat...

Quote Jack Matlock, the US ambassador in Moscow at the time, has said in the past that Moscow was given a "clear commitment."

NATO itself officially rejects this claim: http://nato.int/cps/en/natohq/...

The thing is controversial, but your choice of words makes it clear you have no interest in facts and nuanced views, you're a stupid git who shouts at everyone who dares to not share your dimwitted opinion.

You are trying to equate unequatable.

You are dodging the question and your counterpoint has nothing to do with the argument. It was a simple question: Do you believe the USA would stand by and watch if the Warsaw Pact were resurrected and Canada and Mexiko joined? Yes or no? It's a simple question.

Yes.

https://news.vice.com/article/...
http://www.theguardian.com/wor...
http://www.spiegel.de/internat...

Here you go. There is more if you actually bother to look it up.

First US usage of power is about 4 times higher per household than Germany, possibly due to Germans mostly not having or using AC in the warmer months. This makes summer the power usage low in Germany. In the US the summer months are the usage high.
http://shrinkthatfootprint.com...
https://www.eia.gov/electricit...

The government (ie taxpayers) subsidize the tune of 20 billion Euros per year and rising (hiding the actual cost)

http://www.bloomberg.com/view/...
http://www.greentechmedia.com/...
http://www.seia.org/research-r...

German prices per kwh are higher (~.34 per kwh) vs US (~.15) mostly due to tax/tariff on energy, and regulatory procedures related to the infrastructure payments of solar and other renewables. The prices are rising so fast the government has had to begin a more restrictive path on new solar.

https://www.eia.gov/electricit...
https://www.cleanenergywire.or...

Based solely on price per kwh and predictable capacity, solar is awful. More specifically awful for germany, because of geography and weather trends.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/qu...

This unpredictability is causing massive new production plants using coal. This is a reult of shutting down nuclear and building solar which only generates an average of >10% of potential capacity. Altogether the solar plan's end result is not bringing them closer to meeting their climate pollution goals.
https://carboncounter.wordpres...

"when the wind suddenly stops blowing, and in particular during the cold season, supply becomes scarce. That's when heavy oil and coal power plants have to be fired up to close the gap, which is why Germany's energy producers in 2012 actually released more climate-damaging carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than in 2011. If there is still an electricity shortfall, energy-hungry plants like the ArcelorMittal steel mill in Hamburg are sometimes asked to shut down production to protect the grid. Of course, ordinary electricity customers are then expected to pay for the compensation these businesses are entitled to for lost profits."

http://www.spiegel.de/internat...

The predictions do pan out. Denialists don't accept them because they read a cold day outside their as refutation of AGW.

http://www.spiegel.de/internat...

Really ? I am still looking for those sunken countries and millions of refugees.

I know it's bad form to reply to my own post, but do a little research on Miami Florida, of which every spring tide, it floods. NOt rarely, but because the lowest areas toe now going to be flooded by spring tides.

The predictions do pan out. Denialists don't accept them because they read a cold day outside their as refutation of AGW.

http://www.spiegel.de/internat...

Really ? I am still looking for those sunken countries and millions of refugees.

Your timeline apears to be as short as your attention span. You think these things happej the day after someone says they might happen?

The predictions do pan out. Denialists don't accept them because they read a cold day outside their as refutation of AGW.

http://www.spiegel.de/internat...

Really ? I am still looking for those sunken countries and millions of refugees.

When leftists from Spain, German, Italy... support Russia in conflict with Ukraine, they blame European leftists for being bribed by Putin.
When SPD of German and Gerhard Schroeder be a closed friend of Putin, they blame leftwing parties for support Russia.

Now, when migrant crisis presses across EU, and all of the so-called centrist, leftist governments shot themselves on the foot, they blame rightwing movement be populist and bribed by Putin.

Fucking stupid!

Just two recent articles by Spiegel (English) show perfect the real face of Germany, in particular, and EU in general:

Third Republic: Germany Enters a Dangerous New Political Era

"They don't trust the journalists and believe in their own truths"
"the roles long played by journalists is that of gatekeeper, filtering out the hate, conspiracy theories and other lunacy."

Most Germans Think the Press Is Lying to Them About Refugees

When leftists from Spain, German, Italy... support Russia in conflict with Ukraine, they blame European leftists for being bribed by Putin.
When SPD of German and Gerhard Schroeder be a closed friend of Putin, they blame leftwing parties for support Russia.

Now, when migrant crisis presses across EU, and all of the so-called centrist, leftist governments shot themselves on the foot, they blame rightwing movement be populist and bribed by Putin.

Fucking stupid!

Just two recent articles by Spiegel (English) show perfect the real face of Germany, in particular, and EU in general:

Third Republic: Germany Enters a Dangerous New Political Era

"They don't trust the journalists and believe in their own truths"
"the roles long played by journalists is that of gatekeeper, filtering out the hate, conspiracy theories and other lunacy."

Most Germans Think the Press Is Lying to Them About Refugees