Popular Press Articles
2015 Articles
ET can never call home without getting the wrong number
Canada Free Press (2015) and
Fairfax Free Citizen (2015).
Ever dialed a wrong number? I bet you did, just as I have on some occasions...
A Message from Above
Canada Free Press (2015) and
Fairfax Free Citizen (2015).
Astronomers are excited: a new planet has been discovered ... perhaps the heavenly object followed by the Three Wise Men in search of Christ.
Forward Looking Statements
Principia Scientific International (2015) and
Fairfax Free Citizen (2015).
H.J. Schellnhuber, founder and top gun at the German PIK (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research), just published a 770 page tome with the title "Selbstverbrennung" ...
The New Vac — Suck it Up!
Canada Free Press (2015) and
Principia Scientific International (2015).
Don't be afraid, your old vacuum cleaner is just fine but if you feel like buying a new one anyway, no problem either.
Just in Time for Paris — Ice Galore
Canada Free Press (2015) and
Principia Scientific International (2015) and
Ice Age Now (2015) and
The Atheist Conservative (2015) and
Out of the Bottomles Pit (2015) and
Aletho News (2015).
Also translated into Italian by Mauri Sesler for Attività Solare,
Attività Solare (2015) and
Facebook (2015).
Also translated into German by Chris Frey for the Europ. Inst. f. Climate and Energy,
EIKE (2015).
COP-21, the latest United Nation conference on all things climate...
Will nature listen?
Battery Technology — Theory and Practice
Canada Free Press (2015) and
Principia Scientific International (2015).
As with most such claims, theory and practice are miles apart. So, better don't junk your gasoline-powered car yet!
Laughing Gas — A Laughing Matter?
Canada Free Press (2015) and
MyInforms.com (2015) and
Conservative Angle (2015) and
Principia Scientific International (2015) and
Ice Age Now (2015).
Also translated into Italian by Mauri Sesler for Attività Solare,
Attività Solare (2015).
The change.org and other NGOs want Laughing Gas to be put on the table at the upcoming COP21 conference at Paris in December 2015.
The Arctic Sea-Ice is Disapp… — Actually Increasing
Canada Free Press (2015) and
Principia Scientific International (2015).
Ice Age Now (2015).
Also translated into Italian by Mauri Sesler for Attività Solare,
Attività Solare (2015).
Arctic sea-ice extent as annual average from daily observations, 2006-2015 (provisional for 2015).
Credit: R. Clutz, Science Matters
No matter what measurement you use to look at ice in the North, it shows no sign of going the way of the dodo bird, rather the opposite.
PIK's in Overdrive
Canada Free Press (2015) and
Ice Age Now (2015) and
Principia Scientific International (2015) and
Beyond Landscheidt (2015).
Rothera Research Stn., photo by British Antarctic Survey
As of late, PIK's messages of doom appear to be getting bolder and more deceptive than ever before. For example, one of their
latest "photos" shows "The 'eternal ice' of Antarctica" ...
Cleopatra's Breath
Canada Free Press (2015) and
Ice Age Now (2015) and
Principia Scientific International (2015).
Also translated into Italian by Mauri Sesler for Attività Solare,
Attività Solare (2015).
Some scientists claim that anthropogenic (human-produced) CO2 (carbon dioxide) lasts in the atmosphere for hundreds or even thousands of years.
Of course, that's rubbish!
However, if you're still unconvinced, you have my permission to blame any and all of today's problems on Cleopatra and Marc.
Fossil Fuels are the Major Source of Energy
Canada Free Press (2015) and
Principia Scientific International (2015) and
MyInforms.com (2015) and
http://antigreen.blogspot.ca/ (2015).
Also translated into Italian by Mauri Sesler for Attività Solare,
Attività Solare (2015).
Also translated into German by Chris Frey for the Europ. Inst. f. Climate and Energy,
EIKE (2015).
… Gilding's musings about fossil fuels being finished are total baloney.
The Myth of Climate Tipping Points
Canada Free Press (2015) and
Intelligence Minutemen (2015) and
MyInforms.com (2015) and
Principia Scientific International (2015).
Also translated into German by Chris Frey for the Europ. Inst. f. Climate and Energy,
EIKE (2015).
Also translated into Italian by Mauri Sesler for Attività Solare,
Attività Solare (2015).
Tipping is fine but "climate tipping points" are nonsense.
Drive Up!
Canada Free Press (2015).
[tongue-in-cheek]
… to the stratosphere that is.
Decarbonize Yourselves First!
Canada Free Press (2015) and
Principia Scientific International (2015) and
Ice Age Now (2015) and
Greeenie Watch (2015).
Also translated into German by Chris Frey for the Europ. Inst. f. Climate and Energy,
EIKE (2015).
Also translated into Italian by Mauri Sesler for Attività Solare,
Attività Solare (2015).
The penultimate climate pow-wow is going to take place in Paris later this year...
Do You Believe in Climate Change?
Principia Scientific International (2015) and
Ice Age Now (2015) and
The Conservative Papers (2015) and
Greeenie Watch (2015) and
Global Free Press (2015) and
Orange Power (2015) and
Also translated into German by Chris Frey for the Europ. Inst. f. Climate and Energy,
EIKE (2015).
Also translated into Italian by Mauri Ses for Attività Solare,
Attività Solare (2015).
Is CO2 (or fossil energy resource use) the cause of climate change? Certainly not!
Any sane person's answer must be a resounding NO!
What Killed the Mammoths — Heatstroke or Frostbite?
Canada Free Press (2015) and
Global Free Press (2015).
Also translated into German by Chris Frey for the Europ. Inst. f. Climate and Energy,
EIKE (2015).
Also translated into Italian by Mauri Sesler for Attività Solare,
Attività Solare (2015).
... So, what really did the mammoths in? I'm keen to hear your opinion about the cause of the Woollies' demise.
"Climate change" is not unidirectional and can portend colder temperatures too — not only for the mammoths.
Steamy Encounters and the Elements of Trust
Canada Free Press (2015) and
Global Free Press (2015) and
Ice Age Now (2015).
Also translated into Italian by Mauri Sesler for Attività Solare,
Attività Solare (2015).
The problem is not that people in industrialized countries have access to cheap and abundant fossil fuel-derived energy.
The problem is that those in much of the world lack access to cheap and abundant energy!
Jane, David and Moses
Canada Free Press (2015) and
Free Republic (2015) and
Canada News (2015) and
Global Free Press (2015).
Jane, as in Fonda and David, as in Suzuki are having a great day...
Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings — and their Meaning
Canada Free Press (2015) and
Ice Age Now (2015) and
Principia Scientific International (2015).
... Assembled Laureates did not sign this declaration in unison. In fact, nearly half of them did not.
OPEN LETTER to the Academicians of The Pontifical Academy of Sciences
Canada Free Press (2015) and
Principia Scientific International (2015) and
Ice Age Now (2015) and
The Global Free Press (2015).
See also Dr. Ileana Johnson Paugh on "Interesting Reparations for Global Warming".
Also translated into German by Chris Frey for the European Institute for Climate and Energy:
EIKE (2015).
SUBJECT: Pope Francis' Encyclical Letter
Laudato Si, On care for our common home, (ENC)
Respected Academician,
There is a widespread view that the Academicians of The Pontifical Academy of Sciences (PAS) will have had substantial input to the scientific aspects
expressed in Papal Encyclical Letters ...
Green Envy
Canada Free Press (2015) and
Principia Scientific International (2015).
Everything must be green these days. It seems that anything not green is either dead or forbidden...
Arctic Explorers or Buccaneers?
Canada Free Press (2015) and
Principia Scientific International (2015) and
Global Free Press (2015 and
Ice Age Now (2015).
The Arctic is a vast expanse, covering land ... as well as a large tract of ocean...
Last Call -- for Ice Cubes ?
Canada Free Press (2015).
Free Republic (2015) and
Principia Scientific International (2015).
Better hurry up and fetch your ice cubes! The Antarctic is claimed to be melting at an unprecedented rate...
Stop the NGO Anti-Energy Menace
Canada Free Press (2015) and
Wopular.com (2015) and
The Absurd Report (2015) and
mysitepix (2015) and
Global Free Press (2015) and
Intelligence Minutemen (2015), and others.
The "new energy" comes out of the proclamations by non-government, non-accountable, and totally irresponsible organisations like Greenpeace, Sierra Club ...
Need more Needles?
Canada Free Press (2015).
Always! At least my dearest thinks so. Of course, I'm referring to knitting needles, what else?
Open Letter to His Holiness, Pope Francis
Canada Free Press (2015).
Your Holiness,
Mankind is indeed at a crossroads. We can either proceed on the basis of "business as usual" or start to truly learn from our collective past and experience.
Right now, at the time when the bounty of mankind's knowledge, accumulated over hundreds of years, should start to bear fruit...
Tulips & Financial Bubbles
Canada Free Press (2015).
Whenever I travel overseas via Schiphol, the Amsterdam airport, I'll get some tulips to take along. Freshly cut tulips are available year-round at a reasonable cost,
as well as a great selection of tulip and other bulbs. There were times some of such bulbs would have cost you a fortune.
The Rowing Vikings
Canada Free Press (2015).
The Vikings ruled over what's now known as Scandinavia, primarily modern-day Norway and Sweden. That was back over 1,000 years ago, roughly from 800 to 1100 A.D ....
The "U.S. Agriculture Fee"
Canada Free Press (2015).
Airplane tickets come with some interesting charges and fees. Just having purchased...
The Great Oxygenation Event
Canada Free Press (2015) and
Ice Age Now (2015) and
Principia Scientific International (2015).
First of all: don't miss the candle light dinner with your "significant other" this coming weekend!
The Eclipse
Canada Free Press (2015) and
Principia Scientific International (2015).
Central Europe is about to participate in an interesting experiment, entirely without bureaucratic or political control...
Pam and Vanuatu
Canada Free Press (2015) and
Principia Scientific International (2015).
The Pacific Ocean is a very large body of water, stretching thousands of miles ...
The Crime, Grime, and CO2
Canada Free Press (2015) and
Principia Scientific International (2015) and
Ice Age Now (2015).
How many more skeletons are buried in the mud? Just look at the latest find at the shore of the Thames River in England...
Pardon me, Say again
Canada Free Press (2015).
... "more than one billion young people are at risk of [suffering] hearing damage,"...
Equatorial Glaciers? — Yeah!
Canada Free Press (2015) and
Principia Scientific International (2015).
Think equator, the place on earth where each day has 12 hours of daylight and 12 hours of night, no winter ...
Beware of Tax-Claim (and other) Scams
Canada Free Press (2015).
Beware of tax-claim scams. As this is tax filing season, you might just get a call out of the blue from someone claiming to be from the tax office ...
Q-CELLS Solar Manufacturer in Germany — Out of the Sun
Canada Free Press (2015) and
Principia Scientific International (2015) and
pindanpost (2015).
The solar photo-voltaic (PV) industry has another victim: a Q-CELLS plant in Thalheim, Germany...
The Micro-Era
Canada Free Press (2015).
If the last ten years can be termed the Hy(brid)-Decade, then surely the next period must be the Micro-Era ...
Baking Soda in the News
Canada Free Press (2015) and
Principia Scientific International (2015).
Would you have thought of that? The solution to a non-existing problem resides right on your kitchen shelf!
The New (R)Age: Driverless Cars
Canada Free Press (2015) and
Principia Scientific International (2015) and
Ice Age Now (2015).
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You'll have seen pictures of the "concept cars" of the future; driving without you or anyone else behind the steering wheel. Cameras, global positioning devices...
Groundhog Day Greetings from the Great White North
Canada Free Press (2015).
My Dear Cousin Punxsutawney Phil,
Greetings from the Great White (and cold) North!
The Doomsday Clock
Canada Free Press (2015).
... "Invented" in the mid-20th century, the doomsday clock's time can move in either direction...
Steamed Fish
Canada Free Press (2015) and
Principia Scientific International (2015).
... There you have it: from now on it's gonna be fried or steamed fish only.
Official Denials and Their True Meaning
Canada Free Press (2015).
Conspiracy theories and the like are occasionally countered hurriedly by official government responses of "Nothing to see here, move on!" ...
Wine, Women, and Gambling
Canada Free Press (2015).
... The recent sharp move in currency valuations may just be the first shot fired in a larger scale war.
Rummaging in the Basement
Canada Free Press (2015).
... For society the question now becomes whether it is better to keep peace at any price and kowtow to religious fanaticism or to stand with Charlie — day after day.
My Observations at COP-20, Lima, Dec. 2014*
Canada Free Press (2015) and
Principia Scientific International (2015).
By Dr. Albrecht Glatzle
* [translated from German by Dr. Klaus L.E. Kaiser]
It's unfortunate that Pope Francis now also joined the church of climatology...
Pelamis Wave Power — Another Alternative Energy Bust
Canada Free Press (2015) and
Principia Scientific International (2015) and
Digital Picture.
... the Pelamis wave power system is one of a couple of dozens of ocean wave energy extraction schemes....
A New Ming Dynasty?
Canada Free Press (2015) and
Principia Scientific International (2015).
The Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) in China was an era of significant advances in science and art....
Other Books by the Author
Ecotoxicity
of chemicals to Photobacterium phosphoreum.
Kaiser
KLE, Devillers J. Gordon and Breach Science Publ., ISBN:
2-88124-974-4, (1994).
QSAR
in Environmental Toxicology - II.
Kaiser KLE (ed.). D.
Reidel Publ. Co., ISBN: 90-277-2555-1, (1987).
QSAR
in Environmental Toxicology.
Kaiser KLE (ed.). D. Reidel
Publ. Co., ISBN: 90-277-1776-1, (1984).
Some other publications by the
author
Evolution of the
International Workshops on Quantitative Structure-Activity
Relationships (QSARs) in Environmental Toxicology.
SAR
& QSAR Env. Res., 18: 3-20 (2007).
Toxicity
Data Sources.
Chapter 2 in Predicting Chemical
Toxicity and Fate. Cronin MTD, Livingstone DJ (eds.),
CRC Press, Boca Raton, (2004).
Catalysis —
where we should apply it now!
Can. Chemical News,
ACCN, 50(7/8): 27 (1999).
Hydrogen, fuel of
the future?
Can. Chemical News, ACCN, 50(5):
29 (1999).
Erroneous Data: Avenues for Detection and
Prevention.
Quintessence, 1(4): 13-16 (1995).
[Contact author for reprint].
