Once again, the media were reporting on heat-related deaths. As many as 50,000 people were said to have succumbed to the heat in European cities this summer. The media reported the news uncritically. However, a fact-check by Marcel Crok reveals that the researchers did not use any mortality figures at all in this study and that assumptions were piled upon assumptions. The post Claim of 50,000 heat-related deaths not based on facts appeared first on Clintel.

La isla de El Hierro solo tiene unos 11.000 habitantes, pero en 2008 se propuso demostrar al mundo cómo realizar una transición completa hacia un sistema eléctrico alimentado únicamente por turbinas eólicas, respaldadas por un sistema hidroeléctrico de almacenamiento de energía. Francis Menton se pregunta qué ha ocurrido desde entonces. The post Los ideólogos ponen a prueba una red eléctrica alimentada únicamente por “energías renovables” appeared first on Clintel.

The international community, and especially the EU, should abandon the Paris Agreement’s temperature targets of limiting global warming to well below 2°C, says independent researcher Roger Pielke Jr, in an interview by Clintel Director Marcel Crok. This would open the door to a more pragmatic approach that would avoid sacrificing economic prosperity. The post Roger Pielke Jr.: “I would scrap the temperature targets” appeared first on Clintel.