Dr. Klaus L.E. Kaiser

Tulips & Financial Bubbles

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

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”

Airplane tickets come with some interesting charges and fees. Just having purchased some tickets, I found truly astounding items on the list of “Taxes, Fees and Charges.” Obviously, this trip is across the Canada/U.S. border with various fees on each side. The picture below lists them:

The Great Alkalinisation Event

There is an epoch in the Earth history termed the “Great Oxygenation Event” (GOE). I described it in my recent post on the rise of molecular oxygen in earth’s atmosphere.

The Great Oxygenation Event

First of all: don’t miss the candle light dinner with your “significant other” this coming weekend!

The Eclipse

No wonder, the Europeans are going to watch this eclipse event with great trepidation; it’s either going to be a boom or a bust.

Pam and Vanuatu

As the graph shows, cyclones have not increased in energy over that time. Neither is there any evidence of a higher frequency.

The Crime, Grime, and CO2

Whether firing clay to make fine china or building “renewable energy” power plants like water (hydro-electric) plants, wind-turbines, or solar power panels is entirely immaterial

Pardon me, Say again

Hearing Loss

Equatorial Glaciers? -- Yeah!

Now you know what drives the climate on earth. It is not CO2. It is the water cycle.

Beware of Tax-Claim (and other) Scams

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, giving you a “case number” and some other “details” of the government’s supposed case against you.

Q-CELLS Solar Manufacturer in Germany -- Out of the Sun

The solar photo-voltaic (PV) industry has another victim: a Q-CELLS plant in Thalheim, Germany. As of March 1, 2015, the plant will cease production altogether and will only be selling PV panels made in Malaysia, 550 of its previous workforce of 800 will be laid off. Not that long ago, in 2007, the company had a workforce of 1700 and claimed to be the world's largest producer of PV panels.

The Micro-Era

Construction of micro-condos is booming

Baking Soda in the News

Idea that sodium bicarbonate may be able to absorb more carbon dioxide (from whatever source) is simply nonsense

The New (R)Age: Driverless Cars

When the wind is whipping a wall of snow in a horizontal direction and the GPS signal is completely attenuated by the stuff in the air between the satellite and your car, it's time to take matters into your own hands and hang onto the steering wheel--provided there still is one at all.

Groundhog Day Greetings from the Great White North

Weather, Neonics, Gas Prices, Plagues, Climate Change

The Doomsday Clock

No, I’m not referring to the heirloom time piece on your fireplace mantle but the Doomsday Clock (DC), an imaginary device. According to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (BAS), we are now only three minutes from midnight, two minutes closer than previously.

Steamed Fish

Your fresh in-the ocean-steamed-fish will take a few more billion years to arrive

Official Denials and Their True Meaning

Conspiracy theories and the like are occasionally countered hurriedly by official government responses of “Nothing to see here, move on!”

Wine, Women, and Gambling

The recent sharp move in currency valuations may just be the first shot fired in a larger scale war.