Dr. Klaus L.E. Kaiser

Putting the Cart before the Horse

The article in the Globe and Mail on “Climate change’s costs hit the plate” is a prime example of putting the cart before the horse. Its author, T. Homer-Dixon, blames the current rise in corn prices on global warming.

Devils Drowning - Nope

Are the devils drowning? I mean the Tasmanian Devils, mammals of a medium-sized dog, native to New Zealand and Tasmania.

Nothing Beats a Good Con

Nothing beats a good con. Judging from recent revelations, they are still worth the money.

King Coal - No More?

You know that you have arrived in the history books when your discards are being elevated to World Cultural Heritage status. The UN has just done that with the entire Calais coal mining region of northern France, slag heaps and all.

Social Justice

The Rio+20 gathering, officially the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, turned sour. The Guardian reports that one thousand NGOs (Non-Government organizations), institutions and individuals are upset with the official Rio+20 communiqué “The Future We Want.” To show their resolve, the NGOs signed a petition “The Future We Don’t Want.” [1]

To Flush or Not to Flush

To flush or not to flush, that’s the question. Municipal sewer system operators are finding that they have to compensate for the ‘green’ low flush toilets. Who would have thought that?

The West does Away with Itself - Islam

In 2010, former German Bundesbank-Vorstand and Ex-Senator of Berlin, Thilo Sarrazin, published his book "Deutschland schafft sich ab: Wie wir unser Land aufs Spiel setzen." The title translates, more or less, to "Germany does away with itself: how we gamble with our country."

Nuclear Renaissance?

Is a nuclear renaissance around the corner? It may just happen. For example, Japan has just announced its intention to restart some of their nuclear power plants (NPPs). France is planning to increase its electricity production by NPPs from currently 50% to 90% of its national needs. Pakistan, India and China are rapidly expanding their NPP construction programs. Even in the US, new NPPs are on the drawing boards and in the permitting stage.

Suzuki’s Green Babies

The David Suzuki Foundation is dispensing advice on Having a Green Baby”. “I've plans to ‘green’ this life-altering bundle of joy and curb its added impact on the planet, starting with diapers.”

The New Flat Earth Society

The new flat earth society is not a fringe group of a few people living in the middle of nowhere. It is to be found at the Goddard Institute of Space Studies (GISS), not to be confused with the Goddard Space Flight Center, personified by its leader for many years, Dr. James E. Hansen.

Dinosaurs’ Flatulence

--Satire-- Believe it or not, the real cause of the “global warming,” pardon, “climate change” problem has been found. A new modeling study by British scientists claims that “giant dinosaurs could have warmed the planet with their flatulence“ (BBC Nature News).

If I were a Weed

[Satire] If I were a weed, I’d feel so much happier now. All the new eco-friendly laws let me breathe and procreate more easily.

For the History Museum

Have you seen a mail box lately? They are going the way of the dodo. Time used to be when there was one on nearly every corner. Now you are lucky to find one at all. History museums must have a field day collecting them.

Earth Day and Agenda 21

We all feel a need to belong. Your family is important to you and you to them. We also like to be appreciated by peers, to contribute work and ideas to groups of people, and generally to be considered helpful and caring.

Moths Anyone?

If you still own items made from (real) wool, you’ll likely have noticed the lack of adequate moth sprays. The stuff you can buy these days barely annoys them. It sure does not prevent damage to your woolen items.

Watching the Spots

...the sunspots that is. You might ask why? The number of sunspots on the sun is changing all the time. That number is highly linked to changes in the earth’s climate. The more sunspots there are the more radiation comes to earth. In turn, more radiation means more energy received and warmer climate on earth.

Sunspots and Energy Radiation

The Drowning Polar Bear Myth

Unwelcome news – for the drowning polar bear myth believers: Not only are the bears not drowning, they are thriving instead. In case you forgot, the polar bears were all to drown from an increased loss of ice cover claimed to result from mankind’s burning of fossil fuels. Countless non-governmental organizations (NGOs) make their living from this polar bear doom scenario.

The Moors Can Go

“The moor has done his duty, the moor can go,” says a character in Friedrich von Schiller’s play, Fiesco's Conspiracy at Genoa. Anyone who has read about the history of major revolutions will come to the same conclusion: The initial revolutionaries are all being destroyed by the latter-day power takers. The former are the foot soldiers-turned cannon fodder, the cogs of the revolution, the latter are the new leaders. Once the cogs have done their work, they can be dispensed with.

Bananas!

As you may have noticed, democracy ain’t anymore what it used to be. From “smart meters” and engineered brownouts, to anything else supposedly “good for you,” new rules abound.

The Scam of Scum

Algae, the green stuff suspended in and floating on the surface of over-fertilized (polluted) water, AKA scum, is supposed to save America’s dependence on foreign crude oil. The President has said so. He stated that “up to 17% of the oil we import for transportation” could be replaced with this fuel [1].