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Klaus L. E. Kaiser: Lemmings Galore

Friday, November 30th 2012, 2:59 AM EST

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Lemming Image - Wikipedia

You’ll probably have come across the term “like lemmings” before. Lemmings are small hamster-like rodents found across the Arctic land area and the term refers to their change in abundance and behavior when their number reaches a critical point. At such a point lemmings are said to follow one another to die by drowning in the sea, although there are some open questions about the veracity of such claims [1].

Background

Lemmings are hand-sized rodents, similar to the hamsters your son or daughter (age-dependent) may find cute and would like you to raise as their pet in your place (at least until your offspring loses interest).

Anyway, lemmings and hamsters come and go. Given the right circumstances, every so often they multiply enormously. However, nature has its own way of cutting them down to size again; usually by starvation. In times with plenty of food, any species will procreate as much as possible; lemmings are no different. When the inevitable poor harvest occurs, their fortunes change dramatically. This is known from many cyclic species with cyclic population exuberance and crashes. When a crash occurs, it can reduce the previous abundance by many orders of magnitude.

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Klaus L.E. Kaiser: Climate and the Oceans

Tuesday, September 25th 2012, 4:27 PM EDT

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The August issue of Water 21, the official magazine of the International Water Association has an article by Lis Stedman on “Reports warn of climate change impact on oceans” that is highly misleading. [1]

Stedman provides a summary of an UN Development Programme (UNDP) report issued around the time of the Rio+20 conference earlier this year in Rio de Janeiro.

To boost the message visually, the article is accompanied by a picturesque photo of three quaint-looking fishing boats with the caption:

“Fishing boats on the Bay of Bengal, where sea level rise is causing seawater intrusion into freshwater resources.”

Cause and Effect

As is well known from many locations (for example, atolls in the Pacific) with low elevation above seawater, any intrusion of seawater into freshwater aquifers raises (not lowers) the freshwater water table. That’s a simple consequence of the physics, i.e. higher density of saltwater compared to freshwater. Therefore, any such freshwater reservoir will not diminish in size or volume by any seawater intrusion, it will just become raised. Of course, if the withdrawal of freshwater from that aquifer is larger than the natural rate of replenishment, that freshwater resource may indeed become depleted. But that has absolutely nothing to do with any warming or cooling of the oceans.

Source Link: canadafreepress.com

KLAUS L.E. KAISER ENERGY & FUEL

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Klaus L. E. Kaiser: Nuclear Renaissance?

Friday, June 8th 2012, 9:46 AM EDT

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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.

Green Ideology

The green ideology, first conjured by The Green Party in Germany a few decades ago, saw nuclear power as its anathema. With large deposits of coal, and cheap oil from the Mid-East, there was no shortage of electricity to drive the economy. Still, Germany built 17 NPPs which have provided steady power for the past four decades.

Then, in 2011, the earthquake and tsunami at Fukushima, Japan, caused some politicians to panic. Nuclear power plants were to be phased out and “green” power (from wind turbines and solar panels) was to replace their energy production. Indeed, Germany built thousands of wind turbines and the generous feed-in tariffs offered to private citizens had many invest in solar panels on their houses’ roofs. However, the demand for electricity could not be met. For example, during the last winter (2011/12), Germany needed to import substantial amounts of electricity from its neighboring countries, especially France and the Czech Republic; much of which was created by nuclear power. Now, even some German politicians talk about delaying the planned total NPP phase-out.

Source Link: principia-scientific.org

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Klaus L.E. Kaiser: The Red Herring CO2

Sunday, February 26th 2012, 3:59 PM EST

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Agenda 21: UN driven goal of worldwide control and governance.

Carbon dioxide (CO2) is claimed to be THE greenhouse gas villain. Al Gore, and many others, including the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), governments, industrial leaders and, of course, countless “NGOs” (Non Government Organizations) have proclaimed it for years.

Well, that proposition is becoming eroded even faster than your savings.

Background

Ever since the 1980s or so, mainly under the auspices and guidance of the United Nations’ Program on Climate Change, the news about “Global Warming” (later on re-termed to “Climate Change”) became more dire each year. Finally, in 2007, the main perpetrators of the claim, Al Gore (former Vice President of the USA), and the IPCC were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for their important work in disseminating and publicizing this earth-shattering news.

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Klaus L.E. Kaiser: Dirty Coal

Sunday, March 6th 2011, 7:00 AM EST

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In recent years, many politicians encouraged and supported electricity generation from “alternative” or “renewable” energy sources, such as wind and solar, and from natural gas. At the same time, they invented a new term for the traditional energy source (coal), namely “dirty coal.”

“Dirty coal”, of course, can mean a variety of things. As far as I can reckon, the politicians mostly mean three things with that term, namely:

1.production of carbon dioxide from burning coal, and
2.production of sulfur dioxide from burning coal, and
3.production of smog from burning coal.
Let’s look at these products and the idea that coal is “dirty” in more detail.

Carbon dioxide

To begin with carbon dioxide (CO2), which some people claim to cause “global warming”, is the main product of burning any fossil fuel. Whether you burn coal, or oil, or natural gas, or wood, or alcohol, it is the same result, i.e. CO2 is produced. Even the quantities produced per heat energy unit are quite similar. So, in terms of CO2 production, there is little difference between the different fossil fuels.

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CO2 LEVEL CO2 PROPAGANDA KLAUS L.E. KAISER

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Ocean Acidification and the CO2-Propaganda by Dr. Klaus L.E. Kaiser

Sunday, August 15th 2010, 7:24 AM EDT

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Now, as the earth does not become rapidly overheated from CO2 (carbon dioxide) in the atmosphere, nor the Arctic sea ice disappearing, nor the Pacific atolls drowning, nor the Amazonian jungle drying up, all as previously touted by the IPCC and their gendarmes and adjuvants, a new slogan on the supposed danger of CO2 is increasingly being heard, namely “Ocean Acidification”.

The supposedly happening Ocean Acidification, frequently termed “the other effect of CO2”, is largely based on unrealistic biological experiments, actual measurements over an insufficient time to allow any definite trend delineation, and a lack of understanding of the chemistry involved.

Oceans and most freshwater bodies are alkaline

Water is acidic if the pH is below 7 and alkaline if it is above 7. The pH of the oceans and most freshwater is approximately 8 to 8.2. The pH fluctuates with the seasons, increasing in spring and summer, decreasing after that. As the level of CO2 in the air is nearly constant, one has to ask:

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