The magazine Der Spiegel reports about the curiosity that Diesel must keep RWEs offshore wind park in motion:

"The reason is as simple as it is surprising. The wind farm operator, German utility RWE, has to keep the sensitive equipment -- the drives, hubs and rotor blades -- in constant motion, and for now that requires diesel-powered generators. Because although the wind farm will soon be ready to generate electricity, it won't be able to start doing so because of a lack of infrastructure to transport the electricity to the mainland and feed it into the grid. The necessary connections and cabling won't be ready on time and the delay could last up to a year."

The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) reports that the credibility of the European energy reviews is in doubt: These are based on only one economic model by a single Greek university. This model however is not available for independent review.

The Berlin Manhattan Institute (BMI) and the European Institute for Climate and Energy (EIKE) jointly host the 4th International Conference on Climate and Energy in Munich.

Keith Kloor writes on Yale environment360:

"Activist Mark Lynas has alienated his green colleagues by renouncing long-held views and becoming an advocate for nuclear power and genetically modified crops. In an interview with Yale Environment 360, he explains why he rethought his positions and turned to technology for solutions."

In the interview, Mark Lynas states:

"We cannot afford to foreclose powerful technological options like nuclear, synthetic biology, and genetic engineering because of Luddite prejudice and ideological inertia."

Forbes.com reports on the findings of an exhaustive new study, released by Bentek Energy, a Colorado-based energy analytics firm. Rather than rely on computer models that use theoretical emissions data, the authors of the study, Porter Bennett and Brannin McBee, analyzed actual emissions data from electric generation plants located in four regions.

The conclusion:

• Wind energy's carbon dioxide-cutting benefits are vastly overstated
• The reductions are too expensive to be used on any kind of scale

A scientific study at the Department of Agricultural Economics and Social Sciences at the Humboldt University of Berlin shows that the current EU agricultural policy damages global agricultural markets and does not comply with WTO rules:

In the british magazine "Spiked" Colin McInnes describes Angela Merkel's nuclear power policies as a "long road to green serfdom":

"German chancellor Angela Merkel is no slouch. The holder of a PhD in quantum chemistry, she understands better than most the technical intricacies of nuclear energy. It is therefore all the more surprising that such a savvy, technocrat politician has been manoeuvred into legislating a national prohibition on nuclear energy.
Let’s be clear about the magnitude of Merkel’s decision."

Brendan O'Neill comments in "The Australian":

"Has any intellectual current ever been so disparaged and demonised, so ferociously harangued by the chattering classes, as climate-change scepticism?

Every slur in the book has been hurled at those who dare to question climate-change orthodoxies.

They've been compared to Holocaust deniers. They've been branded psychologically disordered. They only use their "reptilian brain", says one eco-author, which means their outlook on climate change is not "modulated by logic, reason or reflective thought", Al Gore says.

And now, ..." 

Economist Steven Horwitz studied the response of Walmart after Hurricane Katrina. His research – part of the Mercatus Center’s Hurricane Katrina project – shows that Walmart was able to respond more adeptly and quickly than FEMA and state emergency services, providing people with basic necessities including medicines.

"NASA satellite data from the years 2000 through 2011 show the Earth’s atmosphere is allowing far more heat to be released into space than alarmist computer models have predicted, reports a new study in the peer-reviewed science journal Remote Sensing."