The windmills are spinning golden subsidies in the central German ‘fairy tale’ forest of Reinhardswald, but the payment is the partial destruction of the 1,000 year-old ancient wood itself. Work has started on the clearing of up to 120,000 trees in the forest, the setting for many of the Brothers Grimm mythical stories, to provide access for an initial 18 giant wind turbines around the Sababurg ‘Sleeping Beauty’ castle. Who is opposing this massive destruction of the ancient forest teeming with wildlife with trees over 200 years old? Certainly not the Green party, now in power at national and local level. In fact the project is being led by local Hesse Green Minister Priska Hinz who is reported to have said: “Wind energy makes a decisive contribution to the energy transition and the preservation of nature. It is the only way to preserve forests and important ecosystems.”
There is some local press interest in Germany about the destruction of part of the forest that covers a 200 square kilometre area. Nevertheless, the mainstream media generally keep well away from covering environmental destruction when the Greens are doing it in the claimed cause of saving the planet. The BBC did cover the story under the headline ‘Battle over wind turbines in the land of Sleeping Beauty‘, but that was in 2013 when plans for the industrial development were first announced. It seems that the state-reliant broadcaster is less interested now that the Big Bad Wolf has finally made a meal of Little Red Riding Hood.
Pierre Gosselin, who runs the German-based science site No Tricks Zone, has been covering the outrage felt in a number of German quarters at the plans to destroy some of the Reinhardswald forest in the interest of inferior green technology. He feels the affair shows what an inefficient and costly scam green energy is. “It’s not cost-free, it’s full of corrupt and unresponsive politicians who no longer care about democracy, and it certainly doesn’t make the environment better. It’s a nasty juggernaut of waste, fraud, corruption and ecological degradation – with dead birds, turbine vibration sickness, strobe dizziness and landscape pollution,” he adds.
The Guardian has been curiously silent over the clearing of woodland to build wind turbines in Hesse. In 2020 it was less reticent about reporting on the construction of a 3 km highway in another Hessian forest at Dannenroder. Thousands of climate activists gathered on the site north of Frankfurt, it reported. Dannenroder tree-felling would be a catastrophe, environmental campaigners are reported to have said. “Some parts of this forest are 250 years old,” noted Nicola Uhde of the German Federation for the Environment and Nature Conservation (Bund), “and there is simply not much of this kind of woodland around anymore.” At the time, the Guardian noted the fate of Dannenroder was a “litmus test for the Green party” which governed the state as part of a coalition. It seems to have been remiss in not suggesting such a test with the Reinhardswald deforestation. But then it seems none of the usual climate activists have been protesting about the loss of trees and wildlife habitat on this occasion.
The Daily Sceptic has reported on numerous recent examples where the lack of interest in ecological damage is a feature of green industrial development. Last month, we noted that one of India’s iconic large birds, the great Indian bustard, was on the verge of extinction due to the growth of electric power lines in its home area of the Thar desert. To reach global Net Zero, it has been estimated that new power lines equivalent to circling the globe 2,000 times will need to be built in the next few years.
Last October, we reported that wind farms in Tasmania had reduced the population of the endangered local wedge-tailed eagle to around 1,000 individuals. Across the world, millions of bats are being chewed by giant wind blades. Any animal that relies on wind currents for flight such as a large raptor is at risk of being sucked into the whirling machines. In California, the Democrat-controlled state Government recently relaxed controls on wildlife protections to allow permits to kill previously fully protected species for renewable infrastructure projects. Despite an increased risk to America’s national bird, the bald eagle, barely a peep of protest was recorded. Off America’s eastern coast, massive industrial parks are being constructed for wind turbines. It might be a coincidence that hundreds of whales have beached along the shore in recent years, but a more likely explanation is the deafening sonar noise, constant pile driving, extensive ocean building works and heavy shipping movements.
None of the above are likely to feature when the magic mirror is asked: “Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the greenest one of all?”
Chris Morrison is the Daily Sceptic’s Environment Editor.
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Well done Chris. You have proven yet again – Fraud. Fraud. Fraud. UHI completely disregarded by the discredited Met. Aligns with Climate Gate and the ridiculous Hockey Stick etc
There is no warming imo – many areas of the world are uncovered by stations, and many regions seem to be cooling. Overall it is likely a wash. Nothing unnatural is going on. And as you have written, there is no such thing as a global temperature.
Why the fraud? Money, power, more governmental control, with the totalitarian ideal of completely ‘owning’ and then getting rid of clean-burning, renewable, abiotic hydrocarbon energy. Climate fascism or saving the Earth, is an emotional plea for World Totalitarian governance (the NWO). Health and scamdemics is another avenue to the same.
When the record UK temp was announced I tracked down RAF Coningsby on Google earth. A weather station is obvious at 53 05 38 N. 0 10 22 W. It is close to the coordinates on the metoffice site.
if this is the weather station it is c. 10 meters from very large concrete and asphalt surfaces including an apron road. Asphalt is c, 20c above ambient on a warm sunny day. This would have raised the temp. Way above true.
another possible site of an automatic station is close at 53 05 37 N 00 10 04 W. It sits atop a 12m x 5m concrete pad and in close proximity to other large pads and the main runway which is 60 meters away.
i find it hard to believe any credible scientist would accept a high temperature reading from this site as representative and reliable.
That is a lot of bad data. I can remember the US map and was shocked how many were at airports
The problem is not that the weather stations are at airports. Airports need to know what’s happening in their immediate area. The problem is using data from a station designed to serve an airport’s needs and claiming it represents a wide area beyond.
Yes, we need weather stations at airports to keep the planes moving safely. No, they do not represent what’s happening in Farmer Giles’ field.
The most important things for an airport to know all of the time are atmospheric pressure, wind direction, and wind speed. If their local met station records these accurately – which in the case of wind speed tends to mean away from buildings, hills, fences, trees etc – that’s most of the job done. A met station situated on the open tarmaced area of an airport would give them the above information, but the absolute temperature readings would be almost meaningless
‘Penny (Endersby) became Chief Executive of the Met Office in December 2018. For most of her career she has delivered science and technology on behalf of the Ministry of Defence.
As Chief Executive, Penny leads the strategic direction of the Met Office and is:
She was appointed by Theresa May…….
She is an expert on ‘intelligent armours’
The government, any governments, are no good at running anything, least of all the weather.
Would someone, anyone, please get a grip…….
The acronym BAME makes me seethe with rage. Not only is part of the race grifting industry, but it lumps together people who often probably have very little in common. Black and Minority Ethnic. The “blacks” (whatever that means – I suppose people of ultimately sub-Saharan African origin – tiny region, all the same “race” except “race is apparently a social construct, I am getting a headache, presume this includes people from the Caribbean whose ancestors came from “Africa” – but not Arabs presumably – but “race” is definitely a social construct) are lumped in with “minority ethnic” – I think they mean brown people of various shades, except skin colour is meaningless, and does this include people from, for example, China? What a crock. I guess it started out as a “black” thing and then they tacked on everyone else, Indians, Pakistanis etc don’t get their own part of the acronym. Utterly pathetic. Just call it non-white, because that’s what it means, sorry Poles and Travellers you’re not important, we’re not sure about the Chinese but who cares about them anyway, and we’re not sure if Jews are white either, whatever a Jew is. How this abomination was ever proposed and is still being used is beyond me.
Yes, the whole “people of colour” hoax was invented to lump Orientals in with Africans and Indian Subcontinentals, which they themselves would never do, in order to unite 93% of humanity against the World’s Smallest Ethnic Group, Europeans, now comprising 7% of all the people on the planet. Part of the genocide plan.
“Intelligent” armours, you say.
Move her to the Post Office, I say, oh – wait a minute!
The problem is usually one of encroaching urbanisation causing heat islands, and yet, as Tony Heller points out, NASA etc have been adjusting the earlier records downwards.
Excellent work Chris! DS shines in its challenges to climate nonscience.
I look forward to the MSM latching onto this and revealing how the powers that be deliberately mislead us.
Can we rely on any official figures ? I have long since ceased to believe Covid figures (vaccine harms, deaths, illnesses, efficacy of interventions), immigration levels, outcomes of Government initiatives and the truth about any overseas interventions.
It is probably more accurate to start off from the premise that everything they say is a lie and wait for evidence that you are wrong, rather than take anything at face value (or should that be two-face value).
Remember their motto – I’m from the Government and I’m here to screw you.
Anyone who has been looking into this issue who does not depend on government money for research or who is not a brown envelope politician doing the dirty work for the Climate Industrial Complex knows that the temperature record of earth is a dog’s breakfast of manipulated data that has been fiddled about with more than a prostitutes knickers. But the important thing is that it has been fiddled about with for political purposes by government funded data adjusters. ——–A good friend of mine asked “But why would people say there is a climate crisis if there isn’t one? ———A very good question that I wish more people would ask instead of switching on their 6 O’Clock news to be misinformed and brainwashed by a bought and paid for media.
I was talking to someone about this fraud the other other day, and the only question she had was “Why? Why would they do that? It doesn’t make any sense”. “Control” I said. I explained that the climate hoax allows the elites to control every single aspect of our lives – behaviour, travel, purchases, food… the whole shebang. Again the same question “But why?”. I paused. It seemed difficult to articulate. Roughly what I said was that these people see us as parasites on their planet. A planet they own, and we must be controlled otherwise we will run rampant, destroy it and kill each other like savages. “So you think this is all because a small handful of egotistical w*nkers have got together and decided to bully us and steal our sweets” she said incredulously. “That’s exactly what I was trying to say” I replied.
Klaus Schwab was even more forthright when he just blatantly told us “The lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle classes…………..are too high”.———–Basically our standard of living is too high apparently and that has to be lowered somewhat, with climate as the very plausible excuse.
he called the lifestyles “unsustainable” actually.
Please would you post a link to this?
For some unknown reason Google can’t seem to find anything like it…
According to this or was Maurice Strong who said it
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00207233.2016.1185332
Ah yes —–Maurice Strong. —Sorry about that guys. But they all think the same stuff.
Brilliant Chris. Thanks for that. This is why we support the DS!
A day or so before the Coronation celebrations I walked in St James’s Park. There was a weather station within five meters of three large diesel generators. I doubt St James’s is a suitable place even at the best of times, with crouds and vegetation nearby, a large lake and a central London location but its readings when generators are nearby are useless except to those who want to fake the numbers.
The Met Office seems to be yet another tax payer funded organisation which has not seen fit to do its job properly, it has not kept its capabilities up to date and instead spends large amounts of political campaigns. You can be sure that if the political campaigns were undermined by weather stations UNDER reporting the temperature they would have been replaced long ago.
Compaired to the costs of their DEI and PR departments, a rolling programme of relocating and renewing weather stations would be easily funded.
What meteorological resource do the forces use these days; I hope not the Met, which was designed for that purpose.
Can someone pass this info on to Jim Dale, the so called meteorologist at GB news? He’s an utter knob who thinks that the world is currently on fire.
https://www.gbnews.com/news/welsh-farmers-protest-jim-dale-net-zero-doomed
Yes I saw that the other day and ofcourse Eammon Holmes and Isabel Webster know virtually nothing about this issue. Holmes is really just a tittle tattle gossip shop breakfast show presenter and he regularly lets Dale spout all manner of nonsense like “the world is on fire” with no questions asked. ——-Mark Steyn would have ripped the silly activist to shred, and Nana Akua gives him short shrift. But the best presenter I have seen challenge the buffoon is Hartley Brewer on Talk TV
Met office weather stations fall into two groups: synoptic which are used for forecasting and climate monitoring and non-synoptic which are there for special reasons e.g. someone needs to monitor the temperature at specific location in a city. Non-synoptic stations are not used for forecasting or climate monitoring. Are these figures just for synoptic or do they include non-synoptic (which may well be CIMO 4 or 5 because that is not relevant to them)?
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Fascinating article. It makes me wonder whether some of those UK temperature stations may have been quietly shut down, as was found in the US a few years back, but fake temperature readings were still being taken from them to bolster the Global Warming narrative.
With reference to USCRN – worth reading this. It actually shows a slightly higher warming trend than the full national record although it matches it extremely closely.
Warming is what happens in an Interglacial period. There have been quite a few similar warming periods in the last 2 thousand years alone, but apparently all of the natural stuff that caused those has suddenly ceased and only humans apparently now regulate the planets temperature. ——-The audacity of the climate industrial complex with their discredited hockey sticks etc is quite bare faced. —–PS Just because something warms does not mean humans warmed it, if indeed we have any warming at all since we can hardly trust the manipulated temperature data.
But climate scientists don’t assume all the natural stuff has stopped. They observe and measure the possible natural causes and they don’t account for current warming e.g. solar radiation is actually decreasing at the moment. Increased GHGs do account for it.
Please define your actual medical problem?
I have myeloma. So what?
Sorry, but I don’t see the relevance of anyone’s medical condition to the discussion. Where in the discussion here is a medical condition of anyone first mentioned please? And who first mentioned it?
Real Engineer introduced it. I have no idea why?
Well I find that unacceptable for an anonymous stranger to start discussing gratuitously the sensitive personal health information of another commenter when wholly irrelevant and particularly such a serious medical condition.
Presumably he knew this information from a comment you made somewhere else? How else could he [or she?] know that?
In your shoes I would be most distressed to have someone do that to me.
It doesn’t bother me. My myeloma did come up here once, I think on the topic of the NHS, but that was at least a year ago. On reflection I suspect it was a joke gone wrong. The idea being that I must have something wrong with me to make the comments I do.
Anyhow thanks for your concern.
There is something wrong with the attitudes of the person concerned. I had cause to come to that conclusion some time ago over several exchanges then.
This is one example and I will post others that I find after it:
https://dailysceptic.org/2023/10/11/the-ukhsas-evidence-for-covid-restrictions-is-a-complete-mess/#comment-908909
Another example of exchanges:
https://dailysceptic.org/2023/10/11/the-ukhsas-evidence-for-covid-restrictions-is-a-complete-mess/#comment-908915
Chris would you consider doing an article about chem trails. The met office is gagged and will not discuss what we see in the skies daily. Governments are beginning to admit weather manipulation, Geoengineering. GeoengineeringWatch.net is a good resource as is Judy CurryPhD blog, books and X. Judy is an American climatologist and former chair of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology. I worry about what is being sprayed in our atmosphere.
‘A reliable source of global data is to be found in (Prof Roy Spencer’s) UAH satellite record, which shows less overall warming since 1979 than the surface datasets.’
Dr Spencer is also responsible for the calculation (see his Global Warming Scepticism for Busy People) that natural thermal inputs to the Earth’s climate system, mainly from deep-ocean turnover, are not known to within an accuracy of 10 Watts per square meter of the Earth’s surface. Whereas all the slight warming we have seen since 1950 could be accounted for by warming of just 1 Watt per square meter, which a slight change in average cloud cover could easily produce.