. This is a scientific article. Or at least I pretend it is because it did not yet go through peer review.
Summary of the summary: It’s impossible to know from observation how much of the actual warming can Read more
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Feasibility of electrical autarchy in Switzerland.
The Swiss Federal Council, our government, has decided to get out of nuclear energy and to orient our electrical supply toward renewable sources. This decision has not yet been confirmed in the Parliament, and we, the people, will have Read more
Carbon dioxide: a fertilizer, a life saver, or a pollutant ?
The US EPA decided a few years ago to name carbon dioxide a pollutant. This means that such substance is detrimental to the environment, to life.
Is it actually the case for CO2? We all know that it is Read more
Carbon fate, from fuel to rocks
New version, july 2017
Carbon is an essential element for life on Earth. It is totally absurd to pretend that emitting it into the atmosphere in the form of CO2 is a dirty, polluting act.
On the site climate-mr-int.ch, Read more
Blog Merger
On my site dedicated to climate questions climate.mr-int.ch, that all of you will have consulted and read with much attention, there is a blog item in which news and some details are published. This makes an overlap with Read more
Fossil reserves shall not remain a pillow of laziness.
We remember the Meadows report The Limit to Growth of 1972 in which a Malthusian alarm bell was pulled regarding the future of the planet. One of its chapter was dealing with the finiteness of all resources. Where are we today, 43 years after the publication of this report ? Can we just remain satisfied of having plenty of the coal, oil and gas? Read more
Sic transit électrique
En Suisse, la transition énergétique est particulièrement focalisée sur la production électrique.
De quoi part-on? que sont les lignes directrices et les conséquences?
Tout cela est résumé très succinctement dans le diaporama suivant. Read more
Corrigendum : une réponse fédérale est arrivée
Dans mon billet du 13 avril je regrettais que la lettre que j’avais envoyée à Mme la Conseillère fédérale Doris Leuthard le 8 mars n’ait pas provoqué de réaction. Rappelons que je lui indiquais que la politique climatique du Read more