Posted 18 September 2013
Writing in Canada's Financial Post, Professor Ross McKitrick, co-destroyer of the Mann 'hockey stick', writes about the IPCC models: "The U.K.’s main climate modeling lab just this summer revised its long-term weather forecasts to show it now expects there to be no war...
Posted 17 September 2013
Writing in Sydney's Daily Telegraph, Professor Bob Carter summarises the latest report on climate change by the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC): "The scientific papers contain evidence conflicting with the idea of dangerous human-caused glo...
Posted 16 September 2013
UK writer Matt Ridley has seen a preview copy of the next Assessment Report (AR5) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) due for release on 27 September. He writes in the Wall Streeet Journal: "Most experts believe that warming of less than 2 degrees C...
Posted 13 September 2013
The New Zealand Prime Minister’s chief science adviser, Professor Sir Peter Gluckman has been challenged by a group of scientists and engineers who have expressed their concern about the nature of his report “New Zealand’s Changing Climate and Oceans: The Impact of Human A...
Posted 9 September 2013
"One highly plausible answer to this mystery is that the climate models upon which IPCC’s failed projections are based exaggerate climate sensitivity to CO2, underestimate known natural forcings, and simply don’t understand how to factor in and calibrate other influences s...
Posted 2 September 2013
Posted 1 September 2013
Agnotology is the study of how ignorance arises via circulation of misinformation calculated to mislead.... [It] is a two-edged sword since either side in a debate may claim that general ignorance arises from misinformation allegedly circulated by the other. Significant qu...
Posted 31 August 2013
Posted 28 August 2013
US financial commentator and blogger John Peterson makes interestinbg comments on tyhe relative significance of CO2 emissions to rich v poor countries. "I'm not a denier or an activist when it comes to the subject of climate change, but five years of blogging about investing...
Posted 27 August 2013
"Upon reflection on these temperature and CO2 data of the last thousand years, I conclude that the evidence presented here will cause unhappiness for both extreme alarmists and extreme skeptics. Maybe that’s a good thing. However, it still leaves open the question of climate...
Posted 18 August 2013
Larry Bell writes in Forbes magazine: "The New York Times feverishly repoprted on August 10 that the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is about to issue another scary climate report. Dismissing the recent 17 years or so of flat global temperatures, th...
Posted 17 August 2013
Posted 25 July 2013
In a damning rebuttal of President Obama's recent claim of "accelerated warming", Viscount Christopher Monckton has posted to the Science & Public Policy Instiktute's (SPPI) website facts and graphs to show Mr Obama was just plain wrong! "The facts do not fit the Party Line, s...
Posted 24 July 2013
"Last week Australia's green movement suffered a defeat at least as big as those of the country;'s cricket and rugby teams. Mr Rudd announced that he would ditch the carbon tax than had threatened to consign his Labor Party to one of the worst defeats in its history. All over...
Posted 18 July 2013
Dr Geoff Duffy, a Professor Emeritus of University of Auckland, has published a set of 7 papers showing, inter alia, that climate models have failed to match actual observations, that Planet Earth is self-regulating, and that carbon dioxide (CO2) is not a pollutant but essenti...
Posted 6 July 2013
Dr David Kear, former Director-General of the New Zealand Depoartment of Scientific & Industrial Research, former United National consultant, recognised as one of NZ's all-time greatest physical scientists has just printed and published at his own expense a booklet entitled: G...
Posted 27 June 2013
President Barack Obama’s naïve and error-riddled speech at Georgetown University on Tuesday clearly demonstrated that he is serious about trying to stop global climate change. However, as KIng Canute demonstrated with the tide, climate change is a natural event of such proport...
Posted 26 June 2013
Recent claims that there is a 97% consensus of climate science papers that "human activity is very likely causing most of the current anthropogenic global warming (AGW)" have been analysed by mathematician Lord Christopher Monckton, and reported on the website WattsUpWithThat....
Posted 24 June 2013
The greatest difficulty facing the promoters of the theory that human emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) cause dangerous global warming is the inconvenient truth that it is impossible to measure the average temperature of the earth’s surface by any known technology. Without thi...