Posted 28 February 2011
"The NZ Government should immediately abandon its emissions targets and shift its focus to sensible and achievable goals such as improving the ability of the community to cope with whatever climate changes, weather extremes or natutral disasters that may occur....If howeve...
Posted 27 February 2011
"As the great global warming scare continues to crumble, attention focuses on all those groups that have a huge interest in keeping it alive.... Carbon traders hope to make billions from corrupt schemes based on buying and selling the right to emit CO2. But no financial in...
Posted 26 February 2011
"While the IPCC and its boy scouts present wilder and wilder sea level predictions for the near future, the freal observational facts demonstrate that sea level has remained virtually stable for the last 40-50 years," New paper published in 21st Century Science & Technol...
Posted 25 February 2011
World-renowned physicist Professor Freeman Dyson has been described as a 'force-of-nature intellect'. He's also one of the world's foremost climate change sceptics. In this email exchange, science editor of the UK newspaper The Independent, Steve Connor, asks the Prince...
Posted 23 February 2011
"The cult of reducing carbon emissions shapes everything we do, at local, national and global levels. The very future of the planet, we are told, hangs on our dispensing with fossil fuels and adopting renewable energy sources as quickly as possible. But here’s the problem...
Posted 20 February 2011
Posted 20 February 2011
"For their propaganda, global warming alarmists rely heavily on historic amnesia. This can be well illustrated by examples from Australia. Severe climatic events have been a common natural occurrence in Australia in the past, as they are today. However, this doesn’t seem...
Posted 11 February 2011
"Until someone actually determines whether there truly is broad agreement among researchers to support the billions of dollars committed by governments to counter human effects on the climate, we might better devote our resources to adapting to climate change, or on remedi...
Posted 6 February 2011
NZCSC chair Barry Brill and skeptic blog Wordshine have collaborated to produce challenging papers that question the validity of the recent update on New Zealand temperatures by the National Institute of Water & Atmosphere (NIWA). The six papers are:
Posted 25 January 2011
Posted 25 January 2011
"All in all, the BOM letter offers little or no assurance that NIWA scientists have got it right this time. At most, it offers tepid support to NIWA’s Review Report." Coalition's comment on NIWA claims of Australian Bureau of Meteorology review of adjustments of New Zeala...
Posted 21 January 2010
"The current debate is a public policy debate with enormous implications. It is no longer about climate. It is about the government, the politicians, their scribes and the lobbyists who want to get more decision-making and power for themselves. It seems to me that the wides...
Posted 21 January 2011
Posted 21 January 2011
Posted 18 January 2011
Posted 17 January 2011
"The notion of a static, unchanging climate is foreign to the history of the earth or any other planet with a fluid envelope. The fact that the developed world went into hysterics over changes in global mean temperature anomaly of a few tenths of a degree will astound futu...
Posted 14 January 2011
Posted 10 January 2010
"Those familiar with the climate debate will naturally be aware that the rise in average official temperatures of 0.74C over the 20th century was an inherent component of IPCC’s conclusion of a future of dangerously high temperatures unless governments acted to reduce gree...
Posted 10 January 2010
Posted 4 January 2011
"Remarkably, in enunciating their “eleven principles”, the Canberra MCCC managed to evade entirely any mention of the underpinning scientific justification for introducing a tax on carbon dioxide. That is, of course, because there is none (which is doubtless why only one, ta...