Posted 21 December 2014

 "Monitoring surface temperatures does not give us an accurate enough representation of human-induced global warming. As long as we lack a clear understanding of the relationship between our cumulative greenhouse-gas emissions and the temperature of the earth, it will r...

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Posted 19 December 2014

"This month’s annual climate change jamboree – COP20 in Lima – was billed as a crucial one, to lay the groundwork for an expected binding international agreement in Paris next December. Predictably, like previous climate summits, it ended up as a messy compromise which ach...

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Posted 18 December 2014

Thanks to the Global Warming Policy Foundation in UK, there is a new paper exploring many of the ethical disputes that characterise climate science and policy in the 21st century.  The author, Dr Peter Lee, is a lecturer in Ethics and Political Theory at the University of...

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Posted 10 December 2014

"....And that concludes the investigation. There is no good evidence linking human activities to any of the observed impacts of climate change listed in the Summary for Policymakers of the WG2 report.  Obama et al. indeed seem to have got it wrong." The concluding sentence...

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Posted 8 December 2014

We are grateful to Harold Faulkner, of the United States. for researching a paper describing times when the Vikings settled Greenland during a warm cycle when temperatures were vastly higher than they are in this present era. Mr Faulkner's paper also details the importance...

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Posted 8 December 2014

Here are two explanations of ways in which science is being misused by climate alarmists to justify invalidated claims of dangerous anthropogenic "global warming".

The first, by Tom Harris, executive director of the International Climate Science Coalition, and published...

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Posted 8 December 2014

In view of a recent rash of media articles purporting to claim that the pseudo-science used by many alarmists to try to explain that (a) the world is warming unnaturally, and (b) that we are the cause of most of that warming, our Coalition founding member, Dr Vincent Gray,...

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Posted 1 December 2014

"Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) alarm has been with us for a good while, now. The matter seems to become more contentious, rather than less, over time. Unhappily, as a result of the mediocre quality of science education, many people do not know how to evaluate either a

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Posted 30 November 2014

The question of whether and by how much sea levels may rise or fall under the influence of "global warming" (aka "climate change") has been rekindled in New Zealand by the recent release of a report by the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment, Dr Jan Wright, it i...

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Posted 28 November 2014

In his latest NZ Climate Truth Newsletter (No 337) Dr Vincent Gray, of New Zealand, writes: "Early chemical measurements of the concentration of carbon dioxide in the earth's atmosphere have been suppressed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Chapter 1 of the...

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Posted 27 November 2014

"Science best serves society when it is open to debate and discussion - when scientists are free to speak without the fear of losing their jobs, their funding, commercial contracts, or their political support. This is the rock on which the concept of academic freedom rests...

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Posted 20 November 2014

"New scientific papers appear nearly every week that show that the claimed link between carbon-dioxide emissions and dangerous global warming is imaginary....Mr Obama and other global politiucal leaders need to reconsider their misinformed belief that climate policy and en...

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Posted 17 November 2014

"The issue of why the political left is overwhelmingly supportive of the climate change alarmist ideology/faith, and hence there are relatively few left wing sceptics, is quite complex and would take more space and time than I intend to impose on you here. But may I, as a...

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Posted 15 November 2014

"Although many studies have assessed the quality of national climate datasets for use in long-term climate change detection, a homogenised New Zealand national temperature record has only once appeared in the research literature, in a paper by M J Salinger published in 198...

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Posted 14 November 2014

This is a posting of a highly technical and convincing peer-reviewed paper by Dr Antero Ollila, of Aalto University in Finland, showing how IPCC has over-stated the potency of Carbon Dioxide in its effect on global temperatures. The paper has been reviewed and endorsed by...

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Posted 12 November 2014

 US scientist Judith Curry has drawn attention to a wonderful "Baloney Detection Kit" propounded by Carl Sagan  as being especially useful in the ongoing debate about climate change.

Link here 

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Posted 10 November 2014

"America's Democrats, and one well-heeled 'carbon capitalist' in particular, received a monumental thrashing in the US midterm elections, despite a lavishly financed ad campaign of eco-alarmist propaganda. It seems voters are nowhere near so dopey as their betters imagined

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Posted 8 November 2014

"Whether emissions of carbon dioxide from human activity are causing dangerous climate change or not is an exceptionally difficult science question. Leading experts cannot agree on the causes of these changes or what future awaits us. It’s about time the media stopped prete...

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Posted 8 November 2014

Hat tip to Philip Foster in UK for drawing attention to the emergence of an interesting new blog, by Jonathan Graham, who is described as a sceptic of climate and other illiberal matters.

[http://truthexcites.com/](http://truthexcites.com/)...

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Posted 8 November 2014

OK, there may seem to be an element of hucksterism in what you will read in this post, but there are also some distbuirbing facts, including the Sun as being as the prime cause of  warming and cooling of Planet Earth, so it's well worth the read to get to those facts.  Over...

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