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...

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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...

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Posted 20 February 2011

"The climate science community has allowed itself to be used on this issue, and as a result, politicians, activists, and the media have successfully portrayed the biased science as settled. They apparently do not realize that ‘settled science’ is an oxymoron. The most voca

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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...

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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...

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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:

  1. Salinger's 7SS has...

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Posted 25 January 2011

"On Thursday, January 13th, 2011 ABC-TV broadcast across Australia your unfounded falsities implying Queensland's latest floods were caused by human production of carbon dioxide, CO2. Remembering the tragic circumstances and deaths at the time I feel sad, hurt and annoyed.

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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...

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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...

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Posted 21 January 2011

"India has once again challenged the UN's climate science body - the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) --- through a new scientific paper. The Environment ministry sponsored paper says that human induced global warming is much less than what the R K Pachauri

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Posted 21 January 2011

"Looked at dispassionately, the evidence of sustained global warming driven by increased levels of carbon dioxide in the air has been pretty sparse for more than a decade (and even before that was merely circumstantial). And of course, as readers of this newsletter and othe

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Posted 18 January 2011

 "It is very clear that there have been no systematic increases in natural disasters that can be attributed to human caused global warming during the period of continuous records. Equally, it demonstrates the validity of our studies that demonstrate the causal solar linkage

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CASE AGAINST PRECIPITOUS CLIMATE ACTION

January 16, 2011, 5:00 am News

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...

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Posted 14 January 2011

"To hear some people talk, making the transition from today's fossil fuel-dependent society to a future where all energy comes from low-carbon sources is straightforward: it just needs the will and enough money. Indeed, the present trajectory of talks under the United Natio

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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...

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Posted 10 January 2010

"...there is no such thing as a green lifestyle. Trying to do things the 'Green' way usually ends up being worse for the environment. From ethanol to reusable bags to organic food, everything you do only makes the planet sicker."  From Daniel Greenfield's challenging blog:

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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...

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WHO ARE THE CLIMATE DENIALISTS NOW?

January 4, 2011, 1:43 am News

Posted 4 January 2011

"In recent years anyone daring to question the imminent reality of catastrophic global warming has risked being labelled a denialist with implicit, and sometimes even explicit, reference to holocaust denial as well. Ironically, over the past year in the face of a cooling cli...

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Posted 2 January 2011

"The main conclusion one arrives at the analysis is that CO2 has not a causal relation with global warming and it is not powerful enough to cause the historical changes in temperature that were observed. The main argument is the absence of immediate correlation between CO2 c...

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IS A NEW ICE AGE UNDER WAY?

January 1, 2011, 3:57 am News

Posted 2 January 2011

“Watch out, Al Gore. The glaciers will get you!” With that appended note, my friend, retired field geologist Jack Sauers, forwarded to me a report that should have been a lead item in every newspaper in the world. It was the news that the best-measured glacier in North Ameri...

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