Posted 29 July 2009

A study by three Australasian researchers published 23 July in the highly regarded Journal of Geophysical Research shows that most of the late 20th century global warming and cooling can be attributed to natural climate processes. The research by Chris de Freitas (University...

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Posted 27 July 2009

"There are the numerous well meaning individuals who have allowed propagandists to convince them that in accepting the alarmist view of anthropogenic climate change, they are displaying intelligence and virtue For them, their psychic welfare is at stake... For those committed...

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Posted 22 July 2009

A review of research literature concerning the environmental consequences of increased levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide leads to the conclusion that increases during the 20th and 21st centuries have produced no deleterious effects on Earth's weather or climate. Increased c...

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A COOL LOOK AT GLOBAL WARMING

July 19, 2009, 12:13 pm News

Posted 19 July 2009

An excellent slide presentation by Philip Wood, Managing Director and CEO of Intec Ltd, Australia, prepared for an address to a Rotary Club; with the facts displayed in simple but compelling form. Our thanks to Philip for allowing us to share it with a wider audience.

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Posted 18 July 2009

"What can carry the day are the errors and omissions included in the AGW model with respect to real and demonstrable processes that affect Earth's climate. Here is a list of eight major modeling faults for which IPCC should be held to account."  Dr Jeffrey A. Glassman says alb...

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Posted 17 July 2009

 "The absurdity is in the belief that a) global climate can be controlled by man; and b) a slight rise in average global temperature  is a bad thing....Climatology has become a sad case of  a scientific discipline that has in the main ceased to be scientific." Dr Chris De Frei...

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Posted 14 July 2009

"THIS is the chart climate change sceptic Family First Senator Steve Fielding hopes will convince environmental campaigner Al Gore that global warming is not real.**Senator Fielding is trying to score a one-on-one meeting with Mr Gore, who is in Australia promoting several env...

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Posted 14 July 2009

"It is no longer possible to argue the cooling was due to the drop after the peak of 1998. They now dismiss it as a brief trend but this contradicts the IPCC 90% certainty claim that CO2 is almost the sole cause of warming of the last 20 years. That is clearly wrong yet it is...

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Posted 12 July 2009

On July 5, the New Zealand weekly, Sunday Star-Times printed a long article by film actress Keisha Castle-Hughes about her guest voyage to the Cook Islands in the Greenpeace ship Esperanza. The article included claims about climate change effects in the Cooks which cannot...

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Posted 12 July 2009

Even a compromised agreement to reduce emissions could devastate the economy - and all for a theory shot full of holes, says Christopher Booker in the Daily Telegraph. " The moves now being made by the world's political establishment to lock us into December's Copenhagen t...

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Posted 12 July 2009

"When King Canute of lore wanted to teach his citizens a lesson, he set his throne by the seashore and commanded the tides to roll out. Canute's spirit was back in business this week at the G-8 summit in Italy, where the assembled leaders declared that the world's temperature...

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Posted 10 July 2009

In a cover story in the influential UK magazine Spectator James Delingpole talks to Professor Ian Plimer, the Australian geologist, whose new book shows that ‘anthropogenic global warming’ is a dangerous, ruinously expensive fiction, a ‘first-world luxury’ with no basis in s...

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Posted 6 July 2009

"Did you stop worrying about climate change when the credit crunch and global recession got serious? Then listen up, things have changed for the better. In the past year or so since you last worried about it, the climate change debate has moved on. In fact, it is in danger of e...

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Posted 4 July 2009

Shortcomings in the climate change policies of the Australian Government have been brought to light through the initiative of independent Federal Senator Steve Fielding seeking a meeting with Climate Change MInister Penny Wong, at which the Senator posed three basic questions....

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Posted 1 July 2009

"Firstly, shelf ice is floating, because it is less dense than seawater. When floating ice melts, there is no change in sea level. This is a bit of elementary physics known as Archimedes’ Principle. Secondly, the breakup of ice shelves is normal and inevitable. Ice caps grow by

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Posted 28 June 2009

"New Zealand is energy rich but in the present climate of man-made global warming hysteria this may sound like heresy, as much of our energy reserves are fossil fuel ones."   Dr Gerrit van der LIngen writes in the Winter 2009 edition of Energy NZ.   To download p[df, ](energ...

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Posted 26 June 2009

Dr Vincent Gray has been an expert reviewer of all four Assessment Reports issued by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).  In his latest Envirotruth No 212, Dr Gray explains the origins of the term "climate change", how it came to exclude natural causes, an

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Posted 23 June 2009

"Truth has nothing to do with it. To the politicians, it’s about power; to the AGW scientists, it’s about funding; to the media, it’s a marketable commodity and to the environmentalists, it’s a religious conviction and a need to impose socialist controls. The only people who c

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Posted 16 June 2009

The stability of the earth’s temperature over time has been a long-standing climatological puzzle. The globe has maintained a temperature of ± ~ 3% (including ice ages) for at least the last half a billion years during which we can estimate the temperature. During the Holocene...

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Posted 16 June 2009

Our politicians haven't noticed that the problem may be that the world is not warming but cooling, observes Christopher Booker in the UK Daily Telegraph. "For the second time in little over a year, it looks as though the world may be heading for a serious food crisis, than...

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