Posted 26 July 2012
Viscount Christopher Monckton has posted a detailed rebuttal under the above title:
"Be skeptical, be very skeptical, of Skeptic magazine’s skepticism of climate skeptics. The latest issue has, as its cover story, a Climate Change Q&A, revealingly subtitled 'Climate Denie...
Posted 25 July 2012
Posted 25 July 2012
"The 15-year battle in Canada over the Kyoto Protocol ended last week when the Federal Court ruled the Stephen Harper government’s withdrawal from the agreement was legal. Countries that do not meet their emission targets and did not withdraw before the end of 2011 — as allowe...
Posted 15 July 2012
"New Zealand's Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) is a scam and a waste. The ETS taxes our elderly trying to heat their homes and then uses the revenue to subsidise multi-national Japanese companies. These companies bought forests in New Zealand. Their trees are now subsidised bec...
Posted 13 July 2012
A move by the Royal Society of New Zealand to lokk at what it calls the "human carrying capacity" of our country, has provoked an interesting discussion within our Coalition ranks.Start with reading a paper by Dr Tim Ball of Canada, linked here
Posted 4 July 2012
New Zealand energy observer Jim Hopkins explains why the Greens' economic vision has more loose ends than a dysentery epidemic.
Download pdf here
Posted 1 July 2012
"People are inundated with reports giving the impression that what is happening is worse then ever before, unusual and therefore due to human activities. When weather and climate became a political issue through the IPCC claims of impending doom it became a focus for media. The...
Posted 30 June 2012
The largest United Nations conference ever—featuring more than 50,000 participants from 188 nations —was a flop. For most of the environmentalist ideologues at the Rio +20 conference the only question was whether it was a “hoax” or a “failure.” Oxfam chief executive Barbara St...
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Posted 25 June 2012
Christopher, Viscount Monchton of Brenchley, has attended the United Nations gabfest at Rio de Janeiro last week, which has prompted him to comment as follows, in a commentary that would be laughable if it wasn't so depressing:
"The UN has outlived its usefulness and shoul...
Posted 23 June 2012
not convinced that humanity is causing catastrophic global warming. He writes in UK Daily Telegraph:
"For many years, I was an active supporter of the IPCC and its CO2 theory. Recent experience with t...
Posted 21 June 2012
Distinguished US climate scientist Dr Richard Lindzen, kf the Massachusetts Institute oif Technology (MIT) lasy year updated an important paper, in whjch he said, inter alia: "This paper deals with the origin of the cultural changes and with specific examples of the operation...
Posted 13 May 2012
This site shows a number of comparative graphs of possible future global temperature variations. The IPCC provides temperature “projections” as part of their assessment reports. These projections are based on various “storyline” scenarios using various amounts of CO2 to drive t...
Posted 12 May 2012
When, in the 1920s, the new Nazi party raised the pagan swastika flag celebrating the power of irrational animal nature over civilization and reason, the Volkisch Greens flocked to the cause. In the 1970s, as environmentalism became fashionable again, Haussleiter (founder of th...
First posted 24 April 2012
'Gaia' scientist James Lovelock reverses himself: I was 'alarmist' about climate change and so was Gore!'...'The problem is we don't know what the climate is doing. We thought we knew 20 years ago.'...'The world has not warmed up very much since the millennium. Twelve...
Posted 26 April 2012
This paper by the now late Dr Robert E. Stevenson, who was Secretary General of the International Association for the Physical Science of the Oceans from 1987 to 1995, and worked as an oceanographer for the U.S. Office of Naval Research for 20 years, da6tes backi to 2000, bu...
Posted 25 April 2012
A leading libertarian and centre-right blogger, Ryan Houck, tells how he could make America fail, without even firing a single shot. The same scenario might apply in other Western countries.
Words by Ryan...