Posted 20 June 2011
As a result of concentrated probing by the New Zealand Climate Science Coalition last year, questioning the accuracy of NIWA's Seven Station Series (7SS) temperature records, NIWA undertook a review of 7SS. Dr Vincent Gray, founding membert of NZCSC, and IPCC expert review sin...
Posted 20 June 2011
Top rating radio talkback host in Sydney, Australia's station 2GB, Alan Jones, talks here to pro0minenejnt climate skeptics, Dr Vincent Gray, Dr Timothy Ball, Professor Bob Carter, Dr Richard Lindzen, and finally to climate analyst John McLean who tells how few contributiors...
Posted 18 June 2011
"Science is about enquiry, evidence gathering and scepticism. Pupils need to be taught scientific principles and long-established theories and be well grounded in the scientific method. There is no reason why there should not be discussion of climate change in school..." lates...
Posted 10 June 2011
A leading Canadian newspaper, Financial Post, and a top-rating Sydney radio host, Allan Jones, have recently condiucted interviews with a foundation member of our Coalition, Dr Vincent Gray, who has the distinction of having been an expert reviewer of all four Assessment Rep...
Posted 8 June 2011
"Global warming alarmists are throwing a temper tantrum this week after a Virginia judge affirmed that scientists who receive public funds to study global warming are subject to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests regarding their taxpayer-funded research. The alarmists’...
Posted 8 June 2011
The views of geoscientists are crucial for a proper understanding of climate. “This should have been accepted practice all along, not because geoscientists are necessarily right, but because this should be the normal process of science,” said Dr Andrew Miall. “The idea that any...
Posted 6 June 2011
Posted 27 May 2011
"We conclude that atmospheric CO2 levels should be above 150 ppm to avoid harming green plants and below about 5000 ppm to avoid harming people. That is a very wide range, and our atmosphere is much closer to the lower end than to the upper end. The current rate of burning foss...
Posted 25 May 2011
"In June 2010, I published a graph predicting that temperatures will fall sharply around October 2010. Exactly this happened. Since then I have regularly updated the graphs and predictions. As the Southern Oscillation Index is still in the 'la Nina' region, the cooling will, al...
Posted 18 May 2011
"The claimed justification is that the ETS levy is an “insurance policy” against the possibility that methane might contribute to a future of dangerous global warming, as the IPCC has theorized. But, as with any insurance, it should not be taken out unless the premium is reason...
Posted 12 May 2011
"A doubling of the amount of methane in the atmosphere with its present composition would produce a warming equal to only about one thirtieth of the warming produced by a doubling of carbon dioxide. At present rates of increase it would take about 360 years for atmospheric meth...
Posted 7 May 2011
Official temperature records have been maintained in New Zealand since shortly after European settlement began in 1840. Throughout the ensuing 150 years, mean temperature levels remain stable. But NIWA (National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research, the responsible governm...
Posted 2 May 2011
"Our economy is built on affordable energy, largely from carbon-based fuels that produce CO2 when burned. It is not a problem, there is no coming 'climate crisis,' and we do not need to worry about 'greenhouse gases.' This topic of reducing CO2 emissions is of crucial interest,...
Posted 2 May 2011
"Despite the ready public availability of our reports, and of similar analyses by other independent scientists that also demonstrate there is no justification for continued alarm about global warming, neither the government nor its scientific advisors have offered answers to the...
Posted 28 April 2011
Posted 27 April 2011
The Carbon Sense Coalition (Australia) today claimed there is more justification for a tax on the emissions of steam from a kettle on the stove than a tax on the emissions of carbon dioxide from the gas stove beneath the kettle. The chairman of "Carbon Sense", Viv Forbes, sai...
Posted 26 April 2011
"It’s incredible that the IPCC and those responsible for its formation, structure, research, and reports convinced the world they were a scientific organization making valid scientific statements. The entire impossible enterprise was designed to prove that human CO2 was causi...
Posted 22 April 2011
"13 months after Climategate an equally important document was made public. It is a single PDF file three megabytes in size and 678 pages in length. Although it contains the remarks of 232 separate individuals, no attempt was made to, say, number these individuals for easy...
Posted 19 April 2011
*Prime Minister Julia Gillard now faces a raging controversy over her decision of 24 February to impose a tax on carbon (or more accurately on carbon dioxide emissions) for three to five years from July 2012. - Des Moore, in QuadrantOnline.***