Posted 27 February 2010
Exactly 20 years ago, world-recognised meteorologist Henk Tennekes was abruptly sacked as director of the Dutch Meteorological Institure for daring to write a newspaper column challenging the IPCC inspired hypothesis of man-made global warming. Now, people in Holland are...
Posted 27 February 2010
"At the first opportunity for audience participation just several minutes into the proceeding, a longtime and well-known Apple shareholder–some would say gadfly–who introduced himself as Sheldon, stood at the microphone and urged against Gore’s re-election to the board. Go...
Posted 23 February 2010
"Climate alarmists do not simply boast of their monopoly over peer-reviewed outlets – they also do their best to call into question peer-reviewed outlets that dare to publish research that challenges any aspect of their moral crusade." Professor Frank Furedi, writing in T...
Posted 25 February 2010
" Mr. Gore's financial gains were based on the contradictory and error-plagued assertion that man's release of the trace gas CO2 will fry the planet. Once it becomes clear to everyone that the AGW theory is based on cleverly manipulated data twisted by rigged computer mode...
Posted 23 February 2010
"The basic problem of unwarranted trust goes well beyond the [IPCC] Panel; it extends to the chronically biased treatment iof climate change issues by responsible departments and agencies that the Panel reports to, and in the many nationally-based organisations which they...
Posted 7 February 2010
"NIWA did everything they possibly could to help us, except hand over the adjustments. It has turned out that there was actually nothing more they could have done -- because they never had the adjustments.... None of the scientific papers that NIWA cited in their impressive...
Posted 7 February 2010
"The IPCC – the body widely regarded, until now, as the ultimate authority on climate science – is looking worse and worse. After it was forced to retract its claim about melting glaciers, Mr. Pachauri dismissed the error as a one-off. But other IPCC claims have turned out...
Posted 7 February 2010
"Science is the search for truth, the never-ending path towards finding out how things are arranged in this world so that they can work as they do. That search is never finished. It seems that the climate research community has betrayed that mighty goal in science. They hav...
Posted 4 February 2010
New ZEaland's National Institute for Water & Atmospheric Research (NIWA) has been requested under the Official Information Act to provide details relating to treatment of raw temperature data. The trexts of the correspondence exchanged can be accessed in the links below.
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Posted 3 February 2010
"They made the science fit the political goals and stopped at nothing to achieve the end. They succeeded, because beyond manipulations that duped politicians, media and most of the public, they knew many scientists who participated did not understand climate science. Blinde...
Posted 2 February 2010
"The IPCC made a prominent claim in its 2007 report, again citing the WWF as its authority, that climate change could endanger "up to 40 per cent" of the Amazon rainforest – as iconic to warmists as those Himalayan glaciers and polar bears. This WWF report, it turned out, w...
Posted 1 February 2010
[The UK Government] "has now embarked on the project of 'decarbonising' the economy; since carbon-based energy provides most of our electricity and powers nearly all of our transportation, this is a colossal, and colossally expensive, task. We need, therefore, to be very s...
Posted 1 February 2010
"As an independent academic, it has been fascinating to witness the classical collapse of a Grand Narrative, in which social and philosophical theories are being played out before our gaze. It is like watching the Berlin Wall being torn down, concrete slab by concrete sla...
Posted 30 January 2010
"The chairman of the leading climate change watchdog was informed that claims about melting Himalayan glaciers were false before the Copenhagen summit, The Times has learnt. Rajendra Pachauri was told that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change assessment that the...
Posted 28 January 2010
New information reveals that the now-famous break-in of the computers at the University of East Anglia... in fact, may not have been the act of an intruder. A detailed analysis of the East Anglia’s files by Canadian network engineer discloses that the emails and documents w...
Posted 25 January 2010
"This is by no means the first time that the procedures used by the IPCC to compile its 2007 report – the most alarmist so far – have been subjected to trenchant questioning. But no one, it seems, is more embarrassed by "Glaciergate" than Dr Pachauri himself, whose expandin...
Posted 22 January 2010
Posted 21 January 2010
"Mr. Pachauri has already come under intense criticism not only for his own arrogance but for multiple conflicts of interest (which admittedly hardly makes him unusual in a policy strata that also contains Al Gore and Maurice Strong). Now the issue is whether he will be thr...
Posted 20 January 2010
"...the revelations this week have opened a heated debate that goes beyond the science of glaciers and to the heart of the credibility of the IPCC.....At a time when governments are baulking at taking tough measures to combat climate change, this new blow to the credibility...