Posted 13 March 2009
HIGHLIGHTS OF THIRD & FINAL DAY
BOB CARTER'S SUMMARY: LINK
2009 International Conference on Climate Change: Update #3
Dan Miller
NEW YORK--Willie Soon, a Harvard University astrophysicist and geophysicist with scores of peer-reviewed papers and boo...
HIGHLIGHTS OF SECOND DAY
BOB CARTER'S SUMMARY: LINK
2009 International Conference on Climate Change: Update #2
Dan Miller
NEW YORK -- Former Vice President Al Gore, the most prominent proponent of global warming alarmism, was the target of biting humo...
HIGHLIGHTS OF FIRST DAY
BOB CARTER'S SUMMARY: LINK
2009 International Conference on Climate Change: Update #1
Dan Miller
NEW YORK--Environmentalists--even mainstream environmentalists such as Al Gore--are less concerned about any crisis posed by global wa...
Posted 12 March 2009
"This lack of credible climate forecasts matters, because proposed policies – including taxing carbon emissions and cap-and-trade regimes – will increase energy prices, cause major wealth transfers, and cost jobs. It would be immoral to impose such punishing policies on the ba...
Posted from New York on 10 March 2009
Posted from New York 8 March 2009
"The questions which need to be answered are serious and non-trivial. Should we make radical decisions now? Should we tax today's generations to benefit future generations? Should we be generously altruistic? Should we give preference to future generations and not...
Posted 6 March 2009
An incisive analysis of serious deficiences in the responses by governments to unsettled science about causes and effects of climate change, by Professor David Henderson, of the University of Westminister, and former Head of the Department of Economics and Statistics of OECD. I...
Posted 26 February 2009
"It is fashionable to promote climate change as being a contributor to changing fire frequency and intensity. The pattern of rainfall over the past century does not point to a trend of reduction in rainfall. Nor has any link been offered between global temperature trends an...
Posted 26 February 2009
"I believe that the increase of CO2 is not a cause for alarm and will be good for mankind,” Happer told the Committee. “What about the frightening consequences of increasing levels of CO2 that we keep hearing about? In a word, they are wildly exaggerated, just as the purpo...
February 24, 2009
"The editorial in last weekend’s Australian, 'Carbon trading is not the only answer' (21/22 February), addressed the controversial issue of the government’s planned emissions trading legislation, commenting that 'We need to hear other ideas on greenhouse gas reduction'.
Talk a...
Posted 23 February 2009
Posted 22 February 2009
Christiopher Booker writes in the UK Daily Telegraph that the British Government must be absolurely sure that their data on climate change is accurate. " It was another bad week for the 'warmists', now more desperate than ever to whip up alarm over an overheating planet.....
Posted 18 February 2009
"The hysteria surrounding the concept of 'global warming' will fade over the years. People will see that the apocalyptic forecasts are not coming true. Today there is no fingerprint attesting that carbon dioxide emission causes a rise in temperature. A Grad missile that fal...
Posted 18 February 2009
A few people seem to have missed the point of this satirical post. It is a counterpoint to Al Gore’s use of “millions of tons” when talking about CO2 emissions. I’m pointing out that relative to the total atmosphere, millions of tons of CO2 is miniscule. And even a 50% incr...
Posted 15 February 2009
"The Australian tragedy tells us nothing about global climate. Meanwhile, what the alarmists are saying, in effect, is that instead of protecting their property by taking local precautions, by prudently burning and cutting vegetation, homeowners should be preparing for the...
Posted 14 February 2009
Posed 13 February 2009
The National Research Council of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences has embraced the Milankovitch Cycle model....orbital variations remain the most thoroughly examined mechanism of climatic change on time scales of tens of thousands of years and are by far the clearest c...
Posted 8 February 2009
"Climate politics is collapsing because of political realities, and not real or perceived changes in how people see the science. In the ongoing battle between climate scientists and skeptics there will be disproportionate carnage, because the climate scientists have so much...