Posted 8 November 2017
Matt Ridley blogs: "You can always tell when there is a United Nations Climate Conference of the Parties (COP) coming up, because there are any number of carefully timed press releases about how hot it has been or is going to get in the future. The media has been snowed und...
Posted 5 November 2017
"With the United Nations Climate Change Conference starting on Monday in Bonn, Germany, we need to brace ourselves for an avalanche of global warming alarmism. We'll be told that extreme weather, sea level rise, and shrinking sea ice are all about to get much worse if we do...
Posted 5 November 2017
"There's not one chance in a million that the future will unfold in the manner predicted by the NZ Royal Society's report Human Health Impacts of Climate Change in New Zealand," said the chairman of the New Zealand Climate Science Coalition, Hon Barry Brill. "A gypsy fort...
Posted 2 November 2017
Anyone needing ammunition to win a debate on the question: "Claims of Man-made Global Warming are MIsleading and Fraudulent", needs only to study this Powerpoint presentation by Dr Jay Lehr, the eminent US climate skeptic who has single-handedly helped many thousands of Ame...
Posted 1 November 2017
"The whole global-warming/climate change fraud is built upon one big misconception, namely that our carbon dioxide emissions continue to add to atmospheric carbon dioxide. The IPCC and other climate alarm groups merely 'assume' their claim is true. Yes, the IPCC has argumen...
Posted 2 November 2017
This links to a May 2017 piece by Olivia Pierson on her blog that we have just discovered. Olivia begins: "Climate alarmism, like religion, dulls the mind against reality, encouraging people to live within an illusion rather than the cold light of day. Also like religion, i...
Posted 31 October 2017
A sharp drop in sea surface temperatures in the Tropics and the Southern Hemisphere (SH) has been reported by US blogster Ron Clutz on his Science Matters site: He writes: "We see donward spikes in ocean temps everythere, led by sharp decreases in the Tropics and SH, reve...
Posted 29 September 2017
Viscount Matt Ridley writes at BreakingPoint.co.nz: "Here is a simple fact about the world today: - Climate change is doing more good than harm. Here is another fact: - Climate change policy is doing more harm than good. These are both well-established facts, supported b...
Posted 20 September 2017
Professor Larry Bell, of the University of Houston, writes at Newsmax: "While the water temperature in the Gulf of Mexico is recently about 4 degrees above average, a review of major Gulf hurricanes between 1870 and 2010 by meteorologist Roy Spencer at the University of...
Posted 20 September 2017
A report published in London three years ago by the Global Warming Policy Foundation argued that our climate is considerably less sensitive to greenbhouse gases that climate models estimate. A new GWPF report by UK climate scientist Nick Lewis, and Dutch science writer Ma...
Posted 19 September 2017
THe UK-based Scientific Alliance takes issue with claims of links between Atlantic hurricanes and so-called "man-made global warming" (aka climate change): "But no amount of moral blackmail will enable us to tune the climate to our liking when long term natural process...
Posted 16 September 2017
James Delingpole writes in The Spectator: "Environmentalism has gone too far; renewable energy is a disaster; scares abut pesticides and chemicals are horribly overdone; no, the planet is not going to end any time soon; and, by the way, the answer is nuclear... THis isn...
Posted 11 September 2017
"The science publication Nature Climate Change this year, published a study demonstrating Earth this century warmed substantially less than computer-generated climate models predict. Unfortunately for public knowledge, such findings don’t appear in the news. Sea levels...
Posted 6 September 2017
"The central premise of former US Vice President Al Gore's climate change films is impossible. Not merely wrong or exaggerated, as many of his opponents claim, but literally impossible. Gore is supposedly telling us 'truth' about climate science....But Gore does not rea...
Posted 29 August 2017
Distinguished US climate scientist, Dr Roy Spencer writes: "In the context of climate change, is what we are seeing in Houston a new level of disaster which is becoming more common? The flood disaster unfolding in Houston is certainly very unusual. But so are other natural w...
Posted 18 July 2017
Writing in UK's Sunday Telegraph about the Paris climate agreement, Christopher Booker exposes the hyprocrisy of most of the signatories: "The only G20 countries left committed to CO2 reductions (by 1.7 billion tons) are now those in the EU, plus Canada and Australia, respon...
Posted 12 July 2017
"The objective of this research was to test the hypothesis that Global Average Surface Temperature (GAST) data produced by NOAA, NASA and HADLEY are sufficiently credible estimates of global average temperatures, such that they can be relied upon for climate modelling and poli...
Posted 10 July 2017
"No one I know disputes that the global climate has been warming over the past century and a half, that sea levels have indeed been rising, or that human activities, including carbon dioxide emissions, have and will continue to contribute 'some influence.' The big contentions...
Posted 9 July 2017
"To achieve the goal agreed in Paris of a maximum 2oC increase in global temperatures above pre-industrial levels has been estimated to have a global cost of $US17 trillion by 2040 (about 800 times more than was spent on all the Apollo missions to the moon) - and it would req...
Posted 8 July 2017
In a recent letter to his community, Massachusetts Institute of Technology President Rafael Reif criticised President Trump's decision to exit the Paris climate agreement, for ignoring "consensus" climate change science. In reply, a group of skeptic scientists have penned a two...