Posted 5 July 2010
Only on and after the 1 July date that New Zealand's emission trading scheme (ETS) came into force have our two mainstream metro newspapers deigned to print the comments of Federated Farmers president Don Nicolson about the adverse effect the ETS will have on the finances and i...
Posted 4 July 2010
Posted 26 June 2010
"I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been told by AGW voices that there are NO qualified skeptics or peer reviewed/published work by them. In truth there is serious work and questions raised by significant work by very qualified skeptics which has been peer reviewed and publ...
Posted 25 June 2010
"Overall the researchers conclude that the distribution of old Arctic ice has changed little since 2007 and what changes there have been are well within the range of natural variability. They speculate that the large ice loss seen in 2007 may have been offset by weather patter...
Posted 24 June 2010
Posted 23 June 2010
Posted 15 June 2010
The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change misled the press and public into believing that thousands of scientists backed its claims on manmade global warming, according to Mike Hulme, a prominent climate scientist and IPCC insider. The actual number of scientists who...
Posted 14 June 2010
Coalition hon, secretary, Terry Dunleavy, calls on New Zealand Prime MInister John Key to rein in his Chief Science Adviser, Professor Sir Peter Gluckman, who, Dunleavy claims is acting as a 'propagandist for global warming zealotry.' - more
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Posted 14 June 2010
Matt Ridley salutes the bloggers who changed the climate debate. While most of Fleet Street kowtowed to the green lobby, online amateurs uncovered the spin and deception that finally cracked the consensus.... It was amateur bloggers who scented the exaggerations, distor...
Posted 11 June 2010
The author of Chill explains why he's sceptical about manmade global warming — and why greens are so intolerant. "The science around climate change is not as settled as it's presented as being. I used to think it was, until about 2003 – and then, feeling that the remedies bein...
Posted 11 June 2010
The plan to impose a carbon tax on American citizens may be dead at least for the time being after Republican Senator Lindsey Graham shockingly reversed his views on climate change, telling a press conference that the science behind man-made global warming is in question and t...
Posted 10 June 2010
Posted 7 June 2010
A cross examination of global warming science conducted by the University of Pennsylvania's Institute for Law and Economics has concluded that virtually every claim advanced by global warming proponents fail to stand up to scrutiny..
To read intro by Lawrence Solomon: L...
Posted 3 June 2010
Posted 1 June 2010
A fascinating (and illuminating!) account by Robert Lee Hotz in the Wall Street Journal of discoveries being made by US scientists who are drilling the deep ice of Antarctica for evidence of climate variations many thousands of years ago.
Posted 1 June 2010
"One of the worst aspects of the ESS (Eleven Station Series) is that it was published to dispel prior allegations of chicanery. Its very purpose was damage control. The Minister (Hon Wayne Mapp) tabled it in Parliament as evidence that allegations of bias against NIWA were base...
Posted 31 May 2010
"Britain’s premier scientific institution is being forced to review its statements on climate change after a rebellion by members who question mankind’s contribution to rising temperatures." Ben Webster in The Times, London
Posted 31 May 2010
"Solar scientists are increasingly conveying a clear message on the chief cause of climate change: It’s the Sun, Stupid." - Lawrence Solomon, in the National Post, Canada
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Posted 25 May 2010
For what is believed to be the first time ever in England, an audience of university undergraduates has decisively rejected the notion that “global warming” is or could become a global crisis. ... Last week, members of the historic Oxford Union Society, the world’s premier deba...
Posted 20 May 2010
"Surely it must be obvious by now that the nations of the world are not going to agree to a legally enforceable international agreement on emissions control measures. Attempts to enforce these measures on developing countries have already started to backfire..... What are the...