Posted 12 July 2009
"When King Canute of lore wanted to teach his citizens a lesson, he set his throne by the seashore and commanded the tides to roll out. Canute's spirit was back in business this week at the G-8 summit in Italy, where the assembled leaders declared that the world's temperature...
Posted 10 July 2009
In a cover story in the influential UK magazine Spectator James Delingpole talks to Professor Ian Plimer, the Australian geologist, whose new book shows that ‘anthropogenic global warming’ is a dangerous, ruinously expensive fiction, a ‘first-world luxury’ with no basis in s...
Posted 6 July 2009
"Did you stop worrying about climate change when the credit crunch and global recession got serious? Then listen up, things have changed for the better. In the past year or so since you last worried about it, the climate change debate has moved on. In fact, it is in danger of e...
Posted 4 July 2009
Shortcomings in the climate change policies of the Australian Government have been brought to light through the initiative of independent Federal Senator Steve Fielding seeking a meeting with Climate Change MInister Penny Wong, at which the Senator posed three basic questions....
Posted 1 July 2009
Posted 28 June 2009
"New Zealand is energy rich but in the present climate of man-made global warming hysteria this may sound like heresy, as much of our energy reserves are fossil fuel ones." Dr Gerrit van der LIngen writes in the Winter 2009 edition of Energy NZ. To download p[df, ](energ...
Posted 26 June 2009
Posted 23 June 2009
Posted 16 June 2009
The stability of the earth’s temperature over time has been a long-standing climatological puzzle. The globe has maintained a temperature of ± ~ 3% (including ice ages) for at least the last half a billion years during which we can estimate the temperature. During the Holocene...
Posted 16 June 2009
Our politicians haven't noticed that the problem may be that the world is not warming but cooling, observes Christopher Booker in the UK Daily Telegraph. "For the second time in little over a year, it looks as though the world may be heading for a serious food crisis, than...
Posted 14 June 2009
"There are a variety of viewpoints on this subject (covering the full range from those who consider that we ARE the weather makers, to those who consider that we are NOT the weather makers and that climate change is mainly a natural event). I have provided web links to a s...
Posted 12 June 2009
Posted 7 June 2009
"The number of climate scientists who dissent from the UN IPCC report is at least ten times greater than the number of climate scientists who contributed to the report. The global temperature changes (up and down) have been more extreme over the last few thousand years than we...
Posted 7 June 2009
In “Climate Change Reconsidered: The 2009 Report of the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC),” coauthors Dr. S. Fred Singer and Dr. Craig Idso and 35 contributors and reviewers present an authoritative and detailed rebuttal of the findings of the United...
Posted 29 May 2009
"There has never been a climate change debate in Australia. Only dogma. To demonise element number six in the periodic table is amusing. Why not promethium? Carbon dioxide is an odourless, colourless, harmless natural gas. It is plant food. Without carbon, there would be no lif...
Posted 29 May 2009
Posted 26 May 2009
"Some business leaders are cozying up with politicians and scientists to demand swift, drastic action on global warming. This is a new twist on a very old practice: companies using public policy to line their own pockets......The partnership among self-interested businesses, gr...
Posted 26 May 2009
"Even though the temperature threat danger has come to be accepted by all major political parties both here and overseas as requiring urgent action to save the planet, this view has no substantive justification, and certainly none in regard to the alleged need for urgent action...
Posted 24 May 2004
Posted 18 May 2009
"Generally people believe what they want to believe, so their minds will not change. However, as the issue is exposed in terms of economics and cost benefit - in my view, it's all cost and no benefit - I think some of the people will take one step backward and say, Let me inves...