"The greenhouse effect is the underpinning science for the hypothesis of dangerous global warming from increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide caused by human activities. If we cannot get the underpinning science as a clear and logical construct then the edifice is no more than a house of cards! Also,...
"I can not know what the trajectory of the climate system will be well enough to advise policy makers on what specific course it will take, or well enough to help them know what they could possibly do to tweak it toward a direction deemed 'safe,'..."But I do believe that the accumulating economi...
"A general update due to subsequent developments (especially the current 2 year global cooling trend and a quieter sun with cooling oceans after an 8 year temperature plateau which tends to show that my point about solar and oceanic influences on global temperatures has some merit)" - Stephen Wilde...
Dr James Lovelock, the English scientist who was one of the first to embrace the global warming hypothesis tells Radio New Zealand's "Morning Report" that our Emissions Trading Bill is a "waste of time". LINK to hear broadcast
Distinguished Canadian climatologist, Dr Timothy Ball, explains why and how news media have misrepresented claims about the state of Actice sea ice. This analysis is a superb backgrounder for anyone wanting to know the facts about the Arctic and the changes that have occurred in its ice volumes.
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"The atmosphere - carbon dioxide, methane, whatever - does not function like a greenhouse in our gardens....Why do we continue to propagate the nonsense of the ‘greenhouse’ analogy?” UK Professor Philip Stott. LINK
A 'must-read' by Christopher Booker in the UK Daily Telegraph. As well as the article, read the comments posted below it, including the correction by Tom Harris about the origin of the Manhattan Declaration on Climate Change.
"I’ve argued time and again that the old trade unionists and CND lesbians didn’t go away. They just morphed into environmentalists. The red’s become green but the goals remain the same. And there’s no better way of achieving those goals than turning the lights out and therefore winding the clock bac...
This story has been on the record for some time, but has just come to our notice. It all started with Margaret Mead, in 1975, calling for a "Law of the Atmosphere". To download pdf: LINK
"How can you talk of the climate ‘warming’ when, on the key measures, it isn’t? ... Such media behaviour exhibits a classic condition known as ‘cognitive dissonance’. This is experienced when belief in a grand narrative persists blindly even when the facts in the real world begin to contradict what...
"The IPCC mandate is to examine human causes of climate change. However, you cannot determine the human effect if you do not know the cause and extent of natural climate change. You cannot determine the effect if you leave out major components of the climate system and make assumptions that contradi...
"Our efforts to lead the world in controlling emissions of carbon through legislation would have a profound effect on individuals and the national economy, but could be “vanishingly ineffective”, Prof Geoff Kearsley told Straight Furrow. “There is no point decimating our economy in pursuit of carb...
An application to the Hgh Court in Wellington by Basil Walker of Queenstown for an injunction to prevent Labur MPs enacting the Emissions Trading Scheme Bill will be heard on 22 September. The injunction is sought "to prevent injustice and to enhance the viability and future productive capacity of t...
"It's the Sun Not Your SUV - CO2 Will not Destroy the Earth: is the title of an informative new book by John Zykowski. The foreword, by Dipl-Ing. Peter Dietze, independent energy advisor and scientific climate and carbon modeler, official IPCC reviewer, Bavaria, Germany, is a good read and can be d...
The correct way ahead is for Australia to reject Labor's 'Emission Trading Scheme' for reason that it is a nonsense and has no scientific basis supporting it, and if enacted would lead to economic disaster. A new Australian Energy Policy should be formulated based on the premise that CO2 is a valuab...