Posted 1 September 2012
Posted 21 August 2012
"Statistical analyses of hydrological time series are an essential component for the development and management of water resources in countries with dry climates. This becomes critical as the water requirements approach the maximum available resources. To complicate matters,...
Posted 20 August 2012
"Over the past half century, none of our threatened eco-pocalypses have played out as predicted. Some came partly true; some were averted by action; some were wholly chimerical. This raises a question that many find discomforting: With a track record like this, why should pe...
Posted 15 August 2012
"The hysteria sweeping the country over fracking is like a modern-day version of the Chicken Licken story... It is time to inject some science and common sense into the debate. Fracking, or hydraulic fracturing, has been used in New Zealand for decades. Some 25 years ago, fr...
Posted 2 August 2012
"In the theory of man-made climate change, two-thirds of the predicted warming comes from changes in humidity and clouds, and only one-third comes directly from the extra carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gases. The theory assumes humidity and clouds amplify t...
Posted 1 August 2012
Recent alarmist scaremongering in the United States about "unprecedented" extreme weather events, repeated by news media in Australia and New Zealand, have been firmly rebutted by the Alabama State climatologist, Dr John R Christy in testimony before the American Senate Envir...
Posted 30 July 2012
A re-analysis of U.S. surface station temperatures has been performed using the recently WMO-approved Siting Classification System devised by METEO-France’s Michel Leroy. The new siting classification more accurately characterizes the quality of the location in terms of monito...
Posted 26 July 2012
Viscount Christopher Monckton has posted a detailed rebuttal under the above title:
"Be skeptical, be very skeptical, of Skeptic magazine’s skepticism of climate skeptics. The latest issue has, as its cover story, a Climate Change Q&A, revealingly subtitled 'Climate Denie...
Posted 25 July 2012
Posted 25 July 2012
"The 15-year battle in Canada over the Kyoto Protocol ended last week when the Federal Court ruled the Stephen Harper government’s withdrawal from the agreement was legal. Countries that do not meet their emission targets and did not withdraw before the end of 2011 — as allowe...
Posted 15 July 2012
"New Zealand's Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) is a scam and a waste. The ETS taxes our elderly trying to heat their homes and then uses the revenue to subsidise multi-national Japanese companies. These companies bought forests in New Zealand. Their trees are now subsidised bec...
Posted 13 July 2012
A move by the Royal Society of New Zealand to lokk at what it calls the "human carrying capacity" of our country, has provoked an interesting discussion within our Coalition ranks.Start with reading a paper by Dr Tim Ball of Canada, linked here
Posted 4 July 2012
New Zealand energy observer Jim Hopkins explains why the Greens' economic vision has more loose ends than a dysentery epidemic.
Download pdf here
Posted 1 July 2012
"People are inundated with reports giving the impression that what is happening is worse then ever before, unusual and therefore due to human activities. When weather and climate became a political issue through the IPCC claims of impending doom it became a focus for media. The...
Posted 30 June 2012
The largest United Nations conference ever—featuring more than 50,000 participants from 188 nations —was a flop. For most of the environmentalist ideologues at the Rio +20 conference the only question was whether it was a “hoax” or a “failure.” Oxfam chief executive Barbara St...
Posted 29 June 2012
Posted 27 June 2012
Posted 26 June 2012