Posted 25 February 2011
World-renowned physicist Professor Freeman Dyson has been described as a 'force-of-nature intellect'. He's also one of the world's foremost climate change sceptics. In this email exchange, science editor of the UK newspaper The Independent, Steve Connor, asks the Prince...
Posted 23 February 2011
"The cult of reducing carbon emissions shapes everything we do, at local, national and global levels. The very future of the planet, we are told, hangs on our dispensing with fossil fuels and adopting renewable energy sources as quickly as possible. But here’s the problem...
Posted 20 February 2011
Posted 20 February 2011
"For their propaganda, global warming alarmists rely heavily on historic amnesia. This can be well illustrated by examples from Australia. Severe climatic events have been a common natural occurrence in Australia in the past, as they are today. However, this doesn’t seem...
Posted 11 February 2011
"Until someone actually determines whether there truly is broad agreement among researchers to support the billions of dollars committed by governments to counter human effects on the climate, we might better devote our resources to adapting to climate change, or on remedi...
Posted 6 February 2011
NZCSC chair Barry Brill and skeptic blog Wordshine have collaborated to produce challenging papers that question the validity of the recent update on New Zealand temperatures by the National Institute of Water & Atmosphere (NIWA). The six papers are:
Posted 25 January 2011
Posted 25 January 2011
"All in all, the BOM letter offers little or no assurance that NIWA scientists have got it right this time. At most, it offers tepid support to NIWA’s Review Report." Coalition's comment on NIWA claims of Australian Bureau of Meteorology review of adjustments of New Zeala...
Posted 21 January 2010
"The current debate is a public policy debate with enormous implications. It is no longer about climate. It is about the government, the politicians, their scribes and the lobbyists who want to get more decision-making and power for themselves. It seems to me that the wides...
Posted 21 January 2011
Posted 21 January 2011
Posted 18 January 2011
Posted 17 January 2011
"The notion of a static, unchanging climate is foreign to the history of the earth or any other planet with a fluid envelope. The fact that the developed world went into hysterics over changes in global mean temperature anomaly of a few tenths of a degree will astound futu...
Posted 14 January 2011
Posted 10 January 2010
"Those familiar with the climate debate will naturally be aware that the rise in average official temperatures of 0.74C over the 20th century was an inherent component of IPCC’s conclusion of a future of dangerously high temperatures unless governments acted to reduce gree...
Posted 10 January 2010
Posted 4 January 2011
"Remarkably, in enunciating their “eleven principles”, the Canberra MCCC managed to evade entirely any mention of the underpinning scientific justification for introducing a tax on carbon dioxide. That is, of course, because there is none (which is doubtless why only one, ta...
Posted 4 January 2011
"In recent years anyone daring to question the imminent reality of catastrophic global warming has risked being labelled a denialist with implicit, and sometimes even explicit, reference to holocaust denial as well. Ironically, over the past year in the face of a cooling cli...
Posted 2 January 2011
"The main conclusion one arrives at the analysis is that CO2 has not a causal relation with global warming and it is not powerful enough to cause the historical changes in temperature that were observed. The main argument is the absence of immediate correlation between CO2 c...
Posted 2 January 2011
“Watch out, Al Gore. The glaciers will get you!” With that appended note, my friend, retired field geologist Jack Sauers, forwarded to me a report that should have been a lead item in every newspaper in the world. It was the news that the best-measured glacier in North Ameri...