Posted 6 March 2010
"This conversion [by the original US climate alarmist Jmes Hansen] to honesty came too late, however, for in the intervening years thousands of other climate scientists had meanwhile climbed onto the Hansenist funding gravy-train. Currently, global warming alarmism is fuelled...
Posted 4 March 2010
" All these alarms were given special prominence in the IPCC's 2007 report and each of them has now been shown to be based, not on hard evidence, but on scare stories, derived not from proper scientists but from environmental activists. Those glaciers are not vanishing; the da...
Posted 2 March 2010
The UK Parliamentary hearings of the University of East Anglia CRU "Climategate" affair have re-ignited interest in the 'urban heat island effect' (UHIE) - the natural process that shows temperatures to be warmer in built up cities than in rural countryside areas. This is imp...
Posted 1 March 2010
In August 2009, the New Zealand Prime Minister's Chief Science Advisor, Professor Sir Peter Gluckman issued a position paper on climate change. In a critique early in 2010 for the NZ Climate Science Coalition, Dr Doug Edmeades found the Gluckman paper deficient in 10 instance...
Posted 28 February 2010
"The university at the centre of the climate change row over stolen e-mails has been accused of making a misleading statement to Parliament. The University of East Anglia wrote this week to the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee giving the impression that it...
Posted 26 February 2010
Question: Do all of the gases in our atmosphere absorb heat?
Answer: No. Only some gases have the unique property of being able to absorb heat. These are the infrared-absorbing "greenhouse gases," of course, substances like carbon dioxide and water vapor, and no...
Posted 27 February 2010
A months-long crisis at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has upended the world's perception of global warming, after hacked emails and other disclosures revealed deep divisions among scientists working with the United Nation-sponsored group. That has raised qu...
Posted 27 February 2010
"A recent article in The Gisborne Herald said 'warming has been accelerating over the past 20 years', and there is 'a runaway greenhouse effect', and 'rising sea levels', but none of these things are real. It is disturbing so many people involved in the ongoing debate do...
Posted 27 February 2010
Exactly 20 years ago, world-recognised meteorologist Henk Tennekes was abruptly sacked as director of the Dutch Meteorological Institure for daring to write a newspaper column challenging the IPCC inspired hypothesis of man-made global warming. Now, people in Holland are...
Posted 27 February 2010
"At the first opportunity for audience participation just several minutes into the proceeding, a longtime and well-known Apple shareholder–some would say gadfly–who introduced himself as Sheldon, stood at the microphone and urged against Gore’s re-election to the board. Go...
Posted 23 February 2010
"Climate alarmists do not simply boast of their monopoly over peer-reviewed outlets – they also do their best to call into question peer-reviewed outlets that dare to publish research that challenges any aspect of their moral crusade." Professor Frank Furedi, writing in T...
Posted 25 February 2010
" Mr. Gore's financial gains were based on the contradictory and error-plagued assertion that man's release of the trace gas CO2 will fry the planet. Once it becomes clear to everyone that the AGW theory is based on cleverly manipulated data twisted by rigged computer mode...
Posted 23 February 2010
"The basic problem of unwarranted trust goes well beyond the [IPCC] Panel; it extends to the chronically biased treatment iof climate change issues by responsible departments and agencies that the Panel reports to, and in the many nationally-based organisations which they...
Posted 7 February 2010
"NIWA did everything they possibly could to help us, except hand over the adjustments. It has turned out that there was actually nothing more they could have done -- because they never had the adjustments.... None of the scientific papers that NIWA cited in their impressive...
Posted 7 February 2010
"The IPCC – the body widely regarded, until now, as the ultimate authority on climate science – is looking worse and worse. After it was forced to retract its claim about melting glaciers, Mr. Pachauri dismissed the error as a one-off. But other IPCC claims have turned out...
Posted 7 February 2010
"Science is the search for truth, the never-ending path towards finding out how things are arranged in this world so that they can work as they do. That search is never finished. It seems that the climate research community has betrayed that mighty goal in science. They hav...
Posted 4 February 2010
New ZEaland's National Institute for Water & Atmospheric Research (NIWA) has been requested under the Official Information Act to provide details relating to treatment of raw temperature data. The trexts of the correspondence exchanged can be accessed in the links below.
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Posted 3 February 2010
"They made the science fit the political goals and stopped at nothing to achieve the end. They succeeded, because beyond manipulations that duped politicians, media and most of the public, they knew many scientists who participated did not understand climate science. Blinde...
Posted 2 February 2010
"The IPCC made a prominent claim in its 2007 report, again citing the WWF as its authority, that climate change could endanger "up to 40 per cent" of the Amazon rainforest – as iconic to warmists as those Himalayan glaciers and polar bears. This WWF report, it turned out, w...