Posted 18 November 2009
"Himalayan glaciers show variable behaviour over the past hundred years. Most have retreated, some have stayed almost static, and some have a record of advance and retreat. This parallels the rest of the world, where most glaciers have been retreating since the end of the...
Posted 11 November 2009
Posted 10 November 2009
"There is receding support in the U.S. and Europe too, which is why next month's Copenhagen confab is expected to be such a dud. Like the U.S., Australia is ignoring this common sense and pushing ahead to impose an expensive cap-and-trade regime on its economy. At the very...
Posted 7 November 2009
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has spewed out a rhetorical barrage on climate skeptics worldwide, saying skeptics 'are too 'dangerous to ignore' and are 'holding the world to ransom'. Climate Depot's Marc Morano has written a detailed point-by-point rebuttal of Rudd...
Posted 7 November
"What we have here is a grotesque inverted pyramid of dross constructed on the crest of a sand dune, which drains rivers of treasure and, just as importantly, human attention away from environmental concerns of real and genuine consequence. And, as I say, it is to this that you...
Posted 4 November 2009
"Increasingly, the road to Copenhagen resembles a suburban street on Halloween with the number of climate change freak shows and stunts reaching a nadir in recent weeks. Nicholas Stern says we should turn vegetarian in order to combat climate change. If you must eat meat, e...
Posted 1 November 2009
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Posted 1 November 2009
Only the brilliantly penetrating wit of modern philosopher Clive James could link a golf ball potato crisp, via Montaigne, to reflection on the importance of scepticism in every walk of life, and to criticise extreme reactions to those who are sceptical about man-made globa...
Posted 31 October 2009
"The errors from the [IPCC] projections were more than seven times greater than the errors from the benchmark method. Relative errors were larger for longer forecast horizons. Our validation exercise illustrates the importance of determining whether it is possible to obtain...
Posted 29 October 2009
Dr Vincent Gray's latest Envirotruth 225 demonstrates from the behaviour of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO), that, as ocean heating is from below, this heating is related to the PDO must also behave in a periodic fashion. "The finding that the earth's energy is not ba...
Posted 30 October 2009
"Never in the field of human deceit have so few taken so many for a ride to so little effect. I refer, with apologies to Churchill, to the ridiculous competition among our politicians to scare us silly about global warming." Bernard Ingham, in the Yorkshire Post, UK.
Posted 28 October 2009
"Mr. President,
"You have recently held an undersea Cabinet meeting to raise awareness of the idea that
global sea level is rising and hence threatens to drown the Maldives. This proposition is not
founded in observational facts and true scientific judgements, Accordingl...
Posted 27 October 2009
"Concerning the climate change that we observe around us today... the simplest (and therefore null) hypothesis, is that "the climate change observed today is natural unless and until evidence accrues otherwise". In regard to which, first, no such evidence has emerged. And...
Posted 25 October 2009
Here are links to our Coaltiion's submissions to the New Zealand Parliament Select Committee considering the Climate Change Response (Moderated Emissions Trading Scheme) Amendment Bill:
Primary submissions: [LINK](sc subm final.pdf) to download pdf
Supplementary su...
Posted 8 October 2009
"There is no need whatsoever for an economically dangerous and scientifically discredited emissions trading scheme with its taxes, bureaucracy and disruptions. And as for the Copenhagen talkfest, even Helen Clark is downplaying the likelihood that it will be the final step i...
Posted 5 October 2009
"The global warming religion runs so deep today that most politicians figure it's best enact some sort of green policy, regardless of whether or not that policy actually reduces global warming. Exhibit number one is New Zealand.......What Mr. Smith didn't say is that from...
Posted 4 October 2009
"The planet has warmed and cooled several times over the past 150 years, all within the range of natural climate variability. There are no published scientific papers that show irrefutable proof that any of this is human-caused. Proof is not to be mistaken for the output of...
Posted 3 October 2009
The great global warming scare is over — it is well past its peak, very much a spent force, sputtering in fits and starts to a whimpering end. You may not know this yet. Or rather, you may know it but don’t want to acknowledge it until every one else does, and that won’t h...
Posted 3 October 2009
"My view is that there are fundamental faults in the science used to justify mitigatory action by governments; that claims of a consensus on the IPCC science have no credibility and that account is not taken of the long history of faulty analyses by scientists; that examinat...
Posted 27 September 2009
"A broadcaster is in trouble when it, rather than the news that it carries, becomes the story. And thus it now often is with [Australia's] ABC. Why are today’s media directors and reporters so incapable of making accurate critical judgements on environmental issues. It...