Posted 25 September 2009
"Imagine if there were no reliable records of global surface temperature. Raucous policy debates such as cap-and-trade would have no scientific basis, Al Gore would at this point be little more than a historical footnote, and President Obama would not be spending this U.N...
Posted 21 September 2009
"The only sensible precaution that you can take in such a situation is to plan for a continuation of the present climate trend, and recognize and plan also for reasonable bounds of future climate variability. As the temperature trend for ten years now has been one of cool...
Posted 18 September 2009
A charge that there is not one government scientist in New Zealand associated with climate issues who is willing to speak out on global warming alarmism with some sense of balance or with an appearance of an open mind has been made by Associate Professor Chris de Freitas,...
Posted 18 September 2009
"If Wall Street traders can commodify sub-prime mortgages with impunity, and the Enrons of the world can manipulate energy markets like a pinball machine, imagine a future when tradeable permits for carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases are auctioned and swapped ov...
Posted 18 September 2009
Former top officer of New Zealand's Federated Farmers, Frank Brenmuhl, writing in leading farming newspaper, says " Political expediency has ensured the scientific debate has been reduced to a battle between believers and deniers. This deliberate ploy has meant there has...
Dr Vincent Gray, expert reviewer of IPCC Assessment Reports since their inception, has up-dated his extensive paper "The Global Warming Scam", (to August 2009), in which he shows that none of the evidence presented by IPCC confirms a relationship between emissions of greenhouse gases and any harmfu...
Posted 11 September 2009
An American meteorologist writes in the Washington Post to rebut 10 of the most popular arguments in favour of man-made global warming. Written in laypeople-friendly language by a practising weather forecaster.
Posted 9 September 2009
"To the annals of global warming lunacy, add this gem from New Zealand: According to a parliamentary committee, Kiwis should accept lower standards of living to protect the national image abroad. The findings of the 'Emissions Trading Review Committee' aren't binding, but...
Posted 9 September 2009
"What started as a straightforward scientific enquiry has become a mass delusion and then a gigantic confidence trick on the public, a scam, a rort. There are many scientists and others who are uneasy about the escalation that has occurred, but are unable to jump off the...
Posted 7 September 2009
"Claims of the existence of a scientific consensus as reflected in IPCC reports fail to recognise that the IPCC itself undertakes no scientific research. Its key public document ('Summary for Policy Makers') has been drafted by government appointed officials often drawn fr...
Posted 5 September 2009
"The individual sea level records obtained from the SEAFRAME study on 12 Pacific Islands have all been assessed by the anonymous authors of the official reports as indicating positive trends in sea level over all 12 Pacific Islands involved since the study began in 1993. T...
Posted 3 September 2009
"Using the IPCC warming rate for our demonstration, we projected the rate successively over a period analogous to that envisaged in their scenario of exponential CO2 growth—the years 1851 to 1975. The errors from the projections were more than seven times greater than the...
Posted 1 September 2009
A special Select Committee of the New Zealand Parliament set up to review emissions trading has just tabled its report, commencing with Recommendation No 1: "We recommend that the IPCC assessment, its projections, and the findings of the Fourth Assessment Report, which rep...
Posted 29 August 2009
"The global warming doomsday writers claim the ice sheets are melting catastrophically, and will cause a sudden rise in sea level of many metres. This ignores the mechanism of glacier flow which is by creep: glaciers are not melting from the surface down, nor are they slidin...
Posted 29 August 2009
"The evidence of history is that the sizes of the targets are less damaging than the plans required to achieve them.....These emission reduction plans will lay down blueprints for achieving sector targets and such plans create winners and losers. One of their claimed benefit...
Posted 27 August 2009
"Since the establishment of the IPCC in 1988 not a single person in South Africa has died as a result of provable climate change. But thousands have died from poverty-related starvation, malnutrition and disease. How dare those who call themselves scientists deliberately sup...
Posted 27 August 2009
Posted 11 August 2009
"We obviously don’t want to be hoist with a meaningless and expensive target if there is no result in post-Copenhagen rounds, or if any outcomes prove to be entirely different from Kyoto caps. Any announced targets must state the assumptions on which they are based, and emp...
Posted 7 August 2009
Posted 4 August 2009
"Graphs of sea level for twelve locations in the southwest Pacific show stable sea level for about ten years over the region. The data ... suggest that any rise of global sea level is negligible..... Sea level studies have not been carried out for very long, but they can indi...