Posted 18 February 2009
A few people seem to have missed the point of this satirical post. It is a counterpoint to Al Gore’s use of “millions of tons” when talking about CO2 emissions. I’m pointing out that relative to the total atmosphere, millions of tons of CO2 is miniscule. And even a 50% incr...
Posted 15 February 2009
"The Australian tragedy tells us nothing about global climate. Meanwhile, what the alarmists are saying, in effect, is that instead of protecting their property by taking local precautions, by prudently burning and cutting vegetation, homeowners should be preparing for the...
Posted 14 February 2009
Posed 13 February 2009
The National Research Council of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences has embraced the Milankovitch Cycle model....orbital variations remain the most thoroughly examined mechanism of climatic change on time scales of tens of thousands of years and are by far the clearest c...
Posted 8 February 2009
"Climate politics is collapsing because of political realities, and not real or perceived changes in how people see the science. In the ongoing battle between climate scientists and skeptics there will be disproportionate carnage, because the climate scientists have so much...
Posted 28 January 2996
"The present global financial crisis should be inducing politicians not to squander money on non-solutions to non-problems. Yet to support their plans for emissions taxation Western governments, including ours, are still propagating scientifically juvenile greenhouse propaga...
Posted 25 January 2009
"There are now serious discussions afoot to lodge complaints against [Al] Gore to the federal financial and legal authorities in that he fraudulently talks up the imagined 'climate crisis' in the hope that he and his 'green' investment corporation can profit by the baseless...
Posted 25 January 2009
Mencius Moldbug is a software engineer in San Francisco. After scoring in the dot com boom, he went on sabbatical in order to read, think, and write. He studied the whole global warming debate and came away with some interesting findings. Here his long comment thread has b...
Posted 25 January 2009
"The measures being proposed to meet what President Obama last week called the need to "roll back the spectre of a warming planet" threaten to land us with the most colossal bill mankind has ever faced. It might therefore seem peculiarly important that we can trust the scien...
Posted 24 January 2009: "Like many of those who were caught off guard by the subprime mortgage crisis, those involved in the rapidly expanding climate change industry are not asking the most fundamental of questions:
'• What if the science that supposedly backs concerns over carbon dioxide (CO2) em...
Posted 22 January 2009
Posted 12 January 2009
"There is no science demonstrating that the mid-point of the standard IPCC projection of a warming of 3 degrees if CO2-e doubles from the 1750 level of 280 ppm will have any adverse impacts, if only because there is as yet no unambiguous empirical evidence of any such adve...
Posted 11 January 2009
"The omens do not look good for a new deal. The climate change lobby desperately needs 2009 to break records for high average temperatures and extreme weather. Summer ice melt in the Arctic in 2008 was hyped, but the winter growth seems to be more rapid than usual. The year as a whole gave miserable summer weather to many, and there has been no upward trend of temperatures since the highs of 1998, despite steadily rising atmospheric carbon dioxide levels. If the long-established link between solar activity and climate holds, the very low sunspot numbers at present suggest a cooling rather than warming trend." The Scientific Alliance, UK
Posted 9 January 2009
"It is becoming increasingly clear that skepticism about man-made global warming fear is not a partisan left vs. right issue. In fact, many scientists and activists who are also progressive environmentalists believe climate fear promotion has 'co-opted' or 'hijacked' the g...
Posted 8 January 2009.
David Bellamy spent some 30 years travelling the globe talking about nature, becoming one of the best known TV personalities in the English-speaking world. “I’ve never done a day’s work in my life,” says Bellamy. “I’ve only ever done what I enjoy.” The freedom he used to ha...
Posted: 6 January 2009.
"Science is only about certainty and facts. The real question is in acknowledging the end of fossil fuels within the next 200 years or so: how do we spend our research time and dollars? Do we spend it on ideologically green-inspired publicity campaigns such as emissions-tra...
Posted 6 January 2009
"Fifty-three authors and five reviewers are all that can be said to explicitly support the claim of a significant human influence on climate. The figure of 4000 is a myth. Even the IPCC's total of 3750 is a myth. Not even the 2879 individuals can be shown to support the claim...
Posted 6 January 2009
"My current concern with the emissions trading scheme is that a religious fervour has built up around the altar of global warming. Those who serve at the altar have become ruthless in their denigration of alternate views. This fervour has now received its imprimatur by reason...
Posted 4 January 2009
"Where so much remains uncertain, unsettled or unknown, policies should be evolutionary and adaptive, rather than presumptive; and their evolution should be linked to a process of inquiry and review which is more thorough, balanced, open and objective than is now the case." ...
Posted 1 January 2009
Spending billions on trying to reduce carbon emissions is one giant con that is depriving third world countries of vital funds to tackle famine, HIV and other diseases, says Northern Ireland Environment Minister Sammy Wilson.