NZ CLIMATE & ENVIROTRUTH No. 183

September 28, 2008, 5:39 am News

NZCLIMATE AND ENVIRO TRUTH NO 183 29 SEPTEMBER 2008
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The most dishonest statement in the IPCC "Climate Change 2007 is as follows:
“A common confusion between weather and climate arises when scientists are asked how they can predict climate 50 years from now when they cannot predict...

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UK ANAYSIS OF CLIMATE CHANGE POLICIES

September 26, 2008, 5:23 am News

"According to Bertrand Russell, 'the whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts'. Unfortunately, we expect our politicians to have all the answers, and our politicians expect likewise from their advisers. So we get...

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Eminent US climatologist Richard Lindzen questions the efficacy of climate science. In particular, he shows how political bodies act to control scientific institutions, how scientists adjust both data and even theory to accommodate politically correct positions, and how opposition to these positions...

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WHAT‘S THE COST OF GLOBAL WARMING?

September 22, 2008, 1:35 am News

Let us assume global warming is happening. Let us assume too that it is doing so at a rapid pace. What should we do about it? There are two very basic approaches. Either we can attempt to mitigate the problem by direct or indirect means, or we can go with the flow, and adapt to a warmer world. Let's...

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IS NUCLEAR THE ANSWER TO GLOBAL WARMING?

September 21, 2008, 4:16 am News

The supposed evils of uranium mining and nuclear power are used by the Greens to frighten the populace into supporting them. Also, and to a greater extent, their "Theory of Cataclysmic Global Warming" does the same thing. Scare mongering is a forte of the radical environmental movement, who believe...

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THE REAL CLIMATE AGENDA OF UN IPCC

September 21, 2008, 3:41 am News

"IPCC does not have ambition to present an objective climatic situation, but rather 'to shock' the people to take actions which would bring no climatic effects (NIPCC, 2008) , but rather di...

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A new paper by Lord Monckton concludes: "Some reasons why the IPCC’s estimates may be excessive and unsafe are explained. More importantly, the conclusion is that, perhaps, there is no 'climate crisis', and that currently-fashionable efforts by governments to reduce anthropogenic CO2 emissions are p...

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WIDE RANGE OF ERRORS IN IPCC PROJECTIONS

September 10, 2008, 2:14 am News

"There is no evidence, neither empirical nor theoretical, that carbon dioxide emissions from industrial and other human activities can have any effect on global climate. In addition, the claims so often made that there is a consensus among climate scientists that global warming is the result of incr...

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CLIMATE CASE ON THIN FOUNDATION

September 8, 2008, 1:55 am News

 "We are also led to believe that Chapter 9 [of 2007 IPCC report] was widely supported by hundreds of reviewers, but just 62 IPCC reviewers commented on its penultimate draft. Only five of those reviewers endorsed it but four of the five appear to have vested interests and the other made just one co...

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"The greenhouse effect is the underpinning science for the hypothesis of dangerous global warming from increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide caused by human activities. If we cannot get the underpinning science as a clear and logical construct then the edifice is no more than a house of cards! Also,...

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A SANE LOOK AT CLIMATOLOGICAL MODELS

September 7, 2008, 7:33 am News

 "I can not know what the trajectory of the climate system will be well enough to advise policy makers on what specific course it will take, or well enough to help them know what they could possibly do to tweak it toward a direction deemed 'safe,'..."But I do believe that the accumulating economi...

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CAN COMPUTER MODELS CONTROL CLIMATE?

September 7, 2008, 4:57 am News

"Much of the global warming debate is perhaps best described as a constant outbidding by frantic campaigners, producing a barrage of ever-more scary scenarios in an attempt to get the public to accept their civilisation-changing proposals. Unfortunately, the general public -- while concerned about...

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WHY NZers SHOULD LIST VOTE ACT PARTY

September 6, 2008, 10:36 am News

With a general election looming in New Zealand, and the axis of Labour, Greens and NZ First forcing passage in Parliament of an ill-considered and costly Emissions Trading Scheme Bill, Act Party leader Rodney Hide, the only MP with qualifications in Environmental Science, has come out in forceful op

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 "A general update due to subsequent developments (especially the current 2 year global cooling trend and a quieter sun with cooling oceans after an 8 year temperature plateau which tends to show that my point about solar and oceanic influences on global temperatures has some merit)" - Stephen Wilde...

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Dr James Lovelock, the English scientist who was one of the first to embrace the global warming hypothesis tells Radio New Zealand's "Morning Report" that our Emissions Trading Bill is a "waste of time".  LINK to hear broadcast

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CLIMATE CHANGE - THE REAL CAUSES

September 3, 2008, 5:31 am News

"It is so easy to grab onto the notion that the increase in fossil-fuel burning and subsequent growth in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is directly the major cause.  Even from season to season we see snow and ice-covered mountains thaw, and massive areas of the Antarctic ice shelf melt, but in jus

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 Distinguished Canadian climatologist, Dr Timothy Ball, explains why and how news media have misrepresented claims about the state of Actice sea ice. This analysis is a superb backgrounder for anyone wanting to know the facts about the Arctic and the changes that have occurred in its ice volumes.
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"The entire climate change - global warming hypothesis is a hoax, the data and the hypothesis do not hold together, Al Gore is a phoney and a fraud on this issue, and the emissions trading scheme is a worldwide scam and swindle." Rodney Hide MP in NZ Parliament.

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‘GREENHOUSE‘ TERM IS BASIC BUNKUM

September 2, 2008, 1:25 am News

"The atmosphere - carbon dioxide, methane, whatever - does not function like a greenhouse in our gardens....Why do we continue to propagate the nonsense of the ‘greenhouse’ analogy?”  UK Professor Philip Stott.  LINK

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THE CATASTROPHE BEHIND CLIMATE CHANGE

August 31, 2008, 1:04 am News

 A 'must-read' by Christopher Booker in the UK Daily Telegraph. As well as the article, read the comments posted below it, including the correction by Tom Harris about the origin of the Manhattan Declaration on Climate Change.

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