Posted 31 October 2016
A new paper by UK MP Peter Lilley, a former senior Minister, is a devastating analysis 10 years later of the Stern Review, in which the now Lord Nicholas Stern attempted to assess the adverse economic effects of "climate change" a.k.a. man-made global warming. In a foreword...
Posted 28 October 2016
Because the scaremongering propagandists are at again with claims that our oceans are becoming "more acidic", it's time to remind ourselves that this never was, and never will be, true. This piece at WattsUpWithThat, by Clyde Spencer explains why. "Some areas of oceans, not...
Posted 22 October 2016
Tom Sheahen reminds us: "About a decade ago, in bis book 'Heaven and Earth', Australian geologist Ian Pimer wrote that undersea vents and volcanoes were a major source that has been totally neglected. Nobody responded, nobody counter-argued, because nobody knew what to say...
Posted 19 October 2016
In the annual address to UK's Global Warming Policy Foundation, Viscount Matt Ridley said that sceptics are winning the climate argument: "When Nigel Lawson set up GWPF in 2009, virtually everybody agreed that global warming was the greatest threat to humankind in the twen...
Posted 11 October 2016
Christopopher Booker writes in the UK Telegraph about how claims made in the UK Guardian 100 months ago about climate calamities due to made-made global warming have gruned out to be fantasies: " All the computer models which predicted these horrors were programmed to ass...
Posted 27 September 2016
Seven scientists have delivered a stunning rebuff to 375 US signatories to an open letter claiming we humans have caused "global warming." The seven say: "The activists say we are warming the lower atmosphere. Yet on all datasets, the atmosphere is warming at less than ha...
Posted 27 September 2016
A new and important study on sea levels finds: "the amount of erosion on Diego Garcia over ther last 50 years is almost exactly balanced by the amount of accretion, suggesting the island to be in a state of equilibrium." Commenting on the significance of this finding, aut...
Posted 23 September 2016
"The scientific community must be able to show with a very high level of confidence, that reducing or ceasing human activity associated with greenhouse gas emissions will reverse global warming. If this is not possible, policymakers should assume that global warming is e...
Posted 23 September 2016
Tom Harris of the International Climate Science Coalition writes in a US newspaper: "In his September 8 speech announcing California's new greenhouse emission laws, Governor Jerry Brown said: 'If we don't stop climate change, it's not going to be 110 [degrees] in Imperial...
Posted 27 August 2016
An official complaint has been lodged with the Royal Society of New Zealand (RSNZ) alleging a breach of that Society's own Code of Ethics by Professors Tim Naish and James Renwick, of Victoria University of Wellington in their current programme of talks around New Zealand, e...
Posted 17 August 2016
"People that I hoped would be there forever have begun to vanish.....The Austraian scientist Bob Carter died far too young. The climate change orthodoxy can be a tough proposition to be sceptical about if you mind being accused of betraying the future of the human race. Ca...
Posted 16 August 2016
"A physicist who foresees a 30-year periodmof global cooling says other climatologists have tried to 'silence' her latest research on solar cycles. Valentina Zharkova, a professor at Northumbria University at Newcastle in the United KIngdom, said thr Royal Astronomical Soci...
Posted 4 August 2016
"Current weather is normal; that is, it is well within the range of all previous weather and climate variations. There are no dramatic increases in temperature, precipitation, hurricanes, tornadoes or any other severe weather. The climate is changing just as it always has and...
Posted 1 August 2016
"When we measure temperature in our backyard, we really aren't that concerned if the thermometer we use is out by a degree or two. Since most people live where temperature fluctuates by many degrees every day, and the season swing can be 80oF or more, a couple of degrees does...
Posted 30 July 2016
"The column [in NZ Herald] by University of Canterbury sociologist Jarrod Gilbert describing climate change 'denial' as a crime is alarming because he suggests those with opinions differing to his should be silenced. What is happening to iur education system when university l...
Posted 28 July 2016
"The corruption of climate science by some misguided individuals in the quest to 'save the planet' is the most egregious example of the larger problems facing science in general. The problems are causing rapid erosion of credibility in science and environmental issues. Some ar...
Posted 24 July 2016
The basic causes of changes in weather and long-term climate patterns are explained in this paper by an eminent New Zealand scientist, Professor Emeritus Geoffrey G Duffy, Fellow of the Royal Society, DEng, PhD, ASTC Dip, FRSNZ, FICemE, CEng.
In effect, Professor Duffy says...
Posted 21 July 2016
For the International Climate Science Coalition, Dr Tim Ball and Tom Harris, have responded to alarmism generated by Democrats in the U.S. Senate:. "The best answer to many of the claims by Senate Democrats during their three-day 'Web of Denial' climate change campaign in Con...
Posted 15 July 2016
"As a public watchdog, an independent press plays a vital role in providing accurate, fair and balanced reporting of public policy debates. When matters are contentious, the Press Council states that 'a fair voice must be given to the opposition view.' However, in the contro...
Posted 15 July 2016
"Many articles in the New Zealand Herald over the past few years have emphasised the dangers of man-made global warming (aka 'climate change') and warned us that extreme measures are needed to save us from this imminent climatic disaster. Almost without exception, the author...