NZCLIMATE & ENVIRO TRUTH NO 168
9 APRIL 2008
THE POLITBUREAU
There was a recent meeting of the IPCC Steering Committee (The Politbureau) at the recent Bangkok United Nations meeting to consider the crisis that has arisen from the recent apparent cooling of the climate.
The General Secr...
"All those urging action to curb global warming need to take off the blinkers and give some thought to what we should do if we are facing global cooling instead." Australian geophysicist who was NASA atronaut.
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The International Climate Science Coalition has released the names of hundreds of qualified people who have endorsed the Manhattan Declaration on Climate Change made in New York last month. LINK
View Professor Bob Carter on Shine TV explaining why New Zealanders should oppose the Emissions Trading Scheme Bill now being debated by a Parliamentary Select Committee: For YouTube LINK
"Given the vast structural changes any emission reduction policy would cause, and the enormous increase in government power, the summit should surely call for more than a report on emissions trading. It is difficult to think of a more important issue facing Australia and the Government." Des Moore...
"...there is no observational evidence in measured data going back 22,000 years or even millions of years that CO2 levels (whether from man or nature) have driven or are driving world temperatures or climate change.
If you believe there is evidence of the CO2 driver theory in the available data p...
"The fact that the WMO and Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change were incapable of reflecting El Niño’s impact on their temperature models simply underscores how politically driven and unscientific climate science has become. The “consensus” models must be considered worthless after years of fai...
" I feel that the actions I have seen proposed, such as carbon caps and carbon trading, are likely to be unnecessary, expensive and futile unless there is much stronger evidence that we are facing a global environmental crisis, whether or not we have brought it about ourselves." Professor Don Aitk...
"The climate is not highly sensitive to CO2 warming because water vapour is a damper against the warming effect of CO2." Owen McShane explains in this article in New Zealand's premier business weekly paper: National Business Review
Professor Bob Carter, a graduate of Otago University, now an internatiiobnally celebrated expert on climate change, is currently on a short lecture tour of the North Island. For his itinerary: link to download pdf
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To attend dinner presentation at Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron, Auckland, F...
"In relation to these issues, a new framework is needed - less presumptive, more inclusive, more watertight professionally, and more attuned to the huge uncertainties that remain." Prof David Henderson's lecture to IMF. LINK
Dr Gerrit van der LIngen, of Christchurch responds to crtique of his original article in Christchurch magazine Avenues (see link below) . This is journalism and intelligent debating as it's all too seldom seen in New Zealand.
[link ](avenues april article - prepared for own distr..pdf) to downl...
"The time is right for leaders of courage to expose the sham of the ‘consensus’ on climate change and lead the fight against policies that will enslave and impoverish us, as well as cause real damage to the world’s environment." Briefing note for policy makers.
download 16-page pdf file [link ](c...
The New Zealan...
Aucklanders invited to hear leading international climate realist, Profesor Bob Carter present the facts about "global warming" and why emission trading rules are not necessary. [link ](bob carter rnzys.pdf) to download pdf
"Just how good is the science underpinning the theory of manmade global warming? My answer might surprise you: it is 10 miles wide, but only 2 inches deep. Contrary to what you have been led to believe, there is no solid published evidence that has ruled out a natural cause for most of our recent...