NZ CLIMATE & ENVIROTRUTH No. 187

October 25, 2008, 8:54 am News

 
NZCLIMATE TRUTH NO  187
 
26TH OCTOBER 2008
 
PROBABILITY AND UNCERTAINTY
 
In Newsletter No 183 on "Chaos" I pointed out that The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) admits that the forecasting of weather is   Impossible (though actually only difficult) because of "ch...

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ETS - AUSTRALIA "AMBUSHED BY REALITY"

October 21, 2008, 5:15 am News

ETS in Australia: " ..if the world can’t reach a consensus on something as relatively simple as free trade, how on earth will it be able to reach a consensus on something as complicated as climate change?" asks former senior adviser to ex-Leader of Australia's Liberal Party.              LINK

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NZ CLIMATE & ENVIROTRUTH No. 186

October 20, 2008, 1:10 am News

NZCLIMATE TRUTH No 186
20 OCTOBER 2008

OCEAN/ATMOSPHERE OSCILLATIONS

It is now firmly established that increases in carbon dioxide have no detectable effect on the climate. Global temperatures are falling. There has been no change of temperature in New Zealand for at least 50 years, so that...

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" The evidence continues to mount that the IPCC models are too sensitive, and therefore produce too much global warming. If climate sensitivity is indeed considerably less than the IPCC claims it to be, then increasing CO2 alone can not explain r...

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In this 4-part link, Viscount Monckton, in an open letter to US presidential candidate Senator John McCain, treats the Republican candidate to a longish but very readable, and convincing lesson on the whole issue of "global warming" and emissions trading, which ought to be required reading for polit...

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"The climate change problem is inherently one of making decisions over the very long term, under conditions of considerable uncertainty. Misrepresenting the problem as one where we can (with any degree of accuracy) set the global thermostat by limiting atmospheric CO2 to any particular level is no...

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"At present, there seems only one way out of this dilemma: a major building programme for new nuclear power stations to provide a lower-carbon, energy-secure future, coupled with encouragement of a move to make road transport primarily electric. Even then, we have to accept that energy use will cont

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"With so many scientific papers chasing so few pages in the most prestigious journals, the winners could be the ones most likely to oversell themselves—to trumpet dramatic or important results that later turn out to be false. This would produce a distorted picture of scientific knowledge, with less...

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"The recent atmospheric global temperature anomalies of the Earth have been shown to consist of independent effects in different latitude bands. Te tropical latitude band variations are strongly correlated with ENSO (El Nino Southern Oscillation) effects. The maximum seen in 1998 is due to El Nino o...

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NZ CLIMATE & ENVIROTRUTH No. 185

October 3, 2008, 8:29 am News

 
NZCLIMATE TRUTH NO  185
 
4TH OCTOBER 2008

FAKING THE FIGURES

I just came across this statement in the NCDC website

"NOTE: From February 2006 through April 14, 2006, the anomalies provided from the links below were inadvertently provided as departures from the 1961-1990 average. Anom...

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ACT PARTY NZ SAYS: "DROP ETS!"

September 29, 2008, 4:53 am News

"There is no evidence that CO2 drives climate or that industrialisation is warming the world. In fact, the evidence is the reverse...When I started out as an environmentalist the fear was global cooling...The science is weak.  The costs are huge."  Rodney Hide, leader of the Act Party has a Master's

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NZ CLIMATE & ENVIROTRUTH N0. 182

September 29, 2008, 3:11 am News

NZCLIMATE AND ENVIRO TRUTH NO 182 3 SEPTEMBER 2008 RODNEY HIDE
  It gives me great pleasure to publicise the following Press Notice from Rodney Hide of the ACT Party. For many years the only Parliamentarian prepared to support the view that emissions of carbon dioxide are not responsibl...

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NZ CLIMATE & ENVIROTRUTH No. 183

September 28, 2008, 5:39 am News

NZCLIMATE AND ENVIRO TRUTH NO 183 29 SEPTEMBER 2008
CHAOS

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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