Posted 15 March 2011
"Control the language, and you control the outcome of any debate**Ten dishonest slogans about global warming, and ten little facts.* Each of the following ten numbered statements reproduces verbatim, or almost verbatim, statements made recently by Australian government lea...
Posted 9 March 2011
The ETS Review Panel, chaired by Hon David Caygill, intends to publish an “Issues Statement” prior to undertaking its proposed consultation process on the ETS Review 2011. New Zealand Climate Science Coalition chair, Hon Barry Brill, a former Minister of Science, has written t...
Posted 8 March 2011
"With Julia Gillard’s sudden switch to support for a carbon price, Australia in 2013 could be the first country to hold an election with anthropogenic global warming (AGW) as the pivotal issue," write Geoffrey Lehmann, Peter Farrell & Dick Warburton in Quadrant.
"We have...
Posted 6 March 2011
"Before the floods, proponents of the CAGW view had argued that there would never be enough rain again, because of Climate Change. When it became clear that there might be more than enough rain, the view was adapted: the floods, too, were the result of Climate Change. In other...
Posted 28 February 2011
"Never has an important national policy issue been so surrounded with public dishonesty and deliberate ambiguity of language as is the issue of dangerous, human-caused global warming. Choreographed over the years by green lobby groups, politicians and commentators alike no...
Posted 28 February 2011
"The NZ Government should immediately abandon its emissions targets and shift its focus to sensible and achievable goals such as improving the ability of the community to cope with whatever climate changes, weather extremes or natutral disasters that may occur....If howeve...
Posted 27 February 2011
"As the great global warming scare continues to crumble, attention focuses on all those groups that have a huge interest in keeping it alive.... Carbon traders hope to make billions from corrupt schemes based on buying and selling the right to emit CO2. But no financial in...
Posted 26 February 2011
"While the IPCC and its boy scouts present wilder and wilder sea level predictions for the near future, the freal observational facts demonstrate that sea level has remained virtually stable for the last 40-50 years," New paper published in 21st Century Science & Technol...
Posted 25 February 2011
World-renowned physicist Professor Freeman Dyson has been described as a 'force-of-nature intellect'. He's also one of the world's foremost climate change sceptics. In this email exchange, science editor of the UK newspaper The Independent, Steve Connor, asks the Prince...
Posted 23 February 2011
"The cult of reducing carbon emissions shapes everything we do, at local, national and global levels. The very future of the planet, we are told, hangs on our dispensing with fossil fuels and adopting renewable energy sources as quickly as possible. But here’s the problem...
Posted 20 February 2011
"For their propaganda, global warming alarmists rely heavily on historic amnesia. This can be well illustrated by examples from Australia. Severe climatic events have been a common natural occurrence in Australia in the past, as they are today. However, this doesn’t seem...
Posted 20 February 2011
Posted 11 February 2011
"Until someone actually determines whether there truly is broad agreement among researchers to support the billions of dollars committed by governments to counter human effects on the climate, we might better devote our resources to adapting to climate change, or on remedi...
Posted 6 February 2011
NZCSC chair Barry Brill and skeptic blog Wordshine have collaborated to produce challenging papers that question the validity of the recent update on New Zealand temperatures by the National Institute of Water & Atmosphere (NIWA). The six papers are:
Posted 25 January 2011
Posted 25 January 2011
"All in all, the BOM letter offers little or no assurance that NIWA scientists have got it right this time. At most, it offers tepid support to NIWA’s Review Report." Coalition's comment on NIWA claims of Australian Bureau of Meteorology review of adjustments of New Zeala...
Posted 21 January 2010
"The current debate is a public policy debate with enormous implications. It is no longer about climate. It is about the government, the politicians, their scribes and the lobbyists who want to get more decision-making and power for themselves. It seems to me that the wides...
Posted 21 January 2011
Posted 21 January 2011
Posted 18 January 2011