CASE AGAINST PRECIPITOUS CLIMATE ACTION

January 16, 2011, 5:00 am News

Posted 17 January 2011

"The notion of a static, unchanging climate is foreign to the history of the earth or any other planet with a fluid envelope. The fact that the developed world went into hysterics over changes in global mean temperature anomaly of a few tenths of a degree will astound futu...

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Posted 14 January 2011

"To hear some people talk, making the transition from today's fossil fuel-dependent society to a future where all energy comes from low-carbon sources is straightforward: it just needs the will and enough money. Indeed, the present trajectory of talks under the United Natio

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Posted 10 January 2010

"Those familiar with the climate debate will naturally be aware that the rise in average official temperatures of 0.74C over the 20th  century was an inherent component of IPCC’s conclusion of a future of dangerously high temperatures unless governments acted to reduce gree...

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Posted 10 January 2010

"...there is no such thing as a green lifestyle. Trying to do things the 'Green' way usually ends up being worse for the environment. From ethanol to reusable bags to organic food, everything you do only makes the planet sicker."  From Daniel Greenfield's challenging blog:

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Posted 4 January 2011

"Remarkably, in enunciating their “eleven principles”, the Canberra MCCC managed to evade entirely any mention of the underpinning scientific justification for introducing a tax on carbon dioxide. That is, of course, because there is none (which is doubtless why only one, ta...

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WHO ARE THE CLIMATE DENIALISTS NOW?

January 4, 2011, 1:43 am News

Posted 4 January 2011

"In recent years anyone daring to question the imminent reality of catastrophic global warming has risked being labelled a denialist with implicit, and sometimes even explicit, reference to holocaust denial as well. Ironically, over the past year in the face of a cooling cli...

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Posted 2 January 2011

"The main conclusion one arrives at the analysis is that CO2 has not a causal relation with global warming and it is not powerful enough to cause the historical changes in temperature that were observed. The main argument is the absence of immediate correlation between CO2 c...

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IS A NEW ICE AGE UNDER WAY?

January 1, 2011, 3:57 am News

Posted 2 January 2011

“Watch out, Al Gore. The glaciers will get you!” With that appended note, my friend, retired field geologist Jack Sauers, forwarded to me a report that should have been a lead item in every newspaper in the world. It was the news that the best-measured glacier in North Ameri...

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Posted 2 January 2011

**"As winters get harsher and the snow piles up, more and more scientists are now warning of global cooling. Reader Matt Vooro has compiled a list of 31 prominent scientists and researchers who have words that governments ought to start heeding. "  P. Gosselin's Climate Sci...

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Posted 29 December 2010

"The fundamental problem with wind power is that it is intermittent and unpredictable. This means that the system operator must take a pessimistic view and assume that no wind power will be available over critical periods. In other words, he has to make sure that there are...

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Posted 29 December 2010.

"So where do the 1934/1998/2010 warm years rank in the long-term list of warm years? Of the past 10,500 years, 9,100 were warmer than 1934/1998/2010.  Thus, regardless of which year ( 1934, 1998, or 2010) turns out to be the warmest of the past century, that year will ran...

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Posted 26 December 2010

"The reason why the Met Office gets its forecasts so hopelessly wrong is that they are based on those same computer models on which the IPCC  itself relies to predict the world's climate in 100 years' time. They are programmed on the assumption that, as CO2 rises, so tempe...

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TIME TO TOPPLE THE PYRAMID OF FRAUDS

December 22, 2010, 9:30 am News

Posted 23 December 2010

"One of the fastest growing industries in the world is based on a pyramid of frauds and its inevitable collapse will be worse than the sub-prime crash. The Global Warming Industry is now fed by billions of dollars from western taxpayers and consumers.  It is based on the u...

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Posted 22 December 2010

"The climate bugaboo, the strangest intellectual aberration of our age, rampages because in the here and now we have cast aside three once-universal forms of learning that gave us perspective: a Classical education, to remind us that in reason and logic there is a differen...

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Posted 20 December 2010

"I can't remember a time when so much snow has lain so thickly on the ground, and we haven't even reached Christmas. And this is the third tough winter in a row. Is it really true that no one saw this coming? Actually, they did. Allow me to introduce readers to Piers Corby...

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Posted 20 December 2010 

David Henderson, former head of the Economics and Statistics Dept of OECD, now chairman of the Academic Advisory Council of the UK Global Warming Policy Foundation, writes in the Newsletter of the Royal Economic Society, to comment on the issues as they have developed ove...

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Posted 20 December 2010

The NZ Climate Science Coalition has called on NIWA to admit that its revised Seven Station Series temperature record is not valid, and has called on the Minister of Science to demand the resignation of NIWA chairman, John Morgan, for misleading the government and people a...

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Posted 10 December 2010

"Some commentators tell us that this is the beginning of the end of the climate scare. More likely, it is just the end of the beginning. If this were a hockey game, the first period would have just ended with a couple of quick goals by climate realists. But alarmists built...

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Posted 11 December 2010

New Zealand Climate Science Coaliton founbding member, Dr Vincent Gray, rebuts the notion of an "average global temperature", and questions the validity of such averages as ap;plied to smaller areas of the Earth. 

[Download](essexmc k.pdf) pdf of 2007 paper by Essex,

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CLIMATE THREATS AND POLICY

December 9, 2010, 5:00 am News

Posted 10 December 2010

"The distinction between weather and climate is important. Records for temperature, rainfall, windspeed or whatever are broken somewhere in the world on an almost daily basis. Some maximum and minimum temperature records have stood for many years because they were caused b

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