Posted 22 January 2010
Posted 21 January 2010
"Mr. Pachauri has already come under intense criticism not only for his own arrogance but for multiple conflicts of interest (which admittedly hardly makes him unusual in a policy strata that also contains Al Gore and Maurice Strong). Now the issue is whether he will be thr...
Posted 20 January 2010
"...the revelations this week have opened a heated debate that goes beyond the science of glaciers and to the heart of the credibility of the IPCC.....At a time when governments are baulking at taking tough measures to combat climate change, this new blow to the credibility...
Posted 14 January 2010
"When I say the climate is changing, I do not mean, as many people do, that man-made global warming is destroying Planet Earth. I mean that the politics of climate change is changing rapidly all over the globe. Al Gore’s moment has come and gone. " Tom Switzer in the Wall ...
Posted 15 January 2010
"The debacle of Copenhagen shows that conventional climate policies have no future. What is necessary now is the development of alternative approaches that are politically realistic and economically feasible. In order for a new climate realism to be successful, governments...
Posted 15 January 2010
In the wake of the farce at Copenhagen and uncertainty about the future of the proposed Australian ETS, Roger Kerr, executive director of the NZ Business Roundtable, writes in the Otago Daily Times that the New Zealand Government should undertake a fundamental stocktaking...
Posted 12 January 2010
"The bitter winter afflicting much of the Northern Hemisphere is only the start of a global trend towards cooler weather that is likely to last for 20 or 30 years, say some of the world’s most eminent climate scientists. Their predictions – based on an analysis of natural c...
Posted 11 January 2010
The 2010 award of the Noble Prize for Climate Ingenuity has been announced. The Awards Committee has unanimously awarded this year's prize to the World Meteorological Organisation and the National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research of New Zealand (NIWA). The award...
Posted 1 January 2010
"Climategate is the greatest orchestrated fraud in scientific history, but claims about CO2 are the greatest fallacy.....Climategate revealed the extent of corruption so more people understand malfeasance and falsities only experts knew or suspected. More important, they are...
Posted 1 January 2010
"Lost amid the news coverage of Copenhagen and Climategate was the assertion that one of the more attention-grabbing statements [about glaciers in the Himalayas] of the IPCC AR4 was flat-out wrong" - Houston Chronicle containing other links:
Posted 28 December 2009
John Coleman, meteorologist of 50 years' experience, founder of the US "Weather Channel" and original weatherman on "Good Morning America" demonstrates in user-friendly language why there is no foundation for IPCC claims of carbon dioxide-driven catastrophic "global warmin...
Posted 27 December 2009 (updated 28 Dec)
When reading this thought-provoking viewpoint from the BBC, keep in mind that the original Christmas whose anniversary we've just been celebrating was a mere 2009 years ago. LINK
"Then this Climate Research Unit thing happened, and it was the...
Posted 21 December 2009 (updated 28 Dec)
"They display a network of conspiracy to defraud, manipulate, distort and intimidate which even I, who have been in the middle of it from the beginning, have difficulty in believing." Dr Vincent Gray in Envirotruth No. 234. To download pdf: LINK ...
Posted 21 December 2009
"While politicians may not feel comfortable taking a position on 'the science', they have no excuse for either clinging to agnosticism or relying on faceless futurists in issues of 'the economics." - Barry Brill writes in Quadrant: LINK
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