Posted 6 June 2011
Posted 27 May 2011
"We conclude that atmospheric CO2 levels should be above 150 ppm to avoid harming green plants and below about 5000 ppm to avoid harming people. That is a very wide range, and our atmosphere is much closer to the lower end than to the upper end. The current rate of burning foss...
Posted 25 May 2011
"In June 2010, I published a graph predicting that temperatures will fall sharply around October 2010. Exactly this happened. Since then I have regularly updated the graphs and predictions. As the Southern Oscillation Index is still in the 'la Nina' region, the cooling will, al...
Posted 18 May 2011
"The claimed justification is that the ETS levy is an “insurance policy” against the possibility that methane might contribute to a future of dangerous global warming, as the IPCC has theorized. But, as with any insurance, it should not be taken out unless the premium is reason...
Posted 12 May 2011
"A doubling of the amount of methane in the atmosphere with its present composition would produce a warming equal to only about one thirtieth of the warming produced by a doubling of carbon dioxide. At present rates of increase it would take about 360 years for atmospheric meth...
Posted 7 May 2011
Official temperature records have been maintained in New Zealand since shortly after European settlement began in 1840. Throughout the ensuing 150 years, mean temperature levels remain stable. But NIWA (National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research, the responsible governm...
Posted 2 May 2011
"Our economy is built on affordable energy, largely from carbon-based fuels that produce CO2 when burned. It is not a problem, there is no coming 'climate crisis,' and we do not need to worry about 'greenhouse gases.' This topic of reducing CO2 emissions is of crucial interest,...
Posted 2 May 2011
"Despite the ready public availability of our reports, and of similar analyses by other independent scientists that also demonstrate there is no justification for continued alarm about global warming, neither the government nor its scientific advisors have offered answers to the...
Posted 28 April 2011
Posted 27 April 2011
The Carbon Sense Coalition (Australia) today claimed there is more justification for a tax on the emissions of steam from a kettle on the stove than a tax on the emissions of carbon dioxide from the gas stove beneath the kettle. The chairman of "Carbon Sense", Viv Forbes, sai...
Posted 26 April 2011
"It’s incredible that the IPCC and those responsible for its formation, structure, research, and reports convinced the world they were a scientific organization making valid scientific statements. The entire impossible enterprise was designed to prove that human CO2 was causi...
Posted 22 April 2011
"13 months after Climategate an equally important document was made public. It is a single PDF file three megabytes in size and 678 pages in length. Although it contains the remarks of 232 separate individuals, no attempt was made to, say, number these individuals for easy...
Posted 19 April 2011
*Prime Minister Julia Gillard now faces a raging controversy over her decision of 24 February to impose a tax on carbon (or more accurately on carbon dioxide emissions) for three to five years from July 2012. - Des Moore, in QuadrantOnline.***
Posted 13 April 2011
"Global warming, and its euphemistic sibling 'climate change', remain much in the news. Specialist research groups around the world continue to produce an unending sequence of papers aimed at demonstrating a litany of problems which might arise should global warming resume. T...
Posted 12 April 2011
See and hear Dr David Evans, climate scientist of Western Australia, tell a Perth audience "You've been had" at a gathering protesting against Prime Minister Julia Gillard's proposal to introduce a so-called 'Carbon Tax'.
YouTube link
Then see and hear Dr Evans...
Posted 11 April 2011
"The analysis reveals a consistent trend of weak deceleration at each of these gauge sites throughout Australasia over the
period from 1940 to 2000. Short period trends of acceleration in mean sea level after 1990 are evident at each site, although these are not abnormal or...
Posted 31 March 2011
"Never mind that the whole climate change scam is now driven by the top-level financiers newly eyeing a multi-trillion-dollar paper economy of carbon trading and that this is the reason it’s now a dominant mainstream media and corporate messaging presence.....Take the red pil...
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...