Posted 26 February 2009
"It is fashionable to promote climate change as being a contributor to changing fire frequency and intensity. The pattern of rainfall over the past century does not point to a trend of reduction in rainfall. Nor has any link been offered between global temperature trends an...
Posted 26 February 2009
"I believe that the increase of CO2 is not a cause for alarm and will be good for mankind,” Happer told the Committee. “What about the frightening consequences of increasing levels of CO2 that we keep hearing about? In a word, they are wildly exaggerated, just as the purpo...
February 24, 2009
"The editorial in last weekend’s Australian, 'Carbon trading is not the only answer' (21/22 February), addressed the controversial issue of the government’s planned emissions trading legislation, commenting that 'We need to hear other ideas on greenhouse gas reduction'.
Talk a...
Posted 23 February 2009
Posted 22 February 2009
Christiopher Booker writes in the UK Daily Telegraph that the British Government must be absolurely sure that their data on climate change is accurate. " It was another bad week for the 'warmists', now more desperate than ever to whip up alarm over an overheating planet.....
Posted 18 February 2009
A few people seem to have missed the point of this satirical post. It is a counterpoint to Al Gore’s use of “millions of tons” when talking about CO2 emissions. I’m pointing out that relative to the total atmosphere, millions of tons of CO2 is miniscule. And even a 50% incr...
Posted 15 February 2009
"The Australian tragedy tells us nothing about global climate. Meanwhile, what the alarmists are saying, in effect, is that instead of protecting their property by taking local precautions, by prudently burning and cutting vegetation, homeowners should be preparing for the...
Posted 14 February 2009
Posed 13 February 2009
The National Research Council of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences has embraced the Milankovitch Cycle model....orbital variations remain the most thoroughly examined mechanism of climatic change on time scales of tens of thousands of years and are by far the clearest c...
Posted 8 February 2009
"Climate politics is collapsing because of political realities, and not real or perceived changes in how people see the science. In the ongoing battle between climate scientists and skeptics there will be disproportionate carnage, because the climate scientists have so much...
Posted 28 January 2996
"The present global financial crisis should be inducing politicians not to squander money on non-solutions to non-problems. Yet to support their plans for emissions taxation Western governments, including ours, are still propagating scientifically juvenile greenhouse propaga...
Posted 25 January 2009
"There are now serious discussions afoot to lodge complaints against [Al] Gore to the federal financial and legal authorities in that he fraudulently talks up the imagined 'climate crisis' in the hope that he and his 'green' investment corporation can profit by the baseless...
Posted 25 January 2009
Mencius Moldbug is a software engineer in San Francisco. After scoring in the dot com boom, he went on sabbatical in order to read, think, and write. He studied the whole global warming debate and came away with some interesting findings. Here his long comment thread has b...
Posted 25 January 2009
"The measures being proposed to meet what President Obama last week called the need to "roll back the spectre of a warming planet" threaten to land us with the most colossal bill mankind has ever faced. It might therefore seem peculiarly important that we can trust the scien...
Posted 24 January 2009: "Like many of those who were caught off guard by the subprime mortgage crisis, those involved in the rapidly expanding climate change industry are not asking the most fundamental of questions:
'• What if the science that supposedly backs concerns over carbon dioxide (CO2) em...
Posted 22 January 2009
Posted 12 January 2009
"There is no science demonstrating that the mid-point of the standard IPCC projection of a warming of 3 degrees if CO2-e doubles from the 1750 level of 280 ppm will have any adverse impacts, if only because there is as yet no unambiguous empirical evidence of any such adve...
Posted 11 January 2009
"The omens do not look good for a new deal. The climate change lobby desperately needs 2009 to break records for high average temperatures and extreme weather. Summer ice melt in the Arctic in 2008 was hyped, but the winter growth seems to be more rapid than usual. The year as a whole gave miserable summer weather to many, and there has been no upward trend of temperatures since the highs of 1998, despite steadily rising atmospheric carbon dioxide levels. If the long-established link between solar activity and climate holds, the very low sunspot numbers at present suggest a cooling rather than warming trend." The Scientific Alliance, UK
Posted 9 January 2009
"It is becoming increasingly clear that skepticism about man-made global warming fear is not a partisan left vs. right issue. In fact, many scientists and activists who are also progressive environmentalists believe climate fear promotion has 'co-opted' or 'hijacked' the g...
Posted 8 January 2009.
David Bellamy spent some 30 years travelling the globe talking about nature, becoming one of the best known TV personalities in the English-speaking world. “I’ve never done a day’s work in my life,” says Bellamy. “I’ve only ever done what I enjoy.” The freedom he used to ha...