Posted 14 May 2015
"In the lead-up to the Paris climate summit, massive activist pressure is on all governments, especially Canada's, to fall in line with the global warmning agenda and accept emission targets that could seriously harm our economy. One of the most powerful rhetorical weapons bein...
Posted 13 May 2015
Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of the UN’s Framework on Climate Change in Brussels last February, said, “This is the first time in the history of mankind that we are setting ourselves the task of intentionally, within a defined period of time, to change the economic d...
Posted 9 May 2015
"We need to get on with this thing we call life. The fact that we are here todayand that there are no clear-chicken-licken signs that the sky is falling is proof that, 'it is difficult to make predictions especially when they are about the future,' an insight attributed to many...
Posted 9 May 2015
"Scientific advisers must resist pressures that undermine the integrity of climate science, Instead of spreading false optimism, they must stand firm and defend their intellectual independence, findings and recommendations - no matter how politically unpalatable". Extract from...
Posted 7 May 2015
"Of all the ecclesiastical Christian leaders in the world today, one you would expect to thoroughly understand the problems faced by the poor in Africa would bge Ghanaian Cardinal Peter Kodwo Appia Turkson. Born into a poor family in Western Ghana, Cardinal Turkson was the fourt...
Posted 7 May 2015
Willis Eschenbruch posts at WattsUpWithThat: "There is at least one temperature station where the trend has been artificially increased to give a false warming where the raw data shows cooling....And with the Latin saying Falsus in unum, falsus in omnis (false in one, false...
Posted 7 May 2015
At the print edition of nthe Swiss news weekly Weltwoche, science journalist Markus Schar writes that not only has the global temperature trend suspiciously been tampered with, but so have the datasets of the Swiss Meteorological Service. In the article linked below, he shows...
Posted 5 May 2015
"The life of a climate sceptic (climate heretic) is not plain sailing. Daily he is being confronted by the media and Internet with news and articles that could be a danger to his blood pressure. The number of scare stories has increased enormously, to exert pressure on the UN cl...
Posted 5 May 2015
Professor Bob Carter has reviewed at Quadrant Online, a new book defending carbon dioxide (CO2). He writes:
"About Face! contains more than one cautionary tale of the disastrous results that have resulted from the misapplication of science in the past. Prime amongst those...
Posted 30 April 2015
In a post for the American Enterprise Institute, Benjamin Zycher, comments first on the inefficiency of "carbon" taxes, and then goes on to ask: "What is the actual evidence on the effects of GHG emissions?, and then rebuts alarmist references to "carbon pollution". HIs comme...
Posted 30 April 2015
"Why is the Catholic Church enytering into nthe fray of doubtful global warming science? Why now and why with such shrill apocalyptic exaggerated rhetoric? Why strident calls for supranational government control at the same time the actual evidence for doom grows weaker and...
Posted 28 April 2015
In advance of a meeting convened in the Vatican by Pope Francis to discuss climate change, there have been two significant developments. The first has been a "prebuttal" meeting near the Vatican organised by the Heartland Institute of Chicago, USA, at which strong blunt word...
Posted 26 April 2015
"Careful analysts have come with hundreds of examples of how the original data recorded by 3,000-odd weather stations has been 'adjusted', to exaggerate the degree to which the Earth actually has been warming....So strong is the evidence that all this calls...have now brought...
Posted 23 April 2015
"The [climate] debate must go on, even as the atmosphere for dialogue gets increasingly polluted. The sacralization of climate is being used as a great loophole in the rule of law, an apology for bad science (and even worse economics), and an excuse to do anything and everyth...
Posted 22 April 2015
"The controversy over man-made global warming is far from settled. Despite claims that 'the science is all in' and 'there is no room for debate', the scientific method, with repeatable and falsifiable hypotheses, cannot really work when applied to the environment. Instead, sc...
Posted 16 April 2015
"Anthropogenic climate change is a theory in which the basic mechanism is well understood, but the potential magnitude is highly uncertain. We know that the climate changes naturally on decadal to century time scales, but we do not have explanations for as number of observed...
Posted 15 April 2015
Posted 12 April 2015
Highly informative, if scientifically complex, answers to the question why why and by how much the atmospheric CO2 (carbon dioxide) budget is increasing were contained in a lecture just given in London by Professor Murry Salby. The lecture has been very well captured on vide...
Posted 7 April 2015
We are constatntly bombarded by politicans with claims that 97% of the world climate scientists agree that humans are responsible for dangerous global warming. In this post on his blogsite, Richard Tol explains why the claim doesn't stand up. "The 97% refers to the number of...
Posted 4 April 2015
All you ever wanted to know about the origin of so-called "fossil fuels", where they came from, where they are now, and where will they take us in the future, is explained and illustrated in this monumental research lecture by Dr Gerrit J Van Der Lingen, a Dutch-born, now New...