U.S. looks for a ‘critical mass’ climate deal

What is new is that the so-called BASIC countries—giant, rapidly growing but poor economies—have become the necessary interlocutors of the USA and, perforce, for Europe, Japan and the rest of the twenty-something countries that have committed to sign the 'pledge' on emissions cuts by 31 January this year.

Monckton Lecture, Melbourne Feb 1, 2010

Simple deductions about climate change

This sort of mad assertion—reminscent of the IPCC's origninal claims that there could be no explanation other than man-made CO2 emissions—makes a claim so broad that it would not be feasible to establish its truth. Some climate scientists may like to pretend that they can detect a cause by simple forensics ('fingerprints'), but if that is…

Motor vehicle subsidies wasted on Ford

Ford Australia made just over a quarter (60,000) of all the cars made in Australia last year and less than one-fifth of all the new cars+light trucks registered in Australia in 2009 (a total of 302,400: see the ABS Motor Vehicle Census)

Rahmstorf rebuffed

At the time of the publication of Garnaut's interim report, several well-qualified sceptics disputed Rahmstorf's projetions, including David Stockwell, Lucia Liljegren and Steve McIntyre with strong support from former Australian statistician Ian Castles. Ian also kindly supported my request to the Statistical Society of Australia to evaluate the Rahmstorf methodology in the interests of better informed…