Posts tagged…Climate
Academy of alarm
Thu, Aug 19 2010
What does the Australian Academy of science think their role should be? To inform or to frighten? To elucidate public policy issues from a scientific viewpoint? Or to indulge themselves in scaremongering so unsupported by facts that it borders on irresponsible?
Their latest climate-alarm pamphlet contains appalling rubbish, including claims that the world will warm by up to 7° C in the next…
Read more…Led by lunatics
Wed, Jul 21 2010Mark Lawson's new book "A Guide to Climate Change Lunacy" (ConnorCourt Publishing, 2010) arrives with brilliant timing, just as Australia gets another chance to make a choice on climate change policies in the 2010 election. Based on his credentials as a respected journalist -- he's a leading science journalist and editor for the Australian Financial Review -- Lawson has a great opportunity to…
A climate ambush
Sun, Jul 18 2010When she took power, Julia Gillard said she wanted a national conversation and 'deep community consensus' about climate change. What she has given us, instead, is an election campaign that is, by its nature, guaranteed to produce neither.
“I was concerned that if you were going to do something as big to your economy as put a price on carbon, with the economic transfer that implies … you need a…
Revisiting the climate evidence
Tue, Jun 29 2010Julia Gillard's determination as Prime Minister to revisit the debate about an Australian response to the potential dangers of climate change calls for a review of the evidence to ensure that any response is proportionate and effective. In my view, the relevant data show less and less reason to attribute recent warming to human activities ('anthropogenic warming').
Simple deductions about climate change
Fri, Mar 05 2010The UK Met Office (which has been unable to predict British weather recently) now claims to be certain about climate.
"The fingerprint of human influence has been detected in many different aspects of observed climate changes,” said Peter Stott, head of climate monitoring at the Met Office Hadley Centre for Climate Research. “Natural variability, from the sun, volcanic eruptions or natural…
Monckton Lecture, Melbourne Feb 1, 2010
Thu, Jan 28 2010
A number of people have asked for these details:
Monday, 1 February 2010, 5:30 pm
Ballroom, Sofitel Hotel (25 Collins St Melbourne)
Entry by $20 'donation' at the door (no reservations).
Christopher, Viscount Monckton is a serious analyst and good fun: he has mastered the art of keeping it simple and exaggerating (a little bit). So I expect a big crowd, a great atmosphere and some clever,…
U.S. looks for a ‘critical mass’ climate deal
Fri, Jan 15 2010There is absolutely nothing new in U.S. exasperation with the United Nations and its overblown processes. This statement from the deputy U.S. climate envoy recalls the responses of thousands of technocrats exposed for the first time to the diplomatic morass; for decades, we've heard something similar from every new Administration.
"Pershing said the flaws in the UN process, which demands…
Rahmstorf rebuffed
Tue, Jan 12 2010The Potsdam Institute physicist whose 2007 paper Ross Garnaut relied on for his assertion that "on the balance of probabilities" CO2-driven warming was accelerating dangerously, has been exposed as a scientific gadfly.
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…
How the deal was done
Mon, Dec 28 2009
Official Chinese account of the negotiation of the accord at Copenhagen, emphasising, of course, their own role:
The Copenhagen conference has put China on a higher and broader world stage. China has reason to be proud and China will work even harder! Verdant mountains cannot stop water flowing; eastward the water keeps on going.
The report provides a detailed account of Premier Wen's movements…
Don’t tell the trees
Tue, Dec 08 2009Like the 'Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme', this is appalling twaddle. The main 'GHG', CO2, and the cycle of energy distribution that it mediates throughout the biosphere is essential to just about every form of life on earth.
"After a thorough examination of the scientific evidence and careful consideration of public comments, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced today that…
Let’s look at the data
Fri, Oct 30 2009
This is a very fine summary of the case that nothing very unusual is happening to the global climate and of the evidence—direct data, not proxies—that the IPCC projections are simply wrong about the key factor they say will result in alarming climate change (by the way that's not CO2)
Lindzen has a record that calls for attention. He has researched and taught atmospheric and climate science for…
Why Australia should not adopt an ETS
Tue, Oct 13 2009The mainstream media offer us nothing but politics on the question of whether the proposed Emission Trading Scheme (ETS) legislation should be adopted. Political calculation is less demanding for the journalists and offers readers an engaging melodrama. But the politics are no guide to a responsible decision on the ETS. In this post I review both the governments' stated reasons for the ETS and my…