Posted 8 May 2009
Posted 8 May 2009
Posed 5 May 2009
"It is human arrogance to think that we can control climate, a process that transfers huge amounts of energy. Once we control the smaller amount of energy transferred by volcanoes and earthquakes, then we can try to control climate. Until then, climate politics is just a load of...
Posted 29 April 2009
In an interview on BBC radio, Professor Mike Hulme, of Britain's Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research says approaching climate change head on is completely the wrong approach - “climate change is not going to be solved in our lifetime.” Philip Stott writes that Mike th...
Posted 29 April 2009
Posted 24 April 2009
"The science of climate change continues to evolve and regardless of the outcome of the climate debate, observational data suggests that we may be served well by basing our climate agenda, scientifically and economically, on a broader perspective than that in the IPCC outline...
Posted 23 April 2009
"To judge by actions rather than words, however, few people and almost no national governments actually believe in the infinite rewards of exorcising carbon from economic life. Kyoto has hurt the anti-carbon mission far more than carbon zealots seem to grasp. It has proved on...
Posted 18 April 2009
Professor Ian Plimer is described as Australia's top earth scientist. His new book, Heaven and Earth prompted Sydney Morning Herald journalist Paul Sheehan to re-examine his previous attitudes to claims of man-made global warming. Read Sheehan's review here: LINK
...Posted 16 April 2009
Posted 12 April 2009:
"At root, all of the red-flagged irregularities, errors, and exaggerations identified herein have their origin in the IPCC' s central exaggeration of the four parameters whose product is the temperature response to anthropogenic increases in carbon dioxide concentration. I...
Posted 13 March 2009
HIGHLIGHTS OF THIRD & FINAL DAY
BOB CARTER'S SUMMARY: LINK
2009 International Conference on Climate Change: Update #3
Dan Miller
NEW YORK--Willie Soon, a Harvard University astrophysicist and geophysicist with scores of peer-reviewed papers and boo...
HIGHLIGHTS OF SECOND DAY
BOB CARTER'S SUMMARY: LINK
2009 International Conference on Climate Change: Update #2
Dan Miller
NEW YORK -- Former Vice President Al Gore, the most prominent proponent of global warming alarmism, was the target of biting humo...
HIGHLIGHTS OF FIRST DAY
BOB CARTER'S SUMMARY: LINK
2009 International Conference on Climate Change: Update #1
Dan Miller
NEW YORK--Environmentalists--even mainstream environmentalists such as Al Gore--are less concerned about any crisis posed by global wa...
Posted 12 March 2009
"This lack of credible climate forecasts matters, because proposed policies – including taxing carbon emissions and cap-and-trade regimes – will increase energy prices, cause major wealth transfers, and cost jobs. It would be immoral to impose such punishing policies on the ba...
Posted from New York on 10 March 2009
Posted from New York 8 March 2009
"The questions which need to be answered are serious and non-trivial. Should we make radical decisions now? Should we tax today's generations to benefit future generations? Should we be generously altruistic? Should we give preference to future generations and not...
Posted 6 March 2009
An incisive analysis of serious deficiences in the responses by governments to unsettled science about causes and effects of climate change, by Professor David Henderson, of the University of Westminister, and former Head of the Department of Economics and Statistics of OECD. I...