Posted 4 June 2016
"Often translated as ‘take nobody’s word for it’, this is the motto of the Royal Society. It nicely encapsulates the basic critical outlook expected of scientists; in effect, listen to others but come to your own conclusions. Scientists, by nature and training, should be both c...
Posted 4 June 2016
"The debate over the causes and consequences of climate change is one of the world's most important discussions. At stake are literally trillions of dollars, millions of jobs and, if climate activists are right, the fate of the environment and even of our civilisation. Consequ...
Posted 2 June 2016
Many newspaper articles over the past few years have emphasised the dangers of man-made global warming (aka “climate change”) and warned us that extreme measures are needed to save us from this imminent climatic disaster. Almost without exception, the authors of these articles...
Posted 2 June 2016
U.S. Presidential hopeful, Donald Trump addressed the topics of energy and climate change in a recent speech. In the Wall Street Journal, Holman W. Jenkins comments: "Give Mr Trump credit for trying to break the spell. In a speech the media has done its best to debunk, he sa...
Posted 1 June 2016
"Whenever there is a new record set, whether rain, hurricane, drought, etc., those in the climate change alarmist camp seem to be quick to point to global warming as the cause and make more dire predictions about the future - even when there are other documented reasons and eve...
Posted 31 May 2016
"Mankind's burning of fossil fuels may not be the primary cause of global warming, according to the shock results of a new study by scientists behind the Large Hadron Collider (LCH). Boffins from CERN have also discovered prpojected temperature increases over the next century m...
Posted 24 May 2016
Dr Judith Curry, an American climatologist and former chair of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology, has just posted on her website extended extracts from a paywalled paper by expatriate New Zealander, Professor Michael J Kelly FR...
Posted 23 May 2016
Viv Forbes, of the Carbon Sense Coalition in Australia has posted the challenging question in the climate debate: "Who are the real deniers?" He writes: "The 'zero-emissions' zealots want us to step backwards down the energy ladder to the days of human, animal and solar power....
Posted 1 May 2016
In this post, American commentator Paul Driessen blows the lid off the chain of command responsible for the alliance of ideological compatriots operating a carefully coordinated and well-funded process to propagate fables of climate alarmism. As Driessen says, those who suspect...
Posted 28 April 2016
New research, based on results from NASA and NOAA satellites, confirms rising levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) are "greening" the Earth. Greening is evidence of accelerated plant growth and heightened rates of photosynthesis. CO2 is a main source of fuel for plants -and thus, a...
Posted 26 April 2016
Viscount Matt Ridley has written in The Times of London deploring efforts by titled UK alarmists to dissuade the editor of that venerable paper from publishing views that conflict with their own unproven claims about dangerous 'global warming.' Ridley brands these activities...
Posted 26 April 2016
A new book by one of our Coalition foundation member scientists, Dr Gerrit van der Lingen, has been reviewed by the distinguished Dutch scientist, Dr Hans Labohm, who writes: "All in all, 'The Fable of a Stable Climate' shows a wide and solid knowledge of the subject. Moreov...
Posted 24 April 2016
"The Royal Society of New Zealand has released a study claiming that, in the next hundred years, New Zealand sea level will surely rise by 0.3m and 1m is possible. It strongly recommends that we should be taking action now to deal with this. The Royal Society claim does not s...
Posted 18 April 2016
If you're an American, AND a climate skeptic, you're in danger iof being officially prosecuted as a a " corrupt racketeer" is Democrat state attorneys-general have their way. In the article posted below, Paul Driessen and Ron Arnold address what they describe as "the dishones...
Posted 15 April 2016
Former Deputy Secretary of the Australian Treasury, Des Moore has spoken about global warming (GW) to the Victorian branch of the Australian Institute for International Affairs. He believes the skeptical view that man is causing dangerous GW is now acknowledged because of fai...
Posted 9 April 2016
"A changing climate may not necessarily lead to more floods and droughts according to Swedish researchers who have reconstructed weather patterns over the past 1,200 years. Scientists used data collected from tree rings, marine sediments, ice cores and mineral deposits to exam...
Posted 9 April 2016
Discussing the threatened closure of Britain's largest steel works in Port Talbot due to inflated costs of energy, James Delingpole posts at Breitbart: "First, the green movement is ideologically opposed to Western industrial civilisation: so these factory closures are not a r...
Posted 9 April 2016
The UK's Scientific Alliance has posted two recent commentaries that indicate a change of heart by one prominent warmist who questions the efficacy of wind power as a feasible solution to Britain's energy problems. The post discusses the differences between that warmist and Pr...
Posted 8 April 2016
A new U.S. govt report paints a stark picture of how climate will affect human health. It says higher temperatures will be deadly - killing "thousands to tens of thousands" of Americans. But as Bjorn Lomborg writes in the Wall Street Journal, the report ignores inconvient e...
Posted 7 April 2016
Swedish scientist, Dr Fred Goldberg is a climate analyst and authority on polar history and exploration. He was affiliated with the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) from 1969 to 2000, where he received his Ph.D. in 1975 and became adjunct professor that year. In recent yea...