Posted 20 January 2015

Viscount Matt Ridley sits in the UK's House of Lords. He also writes about science, environment and economics. His books on a wide range of topics have won various awards and sold a million copies.  In the article below just printed in The Times of London, he explains how h

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Posted 20 January 2015

Economic fallacies, as well as a host of unintended consequences, of the current policies on climate change of a number of world governments are set out convincingly in this new paper produced for the UK Global Warming Policy Foundation by Andrew Montford.

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Posted 19 January 2015

American climate commenattor Alan Caruba writes: "You have an obligation to yourself, your family, friends and co-workers to not just know the truth but to denounce entities like NASA, the EPA, and The New York Times, Time, Newsweek, National Geographic, and others that ke...

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Posted 19 January 2015

American climate commentator, Alan Caruba writes: "You have an obligation to yourself, your family, friends and co-workers to not just know the truth but to denounce entities like NASA, the EPA, and The New York Times, Time, Newsweek, National Geographic, and others that...

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Posted 17 January 2015

 This video is over a year old, but has just come to our attention. It's worth watching (13 minutes or so) because not only does it feature claims by a leading protagonist of the man-made global warming theory, Dr Gavin Schmidt, but also it reiterates the reluctance of Dr S...

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Posted 9 January 2015

"Most jaw-dropping was Oreskes’s claim that climate change is happening “faster than scientists predicted.” This is flat-out untrue. A 2013 commentary co-authored by Francis Zwiers, an elected member of the IPCC Bureau and former IPCC lead coordinating author, found that r...

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Posted 9 January 2015

"As the NPR, WSJ, and Bloomberg articles all make clear, savings from lower fuel costs allow households to spend more on everything from restaurant meals and movies to rent and mortgage payments to education and new cars. Carbon tax proponents claim the only judgment they ar...

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Posted 8 January 2015

"This is a slippery slope. If the aggressive and often irrational climate change debate is an indication of where we are headed concerning science-based public policy decisions, then we are in big trouble indeed. Whatever the cause of their silence, philosophers and other in

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Posted 7 January 2015

'How many people do you want to kill or let die?" That's how I'm going to respond from now on to anyone who argues we should end or sharply restrict fossil fuel use to prevent global warming. Arguing the science has no effect on global warming alarmists. They are immune to f...

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Posted 6 January 2015

"Empirical data withheld by key scientists shows that since 1910 ocean pH levels have not decreased in our oceans as carbon dioxide levels increased. Overall the trend is messy but more up than down, becoming less acidic. So much for those terrifying oceans of acid that w...

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Posted 6 January 2015

"For years, scientists have suggested that both poles are melting at an alarming rate because of warming temperatures - dangerously raising the Earth's sea levels while threatening the homes of Arctic and Antarctic animals. But the uncertainty surrounding climate change and...

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Posted 5 January 2015

You’ve heard the warnings: Global warming could doom humanity. Overpopulation and deforestation will destroy the planet. We’re going to run out of energy. It isn’t happening right now, experts say, but it could happen in a few decades. Yet, decades ago, experts warned that...

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Posted 5 January 2015

A call for the U.N. to get out of climate change has been made in Ottawa by the Executive Director of the International Climate Svcience Coalition, Tom Harris. He cites Canadian climatologist, Dr Tim Ball: "Contrary to the message of the last thirty years, current rate of cl...

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Posted 30 December 2014

"Climate sensitivity" is a term widely bandied about in discussions about the possibility of "global warming". In this paper, Dr Vincent Gray, of Wellington, New Zealand, who has been an expert reviewer of every Assessment Report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate C...

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Posted 24 December 2014

Firstly, below is a short, pithy, but scientifically accurate explanation by the term "acidification" can never be applied to Earth's oceans. Global warming alarmists are misleading the gullible by describing even the slightest decrease in alkalinity (the natural state of...

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Posted 23 December 2014

The oft-repeated but false canard that "97% of climate scientists" have endorsed the theory of Dangerous Anthropogenic Global Warming (DAGW - now known as 'climate change' because warming stopped 18 years ago) is starting to be repeated by alarmists around the world, in th...

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Posted 21 December 2014

 "Monitoring surface temperatures does not give us an accurate enough representation of human-induced global warming. As long as we lack a clear understanding of the relationship between our cumulative greenhouse-gas emissions and the temperature of the earth, it will r...

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Posted 19 December 2014

"This month’s annual climate change jamboree – COP20 in Lima – was billed as a crucial one, to lay the groundwork for an expected binding international agreement in Paris next December. Predictably, like previous climate summits, it ended up as a messy compromise which ach...

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Posted 18 December 2014

Thanks to the Global Warming Policy Foundation in UK, there is a new paper exploring many of the ethical disputes that characterise climate science and policy in the 21st century.  The author, Dr Peter Lee, is a lecturer in Ethics and Political Theory at the University of...

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Posted 10 December 2014

"....And that concludes the investigation. There is no good evidence linking human activities to any of the observed impacts of climate change listed in the Summary for Policymakers of the WG2 report.  Obama et al. indeed seem to have got it wrong." The concluding sentence...

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