Posted 8 December 2014
We are grateful to Harold Faulkner, of the United States. for researching a paper describing times when the Vikings settled Greenland during a warm cycle when temperatures were vastly higher than they are in this present era. Mr Faulkner's paper also details the importance...
Posted 8 December 2014
Here are two explanations of ways in which science is being misused by climate alarmists to justify invalidated claims of dangerous anthropogenic "global warming".
The first, by Tom Harris, executive director of the International Climate Science Coalition, and published...
Posted 8 December 2014
In view of a recent rash of media articles purporting to claim that the pseudo-science used by many alarmists to try to explain that (a) the world is warming unnaturally, and (b) that we are the cause of most of that warming, our Coalition founding member, Dr Vincent Gray,...
Posted 1 December 2014
Posted 30 November 2014
The question of whether and by how much sea levels may rise or fall under the influence of "global warming" (aka "climate change") has been rekindled in New Zealand by the recent release of a report by the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment, Dr Jan Wright, it i...
Posted 28 November 2014
In his latest NZ Climate Truth Newsletter (No 337) Dr Vincent Gray, of New Zealand, writes: "Early chemical measurements of the concentration of carbon dioxide in the earth's atmosphere have been suppressed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Chapter 1 of the...
Posted 27 November 2014
"Science best serves society when it is open to debate and discussion - when scientists are free to speak without the fear of losing their jobs, their funding, commercial contracts, or their political support. This is the rock on which the concept of academic freedom rests...
Posted 20 November 2014
"New scientific papers appear nearly every week that show that the claimed link between carbon-dioxide emissions and dangerous global warming is imaginary....Mr Obama and other global politiucal leaders need to reconsider their misinformed belief that climate policy and en...
Posted 17 November 2014
"The issue of why the political left is overwhelmingly supportive of the climate change alarmist ideology/faith, and hence there are relatively few left wing sceptics, is quite complex and would take more space and time than I intend to impose on you here. But may I, as a...
Posted 15 November 2014
"Although many studies have assessed the quality of national climate datasets for use in long-term climate change detection, a homogenised New Zealand national temperature record has only once appeared in the research literature, in a paper by M J Salinger published in 198...
Posted 14 November 2014
This is a posting of a highly technical and convincing peer-reviewed paper by Dr Antero Ollila, of Aalto University in Finland, showing how IPCC has over-stated the potency of Carbon Dioxide in its effect on global temperatures. The paper has been reviewed and endorsed by...
Posted 12 November 2014
US scientist Judith Curry has drawn attention to a wonderful "Baloney Detection Kit" propounded by Carl Sagan as being especially useful in the ongoing debate about climate change.
Link here
Posted 10 November 2014
Posted 8 November 2014
"Whether emissions of carbon dioxide from human activity are causing dangerous climate change or not is an exceptionally difficult science question. Leading experts cannot agree on the causes of these changes or what future awaits us. It’s about time the media stopped prete...
Posted 8 November 2014
Hat tip to Philip Foster in UK for drawing attention to the emergence of an interesting new blog, by Jonathan Graham, who is described as a sceptic of climate and other illiberal matters.
[http://truthexcites.com/](http://truthexcites.com/)...Posted 8 November 2014
OK, there may seem to be an element of hucksterism in what you will read in this post, but there are also some distbuirbing facts, including the Sun as being as the prime cause of warming and cooling of Planet Earth, so it's well worth the read to get to those facts. Over...
Posted 7 November 2014
Maurice Newman, chairman of the Australian Prime Minister's Business Advisory Committee, writing in The Australian, says:
"Climate scientists have been telling us for decades with '95 per cent certainty' that temperatures would move in lock step with CO2 concentratio...
Posted 30 October 2014
The internationally respected scientific journal, Environmental Modeling & Assessment has just published a peer-reviewed paper by three New Zealanders that finds temperatures in that country increased by just 0.3 oC, a third of the officially claimed 0.9 oC used hitherto...
Posted 30 October 2014
The co-founder of Greenpeace, Dr Patrick Moore has left a Melbourne audience in no doubt that the so-called 'environmental organisation' is a not only an enemy of progress, it regards the waste of human life as collateral damage in its crusade to hector, harass and hobble a...
Posted 29 October 2014
In a comprehensive paper, Dr William Kininmonth, former head of Australia's National Climate Center, traces the history of the recording of global temperatures, and the development of computerised General Circulation Models (GCMs) for tracking purposes. He concludes thsat G...