Posted 29 November 2012
They say every picture tells a story, well this one certainly does. And it's a very simple story of just two parts:
1. Carbon dioxide cannot be a cause of "global warming" if the globe is cooling while CO2 continues to rise to a "whopping" 0.039% of Earth's atmosphere...
Posted 10 November 2012
The New Zealand Climate Science Education Trust whose High Court action v NIWA over the accuracy of its Seven Station Series temperature was dismissed by Mr Justice Venning, has filed a Memorandum asking Judge Venning to disclose whether or not he has interests in a fores...
Posted 9 November 2012
In view of alarmist claims that Hurricane Sandy in the US was caused by AGW (man-made global warming), two Australian scientists, meterorologist William Kininmonth and paleoclimatologist Dr Robert Carter have clarified the issue in the leading Melbourne newspaper, The Age...
Posted 25 October 2012
A UK blogger who is a qualified engineer and a graduate of the History and Philosophy of Science, and interested in finding out how the solar system works and how Earth is affected by changes in it has analysed the judgement in the case taken in the New Zealand High Court b...
Posted 23 October 2012
NIWA seeks to make New Zealand legal history by claiming costs not from the New Zealand Climate Science Education Trust which took the case against it in the High Court, but from two private citizen members of that Trust. The issue has been summarised in this article from...
Posted 1 October 2012
This paper offers a short course explaining why the billions of taxpayer's dollars have been wasted -- as spending has escalated on international conferences, funding greenhouse gas emission reduction schemes, subsidizing carbon sequestration experiments, and funding researc...
Posted 1 October 2012
Influential columnist of the UK's Daily Telegraph, Chrisopher Booker, has blasted the plan by British Chancellor of the Esxchequer George Osborne to introduce next year an EU "carbon emissions tax" that Booker says on its own will double electricity prices in 18 years. He...
Posted 28 September 2012
This paper given by Dr David R B Stockwell, of Central Queensland University to the recent Australian Environment Foundation Conference in Sydney, proves a logical circularity undermines the validity of a commonly used method of homogenizing surface temperature networks....
Posted 28 September 2012
**S. Fred Singer is professor emeritus at the University of Virginia and director of the Science & Environmental Policy Project. His specialty is atmospheric and space physics. An expert in remote sensing and satellites, he served as the founding director of the US Wea...
Posted 24 September 2012
A warm summer in the United States, and that brought some of the climate change alarmists out again. Looks like it’s time for another rebuttal! John Coleman, the founder of The Weather Channel, and various other critics have called the theory that human use of carbon-ba...
Posted 19 September 2012
The Coalition has made a submission to the NZ Parliament's Finance & Expenditure Select Committee on the Climate Change Response (Emissions Trading and Other Matters Bill) currently before the House. The submission was presented this week by the Coalition's hon. chairman...
Posted 11 September 2012
Coalition member Dr Jock Allison, of Dunedin, interviewed in NZ Farmers Weekly about his award for servces to the sheep industry, commented about "global warming" and ETS. Extract: "Climate change 'is just so much fiction'. It was government policy worldwide and scienc...
Posted 10 September
In the latest edition of Forbes magazine, Larry Bell talks to aviation pioneer Bert Rutan about use of data in assessing climate change. Said Bert: "The first thing that got my attention, a lot of people’s attention, was statements that the entire planet is heading towards a...
Posted 7 September 2012
In the High Court, Mr Justice Venning has ruled against the case taken by New Zealand Climate Science Education Trust to declare invalid the temperature records compiled by the National Institute of Water & Atmosphere (NIWA).
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Posted 6 September 2012
Nored Canadian climatologist Dr Tim Ball has produced an illustrated paper entitled "Polar Bear Propaganda - A Useful Tool for the Promotion of Environmental Hysteria and Poiliticized Science". He quotes Nobel Physicist Richard Feynman who said, “Reality must take preceden...
Posed 3 September 2012
Issues relating to climate and its variability have been among the most vulnerable to assault on freedom of speech. This topic was addressed recently in Australia by Senator George Brandis when he delivered the third Sir Harry Gibbs Memorial Oration to the 2012 Annual Conf...
Posted 2 September 2012
Some of the oldest climate records, especially in the fields of drought and hydrology, exist in South Africa, where Professor W J R (Will) Alexander has been a leading practitioner for many years. His latest papers will have relevance well beyond the borders of the republi...
Posted 1 September 2012
Posted 21 August 2012
"Statistical analyses of hydrological time series are an essential component for the development and management of water resources in countries with dry climates. This becomes critical as the water requirements approach the maximum available resources. To complicate matters,...
Posted 20 August 2012
"Over the past half century, none of our threatened eco-pocalypses have played out as predicted. Some came partly true; some were averted by action; some were wholly chimerical. This raises a question that many find discomforting: With a track record like this, why should pe...