Posted 8 November 2011
"It is only three weeks to go to COP17. There are still no indications of the likely outcome. A binding agreement on emissions control measures is out of the question. Nor is it likely that the Kyoto Protocol will be extended in its present form. If this happens it will lea...
Posted 6 November 2011
"The wind projects do not fulfill 'sustainable' objectives. They cost more fuel than they save and they cause no CO2 saving, in the contrary they increase our environmental 'foot print'. A decision to invest billions (thousands of millions) of Euros in the construction of w...
Posted 29 October 2011
"Gas is the starting point for a whole new petrochemical industry. Indeed the discovery of cost effective means of extracting shale gas is a game changer for the whole world's economy, just as computing power has changed the whole communications industry. " In a brilliant...
Posted 27 October 2011
"We can only attempt to identify the causes of climate change through science and these causes need to be clearly established after full debates, validated comprehensively, before expensive remedies are imposed on industries and communities. I first became interested in the...
Posted 26 October 2011
"The science on climate change and man's influence on it is far from settled. The question today is whether it makes sense to combat a potential climate threat by imposing economically destructive regulations and sinking billions into failure-prone technologies that have th...
Posted 25 October 2011
Watch Toronto-based researcher Donna Laframboise deconstruct the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on Charles Adler, Sun Media TV. Ms. Laframboise is the author of "The Delinquent Teenager Who Was Mistaken for the World's Top Climate Expert", a book that...
Posted 25 October 2011
The attached memo by Professor Will Alexander is in two parts. The first part deals with the White Paper that describes South Africa's position on the climate change issue. It is written in typical ‘UNspeak’ and is paved with good intentions but few solid facts.
The secon...
Posted 21 October 2011
Professor Will Alexander, in his latest message, writes: "Now that the globe has started cooling, global warming theory is evaporating faster than the water in a storage dam on a hot summer's day. It is fascinating to observe the climate alarmists scrambling to adjust their...
Posted 21 October 2011
Professor Will Alexander, in his latest message, writes: "Now that the globe has started cooling, global warming theory is evaporating faster than the water in a storage dam on a hot summer's day. It is fascinating to observe the climate alarmists scrambling to adjust their...
Posted 15 October 2011
"Which would you rather have in the view from your house? A thing about the size of a domestic garage, or eight towers twice the height of Nelson’s column with blades noisily thrumming the air. The energy they can produce over ten years is similar: eight wind turbines of 2....
Posted 12 October 2011
This latest memo by South African Professor Will Alexander summarises the whole climate change issue ahead of COP17 to be held in Durban. He is severely critical of the activities of the Western nations in this field. He writes: "This is because of the very serious economi...
Posted 10 October 2011
"Two professors of sociology think they can explain why “Climate Deniers” are winning. But Riley E. Dunlap and Aaron M. McCright start from the wrong assumption and miss the bleeding obvious: the theory was wrong, the evidence has changed, and thousands of volunteers ha...
Posted 20 September 2011
On the occasion of the 70th birthday of Czech President Vaclav Klaus, a number oi distinguished people have paid tribute to his staunch and lucid contribution to internatioinal affiars. Among them is Professor David Henderson, former head of Economics and Statistics Depar...
Posted 15 September 2011
In a new book by Don Easterbrook, Evidence-based Climate Science, one of the world's leadfing authorities on global sea levels, Professor Nils-Axel Morner, has contributed two chapters, which are reproduced here:
"Setting the Frames of Expected Future Sea Level Cha...
Posted 12 September 2011
Posted 8 September 2011
"Ban Ki Moon and the Secretary-General of the Pacific Islands Forum have recently claimed that serious sea level rise problems occur both in Tuvalu and Kiribati. This is what two misguided politicians may say. But what is the reality, we must ask. The answer is clear and s...
Posted 6 September 2011
Posted 5 September 2011
This booklet updates NIPCC report Nature, Not Human Activity, Rules the Climate (2008) and contains new results: 1. It defends NIPCC against false claims that IPCC climate models are "consistent" with observed temperature trends. The central issue is the cause of global...
Posted 3 September 2011
One of the UK's leading energy and environment economists warns that the government's promise that green energy policies will create tens of thousands of jobs and stimulate competitive industries is an illusion. In his report The Myth of Green Jobs, published by the Glob...
Posted 2 September 2011
"We should not forget that the enhanced greenhouse effect has no direct supporting evidence, merely the apparent certainty that there is no other explanation for the pattern of temperature rise over the last century or so. Any ‘evidence’ put forward is either purely circum...