Category Archives: Climate
AAAH! That lovely global cooling
Coldest year on record for minimum temperatures in the capital of Western Australia Perth is shivering through its coldest year for overnight temperatures, but at the same time bathing in the sunniest winter on record. Meanwhile, farmers are battling the second driest year since records began, as the WA Bureau of Meteorology rewrites the history [...]
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Global warming killed off the mammoths? Pull the other one!
Mammoths were just a type of elephant and the closely-related elephants of Africa and Asia seem to be doing just fine on a diet of warm-climate vegetation — but you can’t expect a Warmist to notice that! An extraordinary article at Nature’s Great Beyond blog, reporting on a new paper by Judy Allen et al [...]
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Paper: Sea Level Rise Not Accelerating
A paper published yesterday in the Journal of Geophysical Research – Oceans, confirms other studies of tide gauge records which show that there has been no statistically significant acceleration in sea level rise over the past 100+ years, in contrast to statements of the IPCC and Al Gore. Sea levels have been rising naturally since [...]
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Britain’s green taxes could treble by 2020, costing taxpayers more than £16billion a year
Taxes to pay for contentious climate change policies are set to treble over the next decade, soaring to more than £16billion a year. The hike is the equivalent of 4p on the current rate of income tax, a report from think tank Policy Exchange claimed. By 2020 the tax take from green levies will be [...]
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Will Ideology or Science save the Victorian Environment?
Victorian Forum Will Ideology or Science save the Victorian Environment? Saturday August 28th 2010 Commencing at 10 am Hidden Valley Function Centre, 189 Hidden Valley Boulevard, Wallan, Vic Morning tea and lunch provided, $15 registration payable on arrival. Cash or cheque only. Use RSVP form to register via fax, mail or email Fax: 03 5762 [...]
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What the Chinese really think of ‘Man Made Global Warming’
By James Delingpole Politics Last updated: August 11th, 2010 Low-income coal miners rest before starting their shift in a privately run coal mine close to You Fang Liang, Ningxia Province, north eastern China (Photo: EPA) One of the great lies told us by our political leaders in order to persuade us to accept their swingeing [...]
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The looming energy disaster
by Tom Quirk June 15, 2010 Australia, where too much wind is still never enough The Deakin Lectures for 2010, Brave New World – The Climate Change Challenge, were launched by Tim Flannery on June 6. The first detailed session, Future Energy Solutions followed on June 8 led by Grant King. Grant King the CEO [...]
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Another Leftist false prophet
We all roasted in the year 2000, apparently Documents released Friday by the Nixon Presidential Library show members of President Richard Nixon’s inner circle discussing the possibilities of global warming more than 30 years ago. Adviser Daniel Patrick Moynihan, notable as a Democrat in the administration, urged the administration to initiate a worldwide system of [...]
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Down with Doom: How the World Keeps Defying the Predictions of Pessimists
By Matt Ridley When I was a student, in the 1970s, the world was coming to an end. The adults told me so. They said the population explosion was unstoppable, mass famine was imminent, a cancer epidemic caused by chemicals in the environment was beginning, the Sahara desert was advancing by a mile a year, [...]
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Observed Global Temperature changes as a Random Walk
A recent refereed journal article from China shows that global temperature changes from 1850 onwards fit a model of purely random changes. Summary below. Full paper here Cause of Temperature Change The cause of temperature change is hard to determine because humans cannot create another earth without humans as control as the common experiments do. [...]
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