Category Archives: Australia
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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Felled by an invidious green plot
“The conscience-less dishonesty of the green movement” This is the chilling story of how green activists targeted and finally brought down John Gay, the visionary former chairman of the Tasmanian timber company Gunns, damaged the company and helped wreck the state economy. It contains a clear warning for the rest of Australia of what lies [...]
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Despite the Greenies, large houses make sense
If the Greenies dropped their objection to “sprawl”, their insistence on “dumb growth” and their opposition to land use changes, it might be different ONE of the current social themes is that the consumer is to blame for wanting a big home. The new social order – excuse me if I get on my hobby [...]
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Australia’s Green party is far-Leftist
The big parties’ panicked abandonment of climate change has effortlessly transformed the Greens. They are now two days from winning more power than they’ve ever dreamed of. The Greens are almost certain to win the balance of power in the Senate for the first time. This will make them the arbiter of any legislative disagreement [...]
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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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Not-So-Safe-Wind Turbines
FIRST: Govt backs turbines for Hobart skyline // < ![CDATA[ if (typeof showPhotos == 'function') showPhotos('2632796-mediarss.xml'); // ]]> The Tasmanian Government has supported a proposal to put wind turbines on top of buildings in Hobart’s CBD. The proposal has come from Robert Rockefeller who is a descendent of the prominent US family who built some [...]
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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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Spin, Spin, Spin
One billion dollars to prop up the scam known as the wind industry: “But some of our richest solar, biomass, wind and geothermal resources are in remote regions — like central and northern Australia — and are not connected to our main networks. That is why a re-elected Gillard Labor Government will invest $1 billion [...]
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