Monthly Archives: March 2010
‘Smart’ meters have security holes, researchers say
NOTE: Australia is starting to have these meters installed right now in some areas, including Central Victoria. Watch out! Computer-security researchers say new “smart” meters that are designed to help deliver electricity more efficiently also have flaws that could let hackers tamper with the power grid in previously impossible ways.
Private British weather forecasters reject global warming
A pity the Australian BoM isn’t as accurate, or as honest. The brief below is from “Positive Weather Solutions”. PWS has a much better record at forecasting than does the official British Met office, who are keen global warmers PWS are of the firm belief that global warming is cyclical, and there is no substantial, [...]
Climate prof: ‘I’m a skeptic’
Another slow backdown Penn State global warming scientist Michael E. Mann regrets he did not instantly object when a fellow climatologist asked him in 2008 to delete e-mails subject to Freedom of Information requests. “I wish in retrospect I had told him, ‘Hey, you shouldn’t even be thinking about this,”‘ Mann told The Morning Call [...]
Mike Wallace on Warming Myopia
Mike Wallace, a climate scientist at the University of Washington, had a provocative op-ed in the Seatlle Times last Friday. Wallace was a member of the 2001 NAS panel that was convened at the request of George W. Bush to evaluate the IPCC top line conclusions (chaired by Ralph Cicerone, present-day NAS director). That committee [...]
Global warming ‘will NOT slow down Gulf Stream and plunge Britain into ice age’
Another Greenie scare bites the dust. It did long ago, in fact, but the mass media are now noting it Fears that global warming will shut down the Gulf Stream and plunge Britain into a mini-ice age are unfounded, a study shows. There is no evidence the phenomenon – which brings a constant flow of [...]
The truth is out: Green think tank tells environmentalists to leave climate science behind
Leaders of a contrarian environmental think tank, The Breakthrough Institute, have a way to get beyond the climate science wars: Break the link between global warming research and the push for low-carbon energy. Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger, in a new essay in Yale Environment 360, argue that environmentalists are too eager to link natural [...]
How government cash created the Climategate scandal
By Andrew Bolt Australian climate scientist policy analyst Sonja Boehmer-Christiansen tells the British parliamentary inquiry into Climategate just how much global warming science is corrupted by politics and money. Excerpts:
Federal Climate Change Programs: Funding History and Policy Issues
Excerpt below from a report by the Congressional Budget Office shows the huge U.S. Federal funding that Warmists have received. ANY funding received by skeptics is the merest trifle by comparison In recent years, the federal government has allocated several billion dollars annually for projects to expand the understanding of climate change or to reduce [...]
Censorship at AGU: scientists denied the right of reply
Disgraceful, but typical of the green-left. Ed. Has the Journal of Geophysical Research been coerced into defending the climate alarmist faith? Science is best progressed by open and free discussion in which all participants have equal rights of contribution. This is especially the case when a scientific issue is related to a matter of high [...]
The High Cost of Environmentalism
In Los Angeles, in the heart of California’s anemic economy, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and the Department of Water and Power (DWP) hope to massively raise energy rates by a whopping 21% next year, with other rate increases slated through 2014, for a total 37% hike.