Tag: Global Warming

Garnaud and Climate Change

What a clear, crisp communication. Factual and unemotional-Need for review of Garnaut policies (Letter published in AFR, 25 March) You report that, in an address to the National Press Club, Blue Scope Chairman Graham Kraehe accused Ross Garnaut of using “very selective, highly misleading” figures (“Bluescope fires salvo at Garnaut”, March 23). Kraehe was, in … Continue reading Garnaud and Climate Change →

Climate Change (Note not "Global Warming" as its effectively non-existent)

I can't vouch for the precise accuracy of the following, but the general perspective would be correct.ETS tax for dummiesLet's put this into a bit of perspective for laymen! ETS is another tax. It is equal to putting up the GST to 12.5% which would be unacceptable and produce an outcry.Read the following analogy and … Continue reading Climate Change (Note not "Global Warming" as its effectively non-existent) →

Global Warming-Motives of Alarmists

The following is a quote from James Delingpole's blog. It struck me as a good summary.He is describing ideological differences with a "friend"."The biggest of those ideological differences has to do with Anthropogenic Global Warming.In a nutshell, I think it has been greatly exaggerated by a number of special interest groups with an axe to … Continue reading Global Warming-Motives of Alarmists →

Climate Change

A quote from Joanne Nova in an article in last Saturday's Weekend Australian"The swelling ranks of sceptical scientists is now the largest whistle-blowing cohort in science ever seen. It includes some of the brightest: two with Nobel prizes in physics, four NASAastronauts, 9000 PhDs in science, and another 20,000 science graduates to cap it off. … Continue reading Climate Change →

The World Has Been Cooling for 15 Years

The following is an extract from the UK Daily Mail:-"But buried amid the details of those two Met Office statements 12 months apart lies a remarkable climbdown that has huge implications - not just for the Met Office, but for debateover climate change as a whole.Read carefully with other official data, they conceal a truth … Continue reading The World Has Been Cooling for 15 Years →

Climate Change-Carbon Demonisation

The science of climate change/global warming is most certainly not settled. In recent months we have had:-the revelations of the "climategate" emailsthe very balanced Review Committee of enquiry into the IPCC's alarmist reportingthe revealed gross exaggeration of the Himalayan glacier melting claimsthe back-off from an extreme alarmist position by the highly respected Royal Society of … Continue reading Climate Change-Carbon Demonisation →

Politics

I am deeply disappointed that two of the  "Rural Independents" have failed to support the Coalition in forming a minority Government. My perspective is that a Government shown to be incompetent, to the point they removed their own leader, has been returned to power, notwithstanding the fact that to all intents and purposes the Coalition … Continue reading Politics →

Climate Change-Famous Forecasts that Failed.

In 1969, Richard Nixon’s presidential advisor, Daniel Moynihan, summarised for the President the general concern of scientists about “the carbon dioxide problem". This report was recently released.Moynihan’s memo reads, in part:“It is now pretty clearly agreed that the CO2 content in the atmosphere will rise 25% by 2000. This could increase the average temperature near … Continue reading Climate Change-Famous Forecasts that Failed. →

Global Warming

I am not into conspiracy theories. However, when you think about the millenium bug,the salinity exaggeration of a few years ago, the continual threats to the Great Barrier Reef (whatever happened to the Crown-of-thorns-star-fish?) and now the global warming beat-up, you wonder.The term 'climate change' is much better than 'global warming', as you can win … Continue reading Global Warming →