Prince charles talks to more plants

Posted on 2 June 2011 by Scottish-Sceptic

OK, the actual headline is: Charles speaks to (Edinburgh) climate group but I just couldn’t help myself, who could resist a headline like that, the chance to imply that anyone living in Edinburgh was a plant.
As for the seminar, I think we can get the drift from: “This is very much a working group session, hearing what the challenges are in Scotland across the different areas, whether it`s forestry, public engagement in climate change or finance.”
In other words it’s another group of people looking to rub shoulders with the politicians in the hope of scrounging more public money to fund their uneconomic ideas, which without the global warming scam wouldn’t have got past the filing cabinet marked “Bin”.

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Global warming decline – A timeline!

Posted on 2 June 2011 by Scottish-Sceptic

As I was reading through the article on the collapses of the carbon market, I suddenly realised that there now exists a tangible timeline for the collapse of the global warming scam.
As I posted before, the replacement for the Kyoto treaty is dead because the US refuses to take part in the treaty, and Russia, Japan and Canada said at the recent G8 meeting they would not continue under Kyoto. What I hadn’t realised is that this all comes to a head in 2012 when the Kyoto treaty expires. Continue reading →

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Why do big organisation tend to support Global Warming hysteria?

Posted on 2 June 2011 by Scottish-Sceptic

Now that there is much more of a parity in the debate between sceptics and alarmists, it easier to compare the types of organisations from which each view stems. And it has struck me that overwhelmingly, it is the large organisations, and amongst them, the multinationals (whether media of e.g. UN or charities) who overtly express support for global warming alarmism, but it is the small, even individual people who express scepticism.
Could this simply be that “social” structures are more likely to support causes for the “good us all”, whilst individuals are more likely to express their personal interests? Continue reading →

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Global warming stories on the rise – why?

Posted on 2 June 2011 by Scottish-Sceptic

If anyone had read my previous posts on the number of google stories, you may know that I don’t exactly trust google. There was e.g. the way during climategate that the auto suggest feature failed to suggest climategate. Then there’s the way that if you search for “WUWT” the second rated story is one of WUWT closing down (a very old story which surely is strangely prominent, as is the other negative stories on WUWT if you search google?) Then there is the way that sceptical websites are consistently downgraded on the google listing. All in all, google have not exactly excelled at portraying themselves as being honest on this issue.
So, when I started posting on the google numbers of hits on global warming, I realised that simply highlighting this number may cause it to change if the google spin machine went into action again, so with that proviso, I don’t know how to take the recent edging upwards of the google newscount for global warming. Continue reading →

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Fusion Scientist admits defeat

Posted on 31 May 2011 by Scottish-Sceptic

A senior scientist at the a senior scientist at the Culham Centre for Fusion Energy in Oxfordshire told the Guardian:

“We have to use electricity to run the machine and there is no way of getting around that.”

Which is a very odd thing to say if you happen to be a research group whose intention is to produce electricity rather than use it! Continue reading →

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It’s All Over: Kyoto Protocol Loses Four Big Nations

Posted on 30 May 2011 by Scottish-Sceptic

DEAUVILLE, France: Russia, Japan and Canada told the G8 they would not join a second round of carbon cuts under the Kyoto Protocol at United Nations talks this year and the US reiterated it would remain outside the treaty, European diplomats have said.
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At last Thursday’s G8 dinner the US President, Barack Obama, confirmed Washington would not join an updated Kyoto Protocol, the diplomats said.
The US, the second-largest carbon emitter, signed the protocol in 1997 but in 2001 the then president, George W. Bush, said he would not put it to the Senate for ratification.
Agence France-Press, 29 May 2011

The tide has turned Continue reading →

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More US politicians going cold

Posted on 29 May 2011 by Scottish-Sceptic

(US) Presidential politics has candidates rethinking global warming

“One thing that Tim Pawlenty, Jon Huntsman, Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney have in common: These GOP(republican) presidential contenders all are running away from their past positions on global warming, driven by their party’s loud doubters who question the science and disdain government solutions.
All four have stepped back from previous stances on the issue, either apologizing outright or softening what they said earlier. And those who haven’t fully recanted are under pressure to do so.
The latest sign of that pressure came Thursday when New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said he was pulling his state out of a regional agreement to reduce greenhouse gases, saying it won’t work.

(Source Associated press – by Dina Cappiello)

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SNP all but drop any reference to global warming.

Posted on 28 May 2011 by Scottish-Sceptic

I’ve just been listening to the Alex Salmonds “five year vision” on the BBC.
In a 22minute speech, I noticed two possible reference. There was one mention of “crown estates” and “wealth” which could if desperate be taken to mean “offshore wind”, but likely means oil.
And then 14minutes in we had the only clear reference:
“Scottish futures trush designed to tackle head on problems of Scottish society …So the (Scottish) futures fund (has within it)
Youth talent fund (blurb) … A warm homes fund, that will deliverer warm homes and provide these communities with own renewable energy… tackling not only the symptoms but the causes of poverty.

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Extermarmite

Posted on 26 May 2011 by Scottish-Sceptic

Extermarmite, Extermarmite!


After Danish authorities decided to ban Marmite, there has been a call to ban Danish goods . On the page calling for a boycott of Danish goods, fan Joe Figg feared the ban could have far-reaching consequences. “This dastardly move could bring about global warming of toast,” he wrote. While Mark Salisbury wrote: “Down with spread fascism!”
Clearly this is a reference to Marmites earlier legal action against the British National Party after an image of a Marmite jar was used on a political broadcast without (see mail) Continue reading →

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Barmy denialist or just sacasm?

Posted on 26 May 2011 by Scottish-Sceptic

This is the kind of republican that … makes me proud to be British … or perhaps I just don’t understand his humour?

But if it were true — and most of the world’s scientists agree it is — Rohrabacher said he’s hit on an answer by tackling the 80 to 90 percent of heat-trapping greenhouse gas emissions “generated by nature itself”: Namely, yank down old trees and get rid of the rotting wood in rainforests.
“Is there some thought being given to subsidizing the clearing of rainforests in order for some countries to eliminate that production of greenhouse gases?” the California Republican asked Todd Stern, the top U.S. climate diplomat and lead witness at the hearing. “Or would people be supportive of cutting down older trees in order to plant younger trees as a means to prevent this disaster from happening?”
Stern promised to deliver a technical expert from the State Department to get at the heart of Rohrabacher’s questions. But he also tried to correct the record by pointing out that the focus of global warming policy actually centers on keeping the world’s trees standing, especially in places like the Amazon, Congo and Indonesia.
He didn’t bite on the merits of Rohrabacher’s argument that trees cause global warming, which was reminiscent of Ronald Reagan’s much-lampooned statement that trees cause pollution.  (Source politico)

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