Some newsbytes from Dr. Benny Peiser at the GWPF
At Last: UK Industry Demands Government Rethink On Unilateral Climate Policy
The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) confirmed today that it will ask government to rethink conflicts of interest between low carbon and industrial policies.
I’ve posted this as it relates so directly to what I just posted, but I really can’t add much to what Anthony Watts says so I suggest you read the rest there
In the last post I asked when we will know the climate wars are over. I might change my mind, but I’m beginning to doubt there is any real way of declaring an “end” to this stupid scare. Because how can you measure the return of “common sense”?
So, although winning would be nice, it seems a fruitless ambition. So let’s instead think about what really is important? I think it is to stop the worst aspects, so let’s examine the facets and see which are worst: Continue reading
This is really a note to myself in the hope that I can refer back to it and say: “yes it’s over”. The question is: “what evidential base can we use to claim: ‘the war is over’ given that it is more than likely this scam will just fade out of public interest leaving a small but vociferous bunch of nutters trying to cry wolf at every new weather event”.
Global temperature drops
This would be a clear undeniable end to “global warming”, but it isn’t a good measure Continue reading
I found this on the THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: A peer-reviewed paper published in the Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics finds global warming over the 20th century “not significantly different” from warming episodes that occurred in earlier centuries. The paper finds that the increase in solar activity over the past 400 years explains the warming, without any need to search for a unique cause of late 20th century warming, such as greenhouse gas concentrations. The NIPCC website just posted this summary of the paper:
Authors de Jager and Duhau (2009) write that (1) “solar activity is regulated by the solar dynamo,” that (2) “the dynamo is a non-linear interplay between the equatorial and polar magnetic field components,” and that (3) “so far, in sun-climate studies, only the equatorial component has been considered as a possible driver of tropospheric temperature variations.” Continue reading
If anything shows the real nature of modern “science” its a comparison between global warming and antibiotic immune bacteria. As far as I am aware, the only possible causal link between possible global warming is a tentative link with hurricanes, although this may be changes in ocean circulation. In contrast, if we look at the impact of the growth of anti-biotic immunity of bacteria, we see a large and growing number of people being affected by MRSA in hospitals and now the tragic death and long term injury to many in Germany. One is an entirely natural event (climate varies naturally) which has yet to my knowledge to claim a single life, the other is a direct consequence of human action and is claiming more and more people, and by the laws of exponential growth, those numbers can only continue to grow if we continue our current insane farming practices.
How to grow an anti-biotic immune bacteria??
First it’s a numbers game, Continue reading
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”.
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
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
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
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
