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Written by Janet Albrechtsen
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Friday, 30 October 2009 19:59 |
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We can only hope that world leaders will do nothing more than enjoy a pleasant bicycle ride around the charming streets of Copenhagen come December. For if they actually manage to wring out an agreement based on the current draft text of the Copenhagen climate-change treaty, the world is in for some nasty surprises.
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Read more... [Has Anyone Read the Copenhagen Agreement? U.N Plans for a new government are scary]
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Written by Dave Hatter
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Thursday, 29 October 2009 08:52 |
As a business owner, tax payer and elected official, I freely admit that I am VERY skeptical when the government warns me about anything. Government typically causes more problems than they solve, and it’s in their own best interests (power, taxes, etc) to have a crisis du jour and keep people alarmed and afraid. Fearful people are much more malleable.
Case in point, Globull Warming / Climate Change is the biggest scam of all time and is nothing more than a thinly veiled guise to prey on the fears of the ignorant to raise our taxes and erode our freedom and sovereignty! But don’t take my word for it.
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Read more... [Global Warming/Climate Change... Greatest Scam in History!]
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Written by the Viscount Monckton of Brenchley
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Wednesday, 28 October 2009 03:52 |
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SECRETARY CHU’S senate testimony is predicated upon two false assumptions: that the “threat” from “climate change” is “grave”; and that, even if it were grave, reducing carbon emissions would make a difference. He cites the now-outdated 2007 Climate Assessment Report of the IPCC and a subsequent but also now-outdated MIT study, saying global warming by 2100 would be 7-11 Fº. These excessive estimates are founded solely on computerized guesswork.
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Read more... [Response to U.S. Secretary of Energy on Climate Statement]
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Written by Chuck Norris and Walter Scott Hudson
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Tuesday, 27 October 2009 12:30 |
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Halloween just got scarier – much scarier.
I'm not talking about a new Hollywood slasher film or a new line of grotesque costumes, but a possible political nightmare scenario in which the White House could be positioned to sell out U.S. sovereignty, shred the Constitution and leave you and yours to the whims of foreign powers.
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Read more... [Essays on Copenhagen Climate Treaty]
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Written by Dr. David Evans
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Tuesday, 27 October 2009 04:04 |
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Money is power. You can use money to get people to do things for you, and to obtain real stuff. Most people will do almost anything, if you offer them enough money. In the current financial system, money is manufactured by central and private banks out of thin air: they make something from nothing. This is a great power. There is a system of checks and balances surrounding it, but the safeguards are imperfect. This is the story of the rise and abuse of that power.
The paper aristocracy, those who manufacture money and the financial smarties who work the system of paper money, have easy jobs and far more stuff than the rest of us. If you are not part of the paper aristocracy, you are effectively working for them, being subtly and persistently disadvantaged in ways you probably are not aware of. Ultimately those who wield the power to manufacture money have great financial and political influence, and have come to quietly rule the financial world.
This essay explains the story as simply as possible, for members of the public. There are a lot of interconnecting parts to the story, so unfortunately the essay cannot be short. So far most readers have found it eye-opening, informative, and thought-provoking. The essay starts a little slowly because we need to understand the basics of money manufacture, but then moves quickly.
And global warming? The money behind trading carbon emission permits will be colossal. The proposed system bears remarkable similarity to the paper money system: permits are manufactured out of nothing, given value by government decree, traded at a profit by big banks, and then the rest of us have to buy them. The same sort of game by the same people.
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Read more... [Manufacturing Money and Global Warming]
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Written by Nils-Axel Mörner
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Thursday, 22 October 2009 08:24 |
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Mr. President,
You have recently held an undersea Cabinet meeting to raise awareness of the idea that global sea level is rising and hence threatens to drown the Maldives. This proposition is not founded in observational facts and true scientific judgements, Accordingly it is incorrect.
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Read more... [An Open Letter to President Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives]
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Written by Investors Business Daily
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Wednesday, 21 October 2009 08:21 |
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An environmental writer mainstreams an idea floating around the green fringe — save the earth by population control and give carbon credits to one-child families. Are we threatened by the patter of little carbon footprints?
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Read more... [Cap and Trade for Babies?]
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Written by R. Taylor
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Monday, 19 October 2009 10:44 |
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Unnaturally high CO2 for the last 5,000 years has had no apparent effect on temperature. This empirical evidence supports a conclusion that there cannot be any significant feedback between CO2 and temperature.
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Read more... [Atmospheric Temperature and Carbon Dioxide: Feedback or Equilibrium?]
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Written by Robert Ferguson
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Monday, 19 October 2009 10:31 |
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In this report, we provide a review of Pennsylvania’s climate history and show that there is little observational evidence of unusual long-term climate changes taking place that could be linked to anthropogenic “global warming”—despite the frequent prognostications to the contrary, often accompanied by doom and gloom scenarios.
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Read more... [Observed Climate Change & the Negligible Global Effect of Greenhouse-gas Emission Limits in Penn.]
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Written by Walter Scott Hudson
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Monday, 19 October 2009 10:16 |
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“At [the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference in] Copenhagen, this December, weeks away, a treaty will be signed. Your president will sign it. Most of the third world countries will sign it, because they think they’re going to get money out of it. Most of the left-wing regime from the European Union will rubber stamp it. I read that treaty. And what it says is this, that a world government is going to be created.”
– Christopher Monckton
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Read more... [Obama Poised to Cede U.S. Sovereignty, Claims British Lord]
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Written by Christopher Monckton
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Tuesday, 13 October 2009 21:01 |
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20th-century warming: less than had been thought
SPPI's authoritative Monthly CO2 Report for September 2009 reproduces a
research paper by Dr. Joe D'Aleo showing that global temperatures over the
past century, corrected for urban bias and other errors in the current
datasets, have changed by far less than official sources suggest.
- Science
Focus, pages 24-29.
"Global warming" poses no national-security threat. Fearmongers are
the real threat.
- Editorial comment: Page 3.
- The North-East Passage has been open before, so the Green
shipowner's recent stunt that got a ship round the northern coast of Russia
with the assistance of several ice-breakers is nothing new and tells us
nothing of "global warming". Pages 4-5.
- The IPCC assumes CO2 concentration will reach 836 ppmv by 2100, but,
for almost eight years, CO2 concentration has headed straight for only 570
ppmv by 2100. This alone halves all of the IPCC's temperature projections.
Pages 6-7.
- Since 1980 temperature has risen at only 2.3 °F (1.4 °C)/century,
not the 7 F° (3.9 C°) the IPCC predicts. Pages 8-10.
- Sea level rose just 8 inches in the 20th century, and has scarcely
risen since 2006. The oceans are not warming. Page 11.
- Arctic sea-ice extent is now beyond its summer low, but there was
more summer ice than there was in 2007 or 2008. In the Antarctic, sea ice
extent reached a record high in 2007. Global sea ice extent shows little
trend for 30 years. Pages 12-16.
- Hurricane and tropical-cyclone activity is almost at its lowest
since satellite measurement began. Page 17.
- CO2 residence time is about 7 years, not the 100 years imagined by
the UN's climate panel. Page 18.
- The Sun is still very quiet, but some solar activity returned at the
end of September. Page 19.
- The (very few) benefits and the (very large) costs of the
Waxman/Markey Bill are illustrated at Pages 20-23.
- We offer a special puzzle to our readers, just for entertainment. Page 30.
- As always, there's our "global warming" ready reckoner, and our
monthly selection of scientific papers. Pages 31-35.
- And finally, a Technical Note explains how we compile our
state-of-the-art CO2 and temperature graphs. Page 36.
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Read more... [SPPI Monthly CO2 Report: September]
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Written by Joanne Nova
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Thursday, 24 September 2009 10:01 |
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The price for speaking out against global warming is exile from your peers,
even if you are at the top of your field. What follows is an example of a
scientific group that not only stopped a leading researcher from attending a
meeting, but then-without discussing the evidence-applauds the IPCC and
recommends urgent policies to reduce greenhouse gases. What has science been
reduced to if bear biologists feel they can effectively issue ad hoc
recommendations on worldwide energy use? How low have standards sunk if
informed opinion is censored, while uninformed opinion is elevated to
official policy?
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Read more... [Exile for Non-Believers]
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Written by CBO
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Tuesday, 22 September 2009 06:56 |
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The Economic Effects of Legislation to Reduce Greenhouse-Gas Emissions
September 2009
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Read more... [The Economic Effects of Legislation to Reduce Greenhouse-Gas Emissions]
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Written by Sherwood, Keith and Craig Idso
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Thursday, 17 September 2009 04:06 |
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In an article entitled "Population adiposity and climate change," which was published in the International Journal of Epidemiology, Phil Edwards and Ian Roberts of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine write that "world-wide, over one billion adults are overweight and around 300 million are obese", which state of affairs, they suggest, "has serious implications for health, increasing the risk of type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, stroke and some cancers." What seems to concern them even more, however, are what they call the "serious implications" that the growing body mass index (BMI) of the world's human population have for the temperature of the planet.
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Read more... [Fat Folks Beware!]
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Written by Christopher Pearson
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Thursday, 17 September 2009 03:56 |
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GARTH Paltridge was a chief research scientist with the CSIRO's division of atmospheric research before becoming the director of the Institute of Antarctic and Southern Ocean Studies and chief executive of the Antarctic Co-operative Research Centre. His latest skeptical contribution to the debate on the dangers of carbon dioxide is a book, endearingly titled The Climate Caper.
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Read more... [Global Warming Hotheads Freeze out Science's Sceptics]
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Written by Christopher Monckton
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Friday, 11 September 2009 10:18 |
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No heat buildup in the oceans = no global warming:
SPPI’s authoritative Monthly CO2 Report for August 2009 announces the
publication of a major paper by Professors David Douglass and Robert
Knox of the Physics Department in the University of Rochester, New
York, demonstrating that the heat buildup in the oceans that is a
necessary fingerprint of manmade global warming is not occurring. This
is another mortal blow to the alarmist cause in the climate debate.
Report, page 4.
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Read more... [SPPI Monthly CO2 Report: August]
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Written by Fiona Kobusingye
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Thursday, 03 September 2009 16:52 |
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Life in Africa is often nasty, impoverished and short. AIDS kills 2.2 million Africans every year
according to WHO (World Health Organization) reports. Lung infections cause 1.4 million
deaths, malaria 1 million more, intestinal diseases 700,000. Diseases that could be prevented
with simple vaccines kill an additional 600,000 annually, while war, malnutrition and life in
filthy slums send countless more parents and children to early graves.
And yet, day after day, Africans are told the biggest threat we face is – global warming.
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Read more... [Africa's Real Climate Crisis]
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Written by Sen. James Inhofe
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Thursday, 03 September 2009 12:13 |
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Opening Statement of Senator James M. Inhofe
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Read more... [Climate Change and Ensuring that America Leads the Clean Energy Transformation]
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Written by Adam Brickley
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Wednesday, 02 September 2009 21:08 |
“Global Warming for Dummies,” a guide which claims to “sort out fact
from fiction” about so-called global climate change, in reality
contains numerous biased statements – in some cases advocating the
censorship of opinions which differ from those of the authors.
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Read more... [Global Warming for Dummies’ or Global Warming Propaganda?]
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Written by Willie Soon and David Legates
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Wednesday, 02 September 2009 11:27 |
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What does the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation think about carbon dioxide (CO2)-induced global warming?
“We don’t think about it,”Bill Gates said during last year’s Engineers Without Borders International Conference.On another occasion, he told Newsweek magazine: “The angle I’ll look at most is … What about the 4 billion poorest people? What about energy and environmental issues for them?”
The question, however, is not simply a matter of reprioritising limited resources. More fundamentally, the scientific case for catastrophic global climate change from increased atmospheric CO2 is substantially flawed.
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Read more... [Addressing the Real Problem: Climate of Poverty]
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