Donna Laframboise (Canada)
"Now comes the million dollar question: What is a VP of the WWF doing serving as a Review Editor for Working Group 2, Chapter 15 of the latest edition of the climate bible – the one that is being written as we speak? "
Monday, 7 March 2011
German Ex-Chancellor Helmut Schmidt Blasts Politicized IPCC Science – “Some Scientists Have Proven To Be Frauds”
NoTricksZone (Germany)
"I wonder if the scientists at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) are listening. Here Schmidt is clearly calling for a real, COMPETENT investigation by an independent expert body, and not a small group of corrupt hacks."
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Helmut Schmidt calls for IPCC inquiry (Quadrant Online)
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Helmut Schmidt calls for IPCC inquiry (WUWT)
"I wonder if the scientists at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) are listening. Here Schmidt is clearly calling for a real, COMPETENT investigation by an independent expert body, and not a small group of corrupt hacks."
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Helmut Schmidt calls for IPCC inquiry (Quadrant Online)
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Helmut Schmidt calls for IPCC inquiry (WUWT)
How the carbon dioxide tax will become a central planner’s dream
Andrew Bolt,Herald Sun (Australia)
"Oh, dear. You can see already how this carbon dioxide tax - and the billions it will raise for government handouts - will lead to a massive new reregulation of the economy. A joy for the central planners who thought 1989 was the end of their time: ......This is going to be a disaster, and the greatest scrabble for handouts ever seen in this country. "
ED: Just look at Europe to see whats coming your way.And it's the poor that will pay.
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Richard Lindzen: A Case Against Precipitous Climate Action(GWPF)
"However, for more serious leaders, the need to courageously resist hysteria is clear. Wasting resources on symbolically fighting ever present climate change is no substitute for prudence. Nor is the assumption that the earth’s climate reached a point of perfection in the middle of the twentieth century a sign of intelligence."
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SlattsNews:
"We know it will end up costing taxpayers an arm and a leg, but has anyone a clue how this wretched carbon tax is supposed to work?"
"Oh, dear. You can see already how this carbon dioxide tax - and the billions it will raise for government handouts - will lead to a massive new reregulation of the economy. A joy for the central planners who thought 1989 was the end of their time: ......This is going to be a disaster, and the greatest scrabble for handouts ever seen in this country. "
ED: Just look at Europe to see whats coming your way.And it's the poor that will pay.
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Richard Lindzen: A Case Against Precipitous Climate Action(GWPF)
"However, for more serious leaders, the need to courageously resist hysteria is clear. Wasting resources on symbolically fighting ever present climate change is no substitute for prudence. Nor is the assumption that the earth’s climate reached a point of perfection in the middle of the twentieth century a sign of intelligence."
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SlattsNews:
"We know it will end up costing taxpayers an arm and a leg, but has anyone a clue how this wretched carbon tax is supposed to work?"
Sunday, 6 March 2011
The Age and Herald confess - we’re hyping global warming
Andrew Bolt,Herald Sun (Australia)
"The truth is that Earth Hour is not just stupid but a proven dud, with only these Pravdas of the green movement having the hide to declare that Kerr has suddenly made it and the green hype behind it “so hot”.
The Age and SMH would rather print this advertising copy than a sober, clearly written exposition of global warming theory and the serious problems emerging with it - as Quadrant has so responsibly done in its current edition.
Now that’s journalism, and not surprisingly, alas, it took three non-journalists - Geoffrey Lehmann, Peter Farrell and Dick Warburton - to do it. "
"The truth is that Earth Hour is not just stupid but a proven dud, with only these Pravdas of the green movement having the hide to declare that Kerr has suddenly made it and the green hype behind it “so hot”.
The Age and SMH would rather print this advertising copy than a sober, clearly written exposition of global warming theory and the serious problems emerging with it - as Quadrant has so responsibly done in its current edition.
Now that’s journalism, and not surprisingly, alas, it took three non-journalists - Geoffrey Lehmann, Peter Farrell and Dick Warburton - to do it. "
There is nothing 'smart' about rationing electricity
Telegraph
"Though I say it myself it couldn’t be coming out at a more desperate time. To show how desperate, let us consider the words of Steve Holliday, chief executive of the National Grid, interviewed last week on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.
“The grid is going to be a very different system in 2020, 2030. We keep thinking that we want it to be there and provide power when we need it. It is going to be much smarter than that. We are going to change our own behaviour and consume it when it is available and available cheaply.”
I have one simple question here: what on earth is this imbecile still doing in his job?"
"Though I say it myself it couldn’t be coming out at a more desperate time. To show how desperate, let us consider the words of Steve Holliday, chief executive of the National Grid, interviewed last week on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.
“The grid is going to be a very different system in 2020, 2030. We keep thinking that we want it to be there and provide power when we need it. It is going to be much smarter than that. We are going to change our own behaviour and consume it when it is available and available cheaply.”
I have one simple question here: what on earth is this imbecile still doing in his job?"
Saturday, 5 March 2011
Transport Secretary Philip Hammond reveals his ignorance of wind power
Christopher Booker, Telegraph
"When it was reported recently that a Dutch company, Eneco, is to build the world’s largest offshore wind farm, covering 76 square miles off the Dorset coast, the media mindlessly parroted a claim that its 240 turbines will be able to generate 1200MW, “enough to power 820,000 homes”. In fact, thanks to the intermittency of the wind, their actual output would average little more than 300MW, equivalent to the needs of only 125,000 homes. Yet for this we will be paying three times the market rate, including a subsidy of £250 million a year. "
"When it was reported recently that a Dutch company, Eneco, is to build the world’s largest offshore wind farm, covering 76 square miles off the Dorset coast, the media mindlessly parroted a claim that its 240 turbines will be able to generate 1200MW, “enough to power 820,000 homes”. In fact, thanks to the intermittency of the wind, their actual output would average little more than 300MW, equivalent to the needs of only 125,000 homes. Yet for this we will be paying three times the market rate, including a subsidy of £250 million a year. "
Friday, 4 March 2011
£100m: the staggering cost of Britain's worst winter
Farmers Weekly
"Rural insurer NFU Mutual said arctic weather in December had led to almost 6000 claims expected to cost more than £34m. Damage to homes, farms and businesses included a trail of collapsed buildings.
"Coupled with the very cold spell in January 2010, December's icy blast has made 2010 the worst year in our 100-year history for cold weather claims," said John Kenny, the company's chief claims manager. "
H/T Tom Nelson
"Rural insurer NFU Mutual said arctic weather in December had led to almost 6000 claims expected to cost more than £34m. Damage to homes, farms and businesses included a trail of collapsed buildings.
"Coupled with the very cold spell in January 2010, December's icy blast has made 2010 the worst year in our 100-year history for cold weather claims," said John Kenny, the company's chief claims manager. "
H/T Tom Nelson
Thursday, 3 March 2011
Banking On Climate Crisis – The Merchants Of Doom
NoTricksZone
"This is a story on how some good ol boys are pushing extreme scenarios to make big money. Fiduciary duty is getting thrown overboard by banks, insurance companies and investment houses as they race madly to capitalize on carbon schemes and the “green economy” - all under the guise of “saving the planet”.
"This is a story on how some good ol boys are pushing extreme scenarios to make big money. Fiduciary duty is getting thrown overboard by banks, insurance companies and investment houses as they race madly to capitalize on carbon schemes and the “green economy” - all under the guise of “saving the planet”.
Scientists Speak Out
Donna Laframboise
"A week ago Jonathan Jones, a physics professor at Oxford University, submitted a remarkable comment over at the Bishop Hill blog. He’s hero #1 of this post, and I’ve taken the liberty of reprinting the bulk of his remarks further down." .....
"....However, "hide the decline" is an entirely different matter. This is not a complicated technical matter on which reasonable people can disagree: it is a straightforward and blatant breach of the fundamental principles of honesty and self-criticism that lie at the heart of all true science. The significance of the divergence problem is immediately obvious, and seeking to hide it is quite simply wrong. The recent public statements by supposed leaders of UK science, declaring that hiding the decline is standard scientific practice are on a par with declarations that black is white and up is down. I don't know who they think they are speaking for, but they certainly aren't speaking for me. ...."
"A week ago Jonathan Jones, a physics professor at Oxford University, submitted a remarkable comment over at the Bishop Hill blog. He’s hero #1 of this post, and I’ve taken the liberty of reprinting the bulk of his remarks further down." .....
"....However, "hide the decline" is an entirely different matter. This is not a complicated technical matter on which reasonable people can disagree: it is a straightforward and blatant breach of the fundamental principles of honesty and self-criticism that lie at the heart of all true science. The significance of the divergence problem is immediately obvious, and seeking to hide it is quite simply wrong. The recent public statements by supposed leaders of UK science, declaring that hiding the decline is standard scientific practice are on a par with declarations that black is white and up is down. I don't know who they think they are speaking for, but they certainly aren't speaking for me. ...."
Warmists thwarted: reef recovers yet again
Andrew Bolt,Herald Sun (Australia)
"Last March, the ABC yet again warned of a bleaching disaster for a key part of the Great Barrier Reef: .......Warmist scientists seem to have yet again oversold the scare and underestimated the ability of coral to adapt today as it has for thousands of years. I’d have hoped that they - and the ABC - would have learned from the chastening example of Ove Hoegh-Guldberg. "
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Still cooler than usual
"Last March, the ABC yet again warned of a bleaching disaster for a key part of the Great Barrier Reef: .......Warmist scientists seem to have yet again oversold the scare and underestimated the ability of coral to adapt today as it has for thousands of years. I’d have hoped that they - and the ABC - would have learned from the chastening example of Ove Hoegh-Guldberg. "
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Still cooler than usual
Wednesday, 2 March 2011
Shut down Australia and save 0.01 degrees
Jo Nova
"The key question — with all the billions spent on cutting Australia’s carbon production: the trade and income lost; the jobs cut; the pain of living near wind farms; the foreign holidays avoided and then paying more for petrol and electricity than we have too — how many degrees will our actions cool the world by?
Assuming the IPCC are right about the effects of CO2, and that Australia stopped producing CO2 entirely (if we all left the country) by 2100 the world would be 0.0123 degrees cooler, and sea levels would be 2mm lower. These are so small they are unmeasureable."
"The key question — with all the billions spent on cutting Australia’s carbon production: the trade and income lost; the jobs cut; the pain of living near wind farms; the foreign holidays avoided and then paying more for petrol and electricity than we have too — how many degrees will our actions cool the world by?
Assuming the IPCC are right about the effects of CO2, and that Australia stopped producing CO2 entirely (if we all left the country) by 2100 the world would be 0.0123 degrees cooler, and sea levels would be 2mm lower. These are so small they are unmeasureable."
Tuesday, 1 March 2011
The Economic Impact of Renewable Energy Policy in Scotland and the UK
Download here (Verso Economics,March 2011 )
"The report’s key finding is that for every job created in the UK in renewable energy, 3.7 jobs are lost. In Scotland there is no net benefit from government support for the sector, and probably a small net loss of jobs."
"IV. The main policy tool used to promote renewable energy generation is the Renewables Obligation, which effectively raises the market price paid for electricity from renewable sources. This scheme cost electricity consumers £1.1bn in the UK and around £100m in Scotland in 2009/10. The UK government plans similar schemes to promote renewable heat and renewable fuels.
V. In addition, both the UK and Scottish Governments have introduced a wide range of grants and subsidies for the renewables industry. These are estimated at £188m UK wide and an additional £22m in Scotland in 2009/10. Further, an exemption from the Climate Change Levy for renewable generation costs HMRC £77m UK wide and £25m in Scotland in lost tax revenue. " (H/T Andrew Bolt,Herald Sun, Australia)
"The report’s key finding is that for every job created in the UK in renewable energy, 3.7 jobs are lost. In Scotland there is no net benefit from government support for the sector, and probably a small net loss of jobs."
"IV. The main policy tool used to promote renewable energy generation is the Renewables Obligation, which effectively raises the market price paid for electricity from renewable sources. This scheme cost electricity consumers £1.1bn in the UK and around £100m in Scotland in 2009/10. The UK government plans similar schemes to promote renewable heat and renewable fuels.
V. In addition, both the UK and Scottish Governments have introduced a wide range of grants and subsidies for the renewables industry. These are estimated at £188m UK wide and an additional £22m in Scotland in 2009/10. Further, an exemption from the Climate Change Levy for renewable generation costs HMRC £77m UK wide and £25m in Scotland in lost tax revenue. " (H/T Andrew Bolt,Herald Sun, Australia)
Groceries to carry the cost of carbon tax, warn supermarkets
News.com.au (Australia)
"FOOD prices are set to rise under the Federal Government's carbon tax, with some of the nation's largest food retailers expected to be hit with potential carbon bills of millions of dollars a year.A national survey of 500 food and grocery retailers also revealed 83 per cent intend to pass on the cost of a carbon price in higher prices, reports the Daily Telegraph."
ED: Carbon Tax = Window Tax, it's a tax for raising revenue.
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Can your boss afford to pay another $100 million a year to Gillard?
Oh, and a tax on cows, sheep and chickens, too (Andrew Bolt,Herald Sun, Australia)
"FOOD prices are set to rise under the Federal Government's carbon tax, with some of the nation's largest food retailers expected to be hit with potential carbon bills of millions of dollars a year.A national survey of 500 food and grocery retailers also revealed 83 per cent intend to pass on the cost of a carbon price in higher prices, reports the Daily Telegraph."
ED: Carbon Tax = Window Tax, it's a tax for raising revenue.
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Can your boss afford to pay another $100 million a year to Gillard?
Oh, and a tax on cows, sheep and chickens, too (Andrew Bolt,Herald Sun, Australia)
Coldest Back-to-Back U.S. Winters in a Quarter Century
World Climate Report
"As the curtain falls on the climatological winter (December-February) of 2010-11 in the U.S., we are left shivering.
For the second year in a row, the winter temperature when averaged across the contiguous United States came in below the average temperature for the 20th century. This marks the first time since the winters of 1992-93 and 1993-94 that two winters in a row have been below the long-term normal, and it makes for the coldest back-to-back winter combination for at least the past 25 years. "
"As the curtain falls on the climatological winter (December-February) of 2010-11 in the U.S., we are left shivering.
For the second year in a row, the winter temperature when averaged across the contiguous United States came in below the average temperature for the 20th century. This marks the first time since the winters of 1992-93 and 1993-94 that two winters in a row have been below the long-term normal, and it makes for the coldest back-to-back winter combination for at least the past 25 years. "
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