Andrew Bolt, Herald Sun (Australia)
"Climate Commissioner Tim Flannery predicted global warming would destroy Perth:
As temperatures around the world warmed by 2 to 7 per cent, Sydney could glimpse its future by looking at the devastating impact that global warming had already had on Perth, which he said was likely to become a “ghost metropolis”....
“I think there is a fair chance Perth will be the 21st century’s first ghost metropolis,” Dr Flannery said. “It’s whole primary production is in dire straits and the eastern states are only 30 years behind.”
In fact:
The Perth metropolitan area which received 7mm overnight has had one of the wettest starts to November on record.
During spring this year, the city has recorded 182.8 mm of rain-well above the average springtime rainfall of 154.9mm.
The yearly tally is also high-so far this year 765.4mm has fallen on the city compared to this time last year when only 472.8 mm had been recorded.
Saturday, 5 November 2011
Heat builds over emissions tax on farmers
Stuff NZ
"National has shrugged off Labour claims it is "having a bob each way" and misleading farmers over the controversial inclusion of agriculture in the emissions trading scheme. The so-called "fart tax" – which would charge farmers for the harmful gas emissions from fertilisers and livestock – is deeply unpopular with the agriculture sector. "
"National has shrugged off Labour claims it is "having a bob each way" and misleading farmers over the controversial inclusion of agriculture in the emissions trading scheme. The so-called "fart tax" – which would charge farmers for the harmful gas emissions from fertilisers and livestock – is deeply unpopular with the agriculture sector. "
Chris Huhne was as wrong about the euro as he is now about the wind
Christopher Booker, Telegraph
"..It was telling to note that one of the authors of this quaint historical curiosity was Chris Huhne, whose current panacea for Britain’s ills is his dream that we should pay £200 billion, to largely foreign-owned companies, to cover our countryside and sea with thousands of inefficient and ludicrously expensive windmills – not to mention filling our roads with even more useless electric cars. Another of Huhne’s fellow euro-fans was Adair Turner, who now works alongside him as chairman of the Committee on Climate Change, sharing his infatuation with windmills and electric cars. "
"..It was telling to note that one of the authors of this quaint historical curiosity was Chris Huhne, whose current panacea for Britain’s ills is his dream that we should pay £200 billion, to largely foreign-owned companies, to cover our countryside and sea with thousands of inefficient and ludicrously expensive windmills – not to mention filling our roads with even more useless electric cars. Another of Huhne’s fellow euro-fans was Adair Turner, who now works alongside him as chairman of the Committee on Climate Change, sharing his infatuation with windmills and electric cars. "
Friday, 4 November 2011
Shale Gas Revolution
NYT
"....Mitchell fought through waves of skepticism and opposition to extract natural gas from shale. The method he and his team used to release the trapped gas, called fracking, has paid off in the most immense way. In 2000, shale gas represented just 1 percent of American natural gas supplies. Today, it is 30 percent and rising. .....The shale gas revolution challenges the coal industry, renders new nuclear plants uneconomic and changes the economics for the renewable energy companies, which are now much further from viability. .....A few weeks ago, I sat around with John Rowe, one of the most trusted people in the energy business, and listened to him talk enthusiastically about this windfall. He has no vested interest in this; indeed, his company might be hurt. But he knows how much shale gas could mean to America. It would be a crime if we squandered this blessing."
"....Mitchell fought through waves of skepticism and opposition to extract natural gas from shale. The method he and his team used to release the trapped gas, called fracking, has paid off in the most immense way. In 2000, shale gas represented just 1 percent of American natural gas supplies. Today, it is 30 percent and rising. .....The shale gas revolution challenges the coal industry, renders new nuclear plants uneconomic and changes the economics for the renewable energy companies, which are now much further from viability. .....A few weeks ago, I sat around with John Rowe, one of the most trusted people in the energy business, and listened to him talk enthusiastically about this windfall. He has no vested interest in this; indeed, his company might be hurt. But he knows how much shale gas could mean to America. It would be a crime if we squandered this blessing."
Temperatures Plunge As CO2 Soars
Real Science
"CO2 is rising much faster than expected to record levels, and temperatures have dropped 0.37C since last year - with every single day in 2011 cooler than the same day last year."
"CO2 is rising much faster than expected to record levels, and temperatures have dropped 0.37C since last year - with every single day in 2011 cooler than the same day last year."
David Whitehouse: Biased BBC Advice Based On Sloppy Statistics
Climate Realists
"The BBC should be, or at least aspire to be, the gold standard. So it is depressing to come across such a skimpy analysis, and sloppy use of statistics as in this briefing given to BBC staff by their Environment Correspondent Richard Black. "
"The BBC should be, or at least aspire to be, the gold standard. So it is depressing to come across such a skimpy analysis, and sloppy use of statistics as in this briefing given to BBC staff by their Environment Correspondent Richard Black. "
CEO: “The market for carbon capture and storage is dead”
WUWT
"The Norwegian company Aker Clean Carbon may be closed. Its value is set to zero. The market for carbon capture and storage is dead according to their CEO."
"The Norwegian company Aker Clean Carbon may be closed. Its value is set to zero. The market for carbon capture and storage is dead according to their CEO."
Thursday, 3 November 2011
MIT's Richard Lindzen & Physicist David Douglass: Muller's findings of warming are 'nothing remarkable' -- BEST study does not alter Climategate's 'serious breaches of ethics'
Climate Depot
"Lindzen & Douglass slam media for 'completely misrepresenting Climategate': Scandal revealed 'explicit evidence of the manipulation of proxy records used in paleoclimate reconstructions, suppression of other viewpoints, manipulation of IPCC process, and intimidation of journal editors were all evidence of serious breaches of ethics. Muller's findings hardly alters these findings'
"Lindzen & Douglass slam media for 'completely misrepresenting Climategate': Scandal revealed 'explicit evidence of the manipulation of proxy records used in paleoclimate reconstructions, suppression of other viewpoints, manipulation of IPCC process, and intimidation of journal editors were all evidence of serious breaches of ethics. Muller's findings hardly alters these findings'
Wednesday, 2 November 2011
UN Climate Warnings Are So 1989
Donna Laframboise (Canada)
"Amid all that drama and turmoil, the United Nations was telling us that governments had only a 10-year window before global warming would be beyond human control.
That’s right, twenty-two years ago the UN was saying exactly what we’re being told today. Entire nations are at risk of being wiped off the face of the Earth as a result of global-warming-induced rising sea levels. Well, not quite exactly. You see, according to that 1989 prediction, those nations were supposed to have disappeared by the year 2000.
Of course, nothing of the kind actually happened. Which means we’re entitled to an explanation. What’s different this time? Why should we believe today’s warnings about the dire effects of global warming when the UN has already cried Wolf?"
"Amid all that drama and turmoil, the United Nations was telling us that governments had only a 10-year window before global warming would be beyond human control.
That’s right, twenty-two years ago the UN was saying exactly what we’re being told today. Entire nations are at risk of being wiped off the face of the Earth as a result of global-warming-induced rising sea levels. Well, not quite exactly. You see, according to that 1989 prediction, those nations were supposed to have disappeared by the year 2000.
Of course, nothing of the kind actually happened. Which means we’re entitled to an explanation. What’s different this time? Why should we believe today’s warnings about the dire effects of global warming when the UN has already cried Wolf?"
After a glorious autumn... Britain prepares for Siberian freeze in just weeks
Daily Mail
"Britain faces an abrupt end to a remarkably warm autumn with temperatures plummeting towards Siberian levels, forecasters are warning. The unusually mild weather is about to give way to a freezing winter, as thermometers dip well below zero within a fortnight.And the country will be coping with -15C cold by December, according to experts, who have warned that the weather could be as brutal as last year."
"Britain faces an abrupt end to a remarkably warm autumn with temperatures plummeting towards Siberian levels, forecasters are warning. The unusually mild weather is about to give way to a freezing winter, as thermometers dip well below zero within a fortnight.And the country will be coping with -15C cold by December, according to experts, who have warned that the weather could be as brutal as last year."
Tuesday, 1 November 2011
Comments On The BEST FAQ
Roger Pielke Sr.
"The BEST project provides an interesting new group to examine the land surface temperature record as applied to long term temperature trends and anomalies. However, they have failed to adequately consider the range of issues that are yet to be resolved. and have prematurely reported their findings and conclusions both in their submitted papers and in their media interactions."
"The BEST project provides an interesting new group to examine the land surface temperature record as applied to long term temperature trends and anomalies. However, they have failed to adequately consider the range of issues that are yet to be resolved. and have prematurely reported their findings and conclusions both in their submitted papers and in their media interactions."
Der Spiegel Warned Of Warming In 1948, Then Cooling In 1974, And Again Warming In 1986!
NoTricksZone
"Here’s Der Spiegel writing about global warming in 1948, just 26 years before it warned the planet was cooling (1974), read that here, which was only 12 years before they again warned of warming (1986), read it here!"
"Here’s Der Spiegel writing about global warming in 1948, just 26 years before it warned the planet was cooling (1974), read that here, which was only 12 years before they again warned of warming (1986), read it here!"
Scientific heresy
Bishop Hill
"Well here’s why it matters. The alarmists have been handed power over our lives; the heretics have not. Remember Britain’s unilateral climate act is officially expected to cost the hard-pressed UK economy £18.3 billion a year for the next 39 years and achieve an unmeasurably small change in carbon dioxide levels.
At least* sceptics do not cover the hills of Scotland with useless, expensive, duke-subsidising wind turbines whose manufacture causes pollution in Inner Mongolia and which kill rare raptors such as this griffon vulture. At least crop circle believers cannot almost double your electricity bills and increase fuel poverty while driving jobs to Asia, to support their fetish. At least creationists have not persuaded the BBC that balanced reporting is no longer necessary. At least homeopaths have not made expensive condensing boilers, which shut down in cold weather, compulsory, as John Prescott did in 2005. At least astrologers have not driven millions of people into real hunger, perhaps killing 192,000 last year according to one conservative estimate, by diverting 5% of the world’s grain crop into motor fuel*.
That’s why it matters. We’ve been asked to take some very painful cures. So we need to be sure the patient has a brain tumour rather than a nosebleed."
"Well here’s why it matters. The alarmists have been handed power over our lives; the heretics have not. Remember Britain’s unilateral climate act is officially expected to cost the hard-pressed UK economy £18.3 billion a year for the next 39 years and achieve an unmeasurably small change in carbon dioxide levels.
At least* sceptics do not cover the hills of Scotland with useless, expensive, duke-subsidising wind turbines whose manufacture causes pollution in Inner Mongolia and which kill rare raptors such as this griffon vulture. At least crop circle believers cannot almost double your electricity bills and increase fuel poverty while driving jobs to Asia, to support their fetish. At least creationists have not persuaded the BBC that balanced reporting is no longer necessary. At least homeopaths have not made expensive condensing boilers, which shut down in cold weather, compulsory, as John Prescott did in 2005. At least astrologers have not driven millions of people into real hunger, perhaps killing 192,000 last year according to one conservative estimate, by diverting 5% of the world’s grain crop into motor fuel*.
That’s why it matters. We’ve been asked to take some very painful cures. So we need to be sure the patient has a brain tumour rather than a nosebleed."
A short anthology of changing climate
WUWT
"Take several even longer steps backwards, through the medium of Central England temperature (CET) the oldest and most examined instrumental data set in the world- maintained by the UK’s Met office- and this puts GISS into further historic context, in that the temperature rise extends-with numerous advances and reverses- all the way to 1659."
"Take several even longer steps backwards, through the medium of Central England temperature (CET) the oldest and most examined instrumental data set in the world- maintained by the UK’s Met office- and this puts GISS into further historic context, in that the temperature rise extends-with numerous advances and reverses- all the way to 1659."
Solar panels swindle: It was Labour's big idea to cut global warming. But all it did was make a lucky few very rich...
Daily Mail
"The scheme was introduced by the last Labour government in order to encourage a huge switch to green energy in an attempt to hit its target of reducing Britain’s carbon emissions by 80 per cent by 2050. These green energy levies are costing the normal homeowner dear, adding nine per cent to our energy bills this year, according to the industry regulator Ofgem. Millions of ordinary consumers, to put it bluntly, are therefore having their pockets picked to pay for the latest government eco folly.
.....But as with wind turbines, the environmental negatives of solar energy are being overlooked in the mad rush to encourage anything which can be classified as ‘green’. Of course, it would be mad if we didn’t try to extract clean energy from the sun, the wind and the ground. But the Government’s subsidy schemes are not ultimately going to help us to achieve that aim. All they are doing is to create a rigged market which helps the rich foster a green and caring image for which the rest of us are paying dearly."
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'Green jobs' and feed-in tariffs: rent-seeking parasites get their just deserts (Telegraph)
"The scheme was introduced by the last Labour government in order to encourage a huge switch to green energy in an attempt to hit its target of reducing Britain’s carbon emissions by 80 per cent by 2050. These green energy levies are costing the normal homeowner dear, adding nine per cent to our energy bills this year, according to the industry regulator Ofgem. Millions of ordinary consumers, to put it bluntly, are therefore having their pockets picked to pay for the latest government eco folly.
.....But as with wind turbines, the environmental negatives of solar energy are being overlooked in the mad rush to encourage anything which can be classified as ‘green’. Of course, it would be mad if we didn’t try to extract clean energy from the sun, the wind and the ground. But the Government’s subsidy schemes are not ultimately going to help us to achieve that aim. All they are doing is to create a rigged market which helps the rich foster a green and caring image for which the rest of us are paying dearly."
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'Green jobs' and feed-in tariffs: rent-seeking parasites get their just deserts (Telegraph)
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