Blaming everything on “climate change” is the usual response of green hysterics, and shouldn’t be that of the world’s second largest reinsurer. Unbelievably, however, it is (maybe they are trying to reduce their exposure to claims…), and they still wrongly… Read More ›
Archive for December 2008
Canberra Times journo can't think of a decent argument . . .
… so resorts to petulant ad hominems instead. Always the last chance saloon for someone unable to counter the substantive arguments of “skeptics”, Rosslyn Beeby attempts the impossible: portraying alarmists as reasonable chaps, always open for debate and discussion (like… Read More ›
2008 – man-made global warming disproved
Thanks to Skeptics Global Warming: An article to “warm” the soul, from Christopher Booker in the UK’s Daily Telegraph: Looking back over my columns of the past 12 months, one of their major themes was neatly encapsulated by two recent… Read More ›
The Age celebrates civil disobedience
Well, anything goes when we’re talking about “saving the planet”. In a barking mad opinion piece, Melissa Fyfe sucks up to the new “people power” (i.e. breaking the law) in order to achieve aims that cannot be achieved through the… Read More ›
No matter how cool, the alarmists will always find an angle . . .
2008 is shaping up to be the coolest year since 2001, and yet the media can always dig up an alarmist who can spin it into bad news, to keep the AGW bandwagon of doom rolling (and of course, the… Read More ›
Happy Christmas from ACM
Thank you to all of you who have visited this blog over the past few months – I hope you have enjoyed your visits. I’m taking a short break now and will be back posting in the New Year. Have… Read More ›
It's freezing – it must be global warming
Can’t keep up with the number of stories about records for extreme cold currently being set all over the globe. And yes, I know that weather isn’t climate, but there is a hell of a lot of anectdotal evidence showing… Read More ›
Canberra Times – the debate's over
No longer is there any doubt in the minds of the Canberra Times (=Fairfax =SMH =The Age =enviro-hippies) journos who write environmental stories. In a typically batty piece about ensuring your Christmas lights are powered by green electricity (seriously), it… Read More ›
Bob Carter: ETS a big pain for little gain
More climate sense from Prof. Carter in The Australian who exposes the ETS for what it is, a pointless, but harmful, political gesture: The Rudd Government is poised to introduce a CO2 taxation bill on doubly spurious grounds. It presumes,… Read More ›
David Evans – The ETS: Completely Unnecessary
(Thanks to Andrew Bolt). Clearly the ABC would never allow this kind of thing on their “proper” site (as it doesn’t fit with their alarmist editorial agenda), so it’s relegated to the Unleashed section, where they stick all the rantings… Read More ›
