As soon as it becomes clear that the Sun has more to do with climate change than anything our puny civilisation can throw at it, the wheels will finally come of the global warming gravy train. So it is little… Read More ›
Archive for January 2012
"Sea cucumber poo" helps fight climate change
From the You Couldn’t Make This Stuff Up Department. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, the award for Most Bizarre Thing To Allegedly Help Climate Change goes to: Tropical sea cucumbers and their faeces could save coral reefs from the harmful impacts of… Read More ›
Geriatric wheat caused by climate change
Naturally, all the solar schmolar stuff discussed here earlier today is completely ignored by Your ABC, which instead picks on an alarmist research paper about premature ageing in wheat: Extreme heat can cause wheat crops to age faster and reduce… Read More ›
"The Cold Sun"
The Sun will be playing a “starring” role in the climate over the next few decades, if predictions of a forthcoming solar decline are proved correct. This is going to be a very interesting time for all sides of the… Read More ›
Green subsidies axed to ease Spain's financial crisis
If you were advising the Spanish government on how to get out of the financial hole they are in, I guess you would say, what is the largest, most pointless waste of money right now? And the answer is: Spain… Read More ›
Forget global warming – it's global cooling we should worry about
For some time now, the indications have been that solar activity and sunspot number are heading towards a minimum in the next few decades. Will it be a Dalton-style or a Maunder-style minimum? If the latter, we should be looking… Read More ›
NASA captures Cyclone Iggy
ScienceDaily (Jan. 27, 2012) — NASA satellites are providing valuable data to forecasters as Tropical Cyclone Iggy nears Western Australia. NASA’s Aqua satellite provided visible and infrared data on Iggy, observing colder cloud tops and strengthening storm. Iggy has already triggered… Read More ›
Scientists: no need to panic about "global warming"
Sixteen scientists, including such luminaries as Lindzen, Kininmonth, Happer and Shaviv, write to the Wall Street Journal, expressing the view that the global warming scare is completely overblown, and that AGW alarmism may result in increased research funding. Shock! What… Read More ›
Mann's "dirty laundry" – first official email release from UVA
If you have been reading the full collection of 5000+ Climategate 1 and 2 emails, not much of this will be new, however, the fact that an organisation has succeeded in obtaining the release of a selection of these emails… Read More ›
Eco-extremists have nothing left but abuse
Lord Lawson, of the Global Warming Policy Foundation, was interviewed on the BBC yesterday. The “environmentalists” were furious: LORD LAWSON had barely removed his microphone when the vitriolic attacks began. The veteran politician had just taken part in a calm… Read More ›
