As Basil Fawlty said, “Don’t mention the war”, or in this case, climate change. Who’d have thought it? Climate change has been good to the UN over the past few decades, delivering the global organisation influence and power well beyond… Read More ›
Archive for January 2012
Solar decline "unlikely to offset greenhouse warming": Met Office
Naturally, nothing the Sun (1.9891×1030 kg of blazing hot nuclear fusion right on our doorstep) can do compares with what our omnipotent man-made CO2 can do – all, er, hundred odd parts per million of it. Another study, undertaken by the… Read More ›
Activist website targets sceptical US TV weathermen
This says more about the website’s creators, seeking yet again to demonise and silence anyone who dares question the global warming consensus, than it does about the TV weathermen speaking their opinions. From the site, forecastthefacts.org: Intense droughts, fierce storms,… Read More ›
Trenberth's missing heat found – it's hiding in the "uncertainties"
Phew. The Cause is back on track. A new study has “found” Kevin Trenberth’s missing ocean heat: “When we looked at the results of previous work suggesting inconsistencies, we found that it hadn’t factored in the considerable uncertainties between systems… Read More ›
Bacteria produce ethanol from seaweed
A promising development in biofuel energy research, and one that will not displace essential food production: Seaweed has long made biofuel prospectors drool, but they hadn’t figured out how to efficiently chew through the stuff — until now. Researchers have… Read More ›
Corals "adapting to climate change better than previously thought"
From The Science is Settled department. The death of the Great Barrier Reef from the evils of man-made global warming is one of the greatest scaremongering arguments of climate alarmists, despite the fact that pollution and run-off from agriculture are far more… Read More ›
Climate scepticism akin to creationism?
This is just the latest in the long line of attempts to demonise climate scepticism. The US National Centre for Science Education (NCSE) has announced that it will be tackling the teaching of climate scepticism in the classroom, just as… Read More ›
Carbon dioxide "driving fish crazy"
You have to hand it to the humble CO2 molecule, it certainly is multi-talented. Not only can a few extra measly parts per million allegedly wreck the climate of a planet that has been in existence for 4.5 billion years, and… Read More ›
Law firm tells government we need more laws to tackle climate change
Ask a law firm to advise the government on anything, and the answer will invariably be: we need more laws, which inevitably means more lawyers. And so it is with the latest announcement from the Department of Climate Change, which… Read More ›
Quote of the Day: Brian Schmidt
The Nobel laureate Professor Brian Schmidt, announced today as the Australian of the Year, on science and politics: Science should inform policy, but must not become politicised, he says. “On issues like climate change, coal-seam gas, water management in the… Read More ›
