The Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency plugs a propaganda drive by ClimateWorks Australia, which plumbs new depths of inanity and ignorance: Today, ClimateWorks Australia (link here) launched its national public engagement program aimed at showing how Australia can… Read More ›
Archive for February 2012
Ben Pile on Gleick and environmentalism
A brilliant piece of writing, as always, by Ben Pile (Climate Resistance) at Spiked Online: The environmental movement is as promiscuous with its ‘ethics’ as it is with ‘The Science’. You can make stuff up, apparently, just so long as… Read More ›
Richard Lindzen at the House of Commons
UPDATE: Unfortunately, only the first half of the talk is available. I will post a link when the second half is uploaded. Professor Lindzen was speaking at the UK House of Commons at the invitation of a group seeking to… Read More ›
John Cook's climate myth-information evening
John Cook of Un-Skeptical Pseudo-Science is at a “climate Q & A” tonight which is, quote, “brought to you by sustainme on behalf of Lane Cove Council”. Sustainme, I think, is a firm of “sustainability consultants” from what I can… Read More ›
Guardian finally goes batshit crazy
The global warming narrative is going nowhere, the public are more sceptical than ever of the outrageous claims of climate scaremongers, and the combined efforts of Climategate (I and II) and Peter Gleick’s recent Heartland deceptions have exposed yet again… Read More ›
Cosmic rays and the Titanic
Nigel Calder explores the correlation between cosmic ray flux and its effect on the climate, in particular in relation to the sinking of the Titanic (100 years ago on 15 April): Although it seems a strange thing to celebrate, the Titanic Festival… Read More ›
Bloggies: Congratulations Jo Nova
Congratulations Jo Nova, for winning the Best Aussie or NZ Blog – a great blog that fully deserved to win. As soon as I saw you were nominated I knew I didn’t stand a chance! Thanks to all my readers… Read More ›
BREAKING: Australian leadership ballot result
Julia Gillard has trounced Kevin Rudd 71-31. As one tweet remarked: “You will sit quietly on the back bench for 18 months, won’t you, Kevin?” Will the independents call a no confidence vote? Unlikely. Labor still in a quandary: voters… Read More ›
Early ripening of grapes "pinned to warming"
So the planet has got a little warmer in the last 200 years, and grapes are ripening a little earlier. Just as it got colder before the Little Ice Age and, no doubt, grapes ripened a little later. It’s called… Read More ›
Media recycles two-year-old Everest scare story
“It’s déjà vu all over again” said Yogi Berra, but it describes exactly how I felt on reading this AAP story in the Herald Sun this evening (and no doubt syndicated in plenty of other places as well): CLIMATE change is… Read More ›
