Climate sense in a sea of alarmism and propaganda. Eventually, people will have to start taking notice, but at this stage only The Australian carries this story, and you certainly won’t see it in The Age or The Sydney Morning Herald:

“Before anyone noticed, this hypothesis [of man-made global warming] has been substituted for truth,” writes Shunichi Akasofu, founding director of the University of Alaska’s International Arctic Research Centre.

Dr Kusano, Dr Akasofu and Tokyo Institute of Technology geology professor Shigenori Maruyama are highly critical of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s acceptance that hazardous global warming results mainly from man-made gas emissions.

On the scientific evidence so far, according to Dr Kusano, the IPCC assertion that atmospheric temperatures are likely to increase continuously and steadily “should be perceived as an unprovable hypothesis“.

Dr Maruyama said yesterday there was widespread scepticism among his colleagues about the IPCC’s fourth and latest assessment report that most of the observed global temperature increase since the mid-20th century “is very likely due to the observed increase in anthropogenic greenhouse gas concentrations”.

When this question was raised at a Japan Geoscience Union symposium last year, he said, “the result showed 90 per cent of the participants do not believe the IPCC report“.

Read it all.

Or not. Certainly not in the case of Lateline presenter Tony Jones, a full-blown card-carrying climate alarmist (see see here, here, and here) and Kruddite who gives Penny Wong a really rough ride about the ETS, as The Australian reports:

The first question Jones asked, as well as the following four, concerned how many renewable energy jobs the ETS would create. Not how many jobs the ETS will cost as export industries lose business to companies based in countries where they do not pay to pollute. Not the overall economic impact of a scheme that miners say will lead to workers being sacked. Jones is interested in jobs in the future, not people in the present. The future is green, so why worry now about unemployed workers who are blue?

Read it here.

Writing in the UK Spectator, Melanie Phillips exposes the hysteria that has surrounded the gathering of alarmists in Copenhagen:

The atmosphere is cooling, the ice is expanding, the seas are not rising — even though carbon emissions are increasing. The evidence is now crystal clear to anyone with an unwashed brain that man-made global warming theory is sheer unadulterated bunkum. So how do the warmers react to the ever more embarrassing evidence that they have hitched their reputations to the biggest anti-scientific scam in history? By ratcheting up the hysteria to fever pitch and shrieking that their predictions about the impending irreversible environmental apocalypse have grievously underestimated the catastrophe which is going to be far, far worse.
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The BBC, whose Today programme yesterday devoted its prime 0810 slot to unchallenged ‘melting ice/rising seas/we are all doomed’ propaganda, has not even mentioned the New York conference [the International Conference on Climate Change – see here]. And as far as I can see, of the British papers only the Guardian attended it – not to report the proceedings, but to sneer. Thus Suzanne Goldenberg wrote:

It would be easy to dismiss this gathering as a pity party for people on the fringes of modern thought

which of course she proceeded to do. The attendees were

almost entirely white males, and many, if not most, are past retirement age

and worse still, other than the academics,

they are affiliated with rightwing thinktanks.

Well, say no more.

Indeed.

Read it here. (via Tom Nelson)

This time by giving would-be participants only a week to consider nearly 500 pages of complex legislation. And for the first time (and probably the last) I find myself agreeing with a previous winner of the ACM ICOTD gong:

The rushed timetable has united all sides of the divisive emissions trading debate in outrage.

Australian Industry Greenhouse Network chief executive Mike Hitchens said: “It is absolutely unreasonable to expect anyone to respond to 500 pages of complex legislation in this time.

John Connor, chief executive of The Climate Institute, said the timetable made the inquiry a joke. “It leaves no time for any substantive consideration,” he said.

“It can only encourage recycling of the submissions already prepared for the Garnaut inquiry. It will be submission Groundhog Day.”

Looks like the government have seriously got something to hide.

Read it here.

Just when people are becoming thoroughly bored by enviro-loonies banging on about the polar bear, The Age publishes another article wailing about how the polar bear is threatened by “climate change”.

Polar bears are in danger of being wiped out unless urgent measures are taken to combat climate change and rapid warming in the Arctic, says environmental group WWF.

“No sea ice equates no polar bears. It’s really that simple,” WWF polar bear expert Geoff York told reporters.

Given that “global warming” stopped in about 2001, my response is equally simple:

(Image from Theo Spark)

Read it here.

Old Homer Simpson look-a-like James Hansen has been spreading his own particular kind of putrid BS around Copenhagen, ending with the usual “it’s all happening faster than we thought, we must act now or else” spiel, as the Sydney Moonbat Herald reports:

Greenhouse gas emissions must be cut more quickly and deeply than thought only two years ago to avoid dire consequences [gee, there’s a surprise – Ed], and a straight-up carbon tax is the only realistic way to do it, top climate scientist [barking propagandist – Ed] James Hansen says.

New research paints an even gloomier picture of global warming [surely “climate change” – Ed] than the already grim report put out in early 2007 by the UN’s Nobel-winning scientific panel, he told AFP at the margins of a major climate conference.

Hansen’s argument is as simple as it is sobering: continuing to drain earth’s store of fossil fuels – oil, gas and coal – will lead humanity straight toward climate calamity.

Only an abrupt and profound change in the way we consume energy can stop the global warming juggernaut.

You all know the responses by now, so I don’t even have to write them!

Read it here.

The Nationals Senate leader encapsulates all that is wrong with the government’s climate policy:

“If you believe in solo crusades then go and depose the current leader of Sudan, go and get rid of Robert Mugabe, go do a whole range of things that are probably very good but a little bit peculiar for Australia to do by itself,” he said.

“The way we’re going down the climate change issue is just a solo crusade with no effect except on Australian domestic employment.”

Climate sense for once.

Read it here.

He’s clearly been talking to the plants again. On a 10-day trip to Latin America (carbon footprint the size of Peru) Prince Charles will argue that we only have “100 months” to save the planet from irreversible damage:

“I must insist that if we want to leave our children a better world [Emotional Blackmail Alert], we must act together, and we must act now,” he said on Monday at a dinner hosted by Chilean President Michelle Bachelet in his honour at La Moneda Palace.

He is backed by the British government which has described countering climate change as one of its highest priorities this year.

The British government is clearly as barmy as he is…

Read it here.

As climate scientists in Copenhagen whip themselves up into a frenzy of alarmism, here, by way of contrast, is Christopher Monckton’s list of deliberately misleading myths about climate change that are propagated by warming alarmists, delivered at the conclusion of the International Climate Change Conference in New York:

• “Global warming is happening now” – it’s actually cooling.
• “Global warming is getting worse” – it’s actually getting better.
• “Arctic sea ice is disappearing” – in fact, there is no discernable trend in winter sea ice area over the last 30 years.
• “Antarctic sea ice is disappearing” – in fact, the area of sea-ice around Antarctica reached a 30 year record high in 2007.
• “The Great Barrier Reef is being damaged by global warming” – in fact, there is no trend in the sea surface temperature of the reef over the last 40 years.
• “Hurricanes are being made worse by global warming” – rather, the accumulated cyclone energy index recorded its lowest value in the last 30 years in Oct. 2008.

Read Bob Carter’s reports from New York here.

“Sea levels ‘to surge at least a metre'” is the headline in The Australian, as delegates in Copenhagen hear that rises in sea level could be between 75 and 190cm by 2100. And the usual suspects are there to try and scare the world into turning the clock back to the economic dark ages with carbon taxes and emissions trading to “tackle climate change”:

“The world has very little time,” IPCC chief Rajendra Pachauri told the meeting after the new findings were presented.

Indeed, there is very little time before this madness is entrenched so deeply it can’t be undone.

Read it here.