The Sydney Morning Herald (or as it now should properly be known, “Green Left Weekly In Drag”) fawns over Greens Senator Bob Brown (you know, the one who thinks CO2 emissions should be reduced to zero by 2050):

More than 1 million people voted for the Greens in the 2007 election and Brown scored more than 17 per cent of the Senate vote in Tasmania, where he has lived since 1972.

Before that, he grew up in rural NSW, a shy, dreamy child from a politically conservative family of police officers. He studied medicine at Sydney University and worked as a GP in Sydney, Canberra and London all the while battling bouts of depression as he came to terms with his homosexuality.

When he moved to Tasmania, he immediately felt at home among its wild landscape and old-growth forests. But it was a rafting trip down the Franklin River in Tasmania’s south-west wilderness in 1976 – and the subsequent seven-year anti-dams campaign – that was the making of Bob Brown.

And gives him a platform for the usual Green alarmism that we’re all familiar with:

“The world is in a pre-catastrophe situation with climate change and the destruction of a variety of life on the planet. In those circumstances, my work becomes all the more important. I’ve never been happier or more content,” he says.

Bizarre juxtaposition of ideas there…

Read it here.

In the big game of climate change there are no losers, just one big cash-guzzling winner. As inevitable as night follows day, scientists have claimed that the worst winter snow in London for thirty years is consistent with climate change. The UK’s Telegraph newspaper reports this under the faintly amusing headline:

Snow is consistent with global warming, say scientists

Yep, that’s right. Heatwaves mean global warming, snow means global warming, staying the same means global warming, [insert your own phrase here] means global warming (shurely “climate change?? – Ed). Isn’t it hilarious how none of these events ever means nothing at all (“it’s just weather”) or even possibly global cooling? Nope, it’s all the big AGW at work.

Even though this is quite a cold winter by recent standards it is still perfectly consistent with predictions for global warming,” said Dr Myles Allen, head of the Climate Dynamics group at Department of Physics, University of Oxford.

“If it wasn’t for global warming this cold snap would happen much more regularly. What is interesting is that we are now surprised by this kind of weather. I doubt we would have been in the 1950s because it was much more common.

Oh right, so if it weren’t for global warming this would happen more often? OK, got it. Brilliant.

Climate Madness.

Read it here.

They should be protesting against the fact that Krudd is pushing ahead with his pointless ETS when the economy is already on a near-vertical descent into recession, but instead it’s the usual religious dogma of “climate change” – CO2 must be cut dramatically, despite the fact that temperatures have been steady or falling since 2001, and CO2 has risen by 5% in the same period…

About 2,000 climate change protesters dressed in red [why? – Ed] formed a circle around Parliament House this morning.

They are calling on the Government to make deeper cuts to emissions in its proposed carbon pollution reduction scheme [two errors in four words – Ed].

Many say they are disappointed that the Government has not made deeper emission cuts in its proposed scheme.

Read it here.

UPDATE: Clearly some editor at Fairfax didn’t particularly like the fact that this article criticised the mighty Goracle, because, as pointed out by reader Magnus in the comments section, the link now redirects to an alarmist article:

“about the large threat of global warming, Al Gore’s point of views, Obama’s politics and the Danish prime minister who says we must cut CO2 emissions 80 percent by 2050.”

There is no trace of the original article on either WA Today or Brisbane Times websites. Sounds like censorship to me. You can still see the original article in the Google cache here.

UPDATE 2: “D” Word Alert: WA Today has re-issued the article in shortened form under the slightly less objective headline:

Czech president is climate change denier.

Here’s the original post:

It’s like a breath of fresh air. Compare and contrast the fawning over the Goracle at the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing earlier this week with the home truths dished out by Vaclav Klaus:

“I’m very sorry that some people like Al Gore are not ready to listen to the competing theories. I do listen to them.

“Environmentalism and the global warming alarmism is challenging our freedom. Al Gore is an important person in this movement.”

Speaking on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum, he said he was more worried about the reaction to the perceived dangers than the consequences.

“I’m afraid that the current crisis will be misused for radically constraining the functioning of the markets and market economy all around the world,” he said.

“I’m more afraid of the consequences of the crisis than the crisis itself.”

And you can see how the original Brisbane Times link redirects by clicking here.

Another scientific article that won’t find its way into the mainstream media. Whenever a journal reports something catastrophic, the MSM can’t wait to print it, but unfortunately, that’s jornalism. Disasters sell. “Business as usual” doesn’t sell.

Last week’s Science included an article “Galloping Glaciers of Greenland Have Reined Themselves In” which demonstrates that the demise of the Greenland Ice Sheet has slowed considerably and that Al Gore’s hyperbole about a “tipping point” has been shown to be completely wrong.

The report’s author, Richard Kerr, puts it like this:

So much for Greenland ice’s Armageddon. “It has come to an end,” glaciologist Tavi Murray of Swansea University in the United Kingdom said during a session at the meeting. “There seems to have been a synchronous switch-off” of the speed-up, she said. Nearly everywhere around southeast Greenland, outlet glacier flows have returned to the levels of 2000. An increasingly warmer climate will no doubt eat away at the Greenland ice sheet for centuries, glaciologists say, but no one should be extrapolating the ice’s recent wild behavior into the future.

Read it here.

As usual, a great read.

I wouldn’t hold your breath to see either of these items reported in The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, The Canberra Times etc., so I thought you would benefit from seeing them here (both courtesy of Watts Up With That):

1. James Hansen’s former NASA Supervisor declares himself a skeptic

“I appreciate the opportunity to add my name to those who disagree that global warming is man made,” [Dr John S] Theon wrote to the Minority Office at the Environment and Public Works Committee on January 15, 2009. “I was, in effect, Hansen’s supervisor because I had to justify his funding, allocate his resources, and evaluate his results,” Theon, the former Chief of the Climate Processes Research Program at NASA Headquarters and former Chief of the Atmospheric Dynamics & Radiation Branch explained.

“Hansen was never muzzled even though he violated NASA’s official agency position on climate forecasting (i.e., we did not know enough to forecast climate change or mankind’s effect on it). Hansen thus embarrassed NASA by coming out with his claims of global warming in 1988 in his testimony before Congress,” Theon wrote.

[Note: NASA scientist James Hansen has created worldwide media frenzy with his dire climate warning, his call for trials against those who dissent against man-made global warming fear, and his claims that he was allegedly muzzled by the Bush administration despite doing 1,400 on-the-job media interviews! – See: Don’t Panic Over Predictions of Climate Doom – Get the Facts on James Hansen – UK Register: Veteran climate scientist says ‘lock up the oil men’ – June 23, 2008 & UK Guardian: NASA scientist calls for putting oil firm chiefs on trial for ‘high crimes against humanity’ for spreading doubt about man-made global warming – June 23, 2008 ]

2. Forecasting Guru Announces: “no scientific basis for forecasting climate”

Today, a founder of the International Journal of Forecasting, Journal of Forecasting, International Institute of Forecasters, and International Symposium on Forecasting, and the author of Long-range Forecasting (1978, 1985), the Principles of Forecasting Handbook, and over 70 papers on forecasting, Dr J. Scott Armstrong, tabled a statement declaring that the forecasting process used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) lacks a scientific basis.

Read them both – in full…

As sure as night follows day. Penny Wong has linked the heatwave in south-east Australia to “climate change”:

“Eleven of the hottest years in history have been in the last 12 [utter horse-shit, Penny – records only go back to 1850 – Ed], and we also note, particularly in the southern part of Australia, we’re seeing less rainfall,” she said. [Yeah, it’s called a drought, and we’ve had plenty before – Ed]

“All of this is consistent with climate change, and all of this is consistent with what scientists told us would happen.”

Excuse me Penny, what about the records for cold being broken all over the northern hemisphere and the decline in global temperatures since 2001? Are they “consistent with” global cooling? Strangely not in Penny’s deluded world.

Clueless on climate.

Read it here.

WA Today has an article about a distant planet (exoplanet HD 80606b) where the temperature varies from 525 deg C to about 1225 deg C. The article is accompanied by some images of the planet, and if you zoom in as far as you can go, you can just see millions of alien SUVs all pumping out CO2.

Read it here.

As we knew he surely would, urging Obama to urgently cap US emissions.

“How can we afford not to do this?” the Nobel Laureate and Oscar winner, who jokingly called himself “a recovering politician”, told the panel, calling for quick action to cap US emissions of greenhouse gases blamed for global warming.

“In order to repower our economy, restore American economic and moral leadership in the world and regain control of our destiny, we must take bold action now,” Mr Gore told the packed committee room. [There’s a surprise – Ed]

With the lights dimmed, Mr Gore made a dramatic keynote presentation of 57 slides, highlighting shrinking polar ice caps, melting glaciers, grim droughts, devastating deforestation, and apocalyptic future costs of inaction.

He’s probably still showing the same misleading slides from the thoroughly debunked An Inconvenient Truth – and the new president will no doubt swallow it whole. I wonder if it included the “polar bear desperately swimming for land” animation (note it had to be an animation, because they couldn’t find any genuine footage…).

How about actually debating the issues in AIT, Mr Gore, instead of continuing to spread lies and deception?

Read it here.