Submitted by climaterealists on Thu, 09/09/2010 - 10:45
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by Ralph W. Clark • November 2001
Ralph Clark is a professor of philosophy at West Virginia University.
The automobile age is approximately 100 years old. With the approach of a new century and new millennium there could be no better time to celebrate the automobile for its profound contributions to human happiness.
Unfortunately, automobiles have enemies. An influential movement is underway to make it much more difficult for people to use and enjoy their cars.
Submitted by climaterealists on Thu, 09/09/2010 - 10:21
Sydney Morning Herald 31 August 2010
An international review panel has called on the UN global climate change body to carry out fundamental reforms after embarrassing errors in a landmark report dented its credibility.
The Nobel Peace Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was caught in an international storm after it admitted its landmark 2007 report exaggerated the speed at which Himalayas glaciers were melting.
The review panel said the IPCC has been "successful overall" but called for leadership changes, stricter guidelines on source material and a check on conflicts of interest.
Submitted by climaterealists on Thu, 02/09/2010 - 17:50
The Economist online
30 August 2010
WHEN the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is in the throes of producing one of its periodic assessments of the science of climate change, its plenary meetings can be a sight to behold, with all the brinksmanship, skullduggery and last-minute compromises that aficionados of foreign policy could wish for. In between times, these meetings of the governments that give the IPCC its name, and mandate, are of little note. That may change, though, at the plenary scheduled for Busan, in Korea, this October.
Prominent on that meeting’s agenda will be the results of a report on the IPCC produced under the auspices of the InterAcademy Council, an umbrella group for the world’s national academies of science, which was released today. The report, written by a committee chaired by Harold Shapiro, a former president of Princeton University, was commissioned in March by the UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, and the IPCC chair, Rajendra Pachauri, after errors were spotted in the most recent IPCC report last winter. While expressing admiration for the IPCC’s achievements to date, the Shapiro committee offers sharp criticisms of the way the panel organises itself and calls for reforms.
Submitted by climaterealists on Thu, 02/09/2010 - 17:47
The Sydney Morning Herald
31 August 2010
An international review panel has called on the UN global climate change body to carry out fundamental reforms after embarrassing errors in a landmark report dented its credibility.
The Nobel Peace Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was caught in an international storm after it admitted its landmark 2007 report exaggerated the speed at which Himalayas glaciers were melting.
The review panel said the IPCC has been "successful overall" but called for leadership changes, stricter guidelines on source material and a check on conflicts of interest.
The five-month probe ordered by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said the IPCC should have a stronger scientific basis for making its predictions and recommended an overhaul of the position of IPCC chairman Rajendra Pachauri.
Submitted by climaterealists on Thu, 02/09/2010 - 17:43
Telegraph.co.uk
Christopher Booker 28 Mar 2010
If one thing more than any other is used to justify proposals that the world must spend tens of trillions of dollars on combating global warming, it is the belief that we face a disastrous rise in sea levels. The Antarctic and Greenland ice caps will melt, we are told, warming oceans will expand, and the result will be catastrophe.
Although the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) only predicts a sea level rise of 59cm (17 inches) by 2100, Al Gore in his Oscar-winning film An Inconvenient Truth went much further, talking of 20 feet, and showing computer graphics of cities such as Shanghai and San Francisco half under water. We all know the graphic showing central London in similar plight. As for tiny island nations such as the Maldives and Tuvalu, as Prince Charles likes to tell us and the Archbishop of Canterbury was again parroting last week, they are due to vanish.
Submitted by climaterealists on Thu, 02/09/2010 - 17:41
Robin Grieve, Pastural Farming Climate Research
25 August 2010
Landcare Research scientist joins Dairy NZ scientist in being unable to clarify their confused and contradictory positions.
Scientists from both organisations maintain that methane from a steady source does not result in an increase in the atmospheric concentration of methane.
David Whitehead of Landcare Research likened it to a bath tub filled with water (or methane). When the inflow matches the outflow the water level remains the same. The only way the level in the bath can increase is if you increase the inflow without increasing the outflow. So methane in the atmosphere can only increase if you increase animal production.
Submitted by climaterealists on Thu, 02/09/2010 - 17:39
Letter to the Editor.
What year is it? 2010. No it must be 1984 and H.G.Wells must be laughing in his grave since NZ has recently established The Ministry of MisInformation!! How many people realise that in these times of economic hardship (while cutting funds to home help, infant education and education classes etc.) the Government has established "The Science Media Centre" to handle all media enquiries in matters concerning Science at a cost running into millions. This centre is to be the first call for all radio, television and written articles concerning Science so that the 'correct information' is given out to the public.
It would be good news except that the 'correct information' is the 'party line' as set by the Government.
Submitted by climaterealists on Thu, 02/09/2010 - 17:37
2 September 2010
Terry Dunleavy, Hon Secretary, NZ Climate Science Coalition
The report of the Inter-Academy Council (IAC) raises serious questions as to whether the IPCC model of ‘doing science’ has a worthwhile future. And it has almost certainly curtailed the future of the Panel’s chairman, Mr Rajendra Pachauri, according to the chairman of the New Zealand Climate Science Coalition, Hon Barry Brill.
“Amidst growing doubts that government organisations can be relied upon to put the public interest ahead of their own political agendas, the IAC demands more transparency and fewer conflicts of interest” said Mr Brill.
“It is no surprise that, in New Zealand, the Government-funded Science Media Centre has rushed out a press release diverting attention from the profound criticisms in the report,” said Mr Brill.
Submitted by climaterealists on Thu, 02/09/2010 - 10:32
Submitted by climaterealists on Thu, 26/08/2010 - 19:57
Dear Mr Key,
I am a farmer on the East Cape and am growing increasingly concerned about your stance over the Emissions Trading Scheme. Every farmer I talk to at the weekly sale is vehemently against it and are talking of never supporting National again and voting Act as the only practical way of showing there disapproval. This may not concern you at the moment but after 9 years of continuing frustration with Clarkes socialist government the voting public does in fact have a functioning memory and they are not in the mood to tolerate governments who think they know best.
Nick Smith must think we are stupid if he thinks we would plant pine trees on our farms so that we could claim carbon credits which would have to be largely repaid on the harvest of the forest.In other words he is expecting us rely on dubious returns from forestry to survive and keep paying our mortgage and increasing farm costs.
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