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The Atlantic 17 August 2010

by Clive Crook

Joe Romm tells me to "retract [my] libelous misinformation and apologize to Michael Mann". He is complaining about my suggestion that the various inquiries supposedly vindicating the Climategate emailers have further diminished the credibility of climate science, rather than restoring it.

I think the only issue of substance in his complaint is the charge that I failed to notice that there were two Penn State investigations of Mann, not one, and that both had cleared the accused. Of course I was aware of the form of the inquiry, though I concede that the post was not as clear about the two phases as it should have been.

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Letter to the Dominion Post

Why are there so many people losing their jobs and not so much work available at this point in time when we are told that we  have weathered the downturn better than most others? It cannot all be blamed on the recession, employers, service companies, and manufacturers have already factored in the cost, and implication of E.T.S.  In short terms  the E.T.S. is killing our local consumption and exports regardless of what our overseas consumers think, they are not concerned about food miles, carbon credits etc. they are only concerned about price.

The Secret History of Climate Alarmism

The Weekly Standard

A very German story of power politics disguised as environmentalism

BY John Rosenthal     August 9, 2010, Vol. 15, No. 44

Changes in the earth’s atmosphere, the additional greenhouse effect and the resultant changes in the climate .  .  . represent a global danger for humanity and the entire biosphere of the earth. If no effective counteracting measures are taken, dramatic consequences are to be expected for all of the earth’s regions.
This warning will undoubtedly seem familiar, perhaps even mind-numbingly so. But if the substance sounds like the same-old same-old, the date on which it was issued might seem surprising. It was not in the run-up to the Copenhagen climate summit or indeed anytime in the last decade. The above passage is nearly two decades old. It comes from a resolution adopted by the German Bundestag in September 1991.

Green Car Policies are Defective and should be Recalled.

Carbon Sense 5 August 2010

 

This election is crucial. People are uninspired by either of the big parties,
but too many are thinking of voting Green.
PUT THE GREENS LAST.
Their destructive anti-human, anti-carbon, anti-farming, anti-fishing,
anti-forestry, anti-mining, anti-industry policy will produce a
BLACK FUTURE
for all Australians. Do not give them control.
Learn how to use the preferential voting system. Do not tick the party box – number every square, however you like but -
PUT THE GREENS LAST.
Please Spread this Message Far and Wide.

 

The Carbon Sense Coalition today called for an end to the massive subsidies to the green car industry and to rich buyers of green car toys.
 
The Chairman of “Carbon Sense”, Mr Viv Forbes, said that to waste taxpayer funds helping foreign car manufacturers to produce cars that consumers don’t want is bad policy.
 
“Worse still is a policy that encourages people to trash a roadworthy car and buy a trendy new one they do not need.”

Study claims conventional ag limits greenhouse gas

Yahoo Finance- David Mercer, 2 August 2010

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) -- Advances in conventional agriculture have dramatically slowed the flow of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, in part by allowing farmers to grow more food to meet world demand without plowing up vast tracts of land, a study by three Stanford University researchers has found.

The study, which has been embraced by many agricultural groups but criticized by some environmentalists, found that improvements in technology, plant varieties and other advances enabled farmers to grow more without a big increase in greenhouse gas releases. Much of the credit goes to eliminating the need to plow more land to plant additional crops.

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Going forward, not backwards

 

29 July 2010

 

Speech by Don Nicolson, President of Federated Farmers, to the NZ Shareholders Association annual general meeting, Novotel Hotel Greenlane, Auckland.
 
It is my very warm pleasure to be here today to address the New Zealand Shareholders Association. 
 
I hope I’m returning the favour to your Chairman, Bruce Sheppard, who kindly spoke at my National Conference last month in the home of the Ranfurly Shield, Invercargill.  I wish him and your incoming Chairman all the very best.  The Association does a great job on behalf of all shareholders.
 
Since I don’t wish to be part of the ‘not growing trees for wood’ business or the ‘not farming sheep, sheep industry’, my presentation today will be in three parts. 
 
I’ll start by sharing with you the balance sheet of New Zealand farming.  Second, I wish to speak on the emissions trading scheme to dispel a few myths before focusing on some ideas, I feel, may help our struggling capital markets. 

Muddle in the middle

by Barry Brill

December 21, 2009

Scenarios are not science 

Pity the politician in 2010. Climate change policies pose an unknown, but potentially strong, temptation to cross party lines. A bit like abortion brought out single-issue voters a few decades ago. 

Some political leaders have a messianic urge to save the planet; others have an ideological aversion to intrusive state controls. A few (perhaps) have studied the science in depth, and all have glanced regularly at fickle opinion surveys. But most are stuck with the muddle in the middle, anxious to do whatever will deliver the best outcomes for the country and their constituents. 

A Carbon “Price” means a Carbon “Tax”.

Carbon Sense 29 July 2010

 

The Carbon Sense Coalition today called for an end to deceptive advertising regarding Global Warming Policies.
 
The Chairman of “Carbon Sense”, Mr Viv Forbes, said that those calling for a “Price on Carbon” should speak the truth and call it a “Tax on the Production of Carbon Dioxide”.
 
“Similarly the CPRS (Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme) had nothing to do with pollution but everything to do with imposing taxes and rationing on economic activity.”
 
Forbes explained:
 
“The new green mantra chants: “We need a price on carbon”.

Senate Democrats abandon comprehensive climate bill

By Perry Bacon Jr.
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, July 22, 2010

Conceding they can't find enough votes for the measure, Senate Democrats on Thursday abandoned efforts to put together a comprehensive energy bill that would seek to limit greenhouse gas emissions, delivering a potentially fatal blow to a proposal Democrats have long touted and President Obama campaigned on.

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