Submitted by climaterealists on Mon, 02/08/2010 - 16:25
The alarmists still won't separate science from politics
WALL STREET JOURNAL - EDITORIAL
July 16, 2010
The latest study purporting to absolve the scientists involved in November's Climategate scandal was published this month. On predictable cue, we received a letter from our admirers at the United Nations Foundation and the Natural Resources Defense Council urging us to "set the record straight" on "these bogus scandals." Having devoted considerable space to Climategate, we're happy to do that, though not perhaps as our admirers would want.
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Submitted by climaterealists on Mon, 02/08/2010 - 16:20
By Dr Geoff Duffy
Professor Emeritus- Chemical Engineering
Climate is always changing, and always will. There are seasons. There are day-night (diurnal) cycles. At any one location, heat energy from the sun varies during the day. Energy from the sun is affected by local conditions and clouds. Heat absorption depends on whether it impacts water or land, and then even the type of land (desert, forest, snow-covered land), or the layout of the land (continental masses, or islands surrounded by seas). In some areas temperatures are climbing and in some areas they are dropping. Warming is not occurring everywhere at once, and hence ‘global warming’ is a misnomer.
Submitted by climaterealists on Mon, 02/08/2010 - 16:17
Richard Treadgold | July 17, 2010
UPDATE 18 July – see end (Royal Society)
This is the second instalment of a review of Professor Sir Peter Gluckman’s speech of 9 June, entitled Integrity in Science: Implications from and for the Climate Change Debate. The first instalment was Gluckman stumbles on the truth.
In using the term “denialist”, our Chief Science Advisor descends to the sludge at the bottom of the barrel of scientific debate. It is a matter of profound regret that the CSA imports this malignant, divisive term to his prestigious office and the hallowed halls of the Royal Society.
Soaked in fallacy
There is no reason for an honest man of science to employ erroneous techniques of observation or debate, for what would it profit him? They would only ensure, first, that his argument fails and, second, that his credibility is damaged, the greater for being the higher in rank. So this is an enormous lapse in judgement by our top scientist and deserves the firmest reproach. Endorsement of Sir Peter’s comments, such as by the Royal Society (see below), is similarly reproachable.
Submitted by climaterealists on Mon, 02/08/2010 - 16:15
Richard Treadgold- Climate Conversation Group
http://www.climateconversation.wordshine.co.nz/
The government's Chief Science Advisor (CSA), Professor Sir Peter Gluckman, treats climate questioners as "deniers." Such tactics are the antithesis of science and deserve the firmest reproach.
Submitted by climaterealists on Mon, 02/08/2010 - 16:12
"Since when was carbon dioxide a “pollutant”? Carbon dioxide is what makes things grow. Pollutants are things that we would be better off without. If we removed all the carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, all life on the surface of the Earth would die very rapidly. In the days of the dinosaurs, carbon dioxide levels were much higher than they are today. Coral reefs thrived and all the plants grew like mad. Which is why we have lots of coal to mine.
The “evidence” that man-made carbon dioxide causes dangerous global warming exists only in computer models which, in fact, are programmed to predict warming with increased carbon dioxide. So it is not the computer models that predict warming, it is the person who programmed them. Without the “forcing factors” they program into the computers, a doubling of carbon dioxide causes only a small warming.
Submitted by climaterealists on Mon, 26/07/2010 - 20:43
NZ Herald
By Karen Arnold
There were fears for the safety of Climate Change Minister Nick Smith last night as he faced a barrage of abuse from mainly irate Southland farmers at a meeting to discuss the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS).
More than 300 people from across Clutha and Southland packed the Gore venue, where it was obvious even before the meeting began that opposition to the scheme was strong.
Farmer and businessman Richard King took the chance to have his say face-to-face with the minister before the start. Following a heated exchange, Mr King told nzherald.co.nz he had been a National Party member for more than 40 years. "I'm here to say 'to hell with it'."
Submitted by climaterealists on Mon, 26/07/2010 - 20:35
JULY 8th 2010
THE PERVERSION OF SCIENCE
The "Independent" enquiry into the Climategate Enmails has now been published. There is a link to the report at
Submitted by climaterealists on Mon, 26/07/2010 - 20:29
This is not directly in response to Climate Change – but could apply equally as well
Pessimists
Friday, 02 July 2010 08:57 Matt Ridley
When I was a student, in the 1970s, the world was coming to an end. The adults told me so. They said the population explosion was unstoppable, mass famine was imminent, a cancer epidemic caused by chemicals in the environment was beginning, the Sahara desert was advancing by a mile a year, the ice age was retuning, oil was running out, air pollution was choking us and nuclear winter would finish us off. There did not seem to be much point in planning for the future. I remember a fantasy I had - that I would make my way to the Hebrides, off the west coast of Scotland, and live off the land so I could survive these holocausts at least till the cancer got me.
Submitted by climaterealists on Tue, 13/07/2010 - 17:13
Mr. J Key,
Prime Minister
Dear Sir,
As an older New Zealander and a tax payer of many years, I am most unhappy that you are instituting a new tax to take more money off New Zealanders.
The reason you are instituting this tax is unclear, as is what the money will be used for. Just what are you going to do with the revenue collected?
Submitted by climaterealists on Tue, 13/07/2010 - 17:05
Dear Editor,
If the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) is such a great idea then why is National giving Maori interests $25 million in credits to vote it into law?
Sincerely,
Neil Harrap
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