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The woolly world of Chris Huhne

Submitted by climaterealists on Mon, 31/05/2010 - 20:48

Telegraph.co.uk

Christopher Booker 29 May 2010

No one can explain how we cut emissions by four fifths without closing down virtually all of our economy, writes Christopher Booker.

Two events last week led me to muse on the links between the man who is now our Energy and Climate Change Secretary, Chris Huhne, and the extinction of the woolly mammoth. A team of scientists suggest in Nature Geoscience that the sudden extinction of the mammoths some 12,000 years ago, as the world emerged from the last ice age, may have had a dramatic effect on the Earth’s climate. They argue that the emission by these giant herbivores of nine million tons a year of methane, a greenhouse gas 25 times more powerful than CO2, was so significant that their disappearance led to a sharp drop in global temperatures, and the world temporarily froze over again in the re-glaciation known as the Younger Dryas.

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Rebel scientists force Royal Society to accept climate change scepticism

Submitted by climaterealists on Mon, 31/05/2010 - 20:45

From Times Online
 
Ben Webster, Environment Editor  May 29, 2010

Britain's premier scientific institution is being forced to review its
 statements on climate change after a rebellion by members who question
 mankind's contribution to rising temperatures.
 
The Royal Society has appointed a panel to rewrite the 350-year-old
 institution's official position on global warming. It will publish a new
 "guide to the science of climate change" this summer. The society has been
 accused by 43 of its Fellows of refusing to accept dissenting views on
 climate change and exaggerating the degree of certainty that man-made
 emissions are the main cause.
 

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Carter Creating Confusion On ETS

Submitted by climaterealists on Mon, 31/05/2010 - 20:41
John Boscawen MP, ACT New Zealand
Press Release Thursday, May 27 2010.

ACT New Zealand Climate Change Spokesman John Boscawen today called on Agriculture Minister David Carter to come clean on the true costs of the emissions trading scheme to farmers.

"Yesterday on Radio New Zealand Mr Carter told listeners that ‘at this stage you should not assume that agriculture will necessarily be included unless we see the rest of the world making its contribution to climate change.’  Yet today in the house he contradicted that statement by stating that ‘deferral is now simply not an option’," Mr Boscawen said.

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From Neil Henderson to the Gisborne Herald

Submitted by climaterealists on Mon, 31/05/2010 - 20:38

 

Sir
I wish to comment on the Government’s assertion that there is a misinformation campaign against the emissions trading scheme being organised by ACT and Federated Farmers. I suggest Mr Key looks in the mirror to see the source of the greatest misinformation.
He says the ETS will cost us $3 per week which comes to $150 per year.
 
I don’t believe my power bill is way higher than average. But my power bill for just the units used (no supply charges) for the house (no farm power) will increase by around $230. To run a car for 15,000 km per year is going to cost another $52 at 3.5c litre.
 
Then we have to add on the flow on effects of the cost of energy on all goods and services we consume and it is easy to see it will be more than double Mr Key’s estimate. These figures of mine are confirmed by one of Mr Key’s own ministers, Mr Gerry Brownlee, the Energy Minister, who has said it will cost the average family $7 per week!
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Minister Smith Adds Insult To ETS Injury

Submitted by climaterealists on Mon, 31/05/2010 - 20:36
John Boscawen MP, ACT New Zealand
Monday, May 31 2010

As though it were not bad enough that National continues to mislead New Zealanders about the true cost of the ETS, Climate Change Minister Nick Smith has now insulted the men and women of our Defence Force - past and present - by trying to compare the ETS with our war efforts in Gallipoli and Afghanistan, ACT New Zealand Climate Change Spokesman John Boscawen said today.

"Dr Smith has added insult to injury, and his comments betray National's desperation to win support for the ETS in the face of overwhelming opposition throughout the country - even from within the National Party ranks," Mr Boscawen said.

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ETS To Cost $3 A Week - If You Don't Eat

Submitted by climaterealists on Mon, 31/05/2010 - 20:34
John Boscawen MP, ACT New Zealand
Monday, May 31 2010
 

ACT New Zealand Climate Change Spokesman John Boscawen today questioned whether Climate Change Minister Nick Smith truly believes that the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) will cost the average household only $3 per week, and whether he had forgotten that New Zealanders need to eat.

"National repeatedly cites $3 as the weekly cost to households of the ETS.  But this is based only on higher fuel and power prices and completely excludes the effect that these price increases will have on the cost of other household expenses - like food," Mr Boscawen said.

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ETS: Windfall Profits to Power Companies Confirmed

Submitted by climaterealists on Sat, 29/05/2010 - 21:12
John Boscawen MP, ACT New Zealand
Speech to North Shore Grey Power Annual General Meeting, Northcote, Auckland, 1:00pm Friday, May 28 2010

Key Points:

1. Electricity and petrol to rise on 1 July. Windfall profits to government generators. Government still denying these profits.

2. The extra costs are not compensated for in Budget 2010.
The ETS will take at least half of your tax cuts and superannuation increase.

3. Over $2 billion of emissions credits to be allocated to foresters, most of whom did not expect them at the time their trees were planted.

4. We can meet our Kyoto obligations without paying $2 billion to foresters.

5. Government is running a campaign of mis-information. Contact the Prime Minister and the National cabinet to express your concerns.
 
Ladies and Gentlemen, thank you for the opportunity to address your AGM this afternoon.

Before updating you on National’s Emissions Trading Scheme may I briefly raise two other issues.

Firstly, some of you may recall that I addressed North Shore Grey Power in December 2007 during my campaign against Labour’s Electoral Finance Act.  While that was very much a personal campaign, independent of any political party, I subsequently was elected an ACT MP at the last election and I am please to report that both National and ACT have now repealed the Electoral Finance Act.

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Pope Catholic; night follows day; IPCC found telling pack of lies about sea level rises

Submitted by climaterealists on Fri, 28/05/2010 - 21:38

telegraph.co.uk

James Delingpole 25 May 2010

IPCC lies, cheats, distorts again. Yes, all right, it is a bit of a “dog bites man” or “pizza found to contain mozzarella and tomato resting on dough base” kind of story. But on the day in which Britain’s new Prime Minister announced in the Queen’s speech that one of his government’s main goals is to “combat climate change”, it’s perhaps just as well to remind ourselves of the kind of junk science and misinformation that is inspiring his green policies. (Hat tip: Barry Woods)

This one comes from the great Canadian blogger Donna Laframboise, who has noticed that the most recent report (2007) by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change liberally cited a scientific paper which wasn’t published until 29 months after the cut off date for submissions.

“Ah what’s 29 months between friends?” you might say. But as Laframbroise rightly observes it strips the process of its integrity.

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Why Man-Made Global Warming is a load of cobblers; Pt 1

Submitted by climaterealists on Fri, 28/05/2010 - 21:32

telegraph.co.uk

James Delingpole 27 May 2010

Just been reading Climate: The Counter Consensus (Stacey International) the new book by Bob Carter – that’s New Zealand’s Professor Robert M Carter to you, mate: he’s one of the world’s leading palaeoclimatologists – and it’s a cracker. By the end, you’re left feeling rather as I did after the Heartland Conference, that the scientific case against AGW is so overwhelming that you wonder how anyone can still speak up for so discredited a theory without dying of embarrassment.

All the same, it’s good to be reminded now and again why the “consensus” thinking on AGW simply doesn’t stand up. There are so many excellent examples from Prof Carter’s book, I might be forced to spread them out over several blogs.

Take his chapter on the oceans. The other day some troll or other was brandishing a figure he’d got from NOAA, showing that the sea was warming. Well bully for you troll, but if you understand at all how climate works that fact does precisely zilch to support the case for AGW. Why?

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