Submitted by climaterealists on Mon, 02/08/2010 - 16:48
Submitted by climaterealists on Mon, 02/08/2010 - 16:45
Federated Farmers Media Release 28 July 2010
20 percent of New Zealand’s sheep and beef farms could be replaced by oxymoronic ‘carbon forestry’, if the ambitions of foreign owned carbon foresters and the Government are realised.
“Obviously the pending meat industry strategy has a new paradigm to assess, if the wishes of those who want to plant farm land in trees come to pass,” says Don Nicolson, Federated Farmers President.
“Don’t get me wrong, Federated Farmers strongly believes that farm forestry is an integral to farms where it’s suited. This makes the axing of the Afforestation Grants Scheme in preference to the Emissions Trading Scheme incredibly perplexing.
“Yet it’s the big overseas foresters that can’t see our food for the carbon. The likes of Ernslaw One (Malaysia), Blakeley Pacific (USA) and Rayonier New Zealand (USA) want to plant two million hectares of our farmland in trees.
Submitted by climaterealists on Mon, 02/08/2010 - 16:43
I have pasted an article that to me succinctly sums up the whole crazy
debate on global warming.It is quite long (as i don`t think you can use
links on this serve) but well worth a read.The article also goes into how
even though Richard Lindzen of MIT was brought into the UN`s IPCC for his
expertise,as he did not follow the ''plan'' he was vilified and hounded.This
is not how science is supposed to work..people like Lindzen publish papers
and people are free to criticize methodology,conclusions etc but as like
when Alan says that Lindzen ''has extreme right wing views'' that is
smearing the man instead of critiquing his work.
Submitted by climaterealists on Mon, 02/08/2010 - 16:29
21 July 2010
The Carbon Sense Coalition today called for an end to the massive subsidies distorting all energy markets in the name of global warming.
The Chairman of “Carbon Sense”, Mr Viv Forbes, said that if Julia Gillard was honest in her support for a sustainable Australia, she should start dismantling the five unsustainable industries created by climate subsidies.
Forbes explained:
“Today’s buzz word is “sustainable”.
“A sustainable industry cannot rely on government subsidies, market mandates or special deals.
“Warmists and subsidy entrepreneurs have created five unsustainable industries in gullible and guilt stricken western economies – carbon sequestration, ethanol, solar/wind power, carbon forestry and the climate change industry
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'."
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