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Scientist Steve Schneider Flips Fears
On the TV show In Search Of…The Coming Ice Age, Steven Schneider wonders whether mankind should intervene in staving off a coming ice age.  Watch the old footage on YouTube here. (24)

Australian Liberals Oppose Carbon Trading
Australian Opposition Leader (Malcolm Turnbull) will be forced to stare down more than two-thirds of the Liberal back bench if he proceeds with his plan to negotiate with the government over amendments to the emissions trading scheme before December’s Copenhagen climate change conference.   Read more here. (2)

Not Evil Just Wrong
Buy the DVD by clicking on the flashing icon above. (1)

Climate Change Summit in New York
In New York… Chinese leader Hu Jintao … U.S. President Barack Obama more or less shuffled climate control policy off into the great dreamscape of unattainable plans and long range objectives. Like equality for all and peace in our time …  Terence Corcoran, Financial Post (1)

Minerals Industry Now Complaining
THE [Australian] minerals industry has demanded [the Prime Minister] Kevin Rudd overhaul his proposed emissions trading system or risk smashing Australian jobs and the nation’s industrial competitiveness.  Read more here. (1)

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Archive for April 13th, 2008

More on The Great BBC Website Swindle

The controversy over climate campaigner Jo Abbess’s claimed success of intimidating the BBC’s Roger Harrabin into changing a website article rumbles on.
Christopher Booker of The Sunday Telegraph gives his opinion here:

Warmists beat straying BBC man back into line

A talking point among “climate sceptics” on both sides of the Atlantic has been the bizarre tale of [...]

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A Catalogue of Animals to Shoot From

Most safari outfitters offer a menu of game that clients can choose from. It’s like shopping from a catalogue.
Looking down these lists is slightly surreal. Everything is on offer, including porcupine ($250 – is it possible people really hunt these?), warthog ($300), on through a multitude of indistinguishable deer-like species, up to the big ticket [...]

The ‘Best Book on the Market’ according to Eamonn Butler

A lot of people blame ‘market failure’ for environmental problems like pollution or over-fishing. More often, though, it’s political failure that causes the problems, by preventing markets from even existing. Like in water. As I explain in my new book, The Best Book on the Market:
In the dry western states of the US, the ‘prior [...]

Cosmic Rays, Clouds and Climate (Part 1)

There are a couple of emerging theories on clouds, and how they form, and in time these theories may blow away the current so-called consensus on anthropogenic global warming from carbon dioxide as a key driver of climate.
One of these theories concerns cosmic rays.
A couple of weeks ago I mentioned the words “cosmic rays” with [...]