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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 August 5th, 2008

Cooling: The Human Climate Signal? A Note from ‘Cohenite’

Posted by Paul, August 5th, 2008 - under Uncategorized.
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Malcolm Hill alerted me to Cohenite’s comments that are worthy of a new thread:
I’m just a middle man connecting the points first raised by John McLean and Thomas Quirk in their paper, ‘ Australian Temperature Variations – An Alternative View:’
http://mclean.ch/climate/Aust_temps_alt_view.pdf
And Bob Tisdales work with Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO)
I agree with Malcolm that this is a [...]

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Climate Report Plays Hockey with Photoshop

Posted by Paul, August 5th, 2008 - under Uncategorized.
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The new US Climate Change Science Program (CCSP) report has been criticised by the likes of Roger Pielke Senior and Junior because science comes a poor third to sloppiness and political advocacy. The report represents the biased and narrow opinions of the lead authors, rather like the UN IPCC reports.
Amongst the report’s many and deliberate [...]

Climate Enterprise: Captains’ Logs

Posted by Paul, August 5th, 2008 - under Uncategorized.
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Britain’s great seafaring tradition is to provide a unique insight into modern climate change, thanks to thousands of Royal Navy logbooks that have survived from the 17th century onwards.
A preliminary study of 6,000 logbooks has produced results that raise questions about climate change theories. There was a surge in the frequency of summer storms over [...]