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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 September 9th, 2008

Climate Case Built on Thin Foundation: John McLean

ROSS Garnaut made it clear in his interim report that his climate change review takes as a starting point – not as a belief but on the balance of probabilities – that the claims made in the fourth assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change are correct.
Had he made even a cursory examination [...]

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Blue Planet in Green Shackles: A Book by Vaclav Klaus

The President of the Czech Republic, Vaclav Klaus, spoke yesterday at the Mont Pelerin Society meeting here in Tokyo.    
He is a well known global warming skeptic and author of a ‘Blue Planet in Green Shackles’.   In the book’s introduction, the President explains,

“The book aspires to be nothing more than lay knowledge of the natural sciences.  Yet I [...]

Not Much Ice at the Arctic in 1818

Dear Jennifer
 
As any internet search confirms, climate change doomsayers use Greenland as a key indicator of “global warming”. At least some of the phenomena they observe are clearly not the effect of greenhouse gases.  Take for example the following item from page 159 of the February 1818 issue of The Gentleman’s Magazine:
 
“Voyage of Discovery. – Government, [...]

Great Book on Arctic Animals

Hi Jennifer,
 
I recently purchased a copy of Christian Vibe’s 1967 monograph ‘Arctic Animals in Relation to Climatic Fluctuation’,  Meddelelser om Grønland (1967) 170(5), pp 1-227. 
 
I have started putting direct quotes on the Environment Wiki that is linked to this blog:
 
The monograph with lots of information including about polar bears is available from Abebooks.
 
Cheers, [...]