Archive for September 9th, 2008
Climate Case Built on Thin Foundation: John McLean
Posted by jennifer, September 9th, 2008 - under Opinion.
Tags: Climate & Climate Change
Comments: 142
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
Posted by jennifer, September 9th, 2008 - under Books.
Tags: Climate & Climate Change
Comments: 23
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
Posted by jennifer, September 9th, 2008 - under Community.
Tags: Add new tag, Climate & Climate Change
Comments: 1
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
Posted by jennifer, September 9th, 2008 - under Community.
Tags: Plants and Animals
Comments: none
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, [...]


