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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 November 8th, 2008

A Recent Inconvenient Trading Truth

“While you were distracted by crashing banks and clashing US senators, you may have missed a small environmental earthquake.  The price of carbon has collapsed.” Read more here.

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Michael Crichton on Consensus Science

“There is no such thing as consensus science.  If it’s consensus, it isn’t science.  If it’s science, it isn’t consensus.  Period.”  Michael Crichton (1942-2008)

Why You Should Support Independent Media (Part 1, For Koalas)

SOME time ago I found myself seated next to a University academic – he had thin grey hair.  We were squashed together at the end of a long table in a dim and noisy Vietnamese restaurant in Brisbane [Australia].  The gathering was organised in support of alternative online media, so, I felt comfortable suggesting to [...]

Climate Rationalist in Council Election

Hi Jennifer,
I am a candidate for council election in the Sandridge (Port Melbourne) ward of Port Phillip, which is inner bayside Melbourne.Please view my campaign website www.scrinis.info for a comprehensive description of my beliefs and platform.I want this to be an electoral test of public opinion on climate policies and their implications locally and federally.At [...]

Physicist, Willie Soon, Not Paid by Greenpeace

I do not write papers because ExxonMobil or Greenpeace pays me to, but because my academic researches demonstrate that the sun, not carbon dioxide, is the chief driver of Arctic temperatures.  Read more here.

Bear Conservation in Nunavut

from http://www.theglobeandmail.com/cartoon/

Polar Bear Hunt Quota for Baffin Bay Announced

Hunters in Nunavut’s Baffin Bay [a region near Greenland] will be able to kill up to 105 polar bears this season, after the territory’s environment minister agreed to leave the quota unchanged.  Read more here.

UN Chief Misled Sydney Audience

LAST month, a regular reader of this blog, Michael Duffy, witnessed something shocking:
“Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, was giving a talk at the University of NSW [in Sydney, Australia]. The talk was accompanied by a slide presentation, and the most important graph showed average global temperatures. For the past decade it [...]