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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 13th, 2008

Did Napoleon Use Hansen’s Temperature Data?

Following a blunder at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, Steve McIntyre, at the Climate Audit blog, has reminded James Hansen, from NASA, that its colder in Russia in October than in September, as Napoleon found out to his cost in 1812.  Read more here .

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Tasmanian Timbers

Hi folks,
 
the Fine Timbers Tasmania inc. Chain of Custody has been officially launched earlier today. The website is up and running, and the roll-out of the program is beginning…
 
Visit the website at www.chainofcustody.com.au
 
cheers, George

Apologies to Josh Willis: Correcting Global Cooling (Part 3)

ON Tuesday, I suggested at this blog that I was not convinced by a story from Josh Willis, a scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, explaining why and how he corrected data showing global ocean cooling.  The title of my blog post suggested that Dr Willis had changed the data to fit output from computer [...]

Thanks David Jones for Easier Access to Rainfall Data

WHILE searching the Australian Bureau of Meteorology’s website, looking for data on rainfall for Melbourne, it became apparent that this site only contained links to data in pdf format with rainfall averages for various and different periods.

Likely Sources of Energy to 2030

Coal, the dirtiest source of fuel, will remain the world’s main source of power until 2030 and nuclear will lose market share, the International Energy Agency said on Wednesday.  Read more here.

How to Cap and Trade

California’s blueprint to address global warming won’t include details of an emissions-trading program as regulators try to build consensus on how best to organize the market-based system.  Read more here.

Benny Peiser Talks in the UK

 
Benny Peiser: Shock Horror – Media Hype and Climate Alarmism  
Women’s Institute – Science Day, 21 November, 1:40pm http://www.wi-cheshire.org.uk/diary.html
 
Benny Peiser: Space Technology for Planetary Defence Chester Astronomical Society, 26 November, 7:30pm http://www.manastro.co.uk/nwgas/chester/2008.htm