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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 26th, 2008

Warming Good for Canada

A group of global-warming experts, made up mainly of university economists and anthropologists, is pushing the notion that global warming might not be an unmitigated disaster, especially for certain northerly regions, such as Canada, Russia and Scandinavia.  Read more here.

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A Message from Tuvalu: Year 2272

Dear Jennifer, 
This is a note from my friend William York. He, like the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), is able to travel to the future and he has sent me this fascinating message:
Tuvalu 10pm New Year’s Eve, 30 December 2272
Dear Tom
I have just been listening to The Voice of Tuvalu, one of the most-listened-to [...]

Darn Weather

The ’Gore Effect’ happens when a global warming-related event, or appearance by the former vice president and climate change crusader, Al Gore, is marked by exceedingly cold weather or unseasonably winter weather.  Read more here.

Stop the warming! Ban Coke!

More here from Andrew Bolt.

Still Trees in Tasmania

You might like to add this http://www.tasmaniathemovie.com/trailers/ to your blog
 
It is obviously a counter to the Richard Flanagan partly scripted new movie ‘Australia’, and does show that the last tree has yet to be chopped down in Tassie.
 
Cheers, Cinders

Remember ‘Community Home’

Don’t forget that this blog has a community page.
Thanks to Art Raiche, there is a recent post with some great links to podcasts of the late Michael Crichton speaking about all sorts of things – even news as entertainment. 
If you scroll through the recent posts you will even see a picture of me ontop of the Sydney Harbour bridge – that [...]

Wind Power Exposed: The Renewable Energy Source is Expensive and Unreliable

THIS is not what President-elect Barack Obama’s energy and climate strategists would want to hear. It would be anathema to Al Gore and other assorted luminaries touting renewable energy sources which in one giant swoop will save the world from the “tyranny” of fossil fuels and mitigate global warming. And as if these were not big [...]

Climate Sceptic to Head EU

Vaclau Klaus, the 67-year old President of the Czech Republic, and an outspoken global warming sceptic, will assume the rotating presidency of the European Union.  Read more here.