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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 March 9th, 2009

Skeptics Conference in New York, Session 1

Richard S. Lindzen … delivered a biting attack on what he called the “climate alarm movement.”  … Dr. Lindzen also criticized widely publicized assertions by other skeptics that variations in the sun were driving temperature changes in recent decades.   Read more here in the New York Times.   Bob Carter’s report on Session 1 is here.

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Bob Carter’s Report on the First Session at the Climate Conference in New York

Folks,
You may be interested in my reports from the NY climate conference which are being posted by Quadrant Online.
In my report on session one I comment that:
President Vaclav Klaus reports latest poll from the Czech Republic shows only 11% of people believe that man has a significant influence in warming the climate.
West Australian Joanne Nova’s Climate [...]

It’s Just Not Possible to Forecast Climate

CLIMATE is complex and represents exactly the kind of system that cannot be modeled with any accuracy.   At least that is according to Kesten Green, a forecasting expert at Monash University, Australia.  Dr Green argues that a key question when trying to predict future climate is to ask: Can we do better than assume future temperatures [...]

Conference Delegates Described as Deniers

UK Guardian reports on Climate Conference in New York and argues ”climate change denial, although the view of a minority, has damaged efforts to introduce policies to address the changes.”  Read more here.