"While some have likened global warming skeptics' scientific research to Big Tobacco-funded research that supposedly showed smoking was not dangerous, I would say that the media's refusal to report on skeptics's peer-reviewed research is like the … [Read more...] about Open Thread
Archives for June 2014
Palmer Gored: A Win for Mandated Carbon “Markets”
A new alliance between Al Gore and Clive Palmer is likely to result in the repeal of the carbon tax, but the big winner is probably the global warming industry, not the ordinary Australian. Indeed if you think your electricity bill is about to … [Read more...] about Palmer Gored: A Win for Mandated Carbon “Markets”
Warming Never Completely Negated Earlier Cooling: Some Thoughts on NSW Temperature Trends
Last night I presented a paper for the Sydney Institute entitled ‘Modelling Australian and global temperatures: what’s wrong? Bourke and Amberley as case studies’. The paper written with Ken Stewart, Dennis Jensen and John Abbot concludes with some … [Read more...] about Warming Never Completely Negated Earlier Cooling: Some Thoughts on NSW Temperature Trends
Vale Ray Evans & How to Win an Argument
I first meet Ray Evans at a dinner at the Institute of Public Affairs. It must have been in about 2004, ten years ago, because I had just seen the movie ‘The Day After Tomorrow’. Staring Dennis Quaid as a paleoclimatologist professor, the movie was … [Read more...] about Vale Ray Evans & How to Win an Argument
Federal Court Rules Against Wild Rivers
Queensland's Wild Rivers legislation was declared invalid in Cape York by an Australian Federal Court judge yesterday. The court decision focused on the previous Labor government’s declaration of the Archer, Lockhart and Stewart Rivers on April 3 … [Read more...] about Federal Court Rules Against Wild Rivers
Open Thread
So, I have revamped the blog. Hopefully nothing has been lost. I’ve still got some work to do, for example, sorting information into the new ‘Popular Topics’. The search button should still quickly find you what you want, as long as you can remember … [Read more...] about Open Thread