Climate & Climate Change

According to our most outspoken local adherent to Al Gore, business owners within the Daintree Cape Tribulation rainforest community need to start taking some responsibility and planning for a very different future to what we are used to. We cannot … [Read more...] about Of Kookaburras and Catbirds

Rachmat Witoelar, Indonesia's Environment Minister, closed the United Nation's Climate Change Conference in Bali yesterday with comment that, "We have a Roadmap! I am delighted to say that we have finally achieved the breakthrough the world has … [Read more...] about UN Climate Change Conference Ends

"It’s an assertion repeated by politicians and climate campaigners the world over – ‘2,500 scientists of the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) agree that humans are causing a climate crisis’. "But it’s not true. And, … [Read more...] about How Many Scientists Really Subscribe to the IPCC Climate Crisis?

I'm off to Reading in Berkshire for my wife's employer's annual Christmas party - so much to my wife's delight, I'll be well over 100 miles away from my laptop for most of the weekend. Meanwhile, here are a few bits and bobs: Magma May Be Melting … [Read more...] about Something for the Weekend

Climate Rationalists have assembled an open letter to the Bali climate conference. Signatories include Bob Carter and Lord Lawson of Blaby. The letter begins: Open Letter to the Secretary-General of the United Nations Dec. 13, 2007 His Excellency … [Read more...] about Open Letter to Bali: Give Up Futile Attempts to Combat Climate Change

Australia has ratified the Kyoto Protocol. This was Kevin Rudd’s first official act as the new Australian Prime Minister. But according to an international law expert, Donald Rothwell, without domestic legislation in place the new government could … [Read more...] about New Australian Prime Minister Wrong to Fast Track Kyoto Ratification?