Climate Change

Climate scientists are struggling…struggling to explain what happened to global warming, which is stalled or not happening at all. For years we have heard that the science is settled…but it would appear from this Reuter report that the science is far from settled.

Scientists are struggling to explain a slowdown in climate change that has exposed gaps in their understanding and defies a rise in global greenhouse gas emissions.

Often focused on century-long trends, most climate models failed to predict that the temperature rise would slow, starting around 2000. Scientists are now intent on figuring out the causes and determining whether the respite will be brief or a more lasting phenomenon.  Read more »

hat tip Lindsay Mitchell

Christopher Monckton has laid a complaint with Victoria University about the actions of three of their professors.

I wouldn’t expect they’ll do anything but the letter is very humorous if it wasn’t so serious.

I love his remedies request:

I shall be content if, upon investigation, the following remedial steps were taken:

Professor Boston’s fraudulent graph should be removed forthwith from the university’s website.  Read more »

Following yesterdays post on Lord Christopher Monckton I thought it unfair to lay all the blame entirely with the scientists, taxpayer funded climate change alarmists. Also to blame was the Herald,  showing another example of how “decent  journalists, trained and skilled” conduct investigative journalism (or lack thereof) and publish skewed misinformation in an effort to push a biased agenda. Last Tuesday The Horrid ran this story  on Lord Christopher Monckton, only they forgot to interview him for his response about it. Instead, they approached three New Zealand scientists…who are all troughers that suck on the taxpayer teat one way or another to be alarmed about global warming…and published their cheap one lined personal attacks without a right of reply where they would have been better served addressing his agenda and trying to prove why in their eyes he is wrong. The story the Horrid published was titled Kiwi scientists rally against climate change sceptic.

As any intelligent man would, Lord Monckton took exception to this atrocious excuse for journalism. Here is his response he submitted to the New Zealand Climate Science Coalition followed by his letter to the Herald Editor. Read more »

On Thursday morning Leighton Smith had guest speaker Lord Christopher Monckton in the studio to talk about global warming/climate change and addressed the invented science, lies and propaganda by those trying to force the issue of the climate change revenue gathering fraud down our throats. Lord Monckton is currently on a public speaking tour around the country speaking about the fraud, but has notably been rejected by several NZ education institutes because of his views. Also noted was the lack of New Zealand scientists and climate change alarmists such as money printing fantasist Russell Norman that don’t have the stones to debate Lord Monckton in a public forum with their false information and fraudulent science. Here is a small part of Leighton’s interview with Lord Monckton: Read more »

It looks like Tony Abbott has got things sorted, especially over ‘Climate Change’:

Opposition Leader Tony Abbott said he ”suspects” Tim Flannery, the head of Australia’s Climate Commission, would be made redundant if Mr Abbott becomes prime minister.

Mr Abbott has pledged to abolish the Climate Commission – the federal government’s agency for explaining climate science to the public – if elected, along with repealing the carbon price.

”When the carbon tax goes, all of those bureaucracies will go and I suspect we might find that the particular position you refer to goes with them,” Mr Abbott told Macquarie Radio on Wednesday.

”It does sound like an unnecessary position given that the gentleman in question gives us the benefit of his views without needing taxpayer funding.”

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Plunging a low point of illogical desperation, a Dutch scientific study finds that the Antarctic sea ice area is actually expanding, and, spare me, tries to blame it on global warming:

James Delingpole calls out Britian’s Chief Scientist on his chicken little claims that global warming was mankind’s largest peril.

Sir John Beddington, the government’s retiring Chief Scientist has been doing the media rounds today, telling anyone who’ll listen how “Climate Change” is still a serious problem about which we should all worry greatly.

Has he looked out of the window recently?

Looking out of my window just now, I noticed that the Northamptonshire landscape was completely blanketed in Dr David Viner. Just like it was yesterday. And the day before that, when we rescued two orphaned lambs from the frozen fields. Which isn’t something you normally expect in March, is it?  Read more »

The IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) is the largest, most influential group in the Warmist world.   Their reports and dire prognostications have been used as the excuse for a global epidemic of murderously expensive and inefficient policies.

Scientists who question their dodgy models and conclusions are met by baying mobs of warmists yelping about  ”Peer-reviewed Science”.

Well, how do they go about this hallowed practice that makes their guesses into holy writ?

Actually, it seems that they advertise for students who have a couple of free days, hand them a 2,000 page report, get them to give it a tick, and pay them nothing.   Read more »

A reader emails:

This week temperatures in the Czech Republic were the lowest in 130 years. The Prague Daily Monitor for 25 March reports:

“yesterday’s morning temperatures were record low also at some stations where temperature has been daily measured for over 100 years”

They quote previous lows as being in 1883, some 130 years ago.

I can tell you it is Bloody Cold in Europe. No Global Warming here.

The Prague Daily Monitor goes further:  Read more »

The Green Party is an insignificant force in UK politics, with only one MP in their bloated House of Commons.  But the UK is still crushed under the Green Thumb, partly because of the bureaucratic loons of the EU, and partly because their Government is a coalition of the wettest, weakest, trough-loving Tories in history and their minority partners, the creepy intern-molesting chardonnay-left Liberal Democrats.

And as a result, their economy is stuffed and old people are freezing to death because they can’t pay huge power bills while land-owning Dukes are trousering a fortune in wind-farm subsidies.

This is what the Global Warming scam and its apologists and profiteers have done, even with a Conservative government.

Hopefully, Kiwis are slowly waking up to the scandalous Green Taliban attack on the world and its people.

From The Independent, Monday, March 20, 2000, a story headlined: ‘Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past.’

It quoted Dr David Viner, head of the climate unit at the University of East Anglia, as saying that in future: ‘Children just aren’t going to know what snow is.’

That would be the same Dr David Viner whose department was accused of suppressing the existence of evidence casting doubt on global warming.  Read more »