The Journal
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Climate Alarm is an International Multi-Billion Dollar Business
A clear and well-written article titled Ideology and Money Drive Global Warming Religion by physicist and engineer Andrew Kenny, in South Africa’s Business Day (which, incidentally, reports unseasonable cold weather). I don’t usually simply copy and paste whole…
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The Endless Empty Sea of Media Irresponsibility
Thousands of examples to choose from, but this MSNBC headline caught my eye today: Teen suffers rare illness after swine flu shot – Boy diagnosed with Guillain-Barre syndrome, but CDC says no clear link. The headline…
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High Commissioner Surprised Australians Still Thinking
Britain’s new high commissioner, Baroness Valerie Amos, has expressed surprise that Australians are still debating whether humans cause climate change and says other nations have long since ”moved on”. Not only have we stopped thinking, she…
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Hopes Fade For Copenhagen – Yay!
The more hope fades, the happier I will be. Alas for the alarmists, ‘dark clouds are gathering over Copnhagen’ despite an apparent majority of political leaders being committed to ‘take action to tackle the threat of…
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Ghosts and Global Warming
Interesting figures here from the Pew Research Center on declining faith in the religion of global warming apocalyptic, with only 36% of those surveyed agreeing there is good evidence the world is warming because of human…
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Deltoid Again
Like it or not, Tim Lambert is one of Australia’s leading left wing bloggers. I don’t like it, because Lambert’s approach to debate is so often simply to mock or belittle people with whom he disagrees.…
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Leftist Vitriol
I visit leftist blogs and news sites fairly regularly. I can’t remember who it was who said ‘If you only read one paper, read the opposition’s,’ but it was good advice. If we only read the…
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The Real Climate Change Catastrophe
Christopher Booker summarises the arguments of his new book: The Real Global Warming Disaster: Is the Obsession with “Climate Chanage” Turning Out to Be the Most Costly Scientific Blunder in History? Long title, but the answer…
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350 Ways To Look Like An Idiot
I was in Adelaide yesterday to do some buying for my shop, and was interrupted in my travels about the city by about 100 scruffy-looking characters on bicycles. Some of them had painted the number 350 on…
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Maldives Mania
The Maldives Cabinet met underwater last Saturday to draw attention to the tiny nation’s fate if global warming and accompanying rapid sea level rise continues. All very cute and colourful. Except for a couple of small…
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Tricky Cherry Picking
Lucia at The Blackboard has an interesting article on how a global warming scientists can justify the kind of massive cherry-picking that went into the infamous hockey-stick. First, an explanation of ‘proxies.’ Proxies are so called…
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Andrew Bolt is Back, and the World is Cooler
Andrew Bolt leads off after his return from holidays with a tightly written summary of the world-is-hotter-than-ever-the-hockey-stick-proves-it fraud. There is no doubt now that it really was fraud and not simply incompetence. The incompetence was discovered by statisticians…
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First Australian Woman to Win A Nobel Prize
Well, this is cool. Elizabeth Blackburn was born in Tassie, and studied in Melbourne before completing her doctorate at Cambridge. She is now the Morris Herzstein Professor of Biology and Physiology at the University of California. Her…
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The Apocalyptic Cult of Global Warming
I have just finished reading Raphael Aron’s book Cults: Too Good to Be True (out of print now, I think, but his Cults, Terror, and Mind Control is still available). The introduction begins with this quote from…
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World Leaders: Tide Must Not Come In More Than 2 Metres
Well, almost. World leaders have decreed global temperature must not increase by more than 2 degrees over pre-industrial levels. How realistic this is depends what they mean by ‘pre-industrial.’ Generally that term would be taken to…
