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    Buzz Aldrin Says ..

    The climate’s been changing for billions of years, and there’s no evidence anything humans have done has changed those natural cycles. Here’s what Buzz had to say (from the Telegraph, via Watts Up With That): ..…

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    Cap And Trade US Self-Sabotage Bill Passed

    Possibly the most monumental piece of economic lunacy ever proposed by any government anywhere (and I include the collectivisation of farms in Stalinist Russia) has passed through the US Congress. This despite the fact that members of…

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    Urban Heat Island Effects And Recorded Global Temperature Change

    I noted in my introduction to global warming Profits of Doom, that: The IPCC’s warming figure of 0.8 degrees Celsius over the last century is doubtful, for at least two reasons. First, no one knows for…

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    Canada Frosts The Most Widespread In Memory

    The multiple frosts that have blanketed Western Canada in the last week are the most widespread in the top canola-growing province of Saskatchewan in at least five years. In Manitoba, the frost is the worst in…

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    Fielding Asks For Evidence

    Tempers erupt. But why? Losing one’s temper is usually a sign of insecurity. If global warming alarmists are so certain the evidence supports them, why don’t they just provide it? Instead insults are thrown at Fielding and…

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    And Another Thing

    While we’re thinking about global warming. The National Snow and Ice Data Center has a tool which allows you to compare the extent of sea ice in any two years from 1978 to 2009. Here are figures for sea…

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    Global Warming Causes Everything

    A Russian climatologist says global warming played a ‘significant part’ in the crash of Air France flight 447 in the Atlantic a couple of days ago. If you don’t know, you might as well make something up. Especially…

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    NASA: Sun Influences Climate

    No s%#t, Sherlock. A study from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland looking at climate data over the past century has concluded that solar variation has made a significant impact on the Earth’s climate. …

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    Seals Not Endangered By Climate Change

    Global temperature has (possibly, no one is really sure) risen by about half of one degree over the last hundred years. Given that seals have survived the last several million years of climate changes, varying from…

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    For Love Or Money

    The Tragedy of The Diocese Of The Murray. You have never cared about me. Nobody likes me. But I am still your bishop, so do what I say. Or give me $1 million and I will leave. That was the…

  • Gluing Breasts To Men

    And tying penises to women, doesn’t make a man a woman, nor a woman a man. Andrew Bolt has made some rightly alarmed comments about an Australian court that pretends to help a confused 17 year…

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    Climate Model Works

    One system of climate modelling has a proven history of correct prediction of weather events. The Old Farmer’s Almanac is going further out on a limb than usual this year, not only forecasting a cooler winter, but…

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    Glaciers Growing

    Two of the global warming poster stars are declining polar bear populations and shrinking arctic ice. Disappointingly (for the alarmists) polar numbers have increased dramatically over the last 30 years, and the extent of Arctic ice is increasing. Another claimed…

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    Climate Change Disasters Cause 300,000 Deaths Per Year

    According to the Global Humanitarian Forum. But actually no. Dr Roger Pielke calls the report a ‘methodological embarrassment,’ and notes that the report itself says ‘there is not yet any widely accepted global estimate of the share…

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    Climate Change – What I Said

    Dutch chemist Dr Hans Schreuder drew on the work of a number of climate and other scientists in his address to the Northern Ireland Climate Change Committee, which is considering legislative controls of ‘greenhouse gas’ emissions.…