The Journal
Science
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Scary – For Gillard
Oooh…! That big scary Mr Garnaut has a big scary splash in the Daily Telegraph claiming that rising seas and increasing incidence of extreme weather events mean that Sydney will be swamped by the sea every year instead…
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Then What’s The Point?
As I noted a few days ago, the only way a carbon price can have any affect on CO2 output is by reducing the use of fossil fuels. It does this by making the use of…
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Dyson Freeman on AGW
Dyson Freeman is probably the most important 20th Century scientist not to win a Nobel Prize, and more important than many who have. He is certainly the world’s leading theoretical phycicist. James Delingpole reports today on a…
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Science Wins (For Now)
The US Congress has voted to cut funding to the IPCC, the bloated and corrupt UN organisation charged with producing scary graphs about climate change. Amusing graphic take on this development. Of course, the Republicans’ proposed changes…
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Faith and Science Collide
On the NPR (US public radio) website, Brian Reed writes condescendingly about the benighted residents of Kiribati. Even in a place as vulnerable as Kiribati, there are skeptics. “I’m not easily taken by global scientists prophesizing the…
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Green Power, Black Death
It has been estimated that 160 people die every minute from malaria or its complications. Malaria is a disease we could eradicate. Paul Driessen writes: Many chemotherapy drugs for treating cancer have highly unpleasant side effects…
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Still Getting Cooler
Cold and wet again this weekend on Kangaroo Island. So wet the race club’s major meet for the year had to be cancelled. I guess this proves global warming. Strange, after all the predictions of drought…
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Same Old Bogeyman
Ron Burgess at Business Spectator describes Australian uber-alarmist Flim Flannery as ‘Labor’s new bogeyman. I am not sure in what sense Flannery or his message are new. He has been constantly, amusingly wrong, but at least he has been…
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Economist Intelligence Unit – Not So Intelligent
I have said repeatedly that the NBN is a dumb idea – grossly overpriced and completely unnecessary. So you might think I’d agree with the Economist Intelligence Unit that the Australian Labor government’s NBN is not a good plan because…
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Stick Your Panels Where The Sun Don’t Shine
Sigh… If only it were that easy. Had a letter from the Kangaroo Island Council today, inviting us (and every other ratepayer) to an information session on the ‘Solar Councils Community Program.’ This is free advertising…
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Why Climate Change Nonsense Has to Stop
Climate change alarmists need to be called to account. When they talk about global warming, they actually mean three separate things: 1. The world is getting warmer in an unprecedented, or at least highly unusual and alarming,…
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New Ice Age?
As the Daily Mail points out, this looks like a computer generated graphic of the Ice Age: But this was yesterday. Of course Al Gore now claims: ‘As it turns out, the scientific community has been addressing…
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Glaciers, Gore, Green Jobs
Glacier retreat has been one of the key pieces of evidence in the warming alarmists’ campaign against cheap fuel and the world economy that depends on it. Himalayan glaciers are melting! Never mind the fact that…
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I Want My Global Warming
Four of New York’s seven worst ever recorded snow storms have occurred since 2003. This January has been new York’s snowiest since records have been kept, breaking a record that goes back to 1925. January 26th…
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Big Wind
No, that is not my Native American name. Gary Jason at Liberty Unbound draws attention to two recent WSJ articles about the cost of ‘green’ subsidies. The first is about those annoying annoying and expensive energy…
