CLIMATE ALARMISTS WANT TO DENY SCEPTICS ANY VOICE ON AIR

This piece shows what alarmists want, and it is to allow no non-consenting voices to be heard on the subject of global warming. It is a clear sign of how frightened they are that the arguments put by their opponents are too strong to combat. But however hard they try, those arguments will be heard, if not on mainstream TV then they will be in the press or on the internet. If those arguments have merit they will win in the end.

IS THIS OUR ENERGY BIG BROTHER FUTURE?

Two good articles on Eureferendum blog.The first one looks at a project in Denmark where the energy supply to a small village is over 50% from renewables, mainly wind turbines. It makes rather disturbing reading, as it relies on the customers only using appliances when the energy can be supplied - in other words taking a step backwards.The second one looks at how the energy market is being rigged to enable wind turbines to get added to the grid in such large numbers. The second piece looks at how a rigged market is leading us to the situation where we may end up in the position of the citizens of the Danish village.

All this is being promoted by our government as "progress" and yet it can only be called progress in some kind of "nu-speak" world where words take on an entirely different meaning - a bit like calling a same-sex relationship "marriage" (which the government are also proposing).

ANOTHER SCARE DEBUNKED

Remember the one about methane escaping from the ocean floor and increasing the warming? Well according to this piece in Watts Up With That blog a new scientific expedition has discovered that these vents have been going on for many years and are not likely to be linked to human activity or emissions of CO2. Don't have nightmares and do sleep well!

EXACTLY HOW MUCH CO2 DOES WIND POWER SAVE?

It is a complex question as this report to the UK parliament makes clear. What's more, no proper answer has been published by the UK government, so despite the massive cost of adding all the wind turbines to the UK there is no official way of knowing whether the savings are worthwhile, or indeed if there are any savings at all. In this piece on the Bishop Hill blog there is an account of a councillor in Scotland who is taking a case to UNECE against the authorities behind the wind farm policy (the EU and the UK) on the very point of inadequate information about CO2 savings among others. She has already won the right to have her case put and a ruling is expected next summer. If she wins it would be a fantastic victory, but I am not holding my breath.

MORE EVIDENCE OF VARIATION IN ARCTIC SEA ICE

This article by Matt Ridley looks at other evidence coming forward to suggest that the Arctic ice has been much greater as well as smaller than the present. The alarmists want to give only one side of the story.

GERMANY FINDS TOO MANY TURBINES UPSETS THE GRID

This piece from Christopher Booker gives a clear warning of what we in the UK will face if we continue to add more and more wind power to the grid. Yet despite all the evidence our government seems determined to press ahead. This is called the lemming mentality.

COAL STILL CHEAPER DESPITE CARBON TAX

This article confirms that more coal fired power stations are due to be built in Europe, despite the carbon pricing schemes. How can they claim their schemes are any use when they fail in their primary objective? They are simply putting up the price of energy for no useful purpose. What a shambles!

ANTHONY WATTS INTERVIEW

Here is a short interview with Anthony Watts the man behind the great "Watts Up With That" blog. He explains his position on climate change and his views on the climate temperature record.

USA OIL POTENTIAL IS IMMENSE

This article shows where the extra oil could come from if the political will is there, which boils down to who wins the race for the White House. The economy is much more likely to grow with more fuel than less.

ANTARCTIC ICE DEFIES CLIMATE MODEL PREDICTIONS

This article looks at the way the climate models have all been found to have failed to predict the on-going increase in levels of Antarctic ice. In fact the computer climate models have all predicted a loss of ice. How can we trust models that have failed?

AN ENERGY POLICY THAT MAKES SENSE

This is it and I wish those in government would have the good sense to follow it.

INDIA PLANS MASSIVE COAL POWER STATION BUILD

If you thought China was the only nation with a massive coal-fired power station building programme, then read this article to see what India has planned. Yet more reasons why our own UK efforts to cut CO2 emissions will be completely useless at reducing atmospheric levels.

HISTORY OF GW AKA CLIMATE SCIENCE

This article gives a very good account of how the global warming scare began and how it gained so much traction across the globe, despite such weak scientific evidence. It is not a "conspiracy", but rather a conflation if disparate groups all gaining from it in their own different ways. I am putting a link to this in the side bar for reference purposes.

WHEN IS A SUBSIDY NOT A SUBSIDY?

This piece on the Bishop Hill blog highlights a completely ludicrous claim made by a politician that fossil fuels receive more subsidy than renewables. To back up his claim he quotes a report by the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development). He seems to ignore all the taxes that we pay for fossil fuels as well as the fact that investment in such things as wind turbines and solar panels only happen because of the massive subsidies on the energy produced. There is none so blind as those that won't look.

WIND FARMS NOT THE ANSWER

This piece in the Telegraph shows the thinking of the new UK Environment Minister, Owen Patterson. For a minister in the present government this is a very forthright view, and most encouraging. 

JET STREAM BEHAVIOUR EXPLAINED

"All Climate Models are Wrong" is the title of an interesting blog by a young climate scientist called Dr. Tamsin Edwards. She has recently given an interview to Radio Wiltshire in which she has explained the recent behaviour of the jet stream. I recommend it to you all. Unusually, she does not claim to know all the answers - such a refreshing change from the certainty put forward by the Hockey Team (in public). 

KATE'S TITS MORE IMPORTANT THAN GLOBAL WARMING?

OK I admit it, the headline was a blatant attempt at increasing the readership; but there is an important point, which is that millions of people are looking at these while the government are removing £18 billion a year from UK residents in a vain attempt to alter the world's climate and most people are unaware of it. Similar amounts are being taken from residents of other Western nations as well. I know that the Duchess's breasts have caused a great controversy, but we appear to have got our priorities all wrong if we think they are more worthy of study than the great "Climate Change Rip off". I will leave you to carry out your own "research" (you may find the link takes several attempts to work due to the massive interest, but it definitely was working).

I realise that some readers may think it is in bad taste for me to draw attention to the Royal embarrassment, though it does show a great deal of naiivety on her part to imagine that she can get away with appearing topless in any place where she is accessible to the intrusion of high-powered lenses. If you succumb to temptation, you will see that it is all a great fuss about very little - just a normal very slim girl with exactly what nature gave her. In fact the pictures may make other girls realise that they are just like her and don't need silicone enhancement to attract attention either.  

UK SHALE GAS SEEMS A STEP NEARER

This piece from Christopher Booker in tomorrow's Sunday Telegraph reveals that Ed Davey, the Department of Energy and Climate Change Minister appears to be ready to over-rule the Climate Change Committee and give the go-ahead for Shale Gas production. 

COMPARING SURFACE TEMPERATURE RECORDS WITH THE SATELLITE RECORD

The following article is available here by Warwick hughes. I have reproduced it, as it is rather disjointed on the original site. What is interesting here is not only that there is now such a difference between the trends for the land and satellite data, but how the land data has been continually altered as each new data set has been compiled.

"Half a decade back you could make the case that trends 1979-2005 in the old land only CRUTem2 were not too different from University of Alabama at Huntsville AMSU satellite based lower troposphere trends."

LAND ONLY SURFACE TEMPERATURE RECORDS COMPARED WITH SATELLITE TEMPERATURES. (All trends in Degrees C per decade.)


1979 - 2005

             UAH AMSU     CRUTem2    CRUTem3     CRUTem4

Global         0.16                0.17              0.24               0.28

N Hem        0.23                0.25              0.33               0.35

S Hem        0.03                0.10              0.15               0.14

1979 – 2010

Global        0.18                                     0.22               0.27

N Hem       0.24                                     0.32               0.34

S Hem       0.06                                     0.12               0.13


"The introduction of the UKMet Office dominated CRUTem3 in 2006 saw the land trends 1979-2005 blow out and the just introduced CRUTem4 of Dr Phil Jones et al has increased the warming trend 1979-2010 again over the earlier CRUTems and satellites."

So the next time somebody says to you, “…well anyway the satellite temperature trends agree with the surface…”..

You should ask them to check the numbers because it simply is not so anymore.

PIERS CORBIN EXPLAINS WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THE ARCTIC

In this short video Piers Corbin of Weather Action explains why the real climate (as opposed to the alarmist fantasy) is going towards a "little ice age" over the coming years. No doubt the Hockey Team dismiss him as a foolish fantasist, but time will tell. Piers has a good record in predicting weather events and I would not bet against him.

Compare the above account with the alarmist clip from BBC's Newsnight. After the first part the clip shows an interview with Conservative MP, Peter Lilley and the new leader of the UK Green Party.

"COPING WITH CLIMATE CHANGE WILL CAUSE NO DIFFICULTY"

Here at last we have a scientific institution talking common sense. No less than the German Academy of Science and Engineering has come out and said that they believe that climate change is not only manageable but in fact has some advantages. Apparently the news was so shocking that four alarmist scientists have resigned.

COMPUTER CLIMATE MODELS ALL FAIL

Here is an important piece on WUWT which demonstrates serious  shortcomings of climate models in predicting the effect of volcanic activity. The result of the study is that none of the models gave accurate predictions. If they fail in this simple test how can scientists or governments rely on them to predict the climate in the years ahead?

GLOBAL CARBON TRADING SYSTEM COLLAPSING

This article looks at this welcome news. If true it signals the end of one of the greatest attempts to manipulate financial markets ever.

IS THERE A CLIMATE SCEPTIC IN THE CABINET?

This article suggests that there may be, and he is oppsed to wind farms and supports shale gas. If true, this would be a momentous day - time will tell, though even if he is he will be up against very strong opposition.

THIS IS WHAT WE'RE UP AGAINST

This is one of John Gummer's organisations that has caused some to think he may have a conflict of interest when advocating global warming legislation in parliament. When you actually see what is lined up in favour of alarmism.

THE SUN GOING QUIET

This report refers to recent measurements taken of the sun which confirm that it appears to be behaving in an unexpected and quiet way. It will be interesting if this has a bearing on earth's climate over the coming years.

THE ARCTIC IS MELTING BUT NOT AS MUCH AS 6000 YEARS AGO

The Arctic ice summer melt is giving rise to a lot of headlines in favour of global warming alarm, so now is a good time to remind readers about the past behaviour of the region. Here is some excellent research to back up claims that the Arctic ice has melted extensively in the past, in fact more than the present. So although the present melt may look alarming, we should be comforted by the fact that it has happened before, and obviously returned to a colder more frozen state again afterwards.

CUBA, THE HAPPY COUNTRY

Cuba is a happy country according to the happy planet index It is a strange twist of logic that a country where people risk their lives to escape is somehow considered "happy".

CLIMATE CHANGE IN COURT?

This article reviews the situation in the Mann v Steyn legal battle. This is my first look at the Commentator and it seems an interesting website.

THE TANGLED WORLD OF TIM YEO

Christopher Booker's column looks at yet further apparent conflicts between the MP's business interests and his role as chairman of the parliamentary climate change comittee. With all the publicity this has had it seems amazing that he is still in his post, though sadly the public are so fed up with climate change that he may get away with.

WHICH COMES FIRST WARMING OR CO2?

This is the climate science equivalent of the chicken and egg question. There is plenty of evidence from ice cores etc that over the long term the CO2 lags behind temperature by several hundred years, but what about the recent decades? Is it possible to discern any lag with such small increments? This piece on WUWT blog refers to a new paper which claims to do so, and it finds that CO2 still lags behind temperature. This should be a fatal blow to the man made global warming theory, but I don't expect the thing to die quickly, there's too much money and political capital tied up for that.