BIOMASS AND PRAWNS TO REPLACE ALUMINIUM SMELTING IN ANGLESEA

Here's the story. We are seeing the effects of the mad energy policy in the UK, when an aluminium smelting plant was forced to close due to high energy prices, and now we see a heavily subsidised biomass electricity generating plant is being combined with prawn production in order to provide the local jobs that were lost with the closure of the aluminium works. It has to be global warming madness.

300 SCIENTISTS WANT NOAA TO RELEASE ITS GLOBAL WARMING DATA

This article gives the details. Why do these publicly funded bodies refuse to give out all their data if they have nothing to hide?

GERMANS PAY A HEAVY PRICE FOR GOING GREEN

This piece looks at the details. This huge cost would only be justified if it really made a significant difference to the climate, but we are becoming increasingly confident that it is not going to make the slightest difference.

NO WARMING IN THE TROPOSPHERE SAY ALL DATA SETS

This article looks at the temperature changes in the troposphere, which the global warming hypothesis says should warm faster than the surface. The data from all the satellite measurements agree that this is not happening. Here is yet another reason to look again at the idea of dangerous warming of the Earth. In any other scientific hypothesis this would be happening, but not in this area. The politics now takes precedence over the science.

WHO'S AFRAID OF CHEAP OIL?

Well according to this article quite a few nations will be badly affected and it could lead to a financial crisis. One thing is certain - no one predicted the oil price fall correctly, just as no one predicted the banking crisis correctly back in 2008.  So how do we know what the result of cheap oil will be? It's as hard to predict the economic climate as it is to predict the atmospheric climate.

WARMIST PROPAGANDA SAYS THAT MELTING GLACIERS IS AN EARLY WARNING OF CLIMATE CHANGE

This piece looks at the early reports of melting glaciers from the beginning of the 20th century, making it quite clear that this was happening well before the rise in CO2 levels.

THE MYTH OF PEAK OIL

This piece from Roger Helmer MEP's excellent blog looks at the idea that oil will soon reach peak production and then become increasingly scarce leading to continuous price increase. This theory of "peak oil" has been speculated for a long time and is what the government were relying on to make renewable energy seem affordable. The reality now seems rather different as can be read in the linked article.

RECORD TEMPERATURES - IT'S THE "BLOB" AND EL NINO, STUPID!

Here are the details which explain why it is foolish to claim that 2015 has anything to do with climate change. Media propaganda is saying otherwise, but in the end people will see through the propaganda and despise those who use it.

HOTTEST YEAR? "WHY LEND CREDIBILITY TO THIS DISHONESTY", SAYS PROF. LINDZEN

Here is the article which looks at this. It is scandalous that the TV news bulletins report this "hottest year" stuff without reference to the satellite data that contradicts it. This is a clear example of reporting bias.

CLIMATE ALARMISTS JUMP THE GUN ON SURFACE TEMPERATURE RECORD

Here's the report which explains why we should treat the surface temperature for 2015 with caution, as it was a strong el nino year. We should look at subsequent years when there is likely to be a la nina event which has the opposite effect in cooling the surface. It is worth noting that the satellite temperature recordings did not produce a record. It was the third warmest - see here.

FRACKING FIRMS TO CARRY OUT TESTS WITHOUT PLANNING PERMISSION

This article from the BBC gives the details. At last it seems the government are making an effort to get some fracking underway, much to the horror of the green activists. At this rate we will just get a decent amount of gas by the time the Climate Change Act declares we must stop using it.

BOB CARTER R.I.P. A SCHOLAR AND GENTLEMAN

It was with great sadness that I learnt of the death of one of the climate sceptic greats, Professor Bob Carter. He has so often been the face of reason in the debate about global warming. He had an image of great integrity combined with a deep knowledge of the subject. Always calm and considered in his response to interviewers, he will be greatly missed. Here is a good account of Bob's achievements. I particularly remember his role as an expert witness in the court case to keep Al Gore's film out of UK schools. It was his testimony that undoubtedly persuaded a high court judge to rule that Gore's film was full of errors and exaggerations. His work is testimony to his lifetime achievements.

What is also true is that we will not find people of his calibre to replace him. No young scientist today would dare to express the views that Bob did.

UK STILL SET TO GO OVER THE CLIMATE CLIFF

Here is Christopher Booker's latest article exposing the madness at the heart of the UK's energy policy. Sadly there is no end of this in sight as the Labour opposition would be just as mad, and in other areas they would be far worse.

JUDGE RULES "NECESSITY" IS NO DEFENCE FOR CLIMATE VANDALS

Read it here. At least judges in the USA seem to uphold the law, unlike those over here who bend over backwards to assist the green activists in their activities, such as here.

UK MOTORISTS FACE DEARER AND LESS EFFICIENT PETROL TO "FIGHT CLIMATE CHANGE"

That is the essence of the proposals in this article from the Telegraph. So this is what we have come to - making an inferior and yet more expensive fuel in order to "fight (non-existent) global warming". It is hard to imagine that governments could do such things, but it is sadly only too real in today's world.

GERMANS TO PUT 2 BILLION EUROS TO SUBSIDISE ELECTRIC VEHICLES

Here is the article explaining the massive attempt at getting the public to buy electric vehicles. It just shows how desperate the government is, but why should the public buy an inferior vehicle that has a limited range even with the subsidy?

FOSSIL FUELS ARE NOT SUBSIDISED

This article discusses the controversial suggestion made by climate alarmists that fossil fuels are somehow subsidised by governments and if this was not so then renewables would be cheaper than them. It is a complete nonsense.

AT LAST SOMEONE IS LOOKING AT THE REAL THREATS TO MANKIND

This article looks at the threat posed by large volcanic eruptions and sooner or later one will happen according to experts and I don't doubt they are right. When one does all this talk of climate change will disappear completely as we struggle for survival. I hope I never see it, but if it happens the world will change immediately and there is nothing we can do about it.

THE OCEAN ACIDIFICATION SCARE IS DEBUNKED

This piece rebuts the extreme alarmism that is being put out about the subject of so-called ocean acidification. The very small effect of dissolved CO2 on the pH of sea water is not nearly enough to make it acidic, which is why I write 'so-called' effect. When you read the article you will see why it is in fact a massive exaggeration.

MORE ON AUSTRALIAN SCHOOL CLIMATE INDOCTRINATION

Here is the astonishing level of propaganda being pushed into Australian schools. You would imagine that exposing this would cause a furore in the media and an inquiry into what is going on, but I do not believe this has happened. In a way that is even more shocking than the extent of the indoctrination itself.

WATCH OUT FOR FLYING WIND TURBINES

Here is a scary account of wind turbine failure all over the world. Next time you go past a wind farm look out just in case, especially if it's windy.  If it wasn't for the fear of CO2 emissions we would not need these things, and certainly not in the numbers in which they are being put up.

GREENLAND ICE LOSS - NOT A PROBLEM!

Here are two headlines about Greenland's ice:

Greenland has lost 9 trillion tons of ice in the past 115 years.

Greenland has lost just 0.3% of its ice over the past 115 years.

In fact these two statements are both compatible with one another, according to the best available data. The first one is ideal for scaring the public into believing in climate alarm. The second one is very reassuring for climate sceptics. (In fact it is doubtful if such accuracy is possible)

Read all about it here

THE IPCC STUFFED WITH THIRD WORLD STOOGES

This article explains the IPCC set up and how it is biased towards the large number of third world countries, all of which are hoping (expecting) to benefit from the hoped for large climate fund into which all the developed nations are expected to contribute. So what possible interest would all these place men have in declaring that CO2 induced global warming was exaggerated, or not a problem? None is the answer.

MET OFFICE IN PROPAGANDA ATTEMPT OVER RAINFALL FIGURES

Here is a complete rebuttal of the latest Met Office claim that December 2015 was the wettest on record. If you read the link you can see that it is simply not true. Not even if, like the Met Office you only start at 1910. Go back into the 19th century and there is even more extreme wet weather. Unfortunately the TV news people don't bother to check these things and simply repeat what the Met Office tell them. Most of the papers are just as bad and so these untrue assertions go unchallenged, except for the bloggers who do the research like Paul Homewood, of Not A Lot Of People Know That. (I wish his blog had a shorter title)

CORRUPTION AT THE UN?

Here is an interesting article on the various goings on at the United Nations, the body behind the IPCC and its attempts to control CO2 emissions and from that the climate. It is interested to see how it appears to be mired in corruption.

RAGING PROPAGANDA ON OCEAN ACIDIFICATION EXPOSED IN EMAILS

Here is the article showing the shameless way in which science is completely distorted. What is interesting is how the email correspondence between the authors and their scientific advisors reveals how they ignored advice that didn't suit their alarmist mission, so they went ahead and exaggerated anyway.

UK MP SPEAKS FOR COMMON SENSE ON GLOBAL WARMING

Here is a video clip from the UK House of Commons debate on the recent flooding in North England. Of course many MP's want to link this to 'climate change. The clip shows David TC Davis MP who has spoken out before for common sense on this issue. Of course he is one of a tiny minority who takes this position, but it is still an improvement on the past when only Peter Lilley and Philip Davis seemed to put their heads above the parapet. I look forward to 2016 when hopefully other MP's will join them.

THREE STORIES THE WARMISTS DON'T WANT TO SEE IN THE MEDIA

Here are the stories. Some of them have already been aired on this website, but it is worth looking at the article to remind ourselves.

ELECTRIC CARS - NO SIGN OF A BREAKTHROUGH

If the government are serious about reducing CO2 emissions they are soon going to have to get to grips with moving us on to electric cars. If this piece is anything to go by they will have an almighty battle to persuade us. I reckon they may think again when the time comes. 

IS THE NEW CLIMATE TREATY SIMPLY A FLOP, OR A WOLF IN SHEEP'S CLOTHING?

That is the discussion in this article where the argument for the latter is made. This particularly applies in the USA where the president is trying to prevent the Senate from giving its verdict on the treaty.

Here's Matt Ridley's view of it. As you will read he thinks it a flop.

PIERS CORBYN'S LETTER TO THE PRIME MINISTER

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31 December 2015

To The Prime Minister Rt Hon David Cameron MP chair of ‘Cobra’ (Cabinet Office Briefing Room)

and UK Floods Minister Rory Stewart MP

copies to The Leader of the Opposition Rt Hon Jeremy Corbyn MP

and The Shadow Minister of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Kerry McCarthy MP.

Dear Prime Minister,

WeatherAction offer of help in long range warning of further extreme weather (storms, floods and blizzards) in the UK this winter and advice on weather / climate changes over next 20 years

You may be aware that the end of year dangerous extreme storm (“Frank”) was predicted to the day 10 weeks ahead by WeatherAction’s solar-activity based forecasting technique along with simultaneous storms and blizzards including very cold blasts in USA  - See Download pdf: http://bit.ly/1Uheea5 and reportage on www.WeatherAction.com

The last storm of comparable extreme power to hit the UK, namely late October 2013, was also long-range predicted by WeatherAction’s solar-based technique (in that case 6 months ahead).

WeatherAction long range forecasts for the rest of the winter expect further extreme damaging storms, floods and cold blasts with blizzards in certain time periods all specified to a few days.  We would be happy to make these available with any updates to assist in preparedness.

Extreme weather prospects for the next 20 years

It is important to understand that all these - recent and over the last 7 years - extreme weather events in Britain & Ireland and home waters (1/600^th of the global area) and around the world confirm the solar-activity based origins (and predictability) of these extremes and negate completely the CO2 hypothesis – the predictions of which have failed comprehensively (see WANews15No28PiersCorbynTheClimateChangeAct7yearsOn-NewUnderstandings & the fight to save UKSteel ).

Apart from the failure of the CO2 theory in its ‘confident’ prediction of more and more blazing hot summers in the UK and the end-of-snow in the UK and other temperate regions the problem with the actual dangerous weather events of this and recent years is they are the wrong type of extremes for the CO2 hypothesis and totally confirm the solar-based theory both in terms of event types and associated solar-activity.

The extremes in the northern hemisphere come from huge wild North-South swings in the elongated Jet stream (which is generally in average position shifted further South) which make both very mild/warm weather at times and also corresponding extreme cold blasts – such as the very recent astounding ‘unprecedented’ blizzards and cold in Texas and New Mexico, the likes of which the BBC’s woefully biased reportage consistently understates.  This “wild-Jet-stream” is exactly as predicted by our solar-based (with lunar modulation) theory.  The CO2-based hypothesis on the other hand requires a north-shifted shorter generally benign jet stream (which being shorter cannot wave much) giving (eg in UK) ongoing hot summers and mild snow-free winters; without wild contrasts.

The prospects for the UK in the next 20 years under the successful solar-lunar understanding of climate is more very extreme events in a generally colder climate – as happened in the two previous famous periods of generally low solar activity (the Maunder minimum and the Dalton minimum).  The events will include unimaginable, by recent standards, storms, like The Tempest of 1703 which came in the later part of the Maunder Minimum and which we expect in future to be able to predict in useful detail many months and possibly years ahead.  The CO2 hypothesis, on the other hand, will depart more and more from reality – eg as the Graph I showed on BBC (Andrew Neil interview), see http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b06rjqh1/this-week-byelection-special  or visit www.WeatherAction.com  

Given the new scientific information the weather observations represent there should now be new discussion as provided for under The Climate Change Act Section 6 part 2 to consider appropriate changes to the ‘carbon taxing’ measure of the Act. The certainty (under solar-lunar understanding) of more weather extremes in the next two decades and the failure of the CO2 theory means that all anti-carbon measures, taxes and money-wasting schemes such as wind-farms should cease and instead more resources be diverted to emergency services and practical water and flood management safety schemes.

Yours in application of evidence-based science for the public good,

Piers Corbyn, ARCS (1^st class Physics), FRAS, FRMetS, MSc (astrophysics).

WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN BELIEF IN SANTA AND IN CLIMATE ALARMISM?

In my analogy I equate the developed nations with parents and the developing nations with children. In both cases the 'children' are told they have to be good and then they will receive something they want. In both cases the story is amazingly far-fetched. Santa visits every house on a flying sleigh pulled by reindeer, the nations leaders are told that they can create a better climate by reducing CO2 emissions. I would also suggest that many children over around 6 years old really do not believe in Santa, but they continue to claim they do in the hope that the presents will keep coming. I also suspect that many politicians in the developing world do not believe that reducing CO2 will make any difference to the climate, but they continue to claim publicly that they do because they want to receive a share of the money from the promised climate fund.

And what about the developed nations, you ask, what do they get out of it? For that matter what do parents get out of the Santa story? The answer is nothing really. It has simply become a ritual and most people follow it simply because everyone else does it. Can anyone think of a better explanation?

Happy New Year to everyone.

THE LONGEST RUNNING PANTOMIME IN TOWN

Christopher Booker gets us into the panto spirit by invoking his list of the climate pantomime villains and dames. See if you agree with him and join in with the boos and "oh no he isn't" etc. Booker's weekly column is the longest running thorn in the side of the warmist brigade and long may he continue to be so. At 78 years of age he still seems to have a lot of energy.