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Australia goes it alone with a Carbon Tax

admin — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 00:19:00 +0000

The Copenhagen Climate Change talks in 2010 failed to produce a binding Climate Change agreement. Durban in 2011 fails as well. The result in Durban was not a binding agreement to reduce carbon dioxide output, it was an agreement to negotiate an agreement sometime before 2015, and that hypothetical agreement will cut emissions starting in 2020 – maybe.

The Kyoto agreement emission requirements end on December 31st 2012.

So while Australia goes forward punishing its people and businesses with a Carbon Tax the Canadian Government has announced it is withdrawing from the Kyoto agreement.

The US Congress shows no sign of passing any carbon tax, the Canadians are antagonistic to any carbon tax, the EUs carbon trading scheme is barely working with the Carbon price at a new low.

However that’s all OK, because Australia is going to lead the world!

European Carbon Price collapses

Greenland has been warmer in the past

admin — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 04:27:48 +0000

Greenland has been warmer that currently several times in the last 8000 years. That is Greenland has been warmer than today, with lower levels of Carbon Dioxide levels that today. Two studies have been released over the past few weeks that show that there was less Artic Sea Ice than today, and higher temperatures.

The University of Copenhagen has a study which examined driftwood deposits over the last ten thousand years, and it showed that “For several thousand years, there was much less sea ice in the Arctic Ocean – probably less than half of current amounts.” . During a period between 8000 and 5000 years ago called the Holocene Climate Optimum there was half the level of sea ice than there is today. Yet the world did not tip into “runaway climate change” as the doom-sayers predict we will today, with a higher level of ice cover.

Another peer reviewed paper published by Takuro Kobashi and others shows that Greenland surface temperatures where higher than today several times over the last 4000 years. Of course you can be sure that none of these studies will be mentioned on the ABC or published in the Fairfax media.

Greenland temperatures over the last 4000 years

“we haven’t had snowfall like this in more than 140 years”

admin — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 10:05:40 +0000

New York City has its earliest snowfall in 140 years. 2 million people are without power in the North Eastern United States.

If this had been a long heat-wave the advocates of the AGW religion would be telling us all how this was all caused by global warming. However when its the first significant snowfall in October since 1879, they all stay pretty quiet.

The earliest snow in 140 years in Central Park New York City

England has it coldest summer in 18 years

admin — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 22:40:32 +0000

The carbon dioxide levels go up every year. The IPCC (International Panel on Climate Change) forecasts show that the world should be warming more and more, yet observation does not match those computer models.

England has had its coldest summer since 1993, with an average temperature of 15C. The normal average is 17C. This is not just the odd cold day, this is a entire season. Last December was the coldest December in 120 years in the UK.

Is it just possible that the climate scientists have their computer models wrong? The latest CLOUD (Cosmics Leaving Outdoor Droplets) experiments at CERN show what some climate change sceptics have been saying for years, that Cosmic Rays effect cloud formation. This means that the existing computer models for cloud formation are wrong, and that the sun can have a bigger input on the earth’s atmosphere than previously thought.

However our Prime Minister Julia Gillard says the science is settled.

Just maybe this object 140 million kilometres away, may have more influence of the climate than man made carbon dioxide

Sea level rise slowing

admin — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 01:26:16 +0000

You will not find the head of the Climate Commission Professor Tim Flannery mentioning this, because he prefers scaremongering high sea levels that are above the IPCC estimates. You will not hear Malcolm Turnbull mentioning this as he wants to respect the science and ignore “less reliable” scientists that do not fit in with his carefully self-selected science. You will not hear Prime Minister Julia Gllard mentioning this, because for her the science is settled.

However a recent paper shows that Australian sea-level rise has been slowing between 1940-2000. The difference with this research is that it uses real tide-gauges rather than computer models predicting sea level increases. Another study had previously shown that “Extending the sea level record back over the entire century suggests that the high variability in the rates of sea level change observed over the past 20 years were not particularly unusual”.

How will the doom-sayers cope?

This has all happened before

The end of sunspots?

admin — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 13:17:23 +0000

While the Gillard Government and the multiparty committee on Climate Change plot to tax Australians with a Carbon Tax, the Sun is doing something completely different. The Federal Government and its trained Climate Change Commission like to deny any link between the suns activity and global temperatures. However the Maunder Minimum of low sunspot numbers between 1645 and 1715 coincided with the coldest part of the Little Ice Age. This included the very cold winter of 1708-09 when hundreds of thousands of people died from famine and cold.

Three papers were released this week at the American Astronomical Society meeting in New Mexico USA. “The solar cycle may be going into a hiatus,” Frank Hill, associate director of the National Solar Observatory’s Solar Synoptic Network, he also said “If we are right, this could be the last solar maximum we’ll see for a few decades, that would affect everything from space exploration to Earth’s climate.”

The Australian Federal Governments Climate Change Commission says all the science is settled. Really? When the solar physicists have no idea what these changes mean for the sun?

The Earth would be a frozen ball of ice without the sun.

Will we end up getting Climate Change refugees from a frozen Tasmania heading north to warmer climes?

Maunder Minimum, frozen river Thames 1683

Climate Change Commission increases the scare-mongering

admin — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 01:16:00 +0000

The Climate Commission headed by Professor Tim Flannery is not making much headway with its support of its employers carbon tax, the Federal Government Labor/Green alliance. So today Tim Flannery is spruiking the Department of Climate Change report Climate Change Risks to Australia’s Coasts. It made the South Australian news as Tim Flannery and his Climate Commission are visiting the incredibility unpopular Premier Mike Rann, who is working hard to make sure South Australians pay even more for electricity.

The report is claiming 43,000 houses in South Australia will be under water before the end of the century.

The problem is the Australian public is not listening. So what to do? Lets fall back on what we have been doing for the last 20 years, lets scare-monger. Lets make the future even more horrible. Lets find the worst possible scenario and build on that. Its got to scare people into seeing sense, doesn’t it?.

Here is are example from the report on South Australia. The upper end of the IPCC projection for sea level change for 2100 is 79 cms. However it could be as low as 20cms. However that’s not very scary is it? How can we improve on that?

Well you make it even higher and project it up to 1.1 metres, and then do your damage assessment on that projection way past the highest sea level IPCC projection.

Now that’s sounds much scarier doesn’t it?

Its just the continuation of the last 20years. If people don’t think the way we want them to, lets just keep inventing even scarier scenarios….

Will the Adelaide CBD look like this projection of New York in 100 years?

Climate Commission predicts the end of the world

admin — Mon, 23 May 2011 10:32:58 +0000

The “independent” Climate Commission has released its first report. The “independent” Climate Commission was appointed by an Australian Federal Labor/Green alliance government that wants to introduce a carbon tax. So the Federal Government appointed members to the Climate Commission that would endorse the Labor/Green alliance views. And surprise, surprise, it has produced a report that agrees with the Australian Government!

This is another example of the Federal Government paying for advice that will agree with its position. Firstly we have Economist Professor Ross Ganault who surveys the scientific literature he agrees with and makes pronouncements (paid for by the government) supporting the governments view. Now we have the Climate Commission who cherry picks the scientific papers to get a result that will be acceptable to their paymasters the Federal Government.

Of course, now that the Climate Commission has released its report, there is now no further need for debate. In fact not only is there no further need for debate, there should be no more debate. Professor Wil Steffan of the Climate Commission says “I don’t think we have the luxury anymore of climate denialism. We need to get beyond this fruitless phoney debate in the media,” . The head of the Climate Commission serial doom-sayer Tim Flannery , agrees, he says “You get all sorts of people posing as having some expertise in climate science, whether they be taxi drivers speaking to me or people in the media who don’t have the expertise.” Tim Flannery of course does not have the expertise, as he has a doctorate in Palaeontology. Perhaps he should be listening harder to the taxi drivers.

Climate Commissioners meet the Boss

Perisher Ski Resort to open early

admin — Fri, 20 May 2011 04:33:30 +0000

Well what a difference nearly ten years make. In 2002 the CSIRO was predicting that Global Warming would reduce the snow cover on Australian ski resorts. They said “that scientific modelling suggests a very real threat exists to snowfields in both New South Wales and Victoria”

Nine years later, and Perisher Ski Resort opens three weeks early because of good snow falls. A spokesman said “It’s the earliest that I know of skiing in Australia. It is very exciting.”

So what happened to Climate Change?

Perisher Ski Resort

What is a Warmenist?

admin — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 05:00:28 +0000

People who believe completely in the AGW (anthropomorphic Global Warming) view of the world have been in recent time referred to as “warmists”. While the anti AGW proponents are referred to as Climate Change Skeptics, or Climate Change deniers. There is a new term for warmists, that is “Warmenist”.

A great description from Urban Dictionary:

Gullible, scientificially illiterate, unthinking acolyte and zombie-fied propagandist of the Religion of Anthropogenic Global Warming. One who takes direct orders from High Priest King of Idiocy, Albert J. Gore. One who puts the “mental” in environmentalism. Historical inheritors of those who believed that King Canute could hold back the tides and that the wolf would eat the moon unless their first-born daughter’s virginity was sacrificed to the local shaman.

I have always thought that for a lot of warmist, Global Warming is a religion. They believe, and do not read or accept any evidence to the contrary.

Failed presidential candidate Al Gore - High Priest of Global Warming

Tim Flannery appointed Climate Commissioner

admin — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 04:55:50 +0000

Yet another climate change committee

The Federal Labor/Green alliance government, not content with wasting the taxpayers money on the Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency, is going to waste another $5.6 million dollars on a Climate Commission headed by Tim Flannery. This Commission according to Minister Greg Combet “It will provide expert advice on climate change science and impacts” . Well read on to see some of Tim Flannery’s previous “expert advice on climate change”:

That is Tim Flannery with no qualifications in Climate Science, he has a doctorate in Palaeontology.

This is the Tim Flannery that said in 2005 that droughts could leave Sydneys Dams dry in just two years.

The Tim Flannery that said that most climate skeptics were men over 65.

The Professor Tim Flannery that said in 2008 “The water problem is so severe for Adelaide that it may run out of water by early 2009.” (Adelaide’s Dams are almost full)

The Tim Flannery who said in 2007 that “Sydney and Brisbane, water supplies are so low they need desalinated water urgently, possibly in as little as 18 months”. No desal plant is being used anywhere, because all the three cities have too much water in their Dams.

The Tim Flannery who said in 2004 that “I think there is a fair chance Perth will be the 21st century’s first ghost metropolis” . Ten years into the 21st Century, Perth is still there.

The Tim Flannery who said in 2008 (three years ago) that “in five years there’ll be no Arctic ice cap“. Well the Arctic Icecap is still there, but Tim Flannery says there is only two years left.

Tim Flannery who said in 2007 ” I think it’s too late for debate now”, and have no doubt that Tim Flannery wants a Carbon Tax, he said in 2007 “Carbon tax is the way forward” , so much for the ‘independence’. Tim Flannery is just a propagandist for the Labor Government.

Its an indication of how much this Labor Government is out of touch with the people, that they somehow think the appointment of a serial alarmist and exaggerator will be a PR positive.

UPDATE: Tim Flannery was interviewed the next day (11/2/11) on 891 Adelaide by Ian Henschke. Three times Ian Henschke asked him “are you a climate scientist”, and three times Tim Flannery squirmed and evaded the question. Tim Flannery gets $180,000 per year for a part time job, and he is not even a climate scientist.

The "Independent" Climate Commission

Ross Garnaut says there will be more Cyclones

admin — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 12:05:08 +0000

Economist Professor Ross Ganault says there will be more extreme weather events including more cyclones, and that’s why we need a carbon tax. He bases his claims on more extreme storms in the North Atlantic.

There is only one problem with this claim, there are less Hurricanes in the North Atlantic, especially over the last two years. There is even less energy in the Cyclones worldwide. The Accumulated Cyclone Energy (ACE) over the last few years has been going down. North Atlantic Hurricane energy is down as well.

Climate Change and Cyclone Yasi

admin — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 06:32:32 +0000

The Greens are at it already. Cyclone Yasi has not even reached the coast, and Christine Milne Australian Senator for the Greens is claiming it is a “tragedy of climate change”.

There have been 207 cyclones since 1858 along the East Coast of Australia since 1858. Were they all caused by Climate Change?

There are an average of 4.7 cyclones per year that affect Queensland. Cyclone Yasi is number 3. Seems well within the average so far.

And what about all those cyclones that were so disastrous more than 100 years ago? Were they caused by Climate Change as well?

On the 4 March 1899 a cyclone hit Bathurst Bay, north of Cooktown causing 307 deaths. On 5th March 1887 a cyclone causing a tidal surge struck Burketown wiping out nearly all the town. The 1918 Mackay cyclone which had 1411mm of rain in 3 days, and a storm surge of 2.36 metres. Cyclone Willis damaging Cairns in 1927.

There have been so many cyclones in Queensland over the last 150 years, yet it seems only Cyclone Yasi was caused by Climate Change.

Cyclones that have passed near Cairns since 1906

Gillard cancels Climate Change programs

admin — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 03:12:55 +0000

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has dropped several schemes that are a response to Climate Change, to save money for the Queensland Flood reconstruction. Its good riddance to most of these schemes. However the Labor/Green alliance has promised the upcoming carbon tax will be used to fight climate change, by making every Australian pay more tax.

Canceled or reduced schemes:

Cash for Clunkers – canceled.

Green Car Innovation Scheme – a scheme to subsidise overseas companies to build cars that nobody wants.

Carbon Capture and Storage Flagships – reduced

Solar Flagships – another scheme to subsidise the most expensive form of power production – dramatically reduced

Green Start Program – not proceeding with round 2

Solar Homes and Communities plan – another wasteful subsidy for expensive power production – phased out

Global Carbon Capture and Storage Institute – reduced funding for another body wasting taxpayer money.

Unfortunately the Australian Government Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency has not been cut, and costs us $300+ million per year to pay federal public servants to do nothing but produce propaganda.

State of the Union 2011 no mention of Climate Change

admin — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 09:10:59 +0000

President Barack Obama’s 2011 State of the Union address makes no mention of Climate Change. No mention of a Cap and Trade scheme, or a Carbon Tax. No mention of Global Warming.

So the leader of the richest and most powerful nation in the world makes no commitment on Climate Change. Meanwhile on the other side of the planet, the Australian Federal Government run by a Labor/Green alliance will soon be implementing a Carbon Tax, to penalise our citizens, to force them to pay for more energy.

How much of the worlds CO2 does Australia emit – 1.28%

How much of the worlds CO2 does the USA emit – 19.91%

Australia produces 6% of the CO2 produced by the USA, yet we are going to suffer a carbon tax. Our people, our businesses, our farmers, will all find it harder to complete against the USA, because we will soon be paying a Carbon Tax, while no person, business or farmer will pay a Carbon Tax in the USA.

And how much impact on the worlds production of CO2 will the implementation of a Carbon Tax in Australia cause?

Zilch.

China and the USA will emit the extra CO2 we save within a few months.

Burning Coal caused the Brisbane Floods says Bob Brown

admin — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 09:38:22 +0000

Greens Senator Bob Brown says that the floods in Brisbane were caused by burning coal. He said in Hobart on Sunday 16th January 2011 “It’s the single biggest cause – burning coal – for climate change and it must take its major share of responsibility for the weather events we are seeing unfolding now”

Well, the Greens have a member in the House of Representatives, and in six months they will have the balance of power in the Australian Senate. Why don’t they show the courage of their convictions. Why don’t they put up a private members bill to Ban the Mining and Export of Coal in Australia.

Greens Senator Bob Brown said further ” There’s very little doubt that the burning of fossil fuels is responsible for the hottest oceans we’ve ever seen off Australia, which in turn the scientists are saying very clearly is responsible for the quite extraordinary and harrowing floods that we’ve seen. ”

So Greens Senator Bob Brown, Ban Coal Mining. If it is such terrible stuff, then ban its use in Australia, and don’t allow those people overseas to use Australian Coal either. Lets sack the 137,000 people employed in the coal industry and shift them over to those imaginary Green Jobs . As an added benefit we will then know that Australia will never again have any more floods (or droughts).

The new Green Jobs are in China

admin — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 22:03:10 +0000

The Greens (the party) and other Climate alarmists will tell you that investment in renewables will result in tens of thousands of new “Green Jobs”. What they don’t tell you is that most of these “Green Jobs” are in China.

News of another Solar panel manufacturer moving to China from the USA. Australia has no Solar Panel manufacturers (or wind turbine factories). We have a government subsidised solar panel installation industry, that could not survive with out those government subsidies.

So we make our “old economy” industries uncompetitive by wacking a carbon tax on them, and the “new economy” jobs are in China.

Sounds a great future.

New economy jobs in China

Climate Change and the Brisbane Flood

admin — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 11:12:20 +0000

There are already people claiming that the Brisbane Floods are the result of Climate Change. Australian Climate change committee member Professor Will Steffen has stated that there was no direct link between climate change and the Queensland floods. However he says that “As the climate warms, there is more water vapour in the atmosphere,” and “This means that there is a probability that there will more intense rainfall events around the world.” As well Professor Neville Nicholls, an Australian Research Council Professorial Fellow at Monash University “You’d have to be a brave person to say it [climate change] is not having some sort of effect”.

So how do these scientist explain that the worst floods in Brisbane’s history occurred in 1893. Brisbane has the longest complete record for floods. The Brisbane Flood of 2011 is nowhere near as high as the the floods of the 1890s or the 1840′s. So how did we manage to have more rain in the 1840s and 1890s when there was no Global Warming, and no Climate Change? When CO2 levels were much lower than they are today?

UPDATE:

Neal Ashkanasy, a water resources engineer, says that he believes that the Wivenhoe Dam “kept 1.5m off the top of the 2011 flood”. That would make the flood about 6 metres, still well below the 1893 flood event. He also says “When John Oxley discovered Brisbane 180 years ago, the local Aboriginal people were very agitated about flooding, and they showed him high-water marks that would have been 12m.”.

A 12 metre flood approximately 200 years ago. 200 years of CO2 and we can only make 6 metres now. Yet somehow the flood of January 2011 was caused by coal-mining and climate change, yet a flood double the size 200 years ago was caused by…..?

Associate Professor of Environmental Engineering Stewart Franks talks on Radio National Counterpoint program on why it is impossible to link Climate Change with floods, and how poor climate models are – its here.

Brisbane Flood 1893

Don’t call it Carbon Dioxide call it pollution

admin — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 11:23:28 +0000

The Climate Change religion is struggling in its battle to convince the public about the so called dangers of CO2. There is a decreasing trend in coverage in the media of climate change issues. Less and less of the Australian public believe in man made climate change, and even less think we should do something about it. So what to do? Climate Change needs an advertising makeover. Lets call Carbon Dioxide “Pollution”.

They “have found that ’pollution’ resonates much stronger than ‘climate change’ with the public”. So its easy. Don’t get complicated by trying to argue your case. Make it confusing by calling a coal-fired power station a source of pollution. That way the public will think that the coal-fired power station is polluting the world with some nasty substance, rather than just emitting the stuff everyone of us breathes out, ever minute of every day – carbon dioxide.

Lets not mention that other than humans, every animal and plant also emits this “pollution”.

2010 was the third wettest year on record in Australia

admin — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 12:33:11 +0000

The Bureau of Meteorology has announced that 2010 was the 3rd wettest year on record (since 1900) . As well it was Australia’s coolest year since 2001. It was not too many years ago (2007) that the Bureau of Meteorology was telling us that Global Warming meant “climate projections that foreshadow general drying across southern Australia”.

It was also not long ago that the adherents to the Climate Change religion were predicting “long-term climate change” in Australia. Tim Flannery said in 2005 “ongoing drought could leave Sydney’s dams dry in just two years”. Sydney’s dams are now at their highest levels for six years.

South Australian Premier Mike Rann said in 2006 that we were in a 1 in a 1000 year drought, and after spending $1.83 billion dollars on a desal plant, Mike Rann is now looking to moth-ball the desal plant because Adelaide dams are full, and Adelaide’s rainfall in 2010 was 50 mm above average.

So does Climate Change cause more droughts or more rain?

UK Coldest December for 120 years

admin — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 21:36:59 +0000

December 2010 was in the United Kingdom the coldest December since 1890. The average temperature (1961-1990) in the UK in December is 4.7C, while this December was an average of -0.8C, 5C lower than average. There were ten nights when the temperature dropped below -18C somewhere in the UK.

So the usual suspects who are first to trott out any hot weather as a sign of Global warming, now are rushing to print with complicated theories to show why this record cold weather in the northern hemisphere is also Global Waming. It doesn’t matter what the weather is. Hot, Cold, Wet, Dry, Drought or Flood, its all climate change to the climate change religion.

2010 is the hottest year since…?

admin — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 23:55:51 +0000

1500BC, or maybe 5100BC? The CO2 levels 7000 years ago were a lot less than today. The point is that the temperature has been changing on earth for millions of years, and the real question is, is the current temperature increase within normal bounds or an outlier? This is the crux of the Climate Change debate. Take Greenland ice core data. These estimate the temperature based on the isotopes of oxygen found in the tiny bubbles of air trapped in the ice. Its a proxy, an estimate for past temperatures. If the ice core data is right then the warming of the part 100 years is just part of the normal climatic movement. We had the Medieval Warm period, followed by the Little Ice Age, that now we are warming up to get back to temperatures that have occurred in the past.

All the discussion in the media with temperature graphs and comparisons focuses on the last 60-100 years. If it was as warm, or even just close to as warm 2000 years ago during the Roman Warm Period with no increased CO2 levels, then how did that happen? If the British were harvesting grapes in the Medieval Warm period, with no extra CO2 levels, then how did the temperature increase then? If 2010 is the hottest year in the last hundred years, or the last ten years, does it really matter if it was even warmer 2000 years ago?

Greenland Ice Core temperature

Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past

admin — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 21:30:56 +0000

The predictions from ten years ago about UK winters from The Independent – March 2001:

“Sledges, snowmen, snowballs and the excitement of waking to find that the stuff has settled outside are all a rapidly diminishing part of Britain’s culture, as warmer winters – which scientists are attributing to global climate change – produce not only fewer white Christmases, but fewer white Januaries and Februaries.”

The situation ten years later. Ten more years of Global Warming. Ten more years of CO2 injected into the atmosphere. Ten years closer to catastrophic climate change . From the same newspaper The Independent December 2 2010:

“Britain was warned to brace for further heavy snow, travel chaos, closed schools and widespread disruption as forecasters said sub-zero temperatures would continue across most of the country.”

Snow in the UK December 2010

Julian Assange claiming he broke Climategate emails on Wikileaks

admin — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 12:23:40 +0000

Julian Assange, it seems has been claiming for a while that it was he and Wikileaks that released the Climategate emails. He made claims on May 17th 2010 on Phillip Adam’s show Late Night Live on ABC Radio National where he said “we were responsible for the climategate emails, um although it appears that our sort of right wing sympathisers in the United States have forgotten all that..”. Julian Assange sounds almost apologetic on this video, but still claims that Wikileaks “released” the files.

However many people disagree. No one has ever admitted to releasing the files. In fact some have even suggested it was an inside job. Julian Assange timelines don’t seem to agree. Steve McIntyre on Climateaudit.org says that people were downloading the files from the Russian server two days before the Climategate emails were every mentioned on Wikileaks. Steve McIntyre has the timeline here.

I am not sure what Julian Assange is trying to do. I think people have assumed that he is saying he leaked the Climategate emails to bolster his recent popularity. However he has been making this claim for many months, even when he was nowhere near as famous as he is now. He used the word “responsible” with Phillip Adams, which is a lot more that just saying he put files that were already in the public domain up on Wikileaks.

Julian Assange

Another Dalton Minimum?

admin — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 11:11:48 +0000

Solar activity drops again with the sun without sunspots for the first time in 70 days.

SOHO image December 20 2010 with no sunspots

We are just part-way into Solar Cycle 24, which has been much lower than predicted. The Dalton Minimum was a period of low sunspot activity from 1790 to 1830. At the same time temperatures dropped worldwide. There was no decrease in CO2 levels at the time, so how do the Climate Change computer models explain this drop in temperature? The computer models cannot, because sunspot numbers are not meant to have any affect on the temperature of the earth.

The weakness of Solar Cycle 24 is starting to be similar to Solar Cycle 5, which was the start of the Dalton Minimum. If you look at the sunspot numbers graph below you can see the last time the sunspot numbers were low was in the 1970′s. In the 1970′s Australia was cooler, and as just as one example, it was the last time Lake Eyre filled completely, allowing boats to sail all over the lake.

Sunspot numbers

Sweden in coldest December in 100 years

admin — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 00:15:23 +0000

That would be caused by Global warming wouldn’t it?

“There were a number of days in a row with below-freezing temperatures, so called ice days. And that we have that before Lucia (December 13th) hasn’t happened in more than 100 years”

Tuvalu is not sinking under the sea

admin — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 22:08:40 +0000

The poster boy of the Climate Change religion is the pacific Island of Tuvalu. To quote UN Climate official Christiana Figueres speaking at the Cancun 2010 United Nations Climate Change Conference who said: “Tuvalu, The Maldives, Kiribati, Vanuatu are looking for ways of evacuating their entire populations because of salt water intrusion and sea level rise; their fate is a wake-up call to all of us.”

Sounds bad. However what do the facts say about the sea level rise on Tuvalu?.

It is very hard to measure sea level rise, because you have to discount for the land possibly sinking, as well as atmospheric and storm influences. Flinders University National Tidal centre has been measuring Pacific Island sea levels for some years, and you can read their report here. Paraphrasing from their report, they have only limited data for Tuvalu, but that limited data shows a 4.7 mm rise per year for Tuvalu. However when you gather longer term trends over the whole Pacific that trend drops down to only 1.3 mm of sea rise per year.

1.3 mm per year. Over 100 years if the trend continues, and who knows if it will, the total rise in sea level at Tuvalu will be 13 cms. I am sure Tuvalu will cope.

Tuvalu Tide Gauge anomalies - from Flinders Univerity National Tidal Centre

Tuvalu Tide Gauge from Flinders University National Tidal Centre

If you don’t believe in Climate Change, we will force you to believe.

admin — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 10:15:54 +0000

The Climate Change alarmists are getting frustrated with the Australian population, and its growing climate change skepticism. If individuals or countries do not toe the Climate Change Religion line, then its time to use force.

That failed Greens candidate in the Higgins by-election Clive Hamilton, says its time for “the suspension of democratic processes”, and Dan Cass says if a country will not bring its carbon emissions down to zero then we need to “enforce climate security through trade sanctions or ultimately force itself”.

Its the Climate Change Religion. Show your support for the orthodox view, or we will force you to think the way we want you to think. Heretics must be purged.

The Spanish Inquisition would approve.

The Seal of the Tribunal of the Holy Office of the Inquisition in Spain - the spanish inquisition

Most Australians do not believe in Climate Change being man-made

admin — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 05:51:45 +0000

The latest survey from Essential Media shows that the majority of Australians do not believe that Climate Change is caused by mankind.

More interestingly a bare majority of Labor voters (53%) believe that “Climate change is happening and is caused by human activity”. This will be interesting when Prime Minister Julia Gillard brings in a Carbon Tax that 47% of her supporters do not believe in. And the trend is going the wrong way for Julia Gillard and the Labor/Green alliance. One year ago 53% of people though Global warming was man-made, and a year later its only 45%.

Liberal opposition leader Tony Abbott should stick with his climate skeptic line, where only 32% of Liberal Voters believe in man-made Climate Change. Tony Abbott will gain climate skeptics from Labor Party supporters.

David Marr on insiders just last Sunday stated that the majority of Australians wanted action on Climate Change. How can that be? When the majority of Australians do not even believe that Climate Change is caused by humans?

The Australian commentariat keeps trying to tell the Australian people what they should believe, and the Australian public just thinks for itself.

Update:

Just a few hours later the Australian comes out with Newspoll, and another Climate Change survey result. But what strange questions. They ask “Do you personally believe or not that climate change is occurring?”. Its been warming since the Little Ice age, so what does that question mean?. Then of the people that answer yes, they ask is it “Entirely” or “Partly” cause by human activity. 70% of people answer “partly”. Only 24% say “Entirely”, and that has dropped from 32% a year ago, so the true Climate Change believers are still trending down.

So what does “Partly” mean?. You might believe, as many people do, that there is some slight warming, and that warming has been going on for hundreds of years.As well you might believe that CO2 has some very small effect on that warming. In that example, according to Newspoll, you are a Climate Change believer, when really you are no such thing.

The more telling survey result is do you support a carbon tax “that would help slow global warming”. In this result only 47% are in favour, which is very close to the Essential Media poll result above that have 45% believing in human caused climate change. So around 30% of the “Partly” believe that humans influence climate change, but do not believe its enough to warrant doing anything about it. Its all trending the wrong way for Julia Gillards Labor/Green alliance.

Wikileaks and Climate Change

admin — Sat, 04 Dec 2010 21:40:01 +0000

Even though proponents of Climate Change will tell you its all pure science and no politics, it really is nearly all politics and hardly any science. The wikileaks cable talking about the Saudi-Arabian minister:

“Is Al-Naimi the Problem?
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9. (S) Minister Al-Naimi has consistently been rational and practical in talking with western delegations about climate change, noting that Saudi Arabia had to address its development concerns, but conceding that the world needs to work together to address climate change. These reassuring statements stand in sharp contrast to Al-Sabban’s public comments, such as questioning the science behind climate change just before Copenhagen, and his often obstructionist behavior, as reported by a number of Embassies in Riyadh, during working-level negotiations. Senior Ministry of Petroleum officials have reassured us after each of Al-Sabban’s public outbursts over the last six months that he has been “tamed” and brought back onto the reservation. The frequency and number of times that Al-Sabban steps out of line, and the apparent lack of any sanction, raises questions about the real Saudi position on climate change.”

It just shows that Climate Change is all about towing the line, believing the Climate Change religion, and not questioning anything.