UK Coldest December for 120 years

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 [...]

2010 is the hottest year since...?

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 [...]

Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past

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 [...]

Julian Assange claiming he broke Climategate emails on Wikileaks

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 [...]

Another Dalton Minimum?

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 [...]

Sweden in coldest December in 100 years

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”

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Tuvalu is not sinking under the sea

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 [...]

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

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 [...]

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

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 [...]

Wikileaks and Climate Change

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 [...]

Steve Biddulph and his climate change predictions

After the win by the Liberal Party in the Victorian State Elections  last weekend, I remembered an article by Steve Biddulph in the Sydney Morning Herald, three years ago. In this article he was ” willing to stake my 30 years as a psychologist” on various doomsday predictions.

He was so wrong.

He stated that 2007 will [...]

Climategate, one year on

It was a year ago on the 20th November 2009 that the Climategate emails were released from from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia.

What a difference a year makes.

In November 2009 Bernard Keane at Crikey was still banging on about Climate Change Deniers and saying “denial is only one [...]

More end of the world from the ABC

On the World Today on ABC radio today (may 21st 2010) Shane McLeod interviewed Alarmist environmentalist Bill McKibben. Was there any serious questioning of McKibben of some of his outrageous claims? – Of course not – this is the ABC remember – back on the climate change bandwagon.

Bill McKibben says: “Everything frozen on Earth is [...]

More Tim Flannery Hyperbole

Professor Tim Flannery speaking on ABC Radio Darwin here, interviewed by a fawning ABC announcer, makes more way out comments about Climate Change.

He says that most Climate Change skeptics are “men over 65″. This is contracticted by this Galaxy Poll here that shows that two thirds of the population now do not believe that [...]

“The great moral challenge of our generation” Kevin Rudd

The Great Moral Challenge, but Kevin Rudd now thinks its a challenge that can be put off for a few years. Kevin Rudd who said we had to have the ETS (Emissions Trading Scheme) in place before Copenhagen December 2009, to set an example to the world. We would loose the [...]

Bureau of Meteorology says its warming - so it must be human caused climate change

In another incisive interview by Sarah Clarke on ABC radio nationals PM,  Greg Ayers from the Australia Bureau of Meteorology is interviewed about Climate Change.

Greg Ayers says  “Well, when we look back over the last 50 years or so…we see increasing temperatures, a trend to increasing temperatures from decade to decade.”

Of course 50 years is [...]

Years of the media all their way - now Climate Change believers wonder-what now?

A year ago you heard nothing from Climate Change skeptics on the ABC, or read anything about skeptics in The Age or the SMH. Climate Change was the new religion, and no criticism was allowed. However now a year later, the Climate Change believers wonder what has happened.

Here is a good example : How can [...]

Another Coal Export deal - hurrah! - but wait - its that deadly coal stuff?

Palmer, Bligh in $69b China coal deal

Lots of revenue for the Queensland State Government, 7000 jobs, a twenty year contract… all fantastic stuff, but this is COAL. The stuff of the devil that produces more CO2 per tonne than anything else…and everyone is celebrating?

40 million tonnes a year of thermal coal going to China power [...]

Omitted: The Bright Side of Global Warming

Global warming alarmist forget how much harder life would have been 200+ years ago with the temperatures during and just after the Little Ice Age. The world has been naturally warming since the Little Ice Age and thank goodness it has. An article from the Wall Street Journal on why warming has benefits here

Could global [...]

A great comment from The Punch

Charles Kelly says:

02:55pm | 04/02/10

Once again, if you climate change alarmists believe so strongly in this new religion of yours, why don’t you voluntarily contribute a major amount of your time and income to your “necessary” cause? If it was really that urgent and important, you’d all be jumping at the chance to do as [...]