Archive for April, 2010
Flight bans: A lesson about the Precautionary Principle
by Edgar L. Gärtner Just in time before the first business failures caused by several-day-long flight losses, the air traffic in Western and Central Europe slowly got off the ground after the complete flight ban. A good opportunity to take stock and to summarise what one can learn from the political crisis caused by a [...]
700 Papers Supporting Climate Realism
The list continues to grow. The consensus continues to collapse. The good folks at Popular Technology are now up to 700 scholarly papers challenging the theory of man-made global warming. Here they are. Here is CFACT’s coverage of the original 450. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A 2000-year global temperature reconstruction based on non-treering proxies (PDF) (Energy & Environment, [...]
Connie Hedegaard Riposte
E.U. Climate Commissioner Connie Hedegaard responds to CFACT CFACT’s response: Let’s not go back to the dark ages. CFACT has been participating in an energy debate sponsored by the National Journal. Commissioner Hedegaard wrote, “Craig Rucker claims that had it not been for Denmark’s oil in the North Sea we could not afford “such feel [...]
A Wonderful World With a Constructive Tomorrow
Louis Armstrong’s Optimism This Earth Day join us as we celebrate nature and renew our commitment to genuine conservation. Individual freedom is the way to a cleaner, greener world.
Italian Senate Calls for Realism on Climate
Reassessment and renegotiation Carlo Stagnaro of Istituto Bruno Leoni reports: The Italian Senate stands for climate realism. A motion passed on last Wednesday commits the Italian government to promote a sound discussion on climate policies with the European Union and the United Nations, with particular regard to the major changes that have occurred after the [...]
Do No Harm – And No Alarm
by Einar Du Rietz Unintended consequences are the curse and irony of politics. The recent study, ordered by the Swiss government, and published by the institute ITIS, on the possible electromagnetic radiation from low energy light bulbs, confirms this once again. The radiation levels turned to be so high, that the Swiss government found it [...]
CFACT Responds to Connie Hedegaard
Anyone who tells you that restricting prosperity and redistributing wealth will alter the climate is selling something. CRAIG RUCKER EU Commissioner for Climate Action Connie Hedegaard today posed the question, “can the U.S. afford not to have ambitious legislation that paves the way for a more energy-efficient future?” CFACT Executive Director Craig Rucker responded that [...]
I Didn’t Do It I Was Not Even There
by Einar Du Rietz On March 21, incidentally my birthday, a friend from Iceland called me and said she had organized some fireworks for me. What a pity she could not set off the second eruption one week ago. With all airline traffic closed down in most of Europe, as today, the Climate conference in Bonn would have been [...]
Telegraph – “Climate Change: Always Room for Doubt”
Another major daily breaks from climate change orthodoxy The Daily Telegraph editorializes today that CRU scientists got off too “lightly” in the review of their role in the Climategate scandal. Like Der Spiegel before it, the Telegraph is rediscovering that every debate has two sides. The voices of the climate realists are penetrating the climate [...]
Hangover Breakfast in Bonn After Copenhagen Fiasco
by Edgar L. Gärtner There were no significant steps taken toward a new global waming treaty at the April meeting in the Bonn Maritim Hotel of two ad hoc working groups of the UNFCCC parties. The official purpose of the conference was for the industrialized nations to negotiate additional obligations on the carbon dioxide reductions [...]
Confidential U.S. Climate Strategy Leaked in Bonn
Reveals radical global warming treaty push, efforts to “bypass” and spin media Guardian environment editor John Vidal obtained a confidential U.S. climate strategy document from a “hotel computer” at the Bonn climate talks. Vidal did not reveal to CFACT’s “Mission Bonn” team what was afoot, but came to the CFACT display obviously quite excited and [...]
An Offer You Can Not Possibly Reject
by Einar Du Rietz, Bonn Last day of the climate conference in Bonn, a most interesting city that we unfortunately never had the time to study more closely, due to the – as usual – busy program. Bonn, the city of Beethoven and a symbol both for peaceful German recovery after WWII and the European [...]
Nothing More than Broken Glass
by Einar Du Rietz, Bonn It certainly is more solemn here, than in Copenhagen, as most people as this conference persist in pointing out. I’m not complaining, and neither is the local community which this time seems to be spared from closed off traffic and broken glass. The latter is instead provided by some of [...]
CFACT – Mission Bonn
Bonn, Germany They are at it again, as Lord Monckton puts it. Well, so is CFACT. Strategically positioned in the middle of the action at the new UNFCCC climate talks in Bonn. It certainly is more quiet than in Copenhagen. Officially, it’s a preparatory, informal meeting, before Mexico. Unofficially, it’s a matter of gathering strength [...]
