Archive for July, 2010
BASIC Bull
by Einar Du Rietz The preparatory climate talks of BASIC, the coalition of Brazil, South Africa, India and China, just ended in Rio. The UNFCCC has the courtesy to link to some of the reports of the apparent fiasco. Reuters here and Xinhua. As was apparent at the latest Bonn meeting, developing countries are getting more [...]
Chill Out
by Einar Du Rietz In Europe, the record breaking cold winter (irritatingly, or amusingly coinciding with the Copenhagen meeting) has now been followed by a heat wave. As the alarmists love to point out, climate is not the same thing as weather. How true. Apart from causing dizziness however, real life – away from the AC [...]
Lord Monckton Responds to Prof. Abraham
Many readers of this site have been following the controversy caused when Prof. John Abraham of the University of St. Thomas posted a lengthy video critique of a speech delivered by CFACT Advisor, Lord Christopher Monckton last October in St. Paul Minnesota. Here is Lord Monckton’s freshly issued, detailed written response to Prof. Abraham in [...]
The Hockey Season is Over
by Einar Du Rietz …and the famous/infamous hockey stick got stowed away long before the latest world championship even started. Then occasionally picked out again. The IPCC took out the hockey stick graph from two of their last reports. Somehow, it managed to creep back into the report submitted before Copenhagen, apparently picked up by one [...]
Cancel Cancun
by Einar Du Rietz …or maybe don’t. As fun as you can have, in the company of all sorts of people, there is something depressing over these climate conferences. Delegates looking serious while spending other people’s money on down-right dangerous schemes, young people, who ought to be either in school, or out partying, or protesting [...]
