All Entries Tagged With: "Climate"
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 and more [...]
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 of the [...]
At Least – Leave Those Kids Alone
by Einar Du Rietz, Bonn
I feel old sometimes. I’m not, according to my doctor, but I’m at least not “Youth”, as defined by the United Nations to be between the age of 15 and 24 (for the first three years in there, you also have the privilege of being “child” at the same time).
Couldn’t care [...]
CFACT at Bonn climate talks
CFACT is reporting from the UN climate talks in Bonn, Germany. Our display addresses issues of alternative energy and juxtaposes wind turbines with the famed Moai, the carved heads of Easter Island, stating that civilization can’t run for long on superstition or subsidies.
On Saturday and Sunday CFACT met with scientists and policy experts credentialed as [...]
Climate: The Extremists Join the Debate at Last!
Lord Monckton debunks video point by point
CHRISTOPHER MONCKTON of BRENCHLEY
ONE of the numerous propaganda artifices deployed by the now-retreating climate-extremist movement has been the careful avoidance of any debate with anyone on the skeptical side of the case who happens to know anything about climate science or economics.
As the extremists lose the argument and [...]
Global Warming Out Debated
Oxford Union Chooses Economic Growth Over Climate Change
Debate Win for CFACT Advisor Lord Christopher Monckton
Last week the Oxford Union, one of the world’s premier debate societies, chose economic growth over climate change by a vote of 133-110. The vote by students at an elite U.K. university illustrates the continued shift of public support away [...]
And Now For the Good News
by Einar Du Rietz
How splendid in this often pessimist debate, to get the chance to present some good news!
According to the global health statistics from WHO, things are going in the right direction, in some cases remarkably well. Since 1990, infant mortality has decreased by 30 percent. Malnutrition is going down, access to drinking water has [...]
Mother Earth sells carbon indulgences in Chicago
ROGER HELMER, MEP
Rather to my surprise, I bumped into Mother Earth at the Heartland Climate Conference in Chicago (May 17th). There she was, large as life, in her green gown with a wreath of ivy in her hair (when I first saw the green gown I feared she might be a Warmist [...]
Climate Questions for Kerry & Lieberman
PAUL DRIESSEN
The new Kerry-Lieberman climate bill mandates a 17% reduction in US carbon dioxide emissions by 2020. It first targets power plants and refineries that provide reliable, affordable electricity and fuel for American homes, schools, hospitals, offices and factories – and then, in six years, further hobbles the manufacturing sector [...]
Proper Precautions
by Einar Du Rietz
“Assumption is the mother of all fuck-ups”, my former colleague, the environmental affairs director, liked to quote his favourite actor Steven Seagal as saying. It could be read as an argument for the precautionary principle of course, but it could also be interpreted as an argument for precaution against political action. There’s an [...]
Lord Monckton Testifies Before Congress
May 6, 2010
The Select Committee, in its letter inviting testimony for the present hearing, cites various scientific bodies as having concluded that
1. The global climate has warmed;
2. Human activities account for most of the warming since the mid-20th century;
3. Climate change is already causing a broad range of impacts in the [...]
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.
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A 2000-year global temperature reconstruction based on non-treering proxies (PDF)
(Energy & Environment, Volume 18, Numbers [...]
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 good luxuries” [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
