GLOBAL WARMING CHORUS DISCORD RISING

Co-founder of Greenpeace Patrick Moore is among an expanding multitude with no confidence in alarmist climate predictions notes Larry Bell at the Forbes website.

“There are many thousands of scientists’ who reject man-made global warming fears…It’s all based on computer models and predictions. We do not actually have a crystal ball, it is a mythical object.” When asked who is responsible for promoting unwarranted fear and what their motives are, he said: “A powerful convergence of interests. Scientists seeking grant money, media seeking headlines, universities seeking huge grants from major institutions, foundations, environmental groups, politicians wanting to make it look like they are saving future generations. And all of these people have converged on this issue.”

THE ULTIMATE COMPLIANCE COSTS FOR THE ETS

Retired geologist and engineer, Peter Lang wrote to Climate Change Minister Combet seeking some answers and asked him:

"Where can I find an estimate of what the compliance cost of the ETS will be when fully implemented to the standard that will eventually be required? (I have not been able to find such an estimate, including on the Treasury, DRET or DCCEE web sites)."

I then went on to elaborate that my question was about the total compliance cost for an ETS when it is implemented to the standard that will eventually be required to support trade in virtually unmeasurable commodities (emissions of CO2 and other gasses).

What we would like to know is if anybody in the department knows the cost.  If not, when will they know?

MORE DATA FIDDLING?

Ed Thurstan posts at the Watts Up With That website on some Australian data.

"In March 2012 the Hadley Climate Research Unit released the land temperature dataset CRUTEM4, along with the station data from which it was constructed. A cursory inspection of the new dataset revealed some irregularities in Australian data. In particular, there were puzzling differences between CRUTEM3 and CRUTEM4 data."

ARCTIC SEA ICE REACHES NEAR-AVERAGE EXTENT IN APRIL

From the U.S. National Snow & Ice Data Centre:

Arctic sea ice extent declined slowly through the first three weeks of April, compared to recent years. The slow decline through March and the first few weeks of April meant that by mid-April, ice extent was at near-average levels. However, much of the extensive ice cover is thin ice that will melt quickly once temperatures rise in the Arctic. Over the past week, extent has started to fall sharply.

Dr DAVID EVANS EXPLAINS THE SCEPTICS CASE

After the screening of the program I Can Change Your Mind On Climate Change last week in which Dr David Evans appeared, but very little of the information he conveyed to climate activist Anna Rose was screened he has produced three interesting YouTube videos explaining the science.

Evans arranged for his interview and filming by the ABC crew to be filmed independently so as to have an independent record of proceedings. 

Evans has been trying to get the information contained in the videos published or broadcast by maintstream media for some time, to no avail, as he believes it cuts to the core issues very succintly.

FLOODS WASH AWAY CARBON TAX SUPPORT

Journalist Mark Lawson writing at Online Opinion ponders the frequent reinterpretation of 'findings' and 'conclusions' by scientists when forecasts differ from actual events.

"In August 2009, after three years of computer modelling, a joint team of scientists from the CSIRO and the Bureau of Meteorology announced that they had linked greenhouse gases to the drought then reigning over south-eastern Australia. They also declared that the decline in rainfall was likely to be permanent as more of those gases accumulated in the atmosphere and the world warmed."