AUSTRALIA'S CARBON TAX IS JAW-DROPPING SAYS KELLY

Editor-at-large for The Australian Paul Kelly says that Australia's unilateral action on global warming is jaw dropping.

Despite the rhetoric, Australia leads the way in an economy-wide tax that will have a pervasive effect on every Australian's way of life.

USA HAS NOT WARMED IN THE LAST DECADE

Meteorologist Anthony Watts at his website Watts Up With That has posted on the latest data from the National Climatic Data Center in the U.S. that shows no warming in the last decade.

This is contrary to the statements of one of the authors of the BEST study, Dr Richard Muller "We see no evidence of it [global warming] slowing down."

WHY I REMAIN A GLOBAL WARMING SCEPTIC

Emeritus professor at the University of Virginia, Fred Singer writes in the Wall Street Journal about the recent BEST study.

"Mr. Muller has been brutally frank about the poor quality of the weather-station data, noting that 70% of U.S. stations involve uncertainties of between two and five degrees Celsius. One could interpret the Berkeley study’s results as confirmation of earlier studies and of the IPCC’s conclusions, despite the poor quality of the stations used. But perhaps the issue is that the Berkeley study and the ones that came before suffer from common errors."

FIRST VICTIM OF THE CARBON TAX?

A CHEMICAL company that operates in Prime Minister Julia Gillard's electorate says it will shelve a $1 billion world-class expansion because of the carbon tax.

With the Senate set to approve the historic climate change policy tomorrow, Coogee Chemicals says it also threatens the long-term sustainability and jobs at the nation's only methanol factory in Laverton North.

EVIDENCE SPEAKS ITS A SCAM

Dr David Evans, advisor to the Australian Climate Science Coalition lists four key points to show that the climate models are fundamentally flawed.

"Global warming has become a scam. Let me explain how it works.

It has superficial plausibility. Yes, global warming is occurring. Yes, carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas and levels are rising. And yes, every molecule of carbon dioxide we emit causes some global warming.

Many non-scientists think that proves the case, but it doesn’t. In particular, it doesn’t rule out the possibility that carbon dioxide is merely a minor or insignificant player, and that something else is the main cause of global warming."

A NOBEL DISGRACE

The recent revelations of poor process and the extent of non peer-reviewed references by Donna Laframboise in her book The Delinquent Teenager gave an insight into how the general public, media and governments have been hoodwinked by the IPCC.

Now, Emeritus professor at Colorado State University, William Gray catalogues a series of gross errors in the reporting of tropical cyclone activity in AR-4 at the Science & Public Policy Institute website.

"The United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Assessment Report Four (AR-4) of 2007, concerning the influence of rising levels of CO2 on global increases of tropical cyclone (TC) activity is inaccurate and a disgrace to the scientific community. The public expected there would be rigor and objectivity coming out of such an important document which shared a Nobel Peace Prize with former US Vice President Al Gore. The summary of TC activity of this report was based on discredited peer-reviewed papers whose lack of authenticity was known before the report was released. A select cadre of global warming advocates (with little TC knowledge or experience) bent their objectivity to drive this report toward a desired (but faulty) conclusion that global TC activity was increasing in frequency and intensity."