OCEANS INFLUENCE GREATER THAN FIRST THOUGHT

Alex Bojanowski at Germany’s online Der Spiegel reports here on a new paper appearing in Nature  that shows climate change in the 1970s was caused by ocean cooling. Climate simulation models once indicated that the cooling in the 1970s was due to sun-reflecting sulfur particles, emitted by industry. But now evidence points to the oceans.

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MONBIOT FORECASTING CLIMATE SUMMIT FAILURE

George Monbiot of the U.K. Guardian writes sombrely of impending failure at Cancun.

"The closer it comes, the worse it looks. The best outcome anyone now expects from December's climate summit in Mexico is that some delegates might stay awake during the meetings. When talks fail once, as they did in Copenhagen, governments lose interest."

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ADAPTATION TO NATURAL CLIMATE CHANGE IS THE KEY

The new Australian Minister for Climate Change, Greg Combet, has started his term by calling for the application of commonsense to the debate over global warming policy.

Well, yes, but even more important is the application of some independent scientific analysis to the alarmist advice rendered by the UN’s now discredited Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) says Professor Bob Carter in this article at Quadrant.

ICSC APPOINTS PROF BOB CARTER AS CHIEF SCIENCE ADVISOR

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, September 17, 2010: The Executive Director of the International Climate Science Coalition (ICSC), Mr. Tom Harris, announces the appointment of Professor Bob Carter, an Adjunct Research Fellow at James Cook University in Queensland, Australia as the Chief Science Advisor to the coalition.  Professor Carter is the author of the important new book on climate science and policy, “Climate: the Counter Consensus”.

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5th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CLIMATE CHANGE

Sydney will be host to the fifth International Conference on Climate Change sponsored by the Heartland Institute.

The first of the series to be held outside the United States, this one-day conference gives attendees the opportunity to update on this important topic.

To be held at the Sheraton on Park on October 1st, a list of speakers can be viewed here

Registrations here

SENATOR CORY BERNARDI TO OPEN AEF CONFERENCE

The Australian Environment Foundation annual conference on October 16th & 17th will be opened by South Australian Senator Cory Bernardi. 

Speakers on renewable energy, land management and climate modelling will provide an insight to the issues at the heart of the debate on these topics.

Full details here