WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT WIND FARMS

James Delingpole at the website of the U.K Telegraph raises questions that are equally pertinent to Australia.

"Wind power and solar power are so risibly inefficient that the only way they can ever be economically viable is with lashings and lashings of taxpayer subsidy."

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ADAPTATION THE BEST CLIMATE POLICY

Tom Switzer research associate at the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney argues at the website ABC The Drum that Australian politics on climate change have undergone radical change and adaptation is the solution.

"The idea of paying substantially higher energy prices when the rest of the world is doing very little to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is hardly a voter winner, especially in those marginal seats where voters are mortgaged to the hilt."

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UN WARNED THAT CORRUPTION UNDERMINING SAVING THE PLANET

If governing plans to halt global deforestation are difficult, as highlighted by John Vidal in this article in the U.K Observer, imagine the difficulties with an intangible, invisible, unmeasurable property, such as greenhouse gas emissions as proposed by the IPCC.

"A revolutionary scheme backed by the World Bank to pay poor countries billions of dollars a year to stop felling trees is the best way to stop logging and save the planet from climate change, according to wealthy countries and conservationists, yet documents seen by the Observer show the plan is actually leading to corruption and possibly more logging."

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THE TREE RING CIRCUS

At Quadrant Online, John Dawson gives a detailed account of a book by Andrew Montford, The Hockey Stick Illusion.

"The Hockey Stick Illusion is the shocking story of a graph called the Hockey Stick. It is also a textbook of tree ring analysis, a code-breaking adventure, an intriguing detective story, an exposé of a scientific and political travesty, and the tale of a herculean struggle between a self-funded sceptic and a publicly funded hydra, all presented in the measured style of an analytical treatise."

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GLOBAL WARMING'S UNSCIENTIFIC ATTITUDE

Peddlers of phony scare stories are afraid to release the data.

The Washington Times editorialises about the latest revelation in the continuing disgraceful saga that is Climategate.

"In the current issue of the peer-reviewed journal Environmental Law and Management, Australian researchers evaluated the community of so-called climate scientists and found them to be "antagonistic toward the disclosure of information."

Professor John Abbot of Central Queensland University, a chemist and lawyer, and biologist Jennifer Marohasy studied the response of the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia (CRU) and the Met Office - Britain's national weather service - to various information requests."

LINK to editorial    LINK to case study     LINK to Counterpoint interview with Dr Abbot

PACIFIC OCEAN STILL COOLING

Could ocean temperature variables possibly be naturally occuring events? Huh?  Who would like to have a go at separating natural variances in the climate with man-made influences?

Latest from the Bureau of Meteorology on a cooling Pacific Ocean.