POLITICIANS MISS THE POINT

Professor Bob Carter writing at Quadrant Online raises the point of the declining political appeal to the major parties from the global warming issue. 

"Lazurus-like, the issue of global warming has again risen to prominence in the political debate. Stimulated by the announcement of Labor’s “new” climate policy  by Prime Minister Gillard, Australian voters were once more subjected to a parade of self-anointed, global-warming-is-dangerous public figures whose innocence of knowledge of the science of climate change is exceeded only by their sense of moral superiority.

For the moment, though, all seems to have gone quiet on the climate change front..."

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DEATH OF THE GRAND NARRATIVE?

Philip Stott, Emeritus Professor at the University of London sees the begining of the end for a narrative that should never have been.

Grand narratives - those overarching, dominant systems of socio-political thought so beloved of post-modernists - come and go. Some, such as major religions, can persist, through shape-shifting, for millennia; others last for centuries, while most survive for mere decades.  Such is the current fate of global warming, the grand narrative that human greed and profligacy are changing the world’s climate apocalyptically, a sin that can only be appeased through public confession and self-sacrifice to the Goddess, Gaia.

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IN RESPONSE TO NOAA'S STATE OF THE CLIMATE REPORT

A collection of papers by Idso, Monckton, Evans, Ambler and Soon published by the Science and Public Policy Institute which respond to NOAA's recent State of the Climate Report.

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CLOSING OUT DISSENT

The phenomena of disinvitation and the brotherhood of silence

Scientists who venture to make independent statements in public about environmental myths soon come to learn about two post-modern-science tactics used to suppress their views writes Professor Bob Carter at Quadrant Online.

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MORE ADAPTATION - USING PLAN B

Dr Jennifer Marohasy is an independent Australian environmental researcher and has written an article for Quadrant Online quering the climate policy choices available to the Australian electorate in the current election.

Plan B appears the better option!

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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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