CLIMATE CHANGE RECONSIDERED: 2011 INTERIM REPORT

The 2011 Interim Report of the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change has been published and can be viewed here.

Compiled by scientists Bob Carter, Fred Singer and Craig Idsho the report rebuts many of the findings of the IPCC reports using peer-reviewed science.

  “We find evidence that the models over-estimate the amount of warming that occurred during the twentieth century and fail to incorporate chemical and biological processes that may be as important as the physical processes employed in the models.”

CLEAN ENERGY FUND WILL NOT FUND THIS PROJECT

Because of the bias in the framework of the Clean Energy Fund legislation recently passed by the Australian parliament projects such as the one highlighted in this article in The Australian will not be funded by the CEF. 

Rather than embrace the potential for Carbon Capture and Sequestration projects and bioenergy from native forest harvesting the Australian Greens insisted no funding be given to these projects.  The fund will however support current uneconomic carbon dioxide mitigation projects such as wind and solar energy.

"This is the biggest industry slush fund in the history of the nation" said former Labor leader Mark Latham.

PAYING THE PRICE OF A DURBAN VICTORY

Finance journalist Alan Kohler thinks Australia is now uncomfortably way out in front of the international pack through its economy wide pricing of carbon dioxide.

So do China, the U.S., Canada, Russia, Japan.........

WHOSE GOING BACKWARDS CANADA OR US

Canada has become the first country to announce it will officially pull out of the Kyoto accord on reducing greenhouse gases.

Canadian environment minister Peter Kent said it was not economically feasible for Canada to continue under the rules of the Kyoto agreement in 2012.

Canadian Environment Minister Peter Kent said "''It's now clear that Kyoto is not the path forward to a global solution to climate change. If anything it's an impediment.''

The International Climate Science Coalition supports the actions of the Canadian government.

JOHN HOWARD LAUNCHES PROF PLIMERS NEW BOOK

The former Prime Minister, John Howard has launched a book which argues the theory of human-induced global warming is a scam. The book, 'How to Get Expelled From School' from the controversial geologist Professor Ian Plimer, rejects the predominant scientific opinion on climate change. 

The launch received a standing ovation from the packed room of about 200 predominantly mining and business executives, at Tattersalls in Sydney last night.

Audio report of the launch here

THE BBC CLIMATE CHANGE A TRIPLE BETRAYAL

Author and journalist Christopher Booker has compiled a comprehensive report for the Global Warming Policy Foundation on the BBC's coverage of global warming.  It makes for compelling reading.

"On few issues, however, if any, has the BBC shown itself to be more conspicuously
committed to a particular point of view than the belief in man-made
global warming. And it is important to recognise the extent to which this has
been the result of deliberate policy.

Around the middle of the last decade, as these pages will show, the BBC’s
senior executives, including those in charge of news and current affairs, along with its team of environmental journalists, took a decision that its coverage on issues related to climate change should be more overtly partisan.

They justified this on the basis that belief in the threat of man-made global warming was now accepted by such an overwhelming ‘consensus’ of scientists that it was the BBC’s duty not merely to accept that view but actively to promote it - and to ignore the views of those who disagreed."