Ask almost anyone who Nicholas Stern is and you’d surely draw a blank. But as Andrew Montford suggests at his Bishop Hill blog, there are few men who have had quite such a deleterious effect on our lives as this dreary ex-civil servant now known – to those few who do know of him – as Lord Stern and doing very nicely thank you at his extremely well-paid job fomenting climate alarmist drivel at the Grantham Institute. Continue reading
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Steven Hayward: Green Weenie Of The Week: It’S Only Tuesday, But We Have A Winner Already
Right-thinking lefties everywhere have had their knickers in a twist over the House Republican proposal to curtail National Science Foundation funding for social science (especially politicalscience), while maintaining funding for the “hard” sciences like physics, chemistry, etc. Continue reading
Idea, once ridiculed, could become reality
A controversial idea to brake global warming, first floated by the father of the hydrogen bomb, is affordable and technically feasible, but its environmental impact remains unknown, a trio of US scientists say. Continue reading
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Tagged climate hysteria, geoengineering, PlayStation® climatology, weather superstition
Dems back global climate deal in platform
Good reason not to back Democrats Continue reading
Storm in a teacup?
The scientific world is divided about predictions that global warming will result in more super typhoons on the scale of Typhoon Wanda for Hong Kong. Continue reading
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Tagged climate hysteria, PlayStation® climatology, weather superstition
Canada’s Mackenzie River needs aid as climate “refrigerator”
Usurper! That role has long been claimed by the Antarctic. Get your own! Continue reading
“Sunshade” to fight climate change costed at $5 bln a year
Uh-huh… and what is the cost in lost primary productivity. That’s actually not easy to work out because lumber trees might actually grow better due to scattering allowing greater insolation of the forest understory while field crops would likely fare worse due to loss of net insolation. Also places experiencing drought could claim it’s due to reduced insolation reducing evaporation and storm formation and so on. Developing an agreed regime and compensation structure for the inevitable losers from such “climate interference” should prove far more entertaining than such a simple instrument as Kyoto and Son of Kyoto. How’s that popping corn crop coming along? Continue reading
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Tagged climate hysteria, dioxycarbophobia, geoengineering, weather superstition
It’ll ne’er be the same again
ENVIRONMENTAL researchers say the end of Australia’s ski culture is in sight, despite Victoria and NSW experiencing one of their best snow seasons in almost a decade. Continue reading
Bishop Hill: Stern exposed
Nicholas Stern is to blame. Continue reading
Andrew Simms: We can learn resilience from the natural world – but only up to a point
So, Andy, how’s that 100 months of world saving thing going? Must be near half-gone by now, eh? Since the world’s been cooling throughout the Obama Administration it’s been pretty successful then – ‘nother few years and you can relax, your world-saving done, right?
Good job. Let’s see what you’ve got for us today: Continue reading
New Report: Government Cannot Rely On Stern Review To Justify Costly Climate Policies
London, 4 September: As the cost of government measures to combat climate change hit households and businesses, a new study published by the Global Warming Policy Foundation casts grave doubts on the validity of the “Stern Review of the Economics of Climate Change” which the government relies on to justify its policies. Continue reading
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Tagged climate fraud, climate hysteria, dioxycarbophobia, global governance, stern review, weather superstition
Andrew Bolt: Scrap this shameless propaganda outfit now
Judith Sloan on the disgracefully misleading propaganda of the Climate Commission’s recently released report, The Critical Decade: International Action on Climate Change: Continue reading
Monckton: Climate ($$$ and) change. The AMS Archdruids pray for grants!
A Disinformation Statement by the Armenian Meteoastrological Society (Adapted by AMS Archdruids 20 August 2012) As told to Christopher Monckton of Brenchley Continue reading
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Tagged climate hysteria, dioxycarbophobia, weather superstition
Pierre Gosselin: German Professor Says We Are “Treading On Thin Ice” With Our Interpretation Of Warming
Online German daily Die Welt here published a surprisingly anti-alarmist article written by Prof Wolfgang Behringer, a science historian at the University of Saarbrücken. Continue reading
Imaginative feature on Paul Nurse: A Redoubt of Learning Holds Firm
Bizarrely Sir Paul conflates scientific skepticism with superstition and taints CAGW skeptics with anti vaxxers and fear of modernity. CAGW hysteria is doing more damage to science and society that even religious zealotry has done and that is desperately dangerous. See this item for a direct quote from the IPCC’s Working Group I disclaiming an ability to predict future climate states and the linked examination of probable climate sensitivity to enhanced greenhouse effect, drawn directly from Earth’s natural greenhouse effect and too trivial to worry about or even detect amid the noise of natural variation. Continue reading
Daniel Mason: Stern climate change review ‘not fit for purpose’ says Tory MP
A senior British Conservative has called for the commissioning of a fresh independent study into the economics of climate change and sharply criticised economist Nicholas Stern’s six-year-old report – which warned that the costs of doing nothing to prevent global warming significantly outweighed the costs of acting. Continue reading
The melting Arctic shouldn’t be on the backburner
THE ARCTIC IS GETTING warmer faster than almost anywhere else on Earth. The latest evidence came in an announcement from the University of Colorado’s National Snow and Ice Data Center saying that, as of Aug. 26, the Arctic sea ice cover shrunk to 1.58 million square miles this summer, the smallest area since satellite measurements began in 1979. The trend is expected to continue in the next few weeks. Continue reading
Research reveals contrasting consequences of a warmer Earth
A new study, by scientists from the Universities of York, Glasgow and Leeds, involving analysis of fossil and geological records going back 540 million years, suggests that biodiversity on Earth generally increases as the planet warms. Continue reading
Isaac Brings Touch of Relief, and Hope for Next Season, to Corn Belt
Interesting to see NYT admit hurricanes are a normal and necessary part of weather – no storms, no rain basically. Continue reading
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Tagged climate hysteria, weather superstition
Eye-roller: Storms, drought overshadow UN climate change
Did you know there never was any bad weather before CAGW? We know it’s unprecedented because there is no word for “enhanced greenhouse effect” in Pitjantjatjara or in fact in any known aboriginal language. Q.e.d.. Continue reading
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Tagged climate fraud, climate hysteria, global governance, weather superstition
