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  • Dissecting the brain of an AGW denier #2

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    This brain belongs to Cory Bernardi:They said ...Senator Cory Bernardi, Liberal, South Australia: "This ETS [emissions trading scheme] will also fundamentally change the way our legal system operates. It reverses some important legal concepts such as presumption of innocence, the right to remain silent, the burden of proof and protection" [...]
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    Posted: November 29, 2009, 7:51am EST
    by Wadard

  • I hope ILoveCarbonDioxide.com readers also love methane

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    Someone put a few denier dollars up and presto, the world now has ilovecarbondioxide.com for the time-capsule we should leave for aliens. Let's hope they merchandise plastic bags for their CO2-devoted readership. Huge mark-up potential -- how much does a plastic bag cost? Good for the environment too.Has anyone told' [...]
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    Posted: November 28, 2009, 9:01am EST
    by Wadard

  • Dissecting the brain of an AGW denier

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    I have a lovely little email from Miranda Divine, a SMH opinion writer, that gives great insight into how the mind of a denier works when challenged by inconvenient truths.It's not lovely: it is down-right rude, as was mine that prompted her response. But I had resisted the idea of' [...]
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    Posted: November 26, 2009, 6:06am EST
    by Wadard

  • Send world leaders at Copenhagen your thoughts

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    A penny planet for your thoughts.Send a digital postcard with your personal climate greeting to the world leaders. Greetings will be displayed on the official website of cop15.dk and on screens in the conference area during COP15.And if you have a blog, link the website and the greeting facility; as [...]
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    Posted: November 26, 2009, 5:51am EST
    by Wadard

  • Who is who in the Coalition zoo

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    Further to my post below, you might like to know who supports the CPRS and negotiated amendments, and who doesn't. The never-learn-from-an-election Liberals/Nationals look like rabble:Among the Coalition party room speakers in favour of the bill were Richard Colbeck, Judith Troeth, Andrew Laming, Simon Birmingham, Gary Humphries, Sue Boyce, Mal' [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 5:32am EST
    by Wadard

  • Don't let evil flourish...

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    Calling all good men and women of Australia. Malcolm Tunbull and the human chainsaw, Macfarlane, finally have negotiated their CPRS amendments with Penny Wong et al. Finally. The Liberal party has reconvened after dinner break to vote on supporting the bill. It looks like the doers might just trump the [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 5:07am EST
    by Wadard

  • Following myself

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    I just did it to see if I could, honest. I clicked on Google Followers to check out the widget functionality, and was promptly invited to befriend my own site. Sure - one can't have too many friends. Global Warning Climate Change Energy' [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 4:49am EST
    by Wadard

  • Hadley Center hack confounds deniersphere

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    The part of the blogosphere where politics informs science is abuzz with the conspiracy-busting exploits of a hacker who allegedly broke into the UK Met Office Hadley Center Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia mail-server and downloaded 1079 emails and 92 documents in a file called FOI2009.zip. (Warning: I [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 7:51am EST
    by Wadard

  • How to tell your child about global warming

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    I've been grappling with how and when to tell my six years old about man-made global warming, its claimed effect on his climate, and the implications for his world when he is my age. He has natural interest in weather events, and can tell me the geographic differences between tornadoes,' [...]
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    Posted: November 07, 2009, 7:49am EST
    by Wadard

  • Shrinking ozone hole heralds success of global treaties

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    In 1987 the world came together via the UN, and signed the historic Montreal Protocol on Substances That Deplete the Ozone Layer. The participating countries passed legislation banning industry from using chlorofluorocarbon (CFC), hydrochloroflourocarbon (HCFC) and other ozone depleting substances. CFCs, scientists told us in peer-review research, gobble up the [...]
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    Posted: November 07, 2009, 5:09am EST
    by Wadard

  • All power to you, Google!

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    My leprechaun friend, below, tells me that it's motivated, grass-root ideas that are going to create the groundswell needed for meaningful change at the level where it has to happen — the consumer.I would rather throw my lot in with a market-signalling coalition of the good-willing than all the vapid [...]
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    Posted: November 06, 2009, 7:03am EST
    by Wadard

  • About f'king time, Mr Rudd

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    Respectfully, you should have been using this sort of hard language to publicly out and route these most insidious AGW deniers (not sceptics ~ sceptics form their views based on the peer-reviewed evidence) in the Liberal party, a lot earlier. We've already seen how many political cowards in the Liberal' [...]
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    Posted: November 06, 2009, 1:10am EST
    by Wadard

  • Thought Experiment: Getting hot feet over cool headedness

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    In response to this:Sydney is warm in theory, thoughAndrew BoltMonday, November 02, 2009 at 12:09amStill waiting for that warming:SYDNEYSIDERS are repacking their winter woollies after the coldest October in 17 years.I left this:Imagine getting into a bathtub half filled with water at body temperature. Turn on the hot water tap [...]
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    Posted: November 01, 2009, 9:10am EST
    by Wadard

  • Last 10 years period warmest on modern record

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    The AGW denier canard that the earth has been cooling since 1998 is taken apart by Seth Borenstein in AJC.The case that the Earth might be cooling partly stems from recent weather. Last year was cooler than previous years. It's been a while since the super-hot years of 1998 and [...]
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    Posted: October 27, 2009, 8:17am EDT
    by Wadard

  • Glasses charged for Copenhagen

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    I don't like admitting it because I'm a glass-half-full guy, but, right now, the political climate change world is wobbling some.In Australia, we have a Government that is finally negotiating Carbon Pollution Reductions Scheme bill amendments with an opposition determined to destroy itself for their claque of Carbon Pollution Freedom [...]
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    Posted: October 25, 2009, 7:52am EDT
    by Wadard

  • What's the worse that could happen?

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    Greg Craven is the guy who injected himself into the AGW deniers propaganda war two years ago, with a simple risk analysis grid pointing out the obvious — that, if the scientists are wrong, the worst that could happen is that we move to a carbon free economy sooner in [...]
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    Posted: September 01, 2009, 8:11am EDT
    by Wadard

  • Climate changlings news

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    The climate blogosphere is ticking over: At Deltoid, Tim Lambert takes Chilinger and Pielke (Sr) to task for their latest crimes against deductive reasoning and statistics, respectively. Marvel at the desperation of the deniers' arguments, all relying on the poor scientific understanding of the average person to sound plausable, none' [...]
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    Posted: July 08, 2009, 8:20am EDT
    by Wadard

  • Who would have tipped that Tip would tip?

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    Staunch to the last:Andrew Bolt Monday, June 15, 2009 at 02:53pmNice profile on the (perhaps) next member for Higgins. I suspect, however, that Peter Costello will make the impressive John Roskam wait. UPDATE No sooner predicted than contradicted. Roskam is as startled by the news as am I: PETER Costello [...]
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    Posted: June 15, 2009, 8:06am EDT
    by Wadard

  • 1 tonne of co2 equals 0.0000000000015 °C of global warming

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    From my unscientific understanding, if the latest findings of Damon Matthews, a professor in Concordia University's Department of Geography, Planning and the Environment bear out, then the public understanding of AGW will have it's smoking gun. Matthews and his colleagues claim to have found a direct relationship between carbon dioxide [...]
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    Posted: June 14, 2009, 7:48am EDT
    by Wadard

  • Australia's climate bill may be scuttled

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    The ETS circus plays on:Australian Greens climate change spokeswoman Christine Milne said the Government would also have no alternative but to reverse its plan to link passage of the emissions bill to renewable energy measures."The [emissions trading] bill will be defeated. There is no question about that," she told ABC [...]
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    Posted: June 14, 2009, 5:43am EDT
    by Wadard

  • Crime will organise to go green

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    So suggest sooths spotted by Desmogblog.Just in time for the rocked Australian biker club scene, desperate as they are to rehabilitate their public image after the Sydney Airport brawl showed them up to be the mongrels they are.Future Banditos and Notorious meetings to resolve grievances will be so much more [...]
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    Posted: June 13, 2009, 9:29am EDT
    by Wadard

  • Fielding staring at the sun for too long

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    My reaction to the news of Senator Stephen Fielding coming back from attending an AGW denier's conference hosted by the Heartland Institute, is that he seeks to betray the path of ETS legislation for thirty pieces of Big Fossil-Fuel silver. My evidence? Simply that Fielding is replaying their great canard, [...]
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    Posted: June 13, 2009, 8:39am EDT
    by Wadard

  • Punters and pundits call the Arctic Summer Melt

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    It's that time of the year, when types that think about these things, turn their attention to predicting what this year's lowest Arctic sea-ice extent will be. Eli Rabbet kicks off with a rough round-up of pundits and early predictions. There are rumours of money changing hands.If none of this [...]
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    Posted: June 13, 2009, 7:57am EDT
    by Wadard

  • US Emissions Talks With China Hit Great Wall

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    Five months ahead of the Copenhagen talks, a round of climate talks between the world's two biggest polluters has stalled, reports the Financial Times:Chinese officials maintained that the two countries should have a “common but differentiated approach” – code for Beijing’s reluctance to adopt a formal domestic mandate to reduce [...]
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    Posted: June 11, 2009, 9:13am EDT

  • Turnbull hands Rudd ETS early election trigger — Chk Chk Boom

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    IMHO, everything that has gone wrong with the Liberal party has to do with their inability to maintain the bipartisan approach to a carbon cap and trade system. Turnbull used to be the one who seemed to be across the issues, but what a flip-flop, opportunistic waverer he turned out [...]
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    Posted: May 26, 2009, 11:20am EDT

  • Australia coping best with global recession

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    Top 10 recession refuges:The top countries best surviving the global recession, according to a survey of 7500 businesspeople from 24 nations.1st - Australia2nd - China3rd - India and Singapore (equal)5th - Hong Kong6th - Canada7th - Japan and Qatar (equal)9th - New Zealand10th - Malaysia, Sweden and Vietnam (equal)Source: Servcorp [...]
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    Posted: May 26, 2009, 6:40am EDT

  • Do future generations have rights to a stable climate?

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    Recalibrating the Law of Humans with the Laws of Nature: Climate Change, Human Rights, and Intergenerational JusticeHigh ambition deserves a lofty title. The paper is the product of the University of Iowa's Centre for Human Rights and the University of Vermont's Environmental Law Centre having jointly started an initiative to [...]
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    Posted: May 18, 2009, 10:35am EDT

  • The history of the politics of the theory of evolution

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    Darwinania: n. If your "interests include Darwin, politics involving Victorian-Era scientists, public perceptions of evolution, anti-evolution movements, and the history of paleontology, especially the presentations of dinosaurs in museums and scientific literature from the 1800s on", you have Darwinania. Global Warning Climate Change Energy [...]
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    Posted: May 18, 2009, 10:23am EDT

  • Obama's Bush holdovers attack EPA co2 ruling

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    An interesting insight into how the Bush government used to play its cards in thwarting EPA global warming legislation is provided by Jim Tankersley of the L.A Times:The agency's declaration that emissions pose a health danger could have 'serious economic consequences,' Bush-era holdovers in the Small Business Administration assert.Reporting from [...]
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    Posted: May 18, 2009, 9:10am EDT

  • AGW denier says peer-review is a public enemy

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    James Dellingpole plumbs the depth of his intellect in The Spectator:I don’t bait greens only for fun. I do it because they’re public enemy number oneHow so?Here is what’s so terrifying about the modern green movement: its complete refusal to accept that anyone who disagrees with it can be anything [...]
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    Posted: May 18, 2009, 7:17am EDT

  • Is Ian Plimer's Heaven and Earth a sell-out?

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    Well yes, considering he challenges the fundamentals of the spectrum of multidisciplinary sciences making up the body of climate science. Problem is, he won't do this in the peer-reviewed literature.But has it really sold out of its 25,000 print run, as claimed by Andrew Bolt? Not according to Tim Lambert' [...]
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    Posted: May 13, 2009, 8:46am EDT

  • Reduced emissions with increased productivity

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    In the search for every-day global warming solutions, Eli of Rabett Run suggests that cheap is good. Think low-tech solutions for everyday tasks.Consider where the costs and problems associated with reducing carbon emissions comes from, from having to transform a dispersed, costless source of energy such as wind or solar [...]
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    Posted: May 13, 2009, 7:54am EDT

  • Government ETS delay: A back-flip to the future

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    I don't know what to think about the Australian Government's 2011 back-flip on the starting date of the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme.The economy is going sideways. This means fewer carbon emissions caused by lower productivity. A delayed introduction will help businesses by delaying compliance costs, but it is only a' [...]
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    Posted: May 13, 2009, 6:12am EDT

  • AGW deniers deny World Vision children

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    By day Andrew Bolt pumps out AGW denial propaganda that has its genesis in a handful of Exxon-Mobil supported think-tank workshops. By any measure it's distasteful stuff, with Andrew regularly branding 9 out of 10 Australians as alarmist, pagan, lefty, earth-worshipping, green-fascists who have fallen for the great global warming [...]
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    Posted: May 12, 2009, 7:33am EDT

  • Andrew Bolt: affirmed yet cognition challenged

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    Who still does not appear to understand that the definition of climate change can take in extreme cold? Oops. I made a mistake in today’s column when I said that despite all this alleged global warming, Australia’s record temperatures had not been broken for decades. Reader Cameron says I’ve been [...]
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    Posted: April 29, 2009, 6:34am EDT

  • Climate Sceptics party needs all the help they can get

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    Found this in my inbox, forwarded to me by a reader after reading this: Climate Sceptics News - 10/04/09 www.climatesceptics.com.au to unsubscribe - reply "please unsubribe" (sic)Welcome to the first of what will be regular updates of what Climate Sceptics around the country are doing to change the perspective of [...]
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    Posted: April 12, 2009, 7:36am EDT

  • Financial crisis equals breathing space on climate

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    In news that Andrew Bolt is sure to jump on, climate adviser Ross Garnaut claims that the economic crisis has bought Australia at least two years of "breathing space" in the fight against climate change.The crisis has clamped down on industry and production, which has put a lid on greenhouse [...]
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    Posted: March 03, 2009, 6:11am EST

  • Who is fueling new Climate Sceptics political party?

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    Witness the birth of The Climate Sceptics, Australia's newest political party. Aren't we truly the lucky country? They bill themselves as "The World's first up front political party representing climate sceptics"Well, after John Howard's Liberals here in Australia, and George W. Bush's Republicans in the US. And then there was that Vaclav Klaus' Civic Democratic' [...]
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    Posted: February 20, 2009, 7:45am EST

  • Intelligent design falsified by cdesign proponentsists' intellligence decline

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    I have just finished watching a fascinating documentary on SBS, called Judgment Day, about how a bunch of weird Christian extremists tried to introduce stealth creationism into the science class of Dover High School as an alternative to Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. This was obviously Dover, Pa, in the US,' [...]
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    Posted: December 07, 2008, 6:13am EST

  • Climate change tougher than Sydney roofs

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    Great!The Insurance Council of Australia (ICA) called on the Federal and State governments to toughen the Building Code of Australia and address the problem of "brittle buildings".It seems research conducted by Professor Alan Jeary, a structural design specialist from the University of Western Sydney's school of engineering, concludes that roofs' [...]
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    Posted: December 07, 2008, 5:45am EST

  • AGW deniers deperate in their death throws.

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    Desmogblog asks why we have seen such a flurry of activity from the global warming denial lobby, lately:Barack Obama has promised to lead the nation in a massive climate intervention and reengage with the international community on climate change. The past weeks have also seen progressive environmentalist Rep. Henry Waxman [...]
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    Posted: December 06, 2008, 7:40am EST

  • Andrew Bolt: The climate concerned are Nazis

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    Andrew Bolt reckons "the Global Day of Climate Action, which, to judge from this Friends of the Earth ad requires greenshirts to stage rallies eerily similar to the ones once seen at Nuremberg".What an uncut dick-head! What a prize scumbag this Andrew Bolt is. Only he can be flippant about 6 million murdered Jews [...]
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    Posted: December 06, 2008, 6:23am EST

  • This isn't Funk — it's the Flying Spagetti Monster

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    Heathens! What's this, a creepy schism?The full Old Greg (minus ending)Old Greg -- The Ending' [...]
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    Posted: December 04, 2008, 7:06am EST

  • Oceans cooling. Not.

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    A common misconception about measuring global warming, one that deniers prey upon, is that the average global temperature is the whole story. Ergo, if the last ten years of lower atmosphere temperatures plateau, the warming must have stopped, so the meme goes... on and on. No so, according to Josh [...]
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    Posted: December 01, 2008, 7:39am EST

  • Cheney grounded $100 million climate satellite

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    Desmogblog is right into the unfolding story of the Bush Administration's interference with NASA's climate science research. This time it is allegations of Cheney's hand in the mothballing of the DSCOVR satellite question :An unnamed source within NASA intimately familiar with the mothballed Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) mission spoke' [...]
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    Posted: December 01, 2008, 7:12am EST

  • Obama wins the US elocution

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    I'm sure I am not the only one outside the US who has become fixated on US President-elect Barrack Hussain Obama. I was one of the lucky few who survived the long, long US election media flood by simply ignoring it all. But tuning into the thrilling finish has wet [...]
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    Posted: November 26, 2008, 6:09am EST

  • EPA ruling gives Obama clean slate to build the clean economy

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    Breaking news at Desmogblog. Kevin Grandia is as surprised as I:Wow. A decision by the Environmental Protection Agency today has ruled that all new and proposed coal-fired power plants must have their carbon dioxide emissions regulated.The implications are very opportune, according to John Spalding, attorney of the Sierra Club, who [...]
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    Posted: November 14, 2008, 8:54am EST

  • The Foole is Dead. Long live the King!

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    Barrack Hussein Obama delivered a fine acceptance speech on becoming President Elect. So said my goosebumps. Very powerful stuff.It was the first time I had seen and heard more than a soundbite of Obama's famed oratory — two avoidance years plus eighteen listening minutes, and I then knew why he' [...]
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    Posted: November 07, 2008, 7:35am EST

  • CCS- Use It Or Lose It

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    One of the most compelling chapters in the PBS Frontline 2-hour special on global warming that aired earlier this week was the segment on America's Addiction to Coal.PBS dives headfirst into the myth of clean coal and pretty much tears it apart using something we don't often see these days [...]
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    Posted: October 26, 2008, 8:30am EDT

  • Pay the deniers, call the tune

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    frankbi of the International Journal of Inactivism is onto something:So, what prompted me to write the above long-winded complaint was a page on the Heartland Institute’s web site, on how people can sponsor their upcoming climate inactivist conference. It’s the kind of jaw-dropping thing that made me think, “Oy, why am I the one writing about [...]
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    Posted: October 15, 2008, 9:39am EDT

  • Arctic melt season post mortem

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    From The National Snow and Ice Data Center:2 October 2008Arctic Sea Ice Down to Second-Lowest Extent; Likely Record-Low VolumeDespite cooler temperatures and ice-favoring conditions, long-term decline continuesArctic sea ice extent during the 2008 melt season dropped to the second-lowest level since satellite measurements began in 1979, reaching the lowest point in its annual [...]
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    Posted: October 15, 2008, 9:12am EDT

  • Get in early for a breakthrough in AGW Denial

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    programlast updated: October 13, 2008Where and WhenThe 2009 International Conference on Climate Change will take place in New York City on March 8-10, 2009 (Sunday - Tuesday), at the Marriott New York Marquis Times Square Hotel, 1535 Broadway, New York, NY.There will be four tracks of panel discussions:1. Paleoclimatology2. Climatology3. Impact of [...]
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    Posted: October 15, 2008, 8:32am EDT

  • Desmogblog on election climate politics

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    Australia had it's green election ten months ago, and the new government signed the Kyoto Protocol as their first act . They transformed us from pariah to trier in one stroke, and today we had the Garnaut report released, recommending 10% emissions reductions by 2020, or 25% in the event [...]
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    Posted: September 30, 2008, 7:48am EDT
    by Wadard

  • Oreskes outs Nierenberg

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    Story so far: Ronald Regan does not like the first three climate science reports provided by the government's elite scientific advisory group, the Jasons. But he like the fourth. It was synthesised by Bill Nierenberg, a Jason who had worked on the Manhattan project.So bringing us into the now, to' [...]
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    Posted: September 28, 2008, 8:49am EDT

  • Life's Good and Do No Evil to power low-carbon grid

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    clipped from www.worldwatch.orgThe recently announced alliance between technology giants General Electric and Google may provide the lobbying arsenal necessary for the U.S. to overhaul an outdated electric grid widely considered as a barricade to a low-carbon future. The collaboration brings together two industry [...]
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    Posted: September 28, 2008, 8:06am EDT

  • Woah there Putin, woah, easy boy

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    Michael Tobias explores Sarah Palin's ability to portray foreign leaders in animal terms, and her appreciation of geography. Palin:"it's very important when you consider even national security issueswith Russia as Putin rears his head and comes into the airspace of theUnited States of America, where, where do they go? It's [...]
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    Posted: September 28, 2008, 7:56am EDT

  • Summer will be an erratic El Nino and La Nina sandwich

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    clipped from www.smh.com.auAfter the coldest winter in a decade, weather experts are warning Sydney to expect an erratic summer.Veteran weatherman and director of Weatherwatch Don White said people should expect the mercury to soar and sink this year, with temperatures in the Pacific Ocean indicating that the [...]
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    Posted: September 17, 2008, 5:35am EDT

  • Global warming — bad guys found at last

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    The science on global warming is so clear that it's hard to understand why the public doesn't push the politicians to pass the laws necessary for our preservation.But, as a species we do not respond to changes on a geological time-scale, even those as rapid as our anthropocene. We can [...]
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    Posted: September 14, 2008, 7:23am EDT

  • Sarah "Shapeshifter" Palin's climate change change

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    From this audio of a long letter of a disgruntled Alaskan, who claims to know Sarah Palin — minus lipstick — we learn that she does not believe that man-made global warming is shrinking the habitat of polar bears. Ergo, legislation protecting their habitat — from oil extraction — should [...]
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    Posted: September 14, 2008, 6:11am EDT

  • Australians would dig deep to fight climate change

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    Good news for the government implementing an ETS. We won't stand in your way (but woe betide it turns out trust is misplaced).A MAJOR survey of Australians' views on climate change has found an overwhelming majority think it is happening and they're prepared to pay to address it.The study by' [...]
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    Posted: August 31, 2008, 9:47am EDT

  • Hurrican Gustav to test Obama/Biden, McCain/Palin

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    The damage wrought by Hurricane Katrina also ruined Bush. A point clearly not lost on all presidential candidates as they prepare to respond to the 'certain political fallout' claimed for Gustav:Republican White House hopeful John McCain and running-mate Sarah Palin will Sunday ditch their pre-convention plans and visit people in [...]
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    Posted: August 31, 2008, 9:16am EDT

  • Mother of all storms bearing down on New Orleans

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    Remember Hurricane Katrina, hitting New Orleans this time to the day three years ago? Mayor Ray Nagin hopes so, invoking her name by omission.New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin has ordered the city emptied tomorrow in the face of "the storm of the century", warning anyone that stays behind that they [...]
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    Posted: August 31, 2008, 8:32am EDT

  • Google Insights for Search on al gore, global warming, climate change

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    Google Insights for Search (GIS) is Google's latest functionette on offer. It is fascinating, but not all it could be. More like a tease.GIS provides a graphical output for up to five search terms. Numbers on the graph reflect how many searches have been done for a particular term, relative' [...]
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    Posted: August 27, 2008, 10:07am EDT
    by Wadard

  • Aussie solar generation — where are you?

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    Casting around me in Sydney to see what our suburban twenty+ year olds are into today, and well, it seems to be, well,.... themselves only. iPoded up (it's not called the usPod, is it?) they listen long enough to think of what they are going to say next when in [...]
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    Posted: August 26, 2008, 9:22am EDT
    by Wadard

  • Climate science, the public, and the Whiplash Effect

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    Andrew Dressler of the Dept. of Atmospheric Sciences at Texas A&M University spent time as a Senior Policy Analyst in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. While there, he became extremely interested in how science gets used in policy decisions. He has published The Science and Politics [...]
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    Posted: August 21, 2008, 8:57am EDT
    by Wadard

  • LOLdenialists pr-revus teh klimit siens

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    Tim Lambert has posted submissions to LOLdenialists, a bit of fun. L. Ron Bolt cops it again, this time from Gummo Trotsky, for his insistence that his HadCRUT 'cooling since 2002 ' has significance. Itz teh underling tend, stewpid, by moi. Nexus 6's brilliant Global Warmin LOL is there plus [...]
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    Posted: August 20, 2008, 9:40am EDT
    by Wadard

  • Explain

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    clipped from thoughtsonglobalwarming.blogspot.com "Found on a city street.. via :: Flickr [...]
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    Posted: August 19, 2008, 9:52am EDT

  • Hansen — Mankind now controls climate

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    Set aside an hour for yourself, and hear it from Dr James Hansen C/o 回転ドア Revolving Doors Global Warning Climate Change Energy [...]
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    Posted: August 19, 2008, 9:21am EDT

  • James Hanson tips cold water on sun theory

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    This takes The Great Global Warming Swindle down with it... clipped from www.desmogblog.comIn another section of his recent "trip report " (see "westling" post below), James Hansen, head of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, answers in careful but fairly accessible detail, the question of whether the [...]
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    Posted: August 18, 2008, 10:11am EDT

  • LOLdenialists goes vrial

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    My entry... LOLlronbolt moar funny pictures Inspired by Tim Lambert, who was inspired by Jennifer Ouellette of Cocktail Party Physics who came up with LOLdenialists. Update: Thread has been picked up by Nexus 6, who is always good for a laugh Global Warning Climate Change Energy [...]
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    Posted: August 18, 2008, 9:37am EDT

  • Monckton vs. Littlemore Debate audio

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    Monckton vs. Littlemore Debate audio Monckton vs Littlemore Debate audio Technorati Tags: global warming, climate change [...]
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    Posted: August 18, 2008, 8:26am EDT

  • ratS delgnapS rennaB

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    Unbelievable. Rice looks shocked. Global Warning Climate Change Energy [...]
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    Posted: August 18, 2008, 3:31am EDT

  • 60 Minutes in denial over climate change

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    In the 60 Minutes story on climate change denial called Crunch Time, Rudd came off like he needs media-training on the issue. PM KEVIN RUDD: I'm not going to lie to you and say this is going to be cost free. This is a tough decision, we need to take [...]
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    Posted: August 18, 2008, 1:39am EDT
    by Wadard

  • AGW deniers — sue Hansen, Al Gore! Or shut up

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    The normally collegiate International Journal of Inactivism has thrown down the gauntlet to deniers like Christopher Monckton, Anthony Watts, James Inhofe, et al, to back their threats of legal action against Al Gore and Hansen .It is unusual for this esteemed institution, one that is known to be cautious almost [...]
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    Posted: August 10, 2008, 10:00am EDT

  • Alarm!! By Nexus 6

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    This very clever cartoon will appeal to the alarmist in us all.Technorati Tags: global warming, climate change [...]
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    Posted: August 10, 2008, 8:56am EDT

  • Global warming needs a Dr Evil

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    Psychologist, Dan Gilbert says humans have been conditioned through millions years of evolution to react to PAIN threats:The threat must have one or more of these qualities Personal Abrupt ImmoralNow "Global Warming is happening too slowly", says Gilbert explaining why humans are failing to act in the face of the threat [...]
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    Posted: August 09, 2008, 12:29pm EDT
    by Wadard

  • AGW Denial: Obama makes fun wilful ignorance

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    Oh yea... tell it like it is. Obama Insists Inflating Tires Better Than Oil Drilling [...]
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    Posted: August 09, 2008, 11:48am EDT
    by Wadard

  • Obama's Energy Plan: Really good

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    So says Climate Spin: Obama came out with his energy plan yesterday. I agree with Joe over at Climate Progress that its pretty darn good from a major-party candidate (I don't recall if its better then Gore's 2000 plan. Anyone?) Here are some good points: cap-and-trade program with all credits auctioned Reduce emissions to [...]
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    Posted: August 09, 2008, 11:23am EDT

  • Bone up on Tamino AGW denier debunkery

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    I so want to lift this Best of Tamino holus bolus from Desmog Blog, I'm going to do exactly that. I feel I am entitled to because I have just used Tamino in another post. Thank you, Brian D:Best of Tamino: Urging an Open Mind8 Aug 08More Summer Reading:Thanks to [...]
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    Posted: August 09, 2008, 8:53am EDT

  • Satellite temps slipstream surface readings

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    Lately, AGW denial shills have made a meal out of the differences between satellite, and land-based temperature measurement GISS, HadCRUT, UAH MSU, RSS MSU (click to enlarge): I came across a link to this Tamino post that clearly explains the difference. Seems Anthony Watts has been pinged for not providing his [...]
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    Posted: August 09, 2008, 8:17am EDT

  • Nest of deniers exposed

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    Cameron Stewart, Associate Editor of The Australian describes the battle to confuse the public that is waged by the fossil-fuel industry (read ExxonMobil) and prosecuted though a network of think-tanks, their media hacks, and... bloggers. Of course L. Ron Bolt is taking credit: Blogs blamed Andrew Bolt You readers are starting to [...]
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    Posted: August 09, 2008, 5:29am EDT
    by Wadard

  • 0-100 kmh in 3.9 seconds.... electric Tesla Roadster

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    It's no surprise the world's first green sports car is red...... at 0-100 kms in 3.9 seconds.SMHHOLLYWOOD stars anxious to prove their green credentials are paying more than $100,000 for a sexy electric sports car now rolling out in the US.The sleek Tesla Roadster, pictured, is modelled on the Lotus [...]
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    Posted: August 03, 2008, 7:23am EDT
    by Wadard

  • Starbucks downsizes — Australia froths

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    Much has been written in media and blogs about Starbucks' retreat from their strategy of market saturation. A fresh announcement about the closure of 61 Australian stores from tomorrow has awakened Australian punditry, and everyone is excitedly offering their opinions. The thread is buzzing on the bus, by email, in [...]
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    Posted: August 02, 2008, 10:16am EDT
    by Wadard

  • There are no "smoke-free areas" on the planet

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    Climate denial may turn out to be the world's most deadly PR campaign. The headline and opening line are the last two sentences of an article by David McKnight, associate professor of the University of NSW. Asking, 'Who is behind climate change deniers?', McKnight tracks the emergence of the AGW [...]
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    Posted: August 02, 2008, 8:07am EDT

  • Sydney seeks to be carbon trading hub

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    Verity Firth, the NSW State Government Minister for Climate Change and the Environment, is sticking her hand up to have Sydney house the National Carbon Market. Absolutely. "Not a lot of people are aware but the Greenhouse Gas Abatement Scheme, which was introduced in 2003, was one of the world's first mandatory [...]
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    Posted: August 01, 2008, 11:56am EDT

  • L. Ron Bolt hits one million eyeballs

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    Credit where due, Andrew Bolt has been the MSM journalist to cross over into blogland most successfully. July saw his blog break the one million page impressions mark. Big in anyone's language. So of course he is asserting his bragging rights, using something that is fast becoming his latest shtick — [...]
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    Posted: August 01, 2008, 10:01am EDT

  • Added to blogroll: Jules' Klimaatblog

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    If I was Dutch* and living below sea level, I would be informing myself about AGW and climate change, big time. And voting for bigger dykes. Jules' Klimaatblog is me, if I were Dutch*. And funnier... But is he really that funny? He sounds serious. Deze blog om wat meer achtergrond te [...]
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    Posted: July 31, 2008, 8:58am EDT

  • AGL green paper briefing notes

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    The Rudd Green Paper Carbon Policy Briefing Note of the first Australian company to trade on the Chicago Climate Exchange, AGL, is accessible from their website. Carbon Policy Briefing NoteDate: 16 July 2008Subject: Commonwealth Green PaperThe Commonwealth Government has released a Green Paper outlining preferred positions for the introduction of [...]
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    Posted: July 31, 2008, 7:12am EDT
    by Wadard

  • Genetic scientist ages L. Ron Bolt

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    Michael James is a Senior Research Fellow and Director for the Genome Variation Laboratory at the Queensland Institute of Medical Research. The way he fisked L. Ron Bolt's now famous 7 graphs will fray the telomeres of The Great Denier. He does a great job debunking Bolt, and explains why. [...]
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    Posted: July 27, 2008, 10:00am EDT

  • L. Ron Bolt denies AGW thrice (today)

    L. Ron Bolt bashes his pulpit, berating anyone who prints politically on climate change: Global warming believer Tim Colebatch in The Age today tries to bat away an inconvenient truth - that the world hasn’t actually warmed for a decade. But more fervent than informed, he simply proves he doesn’t understand [...]
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    Posted: July 25, 2008, 10:35am EDT
    by Wadard

  • Royal Society gives Great Global Warming swindler a Right Royal Bollocking

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    From DeSmogBlog:The UK's Royal Society, one of the oldest and most prestigious scientific bodies in the world has released this statement today on the Ofcom ruling that the "Great Global Warming Swindle" television movie misrepresented the views of some of the world's most distinguished scientists: clipped from [...]
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    Posted: July 22, 2008, 9:48am EDT

  • Very funny Fuel Watch spoof from Get Up

    The bowser wowsers in Parliament House want to rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic rather than address the real long-term solutions to rising petrol prices.View this new ad we've made to cut through the oil slick - and chip in to put it on the air! Well done! We've reached [...]
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    Posted: July 22, 2008, 9:07am EDT

  • Al Gore rails America for a Clean Energy "Moon Shot"

    Watthead have the good oil.By Alisha Fowler and Jesse JenkinsToday, Al Gore became a major ally in the ongoing effort to build consensus around an investment-centered approach to solving our energy crisis and inspiring our nation to tackle the energy challenge as the defining task of our era.Gore issued a [...]
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    Posted: July 21, 2008, 9:04am EDT

  • Rocket scientist brought back to earth

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    In the comments section of the blog of L. Ron Bolt, a cry of dissent. Or was it a straight-out diss? Ezzthetic replied to Alan of Sydney Mon 21 Jul 08 (06:20pm)I would have asked asked her to address the statement Dr. David Evans posed in last Friday’s The Australian She [...]
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    Posted: July 21, 2008, 7:21am EDT

  • People to Rudd: Grow spine, show climate leadership

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    Yes. Australia said it when we recently voted, and we are saying it now in response to the opposition abandoning bipartisanship on climate change, and the government politically neutralising the issue by adopting Howard's old Shergold Report recommendations. Reproduced in full. Phillp Coorey reports: Don't fiddle a world burns AN OVERWHELMING majority of voters [...]
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    Posted: July 20, 2008, 11:30am EDT

  • Thoughts on Rudd's Petrol Excise Cut 'n Run

    Considered thoughts on the green paper on emissions trading from Oikos. He has approximately the same take on the petrol excise offset as I have, though is more eloquent in expressing it. There are two ways to look at this – from a practical perspective or from a principle perspective. Either [...]
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    Posted: July 18, 2008, 9:31am EDT

  • Green paper tinged with blue hue

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    In the wake of the release of the Green paper, Michelle Grattan pings the electorate to see if they are still awake:NO WONDER the Opposition is struggling in its efforts to pick a fight with the Government over its emissions trading scheme. The green paper model differs only marginally from [...]
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    Posted: July 18, 2008, 7:49am EDT

  • Green Paper is cautious politics

    The great Emissions Trading Scheme Sell begins, and the Rudd Government opens by signalling that they ease the pain of introducing the EMT, or whatever they will call it. HOUSEHOLDS earning up to $150,000 and the nation's heaviest polluters will be helped to cope with the introduction of an emissions trading [...]
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    Posted: July 17, 2008, 9:16am EDT

  • Pell: AGW Science Is Papal Bull

    My one question to Cardinal George: If current global warming isn't man-made, then is it God's fault? Then there is that other question. The one that stands out like The Dog Bollocks. clipped from slimpickens.wordpress.comIs Pell exercising his Primacy of Conscience? In stating that he is a climate change [...]
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    Posted: July 15, 2008, 6:54am EDT
    by Wadard

  • ASX preparing to trade carbon

    Greed is good, but green greed is best. The ASX has their eyes on their share of the $46.5 trillion investment market that the International Energy Agency says is required to reduce the world's CO2 emissions by 50 percent by 2030, 21.5 years away. Robert Elstone | July 14, 2008 AS record [...]
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    Posted: July 14, 2008, 9:08am EDT
    by Wadard
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