Watkin Tench of the Royal Marines detailed a heatwave powered by north-westerly winds that howled for three days… “an immense flight of bats, driven before the wind … dropped dead or in a dying state, unable longer to endure the burning state of the atmosphere”… temperature was 101 degrees Fahrenheit, or 38.3 Celsius. Read more here.
Garth Paltridge on The Climate Caper
Resisting Climate Hysteria
The fact that the developed world went into hysterics over changes in global mean temperature anomaly of a few tenths of a degree will astound future generations. Such hysteria simply represents the scientific illiteracy of much of the public … Read more here… from Richard Lindzen at Quadrant Online.
Copenhagen in December: The Decline of the West – And Money
IT is generally recognized that the west is in decline and that China will emerge as a superpower some time later this century.
It is also generally recognised that it is the west that has spear-headed the campaign against the so-called climate crisis. And the west is desperate to get the rest of the world to a United Nations meeting in Copenhagen in December to discuss solutions to this issue.
The UN’s top climate negotiator, a Dutchman Yvo De Boer, has already said the west will have to put $10 billion on the table to get the developing world – read China and India – to agree to anything at Copenhagen.
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Butterflies to Canberra for Amnesty International
Create your own butterfly in support of women forced into sexual slavery during WWII. Read more here.
Canberra August 13, Protest Against ETS
LEON Ashby and a quiet bull will lead a protest against the emission trading scheme outside Australia’s Parliament House on August 13th. Barnaby Joyce will be one of the speakers. For more information email info@climatesceptics.com.au .
Jennifer Marohasy BSc PhD has worked in industry and government. She is currently researching a novel technique for long-range weather forecasting funded by the B. Macfie Family Foundation.