China is aiming to increase its coal production by about 30 percent by 2015 to meet its energy needs, the government has announced, in a move likely to fuel concerns over global warming. Read more here.
‘Climate Porn’ & Other New Words
The big trend for [last] year was the growth of environmental language: of ecocentrism, referring to the philosophy in which the ecosphere is more important than an organism or human activity … of climate porn, referring to alarmist predictions about the progress of global warming. Read more here.
Comedian George Carlin on ‘Saving the Planet’
Here’s a video for those tired of the righteous and what Bob Carter calls hubris: Click to play.
It’s Cold in Europe
Governments across Europe declared states of emergency and ordered factories to close as Russia cut all gas supplies through Ukraine yesterday in their worsening dispute over unpaid bills. Read more here.
Surface-based Temperature Records
THE warmaholics are fond of using the phrase “official records going back to 1850”, but the simple facts are that prior to the 1970s, surface-based temperatures from a few indiscriminate, mostly backyard locations in Europe and the US are fatally corrupted and not in any sense a real record. Read more here.
Crazy Claims from Climate Scientist
This is absured, but true: Australia’s use of coal and carbon emissions policies are guaranteeing the “destruction of much of the life on the planet”, a leading NASA scientist has written in a letter to Barack Obama. Read more here.
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.