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April Quadrant

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Folks,

 

The April edition of Quadrant has published a written version of the talk that I gave at the Heartland-2 conference in New York, under the title “A New Policy Direction for Climate Change”. It can be accessed online at:

 

http://www.quadrant.org.au/magazine/issue/2009/4/a-new-policy-direction-for-climate-change

 

The same issue also contains an very useful analysis by Tom Quirk of the perils of computer modelling, though I can’t find an electronic copy posted (if anyone finds one, perhaps they could distribute the details).

 

Lastly, if anyone wants to become depressed then try a browse through some of the 122 and counting submissions to the Australian Senate enquiry into the draft emissions trading legislation, at:

 

http://www.aph.gov.au/senate/committee/economics_ctte/cprs_09/submissions/sublist.htm

 

Perhaps it’s just the ones that I’ve picked out to look at, but my God there’s a mountain of self-serving rubbish here. Amongst it, though, there are a few shining lights, including No. 28, from Viv Forbes and the Climate Science Coalition.

 

 

Cathy

Coal4Breakfast: Update from Geoff Hewitt

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LAST year Queensland farmers were informed that the Government had granted Tarong Energy a mineral development licence over the Haystack Road coal deposit on prime agricultural farmland.  The farmers are running a campaign against it.  Here’s the latest update:  

It was pleasing to see the very public commitment on the front page of the Toowoomba Chronicle on Saturday, 7th March, from party leader Lawrence Springborg committing his party, should they win government, to the protection of the iconic farming areas of Haystack Road and Felton, and to the introduction of a planning process to identify and protect other areas of prime farm land in Queensland.  Mr Springborg said, in releasing the policy commitment, that it was not an anti mining policy, and that LNP recognize the need to protect our prime farm land for future generations.  LNP should be congratulated for recognising the importance of this issue. 

A few days earlier, the Queensland Greens had announced that they too would protect areas of prime farm land from unnecessary mining development.  During the following week, a number of notable independent candidates also stated a commitment to this policy. 

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Heaven and Earth: New Book by Ian Plimer

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CONNOR Court Publishing is about to release a new book by well known Australian geologist and climate change skeptic, Ian Plimer. 

It is entitled, ‘Heaven and Earth – Global Warming: The Missing Science’ 

According to the pre-release publicity:

THE Earth is an evolving dynamic system. Current changes in climate, sea level and ice are within variability. Atmospheric CO2  is the lowest for 500 million years. Climate has always been driven by the Sun, the Earth’s orbit and plate tectonics and the oceans, atmosphere and life respond. Humans have made their mark on the planet, thrived in warm times and struggled in cool times.

The hypothesis that humans can actually change climate is unsupported by evidence from geology, archaeology, history and astronomy. The hypothesis is rejected.

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Bob Carter’s Report on the First Session at the Climate Conference in New York

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Folks,

You may be interested in my reports from the NY climate conference which are being posted by Quadrant Online.

In my report on session one I comment that:

President Vaclav Klaus reports latest poll from the Czech Republic shows only 11% of people believe that man has a significant influence in warming the climate.

West Australian Joanne Nova’s Climate Skeptics Handbook launched, and a 150,000 print run announced.

“We will win this debate”, says Dr Richard Lindzen, “for we are right and they are wrong”.
 
More here:
http://www.quadrant.org.au/blogs/doomed-planet/2009/03/heartland-2-session-one

Bob Carter
New York
9th March, 2009

Introducting A New Political Party: A Note from Cohenite

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A new political party, The Climate Sceptics [TCS] has been formed to oppose the lemming-like political sameness of the major parties. With the R2 correlation between Labor and Liberal at 1 the TCS are both a world first and essential for reasonable public choice and information.

The media have seriously let the public down in its presentation of AGW, basically parroting Wong, Rudd, Turnbull, Brown et al, who basically parrot Hansen, Gore and the IPCC. Hopefully, with a political party presenting an alternative viewpoint not only will the media pick up its game and start doing some investigative and transparent reporting about the gross deficiencies of AGW, but, as well, the disparate groups fighting the malaise of AGW will have a banner organization to continue their fight against AGW, and the obscene amounts of money being thrown at it, in a unified fashion.

Given TCS’s arrival it is appropriate to reexamine the flaws and dearth of evidence to support AGW. Unlike “Climate Change”, which is the new, deceitful term used by alarmists, AGW does conform to Popper’s falsification principle; Climate Change is not a scientific theory because it cannot be disproved; the climate is always changing and nothing disproves it. But AGW is promulgated on the basis of definite assumptions; these assumptions can be examined for flaws and defects.

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