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 .
Carbon Trading
Excuse India: Says IPCC Boss
India will continue to use coal to meet its energy demands, says Rajendra Pachauri, chair of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). “You cannot, in a democracy, ignore some of these realities and as it happens with the resources of coal that India has we really don’t have any choice but to use coal in the immediate short term,” he said. The Hindu, 22 July 2009
Cap n Trade Politics in Australia
Australia’s Malcolm Turnbull has backed off suggestions that the Coalition would wave through Kevin Rudd’s emissions trading scheme in the Senate next month after angry Coalition MPs hit out at the Leader of the Opposition yesterday. Read more here.
Carbon Crime
Forget drugs, extortion or prostitution. If the makers of the Underbelly TV series are looking for new worlds of organised crime, they need look no further than Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s policy to cut greenhouse gas emissions. Read more here.
No Warming Until Maybe 2020
OK. It is not pleasant to call someone a ‘warmaholic’.
I guess it does suggest a dependency.
I always thought of the blog RealClimate as dependent on their being global warming. But in a recent article they are suggesting there may be no more warming until 2020. I reckon if you can live without something for 11 years it suggests a lack of dependency.
But they are denying there is cooling.
A reader, Robert Ellison, has suggested it is OK to leave the question of whether this is a longer term trend – for the moment. But, he insists, “The real point is that 0.08 degrees per decade (and declining sensitivity to greenhouse gases) is not sufficient to warrant restricting the economic aspirations of billions of people.”
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Notes and Links
Warming, interrupted: Much ado about natural variability
By Kyle Swanson – University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
http://www.uwm.edu/~kswanson/publications/2008GL037022_all.pdf
discussed at http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2009/07/warminginterrupted-much-ado-about-natural-variability/
In Melbourne: Big Al, Small Protest
ANYONE who denies global warming is in the pay of big oil. Remember that is what the big man, Al Gore, said in his movie ‘An Inconvenient Truth’. But like so much that Mr Gore says, it just isn’t true.
Consider the 30-odd protesters who held placards outside the breakfast he spoke at this morning in Melbourne. The scruffy-lot, lead by a farmer Leon Ashby, were not there because someone paid them, but because they are outraged by Al Gore and what he has thrust on the world. In particular, his belief that we already have a climate crisis and that the only solution is carbon trading. [Read more…] about In Melbourne: Big Al, Small Protest
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.