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End Game of Climate Wars: Clive James discusses how it plays out (slowly)
The best way to kill off the Climate Debate is to do what Team-Alarm
has done for years — stop talking about whether it’s real, and just
project forwards, detailing the collapse. For twenty years others have
been saying “the debate is over”. Now the tables are turning. The debate
really is over, skeptics won, and what’s left is to watch it continue
to unravel. Clive James argues that it won’t col
Trump leads way in popping symbolic Paris bubble
Bubble
popped. :- ) The Leader of the free world leads the way out of the
hollow bureaucratic pointless puffery of an agreement that was never
going to change the weather. The people of the free world never voted to
join the Paris agreement. Trump has just said the obvious — he’ll look
after US citizens first, and renegotiate a deal that helps the
environment and doesn’t punish the leading pollute
May 31
Trump nearly, really, almost, about to pull out of Paris Agreement
Two days ago unidentified confidants suggested he would really pull
out. Now more unnamed sources have more details about the announcement
that is apparently imminent. Headlines are telling us that Trump
Withdraws from Paris Climate Change, but Trump hasn’t (yet). Are you
excited? Scoop: Trump is pulling U.S. out of Paris climate deal
President Trump has made his decision to withdraw from the Par
May 30
Global Warming is a war driven by oil and gas against coal… ?
Oh the irony. What if “fossil fuels” were driving the climate debate,
but on the Warmie side? Fossil fuels is a misnomer, there is no
collective fossil industry, just a bunch of massive multi-conglomerates
competing. And the biggest competition for oil and gas comes from coal.
Gas wins two ways: not only do “carbon schemes” help gas and oil
compete, but the more windmills there are, the more gas
May 29
EU Economists say carbon price needs to rise 10 – 20 fold to meet pledges
The
EU Ministry for The Management of Nice Weather says that the artificial
price of carbon credits must rise a magnitude or two if they are going
to have any chance of meeting their “climate” target. In some senses
they are right — the price of carbon would have to be very high to get
people to shift energy sources, because the ones that produce carbon
dioxide are so blissfully cheap. On the othe
May 27
Trump tells confidants US will leave Paris deal: ClimateDepot says it would be “victory for science”
Email just in from Marc Morano of Climate Depot WASHINGTON – Multiple
news agencies, including Reuters News, are now reporting that President
Donald Trump has privately informed several officials in Washington DC
that he intends to withdraw from the UN Paris climate pact. Climate
Depot’s Marc Morano statement: “A U.S. Clexit (Climate Exit from UN
Paris Pact) would be a victory for science. Make n
Psst, who said scientists were getting rich? It’s bankers, renewable giants, the Green-machine and Al Gore
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Red Herring just flew through the Climate Change Gravy Train Anthony
Sharwood hopes to derail the killer argument about Golden Gravy Train:
Scientists Getting Filthy Rich On Climate Change? Here Are The Facts
This train has no gravy on it. Get ready to rethink the role of carbon.
Sharwood comes armed with facts like a non-quote from an anonymous
climate scientist friend in Tasmania who says he’s
May 25
Sea level rise hysteria can be cured by looking at tide gauge data
Scaremonger photos of inundation abound in our national news this week.
Famous foreshore parks are gone, islands disappear, houses, picnic
areas, racecourses, golf courses — all submerged. The water rolls in
over Sydney’s Circular Quay, Melbourne’s Docklands, Brisbane Airport,
Hindmarsh Island — swamped. Rooned. Today its the satellite photo,
tomorrow it’ll be computer generated streetscapes; com
May 24
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May 21
Another glorious solar scheme fails ignominiously, “fast clouds”, “rusty pipes”, dumb decisions
Another award winning solar project collapses: it was a $105 million
dollar scheme. One company, Areva, lost about $50m and so did the
taxpayer. Everything went wrong, management, planning, cheap poor
quality steel from China, industrial dispute that left 80% of the pipes
rusting on a dock. Three thousand solar reflectors are sitting unused in
what was a potato paddock in Dalby. Nobody wants to b
May 19
ACMA, media watchdog, says lies by omission at the ABC are OK
This story of Beliaik’s is making waves, cross-posted already at
Catallaxy. Through letters and FOI’s he shows that the ABC won’t publish
expert stories that don’t fit their personal political beliefs
(specifically on climate and corals), and that the main industry
“watchdog” is such a puppet they don’t even mind. In February Beliaik
tipped off the ABC about breaking news that showed the Karl et
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May 18
Antarctica might go green say scientists (only 2km of ice and 50C of warming to go)
More great journalism from The Guardian: Climate change is turning
Antarctica green, say researchers Or maybe it isn’t. Check out the brave
actual prediction: “Antarctica is not going to become entirely green,
but it will become more green than it currently is,” said Matt Amesbury,
co-author of the research from the University of Exeter. Can I just
say, the mean thickness of the Antarctic ice she
May 17
India meets climate goals early by doubling coal, and keeping it as main energy source for next 30 years
In the last day in the media, India is going to use coal as its
backbone energy for the next thirty years, is buying coal mines all
around the world, and will double production by 2020 to a massive 1,500
million tons per annum. At the same time India is meetings its climate
goals early, and is likely to reduce emissions by 2 – 3 billion tons by
2030. They can’t all be true: Coal to be India’s ene
May 16
Innovative taxes needed to “find” $300 billion pa for climate damage
In socialistspeak people don’t produce goods to make money, they “find”
money lying around the crysanthymums or something, because
$300,000,000,000 dollars didn’t have anywhere else to be. Innovative
finance needed to find $300 billion a year for climate losses And what
if the solar dynamo drives climate change instead? Tax the Sun. My
climate prediction: Global climate reparations are going to e
May 15
Six out of seven Climate Models wrong about Antarctic sea ice
Craig Idso and Pat Michaels point us at the global anachronism that is
the Antarctic. It’s not just that models are wrong about the amount of
Antarctic Sea Ice, it’s much worse than that. Only one in seven models
even get the sign of the trend right. It’s just simple physics, right?
CO2 is trapping all that heat over Antarctica but for some reason, the
sea-ice is expanding. … Their graph ends in
May 13
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May 12
Scientists discover an extra 5 million square kilometers of forest , just like that.
Scientists apparently can’t predict where forests are right now, but
weather patterns one hundred years from now, no problem. It’s nearly 60
years since the first satellite was launched, and we are still figuring
out basic stuff down here on the surface — like which bits are forest.
People are willing to set up a two trillion dollar global market to
trade carbon, but their carbon models are so pr
May 11
Matt Ridley: Wind power makes 0% of world energy
It’s all in how you spin it. Supra-zoogle-watts of new wind power
capacity was added last year. Wind and solar grew faster than fossil
fuels. There are now 341,000 wind turbines around the world! Thus do
Meaningless Big-Numbers flow. Instead Matt Ridley gets down to the small
numbers that tell us what is going on: Wind Turbines are neither clean
nor green. The Spectator: Here’s a quiz; no conferr
May 10
Goldman Sachs — bigger than fossil fuel in the climate debate
We
can’t blame Goldman Sachs. It’s just good business. Goldman Sachs pours
money into lefty causes and politicians of both stripes. The gifts to
left-wing flagships like climate change and same-sex marriage buy
protection from the anti-bank Occupy crowd. And climate propaganda is
doubly useful — Goldman Sachs can invest and profit from government
largess. And these are very big biccies – -in 2009
May 09
Worldwide: Over 1,200 laws aim to change weather — need more to limit downpours, seas, storms
Welcome to paleolithic politics: in this version, the witchdoctors are
syndicated and with lap tops. OSLO (Reuters) – Nations around the world
have adopted more than 1,200 laws to curb climate change… Patricia
Espinosa, the U.N.’s climate change chief, … said the findings were
“cause for optimism”… Because more laws are always good. Forty-seven
laws had been added since world leaders adopted a Pa
May 08
“Demand Destruction”: How to destroy national economy
A funny thing happened on the way to the market. The government picked a
winner, and everybody clapped as the losers left the room. But the
electricity prices doubled, and unpredictable brutal price spikes
started to happen (forty times a month). Then the real free market (or
what was left of it) reacted — traders started to game the system, and
the investors start to back away. Welcome to Queens
May 06
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