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LORD MONCKTON STEVE FIELDING OPEN LETTER/FAX HEADLINE STORY

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An Open Letter to Chairman Pachauri from Lord Monkton and Senator Fielding

Thursday, December 17th 2009, 4:41 AM EST

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From ScienceAndPublicPolicy.org

Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, Chairman, Tata Energy Research Institute, a.k.a. The Energy Research Institute.

Sir,

A DEFECTIVE IPCC GRAPH AND ITS IMPLICATIONS

In a lecture that you gave at the University of New South Wales in October last year, you reproduced the following diagram from the IPCC’s Fourth Assessment Report, 1 which was published at a time when you were Chairman of the IPCC as well as Chairman of the Tata Energy Research Institute, India –

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NEWSPAPER ARTICLE STEVE FIELDING BOB CARTER

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Wong's silent treatment

Friday, June 19th 2009, 5:59 AM EDT

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STEVE Fielding recently attended a climate change conference in Washington, DC. Listening to the papers presented, the Family First senator became puzzled that the scientific analyses they provided directly contradicted the reasons the Australian government had been giving as the justification for its emissions trading legislation.

Fielding heard leading atmospheric physicist Dick Lindzen, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, describe evidence that the warming effect of carbon dioxide was much overestimated by computer climate models and remark: "What we see, then, is that the very foundation of the issue of global warming is wrong.

"In a normal field, these results would pretty much wrap things up, but global warming-climate change has developed so much momentum that it has a life of its own quite removed from science."

Source Link: theaustralian.news.com.au

WORLD TEMPERATURES STEVE FIELDING

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I kept an open mind on the road to Washington by Steve Fielding

Monday, June 8th 2009, 11:47 AM EDT

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IT seems every Australian has an opinion on the Rudd government's emissions trading scheme. Green groups have been calling for stronger emissions targets while businesses have been pushing for more assistance to be granted to affected industries. Others simply argue that Australia should be waiting until Copenhagen before rushing ahead with any scheme. The one question, however, that no one seems to be asking, is whether or not we even need an emissions trading scheme at all?

Only 500 years ago, people believed Earth was the centre of the universe and the sun and planets revolved around it. Anyone who dared challenge this idea was denounced as a heretic and punished by imprisonment, torture or in some cases even death. Public debate on this issue was strictly prohibited. It is only on account of people such as Copernicus and Galileo, who dared question the "indisputable science", that we now know these assertions to be false. For me, these events are in many ways reminiscent of the present debate on climate change. Though thankfully we do not persecute those arguing against the idea of human-induced global warming, a blind acceptance of only one perspective has meant that proper debate on this issue has essentially been stifled. Opponents of the popular opinion that global warming is a direct result of carbon emissions, a group that includes many notable and distinguished scientists, are often derided and quickly dismissed.

Source Link: theaustralian.news.com.au

WORLD TEMPERATURES STEVE FIELDING

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Fielding wants solar flare theory investigated

Monday, June 8th 2009, 11:38 AM EDT

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Family First Senator Steve Fielding says increasing levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere might not be causing global warming.

He has been at a climate change conference in the United States where he heard that solar flares could be linked to temperature change. The Government wants the Senate to vote on its carbon reduction scheme this month.

Senator Fielding says he wants to talk to government scientists about his concerns before he will be able to vote on the scheme. "The issue that has been put forward is that over the last decade carbon emissions have been going up but global temperature hasn't," he said.

Source Link: abc.net.au

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Fielding finds climate sceptics in strange places by Adam Morton, Farm Weekly

Wednesday, December 16th 2009, 2:32 AM EST

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SENATOR Steve Fielding has had a revelation: the Federal Government is full of climate change sceptics

"If they really believe the science, you wouldn't do a 5 [per cent cut in greenhouse gas emissions], you wouldn't do 20, you would do 30 or 40. If you really believe the science, how could you support anything other than 40 per cent?"

No, the Family First senator hasn't changed his mind on global warming. When The Age found him he had just landed at the Bella Centre, Copenhagen, and was standing in his pinstripe suit in the middle of the atrium, taking in the spectacle of 15,000 people brought together by climate change.

He is among them, but not with them, doubting the science underpinning the conference. He doubts the Government's solution of an emissions trading scheme - a proposal he has helped vote down twice - and doubts the Government is being fair dinkum about its commitment.

Source Link: fw.farmonline.com.au

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CLIMATEGATE STEVE FIELDING

Investigation into IPCC climate science

Wednesday, December 16th 2009, 4:28 AM EST

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USA SENATORS ECHO FIELDING'S CALL FOR CLIMATE SCIENCE INVESTIGATION

Family First Leader Senator Steve Fielding says 27 US Senators have also called for an independent investigation into IPCC climate science.

Senator Fielding has gained a copy of the US senators letter to UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-Moon, calling for an investigation similar to the 2004 independent inquiry into the UN's Oil for Food Program.

"The US Senators letter raises huge concerns about wether the IPCC's top scientists have engaged in efforts to manipulate data, defame scientists with opposing viewpoints and evade transparency," Senator Fielding said.

Source Link: australia.to