Articles Tagged "Bob Carter"

Anthropogenic (Human Caused) Global Warming Debunked


If you apply proper scientific method to the data relating to anthropogenic global warming, the myths that have been created are clearly exposed for what they are...

"There has never in human history been a greater disconnect between the basic science and what is going on at the moment... ...it is absolutely astonishing the disjunct between the politics and the socio-economics of the "green agenda".... Climate has always changed, it always will, there is nothing unusual about present day rates of change.

Atmospheric CO2 is not a pollutant, nor is it the primary forcing cause of climate change. Attempting to stop climate change is an expensive act of utter futility you are literally trying to stop the clouds crossing the sky " (Paraphrased)

Professor Bob Carter's presentation is an easy to understand explanation of this important issue

Tomorrow’s theoretical problems have been trumping today’s urgent needs.

When it comes to climate change, our leaders would do well to follow Buddhist advice: when struck by an arrow, first remove it before seeking out your assailant. Otherwise, you will die.

But most governments and charitable foundations today do exactly the opposite. They try so hard to appease climate activists — who seem more concerned about the possible plight of people yet to be born than those suffering today — that millions of people have been abandoned to misery and early death in the poorest parts of the world.

The Canadian government is providing what might appear to be a generous $142 million to help victims of drought and famine in East Africa. Australia has also committed over $103 million. That is certainly far more money than either China or Saudi Arabia — the latter situated just across the Red Sea from the disaster area — are contributing. But it pales in comparison with what Canada and Australia are paying to fulfill their entirely voluntary Copenhagen Accord climate change commitments. Australia committed $599 million and Canada $1.2 billion between 2010 and 2012.

Both nations have already donated the first third of this commitment, an amount that is almost exactly the current shortfall in the international Horn of Africa Drought fund, a deficit that may lead to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people if it is not rectified.

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Special climate panel discussion with Professor Garth Paltridge, Professor Peter Ridd and Professor Bob Carter.

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If you've switched on the air con today or driven your car, did you think at all about the carbon emissions and how that is affecting the planet? Or do you think it's a whole lotta hogwash?

Climate change sceptics say that yes the climate is changing but that's just the normal weather cycle. Some go so far as to say that the carbon tax should not be introduced because humans are not contributing to global warming.



Today, this cartoon popped into my inbox and as i'm still thinking about the conversation with Professor Bob Carter, I thought I'd share this cartoon with you after having a conversation earlier this week with one of the worlds leading climate change sceptics.

Click source for MUST listen interview with Vicki Kerrigan from ABC Darwin and Bob Carter

The United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), already under severe criticism for violating the requirements of academic peer review and relying on secondary sources, comes under attack again in a new report co-produced by three nonprofit research organizations.

According to the new report, “natural causes are very likely to be [the] dominant” cause of climate change that took place in the twentieth and at the start of the twenty-first centuries. “We are not saying anthropogenic greenhouse gases (GHG) cannot produce some warming or have not in the past. Our conclusion is that the evidence shows they are not playing a substantial role.”

The authors of the new report go on to say “the net effect of continued warming and rising carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere is most likely to be beneficial to humans, plants, and wildlife.”

Both conclusions contradict the findings of the widely cited reports of the IPCC.

Which “science” and which “morality”, Malcolm?

In a Sydney lecture last week, shadow communications minister Malcolm Turnbull again shared with us his strange views on the scientific method, and his doctrinaire opinion that a market-based carbon dioxide scheme should form the core of national climate policy.

Mr Turnbull positions himself as a moderate on the issue of dangerous global warming, but in fact he supports the same extreme view as do environmental activists on the hard left.

His rusted on belief that dangerous global warming is being caused by human-related carbon dioxide emissions probably dates back to his days as Minister for Environment under Mr Howard. Then, like all new recruits to that portfolio, his views on iconic environmental issues will have been captured by the usual “”Yes, Minister” clique of bureaucrats and official science advisers – doubtless wielding the snazzy computer simulations that are so loved by science junketeers.

The scientific method

Writing in the Sydney Morning Herald, political journalist Michelle Grattan says that no one could doubt that Mr. Turnbull means what he says about the science of global warming, which is this:

Last week Australia's new Chief Scientist, Professor Ian Chubb, argued that the available science on climate change should compel the community to act. This week the geologist Bob Carter responds.

IAN CHUBB says the climate change debate is not about politics but science. Would that it were so.

But it is not that simple, for there really are two matters at hand, namely the science relevant to global warming and the principle of sound empiricism and calm rational thought to determine important affairs of state (politics).

Alas, in the public debate about global warming, these principles of sound science and sound governance have become entwined with political self-interest by well-funded lobby groups of both the ''save the world'' and ''let's make money'' variety.

Advertisement: Story continues below First, the science. The scientific method is a brilliantly successful technique for discovering, understanding and managing the world around us, born out of the fire of the European Enlightenment.

The myth of Climate-gate has endured because of media failings.

Geologist and long-time climate change denialist Bob Carter materialised on this website on Monday, reprising a weary routine - tiptoeing through the scientific archive to find the morsels of data that might, with a twirl here and a shimmy there, contrive to support his theory that global warming is a big fat conspiracy.

Meanwhile, in real news, the journal Nature Geoscience published a paper by American and British scientists that found West Antarctica's Pine Island glacier is now melting 50 per cent faster than in 1994.

In an effort to better understand the hidden mysteries of ice sheet dynamics, which have obvious implications for every coast on the planet, the team also sent a submarine beneath the floating portion of the ice. It found the glacier had broken free from the ridge that once grounded it, allowing warmer waters to circulate and melt it from beneath. This had long been the theory - now they had some observed evidence.

There is no need for a carbon tax because dangerous global warming is not occurring.

Well, you have to admit that they've tried hard. Labor, that is. In April 2007 Kevin Rudd, before his election as prime minister, appointed distinguished social scientist Ross Garnaut to advise the party on global warming. A strange decision, that: ''Here's a scientific problem so let's appoint an economist to give us policy advice.''

Roll forward 18 months to September 2008 and the publication of the first Garnaut report, in which we find much esoteric economic advice on how to deal with an assumed global warming problem for which no independent scientific evidence was provided. Instead, Garnaut relied then, and still relies now, upon the alarmist and politicised ''science'' provided by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Unfortunately, the panel's reputation as a source of credible, impartial science advice was badly damaged by the leaked ''Climate-gate'' emails in November 2009, and has since continued to decline as evidence mounts for the controlling influence of environmental lobby groups on its activities.

Pass on again to February this year, past the final defeat of the emissions trading bill in the Senate in July 2009, the collapse of the Copenhagen climate talks in December 2009 and the rise of Julia Gillard to the prime ministership in June 2010. On February 10, Tim Flannery was appointed Climate Commissioner - presumably to provide a more friendly public face to the government's anti-global warming campaign. Unfortunately, Flannery's Gaia-esque style and his numerous failed climate prognostications undermine the credibility of the commission.

This week I have included a few radio downloads from the Alan Jones show as he has impressed me on his "Climate Realist" stance. Here are a few more interviews:

Alan put our side forward to Paul Kelly, the Editor of The Australian CLICK to download and listen.

Alan speaks to Federal Opposition Leader Tony Abbott about the carbon tax, the state of the economy and the federal political scene. CLICK to download and listen.

Alan speaks to Piers Akerman about the carbon tax scare. CLICK to download and listen.

CLICK to see all radio downloads from this week inc. Bob Carter, Tim Ball & Richard Lindzen