Articles Tagged "Bob Carter"

Folks,

You probably all know that there has been a MAJOR change in the way that the Australian media are reporting the AGW issue, led nobly by The Australian. The change has been stimulated by a Canberra Senate select committee that is discussing the tabled ETS legislation, and also by the release of Ian Plimer’s new book.

You can find an account of what the committee is on about here, and at the end of the article is a list of URLs that link to much more balanced media comment than has formerly ever been the case, at least in Australia:

On a Tortuous Political Problem: Bob Carter

That’s last week. The trend of balanced media comment has continued this week, culminating with a splendid article, and an even more splendid headline, by Jan Veizer in today’s Australian:

Check out this YouTube with Bob Carter and Willie Soon

President Vaclav Klaus reports latest poll from the Czech Republic: 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”.

The opening session of the Heartland-2 Conference opened with a bang here in Manhatten tonight [Sunday evening March 8, 2009]. With registrations of around 700 persons, the conference is almost twice the size of its predecessor last year. The audience for the two opening plenary talks, held over dinner, included an eclectic mixture of scientists, engineers, economists, policy specialists, government representatives and media reporters.

The editorial in last weekend’s Australian, “Carbon trading is not the only answer” (21/22 February), addressed the controversial issue of the government’s planned emissions trading legislation, commenting that “We need to hear other ideas on greenhouse gas reduction”.

Talk about missing the point! For the pressing issue that we need to deal with is the hard reality of natural climate change, rather than wasting money on futile attempts to “stop” speculative human-caused warming.

THE National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported that October in the US was marked by 63 record snowfalls and 115 lowest-ever temperatures.

Over the past few years, similar signs of colder than usual weather have been recorded all over the world, causing many people to question the still fashionable, but now long outdated, global warming alarmism. Yet individual weather events or spells, whether warmings or coolings, tell us nothing necessarily about true climate change.

Bob Carter is an adjunct research fellow at James Cook University, Townsville, and studies ancient climate change.

THE Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change model of dangerous, human-caused climate change has failed. Independent science relevant to supposed human-caused global warming is clear, and can be summarised in four briefpoints...

The following article Updating the Science of Global Warming: A Q&A with Marine Biologist Katherine Richardson from Scientific American (sciam.com) received the following outcry from CO2Sceptics........

Oh no! 'International climate change congress aims to gather the world's top scientists to update the book on global warming'

Updated Below by Bob Carter

From QuadRant.org.au

The Futile Quest for Climate Control
Robert M. Carter

The idea that human beings have changed and are changing the basic climate system of the Earth through their industrial activities and burning of fossil fuels.....

From News.Com.AU (Couriermail.Com)

Emissions trading scheme futile
by Bob Carter

NATURAL climate changes include warmings, coolings and more abrupt steps represented by the Great Pacific Climate Shift in 1977.

Meanwhile, lurking in the background lies the threat of visitation of another Little Ice Age.

The Rudd Government's emissions trading policy deals only with the threat of presumed human-caused warming, and ignores the other all-too-real climate threats. The Government's intended emissions trading scheme, therefore, does not represent proper climate policy but rather constitutes a human global warming policy - which is an entirely different, and speculative, matter.

This has just arrived from New Zealand

From the New Zealand Climate Science Coalition:

GLOBAL WARMING - WHY THE PENDULUM IS SWINGING TO SKEPTICS

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“Global average temperature has not increased since 1998. This corresponds to a 9-year period during which the level of atmospheric carbon dioxide, in contrast, did increase, and that by almost 5%. The greenhouse hypothesis - which asserts that carbon dioxide increases of human origin will cause dangerous global warming - is clearly invalidated by these data.

As if that were not enough, a leading computer modelling team has recently published a paper in Nature which acknowledges what climate realists (the so-called “sceptics”) have always asserted. Which is that, contrary to IPCC assessments, any human influence on global temperature is so small that it cannot be differentiated from natural cycles of climate change.

The same modellers have even predicted (after the start of the event, of course) that cooling will now occur for at least the next few years. Mortal strike two against dangerous, human-caused warming. At this news, the rare balanced commentaries that hitherto have been but a trickle through cracks in the monolithic dam of climate alarmism have coalesced into a steady, fissured flow, and there is an imminent likelihood of total dam collapse.