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The socio-economic situation in South Africa and many other countries continues to deteriorate. In South Africa it is estimated that about 39% of the population live below the breadline. About 25% of the work force are unemployed. This is unsustainable.

To counter this situation the authorities have just announced an extensive and expensive infrastructure development programme, including the provision of affordable water and electricity. However, the implementation will require increases in the employment of competent and experienced professional staff. This in turn requires urgent, experience based high level training courses for practitioners, certainly not short presentations based on academic studies.

This has been my objective during my long professional career. Imagine my indignation when our water division announced a presentation on ‘climate change and water’ by a person who has close to zero practical knowledge and experience in the field of water resource development and management.

FakeGate.org

Why this site exists

On February 20, Peter Gleick confessed to stealing documents from The Heartland Institute with the intent of exposing its funding sources and damaging its reputation. He also disseminated a fake “climate strategy memo” that he and other environmental activists on the left claim describes Heartland’s “secret strategy” to mislead the public about the true nature of climate change.

At first Gleick claimed he obtained the fake memo along with other documents from The Heartland Institute. Now he claims it came from an anonymous source before he stole the documents. Heartland has consistently and unambiguously said the memo is a forgery and was not produced by anyone associated with The Heartland Institute.

“Fakegate” is title the title given to this scandal by the London Telegraph’s James Delingpole.

Dear All,

I have finally got round to starting a blog on the politics behind global warming (and some other stuff).

Martin

Poor Al Gore.   Global warming is fast turning into a joke.  From the jolly Hockey Stick (remember that one) to the topsy-turvy ice core data (what a howler), from the laughable computer models, to the dodgy temperature records … not a single scrap of global warming garbage has escaped the blistering, excoriating scrutiny of McIntyre, Lindzen, Christy, Spencer, Singer, Carter & Co.  The awkward-squad army of sceptics have kicked and trampled this theory to death, not once, but a hundred times over.
 
And yet, for all the onslaught of reasoned, scientific argument, the global warming beast refuses to lie down.  Like some beleagured, maniac cyborg from the future, it just goes on and on.  We all know the reason.  The edifice of global warming is built not on science, but politics.

But what kind of politics?  This is the first in a series of blog pieces to explore the green politics behind global warming .....

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Al Gore

Former Vice President of the United States, Al Gore is one the world’s largest advocates of the global warming theory. Founder and chair of the Alliance for Climate Protection, Gore feverishly advocates that human greenhouse gas emissions have a detrimental effect on global climate. Gore's award-winning documentary film, "An Inconvenient Truth," faced heavy criticism from experts on climate change and was ruled "propaganda" by a British High Court...

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It's time: an opportunity to support true scientists presenting real-world climate science to inform the public.

Hi,

We’re delighted to be able to introduce you to the web site of the newly-formed Galileo Movement (www.galileomovement.com.au). The principal aim of this Movement is to first win the battle against the currently threatened tax on carbon dioxide and then to win the war against any drive for ever putting a price on it.

From recent public polls it is obvious that the majority of Australians are opposed to this tax and we believe you are probably part of that majority.

Our efforts are non-political as there are politicians in all parties who need to be convinced of the futility of taxing a beneficial trace gas in the atmosphere. So many people still think that carbon dioxide is a harmful pollutant; we need your help to educate these people that this is not so! We have strong connections to excellent scientific and other advisers worldwide. We’re ready.

Someone said if you think education is expensive – try ignorance. This website is dedicated to helping people understand the world and the ways it works. We’re in an information revolution because the Internet is democratizing information.

Everyone knows that information is power, but it’s exploitation of power that has allowed a few to control and exploit people. Exploitation can be financial, but more disturbing and controlling is the exploitation of power.

Throughout my career I have worked to help people learn and understand. So much information in today’s world is available, but couched in jargon or terminology alien to most. It was an issue I challenged fellow authors about in our recent book on climate change titled Slaying the Sky Dragon: Death of the Greenhouse Gas Theory. I challenged fellow climate skeptics about it in a keynote speech in 2008. I struggled with the problem throughout my career, particularly in teaching a science credit course for Arts students.

The other issue I discussed was that climatology is a generalist discipline in a world of specialization. Even a basic understanding requires integration of everything from cosmic radiation from space to volcanic heat on the bottom of the ocean and everything in between.

Knowledge is valuable but only if it improves the human condition. As a consequence, beyond understanding the generalist nature of climate I am especially interested in how it affects all aspects of human existence. This website will examine a wide variety of topics about the way the environment affects humans and the way humans affect the environment.

Tim B

Germany has yet another sceptic website, published by meteorologist Dr Wolfgang Thuene called Der Wettermann. I’ll be keeping an eye on it and reporting on interesting posts that will undoubtedly pop up. I’ve added his site to my blogroll.

h/t NTZ reader: Bernd Felsche.

There are many sceptics in Germany. The problem is that the mainstream media and well-funded post-normal climate science establishment marginalise them. But they won’t be able to keep this up for much longer.

Dr Thuene is retired. He was a weatherman at the German Weather Service and former weatherman at ZDF television. He’s a harsh critic of the the AGW hypothesis and does not mince words.

In a post written last month, he expresses his view on man’s attempt to control nature and climate.

[Climate] is the sum of single values that form a mean. You can calculate it as a guiding value, which is what a lot of ideologues in society are now doing. But the idea of telling nature and weather how to behave, within which boundaries it is allowed to move, between which guardrails the global temperature has to remain, is just complete madness and hubris that cannot be exceeded. The calculated global mean temperature does not create a global climate, a state that one can declare as a good to be protected. A calculated and abstract human being, using a standard height, standard weight, standard intelligence and standard life expectancy, remains only a fiction of thought, and simply cannot be a standard for the 7 billion people living on the planet. The salaries of climate economists and scientists really ought to be reduced to the “global salary”, just so that they wake up to the nonsense they are purporting.

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