Posted 9 May 2013
Posted 9 May 2013
New renewable energy technologies such as wind, solar and marine power have been under development since the 1980s so it is appropriate to review progress and look into the future to see what these technologies may be able to offer. This paper by Bryan Leyland MSc, FIEE(rtd), FI...
Posted 6 May 2013
A major report questiong the basis of so-called "carbon tax" has just been released by the George C. Marshall Institute in the US. The writer, James V DeLong, begins: "The year 2013 will see a major political debate over proposals for a carbon tax—a tax on emissions of greenhou...
Posted 3 May 2013
"Anyone who has met Roy Spencer knows him to be a careful, thoughtful, unpolemical scientist of formidable skill and knowledge. With John Christy he presents the monthly real-world data from the microwave sounding unit satellites that provide the least inaccurate global temperat...
Posted 2 May 2013
In a rare (for New Zealand) opportunity for one of our Coalition scientists to be interviewed in television, Dr Jock Allison, a former director of agricultural research for the MInistry of Agriculture, replied to attacks on the recent visit of Lord Christopher Monckton, and clar...
Posted 2 May 2013
"It takes a rare politician to stand up and take shots at a climate scientist who’s the darling of the global warmist movement. Even more uncommon is to see a politician take on such a climate scientist—and win the contest. And so unfolded events last week when Joe Oliver, Canad...
Posted 1 May 2013
Posted 26 April 2013
In the Wall Street Journal, 16 of the world's top scientific minds write: "A candidate for public office in any contemporary democracy may have to consider what, if anything, to do about 'global warming.' Candidates should understand that the oft-repeated claim that nearly...
Posted 24 April 2013
Larry Bell writes in Forbes: 'Yeah.about this title. I did take the liberty to exchange one teeny letter in the banner of a new movie, Greedy Lying Bastards. It is presented on the notion that Big Oil is pouring lots of carbon-drenched money into pockets of climate-cr...
Posted 22 April 2013
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Posted 20 April 2013
UK Telegrah columnist James Delingpole includes this trenchant quote in a biting piece on the failire of the EU's carbon emissions policy: "The EU has been the global laboratory testing the green agenda to see how it works. Today’s story means that the guinea pig died; the mos...
Posted 15 April 2013
Posted 13 April 2013
Professor Cliff Ollier of the School of Earth and Environmental Studies, the University of Western Australia, recently presented a paper in Poznan, Poland, in which he described the sun as the major control of climate, but not through greenhouse gases."There is a very good c...
Posted 11 April 2013
Following attacks on his scientific integrity in a New Zealand newspaper report by three academics of Victoria University of Wellington, Lord Christopher Monckton has filed an official complaint with the University's VIce-Chancellor.
Download complaint letter here ...
Posted 7 April 2013
Last Thursday morning NewstalkZB's top rating radio host Leighton Smith had guest speaker Lord Christopher Monckton in the studio to talk about global warming/climate change and addressed the invented science, lies and propaganda by those trying to force the issue of the clima...
Posted 2 April 2013
Leading UK magazine, The Economist, previoisly a supporter of the hypothesis of "man-made global warming", seems to have had a change of heart with this recent article: "...some scientists are arguing that man-made climate change is not quite so bad a threat as it appeared t...
Posted 3 April 2013
Viscount Christopher Monckton, who has just begun a speaking tour of New Zealand, has responded to an article in the on-line edition of the New Zealand Herad, attacking his qualifications and motives: Read article here.
Lord Monckton comments: "I have attached som...
Posted 30 March 2013 *
"Just one day after the IPCC Chairman claimed that global warming had stopped happening 17 years ago, the Australian Climate Commission rushed out a press statement, 'The Earth Continues to Warm.' Clearly, there is a lack of consensus here. Are these diametrically op...