FIrst-class scientists are consistently finding excellent correlations between the regular fluctuations in the brightness of the sun and earthly climate. This is not surprising. The sun and the stars are the ultimate source of all energy on the planet. link

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Roger Kerr, of the New Zealand Business Roundtable urges better consultation on cap & trade.

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FORECASTING CHALLENGE TO AL GORE

June 17, 2007, 6:09 am News

Scott Armstrong of Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, has issued a public $20,000 challenge to Al Gore on the accuracy of climate forecasting. link

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Over five years from May 2002 to April 2007, our analyst found NIWA forecasters correct in only 48% of their predictions.

The New Zealand Climate Science Coalition

Hon Secretary, Terry Dunleavy MBE, 14A Bayview Road, Hauraki, North Shore City 0622 Phone (09) 486 3859 – Mobile 0274 836688 – Email...

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There’s a huge financial scam being cynically perpetrated on the people of the world that, for the most part, American media are not reporting: the Kyoto Carbon Con. .  link

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Top New Zealand Government and IPCC contributor admits that climate predictors get it right only about half the time, not just in New Zealand , but elsehwere around the world.

A top New Zealand Government scientist, and contributor to IPCC, admits that climate predictions are right only half the...

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Malcolm Taylor's analysis of the accuracy of NIWA seasonal forecasts (Outlook) against performance (Outcome) on which Coalition media release on which Coalition media release above was based.

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Three brilliant articles by Alexander Cockburn in the US political commenary, "Counterpunch" - www.counterpunch.org

Alexander Cockburn Part 1

Weekend Edition  April 28 / 29, 2007

From Papal Indulgences to Carbon Credits
Is Global Warming a Sin?

By ALEXANDER COCKBURN

In a couple of h...

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THERE IS NO CONSENSUS!!

June 4, 2007, 10:04 am News

"Not only do most of my interviewees either discount or disparage the conventional wisdom as represented by the IPCC, many say their peers generally consider it to have little or no credibility." read more

They call this consensus?

Al Gore's views have credible dissenters.

Lawrence Solomon...

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IPCC expert reviewer, Dr Vincent Gray, explains why it is impossible to obtain a statistically or scientifically acceptable estimate of mean global temperature or its variability over time, from readings on the earth’s surface.

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TEMPERATURE VARIABILITY: GLOBAL, REGIONAL AND LOCAL
Dr Vincent Gra...

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A FEW EXAMPLES OF EXTREME PREDICTIONS THAT NEVER EVENTUATED

PROPHECIES OF DOOM vs THE REAL WORLD

A FEW EXAMPLES OF EXTREME PREDICTIONS THAT NEVER EVENTUATED
No Turning Back (Basic Books, 1994)

1865          Coal Supplies to Run Out
     "The Coal Question: An Inquiry Concerning the Progr...

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"The effect of the political climate is that most people are overestimating the evidence that carbon emissions are the main cause of global warming."  link

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" doubling of atmospheric carbon dioxide levels from natural, pre-industrial values... will amount to less than 1°C of global warming. " link  (Payment of $US33  will be required to Institute of Civil Engineers to download pdf)

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"we need to develop a much keener sense of what a scientist is qualified to talk about and what he is not qualified to talk about....They are not qualified to say that "we must act now" by imposing government "solutions" of some imagined sort.  link

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"Al Gore’s film 'An Inconvenient Truth ' does indeed have some correct facts, but as he even says himself, sometimes you have to over-exaggerate to send the message to people." link

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" No one scientist, however brilliant 'understands' climate change, and there is no general theory of climate nor likely to be one on the near future."  link to download pdf

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Many prominent scientists who used to believe that human induced global warming is a crisis have changed their minds:  global warming is not a crisis. link

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"The footsoldiers in this alliance have been the grant-guzzling climate modelers and their Internationale, the UN's IPCC, whose collective scientific expertise is reverently invoked by all devotees of the Greenhouse fearmongers' catechism." link

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