Wheels Falling Off Global Warming Gravy Train

Looks like the hype and trickery of the Global Warming myth is starting to dawn on people. Take a look at this press release below from the US Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works.

Not the most unbiased of forums I'll grant you, but interesting reading nontheless.

Skeptical Scientists Urge World To ‘Have the Courage to Do Nothing' At UN Conference
December 11, 2007
Posted By Marc Morano - Marc_Morano@EPW.Senate.Gov - 7:45 AM ET

Skeptical Scientists Urge World To ‘Have the Courage to Do Nothing' At UN Conference

BALI, Indonesia - An international team of scientists skeptical of man-made climate fears promoted by the UN and former Vice President Al Gore, descended on Bali this week to urge the world to "have the courage to do nothing" in response to UN demands.
Lord Christopher Monckton, a UK climate researcher, had a blunt message for UN climate conference participants on Monday.
"Climate change is a non-problem. The right answer to a non problem is to have the courage to do nothing," Monckton told participants.
"The UN conference is a complete waste of our time and your money and we should no longer pay the slightest attention to the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change,)" Monckton added. (LINK)

Monckton also noted that the UN has not been overly welcoming to the group of skeptical scientists.
"UN organizers refused my credentials and appeared desperate that I should not come to this conference. They have also made several attempts to interfere with our public meetings," Monckton explained.
"It is a circus here," agreed Australian scientist Dr. David Evans. Evans is making scientific presentations to delegates and journalists at the conference revealing the latest peer-reviewed studies that refute the UN's climate claims.
"This is the most lavish conference I have ever been to, but I am only a scientist and I actually only go to the science conferences," Evans said, noting the luxury of the tropical resort. (Note: An analysis by Bloomberg News on December 6 found: "Government officials and activists flying to Bali, Indonesia, for the United Nations meeting on climate change will cause as much pollution as 20,000 cars in a year." - LINK)

Evans, a mathematician who did carbon accounting for the Australian government, recently converted to a skeptical scientist about man-made global warming after reviewing the new scientific studies. (LINK)

"We now have quite a lot of evidence that carbon emissions definitely don't cause global warming. We have the missing [human] signature [in the atmosphere], we have the IPCC models being wrong and we have the lack of a temperature going up the last 5 years," Evans said in an interview with the Inhofe EPW Press Blog. Evans authored a November 28 2007 paper "Carbon Emissions Don't Cause Global Warming." (LINK)

Evans touted a new peer-reviewed study by a team of scientists appearing in the December 2007 issue of the International Journal of Climatology of the Royal Meteorological Society which found "Warming is naturally caused and shows no human influence." (LINK)

"Most of the people here have jobs that are very well paid and they depend on the idea that carbon emissions cause global warming. They are not going to be very receptive to the idea that well actually the science has gone off in a different direction," Evans explained.
[Inhofe EPW Press Blog Note: Several other recent peer-reviewed studies have cast considerable doubt about man-made global warming fears. For most recent sampling see: New Peer-Reviewed Study finds 'Solar changes significantly alter climate' (11-3-07) (LINK) & "New Peer-Reviewed Study Halves the Global Average Surface Temperature Trend 1980 - 2002" (LINK) & New Study finds Medieval Warm Period '0.3C Warmer than 20th Century' (LINK) For a more comprehensive sampling of peer-reviewed studies earlier in 2007 see "New Peer-Reviewed Scientific Studies Chill Global Warming Fears" LINK ]
‘IPCC is unsound'
UN IPCC reviewer and climate researcher Dr. Vincent Gray of New Zealand, an expert reviewer on every single draft of the IPCC reports since its inception going back to 1990, had a clear message to UN participants.
"There is no evidence that carbon dioxide increases are having any effect whatsoever on the climate," Gray, who shares in the Nobel Prize awarded to the UN IPCC, explained. (LINK)
"All the science of the IPCC is unsound. I have come to this conclusion after a very long time. If you examine every single proposition of the IPCC thoroughly, you find that the science somewhere fails," Gray, who wrote the book "The Greenhouse Delusion: A Critique of "Climate Change 2001," said.
"It fails not only from the data, but it fails in the statistics, and the mathematics," he added.
‘Dangerous time for science'
Evans, who believes the UN has heavily politicized science, warned there is going to be a "dangerous time for science" ahead.
"We have a split here. Official science driven by politics, money and power, goes in one direction. Unofficial science, which is more determined by what is actually happening with the [climate] data, has now started to move off in a different direction" away from fears of a man-made climate crisis, Evans explained.
"The two are splitting. This is always a dangerous time for science and a dangerous time for politics. Historically science always wins these battles but there can be a lot of causalities and a lot of time in between," he concluded.

Carbon trading ‘fraud?'
New Zealander Bryan Leland of the International Climate Science Coalition warned participants that all the UN promoted discussions of "carbon trading" should be viewed with suspicion.
"I am an energy engineer and I know something about electricity trading and I know enough about carbon trading and the inaccuracies of carbon trading to know that carbon trading is more about fraud than it is about anything else," Leland said.
"We should probably ask why we have 10,000 people here [in Bali] in a futile attempt to ‘solve' a [climate] problem that probably does not exist," Leland added.
‘Simply not work'
Owen McShane, the head of the International Climate Science Coalition, also worried that a UN promoted global approach to economics would mean financial ruin for many nations.
"I don't think this conference can actually achieve anything because it seems to be saying that we are going to draw up one protocol for every country in the world to follow," McShane said. (LINK)
"Now these countries and these economies are so diverse that trying to presume you can put all of these feet into one shoe will simply not work," McShane explained.
"Having the same set of rules apply to everybody will blow some economies apart totally while others will be unscathed and I wouldn't be surprised if the ones who remain unscathed are the ones who write the rules," he added.
‘Nothing happening at this conference'
Professor Dr. William Alexander, emeritus of the University of Pretoria in South Africa and a former member of the United Nations Scientific and Technical Committee on Natural Disasters, warned poor nations and their residents that the UN policies could mean more poverty and thus more death.
"My message is specifically for the poor people of Africa. And there is nothing happening at this conference that can help them one little bit but there is the potential that they could be damaged," Alexander said. (LINK)
"The government and people of Africa will have their attention drawn to reducing climate change instead of reducing poverty," Alexander added.

Related Links:
New UN Children's Book Promotes Global Warming Fears to Kids (11-13-2006)
Scientists Counter AP Article Promoting Computer Model Climate Fears
New Peer-Reviewed Scientific Studies Chill Global Warming Fears
Newsweek Editor Calls Mag's Global Warming 'Deniers' Article 'Highly Contrived'
Newsweek's Climate Editorial Screed Violates Basic Standards of Journalism
Latest Scientific Studies Refute Fears of Greenland Melt
EPA to Probe E-mail Threatening to ‘Destroy' Career of Climate Skeptic
Prominent Scientists Reverse Belief in Man-made Global Warming - Now Skeptics
Senator Inhofe declares climate momentum shifting away from Gore (The Politico op ed)
Scientific Smackdown: Skeptics Voted The Clear Winners Against Global Warming Believers in Heated NYC Debate
Global Warming on Mars & Cosmic Ray Research Are Shattering Media Driven "Consensus'
Global Warming: The Momentum has Shifted to Climate Skeptics
Prominent French Scientist Reverses Belief in Global Warming - Now a Skeptic
Top Israeli Astrophysicist Recants His Belief in Manmade Global Warming - Now Says Sun Biggest Factor in Warming
Warming On Jupiter, Mars, Pluto, Neptune's Moon & Earth Linked to Increased Solar Activity, Scientists Say
Panel of Broadcast Meteorologists Reject Man-Made Global Warming Fears- Claim 95% of Weathermen Skeptical
MIT Climate Scientist Calls Fears of Global Warming 'Silly' - Equates Concerns to ‘Little Kids' Attempting to "Scare Each Other"
Weather Channel TV Host Goes 'Political'- Stars in Global Warming Film Accusing U.S. Government of ‘Criminal Neglect'
Weather Channel Climate Expert Calls for Decertifying Global Warming Skeptics
ABC-TV Meteorologist: I Don't Know A Single Weatherman Who Believes 'Man-Made Global Warming Hype'
The Weather Channel Climate Expert Refuses to Retract Call for Decertification for Global Warming Skeptics
Senator Inhofe Announces Public Release Of "Skeptic's Guide To Debunking Global Warming"

Defending Freedom in NZ

Many of you will have seen a half page advert in today's Sunday Star Times in New Zealand placed by freedom fighter John Boscawen. In it he urges parliamentarians to throw out the anti-democratic, anti-freedom of speech Electoral Finance Bill.

The Bill seeks to limit how much Kiwis can voice their opinions about anything political for a whole year before an election. At the same time it places no such restrictions on the current government and its departments, and trade unions as to what money they can spend to peddle their own propaganda. Mr Hitler would be proud of such a crack down on free speech and freedom of the press.

Email the following supporters of the Bill to voice your displeasure and protect our freedoms which are slowly being whittled away.

pm@ministers.govt.nz
wpeters@ministers.govt.nz
pdunne@ministers.govt.nz
jeanette.fitzsimons@parliament.govt.nz

The government has ignored the advice of the Human rights Commission, the Law Society and thousands of New Zealanders in ramming through this piece of fascist legislation. There is still time to defend our freedom. Get out there and make your voice, letter or email heard.

Gore Nobel Prize Shame

News that Al Gore and the IPCC have shared a Nobel Peace prize is sickening. All previous winners must feel their own awards are now cheapened by this award to a person who's shockumentary "An Inconvenient Truth" contains many inconvenient truths of its own according to a recent UK court Judges's ruling.



"Some of the assertions in Al Gore's Oscar-winning environmental documentary are not supported by scientific evidence, a British judge said in ruling on a challenge from a school official who did not want the film shown to students." http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gmfhaH-agjxPWkj43wjLPb3rdgOgD8S7DI5O0



It makes a mockery of the Nobel Peace prize to be awarded to someone who it will be shown in years to come was simply a showman, attention seeker and an alarmist.



There are many reports coming out now which show that not only did CO2 levels over the past many thousands of years not directly transfer to higher temperatures, but in fact the opposite is true. Higher temperatures have preceded increases in CO2. In other words increased temperatures have been responsible for CO2 increases not the other way around.



I predict the next decade or so will actually see world temperatures decrease, and one by one scientists will quietly distance themselves from the climate change religion bandwagon as they become more and more embarrassed that their predictions do not come true.

Global warming myth

People who know me are aware I am not a believer in the global warming myth being perpetuated by scientists and governments (including our own New Zealand Labour government). The worst thing is the opposition National party have fallen for it too!

I even heard recently that Al Gore was being considered for a Nobel Prize for his fictional movie about climate change. What is the world coming too. Are there so few free thinkers out there that the world is just going to accept this rubbish without question?

Now I hear today that scools in New Zealand are using Al Gore's movie to explain environmental issues and climate change. However, some common sense from the UK where it has been ruked using such propoganda in schools is politically biased and not allowed. At least there should be some balance. See here for the UK story. http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0710/S00157.htm

and here for alternative views including the recent BBC documentary "the Great Global Warming Swindle" debunked some of the global warming myths.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=fr5O1HsTVgA
http://youtube.com/watch?v=fD6VBLlWmCI
http://youtube.com/watch?v=gZS2eIRkcR0
http://youtube.com/watch?v=dIbTJ6mhCqk
http://youtube.com/watch?v=v2XALmrq3ro

And now the debate about the Great Global Warming Swindle programme

http://youtube.com/watch?v=lIjGynF4qkE
http://youtube.com/watch?v=goDsc9IaSQ8
http://youtube.com/watch?v=yoyqFNCoDRY
http://youtube.com/watch?v=y5gUd6y3zKU
http://youtube.com/watch?v=SIsX5I6mVWo
http://youtube.com/watch?v=_RY_qEyHbj0


http://youtube.com/watch?v=yYaAlyu8vbA






Now there are critics of this documentary too and they made one or two mistkes as well, but on the whole it provides a good balance to the extremists in the climate change camp.

Someone please send copies of these to John Key and Helen Clark before it's too late.

Midweek musings

The rain has hardly let up today. Not good prospects for my son's first ever cricket practice tonight.

Busy trying to get some new profiles together for new business listings today. Also getting my new personalised Harcourts website up and running. Has gone live now at www.markthiele.harcourts.co.nz . Take a look and let me know if you have an suggestions for improvements.

Was very impressed how helpful Rachelle at our website team was in getting this modified for business broking.

Speaking of admin people, a plug for our receptionist Kellie who is always so willing to help with anything and does it with a smile. Thanks Kell.

I hear the All Blacks received a rousing reception when they flew into christchurch today. They need our support now more than ever I think. If we are all gutted just magine how they must feel.

Mark

First Post

Well here I am. A blank canvas (well page anyway ) before me. I intend this to be a blog serving two purposes. Firstly to comment on events and issues from a libertarian/objectivist point of view. I don't claim to be an expert on the finer details of objectivism.

Secondly, to incorporate some of my daily personal and work thoughts and news for people to gain a better idea of my family/personal life and what is involved in my role as a business broker.

So what's been happening lately? Well we have just got back from a two week holiday to Noosa on the Sunshine Coast of Australia. Needed a break but now I'm keen to get stuck back into work and give it heaps to sell the businesses I have listed and list some new ones.

Still, it is a little hard to get back up to speed after being away for so long and I am still lacking in sleep from the trip back.

One of my aims is to make more phone calls. It can be easy to fall into the trap of sitting at the desk and using the computer too much. Personal contact works much better.

Mark