Greens ecstatic: ‘It’s momentous. This has enormous legal significance’
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CO2 a ‘Pollutant?’ ‘The Day the Earth Stood Still’
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Australia’s top earth scientist: ‘A high CO2 content brings prosperity and lengthens your life’
‘The IPCC process is related to environmental activism, politics and opportunism’
Article Excerpt from The Australian – By Jamie Walker – April 18, 2009 – Full Article here:
Prize-winning Geologist Dr. Ian Plimer of the University of Adelaide’s school of environmental sciences, is also an emeritus professor of earth sciences at the University of Melbourne and the author of seven books and 120 scholarly papers. Plimer’s latest book is titled: Heaven and Earth: Global Warming, the Missing Science
Article Excerpt: IAN Plimer calls himself an old-fashioned scientist. That means you question what others won’t. You marry yourself to the data; you buck the received wisdom and political correctness of your colleagues. When it comes to climate change, you say: “I was trained to be sceptical.” […]
“The science is now based on consensus, and we have thousands of scientists who have got everything to gain by saying the world is going to end. We have lost the tie to evidence. So I make great comparison … between the way creationists operate and the way some of the rabid environmentalists and global warmers operate. The parallels are quite similar.”
Plimer reserves his sharpest criticism for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which has driven the international debate. Very much for the worse, in the professor’s judgment. “The IPCC process is related to environmental activism, politics and opportunism,” he writes in Heaven and Earth.
Plimer argues that the IPCC is dominated by atmospheric scientists, who in turn are obsessed by carbon dioxide emissions, skewing the process. The problems are compounded by primitive computer modelling. He reviewed five computer predictions of climate made in 2000, underpinning IPCC findings, and found there was no relationship between predicted future temperature and actual measured temperature even during a short period. Ditto for a link between temperature and the atmospheric CO2 content.
“To get a complete view of the planet, you need to have far more than atmospheric scientists on the IPCC,” Plimer says. “What they have done is separate the atmosphere from the way the world works … you need solar physicists, you need cosmologists, you need astronomers, you need geologists, bacterial specialists and on you go … we don’t hear anything about those things from the IPCC.”
But what about this ice age business? How does that square with melting polar ice, rising sea levels and 40C summers in northern Europe? Well, taking the …
Obama to regulate ‘pollutant’ CO2
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Rep. Henry Waxman: ‘We’re seeing the reality of a lot of the North Pole starting to evaporate’
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Sen. Dodd: ‘Warming threatens our health, our country and our world. And that is not hyperbole’
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British Columbia Political Party adopts slogan ‘We ♥ CO2’- Rejects carbon tax as ‘a scam’
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April Fool’s Report? French Reversal on Climate Policy? Outspoken Skeptical Scientist May Be Tapped as Environmental Minister!
Washington D.C.: A bombshell April 1, 2009 report from the German publication “ScienceBlogs” claimed that renowned geophysicist and former socialist party leader Dr. Claude Allegre – France’s most outspoken global warming skeptic — may be considered as the next French Environment Minister in President Nicolas Sarkozy’s administration. If Dr. Allegre, who has mocked former Vice President Al Gore’s Nobel Prize as “a political gimmick,” is chosen for the appointment, it would send political earthquakes through Europe and the rest of the world. [Editor’s Note: Though the “ScienceBlogs report is dated April 1, it appears it may not be a joke. Regardless of whether Allegre is being considered for the environment minister, there has been speculation in the French media that Allegre may take some position in the Sarkozy government. ]
Allegre is a former believer in man-made global warming who reversed his views in recent years to become one of the most vocal dissenters of man-made global warming fears. [Editor’s Note: Another political shock may be coming from down under as Australia is now pondering throwing in the towel on carbon trading. See: Australia may dump emissions trading scheme and ‘have another crack at it’ later’ & India: ‘It is morally wrong for us to reduce emissions when 40% of Indians do not have access to electricity’ ]
Germany’s “ScienceBlogs” reported on April 1 that the consideration of Allegre “is probably linked to a general shift in French climate policy.” “ScienceBlogs” continued, “Some of my colleagues fear this may also have an influence on the part of the budget which deals with the funding of climate research.”
Dr. Benny Peiser, the editor of the climate policy network CCNet, stressed that the possibility of Allegre becoming the French environmental minister is “no April’s fool joke.” (referring to date of “ScienceBlog’s report) Peiser noted that an April 16 article in Paris Match noted how Allegre has been making pro-Sarkozy statements.
“In recent days, the French media have been reporting that Claude Allegre may replace environment minister Jean Luis Borloo,” Peiser told Climate Depot. “Allègre is France’s most eminent climate skeptic. He has also been a CCNet subscriber for many years,” Peiser explained.
“The very fact that he is a serious contender for the post of environment minister in itself is a clear signal that climate politics in Europe are changing rapidly. It also mirrors similar changes in Poland, Italy …
Throw in the towel? Australia may dump emissions trading scheme and ‘have another crack at it’ later
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Kyoto’s successor may die on the vine
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