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Our AUS conservatives chucked out their Greenie leader.

The UK Conservatives stll have theirs.

The worst we've got so far is the Renewable Energy Target and that's bad enough.

The Hapless UK voter has to cop this crap - AND - pay through the nose for it.

Electric cars and 40 new nuclear power stations to meet climate change targets
By Louise Gray
Published: 7:00AM GMT 18 Mar 2010
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/7405392/Electric-cars-and-40-new-nuclear-power-stations-to-meet-climate-change-targets.html
Every car on the road will need to be electric and there will be solar panels on every home, 10,000 wind turbines onshore and 40 new nuclear power stations if the Government is to stand a chance of meeting strict climate change targets, engineers have warned.

The Texas Petition against the U.S. EPA’s Endangerment Finding: A User’s Guide (Part II in a series)
by Chip Knappenberger
March 18, 2010
http://www.masterresource.org/2010/03/the-texas-petition-against-epa-endangerment-finding/

" ...After documenting flaws in the scientific literature, flaws in scientific behavior, flaws in the IPCC process, and flaws in the IPCC’s conclusions, Texas asks the EPA to re-examine its conclusions regarding climate change and its potential impacts on human health and welfare, and this time, not to rest its conclusions on the biased opinion of the IPCC.
In other words, Texas asks the EPA to do the work themselves—something they are mandated to do anyway.
The complete Texas Petition is available here in a single pdf file. But for easier navigatation, we have broken the full Petition up into its individual sections, and linked them into the Table of Contents page, which is reproduced below.... "

Temperatures rising
In climate-change discussions, two Princeton professors go against the grain
By Mark F. Bernstein ’83
Published in the March 17, 2010, issue
http://paw.princeton.edu/issues/2010/03/17/pages/7940/index.xml

An Inconvenient Fraud?
March 15th, 2010 By Penthouse Magazine
http://penthousemagazine.com/features/an-inconvenient-fraud/

"Al Gore and his pals in the science establishment want us to totally change our lives because of a theory that might not even be true. Have the sacred cows of global warming been gored beyond repair?
By Gerard Van der Leun • Illustration by Zachary Pullen

It was good to be Al Gore in the last part of the last decade. In the year 2000 he was the world’s biggest loser. By 2009 he was one of the world’s biggest winners after becoming the master of disaster. Flummoxed by his noninvention of the internet and his nonelection as president of the United States, Gore found a winning hand in predicting the end of the world. In the process, he received an Oscar for his film An Inconvenient Truth, the Nobel Peace Prize, and millions of dollars through his interests in companies that dealt in “carbon credits.” Gore became more of a “Comeback Kid” than Bill Clinton ever was. For most of 2009, it was still good to be King Al. But late in the year, Al Gore’s beloved internet betrayed him... "

Actually a very good article - worth reading

This Uni NSW Greenie starts frothing and foaming at the mouth in the SMH

SYDNEY MORNING HERALD
ABC should be praised for fair reports on climate change
MICHAEL ASHLEY
March 19, 2010
http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/abc-should-be-praised-for-fair-reports-on-climate-change-20100318-qhqf.html

I particuarly liked this little quote from it...
" ...That said, there are times when the basic facts in a scientific field become so well tested that, for all foreseeable purposes, they are settled. Examples are the physical laws of gravity, the basic theory of evolution, and also the fundamental physics of greenhouse gases that lead to significant climate change in response to unmitigated emissions... "
Good one Mike - Albert Einstein overturned the  scientific concensus on gravity! - the ABC reguarly gives air time to Creationists against the theory of evolution - and the fundamental physics of GHGs prove that Carbon dioxide only has a trivial effect - Water vapour is the Earth's only signifigant GHG - and there is, of course, NO change in any global climate not entirely consistant with natural variation see before - NONE.

At last count the I think the UNI NSW which has a large and very impressive Climate Research Facility gets about $6million dollars from Labor governments.

Then this UK Guardian Greenie thinks that air travel should be restricted to the rich and the elite and government officials travelling to "Climate" conferences - well it leaves so much more room in the skies for Al's private jet and Prince Charles private jet dunnit! Can't have the peasants polluting the skies now can we!

Airbus gets a crafty upgrade by flying the flag for biodiversity
A380 airliner to feature official logo for UN, despite aviation being a major source of emissions that threaten biodiversity
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/mar/18/un-year-of-biodiversity-airbus

And this UK Guardian Greenie, for some bizzarre reason, gets stuck into the Canadians - of all people - for not destroying their economy as demanded by the Euro Crazy Euro Greenies!

Canadian government 'hiding truth about climate change', report claims 
Stephen Leahy for IPS, part of the Guardian Environment Network guardian.co.uk,
Thursday 18 March 2010 10.54 GMT
 http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/mar/18/climate-change-canada

Well it's nice to employ people but surely the time has come to retrain "environment reporter(s)" and put them to work on something more important. The public who buy newspapers are over "Climate Change" - time to move on.

Kevin07 has silenced his media on Climate - Obama Hasn't

Kevin07 is madly trotting out paid government lackeys to stir up the Climate-Change-Is-here-and-now message for the visit. A message somewhat lost in the north of the planet which has just set long term records for cold, snow, and ice this winter.

Kevin07 has just bought off the AUS E-media with a $250million bribe.
Obama is facing a huge conservative backlash in the heartland. His ridiculous Climate Change efforts rallied the opposition and they were waiting with baseball bats for his healthcare bill.

The last thing he needs is a trip to AUS with Kevin07 jumping up and down beside him about Climate Change. That horse has bolted. Climate Change is the loser of the year in the USA - it's gone rancid there.

Sometimes Kevin07 outsmarts himself - on behalf of AUS, Kevin, bud, - a bit of gratuitous advice - talk to Bam Bam, talk to Barark - find out what their agenda is instead of stuffing yours down their face.

AUS ABC NEWS ONLINE
Obama delays Australia trip until June
By Washington correspondent Kim Landers
Posted 1 hour 22 minutes ago
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/03/19/2850101.htm?section=justin
 

Are you voting on the weekend - consider the Climate Sceptics Party.

The liberals have failed to oppose the science.

Barnaby Joyce allowed hiself to be flattered out of his position on it.

There is only one way to protest now - vote THE CLIMATE SCEPTICS PARTY

Nathan Ashby is your man - The Legislative Council.
More Here - http://www.climatesceptics.com.au/how-to-vote.html#sa

THE AUSTRALIAN
South Australian Labor deal with climate sceptics Brendan Nicholson
March 18, 2010 12:00AM
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/politics/state-politics/south-australian-labor-deal-with-climate-sceptics/story-e6frgczx-1225842089988

ClimateGate: What Will Television Do With All Their Scare-Programming?
by James Hudnall
http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jhudnall/2010/03/17/climategate-what-will-the-cable-nets-do-with-all-that-scare-programming/

"A funny thing happened on the way to a global conspiracy. Reality killed it. Funny how that happens.
Not long ago people like Al Gore were jetting around the globe taking in vast speaking fees, winning awards, telling everyone that they must give up the things they enjoy to save the planet. These doomsayers all told us we were stupid if we doubted them. They knew better, you see. These people claimed all “real” scientists agreed that mankind was destroying the planet with global warming. That we humans were at fault and the only way to save ourselves is bow down to a world government, pay lots of taxes and give up our cars, our electricity, air travel, light bulbs, blah blah blah.
There was a vast left wing conspiracy in other words. One designed to scare people into giving more power and wealth to statist bureaucrats who were employing the oldest trick in the book. Using fear and guilt to manufacture consent... "

UK THE TIMES
European emission trading rocked by scandal over recycled carbon permits
Carl Mortished
From: The Times March 18, 2010 8:32AM
EUROPE'S emissions trading system was in uproar yesterday amid a mounting scandal over "recycled" carbon permits.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/news/european-emission-trading-rocked-by-scandal-over-recycled-carbon-permits/story-e6frg90o-1225842148852

KTVU - USA
Boxer Falling Behind Republican Challengers In Field Poll
Posted: 10:30 pm PDT March 17,2010
http://www.ktvu.com/news/22873447/detail.html

"OAKLAND, Calif. -- California Senator Barbara Boxer could be in for a real battle when she comes up for re-election in November according to an exclusive new KTVU field poll indicating any of the three Republican candidates might pose a challenge... "

A few posts ago I asked why?
Why is Obama still flogging the dead horse?
The heartland has turned.
The polls have turned.
The media are in doubt.
So why?
Well this article may be the answer - HE OWES THEM.
Ah.
Yes.
That would explain it.

AMERICAN THINKER
March 18, 2010
Breaking the Obama Code: The Green Money Machine
By Patti Villacorta
http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/03/breaking_the_obama_code_the_gr.html

" ...That's where VCs see Obama coming in. In his policy proposal, the senator pledged to invest $150 billion over ten years to develop solar farms in the Sunbelt, plug-in hybrid cars that get 150 miles per gallon (64 kilometers per liter), and clean coal that doesn't spew carbon.

Obama knew that he needed California to win, and green billionaires knew that they needed Obama. A new loophole, the Unauthorized Independent Expenditure (IE), could make it happen. IEs can spend and raise unlimited money as long as there is no coordination with the candidate. An IE at its most brazen is SEIU's Committee on Political Education (SEIU COPE), formed in order to raise $26,009,685.53 in support of Obama and $3,163,276.29 to oppose McCain.... "

Energy Update
Voters Take Global Warming Less Seriously
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/current_events/environment_energy/energy_update
"The majority of U.S. voters continue to believe global warming is a serious problem, but the number who considers it very serious is at its lowest level in over a year... "

Highlights from Al Gore's Strategy Call
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCtLY6IV1NU&feature=player_embedded#

"It is important to rulise that we have 3 crisees that are all interconnected, the climate crisis, the ongoing economic crisis, uh and a crisis in our national security that has led us several times to commit troops to the region of the world with the largest recoverable oil reserves. How can we solve this?... "

I dunno, here's a suggestion Al - stop pontificating on the sidelines and get yourself elected to Congress. Perhaps you can convince the voters themselves that windmills and batteries are going to power America from now on - they seem to be very dubious about it, but I'm sure you are up to the task - you ol' evangalist, you.

Or what I mean by the heartland USA just not buying Obama's "settled science"
The only question is why? Why keep flogging this dead horse?
This article is just one of dozens.

Carbon Dioxide Unlikely to Cause Higher Temperatures
MARTIN MANGINO TIMES-DISPATCH GUEST COLUMNIST
Published: March 14, 2010
http://www2.timesdispatch.com/rtd/News/opinion/commentary/article/ED-MANG14_20100312-204009/330040/

"The climate always changes and Earth's temperature has been both hotter and colder in the past, compared to the pres-ent. Since the Earth is emerging from the last ice age of 18,000 years ago, it has been steadily warming, by definition. Therefore, any current period of time can be said to be the warmest in the past 18,000 years, again by definition.

Making such a warming claim, as global warmers always do, is a trick and simply states an obvious truth that tells us nothing about what the cause of the warming is... "

"Martin Mangino received his Ph.D. from Michigan State University in physiological chemistry in 1985. He currently serves as a professor and scientist in the departments of surgery and physiology and biophysics at Virginia Commonwealth University's Medical College of Virginia. He was appointed president of the Central Virginia Chapter of Virginia Scientists and Engineers for Energy and Environment in July 2009. SEEE-VA is a not-for-profit organization of Virginia's professional scientists and engineers that promotes education and analysis on environment, climate, and energy issues to Virginia's citizens and policymakers. Contact Mangino at mjmangino@vcu.edu."

QUADRANT MAGAZINE
Climatescam and coral growth
by Walter Starck
March 15, 2010
http://www.quadrant.org.au/blogs/doomed-planet/2010/03/climatescam-and-coral-growth

Observations on Growth of Reef Corals and Sea Grass Around Shallow Water Geothermal Vents in Papua New Guinea
Extract only. The full pdf text can be downloaded here…
http://www.quadrant.org.au/Walter%20Starck.pdf
"A never ending litany of purported environmental threats to the Great Barrier Reef has maintained a generous flow of funding for several generations of researchers and the reef salvation industry now brings about $100 million annually into the local economy in North Queensland. Although none of these threats has ever become manifest as a serious impact and all of the millions of dollars in research has never found any effective solution for anything, the charade never seems to lose credibility or support.

The popular threat of the moment is ocean acidification from increasing atmospheric CO2 . The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority cite research claiming that coral calcification is in rapid decline from acidification despite the obvious contradiction of surprisingly rapid recovery from storm and bleaching damage. They also propagate predictions that oceanic pH may decrease (i.e. become less alkaline) by by as mich as 0.4 of a pH unit by 2100 and that this will be disastrous for coral calcification.... "

" ...The country's largest fields are bursting with up to 13bn proven barrels of the black stuff, but it is the unproven potential of the Campos and Santos basins offshore that mean Brazil's abundance of oil could approach that of Russia and Saudi Arabia ... "

I know, let's call it "PEAKOILGATE"

UK TELEGRAPH
Why BP is betting billions that God is Brazilian
"God is Brazilian," was the patriotic declaration of the country's president, after the true potential of the South American nation's oil wealth began to emerge in 2007.
By Rowena Mason
Published: 6:42AM GMT 12 Mar 2010
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/oilandgas/7423034/Why-BP-is-betting-billions-that-God-is-Brazilian.html

SYDNEY MORNING HERALD
BUSINESS
Greenwash: company guilty of misleading claims
MATHEW MURPHY
March 12, 2010
"A CARBON credits company, Prime Carbon, has been found guilty by the Federal Court of Australia of making misleading green claims.... "

He once said "I don't care if I'm only a one term president" and, bugg*r me, he really means it!

I think "in way over his head" is the kindest thing you can say about the Obama Presidency so far.
 
PLANET ARK (what happened to the "Reuters" bit?!!)
White House Finalizing Rules To Cut Car Emissions
Date: 15-Mar-10
Country: US
Author: Tom Doggett
http://planetark.org/wen/57118

" ...The White House is finalizing rules on the first U.S. greenhouse gas emission standard for automobiles, which would raise average fuel economy 42 percent by 2016 in a bid to slash oil imports and fight climate change.

The Environmental Protection Agency and the Transportation Department sent the final rules this week to the White House's Office of Management and Budget, according to a notice posted on the OMB website... "

It's enough to make a Democrat congressman wince and a Republican congressman wring his hands in glee at their upcoming election prospects!!

Ah, Barark, mate, bud, you've lost them - they're not buying it - they want jobs and the economy not pie in the sky Green taxes and Green regulations - give it up.

Actually you have to laugh or you'd cry - at what these people do to science that is.

Yes, Virginia, Global Warming Causes Earthquakes
by Kitty Beer  March 13, 2010
http://www.onearth.org/node/1995

No, she's not kidding - she's serious!!!

It doesn't matter to Greenies when people die.
People are dying as we speak because their land is being used for biofuels.
Greenies object, not because of the human deaths, but because their beloved rainforest is being cut down for the same biofuels.

Literally millions of lives could have been saved in Africa if DDT wasn't banned.
Why was DDT banned?
To save north American Eagles and other raptors.
Did it?
Well, it had absolutely no effect on eagles and other rapors in the first place so how could it? - it was just Green superstition from the start. They actually objected to DDT because it is very persistant - broke down very slowly - and contaminated their beautiful environment - the deleterious effects were just manufactured to fit this philosophy - hence the magnificent eagles.

'Tell ya what does kill Eagles and other raptors, however - wind turbines - birds of prey are attracted to all the dead and wounded prey species also falling victim to the blades - turbines are stuck up into the prevailing winds used by migrating species - it's a killing field.

UK TELEGRAPH
Wind turbines: 'Eco-friendly' - but not to eagles
By Christopher Booker
Published: 6:51PM GMT 13 Mar 2010
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/7437040/Eco-friendly-but-not-to-eagles.html
The same hills that provide lift for soaring birds offer heavily subsidised profits for wind farm developers, writes Christopher Booker.

" ...The world’s largest and most carefully monitored wind farm, Altamont Pass in California, is estimated to have killed between 2,000 and 3,000 golden eagles alone in the past 20 years. Since turbines were erected on the isle of Smola, off Norway, home to an important population of white-tailed sea eagles, destruction is so great that last year only one chick survived. Thanks to wind farms in Tasmania, a unique sub-species of wedge-tailed eagles faces extinction. And here in Britain, plans to build eight wind farms on the Hebridean islands, among Scotland’s largest concentration of golden eagles, now pose a major threat to the species’ survival in the UK.... "

The bird protection societies have been infiltrated by Greenies funded by the multinational wind turbines companies such as GE who argue - what's a few dead birds when we're saving the planet here?!

Well, She Would Say That Wouldn't She?
Just once I'd like to see them produce something new.
Right on the heels of the LIE from China (prev. post below), more out of habit than anything else (although probably also to spite the chairman of the ABC board) the ABC News and current affairs department strikes again!

CSIRO boss says climate change is real
Sarah Clarke reported this story on Monday, March 15, 2010 08:00:00
http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2010/s2845580.htm

First - there is $800million (see previous post) being spent on climate change research in AUS and the CSIRO has cornered more than its share of it.
Megan Clarke is hardly going to say anything else.

This piece of trite pap is pure propoganda and who do we have to thank - the Liberal Party, who are still so rent by division that they are unable to challenge the science itself.

TRANSCRIPT

TONY EASTLEY: The head of the CSIRO, Dr Megan Clark has come out in defence of climate scientists and says there's absolutely no doubt there's a link between humans and climate change. She says the evidence of global warming is unquestionable "unquestionable" now there's good word and in Australia it's backed by years of robust research. She says climate records are being broken every decade and all parts of the nation are warming. Thought you'd paraphrase her a bit did you Tony?! Well she's hardly going to whinge about being misquoted is she? Kevin would be furious!
Dr Clark is speaking to environment reporter Sarah Clarke.

MEGAN CLARK: Look, we are seeing significant evidence of a changing climate. If we just take our temperature, all of Australia has experienced warming over the last 50 years.
We are warming in every part of the country during every season and as each decade goes by, the records are being broken. Our records of the '70s were broken in the '80s, broken in the '90s and we are also seeing fewer cold days. So we are seeing some very significant long-term trends in Australia's climate. This is a LIE - like the rest of the planet the Australian climate always changes - climate is NEVER static - there are NO "signifigant long term trends" in our climate which are NOT entirely atributable to normal natural variation and the long slow warming of the planet since the last Ice Age.

SARAH CLARKE: So given these observations then, what is your response to those who suggest that the planet isn't warming?

MEGAN CLARK: Well, I think we can certainly look at the long-term trends and any event here or there or a storm here or there really doesn't explain away what we are seeing in these major long-term trends.
We are also seeing consistency. I think the consistency between our temperatures, what we are seeing in our rainfall, what we are seeing in the increase of carbon dioxide and methane in our atmosphere and of course, what we are now seeing in our oceans.
So it is not just one measurement that is telling us. It is our observations and science that we are seeing in many areas being consistent. WAFFLE WAFFLE WAFFLE - is she Kevin07's speech writer?! - what a piece of meaningless tripe.

SARAH CLARKE: So how much is manmade climate change then contributing to all of this?

MEGAN CLARK: We know two things. We know that our CO2 has never risen so quickly. We are now starting to see CO2 and methane in the atmosphere at levels that we just haven't seen for the past 800,000 years, possibly even 20 million years.
We also know that that rapid increase that we've been measuring was at the same time that we saw the industrial revolution so it is very likely that these two are connected. So you didn't want to answer that one Megan?! Ok I'll do it for you. CO2 is a trivial GHG - about 2% - and most of that is natural - the man-made contribution is is even more insignifigant. Trivial upon Trivial.

SARAH CLARKE: So therefore what is your response to those sceptics who are saying that CSIRO and scientists who are witnessing these observations and talking about these observations, what is your response to them when they are saying that you are wrong? Objection your Honour. leading the witness - Sustained!

MEGAN CLARK: Well, actually I think whenever we come into grips with a very complex issue as a society, every time we have done that, we should challenge and we do challenge and it brings us back to our observations. It makes us relook at what are we really seeing? It makes us ask those questions so I think challenge is simply part of coming to understand an issue. But at the same time, plucking out a snow storm in the US or a flood in Queensland or a cold day somewhere and trying to use that to explain away some of these long-term trends, of course, we know is not the right way to do it. I think I look at it in the same way, if you look at someone's bank balance and say the day after they got paid, gee they are looking pretty good and of course, you could never assess whether someone was in fact improving or deteriorating in their finances unless you actually looked at their balance over a year, over a few years etc.  So we can't use these small fluctuations, I think, to explain away some of these trends. What trends? There have been no variations in the global temperature that are not entirely consistant with all the natural variation that we have seen before - the Earth has slowly warmed since the last Ice Age. We've seen hotter and we've seen colder.

TONY EASTLEY: The chief executive of the CSIRO Dr Megan Clark talking to environment reporter Sarah Clarke and the full interview can be heard on our AM website. Just search in Australia for AM - ABC.  Where was the "unquestionable" quote Tony - I missed it.

POSTSCRIPT - The CSIRO calls this proof?
Andrew Bolt Blog   
Monday, March 15, 2010 at 10:26am
http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/the_csiro_calls_this_proof/ 

Regulate, regulate and then regulate some more.

The Democratics are hoping the huge conservative backlash in the heartland will go away - it won't.
The heartland are all very jaded with their "first black (non negro) president" and they are waiting with baseball bats at the upcoming polls.
Congress will have to act to curb the Obama Green excesses of the Environmental Protection Agency and they may not even wait for the Democrats to loose the magority.

EPA to allow states address rising ocean acidity
By GENE JOHNSON, Associated Press Writer Gene Johnson,
Thu Mar 11, 6:26 pm ET
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100311/ap_on_bi_ge/us_epa_acid_oceans

"Ocean Acidity" is like "Extreme Weather Events" - there is NO science for it - they just made it up as they went along and produced a glossy computer model to "prove" it.
There are many debunking articles previously in this blog.
here is a very definative one of them...

The Real Ocean Acidification Story
Volume 13, Number 9: 3 March 2010
http://www.co2science.org/articles/V13/N9/EDIT.php
"In the most comprehensive analysis ever conducted of experimental studies that have explored the effects of rising atmospheric CO2 concentrations on marine biota, Hendriks et al. (2010) assembled a database of 372 experimentally-evaluated responses of 44 different marine species to ocean acidification that was induced by equilibrating seawater with CO2-enriched air. This they did because, as they describe it, "warnings that ocean acidification is a major threat to marine biodiversity are largely based on the analysis of predicted changes in ocean chemical fields," which are derived from theoretical models that do not account for numerous biological phenomena and have only "limited experimental support."... "

The Washington Post broke Watergate and brought down a president - sad to see it unable to let go of the stinking corpse of Climate Change.

This Washington Post Greenie tries to argue against The South Dakota Legislature - "South Dakota schools, the resolution continues, should instruct their students that, "global warming is a scientific theory rather than a proven fact,"
PATHETIC
Read it yourself - it is just PATHETIC.
Readers will think - "and we took these people seriously".

WASHINGTON POST
washingtonpost.com  >  Opinions  >  PostPartisan
By Stephen Stromberg  |  March 9, 2010; 4:29 PM ET 
Climate-change deniers take a lesson from anti-evolution activists
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postpartisan/2010/03/climate-change_deniers_take_a.html
" ...The similarities between the anti-evolution movement and climate change-denial seem to get more numerous by the day. The latest is that South Dakota’s state legislature called for a “balanced” approach to teaching about climate... "

Some time ago I announced in this blog "we've won now".
What made me so sure?
One word - DOUBT
Alarmists need certainty - no parliament is going to enact any drastic changes when there is any kind of doubt about it at all.
The doubt is not only there now but it is feeding on itself and "Climate Change" is now as doomed as the Dodo - tomorrow's fish-and-chips wrapping.

This article by a resident ABC Greenie is tactically good - I mean if Pachauri himself favours it, the outcome can hardly be in doubt - but it is a strategic disaster.

The UN IPCC has been thrown onto the backfoot - forced to defend.

The strategic disaster, however is that the great unwashed public now have that one word I mentioned before - DOUBT - and the required certainty has gone forever.

We dodged a bullet.

ABC NEWS
CLIMATE CHANGE
Independent body to review UN climate panel
Updated Thu Mar 11, 2010 4:53pm AEDT
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/03/11/2843268.htm?site=news

- Into Ian Lowe's Alarmists troubleshooting conference in NZ that is.

TBR.cc
BREAKING NEWS: Top Aussie climate scientist goes feral on skeptics and fellow scientists
http://briefingroom.typepad.com/the_briefing_room/2010/03/breaking-news-top-aussie-climate-scientist-goes-feral-on-skeptics-and-fellow-scientists.html

" ...As part of the conference, the NZ Government funded Science Media Centre, a climate change propaganda unit, organised for select invited media to attend a briefing from Professor Lowe, and NZ government social scientist Karen Cronin.

The briefing is a unique insight not just into the mindset of the climate science propaganda units, but in the sychophantic media willing to push their message unquestioningly.

During the hour long media briefing, Lowe

•ridiculed the scientists working on the Large Hadron Collider, saying money would be better spent by climate scientists
•argued that for propaganda purposes the media should hype-up individual weather events - such as floods in Mozambique - as proof of climate change
•claimed Hurricane Katrina was clearly caused by climate change
•claimed a conspiracy of white, Anglo Celtic elderly males was behind the skeptic movement
•with NZ government social scientist Karen Cronin advocated researching how to foment enough anger in the public that governments who refused to take climate action could be "pushed out of the way" in a political upheaval

To hear Lowe ridiculing the LHC, click here (or right click and download):... "

Well, is it a LIE to claim 49.4 million tonnes of CO2 reductions when it is actually about 10 million tonnes, or just a slight exageration - you decide.

THE AUSTRALIAN
Emissions figures don't stack up: professor Hedley Thomas
March 11, 2010 12:00AM
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/emissions-figures-dont-stack-up-professor/story-e6frg6nf-1225839329853

"THE Rudd government ramped up the environmental benefits of its botched $2.45 billion home insulation scheme by grossly overstating the cuts in greenhouse gas emissions that could be achieved by households, expert independent analysis says... "
" ...Dr Williamson said the most optimistic scenario could see the emission reduction get to 0.4 tonnes per household, which meant that the total carbon reduction by 2020 would be about 10 million tonnes.
This would mean that the scheme had cost taxpayers more than $200 a tonne.
A Department of Climate Change spokesman said the estimated abatement of 1.65 tonnes of carbon per installation per household year "takes into account average energy use by households as well as the split of electricity and gas use.
"It is also averaged over Australian climate regions.""

WATTS UP WITH THAT
Hathaway on the solar conveyor belt and deep solar minimum
12/03/2010
From NASA News: Solar ‘Current of Fire’ Speeds Up
What in the world is the sun up to now?
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/03/12/hathaway-on-the-solar-conveyor-belt-and-deep-solar-minimum/

"In today’s issue of Science, NASA solar physicist David Hathaway reports that the top of the sun’s Great Conveyor Belt has been running at record-high speeds for the past five years... "

NASA
Solar 'Current of Fire' Speeds Up
March 12, 2010: What in the world is the sun up to now?
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2010/12mar_conveyorbelt.htm?list35621

SYDNEY MORNING HERALD
US carbon traders fear pink slips
March 12, 2010
http://www.smh.com.au/business/us-carbon-traders-fear-pink-slips-20100312-q2cr.html

The infamous Mann UN IPCC  HockeyStick graph erased the Medieval Warm and the Little Ice Age periods.

It shocked genuine scientists, but few had the guts to speak out.

Wanna know, in detail, how they did it? Just read this book - astounding!

PROSPECT MAGAZINE    The case against the hockey stick
Matt Ridley   10th March 2010  —  Issue 168 
The "hockey stick" temperature graph is a mainstay of global warming science. A new book tells of one man's efforts to dismantle it—and deserves to win prizes
http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/2010/03/the-case-against-the-hockey-stick/

Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für Wirtschaft sforschung
Economic impacts from the promotion of renewable energies: The German experience
Final report
http://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/germany/Germany_Study_-_FINAL.pdf

" ...5 Summary and Conclusion
Although renewable energies have a potentially beneficial role to play as part of Germany’s energy portfolio, the commonly advanced argument that renewables confer a double dividend or “win-win solution” in the form of environmental stewardship and economic prosperity is disingenuous. In this article, we argue that Germany’s principal mechanism of supporting renewable technologies through feed-in tariffs, in fact, imposes high costs without any of the alleged positive impacts on emissions reductions, employment, energy security, or technological innovation.

First,... "

Also here...
Germany warning
Posted by Richard Thursday, March 11, 2010
http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2010/03/germany-warning.html

" ...Packed with detail and well-argued, its conclusions are unequivocal and coruscating. "Although Germany's promotion of renewable energies is commonly portrayed in the media as setting a shining example in providing a harvest for the world," the authors write, "we would instead regard the country's experience as a cautionary tale of massively expensive environmental and energy policy that is devoid of economic and environmental benefits."

You really cannot get much clearer than that, the result of a failed experiment based on an aggressive policy of "generously subsidising and effectively mandating renewable electricity generation" in Germany that has led to a doubling of the renewable contribution to electricity generation in recent years... "

"TO LATE!" she screamed and waved her wooden leg.

It was the ABC's job as national broadcaster to present us with the facts pro and con on Climate Change, instead they actively supressed them and ridiculed the opposition to it.

We got more Creationism than Climate Scepticsm.

The attacks on "Against Nature", Bjorn Lomburg, "The Great Global Warming Swindle" and Lord Monckton were quite simply unforgivable.

Well may you say "god save the queen" for nothing will save the Australian Broadcasting Commission!

It is irrepairably damaged.
The cleaners will need to be put through it.

Just yesterday we got this piece of trite pap - on "AM" - desperately proping up the failed doomsday predictions of the Greens.
Climate change is a fact, says China
By China correspondent Stephen McDonell
Updated Thu Mar 11, 2010 10:13am AEDT
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/03/11/2842415.htm (POSTSCRIPT - No, China did not attack “deniers” Andrew Bolt Blog Friday, March 12, 2010 at 07:32am 
http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/no_china_did_not_attack_deniers/ ) 

ABC chair criticises climate change coverage
By Brendan Trembath
Updated Wed Mar 10, 2010 11:11pm AEDT
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/03/10/2842322.htm

"ABC chairman Maurice Newman has attacked the media for being too willing to accept the conventional wisdom on climate change.

In a speech to senior ABC staff on Wednesday morning, Mr Newman said climate change was an example of "group think".

He says contrary views on climate change have not been tolerated and those who express them have been labelled and mocked... "

TOO LATE MAURICE!

From an AUS Queensland Senator.
Her recent press release is revealing...

Senator Sue Boyce Queensland Electorate Office: 349 Sandgate Rd, Albion, Qld Telephone: (07) 3862 4044 Facsimile: (07) 3862 4244
MEDIA RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 24, 2010
QANTAS NEEDS TO EXPLAIN ITS CARBON OFFSET PROGRAM
http://www.sueboyce.com.au/media/MR%20QUEENSLAND%20-%20Qantas%20Needs%20To%20Explain%20Its%20Carbon%20Offset%20Program.pdf

"Qantas needs to explain why its carbon offset program is channelling voluntary payments made by environmentally conscientious passengers to a major company with an annual revenue of almost $800 million, Queensland Liberal Senator Sue Boyce said today.
Speaking in the Senate, Senator Boyce said according to the Qantas website, Fieldforce had been appointed in August 2008 as the supplier of carbon credits for Qantas.

Senator Sue Boyce crossed the floor for Mal and the CPRS but now?
No way Jose.
She seems to have picked up on a very anti-Green sentiment in her electorate.

In her newsletter, March 9, 2010, she bitterly reports how the anti-human and anti-development Green philosophy is retarding our growth...

"HEAD NORTH - NOT ACCORDING TO THE ALP

" ...Under the heading "knowledge gaps for effective decision making", the report baldly states "There are critical gaps in our knowledge and data sources . . . The water available for consumptive use is not well understood."
"While the amount of water in the landscape has been broadly quantified, detailed knowledge of how much water is available, where it could be taken from, and when it could be taken is currently very limited. The capacity to quantify sustainable yield is even more limited."

To translate that from bureaucratic jargon - "We don't know how much water is there, what it's used for or its quality. Despite the fact we've had 15 months to find this out, we instead decided to look at Climate Change issues that might affect the area in 2030."
This is the statement that should have been written in red ink across the front page of the report.

Some of the other assumptions are equally questionable.
The taskforce have decided, since they have no idea on the water systems in the north, that building dams is not an option.
They have indicated that beef production in the north could be doubled, "through changing enterprise structure and increasing intensification". This is despite the restrictions imposed by tree clearing laws, Queensland's Wild Rivers legislation, and other government red tape... "

March 11, 2010
Americans' Global Warming Concerns Continue to Drop
Multiple indicators show less concern, more feelings that global warming is exaggerated
by Frank Newport
http://www.gallup.com/poll/126560/Americans-Global-Warming-Concerns-Continue-Drop.aspx

There has been a huge anti Climate Change backlash in the UK tabloids.
There has been a huge anti Climate Change backlash in the USA heartland.
Over half the AUS Liberal Party do not believe the science behind Climate Change - resulting in a change in leadership.
All the opinion polls reflect a reversal of the public attitude.

This has culminated in four big enquiries, one into ClimateGate, one into The UN IPCC, and one into The UN IPCC head Pachauri and one into the Mann Hockeystick graph.

So why don't we hear any of this on Channel Seven, Channel Nine and Channel Ten?

I mean, one would think it was quite big news.
Climate change was taught as gospel in our schools.
Can a LIE get so big that it just cannot be refuted?
Or...
does it beg the obvious question...
What did it have to do with a sneaky meeting in Colarado USA which resulted in 250 million dollars of licence fees being waived for the AUS commercial television networks?

TIMES ON LINE (UK)
March 10, 2010
UN to review errors made by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Ben Webster, Environment Editor
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article7055999.ece 

HAWAII REPORTER
Global Warming Glitches From Clouds, Dust and Emissions
By Jack Dini, 3/9/2010 10:04:03 AM
http://www.hawaiireporter.com/story.aspx?4e305faf-f5f7-4bd5-b1ac-656c4e2af3d2

“Climate science is baffled by clouds. Not enough is understood yet about clouds to state whether they have a cooling or warming effect on the Earth. A change in cloud cover by 1% can produce changes as great as the most exaggerated claims that are meant to derive from humans adding carbon dioxide to the atmosphere. Climate models do not do clouds well and don’t consider fog and mist which have the same effect as clouds,” reports Ian Plimer. (1)... "

" ...References

1. Ian Plimer, Heaven and Earth, (New York, Taylor Trade Publishing, 2009), 432
2. Amy C. Clement, Robert Burgman and Joel R. Norris, “Observational and Model Evidence for Positive Low-Level Cloud Feedback,” Science, 325, 5939, July 24, 2009
3. Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, Freakonomics, (New York, William Morrow, 2009), 201
4. Steven Milloy, “Clouds Mitigate Global Warming, New Evidence Shows,” Environment & Climate News, November 2007
5. Doug L. Hoffman, “African Dust Heats Up Atlantic Tropics,” The Resilient Earth, May 15, 2009
6. Amato T. Evan, et al., “The Role of Aerosols in the Evolution of Tropical North Atlantic Ocean Temperature Anomalies,: Science, 324, 778, May 8, 2009
7. Nadine Unger, et al., “Attribution of climate forcing to economic sectors,” doi:10:1073/pnas.0906548107
8. Doug L. Hoffman, “Industrial Emissions Cool Climate,” The Resilient Earth, February 11, 2010

Jack Dini was a materials engineer and Section Leader at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. He is the author of two books, Electrodeposition-The Materials Science of Coatings and Substrates (1993), and Challenging Environmental Mythology (2003). Since 1998 he has been writing a monthly column titled “Fact or Fiction?” for Plating and Surface Finishing (P&SF). He has also written for a number of other publications "

Told ya!

Many years of research on Climate Change have slowly revealed to me that there was actually a small coterie of revolutionaries behind it.

Revolutionaries? you ask.

Yes - our modern huge prosperous society is based entirely on cheap abundant fossil fuels - no practical alternatives have emerged - ergo it is revolutionary to abolish them.
Here Dr Ball - hero of science - confirms my opinion...

CANADA FREE PRESS
IPCC Science Designed For Propaganda
By Dr. Tim Ball  Friday, February 5, 2010
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/19702

"The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was specifically designed by Maurice Strong as a political vehicle to further his objective of crippling the industrial nations."

" ...It was achieved at the 1985 meeting in Villach Austria chaired by Canadian bureaucrat Gordon McBean with Phil Jones and Tom Wigley from CRU in attendance. The second need was for maximizing the fear factor to force political action... " 

Blame the euro-crazy euro-Greenies
The only thing NOT reduced is "carbon".

SCIENCE CODEX
Carbon emissions 'outsourced' to developing countries
Posted On: March 8, 2010 - 8:30pm
http://www.sciencecodex.com/carbon_emissions_outsourced_to_developing_countries
Carnegie Institution for Science report - http://www.ciw.edu/news/carbon_emissions_outsourced_developing_countries
TIME MAGAZINE
When Goods Get Traded, Who Pays for the CO2?
By Bryan Walsh Tuesday, Mar. 09, 2010
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1970662,00.html#ixzz0hhvVBVnq

CO2 has an inverse logarithmic effect.
Atmospheric carbon dioxide gas has already absorbed almost all of the Earth's reflected heat that it can.
That's why you need exotic computer models - such models are the only way to predict the required catastrophe.

WATTS UP WITH THAT
The Logarithmic Effect of Carbon Dioxide
8/03/2010
Guest post by David Archibald
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/03/08/the-logarithmic-effect-of-carbon-dioxide/

UNBELIEVABLE!!!!

FINANCIAL TIMES
Japan struggles to meet emissions pledge
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/82e40916-2848-11df-9f8f-00144feabdc0.html

" ...Japan is struggling over how to meet the government’s ambitious promise to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the next decade.
The cabinet on Friday delayed until next Friday a decision on a bill covering emissions trading, carbon taxes and other green measures, after Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama complained that it was “in danger of being pummelled” by industry groups and their allies. Failure to reach agreement next week would delay the bill until parliament reconvenes after elections in July... "

BTW - Japan Q&A
Q - Why does Japan go halfway around the earth to kill the Australian whales that our large whale tourist industry depends on?
A - Because they slaughtered their own Japanese whales to EXTINCTION.

Just one of the dozens of Anti Climate articles blossuming up in springtime ewe ess aye!

In Denial
The meltdown of the climate campaign.
BY Steven F. Hayward
March 15, 2010, Vol. 15, No. 25
http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/denial

TWTW is a weekly newsletter put out by/on-behalf-of prof Singer - Hero Of Science.

The reason that people equate AGW with religion is the dogma.
One of the oldest and most persistant Greenie dogmas is the "oh we don't listen to him - he's in the pay of the evil multinationals" in reply to any criticsm.
This is pure cult.
It is exactly how cults react to critiscm - just substitute "evil Satan" for "evil multinationals".

It is also pure bullcrap as this very succinct, erudite comment from SEPP points out.

3. Scientists plot to hit back at critics
By Stephen Dian, Washington Times, Mar 5, 2010 [H/t Conrad Potemra]
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/mar/05/scientists-plot-to-hit-back-at-critics/

[SEPP Comment: The claim by Stephen Scheiner that scientists cannot compete with energy companies is particularly rich. His university, Stanford, received $100 million from Exxon Mobil for its Global Climate and Energy Project. Total US Government spending on global warming far exceeds $20 Billon]

Earth Hour running slow
Andrew Bolt Blog   
Saturday, March 06, 2010 at 10:02am
http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/earth_hour_running_slow/

" ...What, only 579 cities signed up so far? Seems that resolutiuon may actually be fading fast, given their target:
Earth Hour 2010 aims to reach one billion people in more than 1,000 cities encouraging them to cast their vote for the earth by turning off their lights.
In fact, it’s a massive drop on last year’s numbers:
88 countris and 4,088 cities participated in Earth Hour 2009, ten times more cities than Earth Hour 2008 had...
(Thanks to Observer of Wodonga.)" 

Australia - The best Climate Change that money can buy!!!!!

That buys a lot of baas
Andrew Bolt Blog   
Saturday, March 06, 2010 at 11:00am
http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/ntain_of_gravy/

"Read on for the full paper:
Page 1 of 6
Climate Change Research in Australia
(Bob Greenelsh, BE (Met), FAusIMM, MAICD * – February, 2010)
INTRODUCTION
In recent years research organisations in Australia have been busy setting up research centres
or large projects aimed at tapping into government money available for climate change
research. It is estimated that governments in Australia will spend at least $800 million this
financial year on climate change research.
Research activities cover three broad fields:... "

Outrageous.
Readers of this blog will realise that there are distinct patterns emerging in global temperature - The AMO the PDO the ENSO and others - and it IS now possible to make reasonable long-term predictions.
It's just that at present it's for COLD - politically untenable in the UK.
Perhaps englishmen could get their needed long term weather from the Dutch or the French?! Google translate it!

BBC NEWS
Page last updated at 11:04 GMT, Friday, 5 March 2010
Met Office seasonal forecasts to be scrapped 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8551416.stm
The Met Office is to stop publishing seasonal forecasts, after it came in for criticism for failing to predict extreme weather.

http://www.drroyspencer.com/wp-content/uploads/UAH_LT_1979_thru_Feb_10.jpg

It was pure superstition to blame the warm weather in the 1990s on "Climate Change" just as it is pure superstition to use this record freezing winter as proof of lack of "Climate Change".

The smallest global climate cycle so far identified is about 30 years. One very cold season in one half of the globe is not signifigant to climate.

So why did it bring "Climate Change" down?

Well, they've been lying to us - even the most gullible have now noticed - "hey wait-a-minute-didn't-you-say... ?"

What IS signifigant is that...
    ONE claims by the UN IPCC that the 1990s were ongoing "Climate Change" were a lie.
    TWO  the UN IPCC claim that "natural forcings" were too weak and too long term to be causing that 1990s warming were also a lie.
"Natural Forcings" came back and bit them on the bum!

What we DO see from this global satellite temperature record is that...
    ONE The global temperature is very stable and self-regulating. There is no built-in upward bias - except the very slow rise since the last ice age.
    TWO The warming jumps are never amplified by an increase in global humidity as asserted by IPCC "Climate Change" models.
    THREE Volcanos in lower latitudes do affect global temperature but only temporarily.

Looking back - we cannot yet accurately predict forward - the recent record cold in the north will probably be labelled as volcanos. It may still be the start of the predicted 30 year downturn.

February UAH global temperature anomaly – little change
5/03/2010
February 2010 UAH Global Temperature Update: Version 5.3 Unveiled
by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/03/05/february-uah-global-temperature-anomaly-little-change/

POSTCRIPT - more on the the volcanos Mt Redoubt and later Mt Sarychev - and other "natural forcings" - here - http://www.intellicast.com/Community/Content.aspx?a=223

JO NOVA
The big picture: 65 million years of temperature swings
http://joannenova.com.au/2010/02/the-big-picture-65-million-years-of-temperature-swings/

" ...If you wonder where today’s temperature fits in with the grand scheme of time on Earth since the dinosaurs were wiped out, here’s the history.... "

THE HILL
Punitive taxes would cost jobs, hitting economy
By Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) - 02/22/10 08:01 PM ET
http://thehill.com/special-reports/energy-a-environment-february-2010/82977-punitive-taxes-would-cost-jobs-hitting-economy

This exchange between scientists is a very good summary of the pro and con arguments.

Save it, print it, and revise it before your next dinner party discussion!

Comment by Bill Gray, Professor Emeritus, Colorado State University on Kerry Emanuel’s Boston Globe (15 February 2010) Op/Ed piece titled “Climate Changes Are Proven Fact.”
http://icecap.us/images/uploads/Gray_Rebuttal_to_Emanuel.pdf

" ...Emanuel “…, the surface temperature of the Earth is roughly 60 F higher than it would otherwise be thanks to a few greenhouse gasses that collectively make up only about 3 percent of the mass of our atmosphere.”
Gray – The globe’s greenhouse gas induced higher temperatures are due almost exclusively to water vapor (the overwelling greenhouse gas) not much at all due to CO2 and methane. It is the variation of atmospheric water vapor (particularly in the upper troposphere) that is of dominant importance to the greenhouse gas warming question. It is likely that increases in CO2 and other minor greenhouse gases will lead to small reductions in upper tropospheric water vapor which will bring about greater loss of infrared radiation energy flux to space. Increases in CO2 and lesser greenhouse gases should (due to their influence on upper level water vapor) lead to little global temperature increase. Such conditions appear to be presently occurring. During the last decade and a half when CO2 amounts have risen there has been an increased (not decreased) infrared radiation flux to space. Little or no global warming has occurred in the last decade.
Emanuel “…, in the absence of any feedbacks except for temperature itself, doubling carbon dioxide would increase the global average surface temperature by about 1.8 F.”
Gray – You can’t at the outset eliminate water vapor and cloud feedback and consider only temperature feedback and expect to have a realistic explanation of CO2’s future influence on global temperature. Water vapor and cloud feedback changes can negate most or all the lesser greenhouse gas influences on global temperature.
Emanuel “The rate of rise of surface temperature is consistent with predictions of human-caused global warming that date back to the 19th century and is larger than any natural change we have been able to discern for at least the past 1,000 years.”
Gray – this is pure ‘off-the-wall’ assertion that the global warmers want to believe in because they do not want to consider other causes of climate change which would negate their human-induced warming hypothesis. The global warming community has yet to come to grips with the powerful potential climate altering influences of multi-decadal and multi-century changes in the globe’s deep ocean circulations. The Medieval warm period and the early Holocene warm period are believed to have been warmer than today’s temperatures. Some natural processes brought about these changes. Why could these same natural processes not be acting today?
Emanuel “… current models predict that a doubling of carbon dioxide should result in global mean temperature increases of anywhere from 2.5 to 7.5 F.”
Gray – All the global General Circulation Models (GCMs) which predict future global temperature change for a doubling of CO2 are badly flawed. They do not realistically handle the changes in upper tropospheric water vapor and cloudiness. They give unrealistically high upper-tropospheric moisture and temperature condition for CO2 doubling. Model global warming estimates for a doubling of CO2 are thought by thousands of us to be many times larger than what will likely occur. The GCMs are not yet simulating the fundamental influence of the multi-decadal and multi-century scale variations of the ocean’s deep circulation patterns.
It should be noted that the GCMs have failed to account for the weak global cooling over the last decade. It is also important to note that the GCM groups do not make official shorter range global temperature forecasts of 1 to10 years which could accurately be verified. If they won’t do this why
should we believe their forecasts at 50-100 years? Any experienced meteorologist or climate scientist who would actually believe a long range climate model should really have their head examined. They are living in a dream world... "

UTube - fatal accident with vulture on a windmill

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9srPoOU6_Z4&feature=player_embedded

One of thousands of birdies (and bats) killed by the demon machines in the name of saving the planet!!! The Vulture was probably there to feast on the other bird carcasses - fell victim itself,

Sketics will be gleefully rubing their hands - no way will he draw the huge sell-out crowds that Monckton did.

The ABC will hail it as a truimph, Kerry Obrien will grovel all over him, Tony Jones will lick his boots, but we've all moved on from the ABC now, haven't we?

SYDNEY MORNING HERALD
We're dealing to coal addicts: Hansen
NICKY PHILLIPS
March 4, 2010
http://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/were-dealing-to-coal-addicts-hansen-20100303-pj3v.html

" ...Here for lectures, Dr Hansen said the problem was particularly relevant for Australia because it continues to be a huge consumer and exporter of coal: ''If [Australia] continues to increase its export of coal it is, in effect, becoming a drug dealer for the world.''

The gap between public knowledge and the scientific reality of global warming is the big problem, he said... "

...and we'll have fun fun fun till her daddy takes the TBird away!!!