By Sandy McClintock & Rick Dean

The Australian Bureau of Meteorology has presented data for Echuca Aerodrome that shows no change in temperature for 100 years. However the widely promoted Australian “high-quality climate data set” shows an apparent increase in temperature of 1.2 degree centigrade per century for exactly the same location. How can this be explained?

http://carbon-sense.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/echuca-temperature.pdf [PDF, 97 KB]

A submission from The Carbon Sense Coalition to the Australian Senate Standing Committee on Finance and Public Administration in response to their requests for submissions on the “Inquiry into Native Vegetation Laws, Greenhouse Gas Abatement and Climate Change Measures”.

http://carbon-sense.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/grasses-trees-climate-food.pdf [PDF, 653 KB]

The Australian Government is spending at least $800 million per year on research related to Climate Change. The cash is being sprayed across the country so that no university or research centre is missing out. More than 5,000 researchers are beneficiaries of government climate largess, but still they cannot forecast the weather more than a few days ahead.

Where does the money go? No one appears to know, so Carbon Sense asked Bob Greenelsh to see what he could dig up, and Bob has presented his preliminary findings.

Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is the big winner with government expenditure running at the rate of $400 million a year. After adding funds from the Coal Industry, the total for CCS is probably closer to $800 million a year. Other researchers are getting cash for projects on alternative energy, climate modelling, disaster predicting and research into the impact of climate change on subjects of interest to the researchers. For example, there is an intriguing $760,000 grant for research into the impact of climate change on native orchids.

With so much money being spent by so many, involving so many different organisations and on a vast variety of projects the obvious question is, does anyone really know what is going on? Is the cash being properly spent and will there be a proper reckoning of results and benefits? A second question is, do all the researchers believe that man-made CO2 is causing global warming and that such warming is going to cause other disasters? It is a good bet that their main focus is on getting cash for their project and knowing that there is global warming stimulus package they include “global warming” in the project application.

With those magic words the money will soon be on its way and they can do their stuff and forget about global warming.

See the initial report by Bob Greenelsh: http://carbon-sense.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/research-spending-greenelsh.pdf [PDF, 35KB]

In his Two Dead Elephants in Parliament, Malcolm Roberts writes:

The UN IPCC ’s global warming alarm is dead. Killed by the stampeding revelations of the UN IPCC fraud and falsities.

Yet, there are two dead elephants in federal parliament—one each in the Senate and the House of Representatives. In each chamber, politicians are tiptoeing around the UN IPCC corpse. They’re pretending climate alarm is still alive—no one wants to be the first to break the news.

Kevin Rudd’s mob, cowed in silence imposed by party control and paralysed by fear of voter backlash, pretend the rotting corpses are not there. They aim to suffocate Australia through an Emissions Trading Scheme imposing a huge tax payable by every consumer.

Tony Abbott’s mob is paralysed by fear of sensational headlines labelling them anti-green. They too tiptoe warily around the putrid corpses. They think that to be seen as environmentally caring they need a plan for tackling global warming alarm. They’re trying to prove their plan is better. So they push a far less costly, far less risky and far less damaging alternative to suffocating Australia—they want to choke Australia through yet more unneeded regulation.

The growing majority of Aussies watch and laugh. Woken to reality, they look on and shake their heads with derision and disbelief. While politicians tiptoe around dead elephants, Aussies have figured out what really matters—global warming alarm has been fabricated.

Most Australians genuinely care for the environment. They’ve concluded climate alarm is a wasteful, costly derailment— a derailment that prevents addressing real environmental challenges.

Read the full document: http://carbon-sense.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/dead-elephants.pdf [PDF, 415 KB]

Howard C. Hayden, Professor Emeritus of Physics, UConn, has written a submission to the US EPA.

His conclusion:

“To put it fairly but bluntly, the global-warming alarmists have relied on a pathetic version of science in which computer models take precedence over data, and numerical averages of computer outputs are believed to be able to predict the future climate.

“It would be a travesty if the EPA were to countenance such nonsense.”

Read the submission: http://carbon-sense.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/hayden-submission-epa.pdf [PDF, 65 KB]

Lord Monckton, one of the most well informed commentators on Thermomania and Climategate, is coming to Australia at the invitation of several concerned Australians. He will be giving a series of talks in all mainland capitals and Noosa. We will post details as soon as they are confirmed.

Lord Monckton has also written to PM Rudd on comments the PM made in his talk to the Lowry Institute about the “small number of dangerous, well funded climate-change deniers”. Lord Monckton’s open letter to PM Rudd can be seen here:

1) Web page: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/01/03/climate-change-proposed-personal-briefing/
2) PDF version: http://carbon-sense.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/monckton-rudd.pdf [PDF, 155 KB]

Update on Lord Monckton’s visit to Australia: http://carbon-sense.com/2010/01/13/monckton-australia-2010/

Peter Spencer and his family have been farming in Australia for 180 years but their land and livelihood have been sacrificed on the Kyoto altar. Peter has been prevented from clearing vegetation or controlling woody weeds on his land, and his farm is no longer viable. Unable to get compensation in the courts, Peter is now into day 40 of a hunger strike. And unable to pay his mortgage, he is also about to lose his property. He needs the help of all fair minded Australians.

To read more on the Peter Spencer story by John Ibbotson see this PDF:
http://carbon-sense.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/peter-spencer-story.pdf [PDF, 14 KB]

Please publicise his plight.

Viv Forbes

Additional information:

Article by Justin Jefferson on Quadrant Online:
http://www.quadrant.org.au/blogs/doomed-planet/2009/12/peter-spencer

Background information from ABC’s Counterpoint (you will need to click the “Show Transcript” icon):

Great White Land Grab 24 January 2005
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/counterpoint/stories/2005/1284009.htm

The City-country Divide 16 February 2009
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/counterpoint/stories/2009/2492429.htm

Peter Spencer Protests 7 December 2009
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/counterpoint/stories/2009/2764313.htm

By John Bignell

Source: http://www.numberwatch.co.uk/religion.htm

It was Michael Crichton who first prominently identified environmentalism as a religion. That was in a speech in 2003, but the world has moved on apace since then and adherents of the creed now have a firm grip on the world at large.

Global Warming has become the core belief in a new eco-theology. The term is used as shorthand for anthropogenic (or man made) global warming. It is closely related to other modern belief systems, such as political correctness, chemophobia and various other forms of scaremongering, but it represents the vanguard in the assault on scientific man.

The activists now prefer to call it “climate change”. This gives them two advantages:

1. It allows them to seize as “evidence” the inevitable occurrences of unusually cold weather as well as warm ones.
2. The climate is always changing, so they must be right.

Full report as PDF: http://carbon-sense.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/global-warming-religion.pdf [59 KB]

While the Rudd climate regiment is stuck in Copenhagen, achieving not much, they should look beyond their posh hotel for some lessons in energy generation.

Read on: http://carbon-sense.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/lessons-from-europe.pdf [PDF, 158 KB]

By Viv Forbes

Like most other people, I like to see clean air, clean waters, no erosion, no salinity, no weeds and happy contented animals in their natural surroundings. But, like many other people, I am not a card carrying Greenie. I despise the dishonesty of their leadership, I fear the likely results of their policies, and I detest the underlying values and philosophies of their prophets.

It seems like a paradox – a greenie who won’t associate with the greenies. Why do I detest them? There are six main reasons for my concern with the green leadership, philosophy and tactics.

Read the full article: http://carbon-sense.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/why-i-am-not-a-greenie.pdf [PDF, 18KB]