Keep it Simple, Stupid [PDF, 27KB] – a Response to the Proposals from the Commonwealth Department of Climate Change for a National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting System.

The text of Ian McClintock’s submission: McClintock Garnaut Submission[PDF, 55KB]

A group of Australian and New Zealand organisations and scientists today called on the governments of Australia and New Zealand to set up an Australia New Zealand Royal Commission on the Science of Global Warming (to be known as “The ANZIG Royal Commission” – the Australia New Zealand Inquiry into Global Warming).

The chairman of Australia’s Carbon Sense Coalition, Mr Viv Forbes, said that many groups and individuals in Australia and New Zealand had listened with alarm and disbelief to plans of both governments to saddle their people and industries with the burdens of carbon taxes and the risks of carbon trading which he described as “an open invitation to massive fraud”.

Full text here: Time for an Australia New Zealand Royal Commission on Global Warming [PDF, 28KB]

Dear Professor Garnaut,

I note that your review has been commissioned to “examine the impacts of climate change on the Australian economy, and recommend medium to long-term policies and policy frameworks to improve the prospects for sustainable prosperity”.

As written, this is a straightforward if challenging task. Unwritten, however, is that the term “climate change” today carries connotations of human causation, thanks mainly to lobby group pressure and media propaganda. This transforms a straightforward task into one of immense complexity, because of the existence of both many unresolved, controversial scientific issues and the fierce environmental politics that becomes involved.
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The Heartland Institute is sponsoring The 2008 International Conference on Climate Change in New York, March 2, 2008. There is a brochure here (PDF, 411KB) and more information at the Heartland Web site.

This is our Submission to the Garnaut Climate Change Review, The Sky is Not Falling [PDF, 157KB].

By Peter Wales

When the popular media refer to “Global Warming”, or more recently “Climate Change”, both with Capitals, so You Know How Important It Is, they mean a combination of three related theories. These are:

• The Earth is warming at an unprecedented rate.
• This is happening because of human activity.
• This is a bad thing.

None of these things can be shown to be true.

Read the full article: Profits of Doom – An Alternative View of Global Warming [PDF, 1.2MB]

By Emeritus Professor Lance Endersbee, AO.

The accompanying paper, Climate Change is Nothing New [PDF, 1.2MB], was published in the March 2007 issue of the journal, New Concepts in Global Tectonics (http://www.ncgt.org/).

I was invited to prepare the paper by the Editor as a scientific response to the IPCC report, Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis, Summary for Policy Makers, issued by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, February 2007. The paper can also be regarded as a response to the movie by Al Gore, and to the report on carbon trading by the London financier, Sir Nicholas Stern.

The key points of the paper are:-
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The following statement is by Professor David Bellamy: Old King Coal is Still a Merry Old Soul [PDF 19KB].

Sea Ode Two

We think with each succeeding year
Our worries are a new idea
And chicks who think the sky is falling
Keep cropping up at rates appalling.
“Hold your breath” you hear them shout
“And never let your methane out”.

While the sheep are ruminating
Here’s some facts for contemplating.
Man’s CO2 (not many may know)
Is swamped by every live volcano.
Most chlorides come from nature’s stack
To blame us then is pretty slack.
The ozone hole down south of us –
Yawns right above Mt Erebus!!!
The sea will rise, the sea will fall
There’s nothing surer – after all.
That’s what was in days of yore
And will be for ever more
Despite our presence; and our fate
Is micro in the macro, mate.
This greenhouse panic now it’s clear
Is nothing more than atmos-fear.

Jock McPoet
1992