Anthony Watts, David Archibald and David Stockwell are touring Australia 12 June – 1 July 2010. Bob Carter will be speak at some venues.

Details: http://climatesceptics.com.au/watts.html

“The idea that raising the cost of energy will induce the emergence of new technologies could only be proposed by people completely ignorant of economic history and the history of technology. I cannot think of a single instance of this happening. Taken to its logical conclusion we can argue that the Romans would have developed the steam engine — if not the car — if only the emperors had have had the foresight to put a heavy tax on horses and bullocks…

“And if taxes are all that is needed to bring about technological progress why haven’t heavy petrol taxes in Europe led to new transport technologies?”

Gerard Jackson, Economics Editor Brookes News
http://brookesnews.com/100103alternativenergy.html

1. Time to go on the Offensive.

Like the British Eighth Army in North Africa in the 1940’s, climate realists have been in continual retreat since the Climate War started.

Led by Al Gore’s trained regiments using Nobel prize gunpowder, backed by academic and government snipers using manipulated temperature data, financed by endless conveys carrying tax payer funds, reinforced by a steady barrage of scare forecasts from the media and legislative carpet bombing from pliant politicians, the Green Army looked invincible.

But suddenly the tide turned…

2. Rudd – Promising Poverty or Blowing Hot Air?

The Carbon Sense Coalition today claimed that Australian PM Rudd was either promising poverty for his grandkids or blowing hot air.

Read the full newsletter: http://carbon-sense.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/on-the-offensive.pdf [PDF, 500 KB]

It is often said that there is “consensus” among scientists regarding anthropogenic global warming. This report lists 700 scientists who dissent from that view.

Download the report (updated March 2009): http://carbon-sense.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/us-senate-minority-report.pdf [PDF, 1.4 MB]

Source: http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.WelcomeMessage

Here is the latest Carbon Sense newsletter:

• Lord Monckton & Ian Plimer vs Graham Readfearn & Professor Barry Brook, Brisbane 29th Jan 2010
• The Climate is Changing
• Climate Madness and Electricity Realities
• Gore’s Books cause Warming in Britain
• Power Station Images – incompetence or propaganda?

Full newsletter is here: http://carbon-sense.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/climate-is-changing.pdf [PDF, 170 KB]

The Brisbane Institute is holding a climate change debate with a panel consisting of Lord Christopher Monckton, Professor Ian Plimer, Graham Readfearn and Professor Barry Brook on January 29th at the Hilton Hotel, Brisbane, 12 – 2pm. Please see the attached brochure for full details and booking information: http://carbon-sense.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/climate-debate-brisbane.pdf [PDF, 347 KB]

The Carbon Sense Coalition today claimed that government science bodies in Australia had become cowed and corrupted by politicians.

The Chairman of “Carbon Sense”, Mr Viv Forbes, said that following the lead of the climate alarmists infecting the government owned ABC, CSIRO, BOM and most state and federal science departments were now singing the government song on climate.

“It’s time to de-politicise the Australian government climate science industry.”

More items in this newsletter:

Skeptical books – the trickle becomes a flood

• Climate Change Lunacy
• Climate the Counter Consensus

The Good, the Bad, the Ugly and the Hilarious

• Wind Power Explodes
• The Great Wall of Queensland
• Environmental Extremism turns a Young Family’s Dream into a Nightmare
• CCNet – regular news on Climate Policy
• The Last Word

Read the full article: http://carbon-sense.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/science-corrupted.pdf [PDF, 50 KB]

Here is an animated video produced by FirstEnergy available from Mining Connection (http://www.miningconnection.com/). It shows how we make electricity from coal. It also shows that the cooling towers so loved by TV to illustrate power plant pollution in fact emit only warm air and moisture – not even the demonised but harmless carbon dioxide. The invisible carbon dioxide exits via the less photogenic chimneys. So what TV usually shows to illustrate “carbon pollution” is no more polluting than what comes out of the spout of your kettle. So much for truth on TV.

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]

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]