Showing posts with label Austrailia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Austrailia. Show all posts

Sunday, July 11, 2010

Australia - Coldest day in 100 years

Speaks for itself. Check out the author's title.

WIDESPREAD cloud and persistent rainfall has kept temperatures down right across Queensland.

Longreach, in the Central West, received persistent rain from Tuesday evening, dropping the temperatures by about four degrees. The temperature then barely moved yesterday, reaching a maximum of 11 degrees; 12 degrees below the long-term average and the coldest July day in 44 years of records.Isisford, further south, was even colder, getting to just 10 degrees. This was the town's chilliest day since before records began in 1913, almost a century ago.

[From Australia - Global warming my backside with the coldest day in 100 years]

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Australia's Parliament Rejects Cap and Trade

Good for them. The casualties of Climategate continue, while our news media mostly sticks its head in the sand over the scandal. May the Climategate casualties and global warming believers NOT rest in peace.

The Senate, where Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's government does not hold a majority, rejected his administration's proposal for Australia to become one of the first countries to install a so-called cap-and-trade system to slash the amount of heat-trapping pollution that industries pump into the air.

The 41-33 vote followed a tumultuous debate in which the conservative main opposition party at first agreed to support a version of the government's bill, then dramatically dumped its leader and switched sides after bitter divisions erupted within the party.

[From The Associated Press: Australia's Parliament defeats global warming bill]

Friday, November 27, 2009

Climategate: 5 Aussie MPs to Resign

For those of you who don't know, an MP in Australia or the U.K. means "Member of Parliament," which is the equivalent of our U.S. Congressmen. I wonder when ClimateGate will kick in here. Our liberal news media knows that if they report honestly and factually here, they will indict themselves and almost every Democrat in office (and even some moderate--dumb--Republicans).

Though the ETS squeaked narrowly through Australia’s House of Representatives, its Senate is proving more robust – thanks not least to the widespread disgust by the many Senators who have read Professor Plimer’s book Heaven And Earth at the dishonesty and corruption of the AGW industry. If the Senate keeps rejecting the scheme, then the Australian government will be forced to dissolve.

For the rapidly increasing number of us who believe that AGW is little more than a scheme by bullying eco-fascists to deprive us of our liberty, by big government to spread its controlling tentacles into every aspect our lives, and scheming industrialists such as Al Gore to enrich themselves through carbon trading, this principled act by Australia’s Carbon Five is fantastic news.

[From Climategate: five Aussie MPs lead the way by resigning in disgust over carbon tax – Telegraph Blogs]

Thursday, August 13, 2009

Australian Senate Rejects Cap and Trade

Let's hope the morons in our own country come to their senses too. As the health care debate shows, these fools aren't playing with a full deck and could care less what you pathetic obstacles think about their moves to consolidate power.

Aug. 13 (Bloomberg) -- Australia’s Senate rejected the government’s climate-change legislation, forcing Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to amend the bill or call an early election.

Senators voted 42 to 30 against the law, which included plans for a carbon trading system similar to one used in Europe. Australia, the world’s biggest coal exporter, was proposing to reduce greenhouse gases by between 5 percent and 15 percent of 2000 levels in the next decade.

[From Australian Senate Rejects Rudd’s Cap and Trade Emissions Plan - Bloomberg.com]

Tuesday, July 28, 2009

The Cult of Global Warming

Another scientist speaks out, this time from Australia. Will he be heard? Of course global warming is a cult and fad. Or will the psychos stick with 'consensus' as if there are no dissenting smart people out there?

Geologist Ian Plimer takes a contrary view, arguing that man-made climate change is a con trick perpetuated by environmentalists

BY JONATHAN MANTHORPE, VANCOUVER SUN, JULY 28, 2009

Ian Plimer has outraged the ayatollahs of purist environmentalism, the Torquemadas of the doctrine of global warming, and he seems to relish the damnation they heap on him.

Plimer is a geologist, professor of mining geology at Adelaide University, and he may well be Australia's best-known and most notorious academic.

Plimer, you see, is an unremitting critic of "anthropogenic global warming" -- man-made climate change to you and me -- and the current environmental orthodoxy that if we change our polluting ways, global warming can be reversed.

[From Global warming is the new religion of First World urban elites ]

Thursday, June 11, 2009

Drop That Light Bulb…You’re Under Arrest!

Fruitcake liberals in Australia are preparing to burden their police forces with enforcing global warming laws. I am just so flabbergasted that this sort of junk is actually taking place in reality. When will the thinkers stand up? Hello!? Your liberties are being stolen from you, nutjobs.

Climate laws add to police workload

EXCLUSIVE: FRONTLINE police will be forced to become "carbon cops" under the Government's blueprint to cut greenhouse emissions.

The Herald Sun can reveal Australian Federal Police agents will have to prosecute a new range of climate offences.

But they are yet to be offered extra resources, stretching the thin blue line to breaking point.

"The Government is effectively saying to us, 'Ignore other crime types'," Australian Federal Police Association chief Jim Torr said.

Saturday, April 18, 2009

Antarctic Melting? Not So Fast!

Ice melt fears feature prominently in the empirical arguments of global warming alarmists. However, as shown time and again on this blog and others, they’re full of crap.

Now comes a story from the Australian News.com which puts this fear-mongering into perspective. The Wilkins Ice Shelf in the Western Antarctic was alarmingly trumpeted in the news recently for its apparent melting, but the same article made no comment on the Eastern Antarctic WHICH IS GROWING. Once again, the media tries to spin stories by the facts they leave out—same continent with two different stories, and which side does the media jump on? The one that points to warming, of course. The story is the same in the Arctic; ice is getting thicker, not shrinking like some media stories have asserted and predicted.

In reality, the Antarctic Continent is cooling as a whole. But the EPA and other like-minded environmentalist fruitcakes and opportunists only have so much time remaining to get the maximum socialist benefit out of this scam.

Antarctic ice is growing, not melting away

Ice is expanding in much of Antarctica, contrary to the widespread public belief that global warming is melting the continental ice cap.

The results of ice-core drilling and sea ice monitoring indicate there is no large-scale melting of ice over most of Antarctica, although experts are concerned at ice losses on the continent's western coast.

Antarctica has 90 percent of the Earth's ice and 80 percent of its fresh water, The Australian reports. Extensive melting of Antarctic ice sheets would be required to raise sea levels substantially, and ice is melting in parts of west Antarctica. The destabilization of the Wilkins ice shelf generated international headlines this month.

Saturday, September 20, 2008

Animal Death-Watch: Frog NOT extinct after all

You mean to say scientists and researchers were WRONG about something?! No, say it ain’t so! More about AGW-caused "extinctions" on the warmlist.

'Extinct' Frog Found Alive and Well in Australia:

SYDNEY, Australia — A tiny frog species thought by many experts to be extinct has been rediscovered alive and well in a remote area of Australia's tropical north, researchers said Thursday.

The 1.5 inch-long Armoured Mistfrog had not been seen since 1991, and many experts assumed it had been wiped out by a devastating fungus that struck northern Queensland state.

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"A lot of us were starting to believe it had gone extinct, so to discover it now is amazing," Hoskin said. "It means some of the other species that are missing could potentially just be hidden away along some of the streams up there."

Tuesday, September 9, 2008

Aussie government scientist lets 'cat out of bag'

The scam disintegrates yet further. Australia isn't buying it. The U.K. isn't buying it. Most THINKING Americans aren't buying it either. It's a farce...it's utter nonsense. Unless you're a complete dimwit, which apparently many of you believers are.

Relax, truth has surfaced | Herald Sun:

KEVIN Rudd's global warming guru has finally - and reluctantly - exposed the con. Ignore everything the Government has told you.

The truth, conceded Professor Ross Garnaut last week, is that it really is cheaper for Australians to do nothing about global warming.

And, no, it's not immoral to figure there's no point spending big money to "stop" this warming when it won't make a blind bit of difference.

No wonder the Rudd Government refuses to comment on Garnaut's latest report, released on Friday. Much of the argument for its grand plan to make us slash emissions from 2010 has just been destroyed.

I guess it's just hoping no journalists, most of whom are warming believers, will care to notice what Garnaut has just admitted through gritted teeth. As far as I can tell, only the Daily Telegraph's Piers Akerman has drawn the unmistakable conclusions.

Thursday, July 24, 2008

Another scientist abandons CO2 theory

LOL! I love watching this happen. Rats leap from sinking ship! Details at 10!

FOXNews.com - Former Global Warming Alarmist Deals Blow to Greenhouse Gas Theory:

A former global warming alarmist and creator of the model that measures Australia's compliance with the Kyoto Protocol says that while global warming is real, there is no evidence that the main cause is carbon emissions. David Evans says that CO2 emissions play — at most — a minor role.

Evans writes in The Australian newspaper that if global warming was caused by CO2, scientists would have found hot spots about six miles up in the earth's atmosphere over the Tropics. Evans describes those hot spots as the signature of the greenhouse effect. He says scientists have been trying to locate them for years using thermometers attached to weather balloons.

But he says years of research "show no hot spot — whatsoever" adding that "an increased greenhouse effect is not the cause of global warming."

Friday, July 11, 2008

“Climate Change Delusion” diagnosed in Australia

Remember the article about eco-therapy? Well, here’s what’s happening in Australia on a similar note. The propaganda being forced on news consumers via Al Gore and his disciples (Hansen, Cullen, Nye, Reid, Boxer, etc.) is frightening some to the point that they won’t even consume water anymore. They’d rather DIE than contribute to global warming; this would be funny if it weren’t so serious.

When you stop yourself from consuming water because you think you’re worsening “global warming,” you are DRINKING THE FRICKIN’ KOOL-AID.

This entire doomsday cult of global warming is akin to the Jonestown phenomenon of the 1970s. “Reverend Jim Jones” Gore, the messiah of this new religion, is imploring all of you to drink the Kool-Aid with him, so how many of you will snap out of it before it’s too late? When you stop yourself from consuming water because you think you’re worsening “global warming,” you are DRINKING THE FRICKIN’ KOOL-AID.

Are you going to let these fear-mongering idiots turn you into a scared, shaking shadow of your former self? AGW is a farce; it’s not occurring. You have been misinformed and lied to for sinister political and pecuniary reasons (the parties espousing this drivel have vested interests); your very modern existence IS NOT harming this planet. The Earth is much greater than our current, pathetic, collective state of being. Don’t listen to these hypocrites who go on driving whatever and how much they want, eating whatever they want, and consuming whatever energy they want, while telling you to cut back and conserve.

WAKE UP PEOPLE! See the truth of this; don’t just accept the talking points and foregone conclusions that the media creates and recycles week-to-week. Remember the 8-glasses-of-water-per-day myth? That was perpetuated in the media too (the LA Times had a hand in it), and at some point, it became a foregone conclusion without any basis in scientific fact. It turns out that drinking this much water was never officially sanctioned by any medical body as a prerequisite for good health. But how many of us dutifully followed the advice to drink, drink, drink?!! This proves our susceptibility to the media's control. Obviously, the poor climate-change-fearing soul in the article below has thrown this mythical guidance out the window.

Will Americans ever stop just blindly accepting what they’re told, or will they actually investigate all sides of an issue before making an informed stand (or in this case, a hysterical, psychologically-damaged stand)? How can they when all they hear is that "the debate's over" and "we're all going to DIE?"

Another neat comparison with "global warming"? The Salem Witch Trials. I say that merely for the hysteria level involved and also the "proof" used to show that these innocent people were "witches." Don’t believe there’s hysteria? Just read the warmlist and see what ills are being ascribed by the media to our modern, mobile way of life; it’s ridiculous to behold, and the list itself is all the proof needed that we’re dealing with a classic sham. The GASP! series here also helps paint the picture.

So, the media is getting caught with its hand in the cookie jar by modern technology, because in times past, people couldn’t cross-reference what the media put out into the world. The Internet and free flow of information now makes it possible to catch the media in its stupid indoctrination games and then expose those games for all to see. This blog is mainly meant as just that—a media cross-reference. My entire goal is to show the stupidity of the media’s environmental coverage by using their own publications as proof that they’re complicit in the sham. The warmlist paints this picture perfectly, for when one sees EVERYTHING that AGW supposedly causes as collectively published by the media, it becomes clear how overwhelmingly stupid the propaganda machine has become.

Sticking with the Witch Trial comparison apart from the hysteria factor, the “accused” aren’t witches in this case—they’re “deniers”, “flat earthers,” or skeptics like me (we prefer “climate realists”), and the alarmist warmaholics want nothing more than to burn our ilk at the stake for our heresy of daring to question what the “consensus” says.

The consensus is a manufactured joke, by the way. Science IS NOT A CONSENSUS! And many IPCC scientists have denounced the way the UN portrayed their inputs in all of these climate reports, basically stating that their findings were warped to paint a certain picture and cause certain political actions. By the way, at least 31,000+ scientists out there have signed a petition DENYING global warming, but you don't hear the media mentioning them do you? And I proclaim that thousands more are keeping the mouths shut about their true educated beliefs, because they need to keep their jobs.

Doomed to a fatal delusion over climate change

PSYCHIATRISTS have detected the first case of "climate change delusion" - and they haven't even yet got to Kevin Rudd and his global warming guru.

Writing in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, Joshua Wolf and Robert Salo of our Royal Children's Hospital say this delusion was a "previously unreported phenomenon".

"A 17-year-old man was referred to the inpatient psychiatric unit at Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne with an eight-month history of depressed mood . . . He also . . . had visions of apocalyptic events."

(So have Alarmist of the Year Tim Flannery, Profit of Doom Al Gore and Sir Richard Brazen, but I digress.)

"The patient had also developed the belief that, due to climate change, his own water consumption could lead within days to the deaths of millions of people through exhaustion of water supplies."

But never mind the poor boy, who became too terrified even to drink. What's scarier is that people in charge of our Government seem to suffer from this "climate change delusion", too.

Saturday, April 26, 2008

Sunspots low - get ready for cooling

LOL! Oh please let this happen. I mean, it probably has as much validity as the predictions of us all turning into Pop Tarts due to excessive human-caused global warmth, but I must admit that it would be satisfying to further expose the fear mongers like Al Gore for the frauds they are.

Of course, the results of such a cataclysm wouldn’t be desirable (just as the effects of global warming--if it were real--wouldn't be desirable).

This isn't the first we've heard of this either (and see here and here), and he contradicts another media-trumpeted NASA scientist.

FOXNews.com - Scientist: Forget Global Warming, Prepare for New Ice Age - Science News | Science & Technology | Technology News:

Sunspot activity has not resumed up after hitting an 11-year low in March last year, raising fears that — far from warming — the globe is about to return to an Ice Age, says an Australian-American scientist.

Physicist Phil Chapman, the first native-born Australian to become an astronaut with NASA [he became an American citizen to join up, though he never went into space], said pictures from the U.S. Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) showed no spots on the sun.

He said the world cooled quickly between January last year and January this year, by about 0.7 degrees Centigrade.

Sunday, April 13, 2008

Slightly growing drought?

The implications in this article are that climate change is at work again (please read my previous posts on droughts). We can see that there is precedent for drought in this area, and that the drought is loosening. Wouldn't it persist if caused by manmade climate change?

Drought grows slightly in E. Australian farmlands | Environment | Reuters:

SYDNEY (Reuters) - A key part of Australia's eastern farmlands slipped further into drought in March but record crops were still expected if good rains fell soon, New South Wales Primary Industries Minister Ian Macdonald said on Sunday.

New South Wales, one of Australia's biggest agricultural states, was hit hardest by the country's worst drought in 100 years before rain began falling early this year.

The rain reduced the area of the state in drought to around 40 percent from 99 percent during the worst of the drought in 2002.

Recent, great coverage of scam

Why reinvent the wheel? Newsbusters does a great job of covering much of the global warming nonsense going on in the media, so I turn this post over to them (also because I haven't had a lot of time to vent lately):

BBC Changes 'Temperatures Decrease' Article to Incite Climate Hysteria | NewsBusters.org:

In fact, what was once a realistic portrayal of new data released by the World Meteorological Organization suddenly became another hysterical report espousing doom and gloom at the hands of manmade global warming.
Global Warming Activist Pressures BBC to Significantly Alter Article | NewsBusters.org:
NewsBusters has just learned that a British "climate activist" was responsible for getting the BBC to radically alter its "Global Temperatures 'To Decrease'" article last Friday.
Australian Paper: No Criticism of Earth Hour Allowed | NewsBusters.org:
It continues. Days after NewsBusters reported that the BBC willingly censored its reporting to fit the agenda of a left-wing environmental activist comes news that reporters at an Australian paper have been forced company-wide to promote climate alarmism by their bosses.
Gore Bars Press From Speech In San Francisco | NewsBusters.org:
After all, it's not like anyone is going to ask him a tough question, or write something that might expose him as the charlatan most folks not drinking the Kool -- er, I mean Global Warming-Aid understand him to be.

However, that's exactly what happened Friday afternoon when the Global Warmingest-in-Chief spoke at the RSA Conference with specific instructions for no press members to be allowed through the doors of the Moscone Convention Center.

Sunday, April 6, 2008

Animal Death-Watch: Koalas

From now until this hoax is fully exposed, I will highlight media fear pieces that predict the demise or harm of species as a result of "manmade climate change." These pieces will be entitled "Animal Death-Watch." An oft-used media tactic is to pick cute, cuddly looking creatures and show how our modern way of life (i.e., capitalism) is killing them off.

In the past, we've seen stories of polar bears, seals, newts, frogs, and now koalas. And, please review the extensive list of articles that predicted all sorts of extinctions due to global warming. Let's see how many of these critters actually end up harmed, shall we? I predict NONE!

This one is funny, because it depicts the harm first to a plant (eucalyptus trees), the leaves of which form the dietary staple of these lovable little fuzz balls. Aren't plants nourished by CO2, heat, and sunlight? Whatever happened to basic biology and botany? No matter...just stick a few eucalyptus seeds in the Arctic lock box and call it a day.

Climate change threatens Australia's koala: report | Environment | Reuters:

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's unique tree-dwelling koalas may become a victim of climate change, new research reported on Saturday shows.

Australian scientists say that eucalyptus leaves, the staple diet of koalas and other animals, could become inedible because of climate change.

Sunday, March 30, 2008

How cute! Let's dim the lights and "save" each other...

Earth Hour

Throw this one in the stupid bin along with the mercury-tainted light bulb. Guess who didn't dim their lights? My house! And my city seemed as bright as usual. Isn't this sort of like that stupid myth that if everyone refuses to buy gas from Texaco for one day that they'll have to drop the price??!! GEEZ!

Noel Sheppard at Newsbusters also has some very good commentary on this tree-hugging event; even Google got in on it, which I'm sure saved us a few more years on the earth.

Earth Hour goes global | Reuters
:

LONDON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The Sydney Opera House to San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge went dark as people switched off lights in their homes and skylines dimmed around the world on Saturday to show concern with global warming.

Up to 30 million people were expected to have turned off their lights for 60 minutes by the time "Earth Hour" -- which started in Suva in Fiji and Christchurch in New Zealand -- completed its cycle westward.

Inhabitat » LIGHTS OFF EVERYONE: Global Earth Hour is Tonight!:
Last year, more than 2.2 million Earth Hour participants shut off their lights throughout Sydney in a powerful stand in support of protecting the environment. Tonight, the lights off action is going global! Around the world, cities on every continent - including Atlanta, Bangkok, Bogota, Chicago, Dublin, Montreal, Manilla, San Francisco, Sydney, Tel Aviv and more - 20,000+ businesses and almost 300,000 individuals have signed up to turn off the lights and turn up environmental awareness.

Saturday, March 22, 2008

AGW ended 10 years ago!

Read it and weep, alarmists... CO2 is NOT DRIVING THE CLIMATE! Thanks to Newsbusters once more.

Climate facts to warm to | The Australian:


CATASTROPHIC predictions of global warming usually conjure with the notion of a tipping point, a point of no return.

Last Monday - on ABC Radio National, of all places - there was a tipping point of a different kind in the debate on climate change. It was a remarkable interview involving the co-host of Counterpoint, Michael Duffy and Jennifer Marohasy, a biologist and senior fellow of Melbourne-based think tank the Institute of Public Affairs. Anyone in public life who takes a position on the greenhouse gas hypothesis will ignore it at their peril.
Duffy asked Marohasy: "Is the Earth still warming?"

She replied: "No, actually, there has been cooling, if you take 1998 as your point of reference. If you take 2002 as your point of reference, then temperatures have plateaued. This is certainly not what you'd expect if carbon dioxide is driving temperature because carbon dioxide levels have been increasing but temperatures have actually been coming down over the last 10 years."

Duffy: "Is this a matter of any controversy?"

Marohasy: "Actually, no. The head of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) has actually acknowledged it. He talks about the apparent plateau in temperatures so far this century. So he recognises that in this century, over the past eight years, temperatures have plateaued ... This is not what you'd expect, as I said, because if carbon dioxide is driving temperature then you'd expect that, given carbon dioxide levels have been continuing to increase, temperatures should be going up ... So (it's) very unexpected, not something that's being discussed. It should be being discussed, though, because it's very significant."

Monday, March 17, 2008

Prince Charles: Deniers are insane

Okay, the goon who dumped Princess Diana for Camilla is calling us skeptics mad? Need I say more?

Trinidad News:

Sheer madness.

That's how Prince Charles described skeptics who view calls for rapid action to counter climate change as overstated or completely invented.

Charles was speaking at a dinner reception hosted by President George Maxwell Richards and his wife Dr Jean Ramjohn-Richards at President's House, St Ann's on Wednesday night which was also attended by his wife Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall.

Meanwhile, during the same news week, we have another attempt to diffuse the scrutiny against AGW because of the worldwide, record-setting winter we've had this year...

Record warm winter for northern Europe - San Jose Mercury News:

STOCKHOLM, Sweden—Icebreakers sit idle in ports. Insects crawl out of forest hideouts. Daffodils sprout up from green lawns.

Winter ended before it started in Europe's north, where record-high temperatures have people wondering whether it's a fluke or an ominous sign of a warming world.

"It's the warmest winter ever" recorded, said John Ekwall of the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute.
In December, January and February, the average temperature in Stockholm was 36 degrees—the highest on record since record-keeping began in 1756.

The same week, Australia suffers a summer that was TOO COOL:

Bloomberg.com:

March 5 (Bloomberg) -- Sydney residents and tourists are cursing La Nina as the harbor city says goodbye to the summer that wasn't.

While the La Nina weather pattern is delivering rain to farmers after the worst drought in a century, it's cutting profits for cafe owners, travel agents and insurers. Insurance Australia Group Ltd., the nation's largest home insurer, last week posted a sixth straight profit decline after hail storms cost it A$105 million ($97 million). The yearly `Symphony in the Park,' which usually attracts 80,000 people, had 700 this year as the orchestra played behind a tarpaulin during a downpour.

No day topped 31 degrees celsius (88 degrees fahrenheit) for the first time since 1956. Average daily sunshine totaled 6.7 hours, an hour less than normal and the lowest since 1991-92. The average maximum temperature was 25.2, the coolest since 1996-97.

``Suddenly we get one cool, wet summer and everyone's complaining,'' said De Salis.