Richard Prebble: Why We Cannot Talk About Climate Change

I recently posted an article about New Zealand's carbon market.

It asked whether the Government should fix the carbon price or continue auctioning carbon credits.

That was the debate I hoped to have.

Clive Bibby: We run out of natural gas - then what?

It looks as if the Greens have finally become hoist on their own petard.

Who would have thought that the IPCC obsession with the origins of Climate Change would have been responsible for the demise of its own credibility?

I suppose it was only a matter of time before the ideologically driven mantra would have been exposed for being out of touch with reality.

Clive Bibby: Who are the biggest emitters of greenhouse gases?

No doubt the Greens will be using parts of this 1News report, Who are the biggest emitters of greenhouse gases?, to continue their lambasting of our community for not doing enough in mitigation of Climate Change.

Actually, l hope they do because it will show them up as the hypocrites they really are.

But we should not be fooled into thinking that Climate zealots of their persuasion operate a very disciplined selection of areas where we could do better.

Tony Orman: Climate Change - a Manipulated Deception?

There was a recent news item in the “Stuff” newspapers titled “Early Humans Were on the Brink of Extinction”. A major researched reason for the threat to humanity 900,000 years ago was “droughts”, i.e. an extreme weather event.

Then I chanced upon a recent u-tube by Neil Oliver a Scottish television presenter, archaeologist, historian and author.  In it he lambasted governments for “feverish blatant fear mongering” about climate change or as it was previously termed global warming. 

            

Neil Oliver then gave examples of extreme weather events that happened long, long before humans might have had any influence. In 1846, Paris’ temperature reached a sizzling 51.66 Celsius. In 627 AD the heat in France was so great that springs dried up and water so scarce that people died of thirst.

NZCPR Newsletter: Questioning Climate Change

On June 22, 1633, at a time when heretics were being burnt at the stake, Galileo, the Astronomer, Physicist, and Professor of Mathematics at the University of Pisa, was charged by the Inquisition with heresy for writing a book that claimed the earth orbited the sun. Having been warned 18 years earlier against promoting such views, he was ordered to recant:

Mark Webster: Kauri Position on Climate Change

Kauri’s position on climate change is straightforward. Climate change is real and constant but the proportion of warming caused by increasing atmospheric CO₂ is insignificant in the scale of earth processes. This paper summarises the evidence that led to this position and is intended for a non-technical audience; details, including references, can be found in the Kauri submission to the Climate Commission on the Kauri website.

The earth is not a static, stable, benign system and climate is continually changing, driven by large scale processes such as solar cycles, lunar cycles, orbital variations, volcanism, plate tectonics, ocean circulation, gravity variations etc. Our understanding of each of these processes individually is still far from complete, and we have a very poor knowledge of the complexities created by the interaction of these processes over different timeframes. The actual Climate Deniers are those who do not recognise the system is dynamic, and believe the climate should remain static, or that changes can be reversed. There is no climate crisis, just climate change - all measures of climate are varying within ranges that have been experienced even in the brief period of recorded human history. Kauri’s position is based on measured data and repeat observations; not modelling and assumptions.