John Raine: Drive Climate Change Policy with Evidence not Alarmism

The Challenge of Opening Closed Minds

The media and many politicians worldwide continue to push a narrative of impending climate catastrophe. Whether or not you are a climate change pessimist, we live on a gradually warming planet and will need to adapt to this. Ongoing wide-ranging, balanced critical analysis is needed of the long-term history of Earth's climate, scientific models, current evidence, and underlying political and economic motivations driving the climate debate. This article addresses only limited recent evidence and analysis which indicates that climate change is real but does not pose an existential threat.

Ian Bradford: Climate and Weather Are Not the Same - and thinning clouds cause the warming.

A number of weather events have been happening lately that have been associated with climate change by the climate alarmists. Weather events do not in general, signify climate change.

Weather is real and observed as well as being chaotic and non linear. There are no regular patterns with weather. Weather is part of our physical world, climate is not. You can look out your window and see weather. You cannot see climate by looking out your window. Climate is an abstract concept. That means it exists in thought or as an idea, but does not have a physical existence. We know most climate predictions are made using a computer. So clearly there is no physical existence. In fact, it is likely no one living at present will notice any climate change. When scientists talk about global warming they are talking about 1.1 deg C since the Industrial Revolution in 1850. We don’t know whether it is true or not, but the alarmists say most of the warming has occurred in recent years. So to get around this let’s take 80 years from year 1900. 80 Years is an average life span. So for someone who lived from 1900 to 1980 the temperature increase was just 0.5 Deg C. Given a lifespan of about 80 years can anybody detect a rise of 0.5 deg C over their life? No of course they can’t.

Matt Ridley: Stop taxing the poor to fund useless climate programs

Editor’s note: this article was originally published in the Daily Mail, but it contained errors introduced by its editors. Below is the correct text, directly from Matt Ridley:

The climate boondoggle is one of the most regressive wealth transfers in history: never in the field of human commerce, or at least not since the sheriff of Nottingham, has so much tax been paid by people so poor to people so rich. Perhaps Ed Miliband is hoping that by giving lots of money to rich people, he can then impose a wealth tax on them in a sort of economic perpetual-motion machine.

Ian Bradford: Rain and Flooding are NOT Climate - they are Weather Events

I have been forcing myself to watch TV1 news for a time so that I know what they are promoting. There is hardly a night goes by without part-Maori featuring, and reports of rain and floods, and lately the hurricanes which did much damage in the USA. The implication is always that humans are causing climate change by emission of CO2 and these weather events are a result of that.  

Let’s remind ourselves what NASA said about climate:  “No weather by itself is evidence of global warming/climate change, as the test is whether the weather adds to a new weather pattern over many years or even millennia.” 

NZCPR Newsletter: Climate Deception

This month the Coalition Government has released two new reports on Climate Change – a strategy paper HERE and an emissions reduction discussion document HERE (submissions close on August 12).

On the surface, apart from some differences around the treatment of agriculture, there is little to distinguish them from something a Labour Government could have produced. Their alarmist narrative implies man-made global warming causes adverse weather events, and they remain committed to the economically destructive goal of net zero by 2050.

Ian Bradford: Are the Global Temperature Estimates Used in the IPCC Reports Contaminated by Urban Warming Biases?

To obtain an average temperature of the Earth, weather stations are set up in many locations.  A hundred and fifty years ago, there were only small towns. Roads were not sealed and buildings were in the main made of wood. There were no airports, no cars, no huge industries, and a smaller number of people.  Temperature reading devices-mainly thermometers were set up in these towns so that those reading them did not have far to travel.

Things are very different now. Roads are sealed, high concrete buildings dominate our cities, and air conditioning units are fixed to most buildings. Cities are full of vehicles, as well as people.  There are often airports nearby. Many small businesses also occupy places in cities. All these things contribute to making our cities very warm places, especially in summer. In fact, most of the time, the temperature in a city is higher than the temperature in the surrounding countryside.  This is known as the Urban Heat Island effect.

GWPF: Calls for Met Office to retract false ‘more intense storms’ claim

London, 13 February – The UK Met Office has been accused of seriously misleading the public about climate-driven storms in the UK.
 
On 22nd January, the day after Storm Isha, a senior meteorologist from the Met Office stated on BBC Radio 5 Live Breakfast that “when we see these storms they are more intense and that’s down to climate change”.

Ian Bradford: Convincing Arguments Against Anthropogenic Climate Change

The world is running on BS and propaganda and New Zealand is not exempt.

Here are a few reasons why human caused climate change is a gigantic fraud.

Background

The roots of this climate scare lay in an environmental movement of the 1970’s. The club of Rome (environmental consultants to the UN) used computer modelling to warn that the world would run out of finite resources if population growth was left unchecked. They came up with the following statement: “In searching for a new enemy to unite us we came up with the idea that....the threat of global warming would fit the bill.”

Clive Bibby: We are at a crossroads but the choices are clear.

As we begin a new year and try to put the old one behind us, we can reflect on the struggles we have endured - only some of which were the result of bad decision making.

Unfortunately, for those still contemplating an uncertain future, the time is not yet right being able to view the next 12 months with anything other than dread.

After all, most of those who are suffering unimaginable hardship are doing so not because of problems of their own making.

Mike Hosking: The alarmism has to stop

One of the growth industries these days is alarmism.

There has been some solid reading to be done this week in Australia as they trumpeted some stunning so-called facts on climate change, based on "ground-breaking new research".