Posted 9 July 2010

Dr Tim Ball, Canada Free Press:  "Climategate investigations are arrogant insults: most transparent, manipulated brazen cover up possible."    More
The Scientific Alliance, UK:  "Science, if it has value, has to be open and objective; distort those values and you may as well make policy on the basis of belief alone rather than evidence." 

Posted 7 July 2010

"Unlike decarbonisaton, which is prohibitively expensive and is not going to happen, adaptation is relatively cheap and will happen. It enables us to pocket the benefits of a warmer climate while reducing the disadvantages. And, perhaps even more important, it forces us to focus on the real problems afflicting mankind."  Lord Lawson writing for his old Oxford college, Christ Church. 

Posted 5 July 2010

Only on and after the 1 July date that New Zealand's emission trading scheme (ETS) came into force have our two mainstream metro newspapers deigned to print the comments of Federated Farmers president Don Nicolson about the adverse effect the ETS will have on the finances and international competitiveness of our farmers.

1 July: Dominion Post, Wellington - link 

5 July: New Zealand Herald, Auckland - link 

Posted 4 July 2010

"It is time that you stopped bringing the University of Auckland into disrepute by advising the Prime Minister and the nation that carbon dioxide does play a significant role in controlling Earth's climate, as by doing so you are devaluing my degree . " Graduate  tells Professor Sir Peter Gluckman tio study physics, referring him to this lecture file:  link to pdf

Posted 26 June 2010

"I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been told by AGW voices that there are NO qualified skeptics or peer reviewed/published work by them. In truth there is serious work and questions raised by significant work by very qualified skeptics which has been peer reviewed and published. "   Go here for a list 

Posted 25 June 2010

"Overall the researchers conclude that the distribution of old Arctic ice has changed little since 2007 and what changes there have been are well within the range of natural variability. They speculate that the large ice loss seen in 2007 may have been offset by weather patterns since then that prevented further ice loss."  More