- Tuesday, November 17, 2009, 5:07
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Climate Change: Who Are The Deniers Now?
By Dr Tim Ball
Canada Free Press, November 17, 2009
“When you point your finger at someone, three fingers are pointing back at you.” Anonymous
Finger pointing rarely includes facts, especially in the climate debate. The first finger said we were global warming skeptics, but was turned back when it was explained
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- Monday, November 16, 2009, 3:14
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After Versailles – The Copenhagen Treaty
by Peter Smith
Quadrant Online, November 15, 2009
Economic consequences of the Copenhagen Treaty
In the Economic Consequences of the Peace, published in 1919, Keynes warned, among other things, of the ruinous consequences of war reparations imposed on Germany by the Versailles Treaty.
No-one in those days, or up until recently, would have thought
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- Sunday, November 15, 2009, 6:20
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Climate change study shows Earth is still absorbing carbon dioxide
The Telegraph, November 11, 20009
The research, by Bristol University, suggests that despite rising emissions, the world is is still able to store a significant amount of greenhouse gases in oceans and forests.
According to the study, the Earth has continued to absorb more than half of the
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- Tuesday, November 3, 2009, 4:33
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Lawrence Solomon: Canadian concern over climate change plummeting
by Lawrence Solomon
Financial Post, November 2,2009
According to a new Climate Confidence Monitor survey released today, support for action on climate change is plummeting in Canada. Just 26% of Canadians consider global warming among their chief concerns, down from 34% in 2008.
Concern in the U.S. is even lower –
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- Sunday, November 1, 2009, 4:04
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A climate of fast money
By Andrew Bolt
Herald Sun, October 30, 2009
PSST. Want a surefire way to get a grant – maybe $300,000, or even more – for your university research?
Then gather around, my dear professors, and say these magic words.
Climate change.
You scoff? You say it’s too crazy to work, given that your expertise is actually
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- Tuesday, October 20, 2009, 16:30
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From Watts Up With That:
Global satellite data is analyzed for temperature trends for the period January 1979 through June 2009. Beginning and ending segments show a cooling trend, while the middle segment evinces a warming trend. The past 12 to 13 years show cooling using both satellite data sets, with lower confidence limits that do not exclude a negative trend until 16 to 22 years. It is shown ...
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- Tuesday, October 20, 2009, 4:51
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None Dare Call It Fraud
by Paul Driessen
GlobalWarming.org, October 19, 2009
What if we applied corporate standards to the “science” that is driving global warming policy?
Imagine the reaction if investment companies provided only rosy stock and economic data to prospective investors; manufacturers withheld chemical spill statistics from government regulators; or medical device and pharmaceutical companies doctored data
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- Monday, October 19, 2009, 22:33
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See, the science is settled, you denier you. Just like a handful of trees in Siberia created the Hockey Stick, now we have a bunch of sediment cores in the middle of Canada cherry-picked to show that the Medieval Warm Period didn't exist, the Roman Warm Period didn't exist, the Holocene climate optimum didn't exist, it's warmer now than in the last 200 gazillion years, ...
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- Monday, October 19, 2009, 18:23
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This whole ETS debacle isn't exacly what parliamentary democracy is about. For a start, I cannot remember an occasion where an opposition "negotiated" with a sitting government on a bill. The job of the opposition is to hold the government to account in Parliament, not usurp the authority of Parliament by holding clandestine meetings in order to reach an "agreement" before a vote. ...
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- Sunday, October 4, 2009, 22:39
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By Chris de Freitas
NZCPR, October 3, 2009
The Kyoto Protocol, an icon of the global environmental movement, is soon to be replaced by a more radical international accord to curb greenhouse gas emissions. What it will involve depends on the outcome of negotiations this December in Copenhagen. In preparation, the Government has committed New Zealand to
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