- 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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- Tuesday, November 17, 2009, 4:35
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They must be putting something in the water down in Exeter, Devon, where the UK Met Office is located, as scare stories are flying out of there by the dozen. The latest contains all the usual apocalyptic ingredients, as reported lovingly and unquestioningly in The Telegraph:
Heatwaves that kill thousands, tropical-style storms and widespread flooding could
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- Tuesday, November 17, 2009, 1:05
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And about time too. The government is plunging us headfirst into an emissions trading scheme, yet we rely almost entirely on coal and gas for electricity generation (if you discount a bit of hydro and a token solar panel and wind farm here and there). The US, UK, France and many other developed economies, on
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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, 17:25
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The CSIRO is supposed to be the nation’s top scientific body, but it is up to its neck in the grubby politics of climate change by attempting to silence a critic of the government’s oh-so-wonderful ETS:
THE nation’s peak science agency has tried to gag the publication of a paper by one of its senior environmental
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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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- 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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- Saturday, October 3, 2009, 16:59
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Writing in Quadrant Online's Doomed Planet section, Bob Carter spells out Malcolm Turnbull's misunderstanding of the climate issue:
Mr Turnbull has missed the point entirely, and in breathtaking fashion.
No-one is suggesting doing nothing about climate change. Calamitous natural climatic events such as this year’s bushfires and floods have properly convinced the general public that a national policy to deal with real climate events ...
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- Friday, October 2, 2009, 23:32
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Ramp up the Fear Factor says Professor of Public Ethics
By honestclimate, October 3, 2009
Excerpts from The UK Telegraph
October 3, 2009
Most people in denial over climate change, according to psychologists
The Met Office has warned that if the world continues to burn fossil fuels at the current rate temperatures will rise above four degrees C in
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