JoNova

Australian climate poll: 60% passionate (but half in the dark)

JoNova — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:30:55 +0000

The poll of Australians commission by the Australian Climate Science Coalition is more sophisticated than the BBC poll, and shows a similar trend against the theory of man-made global catastrophe. But, perhaps not surprisingly, as with the nature of fraud and misinformation, the results also contain contradictions. It’s quicksand out there in voter-world. Half the [...]

Monckton Tour: a sellout with extra dates in Perth, Sydney

JoNova — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 13:58:33 +0000

Christopher Monckton’s tour here has been so successful that extra dates have been booked for Perth (now Monday night and Tuesday night this week) and also a huge final show in Sydney on Friday with none-other than Alan Jones as MC. (For people not in Australia, Alan Jones is one of the most popular talk-back [...]

Seismic shifts in opinions

JoNova — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:33:52 +0000

A new BBC poll shows a major shift in public opinion in the UK since just last November. Look at the swing. Of the 41% of people who then said the cause of climate change was “well established,” more than 1 in 4 have switched sides. These people made up the major base of the active [...]

Pitman: paid $190,000 a year to throw baseless insults

JoNova — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:04:06 +0000

Last week a paid public servant spoke untruths, but instead of being exposed by the media, he was aided by our taxpayer-funded public broadcast network. Andy Pitman spoke about the socio-economic position of a group he avoids, and let down UNSW, abused the title “Professor”, and misled the public. The journalists allowed the baseless smears to [...]

Liberal policy removes rewards for bankers

JoNova — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 06:20:04 +0000

Abbot still panders to the fake carbon scare, but takes the bankers and futures traders right out of the equation by ditching emissions trading: “A coalition government would create a $1 billion fund that would be used to purchase initiatives aimed at reducing Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions, Opposition Leader Tony Abbott has announced.” The Coalition will have [...]

Falling public opinion falls faster

JoNova — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 18:48:45 +0000

Newspoll results are out in Australia tonight. Surprise. The opposition that opposes the Great Big (baseless) Tax is having its best results since it got wiped out two years ago, slashing a 26 point lead to just 4 points. On primary vote support, the Abbott-led Coalition has secured 41 per cent support, with the Liberals securing [...]

Parody in custard

JoNova — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 18:51:19 +0000

“Speedy” in comments on this site has done a better than excellent job of satirizing the satirists, so I’m reposting one of his comments here for those who missed it. The background is that here in the land of OZ, on our ABC (public funded TV, ie arm of big-government) there is a duo called John [...]

Finally! The newly revised and edited ClimateGate Timeline (1.1)

Mohib — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 08:54:28 +0000

The all new second edition of the ClimateGate Timeline is finally here. This is One Spectacular Poster of the ClimateGate scandal, covering 3 Decade. Behind the scenes, a team of five has diligently worked for hours and hours, checking and double checking quotes and references, adding new information and polishing this remarkable work.

A moment of truth in the State of the Union?

JoNova — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 19:26:04 +0000

Mark From the Hooterville gazette has spotted a very telling moment in Obama’s speech when the crowd laughs. Watch it closely.Without being in the room it’s hard to know who was laughing, and why. A year ago we could have assumed that laughter after a line about “overwhelming evidence” was really the crowd mocking those [...]

Deltoid creates some Sci-Comm Pollution

JoNova — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 19:51:46 +0000

Deltoid (aka Tim Lambert) tries to attack Monckton (again). The bottom line? Deltoid agrees that Monckton’s calculations are correct, and accuses him of getting a figure wrong (which Monckton got right). As per form, there is plenty of bluster, and minimal substance. Deltoid repeats over and over that there are lots of mistakes and they’re [...]