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Hamilton rages on, Monckton replies

Joanne Nova — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 17:52:56 +0000

Clive Hamilton, the Australian “public intellectual”, and failed Green Candidate is a busy man: leave no ad hominem unsaid, no law of logic unbroken. The man has a predictable formula. Rule one: Make an unsubstantiated claim; cast aspersions on all who so much as question it — dig deep for an attempted character assassination if [...]

Unthreaded – September

Joanne Nova — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 09:35:41 +0000

And a small operational note: I’ve set up an email address support AT joannenova.com.au which goes direct to the fabulous helpful volunteers who moderate. If you see a comment that needs reporting, that’s the email to use. Likewise, if your comment disappears into the spam autofile, you can email the moderators who can set it [...]

Pachauri admits the IPCC just guesses the numbers

Joanne Nova — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 05:43:41 +0000

Such is the pressure finally beginning to bear on the IPCC that Pachauri has been forced into the ridiculous position of trying to rescue credibility by contradicting most of their past PR campaign. He’s taken the extraordinary step of admitting they don’t have hard numbers, hey, but it’s all OK because the IPCC is really [...]

A spot of Australian news this week

Joanne Nova — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 17:28:11 +0000

Australia – The Sunburnt Country going Green around the Gillards? Will we or won’t we? Each day for nearly two weeks we swing politically… looks like Labor… looks like the Coalition… One side has more seats, then the other; one side has a higher primary count, then the other; the three crucial independents say things that [...]

Tax versus Trade

Joanne Nova — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 17:28:15 +0000

I feel like I keep stating the obvious. A carbon tax is bad because it’s unnecessary and nobody wastes money better than big government, but a carbon trading scheme is worse. The latter is a fake market that feeds corruption and creates it’s own vested industry of financial brokers who profit no matter what the [...]

The word Skeptic is back!

Joanne Nova — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 06:07:41 +0000

Here’s a devout follower telling off his own kind for showing their “faith”. “Beyond Belief” (Climate Spectator) The “believers” have suddenly realized how uncool it is to talk about “beliefs” when it’s supposed to be about science. So the rush is on to post articles warning believers to hide their “faith” and to throw in token comments [...]

Canberra (the ACT) will cut emissions by 40% (!) by… 2020

Joanne Nova — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 17:45:12 +0000

File this one under: Experiments in Green Government. Watch this box. There’s a spot in Australia called The Australian Capital Territory, where our National Capital, Canberra, sits and which has it’s own anachronistic government: a kind of glorified local council and junior “state” government at the same time*. In 2008 they were lucky enough to elect a [...]

We have been conned

Joanne Nova — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 17:27:46 +0000

You can’t buy the truth, but you can buy a committee interpretation of it. One year ago a group of eminent scientists wrote a letter to congress provocatively titled “You are being deceived.” Now, in a similar vein, but with all the gory details, John McLean has put together a 66 page compilation of the modus operandi [...]

Ice Core evidence — where is carbon’s “major effect”?

Joanne Nova — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 08:04:32 +0000

The ice cores are often lauded as evidence of the effects of carbon dioxide. Frank Lansner asks a pointed question and goes hunting to find any effects that can be attributed to carbon. Where is the data that actually shows a strong and important warming effect of CO2? If CO2 has this strong warming effect, [...]

Corruption for dinner anyone? The Carbon Market Scandal

Joanne Nova — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 17:22:34 +0000

All round the world thousands of greenonomists recommend a “free market solution” to our so called pollution problem. But as I keep saying: this “free market” isn’t free. It’s a pale pathetic imitation: a “managed market”. In Europe, if a factory produces CO2 (what factory doesn’t?) it can pay people in China and India to not [...]