UPDATE: Oakeshott and Windsor go with The Labor Party. Why? Because more than anything they want a long stable government. They like both packages from both parties, but the deciding factor appears to be that they think the Coalition would be more likely to call an early election because they’d be more likely to win it. [...]

Clive Hamilton, the Australian “public intellectual”, and failed Greens 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

Guest Post by Bryan Leyland El Nino/La Nina effect (SOI) predicts global cooling by the end of 2010 A July 2009 paper by McLean, de Freitas and Carter showed that global average temperatures followed the Southern Oscillation Index (El Nino/La Nina) with a 5-8 months lag. The graph below shows that when the SOI is shifted forward [...]

SPPI has put out an excellent collection of papers in response to NOAA’s State of the Climate Report. .. As usual, the official taxpayer-funded report is full of half-truths and strawmen. Arctic sea ice is shrinking (no mention of the Antarctic), the world is undeniably warming (yes, so? what’s causing that warming?). There’s the compulsory allusions to [...]

Counting papers is not science, but it’s a hell of a way to show just how counterfeit the line is that “deniers” deny the evidence. The PopularTechnology list of peer reviewed papers is still growing and is up to 800 now.  After thousands of sneering believers have ridiculed skeptics because “what-ever-you-say hasn’t been peer reviewed“, when [...]

Re: Climate change ‘brown wash’ Kellie Tranter attacks imaginary deniers who she doesn’t name, cite, or reference. All her inferences and innuendo are backed up by assertive confidence, a pile of convenient guesses, and nothing else.  Everything she accuses the Deniers of is something that those on the Big Scare Campaign do–and if the Deniers do [...]

… Who would have thought? SkepticalScience.com has a Czech translation of their attempt to debunk the Skeptics Handbook. And so, as the wheel turns,  we have a Czech translation of my debunking of that debunking: My most sincere thanks to Mirek Pavlicek. He’s a fast man! The original English version: The Guide to the Unskeptical Guide to the Skeptics Handbook. And [...]

Guest post by Anthony Cox on the legal side and on ABC bias Anthony Cox and David Stockwell sent the letter below to the ABC in response to the article Climate change ‘brown wash’. They wrote: “Dear sir, On the 27th July I sent you this e-mail: “Dear sir, On the 26th July, on Unleashed, an article by [...]

UPDATED! It’s rocketing up the rankings NEWS: Can you believe there are 570 Apps in the Canadian weather apps list! No neither can I. But Our Climate has made it to number one “The Our Climate App will prove to be an enduring tool for all open-minded individuals who yearn for the uncensored truth [...]

Ken has been a very busy man. Another soul in the dedicated army of volunteer auditors. He’s been going through the entire Australian High Quality Data Set as supplied by the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM). He’s been assisted by two readers from this site — Lance and Janama — and we’ll be looking to increase [...]

Will a hotter world lead to more intense storms? 2010 might be on track to be the warmest ever (according to GISS), but right now, we may be about to set a new record of tropical storms — in inactivity. Ryan Maue tracks the global accumulated activity and reports that by the end of July we [...]

Another Green soul declares enough is enough. It’s a question of conscience. Physicist Dr. Denis Rancourt is a former professor and environmental science researcher at the University of Ottawa (as green as they come), and has officially bailed out of the man-made global warming movement. He runs a radio show, and speaks with many activists and [...]