climategate
(SMH) Former environment minister Peter Garrett's demotion has unfairly impacted on the defence portfolio, the Australia Defence Association (ADA) says. [..] Prime Minister Kevin Rudd handed responsibility for a new insulation scheme to Greg Combet, who is already the minister for defence personnel, materiel and science. [..] ADA executive director Neil James on Monday said ministerial attention rightly paid to defence had been cut in the interests of political expediency and the short-term electoral cycle."It appears that climate change matters are taking up about 80 per cent of (Mr Combet's) time," he said in a statement. read more
(Daily Mail) The academic at the centre of the ‘Climategate’ affair, whose raw data is crucial to the theory of climate change, has admitted that he has trouble ‘keeping track’ of the information. Colleagues say that the reason Professor Phil Jones has refused Freedom of Information requests is that he may have actually lost the relevant papers. Professor Jones told the BBC yesterday there was truth in the observations of colleagues that he lacked organisational skills, that his office was swamped with piles of paper and that his record keeping is ‘not as good as it should be’. [...] And he said that for the past 15 years there has been no ‘statistically significant’ warming. read more
(JoNova) 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 radio celebrities here). All up, Monckton will has spoken to around 6000 people live, and countless thousands through a packed schedule of radio interviews around the country.
In Noosa, his talk was so popular that 350 people were left in the car-park unfortunately. When he found out, Monckton came outside to apologize personally, and gave them a 15 minute synopsis right there in the car-park.
UPDATE: Sydney is now a Debate with Tim Lambert learn more
(AdelaideNow) ALL Australian homes will have to undergo a mandatory energy-efficiency assessment - costing up to $1500 per property - before they can be sold or rented under new laws to tackle carbon emissions. The mandatory assessment - being drafted into law by the federal and state governments - will rate homes by an energy efficiency star system, similar to the ratings given to fridges and washing machines. It will apply to all commercial properties from later this year and to all residential properties from May 2011, Adelaide Now reports. [...] The Council of Australian Government's National Strategy on Energy Efficiency says Mandatory Disclosure will "help households and businesses prepare for the introduction of the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme" read more
(SMH) Australia would be locked into a modest cut in greenhouse gas emissions of five per cent under the federal opposition's alternative climate plan. But the government wants to leave open the door to a bigger reduction of up to 25 per cent if the rest of the world takes ambitious action on climate change. The two schemes - and targets - are likely to offer a key point of difference at the federal election, expected this year. Opposition Leader Tony Abbott, who opposes the government's emissions trading scheme (ETS), on Tuesday revealed a scheme that would cost taxpayers $3.2 billion in the first four years, ramping up to a $1.1 billion annual cost, to pay farmers to store carbon in the soil. read more
We would be "locked" in? Too whom, E3 Rothschild banksters? What happens when we change our minds in 10 years if global cooling is the next big thing? We'd probably get listed as a terrorist nation like Iceland was over the global fanatical Goldman Sach's fraude. One day the "Opposition" in Australia might become the opposition.
(JoNova) Remember the spectacular two and a half meter wide ClimateGate Timeline from 4 weeks ago? [...] You have to see this up close to believe it. Look up close and admire the detail while you despair at how long science has been going off the rails. To better appreciate the past and what was exposed by the CRU emails, the Timeline chart consolidates and chronologically organizes the information uncovered and published about the CRU emails by many researchers along with some related contextual events. read more and download
Australia's peak science agency, the CSIRO, has backed away from attributing a decade of drought in Tasmania to climate change, claiming ''the jury is still out'' on the science. [..] Australian Greens leader, Bob Brown has accused CSIRO of ''caving in to political pressure'' to soften its stance on climate change in the lead-up to this year's federal election. read more
This would be the same Bob Brown that would be out of the politcal game by now if not for Dick Smith?
MAIL ONLINE: "Sea water under an East Antarctic ice shelf showed no sign of higher temperatures, first tests showed today. [...] Thanks to sensors, lowered through three holes drilled in the shelf, scientists have discovered the water is not at higher temperatures widely blamed for the break-up of 10 shelves on the Antarctic Peninsula, the most northerly part of the frozen continent." read more
