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Where
is the Evidence?
27
July 2008
Muriel Newman
Earlier this
month the Royal Society of New Zealand issued a special
statement designed to clear up the “controversy over
climate change” and “possible confusion among the
public”. The statement from the Society’s Climate
Committee asserts that
“The globe is warming because of increasing greenhouse
gas emissions” and that “human activities” are to
blame. More
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Show
us the Evidence!
26
July 08
Dr. David Evans
I devoted six years to carbon
accounting, building models for the Australian Greenhouse
Office. When I started that job in 1999 the evidence that
carbon emissions caused global warming seemed pretty good...
but 2007 the evidence was pretty conclusive that carbon
plays only a minor role and is not
the main cause of the recent global warming.
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Cows
and Sheep May Safely Graze?
28
June 08
Prof. David Bellamy
As a youngster in a post
war London I was brought up on lamb and anchor butter from
New Zealand.
I still delight in your butter and lamb which I can buy in
my local supermarket, the latter at half the price of the
local product sold in our village butchers shop. What a
strange world we live in now bombarded with the rhetoric
of food miles let alone tourist miles. More
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Is the Public
being well Served?
8 June 08
Professor Dr Bob Carter
A
scientist at the heart of the global warming debate talks
about the need for modern
societies to protect the key principles of: Fearless,
independent and impartial advice from civil servants and
expert committees to their political masters; the
scrupulously disinterested pursuit of research by
scientists; and the even-handed
reporting of scientific results to the public. More
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Distinguishing
Reality from Fantasy
31 May 08
Muriel Newman
In spite of not being able to accurately forecast next
week’s weather, New Zealand’s National Institute of
Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) has just released
climate predictions for 2090.
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False
Theory, Green Politics, Bad Outcomes
30 May 08
Dr Timothy Ball
Imagine basing global or national energy and economic
policy on a false theory; pursuing that policy even if
clear evidence shows it is wrong; continuing even though
the devastating effects of such actions are already
manifest; putting your economy in competitive disadvantage
when other major economies are not taking the same action.
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Who
Pays?
18 May
08
Muriel Newman
Last week the Parliamentary Commissioner for the
Environment came out in support of the Government’s
Emissions Trading Bill as the gateway to a
‘carbon-constrained future’. Unfortunately the
Commissioner has let New Zealanders down by abandoning the
impartiality required of her Office. More >>>
The
Global Warming Debate
18 May 08
S.
Fred Singer
In the
past few years there has been increasing concern about
global climate change... It has been stimulated by the
idea that human activities may influence global climate
adversely and that action is required on the part of
governments to do something about this problem... that
this concern is misplaced, human activities are not
influencing the global climate... and very little can be
done about global climate change. More
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Exposing
the Climate Change Agenda
6
April
08
Muriel Newman
The climate change debate is forever shifting as science
casts long shadows of doubt on the predictions of global
catastrophe. The debate gathered a world-wide audience
when climate alarmists gained control of the climate
science agenda. Its popularisation has given it a
political momentum that is proving difficult to halt...
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The
IPCC – On the Run at Last
5
April 08
Professor Dr Bob Carter
The IPCC’s 2007 final Summary for Policymakers shows
that the climate alarmists are at last on the run. Their
evidence for dangerous, human-caused global warming,
always slim, now lies exposed in tatters for all to see. More
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Unstoppable
Climate Change
9 March
08
Muriel Newman
I
have just returned from an historic meeting of more than
500 people from all around the world who gathered in New
York to use science against the tide of political
opportunism, media dramatisation,
and crowd hysteria that is propelling the global
warming debate. I went to the conference wanting to know
if there is any scientific evidence that human-induced
catastrophic global warming is occurring. I would like to
share with you what I found...
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From
Climate Alarmism to Climate Realism
8 March 08
Hon Václav Klaus, President of the Czech Republic
Muriel Newman met with
the President of Czech Republic while attending the
International Conference on Climate Change in New York. The
President delivered a powerful speech; pointing to realities
that many governments, including our own, choose to ignore. Speech
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Beware
the Dark Greens
9 February 08
Owen McShane
We may all be Environmentalists now – but we must beware
of the Dark Green. Over the last
few decades most of us have learned to be feminists, and
are generally comfortable with our conversion. But most of
us have also learned to identify and avoid being grouped
with the dark side of the feminist movement that remains
deeply Marxist in its roots and intentions. Similarly,
most of us are now environmentalists.... More
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A
Royal Commission on Climate Change
Muriel Newman
20 January 08
This year will see more of the government’s expensive
initiatives to combat the so-called threat of man-made
global warming passing into law. More
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Greetings
from up over 2008!
Prof David Bellamy
19 January 08
A
happy and a prosperous new year based, one hopes, on the
commonsense of resource efficiency not sleazy carbon trading. Just
take a look around the world: everything is growing, from
housing, shopping centres, highways, airport expansion, hotels,
sports stadia and of course grid-lock. Little
wonder then, that after all their carbon heavy pre-Christmas
shopping in Bali, the global warmers needed
a final late night session cobbling together a statement that in
effect awarded them another 2 years on full pay with expenses
to plan a road map to their next talk-fest in Poznan. More
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New Zealand's Energy
"Strategy"
Bryan Leyland
8 Dec 07
I have been involved in the electricity and energy
business in New Zealand for the last fifty years. From
1992 to 2003, I produced the only independent review of
electricity generation and demand in New Zealand. More
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A
Cool Look at Global Warming
The Rt.
Hon. Lord Lawson
15 November 07
Over
the past half century we have become used to planetary
scares of one kind or another.
But
the latest such scare – global warming – has engaged
the political and opinion-forming classes to a greater
extent than anything since, a little over 200 years ago,
Malthus warned that, unless radical measures were taken to
limit population growth, the world would run up against
the limits of subsistence, leading inevitably to war,
pestilence and famine. More
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Global
Mitigation or Adaption
Muriel Newman
18
November 2007
The fourth and final
report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
(IPCC) was released today. Speaking at the launch, the
Secretary General of the United Nations stated that
climate change is putting the world on the edge of a
global “catastrophe”. Such scaremongering over climate
change appears to be par for the course.
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IPCC
Wins the Nobel Prize of Peace
Dr Vincent Gray
20 October 07
o,
I have made it at last! There have been two previous
occasions in my life when I was close to a Nobel Prize
(thereby hangs a tale), now it has arrived. I expect the
cheque in the post any time, plus an invitation to the
awards ceremony. More
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The
Nuclear Option
Muriel Newman
9
September 2007
At the APEC meeting being
held in Sydney, member nations reaffirmed their commitment
to reducing greenhouse gases with aspirational rather than
binding goals. They have also opened the door for a
greater use of nuclear energy.
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Energy
Strategy:expensive, misleading & futile
Bryan Leyland
8 September 2007
The recently released draft New Zealand Energy Strategy is
dominated by the government’s conviction that climate
change (more properly described as "man-made global
warming") is happening and that renewable energy will
save New Zealand from climate driven disaster. More >>>
Junk
Science
Muriel Newman
24
June 2007
Throughout
history scientists have stood firm in their search for the
truth. Many, like Galileo, were persecuted for doing so. But
their courage and determination to uncover facts and ignore
the political interests of the day has played a role in the
march of human progress.
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The
Global Warming Myth
Prof. David Bellamy
24 June 07
Am I worried about carbon induced
global warming? The answer is no and yes. No because there
has been no sign of global warming in New Zealand since
1955, this year snow has fallen in Portugal for the first
time in 52 years and 3 US states are united by the fact
that they have recorded their lowest temperatures ever.
Yes because it has become a political football that has
lost its foundations in real science.
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The
Species Hoax
Owen McShane
29 April 07
During late January the ex-Act MP,
Gerry Eckhoff, was leading some Otago farmers’ charge
against DoC’s demands to enter their properties to
survey some “endangered” trees. More
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Priorities for our Future
Muriel Newman
18 Feb 07
The
Prime Minister’s Statement to Parliament at the
beginning of a new Parliamentary year is traditionally
the time for the government to outline its priorities
for the next twelve months. In her address, Helen Clark
stated: “Meeting the challenges our country
faces in the 21st century requires substance, not
slogans”. More >>>
Economics
& Politics of Climate Change, an appeal to reason
The Rt.
Hon. Lord Lawson
19 Nov 06
This
is a highly complex subject, involving as it does science,
economics and politics in almost equal measure. The Centre
for Policy Studies has kindly agreed to publish a greatly
extended version of this lecture as a pamphlet, in which I
will be able to do greater justice to that complexity and
to quote the sources of a number of the statements I
propose to make this evening. It will also enable me to
deal at slightly greater length with the scaremongering
Stern Report, published earlier this week. But the essence
of it is what I have to say tonight.
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Climate Change - fact or fear?
Muriel
Newman
19 Nov 06
It
is an indisputable fact that the earth’s climate is
constantly changing. Scientific data shows that the
earth’s temperature has been several degrees warmer -
and colder - than it is today. What the future holds is
difficult to predict in detail, but there will be cooler
periods and warmer period, as well as the inevitable
floods, droughts and storms. While humans have survived
ice ages, there is no doubt that warmer periods are
easier.
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Saving the Kiwi
Muriel
Newman
19 Nov 05
The green agenda in
this country has already been won. Not the radical agenda
of green politics, which has embraced socialism as its new
cause, but a sensible and moderate approach to
conservation and environmental protection. More >>>
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