Tag Archives: Australia

Oh noes! Wind driven global warming hot spots

Posted on January 30, 2012 by

From CSIRO  – Warming in the Tasman Sea a global warming hot spot Oceanographers have identified a series of ocean hotspots around the world generated by strengthening wind systems that have driven oceanic currents, including the East Australian Current, polewards beyond … Continue reading →

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Making Things Matters

Posted on January 29, 2012 by

Guest post by Viv Forbes According to those pushing the (Australian) carbon tax, 500 bureaucrats googling away quietly in Canberra and generating little useful except carbon dioxide exhalations, are more valuable than 500 farmers, foresters, fishermen, workers and miners whose … Continue reading →

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Media 101 – How to jump a shark

Posted on January 4, 2012 by

UPDATE: 1/5/12 5:30AM – Due to reader pressure, the article has been changed – see below the Continue reading line. The story about the hybrid sharks being a byproduct of climate change turns out to be an act of quote … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, media | Tagged , , , , , , , | 155 Comments

Australian hybrid fish story – Media jumps the shark

Posted on January 4, 2012 by

Pretty much everyone who has seen this today shakes their head and wonders. I’m wondering too. First, the story which is being serially regurgitated without any thought in media outlets world wide: Please  read this excepted text from the story … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, media, oceans, Sea Surface Temperature | Tagged , , , , , , , | 189 Comments

“We need more hurricanes to save the coral reefs”

Posted on December 30, 2011 by

Above: SST heat loss from Hurricane Irene The title is sarcasm, but it does present an interesting quandary for alarmists. What’s more acceptable – hurricanes and the loss of life and property they bring, or loss of coral reef systems? … Continue reading →

Posted in hurricanes, Sea Surface Temperature | Tagged , , , , , , , | 39 Comments

Unified Climate Theory May Confuse Cause and Effect

Posted on December 29, 2011 by

Guest Post by Ira Glickstein The Unified Theory of Climate post is exciting and could shake the world of Climate Science to its roots. I would love it if the conventional understanding of the Atmospheric “Greenhouse” Effect (GHE) presented by … Continue reading →

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EU carbon trading in freefall

Posted on December 15, 2011 by

Looks just like what happened to the Chicago Carbon Exchange is about to repeat in Europe. Source: http://www.barchart.com/charts/futures/CKZ11 By Thomson Reuters Point Carbon LONDON | Wed Dec 14, 2011 12:01pm EST LONDON (Reuters) – EU carbon prices fell to their … Continue reading →

Posted in carbon credits | Tagged , , , , | 87 Comments

Steve McIntyre on the Bolt report

Posted on December 1, 2011 by

Andrew Bolt interview with Steve McIntyre from the Climate Audit blog, who exposed the infamous “hockey stick”, talking about the leaked emails that expose the warming scare. Watch below:

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No fair dinkum in Australia’s carbon tax today

Posted on November 7, 2011 by

Letter to the Editor (or an opinion piece) Watts Up With That? 8th November 2011 (Australia time)   Back towards the Dark Ages The passage of the carbon tax bills today is no reason for celebration. It is a step … Continue reading →

Posted in carbon tax | Tagged , | 111 Comments

The TV show where my character gets punched out by a climate scientist

Posted on October 4, 2011 by

UPDATE: The connection in Crownies to me is unmistakeable now, see update below. Stranger than fiction shades of Ben Santer: “Next time I see Pat Michaels at a scientific meeting, I’ll be tempted to beat the crap out of him. … Continue reading →

Posted in climate ugliness, media | Tagged , , , , , , | 111 Comments

Future wind

Posted on September 26, 2011 by

From CSIRO Australia New energy in search for future wind Scientists are taking the first steps to improve estimates of long-term wind speed changes for the fast-growing wind energy sector. The research is intended to identify the risks for generators … Continue reading →

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Australia’s Carbon tax’s poisonous pill

Posted on September 16, 2011 by

Story submitted by Richard Abbott At the last Australian federal election the incumbent government lead by prime minister Julia Gillard’s Labor party stood with a “no carbon tax policy”. To form a minority Labor party government three elected independent members … Continue reading →

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Climate disaster, declining rainfall, rising sea levels

Posted on September 13, 2011 by

Guest Post by Erl Happ The subject of this post is climate change in the place where I live. The climate has changed in the last sixty years and there is a widespread notion that man is at fault. It’s … Continue reading →

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Quote of the week: from the reductio ad absurdum file

Posted on July 26, 2011 by

This story is about why laws bowing to sea level worries will make signs like this at left more common in one Australian town. I’ve seen stupidity from local city governments before, but this one takes the cake. Residents of … Continue reading →

Posted in Government idiocy, sea level | Tagged , , , | 87 Comments

A down under slide show on the folly of the carbon tax

Posted on July 26, 2011 by

A reminder to PM Gillard: you are a carbon based life form. Here’s the entire slide show online from Philip R. Wood in Australia given July 14th.

Posted in carbon tax, politics | Tagged , , | 80 Comments

Lord Monckton wins National Press Club debate on climate

Posted on July 20, 2011 by

Love him or hate him, the man can win a debate. Andrew Bolt shares the results of the National Press Club Debate in Australia writing: No wonder the warmists hate debate The National Press Club debate’s results: Lord Monckton – … Continue reading →

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Barrier reef panic? – not so much

Posted on July 15, 2011 by

It seems that when you look at the way the data was gathered, and find that while some areas of the GBR declined, others gained. Analysed other ways, it doesn’t seem so alarming. Perhaps the phrase is “coral picking”? Assessing … Continue reading →

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Give this lady an Order of Australia medal

Posted on July 13, 2011 by

The death spiral of PM Julia Gillard and the Labor Party in Australia continues, and it has been pretty much a sealed fate thanks to one nameless woman in gift shop where Gillard got cornered, and this lady stood up … Continue reading →

Posted in carbon tax | Tagged , , , | 110 Comments

Transcript of Andrew Bolt’s “Carbon Sunday” interview with Richard Lindzen

Posted on July 11, 2011 by

Guest post by Alec Rawls Anthony posted the video earlier. Professor Lindzen as casually bemused dragon-slayer. Highly quotable, so I thought I’d create a transcript. Here is Lindzen’s damning conclusion (after demolishing any scientific basis for Australia’s new carbon tax): … Continue reading →

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Coral bleaching on the GBR – no evidence of net decline

Posted on July 1, 2011 by

From Andrew Bolt at Australia’s Herald Sun below, some sharp evidence in a new paper that the “coral bleaching” scare of the Great Barrier Reef is unfounded and mostly made up. This study indicates that at the scale of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, oceans | Tagged , , , , , | 98 Comments

A green product worth recommending

Posted on June 14, 2011 by

Readers of WUWT know that while I have my doubts about the magnitude of AGW and express skepticism and sometimes outright disdain for certain green schemes and products, some of which work about as well as the photo at left, … Continue reading →

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June 10th is Hug a Climate Scientist Day

Posted on June 8, 2011 by

Hal Jordan, via the Submit Story feature submits this brief entry: Apparently, Australian AGW advocates are not well liked. Aussie climate scientists need random hugs from strangers to reassure them that they aren’t universally hated.

Posted in Humor, satire | Tagged , , , | 88 Comments

Hail and waterspouts in Australian coastal cities

Posted on May 30, 2011 by

Details and video here. Hail that covered the ground like snow along the Gold Coast, photo below:

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Value Adding in Australia – the Beginning of the End?

Posted on May 23, 2011 by

News Alert: Smelting and Refining of Mount Isa copper in Queensland to cease. Guest post by Viv Forbes The first industries of Australia were farming and mining and these two have been the backbone of the nation ever since. Both … Continue reading →

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New Aussie skeptic movement

Posted on May 16, 2011 by

This is a shout out for people to have a look at: Some background:

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