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.
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Both Chris Watson @ur momisugly 5:36 and Paul @ur momisugly 6:45 missed out two words. What they should have said, if they were being honest is – Andrew Bolt has a terrible reputation amongst progressives. He is despised by those who hate the questions he asks of progressives, and the pro liberty positions he takes. Unlike many of his critics, he truly tries to hold this current progressive, and extremely incompetent, government government to account. He also questions the status quo, something the sycophantic left loathes.
The non sycophantic left are a little more relaxed about him.
Paul says:
December 1, 2011 at 6:45 pm
As an Australian, i can tell you Andrew Bolt has a terrible reputation in Australia. The program is generally viewed as a very low brow, muck raking production. And the fact he writes for The Herald Sun doesn’t help. I guess any exposure to the climate fraud and scare tactics are helpful, although Andrew Bolt may be one individual you would like to keep some distance from.
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Bollocks! and I’d not hesitate to say that you think that ‘The Age’ newspaper and its socialist ‘journalists’ are high brow.
Andrew Bolt appeals to a very wide sector of the Australian community … including ‘high brow’ and ‘low brow’ types … for the reasons that embody free speech and free thought – qualities that socialists cannot contend with.
Clearly Paul, you are not of the ‘high brow’ or ‘low brow’, but of a minority socialist.
o/t apology –
1 Dec: AP: Tom Krisher: APNewsBreak: GM willing to buy back Volts
because it wants to keep customers happy. Three fires have broken out in Volts after side-impact crash tests done by the federal government.
Akerson said that if necessary, GM will recall the more than 6,000 Volts now on the road in the U.S. and repair them once the company and federal safety regulators figure out what caused the fires….
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_VOLT_BATTERY_FIRE?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2011-12-01-14-56-43
For those not of the Great Southern Land, the left hate Bolt with a passion. Leftist politicians refuse to be interviewed by him, in print, radio or TV. A boycott.
He is probably the most read bloggist in Australia.
I like the way the opinions of McIntrye are dismissed because of the person ibterviewing him.
Unfortunately most of the responses to Chris Watson suggest that Mr Bolt is popular amongst people who are already inclined to be sceptical of CAGW and unpopular with those who are either believers or who haven’t given the subject much thought.
While ever the only media figures who are critical of CAGW can be easily written off (however unsubtly or inaccurately) as being of the far right then large swathes of the public will ignore sceptics. (On the other hand, it’s been harder for alarmists to attack Donna’s book because she doesn’t have a history of being right-wing)
Conversely, we will know we are seeing the death throes of CAGW when media figures who are of the centre or left are openly sceptical. There may well be a number who are already privately sceptical but are unlikely to risk social and career suicide in the present atmosphere.
This is the key to hidden emails, exactly number of minuses opens almost one door,
and thus opens them all. Copy/paste f you want.
Several numers of “-“,ses ???.
http://www.ecowho.com/foia.php?search=+%3E————————————————————
Result:
“0837094033.txt-> NR4 7TJ
0837094033.txt-> UK
0837094033.txt:> —————————————————————————-
0837094033.txt->
0837094033.txt->
—
Fri, 25 Oct 1996 1:21:41 pm
1953.txt-> NR4 7TJ
1953.txt-> UK
1953.txt:> —————————————————————————-
1953.txt->
1953.txt-
—
Wed, 4 Dec 1996 10:57:11 am
4654.txt-> NR4 7TJ
4654.txt-> UK
4654.txt:> —————————————————————————-
**************************************************************
And so on!
Chris Watson says:
December 1, 2011 at 5:36 pm
I know you guys love Andrew Bolt because he opposes climate alarmism, but that’s a case of the stopped watch being right once in a while. Andrew Bolt has a terrible reputation in Australia, and rightly so – he’s famous for making deplorable and insensitive comments about migrants and ethnic minorities.
He’s actually one of the worst advocates to have – one might as well have Pauline Hanson advocating one’s position.
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You jumped into this thread, as the first comment, and started telling us what you think, we think.
Then you told us what a terrible person Andrew Bolt is, and mentioned migrants and ethnic minorities.
So, your opinion is noted:
But, I must ask, who the hell is Pauline Hanson ?
Bolt very civil with prof Steffen and holding his own.
Unfortunately, he only has 30 minutes to review a lot of topics.
1 Dec: Financial Times: Barclays hit with €82m lawsuit
By Megan Murphy and Anousha Sakoui in London and Pilita Clark in Durban
CF Partners, a UK advisory and trading firm, claims it came to Barclays in September 2008 to explore whether the British bank could provide financing for a potential deal with Tricorona, a Stockholm company that had a vast portfolio of carbon credits in the niche area of hydro power projects.
When that transaction stalled amid a deepening global financial crisis, Barclays used CF’s work on the value of Tricorona’s credits in pursuing its own deal with the Swedish company nearly two years later, CF alleges in a lawsuit filed in the High Court last month…
The case provides a glimpse into the highly specialised market for carbon credits, a once-booming area for global banks. Barclays’ deal for Tricorona and JPMorgan Chase’s purchase of a similar company, EcoSecurities, in 2009 came at a time of mounting interest in the business…
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/fe03ae04-1c33-11e1-9631-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1fLhlnrrS
It’s a shame Chris Watson hijacked this thread with his drivel, as we really should be talking about Steve. I have to agree with Torgeir Hansson, Steve McIntyre is the Team’s worst nightmare. There may be a few cases, but I can’t think of a single claim he’s had to retract. He cautious, thorough, and his analyses are devastating in their clarity. He doesn’t need press releases or fanfare to rip the other side to shreds. Interestingly, he doesn’t discuss it much at CA, but his politics are left-wing. He has also made clear that he isn’t a “skeptic” as most of us would think of it. His beef is with the intellectual dishonesty of the “science” being promulgated to support the claims.
The man deserves an Order of Canada and the Medal of Freedom. He’ll probably have to settle for be played by Sean Connery when they make Climategate, the movie.
It looks like the trolls paid by green organizations such as Greenpeace, GetUp and whatever others I do not know here in Australia have been busy little boys.
Here is another Australian who is defending Andrew Bolt against such terrible slurs. Do I agree with Bolt all of the time? Nope, and especially in relation to the QANTAS lockout, it is a big NO!!
However, when it comes to the fact that people like Tim Tam the Flim Flam man aka Tim Flannery continue with their deceit and their alarmism, then I think Bolt does a very good job exposing the lies, deceit and hypocrisy.
Andrew Bolt is one of the few journalists in Australia that is not kowtowing to the left wing lunatics and the useless labour government we currently have in here. The left wing loonies in Aus’ have tried to silence him in the only way they know how, via court action with false claims. Andrew is the one of the few journalists who has the decency, honour and character to face issues the rest just ignore and fail to cover. We should have more journalists like Andrew as he is a breath of fresh air. His popularity is unquestionable and his determination to expose corruption and radical left chicanery has not made him any friends in that area. But who would want to anyway.
He is a hugely successful and popular journo, which explains the efforts of those smear merchants trying to downgrade this great human being..
I have criticized Steve Mc in the past for not being more vociferous. He has done a great job here. Anyone who has done spots like this (Anthony?) will tell you it is very difficult to convey a lot of information in a short time while still being coherent. Steve did exactly that.
Sweet, as my kid would say!
2 Dec: Irish Times: China and Brazil threaten to block carbon offset trade
PILITA CLARK in Durban
DURBAN 2011: CHINA AND Brazil have warned that one of the world’s biggest carbon markets will be under threat if wealthy countries reject their demands for a new phase of the Kyoto protocol…
“The issue now is to avoid countries getting away with murder,” said Andre Correa do Lago, Brazil’s chief envoy, in a separate interview. “You cannot think you can have the instruments of the Kyoto protocol without belonging to the Kyoto protocol.”
Bankers and investors have long feared the UN-backed carbon offset market – the second biggest after the European Union’s emissions trading scheme – would become a political football in the fraught negotiations at the Durban summit, given its proximity to the December 2012 Kyoto expiry deadline…
Legal opinions differ on whether the CDM can technically be killed off if there is no extension of Kyoto commitments.
But the carbon industry worries that threats to end the offset market make investors nervous, which in turn raises the cost of capital for CDM projects in developing countries. “It’s like someone waving an empty gun around in a coffee shop,” said Miles Austin, director of the Climate Markets Investment Association.
“It scares off customers even though there are no bullets.”…
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2011/1202/1224308474749.html
Two words: Echo chamber (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echo_chamber_%28media%29)
I used to follow WUWT fairly closely, Anthony, seeing what issues were being discussed, some of which were well worth reading. I’ve basically given that up since the site reactions to the BEST results (“what we expected, but not important”, “not happening at all, despite the evidence”, “disagreed with them all along despite saying we didn’t”) and the ClimateGate focus that has monopolized the site. These emails don’t seem to disclose anything not shown in Climategate 1.0 (including some of the same email excerpts), and as they say – context is everything:
Hate to say it, but you seem to be painting yourself into a corner here.
It’s amusing how many people there are who want to think for other people. People who don’t have any idea who Bolt is can read. They can read his pieces or watch/listen to his clips and make up their own minds on whether he is credible or not.
What strange times we live in where people are so quick to make fools of themselves in an attempt to discredit others. Maybe it’s even stranger when people believe them and not their own eyes.
LOL.
2 Dec: Mail & Guardian, South Africa: Dirty energy financiers shamed
by Lloyd Gedye
South African banks Standard Bank and Nedbank made the list, coming in at 60 and 76 respectively. Standard Bank had a total of €447-million tied up in project finance, investment banking, corporate loans and assets related to the coal-energy sector; Nedbank had a total of €119-million.
Absa’s 56.4% shareholder Barclays Bank came in fifth on the overall list with a total of €11.5-billion invested, and Standard Bank’s 20% shareholder, the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, came in 13th with €6.2-billion invested.
Other major coal energy financiers include JP Morgan Chase with €16.5-billion, Citi Bank with €13.75-billion, Bank of America with €12.6-billion, Morgan Stanley with €12.1-billion, Deutsche Bank with €11.5-billion and the Royal Bank of Scotland with €10.9-billion.
The report was released by South African social and environmental justice organisations GroundWork and Earthlife Africa, alongside German environmental organisation Urgewald and international non-governmental organisation BankTrack, and is meant to embarrass the financing banks.
“While most large commercial banks provide figures on their annual investments into renewable energy, they neither track nor publish their annual investments into fossil fuel projects,” according to the report…
According to the World Development Report 2010, “if all coal-fired power plants scheduled to be built in the next 25 years come into operation, their lifetime CO2 emissions would be equal to those of all coal-burning activities since the beginning of industrialisation”.
“In Europe over 100 new coal-fired power plants are in a planning stage or under construction,” according to the report. “Last year, 173 coal-fired power plants were approved for construction in India — that is one power plant every two days.”
“All told, India has enough plants in the pipeline to expand its coal-fired capacity by 600% over the next two decades. “In China, two new coal plants are being completed per week,” it says. “If China’s carbon usage keeps up this pace, the country’s CO2 emissions in 2030 will equal the entire world’s CO2 production today.”…
The world’s private banks are not the only ones under the spotlight at COP17; a recent report has highlighted the World Bank’s role in funding dirty-energy projects.
Titled “Unclear on the Concept: How Can the World Bank Group Lead on Climate Finance without an Energy Strategy?”, the report released this week at COP17 points out that more than half of the World Bank’s energy funding in the past four years went to fossil fuel projects, comprising more than $15-billion of its total $33-billion financing in the energy sector.
By contrast, it spent only $6.5-billion on clean-energy financing…
http://mg.co.za/article/2011-12-02-dirty-energy-financiers-shamed/
KR says:
December 1, 2011 at 8:55 pm
“Hate to say it, but you seem to be painting yourself into a corner here.”
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Care to expound upon that statement ?
Thrall us with your acumen.
KR,
You’re whistling past the graveyard. These emails are having a tremendously corrosive effect on the CAGW scare, and if you don’t see that you’re blind. The corrupt, venal riders on the grant gravy train are reprehensible and dishonest, and the word is getting out to the general public, which doesn’t approve of dishonest scientists trying to get anyone with a different point of view fired, and who are always trying to fan the dying flames of the fabricated “carbon” scam.
And regarding “echo chambers”, that label is permanently stuck to the alarmist blogs that censor any comment that doesn’t follow their narrative. That only leaves their small handful of mouth breathing head-nodders. That is the definition of an echo chamber blog. OTOH, WUWT welcomes all points of view. And when that happens, the pseudo-science based CAGW nonsense becomes apparent and falls apart. That’s why you hate sites that allow all opinions; through discussion, they destroy the runaway global warming BS that your thinly trafficked echo chamber blogs thrive on.
KR, that video is a truly execrable bit of propaganda trash….. it’s unworthy of respect…. and so are you.
Quick question – Does anyone ever remember KR being a regular here as he claims? I’ve got two words for him “concern troll”.
Basic format: “I’ve been a long time reader and huge supporter of (blog name), but lately the discussion regarding (latest topic) has me very concerned…”
We’ll carry on in our echo chamber while your plans to tax and regulate us back to the stone age go down in flames.
KR says:
December 1, 2011 at 8:55 pm
Did you accidentally post your “wish” list for christmas?
Mike Jonas and others, thanks for posting those snippets from The Bolt Report. I often don’t get the chance to watch the more interesting ones and these were very interesting indeed.
Anyone pick up in the Prof Steffens interview that he mentioned that flooding rainfall was due to a ‘strong el nino’? This is usually a trigger for drought conditions and at the time of the South-East Queensland floods following into Northern Victoria floods it was a reasonably strong La Nina (plus conditions in the Indian Ocean Dipole were favourable I believe, again the combination of a stronger La Nina and unfavourable Indian Ocean dipole conditions led to a wet South-East Queensland and a dry Northern Victoria in the summer of 2008-09). Still that is such an elementary mistake by Prof Steffens to make, but while that was said Bolt should have stated his sea-level rise statements were based off Envirosat measurements from the start and not all the sattelites measuring sea-level, in this he gives Prof Steffens an out as data from other sources can invalidate this statement.
The climategate/CO2 tax/environment issue is being collectively swamped by a concerted effort by Labor and the left-leaning media at this moment on the issue of ‘gay marriage’, Durban? What Durban conference?
If this was the “echo chamber” that you believe that it is, Anthony and/or the mods would have deleted your post. And yet, there it is. Raspberrying you
Any who are not familiar with Mr Bolt just go to his website. He is forthright and blunt, and on occasions a little dogmatic, but he is a breath of fresh air in the stifling left-wing MSM environment in Australia. The recent free speech trial was a travesty of justice and many politicians from both sides have vowed to repeal the offending law as soon as possible. His persecutors chose not to sue him for defamation where truth is a defence. Rather they used an obscure, until now, unused part of the racial discrimination law that creates a tort by simply offending someone, to try and embarrass him.
He has guests, and counts among his friends, many Labor (left) politicians on his program. And in fact he worked for Hawke Labor government in the 80s. Many of them (Labor government politicians) are closet sceptics and have used his program to give the nudge nudge wink wink to viewers. (as opposed to admitting so openly – cowards.)