Farmers unsure climate change is man-made
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25274973-26103,00.html

" ...At a conference in Alice Springs last week, the outgoing head of the Northern Territory Cattlemen's Association Roy Chisholm said it was a fallacy that farmers were anti-environment.
"The wider community continues to be hoodwinked by the ill-informed into believing that the pastoral industry flogs the land,'' he told a gathering of about 300 delegates at the organisation's 25th annual conference.
 "This is a belief founded on emotion, not fact.
"The truth is that the Northern Territory pastoral land base is in a healthy state, and this is almost exclusively the result of sound land management practices.'' ... "

The greatest lie ever told is that human CO2 can be amplified in its effect sufficiently to cause a disaster.
But we get the point.

The Earth's temperature rises and falls on a 20-30 year cycle - Greenies claimed the late last century was Global Warming - it wasn't - the natural cycle peaked and has now turned down. It will remain down for 20-30 years.
The last Global Temperature event was "The Little Ice Age" we see a gradual rise in temperature since then but there is a fear with the collapse of sunspot activity that this too is about to end.
I say fear because a new "The Little Ice Age" will be devastating to the mid to high latitudes - Europe USA Canada China Japan.

 

Larger Img. - http://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/akasofu_ipcc.jpg
THE IPCC’S FAILURE OF PREDICTING THE TEMPERATURE CHANGE DURING THE FIRST DECADE
Professor Syun Akasofu
International Arctic Research Center
University of Alaska Fairbanks
Fairbanks, AK 99775-7340
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/03/20/dr-syun-akasofu-on-ipccs-forecast-accuracy/#more-6368
" ...The global average temperature stopped increasing after 2000 against the IPCC’s prediction of continued rapid increase. It is a plain fact and does not require any pretext. Their failure stems from the fact that the IPCC emphasized the greenhouse effect of CO2 by slighting the natural causes of temperature changes.
The changes of the global average temperature during the last century and the first decade of the present century can mostly be explained by two natural causes, a linear increase which began in about 1800 and the multi-decadal oscillation superposed on the linear increase.  There is not much need for introducing the CO2 effect in the temperature changes. The linear increase is the recovery (warming) from the Little Ice Age (LIA), which the earth experienced from about 1400 to 1800.
The halting of the temperature rise during the first decade of the present century can naturally be explained by the fact that the linear increase has been overwhelmed by the superposed multi-decadal oscillation which peaked in about 2000.*..."

The Argo Buoy data - before being "analysed" - does NOT show G. Warming - on the contrary.

The Green movement have always let the huge gonglomerates feed at the trough. Al Gore is a very rich man.
Most bourgeois, trendy, intellectual lefties would be appalled to see who they are allied with to "save the planet" and how they operate.

Obama’s hidden bailout of General Electric
By Timothy P. Carney
Examiner Columnist 3/4/09
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/Obamas-hidden-bailout-of-General-Electric_03_04-40686707.html
" ...In short, GE plans to get rich by being one of the government’s closest partners — which it has always been, thanks to its unmatched lobbying efforts.
The environmentalist at this point might respond, “Well, good for GE. if they can get rich while helping the planet, more power to them.” But this ignores important issues. First, restraining greenhouse gas emissions will cost Americans dearly. Gas, electricity and heating prices will all go up. The prices of manufactured and shipped goods will go up. A Clemson University report on similar cap-and-trade proposals forecast a 1 percent decline in he U.S. gross domestic product by 2015 if they were implemented.
There are environmental costs, also, to such a focus on greenhouse gases: Ethanol’s damage to water supplies, soil health and air quality are the fruit of government pushing the product as a climate-friendly fuel.
When the lobbying fingerprints of GE and other well-connected firms are considered, it’s not hard to conclude that the policy that will finally emerge won’t be the one that is best for the planet and least bad for the economy, but the one that is best for General Electric."

Beryllium 10 and climate
Guest post by David Archibald
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/03/17/beryllium-10-and-climate/

" ...A couple of years ago on Climate Audit, I undertook to do battle with Dr Svalgaard’s invariate Sun using Dye 3 Be10 data. And so it has come to pass. Plotted up and annotated, the Dye 3 data shows the strong relationship between solar activity and climate. Instead of wading through hundreds of papers for evidence of the Sun’s influence on terrestrial climate, all you have to do is look at this graph.
All the major climate minima are evident in the Be10 record, and the cold period at the end of the 19th century. This graph alone demonstrates that the warming of the 20th century was solar-driven...

Still there - no bigger - no smaller - completely oblivious to the billions of dollars spent changing the Earth's entire airconditioning gas to a less efficient, more wasteful, alternative - ironically using more fossil fuel in the process.

This "Junkscience" article is a good reference.
Just keep getting it wrong don't they?

The "Ozone Layer" - what's going on?
http://junkscience.com/Ozone/ozone_seasonal.html

If you just lost your job because your factory moved to China - you may be more peeved to know that it may all have been for nothing,
You know - just like your power bill going through the roof despite it having zero effect, theoretically or in reality, on the planet

Seems protectionism is going to be used as a lever against China and India on "Climate Change".
Let's all hope that China and India simply make Climate Change agreements and then just proceed to break them like the rest of the World.
They must surely realise by now that it matters not what you do on Climate Change - it only matters what you say. It's a belief system, as long as you believe you are forgiven your sins.
The last time we saw punative tarrifs was against Japan prior to WW2 and we all know where that went!!!

Energy Chief Says U.S. Is Open to Carbon Tariff
MARCH 18, 2009
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123733297926563315.html
WASHINGTON -- "Energy Secretary Steven Chu on Tuesday advocated adjusting trade duties as a "weapon" to protect U.S. manufacturing, just a day after one of China's top climate envoys warned of a trade war if developed countries impose tariffs on carbon-intensive imports.
 Mr. Chu, speaking before a House science panel, said establishing a carbon tariff would help "level the playing field" if other countries haven't imposed greenhouse-gas-reduction mandates similar to the one President Barack Obama plans to implement over the next couple of years. It is the first time the Obama administration has made public its view on the issue... "


Peter Foster: Climate protectionism
Posted: March 19, 2009, 7:33 PM by NP Editor
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fpcomment/archive/2009/03/19/peter-foster-climate-protectionism.aspx
" ...Coincidentally, however, evidence that shining scientific credentials can accompany outright policy lunacy was appearing south of the border in a much more substantive issue. U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist, speaking before a House science panel, suggested that trade duties might be imposed as a “weapon” to protect U.S. manufacturing from the United States’ own climate policies!
Under the perverse logic of global warming policy — which is being doggedly pursued despite the disappearance of global warming — economic self-mutilation inevitably leads to demands that others self-mutilate too. “If other countries don’t impose a cost on carbon,” said Mr. Chu, “then we will be at a disadvantage ... [and] we would look at considering perhaps duties that would offset that cost.”... "

These Greenies expected to be able to trek the Arctic in spring - BIG mistake.
A little internet research would have shown that the Globe is cooling  - NOT warming!!!

Labor is investing your super money in windmills and desalination plants to be green - whether you like it or not.

Labor's conflict of interest blows ill wind
Andrew Bolt
March 18, 2009 12:00am
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,25202544-25717,00.html
" ...Thanks to government bungling and bans, Melbourne is now critically short of water. But instead of investing just $1.4 billion in a new dam on, say, the fast-flowing Mitchell River, the Brumby Government is instead rushing through a $3.1 billion desalination project that will produce only a third of the water, while using vast amounts of electricity.
This project, to be built and run by a private consortium, makes money only if the Government bans competing new sources of cheaper water, such as dams, or guarantees to buy the desalinated water at a high price for many years. Which it will. And that's not the only handouts it may give the lucky winner.
Desperate to get the project built by 2011, before Melbourne's dams drain, it may also pay the plant's expected carbon taxes of up to $40 million a year, and offer loan guarantees.
All this is messy enough, and sure to cost taxpayers billions in extra costs.
But now the Government may feel even more inclined to be generous to the operators, because the plant may have to be financed by Cbus - an industry super fund not just backed by the powerful Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union, but chaired by former Labor premier Steve Bracks.
The two consortiums bidding for the giant project have been been hit by the credit crunch and one, BassWater, has asked cash-rich Cbus to invest up to $2 billion to keep its bid alive.
Cbus has its own conflict of interest. The unions it represents want the jobs (and members) from the plant's construction, but the fund's main role is actually to nurse its members' super... "

Climate sceptics fight tide of alarmism
Miranda Devine
March 14, 2009
http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/climate-sceptics-fight-tide-of-alarmism-20090313-8xsh.html?page=-1