[Another Nigerian scam]: ‘Our future lies in climate change control’

Grace Bent, chairperson of the Senate Committee of Environment who attended as one of the delegates, explains Nigeria’s gains from the conference

Scientist predicts cooling: Times Argus Online

Lu's peer-reviewed paper, published in the prestigious journal Physics Reports, states: "My findings do not agree with the climate models that conventionally thought that greenhouse gases, mainly CO2, are the major culprits for the global warming seen in the late-20th century.

"Instead, the observed data show that CFCs conspiring with cosmic rays most likely caused both the Antarctic ozone hole and global warming. These findings are totally unexpected and striking, as I was focused on studying the mechanism for the formation of the ozone hole, rather than global warming."

Global warming doubter: Times Argus Online

The unanswered question, of course, is why? Why would our cash-strapped government, or any government, perpetrate a lie that is "economically destructive" to their own nation? Is he really suggesting that everyone that believes in global warming is a part of this conspiracy and is being paid off by some "new world energy government" at the expense of virtually everyone else on Earth? Sadly, Mr. McClaughry is part of a dwindling group of deniers — many, of which, are, unfortunately, well-funded by those that either caused or must pay to clean up the industrial pollution that has created much of this mess.

Tom Watkins

Popular Technology.net: Global Cooling in 2009 - (338 Sources)

2009 was another year of global cooling, which saw numerous low temperature and high snowfall records smashed. The Dutch canals froze over for the first time in 12 years, record cold came to Al Gore's home town and ironically a blizzard dumped snow on the Copenhagen convention where world leaders met to try and stop global warming. It was so cold that even the BBC was forced to ask, what happened to global warming? As Climategate would reveal, IPCC scientists had been hard at work hiding evidence of global cooling. Yet the observational evidence cannot be ignored.

Another bad year for predictions of global warming | The Australian

Rod Liddle in The Sunday Times:

CALL me a cynic, but wasn't it a bit premature of the climate change monkeys to have called 2009 the "fifth warmest year on record" back in November? We have now had the coldest December since Surrey was home to mastodons and pterodactyls and mammoths stalked the Lincolnshire Wolds -- a fact which you might hope they will factor into their figures somewhere, but I wouldn't bet on it. I assume the climate change people believe that the year ends in December, as the rest of us do, rather than November. It's possible that for perfectly good reasons those boffins at the University of East Anglia have decided to remove December entirely from recent yearly climate figures, on the grounds that it is always a bit parky and does not entirely support the thesis that the Earth is getting hotter and all the polar bears are going to die.
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Conrad Black in this week's The Spectator:

What possessed [Malcolm Turnbull] and [Kevin] Rudd to sign on to this climate change rubbish? Global warming is not occurring; carbon emissions have nothing to do with it when it does occur; man doesn't produce climate change fluctuations, trivial as they have been in the last 50 years. And Australia is a cameo player and brings little to this party, which it should not have attended and [which] has effectively ended in shambles. Copenhagen proved to be an unmitigated fiasco of pompous charlatans purporting to reach an agreement all will thankfully ignore, while the Chinese and Indians graciously pointed out the absurdity and hypocrisy of the whole exercise.

Grapegrowers to assess the water cost of fighting frost | PressDemocrat.com | The Press Democrat | Santa Rosa, CA

On freezing nights in spring, many growers spray water over their vineyards to protect the vines from damage. The irrigation water freezes and encapsulates the green buds in ice, keeping the plant tissue safe at a constant 32-degree temperature.

But federal officials said frost protection in 2008 and last year stranded and killed both coho salmon and steelhead, an action forbidden by the Endangered Species Act.

Science: it's not rocket surgery | The Daily Telegraph

Science is a powerful word, now more so than ever, which is why it's so often invoked by non-scientists (Engels, Kevin Rudd, Al Gore, Malcolm Turnbull, Penny Wong, angry emailers) who seek authority.

Mention "science" and you've won. Which might explain Penny Wong's recent comment on The 7.30 Report: "I looked to where the weight of the science is, where the consensus science is, and I look to our own scientific institutions in Australia, the CSIRO, the Bureau of Meteorology, the international scientific community."

How could one dare oppose someone so awesome that they can cite science four times in a single sentence, even if that sentence is scientifically short on verbs in relation to nouns? (Incidentally, Wong is a practising Christian. On that decision, a significant one, she obviously doesn't look "to where the weight of the science is." For that matter, neither does churchy PM Rudd.)