- Bishop Hill blog - Koutsoyiannis 2011

under the assumptions of Koutsoyiannis, the series is far too short to conclude anything.

As noted, Koutsoyiannis' paper applies to a wide variety of natural systems. Hence the foregoing applies not just to global temperatures, but also to many more time series. In other words, it is unlikely that we will be able to find any empirical evidence for significant global warming. The case for global warming therefore rests almost entirely on computer simulations of the climate.

The Reference Frame: AGW: brainwashed Australian politicians eager to start a diplomatic cold war with Czechia

Dear Australian readers, your prime minister won't meet our president after he completes his 16,000-kilometer flight! Her obsession with the global warming hoax is so intense that she is going to put the Australian-Czech relationships at risk.

Australia’s Invisible Energy Trade: better than most and getting even better « JoNova: Science, carbon, climate and tax

Australia’s GDP is growing faster than our energy use, so even though our energy use has doubled since the mid 1970′s, Australia is using that energy more efficiently and producing more with it. Compared with the rest of the world Australia is doing very well. China may run at a low energy use “per capita”, but it’s energy use is not as effective as ours. In other words, if we push high energy manufacturing into China, it will use more energy to get the same product, and so produce more greenhouse gas in the process. At the moment China uses three or four times as much energy as Australia does when compared on a GDP basis. — JN

Climate alarm not justified, say experts at Ottawa Conference

Anyone not already familiar with the stance of geologists towards the climate scare would have been shocked by last week’s conference at the University of Ottawa. In contrast to most environmental science meetings, climate skepticism was the norm among the thousand geoscientists from Canada, the United States and other countries who took part in GAC-MAC 2011 (the Joint Annual Meeting of the Geological Association of Canada, the Mineralogical Association of Canada, the Society of Economic Geologists and the Society for Geology Applied to Mineral Deposits).