THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: Study finds global warming over past 4 centuries was due to increased solar activity

A peer-reviewed paper published in the Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics finds global warming over the 20th century "not significantly different" from warming episodes that occurred in earlier centuries. The paper finds that the increase in solar activity over the past 400 years explains the warming, without any need to search for a unique cause of late 20th century warming, such as greenhouse gas concentrations.

Australian Government riding carbon tax to oblivion – third Prime Minister to be dumped for “addressing climate change” | JunkScience Sidebar

Australia is running up an impressive score: already two Opposition Leaders and two Prime Ministers (one a late convert and one a zealot, Julia, who was for it before she was against it but is now for it, will make three) have been kicked to the long grass and their political careers extinguished, all for having drunk the gorebull warbling Kool-Aid.

Skeptics rule online polls « JoNova: Science, carbon, climate and tax

Either there are a lot more skeptics than believers, or the skeptics are more likely to be on the net.

When the warmists start selling, I’ll start buying | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

How about forcing the global warmists to sell their property on low-lying beach-front, the sort of property they claim will be worthless with a few more centimetres of ocean rise?

OF CATE AND HATE | Daily Telegraph Tim Blair Blog

This is the latest position of the climate change lobby. Unable to convince people of the urgent threat presented by global warming and the need for a carbon dioxide tax, they’ve decided that the problem is you, because you’re stupid.

Failure is driving climate believers to new levels of hatred. On Friday the Sydney Morning Herald published the clearest evidence yet that the debate over climate change had descended into a plain class war between self-appointed intelligent folks and the common morons they despise.