One of the dumbest claims seen for a while | JunkScience Sidebar

In fact corals have tolerated changes from interglacials to ice ages, variation in ocean levels of more than 100 meters, atmospheric carbon dioxide levels 10-20 times today’s – and down to virtually half – and still they thrive, even repopulating Pacific Ocean atomic bomb test sites. It will take a lot more effort than people are prepared to supply to get rid of the stuff.

The New Nostradamus of the North: Former president of Ireland: Ireland is "a developing country"

The situation in Ireland must be much worse than generally thought - at least that´s the impression one gets from this interview with former Irish president Mary Robinson:

Jennifer Marohasy » The Other Climate Theory

IN an address to the British Association for the Advancement of Science in 1900, Lord William Thomson Kelvin said, “There is nothing new to discover in physics now. All that remains is more and more precise measurements.”

Then along came Albert Einstein.

More recently and closer to home, economist John Quiggin, has claimed, “There is no longer any serious debate among climate scientists about either the reality of global warming or about the fact that it is substantially caused by human activity.”

Then along came Jasper Kirby.

The research effort lead by Kirby at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, also known as CERN, indicates that galactic cosmic rays can very significantly enhance cloud formation – by up to a factor of ten.