Rio +20: Not About the Environment, After All… » Climate Resistance

Why doesn’t Harvey write instead ‘big-headed climate twonk wants to change the world through an entirely undemocratic institution’? Environmentalists, although bang on about ‘democracy’ and ‘justice’ are the first to put aside such concepts when, as ends, threaten to deprive them of means.

Tree rings show extreme weather on the rise › News in Science (ABC Science)

"As the world continues to warm New Zealand is likely to experience the impacts of El Niño and La Niño events with comparable intensity and frequency to what we have seen over the last three decades, and possibly more so," says lead researcher Dr Anthony Fowler of the University of Auckland.

"This means that we should anticipate more extreme events, such as flooding and droughts, in the regions affected by these weather patterns."

Spain braces herself for a freezing weekend of polar weather, coldest for 60 years « Where’s my Global Warming Dude? By Global Freeze

Articles: Bringing Electricity to an Indian Hogan

Would you spend $60,000 to install solar generating equipment on an Indian hogan?  I, and all those who pay their bills to my local utility, have.  A great success, no?  Then imagine that, days after turning on the lights, the volunteers on the project discover that the dwelling is built of railroad ties, which are impregnated with creosote, a known carcinogen, and so the hut must be condemned.  Would you consider that a well-run program worthy of being continued?  Of course you would  --  to end the program would be mean-spirited.  Besides, someone else is paying the bills.

“Cooking the books” Monckton replies to Cook « JoNova: Science, carbon, climate and tax

Cook claims the lesson for him is that “verbal debates are a mistake”. Which is true when you can’t reason and don’t have the evidence. Like any sore loser he tries to blame the loss on something else — claiming Monckton lies, yet here we can see that if Cook had stood up in the National Press Club, and made these claims with Monckton present, Monckton would have had no trouble refuting them, and quite possibly even more of the audience would have been converted. Open debate is the only way the truth gets tested.

Cook himself has been asked to post up Monckton’s rebuttal of his mistaken accusations on his website, but apparently lacks the intellectual honesty to do so. It is our pleasure to do for him what he should have done for himself in the interest of fairness and balance and the search for the truth.