Friday, May 04, 2012

Paging David Appell – ‘death threats against climate scientists’ story even deader than yesterday | Watts Up With That?

Following the freedom of information request story which made page 1 of The Australian yesterday, Christian Kerr and Lanai Vasek write a further story today, confirming that the Australian National University made no complaint to the police, despite alleging a vicious campaign of hatred against climate scientists.

Thank God for James Delingpole | The Spectator

Delingpole throughout Killing the Earth credits myriad bloggers and online commenters for helping bring down an enormous, destructive lie. To the continuing disbelief of their opposition, this is accomplished without masses of money. The ABC’s Media Watch host Jonathan Holmes recently tried to smear an Australian climate sceptic group by revealing that they’d received a mere $100,000 from a private US donor. Meanwhile, warmists from the United Nations down spend billions. Blogger Pointman posted this piece in March:

Every one of the skeptics was a lone volunteer guerilla fighter, who needed absolutely no logistical support of any kind to continue the fight indefinitely. The alarmists never understood this, preferring to think that there simply had to be some massive hidden organisation orchestrating the resistance. While they wasted time and effort attacking targets that only existed in their head, each of the guerillas chewed on them mercilessly in their own particular way.

Energy supplies and climate policy | Climate Etc.

For people in the renewables business, what are the implications of a 60-year time frame for reaching 90% of the eventual long-term production? I do not know, but I will guess. You will be facing economic headwinds for decades, and competing with rent seekers who are better at securing favorable rules than they are at actually producing energy. You will be dependent on subsidies and renewables targets, in other words, on other people’s money. But as the Iron Lady observed, other people’s money runs out.

NSIDC Death Spiral Update : Arctic Ice Extent Higher Than 1989 | Real Science

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