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Funded arrogance

Professor Matthew England
The debate that Senator Steve Fielding started continues, this time between heavyweights in Australian climate science. Yet again, the side with the funding, the power, and the large claims is unable to answer basic polite science questions. The pompous arrogance is evident. Why not just answer the question?
Professor Matthew England’s research teams have [...]

Global politics is being influenced by the climate fawners

More muddy thinking. Once again, a politico-journalist writes about science and misses the point. Science is not like law, politics or sport: there is no umpire, no judge, no boss who sets the rules (at least not one you can interview). Opinions don’t control the climate, yet Mike Steketee makes the basic error of elevating [...]

The Wong-Fielding meeting on global warming

Finally, the question we’ve all wanted to ask of the people in power: Where’s the evidence?
Senator Fielding holds a crucial vote on the proposed Emissions Trading Legislation.  Fielding and four independent scientists faced the Minister for the Climate Change and Water, Penny Wong, The Chief Scientist, Penny Sackett, and Professor Will Steffen, director of the [...]

School president censors science

In a spot of unwitting self-parody Michael Kundu states:
“…we need to have the ability to tell fact from fiction. This last mailing is an excellent example of ‘fiction’.”
Thus Michael Kundu, whale photographer, pronounces the data from NASA, Hadley, UAH, CSSP, IPPC, as fiction.

Finally, a politician doing what politicians should do

This is a big step. Steve Fielding in Australia holds a crucial senate vote on the proposed Emission Trading Scheme (ETS). Astonishingly (for a politician) he stands out from the crowd for simply saying the obvious. He wants to “hear from both sides of the debate.”

A simple statement like this should not be remarkable—but [...]

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The Chilling Stars, Henrik Svensmark & Nigel Calder. The puzzle pieces come together despite the resistance.

The Great Global Warming Blunder, Roy Spencer

Climatism, Steve Goreham

Climate Confusion: How Global Warming Hysteria Leads to Bad Science, Pandering Politicians and Misguided Policies That Hurt the Poor

Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years, Fred Singer

Climategate The CRUTape Letters, Steven Mosher

The Deniers: The World Renowned Scientists Who Stood Up Against Global Warming Hysteria, Political Persecution, and Fraud, And those who are too fearful to do so, Lawrence Solomon.

Heaven and Earth: Global Warming, the Missing Science, Ian Plimer

The Real Global Warming Disaster: Is the Obsession with "Climate Change" Turning Out to Be the Most Costly Scientific Blunder in History? Christopher Booker

CO2, Global Warming and Coral Reefs, Craig Idso. The science of CO2 and the oceans. It's an intense review with 23 pages of references. Many mythical fears debunked.

Red Hot Lies, Christopher Horner

The Really Inconvenient Truths: Seven Environmental Catastrophes Liberals Don't Want You to Know About--Because They Helped Cause Them, Iain Murray

Green Hell: How Environmentalists Plan to Control Your Life and What You Can Do to Stop Them, Steven Milloy

Eat the Rich, PJ O Rourke. It's old, but it's one of the funniest books I ever read. Sure beats learning economics from text-books.

The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression (Paperback), Amity Shlaes. Economic and political history, well told.

The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy. Ahead of it's time in 1995, if you haven't read Thomas Sowell, it's a good place to start.

The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve (Paperback), G Edward Griffin. Possibly the most chilling book I ever read.

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