Once more the ABC is posting logical failures, confused non-evidence, and baseless thinking. This time Professorial Fellow Stephan Lewandowsky also tries to talk about economic cost benefits, without analyzing either costs or benefits, and doesn’t seem to know the difference between a free market and a fixed one. Why do they bother?
Lewandowsky says we should [...]
Re: Climate change ‘brown wash’
Kellie Tranter attacks imaginary deniers who she doesn’t name, cite, or reference. All her inferences and innuendo are backed up by assertive confidence, a pile of convenient guesses, and nothing else. Everything she accuses the Deniers of is something that those on the Big Scare Campaign do–and if the Deniers do [...]
Not to state the bleeding obvious, but there is mammoth legislation on the table — you know the drill: it will change the landscape of the economy, affect every purchase, and eventually, affect our weather too – the whole enchilada. Since it’s so big, you’d be forgiven for thinking that our dedicated public funded broadcaster [...]
Today the Chairman of “our ABC” (it’s paid for by Australian taxpayers) said the unthinkable.
It’s not that he said man-made global warming was a scam, and he didn’t announce that carbon wasn’t a pollutant; he just asked for journalists to listen to other points of view.
“At the ABC, I believe we must re-energise the spirit [...]
Robyn Williams is Australia’s science communication guru in the sense that he’s one of the few in our country who’s been making a living at it with a regular radio program (or two) for decades. He’s been doing this so long, he was proclaimed a National Living Treasure, and that was twenty-three years ago.
He’s posted [...]
“Speedy” in comments on this site has done a better than excellent job of satirizing the satirists, so I’m reposting one of his comments here for those who missed it.
The background is that here in the land of OZ, on our ABC (public funded TV, ie arm of big-government) there is a duo called John [...]
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 Real Global Warming Disaster: Is the Obsession with "Climate Change" Turning Out to Be the Most Costly Scientific Blunder in History?
Christopher Booker 
The Bad Science and Bad Policy of Obama's Global Warming Agenda, Roy Spencer, 2010, $5.99
The Hockey Stick Illusion: Climategate and the Corruption of Science, A.W Montford
The Great Global Warming Blunder, Roy Spencer
Climatism, Steve Goreham, Just out! The full compendium: the science, the ideology, the UN, & the history.
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
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.
An Appeal to Reason: A Cool Look at Global Warming, Nigel Lawson
Air Con: The Seriously Inconvenient Truth About Global Warming, Ian Wishart
Climate of Extremes: Global Warming Science They Don't Want You to Know
The Chilling Stars, Henrik Svensmark & Nigel Calder. The puzzle pieces come together despite the resistance.
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