April | 2015

Letters to the Editor

29/04/2015 4:38 pm \ 14 Comments \ by Richard Treadgold

Green energy policy – nothing that works

To the Editor
Climate Conversation

29th April 2015

Modern industrial society commenced with the use of coal and oil to power factories, trains, ships and agriculture and to generate electricity. With abundant energy prosperity increased and people could save enough to support leisure, education, culture and environmental concerns.

But the dark greens have a dream to dismantle all this and return society to the hunter/gatherer era. Continue Reading →

Posted in: General \ Tagged: Carbon Sense, Energy policy, Greens

Hope that Pope can cope with climate dope

28/04/2015 1:41 pm \ 23 Comments \ by Richard Treadgold

Monckton and Heartland in Rome with message of hope for Pope Francis:

There is no crisis!

The popular, avuncular Pope Francis. Realistic climate information is almost guaranteed to challenge his open-mindedness. Let us pray he mans up to meet it. Click to enlarge.

The usual dope on climate change is soaked in exaggeration, obfuscation, scare-mongering, twisted statistics and fact-free insinuation, rather than frank, open-hearted science. To counteract this, the Pontifical Academy of Sciences of the Roman Catholic Church is holding a global warming workshop at the Vatican on Tuesday.

In some quarters there is little optimism that the workshop will see through the widespread deceptions in modern climate science, so the Heartland Institute has gone along to assist. Continue Reading →

Posted in: General \ Tagged: Christopher Monckton, Global warming, Heartland, The Pope

Independent scientists to referee global temperature adjustments

27/04/2015 10:30 pm \ 18 Comments \ by Richard Treadgold

Professor Terence Kealey.

Source: Inquiry Launched Into Global Temperature Data Integrity

London: 26 April 2015. The London-based think-tank the Global Warming Policy Foundation is today launching a major inquiry into the integrity of the official global surface temperature records.

An international team of eminent climatologists, physicists and statisticians has been assembled under the chairmanship of Professor Terence Kealey, the former vice-chancellor of the University of Buckingham.

Further details of the inquiry, its remit and the team involved can be seen on its website at www.tempdatareview.org. Continue Reading →

Posted in: General \ Tagged: Data quality, GWPF, NZ temperature records, NZCSC, Temperature records

Cutting CO2 kills plants

15/04/2015 10:21 am \ 52 Comments \ by Richard Treadgold

Julie Anne Genter. One-track little mind: “CO2 bad!”

The Greens newsletter this morning from Julie Anne Genter uses the ‘carbon’ argument, which gets no less ridiculous with repetition.

Get this for crazy thinking. KiwiRail are thinking of switching our clean electric trains for polluting diesel engines.

Julie says we should “develop rail infrastructure that’s fit for the 21st Century.” Whatever that means. Continue Reading →

Posted in: General \ Tagged: Carbon dioxide, Greens, NZ Rail

In climate believers the river of reason runs uphill

10/04/2015 1:41 pm \ 15 Comments \ by Richard Treadgold

Professor Michael Kelly last night gave a deeply thoughtful presentation full of insight into what has become the perilous intersection between UK policies on energy and climate change. (Thanks to Bryan Leyland and the Auckland branch of IPENZ for hosting the event at the University of Auckland.) This is a brief note; I’ll be saying more about Michael Kelly’s plain and practical message shortly. Continue Reading →

Posted in: General \ Tagged: Climate believers, Energy policy, Global warming, Michael Kelly, UK

Future energy needs and engineering reality

08/04/2015 9:41 pm \ 2 Comments \ by Richard Treadgold

Professor Michael J. Kelly, Kiwi physicist, elected Fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1993, has been Prince Philip Professor of Technology at Cambridge University since 2002.

UPDATE 2145, Wednesday 8 April: See below.

Professor Kelly will speak tomorrow evening at the University of Auckland. These are the details as I know them; the room number has not yet been allocated but I presume will be posted at the venue. I’ll post the room number here if I learn it.

Thursday 9th April, 2015, 5:15pm for 5:45pm start
School of Engineering, University of Auckland. Continue Reading →

Posted in: General \ Tagged: Energy policy, Michael Kelly, UK

UK opinion swings in support of fracking – new Greenpeace poll

04/04/2015 11:47 am \ Leave a Comment \ by Richard Treadgold

Will you hear this on our reliable TV news?

A survey commissioned by environmental group Greenpeace has spectacularly backfired as it revealed that more people support fracking than oppose it.

Thus begins an article by A.B. Sanderson, political reporter at Breitbart, who reports a Greenpeace online survey of 2,035 British adults on fracking. Because the survey goes against their anti-fracking campaign, they buried the results in a footnote and spun it their way but then, apparently, removed the entire press release from their website. He puts it this way (emphasis added): Continue Reading →

Posted in: General \ Tagged: Fracking, Greenpeace, Opinion polls, UK

Educating climate science—or how AGW propaganda gets away with it

03/04/2015 8:30 pm \ Leave a Comment \ by Richard Treadgold

— by Anthony J. Sadar, American Thinker, 22 December 2014

With the close of another college semester, the long holiday break can give educators a chance to ponder the dismal state of science literacy in the U.S. The sad decline in robust science education is certainly part of the problem and is perhaps most obvious in environmental science classrooms. Contributing to the issue is the skewed content in many college textbooks on the environment and ecology. Continue Reading →

Posted in: General \ Tagged: Education, Global warming, Science bias

Fossil fuels are greening the Earth

03/04/2015 2:52 pm \ Leave a Comment \ by Guest author

That’s science, so don’t argue

Matt Ridley. One smart Viscount.

— by Matt Ridley, January 05, 2013.

Did you know that the Earth is getting greener, quite literally? Satellites are confirming that the amount of green vegetation on the planet has been increasing for three decades. This will be news to those accustomed to alarming tales about deforestation, over-development and ecosystem destruction. Continue Reading →

Posted in: General \ Tagged: Carbon dioxide, Greening of the Earth, Matt Ridley

Monthly Archives: April 2015

Green energy policy – nothing that works

Monckton and Heartland in Rome with message of hope for Pope Francis:

There is no crisis!

UPDATE 2145, Wednesday 8 April: See below.

That’s science, so don’t argue