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    Just personal and not that political

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    mainly the other side

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Open mind sees climate clearly

I had this article sent to me by Brent Chapman and I liked it enough to post it here.

Lawrence Solomon, Financial Post Published: Friday, June 29, 2007

He’s the world’s most cited climatologist, according to an analysis in the journal of the British Institute of Geographers. He’s also the fifth-most-cited physical geographer [...]

A woeful defence of AGW

What follows is my deconstruction of a rather woeful piece by on John Surname posted here

Skepticism(sic) is good.
Strike that, skepticism(sic) is great. I am a skeptic(sic) of everything I consume. I accept nothing at face value, and as a result I am utterly perplexed by the current crop of climate change skeptics(sic) denialists and their [...]

Save the planet from an age of unreason

Another book that offers some good sense on the hot button topic of “global warming” and a well argued piece in the Daily Mail by it’s author Nigel Lawson.

Unbelievers should not be dismissive of the comfort that ‘religion’ can bring. If people feel better when they drive a hybrid car or ride a bicycle to [...]

ETS: emissions trading scheme or energy tax swindle?

“This is extravagance, Sir, this is madness.” This was the reaction of Lord Chancellor Somers when King William III showed him his proposed abdication speech.
William was exasperated with myopic politicians who wanted to run down England’s defences against France. William relented.
But as he feared, the politicians were wrong. France was intent on European domination; war [...]

No smoking hot spot

Find below an excellent piece by By David Evans which is published under the creative commons licence so I reproduce it here.
It originally appeared here
Cheers Comrades

I devoted six years to carbon accounting, building models for the Australian Greenhouse Office. I am the rocket scientist who wrote the carbon accounting model (FullCAM) that [...]

Call in the police snipers !

Up on the roof … Greenpeace protesters unfurl a banner on the top of the Swanbank power station
A Greenpeace statement issued this morning said four activists had scaled a smokestack and two others had unfurled a banner reading “Energy Revolution” on the roof of the plant.
Campaigner Julien Vincent is one of the activists climbing the [...]