Climate Change Politics

man made climate change is not a myth or a green-left conspiracy to undermine capitalism.

The only conspiracy at work is that launched by the energy industry to spread fear uncertainty and doubt about the matter.

but the consequences of error are extremely serious. So if there is no climate change, and we radically reduce carbon emissions, the consequence is that we transform the economy to a low-carbon economy. .

man made climate change is not a myth or a green-left conspiracy to undermine capitalism.

The only conspiracy at work is that launched by the energy industry to spread fear uncertainty and doubt about the matter.

Well - I claim it - so there. I think the idea that climate change is 'a belief' and that those who deny climate change are being declared 'heretics' by 'the orthodox' is completely mistaken.

There was a 'climate change skeptics' conference in Copenhagen at the same time as the main conference. There were 45 registered attendees, all of whom were over 50 years of age (and therefore unlikely to be around to witness the consequences). Star attractions were Lord Monckton, for whom the description 'eccentric' is charitable, and Australia's own Professor Ian Plimer, a climate change dissident, whose book Heaven and Earth has been comprehensively debunked by any number of Australian and international climatologists.

As I write this, the conference is in the final throws of drawing up a draft agreement. This involves the governments hundreds of countries, and the last day will be attended by the leaders of almost all those countries, along with thousands of scientists, demonstrators, activists, and journalists.

If this is a conspiracy, who is pulling the strings? They must be awfully clever.

OK, who then? Who is pulling the strings? Do they have a hand in melting the polar caps too?

Mike,
I presume congratulations are in order - so congrats etc !
Just sent loads of station data to Scott. Make sure he documents everything better
this time ! And don't leave stuff lying around on ftp sites - you never know who is
trawling
them. The two MMs have been after the CRU station data for years. If they ever hear
there
is a Freedom of Information Act now in the UK, I think I'll delete the file rather than
send
to anyone. Does your similar act in the US force you to respond to enquiries within
20 days? - our does ! The UK works on precedents, so the first request will test it.
We also
have a data protection act, which I will hide behind. Tom Wigley has sent me a worried
email when he heard about it - thought people could ask him for his model code. He
has retired officially from UEA so he can hide behind that.

the Anglia Emails affair is a media beat up. It is a selective edit of emails

actually, they were exposed as a result of a very sophisticated hack that originated in Russia.

Now there's a conspiracy for you....

This year, M and M have also raised questions about the accuracy of another hockey-stick-shaped graph, this one by a British climatologist. The Canadians showed that the British graph -- also showing drastically warmer 20th-century temperatures than in the past -- is based on tree ring samples taken from a mere 12 tree cores in a single region of Russia.

yeah yeah. I tell you, I wish it was all a scam, bad science, and hysteria. That would be just great. I would love it if the climate scientists were all wrong and the whole thing was a beat up. Just love it. I wish I could believe it. I would sleep better. But it isn't. In ten years time, 20 years, when I die, and so on, it will be a very big issue. It is not going away. Remove head from sand.