Cheers! Australian government scraps Climate Commission: ‘Pushing ahead with its plan to scrap government bodies associated with Labor’s carbon pricing scheme and climate change policy’

Australian government scraps Climate Commission http://joannenova.com.au/2013/09/australian-government-scraps-climate-commission/ Tony Abbott was sworn in yesterday. Today Greg Hunt rang Tim Flannery to tell him the commission is closed. BREAKING:  The Abbott Government has abolished the Climate Commission, pushing ahead with its plan to scrap government bodies associated with Labor’s carbon pricing scheme and climate change policy. The commission […]

House Climate Hearings…GOP Rep. McKinley: Denying The Poor Affordable Energy Is ‘An Abuse Of Authority’

House Climate Hearings…Rep. McKinley: Denying The Poor Affordable Energy Is “An Abuse Of Authority” http://notrickszone.com/2013/09/19/successful-house-climate-hearings-rep-mckinley-denying-the-poor-affordable-energy-is-an-abuse-of-authority/ The purpose of the House Climate Change Hearing is to shed light on the question of: How much is man contributing to climate change and how responsible is Obama’s energy policy? So far the skeptics feel that the hearing has […]

Article in Nature offers a ‘mix of’ 3 natural explanations for the halt in global warming: 1) Solar activity 2) Stratospheric water vapour & 3) El Niño–Southern  Oscillation (ENSO) cycle, based on a paper from which Dr. Judith Curry concluded, ‘no matter what, I am coming up with natural internal variability associated accounting for significantly MORE than half of the observed warming,’ which is contrary to the central premise of the IPCC’

Article in Nature offers 3 natural explanations for the halt in global warming http://hockeyschtick.blogspot.com/2013/09/article-in-nature-offers-3-natural.html An article published today in Nature offers a “mix of [natural] explanations” for the halt of global warming, including  solar activity [after previously claiming such small changes in solar activity could not affect climate],  stratospheric water vapour, “which warms the surface, […]

Nature editorial: ‘The IPCC’s mega-assessments are out of date by the time they hit the streets’; ‘Some fear that the IPCC is putting too much weight on a series of studies suggesting that the climate may be less sensitive to greenhouse gases than previously thought’

Nature editorial: “The IPCC’s mega-assessments are out of date by the time they hit the streets” http://hockeyschtick.blogspot.com/2013/09/nature-editorial-ipccs-mega-assessments.html The final assessment The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has provided invaluable evidence for policy-makers, but giant reports should give way to nimbler, more relevant research. 18 September 2013 Article tools The first working group of the Intergovernmental […]