tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81679729203769894812012-02-07T08:15:15.385+13:00“THE UNPALATABLE TRUTH IS THAT THE ANTI-NUCLEAR LOBBY HAS MISLED US ALL" George Monbiot, Columnist, UK Guardian. "Isn’t the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn’t it our responsiblity to bring that about?” Maurice Strong, founder of the UN Environment Programme. “During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act” George OrwellAyrdalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12277759681727009183noreply@blogger.comBlogger6971100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167972920376989481.post-79761875360350629432011-11-28T21:32:00.002+13:002011-11-28T21:35:49.609+13:00

...making Kyoto an irrelevance, and an embarrassment...Canada will announce next month that it will formally withdraw from the Kyoto Protocol, CTV News has learned. The Harper government has tentatively planned an announcement for a few days before Christmas, CTV's Roger Smith reported Sunday evening. The developments come as Environment Minister Peter Kent prepares for a climate conference in

Ayrdalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12277759681727009183noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167972920376989481.post-76964340576730670822011-11-27T13:25:00.007+13:002011-11-30T05:49:42.022+13:00

...as we wake to the first day of a new electoral cycle here in NZ, we look to PM John Key's centre right government to address the herd of elephants that clutter up our living space. The king of the herd is the ETS. My last posts have mentioned the collapsing international carbon trading market and the recognition that the Durban environmental summit will be a waste of time. It is therefore

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...is underway, and with it the hopes of the idealists and swindlers who hoped to change the world. This, from Reuters, spotted by sharp eyed commenter anon. is, as he describes "a game changer..."LONDON, Nov 18 (Reuters) - European Union carbon prices could shed some 70 percent from current levels, as the bloc struggles with a mounting debt crisis and a glut of supply in the carbon market is

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...while the media have given every possible encouragement to governments to commit national economic suicide, and while they have parrotted every greenpeace sob and scare story, many scientists, politicians and members of the public have remained unimpressed. A few politicians such as Julia Gillard and Bob Brown in Australia have written their names in the great book of lunacy by committing

Ayrdalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12277759681727009183noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167972920376989481.post-61095904740021472152011-11-02T18:16:00.014+13:002011-11-03T17:16:56.848+13:00

...Courtesy of eco-warrior Bishop Hill... The text of the Angus Millar Memorial Lecture. Delivered by Matt Ridley (author of The Rational Optimist) in Edinburgh 31st October 2011....My topic today is scientific heresy. When are scientific heretics right and when are they mad? How do you tell the difference between science and pseudoscience?Let us run through some issues, starting with the easy

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...the early years...

Ayrdalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12277759681727009183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167972920376989481.post-2727300199015000662011-10-25T16:57:00.009+13:002011-10-29T16:41:34.295+13:00

...this man being our greatest cartoonist - Tom Scott. The cartoon appeared in the Wellington Dominion the day before the final. And what a game. The stat's aren't out yet, but it's a safe bet that cardiac arrests were widespread during the last 40 minutes as the horror of a loss dawned upon us after years of hope and hype... Of course we won the game - thanks to a Stephen Donald "easy kick" !

Ayrdalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12277759681727009183noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167972920376989481.post-72202204918283371982011-10-15T13:29:00.009+13:002011-10-19T06:45:14.007+13:00

...is the catchcry in the USA; a present day "Aux barricades !" to lefties and the disillusioned everywhere. While media interest is sustained the protestors have a cause and a forum. When attention wanes the left will have to fan the flames a little brighter to maintain interest . What is the aim of this protest though ? and why now ? Could it be that the sands have at last run out for the

Ayrdalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12277759681727009183noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167972920376989481.post-69113866588170158872011-09-08T17:25:00.014+12:002011-09-10T06:50:17.526+12:00

...this cup; The Webb Ellis Trophy, will dominate our consciousness for 6 weeks, and the panic and the passion of it all will mean very little blogging from me during that time. Panic ? why's that ? Because yikes, we might not win ! never mind, we here in NZ are going to have a GREAT TIME and forget about life for a while...Here's some UK comment about the tournament, and I couldn't have put it

Ayrdalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12277759681727009183noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167972920376989481.post-17744073800507674692011-09-06T20:49:00.005+12:002011-09-07T06:14:07.407+12:00

...and a sanctimonious twit. Think this'll impress him ?And just so you'll know I'm still on the job, isn't it strange that George Soros and Al Gore haven't taken legal action against the authors of statement like these...The super-corrupt left keeps funneling billions in taxpayer dollars to the modeling racketeers who crank out more press releases for even scarier headlines. Human gullibility

Ayrdalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12277759681727009183noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167972920376989481.post-49666775222214890452011-08-27T00:06:00.013+12:002011-08-27T22:40:01.436+12:00

...Of all the unknown factors regarding our weather and climate, the role of clouds and their relationship and interaction with cosmic rays from the sun remains the most significant. While the red/greens and the IPPC state the science is settled, scientists at heart know there is much to learn. What is known for sure however, is that clouds contain water vapour, and water vapour constitutes an

Ayrdalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12277759681727009183noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167972920376989481.post-10448260549481542192011-08-15T06:30:00.009+12:002011-08-18T17:29:37.215+12:00

...Some media commentators with a special interest in science think they detect a palpable lack of trust within the community for science and scientists. As is often the case, such a lack of trust is over-stated. Its existence however, is real, and may be growing. It is seen in limited areas, particularly healthcare (and the billion dollar alternative medicine industry is responsible for this.

Ayrdalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12277759681727009183noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167972920376989481.post-32872034793333081512011-08-11T07:48:00.002+12:002011-08-11T07:57:39.970+12:00

...which are spreading across England will of course be seen by the left as a symptom of inequality and by the right as a symptom of judicial weakness and political correctness. Both are probably partially correct. Like any complex issue, there are many facets and causes. Whatever the cause though, we here in NZ are likely to see the same anarchy in due course simply because our social

Ayrdalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12277759681727009183noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167972920376989481.post-60378402896902608882011-08-04T06:04:00.007+12:002011-08-04T06:26:07.720+12:00

Global warming proponents can catch up on the sleep they lost worrying about the planet getting hotter with each passing day. (And polar bear fetishists can relax too,"The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service estimates that the polar bear population is currently at 20,000 to 25,000 bears, up from as low as 5,000-10,000 bears in the 1950s and 1960s.)A NASA study which analyzes satellite data from the

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..AND WHATEVER IT IS, if you don't get it, blame ex-President George W. Bush. He is responsible, check it out here... Ask the German greens, and greens worldwide who have been barking mad and nuclearphobic since their conception. Their fear of nuclear energy arises from the fact that nuclear energy represents the spectre of cheap electricity, and cheap electricity represents unbridled and

Ayrdalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12277759681727009183noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167972920376989481.post-3832637916958381652011-07-27T17:34:00.008+12:002011-07-27T20:14:53.338+12:00

...is a predictable response from the political left after the Norwegian massacre. Never mind that Christianity's 2 main tenets are to love God, and to love "thy neighbour as thyself"...two principles that the perpetrator Breivik ignored on his rampage. Breivik may think he is a Christian, but he will be remembered as a psychopathic monster... as a response to media stereotyping, this from the

Ayrdalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12277759681727009183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167972920376989481.post-18676269552047308972011-07-25T08:15:00.013+12:002011-07-27T19:24:29.714+12:00

...whoever he is, who leaked the emails from the UEA Climate Research Unit. He deserves accolades and our thanks. If Al Gore was thought fit to receive the Nobel Prize, Mr/Ms Anon should be similarly honoured. His actions precipitated ClimateGate, and for the alarmist greens life has never been the same. We now have a level of public debate and satire that is succeeding in turning public opinion

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...is at hand. Fossils of the environmental movement are on their knees, stunned by the influence of neo-liberal thinkers who see that decades of Malthusian doom gloom and catastrophe have failed. This reformation is profound and universal and will eventually see remants of the discredited green watermelons seek their political vehicle elsewhere. In NZ we think of relics such as Sue Bradford,

Ayrdalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12277759681727009183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167972920376989481.post-46680855848757618912011-07-18T19:09:00.012+12:002011-07-18T21:57:19.721+12:00

...my poor old fashoned baby...sang the Rolling Stones (and the Ramones) in the 70's. If Mick, Keith or anyone else chose to re-launch the song these days, they could dedicate it to a carbon or emissions trading scheme. Any Western political enthusiast for such a dingbat scheme has to sell the fact that it will cost billions or trillions and it will have a negligible impact on the global

Ayrdalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12277759681727009183noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167972920376989481.post-38127968530571424912011-07-15T22:37:00.010+12:002011-07-21T08:04:22.328+12:00

...over nuclear energy seems to be delivering a surprise or two. Germany of course is to phase out its nuclear energy industry in the wake of the Fukushima "meltdown". (A catastrophe that killed no-one, unlike the European mung bean massacre recently where up to 30 deaths were reported...a single organic farm in Germany has recently killed more people than have all the nuclear power plants

Ayrdalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12277759681727009183noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167972920376989481.post-49780022673817093662011-07-05T05:50:00.016+12:002011-07-25T21:26:53.727+12:00

...you mustn't believe green zealots - and I should know, I was one says the confession in this morning's UK Daily Mail. This is from Mark Lynas, who sadly escaped a broken nose after throwing a pie in Bjorn Lomborg's face. Perhaps his hooter may yet receive attention from his angry lefty ex-friends ... However, we must be charitable, and recognise his penitence. He now joins George Monbiot who

Ayrdalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12277759681727009183noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167972920376989481.post-33047017600762081332011-07-02T06:48:00.008+12:002011-07-02T14:01:54.263+12:00

...from the UK Guardian comes news that the University of East Angliahas been forced to release up to 4million individual thermometer readings taken from 4,000 weather stations over the past 160 years, data that is the life's work of the head of the UEA's Climatic Research Unit, Phil (Hide the Decline) Jones. The same Phil who wrote ... "Why should I make the data available to you, when your aim

Ayrdalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12277759681727009183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167972920376989481.post-63465935142952119632011-07-02T06:29:00.004+12:002011-07-02T06:45:55.687+12:00

...speaks for many deluded "progressives" who had hoped to use fear of climatastrophe to advance their cause. This poor soul sees that his "progressive and environmentalist" cause has been mortally wounded, and calls for a refocus towards "system change not climate change"......I’m a planet lover, progressive and environmentalist and I for one am happy and relieved my children will not die an

Ayrdalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12277759681727009183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167972920376989481.post-23145742325517120102011-06-30T05:24:00.010+12:002011-06-30T08:08:39.651+12:00

...is a lie that may be necessary or excusable to advance a greater cause. Thus, Phil Jones of Climategate infamy felt obligated to use a "good lie" to "hide the decline". History abounds with thousands of other examples. A storm of controversy is brewing on Twitter and elsewhere about the professional conduct of Johann Hari, the Left-wing Independent columnist and winner of the Orwell Prize for

Ayrdalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12277759681727009183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167972920376989481.post-29138514195498995892011-06-25T12:44:00.015+12:002011-06-29T06:59:13.915+12:00

...The science is settled (1) : US liberals really are the dumbest creatures on the planet... guess what these liberals believe the problem with Climate Change is? Go on: think of the most stupid, reality-denying, fact-ignoring, evidence-torturing tosh anyone involved in the media could possibly have to say on the subject... H/T Climate Depot...They think that the naughty yellow pixies who pull

Ayrdalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12277759681727009183noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167972920376989481.post-21651295450288806112011-06-24T04:33:00.007+12:002011-06-24T05:32:39.083+12:00

...from the redoubtable Cranmer...it is not a criminal offence to offend a group of people about their theology.And not just theology, but political theology...Either one is free or one is not. And it is no freedom at all which may not criticise or offend. All that Geert Wilders did is tell it as he sees it. And that isn’t so very far from how thousands if not millions of others see it. Ignorant

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...with thanks to Slattsnews...Part 3. Part 2 was written by the late, great doomslayer Julian Simon, who argued that human ingenuity would guarantee increasing prosperity and development (as long as totalitarian control kept its hand off the tiller.) Taking up this theme is Matt Ridley of The Australian......POLLYANNA is a fool; Cassandra was wise. As a self-proclaimed "rational optimist" who

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...are FLUSH TOILETS. Flush toilets ? You better believe it. They are apparently responsible for the deaths of untold numbers of goldfish. No, no, no, so sorry got that wrong. It's GOLDFISH that are to be banned. No kidding. Their lives as pets swimming round in dirty little bowls, psychotic with boredom and so intolerably overfed they explode has been deemed cruel. So cruel that their purchase

Ayrdalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12277759681727009183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167972920376989481.post-55957480402141705402011-06-16T05:04:00.013+12:002011-06-16T05:38:44.357+12:00

from an Anonymous commentator yesterday...this deserves further exposure...When all the WATERMELON WARMERS admit their LIEWe will raise a MONUMENT into the SKYA monument of SOLID CarbonTo commemorate their BOGUS BARGAIN....and from Andrew Bolt...We may be in for some cooling:Scientists say the Sun, which roils with flares and electromagnetic energy every 11 years or so could go into virtual

Ayrdalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12277759681727009183noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167972920376989481.post-38029532311178706592011-06-12T15:34:00.009+12:002011-06-19T15:52:15.600+12:00

...how very nice to know that the green movement is consuming itself - as left wing movements tend to do - over nuclear energy. In the 80's and 90's, the green debate in Germany was between the Realo's and the Fundi's. Judging by German Chancellor Angela Merkel's anti-nuclear lunacy the Fundi's must have won. This seems to put Europe's powerhouse economy at odds with its neighbours. This from

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...from the Economist, on Australia and its approach to climate change......The topic is fraught. On becoming prime minister in 2007, Mr Rudd, who had in opposition called climate change “the greatest moral, economic and social challenge of our time”, ratified the Kyoto protocol (disdained by Mr Howard) as his first official act, and put a trading scheme for carbon emissions before parliament.

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...is a physicist who has specialised in the study of optics and spectroscopy. He is the Cyrus Fogg Brackett Professor of Physics at Princeton University. His academic career started at Colombia University where he became a full professor and director of the Columbia Radiation Laboratory. In 1980, he left to go to Princeton where he was later the Class of 1909 Professor of Physics. In 1991, he

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....and a courageous confession from George Monbiot ...(who in the past was scathingly referred to as George Moonbeam by his many detractors.) Monbiot writes in the left-leaning UK Guardian...Over the last fortnight I've made a deeply troubling discovery. The anti-nuclear movement to which I once belonged has misled the world about the impacts of radiation on human health. The claims we have

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...and this one's even sillier than the last Extremely Silly Party. This is a party searching for a name, and it has been formed to attract all the really silly people. They are already rolling up. Hone Harawira, Nandor Tanczos (alas minus the hilarious dreadlocks) sexy Sue Bradford (that's not her on the right, that's sexy Sue Kedgley) John Wacko Minto !! Matt McCarten and one or two other

Ayrdalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12277759681727009183noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167972920376989481.post-27049141780927176022011-04-26T08:32:00.011+12:002011-04-27T09:05:22.387+12:00

...has there ever been a popular movement like it ?Our news, filtered as it is through a liberal, left leaning news media gives us only scant detail of what these Tea Party protesters are on about. A friend sent me a newsletter from an expat Kiwi living in the USA which contained this link...As he explains...(the link) has become enormously popular with 6 million “hits” in its first four days.

Ayrdalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12277759681727009183noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167972920376989481.post-85215102787732701602011-04-22T07:03:00.020+12:002011-04-22T16:59:33.001+12:00

...from the journal The New Republic which asks, in its lead article the question of the day ... Has the Green Movement been a Miserable Flop ?What the hell went wrong? For months now, environmentalists have been asking themselves that question, and it’s easy to see why. After Barack Obama vaulted into the White House in 2008, it really did look like the United States was, at long last, going to

Ayrdalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12277759681727009183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167972920376989481.post-17947940798788733412011-04-14T00:31:00.009+12:002011-04-14T17:18:29.177+12:00

...for child abuse... So said the 1994 bumper sticker. Since then NZ has been subject to child abuse reports that sicken, shame and horrify. The term child abuse in itself understates the horror of it all - it makes it sound like childish banter and bullying in the playground. Child torture is a much more accurate term. Michael Laws of the Sunday Star Times has dared to dwell on the subject. He

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...does this ludicrous AGW farce continue ? Like a Terminator that won't die, or a Monty Pythonesque knight with severed arms and legs that won't yield, the malevolent AGW ghost won't depart. The science behind it has been shown to be dodgy, the statistics shonky, the main instigators are accused of self interest (think Al Gore) yet politicians such as our Minister for the Environment, Mr Nick

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...are the clean up workers who may well be quite calmly and rationally comitting suicide. After the Christchurch earthquake the deliberate acts of heroism and compassion were a wonderful testimony to the strength of character of those involved. This altruism is a feature of most of us I think, but is ingrained in the Japanese psyche. One only has to think of their military heroism as

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As an ex-radiographer I remember being taught to respect and avoid radiation. At work each day we used to put on a radiation monitoring badge which was sent every month to the National Radiation Laboratory in Christchurch where our exposure to what we called scattered radiation was assessed. We wore lead rubber aprons when working with prolonged radiology techniques, and some even wore lead

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...will last as long as we keep commemorating St.Patrick. Green politics though are of a much less durable nature. Now that the mainstay of the green movement - runaway apocalyptic global warming - has lost its potency, green political impetus has waned, and the hope of global wealth redistribution to save the planet has all but died. Green eco-pornographers though have been given CPR, courtesy

Ayrdalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12277759681727009183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167972920376989481.post-10944844814814410402011-03-17T16:42:00.007+13:002011-03-18T06:39:50.042+13:00

...will be short lived as the damaged Japanese nuclear reactors are brought under control. What will become more apparent as time goes by is the difference between Chernobyl, where safety procedures were absent and where reactor design (rejected by the UK in the 1950's) was inadequate, and this incident, where one of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded has tested emergency procedure to the

Ayrdalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12277759681727009183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167972920376989481.post-545733031648380012011-03-05T16:10:00.009+13:002011-03-05T20:38:39.047+13:00

....on Climate Change and the recent Aussie floods.While commentators like Clive James and many others assess the moribund state of climate alarmism correctly, main stream media still run a diluted form of green orthodoxy. Here, Clive James, always a good read, is in fine form poking a sharp stick in the eye of the dying green global warming dragon...Poetry, said Auden, makes nothing happen.

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....because in many ways we're a constipated little country, struggling with all the local issues of the moment. We are usually elated or sometimes distraught over sports performances, smug or irate about social scandals, bored, angry or dismissive re our elected MP's, reeling with dismay over yet another account of murderous child abuse, yet at the same time complacently enjoying our sometimes

Ayrdalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12277759681727009183noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167972920376989481.post-54726700248493937312011-02-17T06:30:00.002+13:002011-02-17T06:46:59.264+13:00

courtesy of Samizdata...Remarkable developments are in train at London's Royal Court Theatre, in the form of a play that is about climate science, but is not Watermelon propaganda...The Heretic, a new play by Richard Bean:Book your tickets now, this play is a must-see comedy... nearly all the major recent climate change stories are woven into the play: the lack of sea level rise, the

Ayrdalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12277759681727009183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167972920376989481.post-686113917718182012011-01-19T14:35:00.006+13:002011-01-19T15:15:22.219+13:00

...Of all our useless trough feeding MP's, one stands out more than others...a true racist and self hater whose diatribes are grudgingly tolerated by a weary nation; Mr Hone Harawira. THIS interesting anecdote about Hone comes (courtesy PKH) simultaneously with the news that his own political cronies are once again at loggerheads with him (not that they have any moral authority to be critical -

Ayrdalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12277759681727009183noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167972920376989481.post-32345641522817540902011-01-19T06:25:00.006+13:002011-01-19T06:33:24.047+13:00

...from Richard Lindzen on climate change, corruption and economic meltdowns......When an issue like global warming is around for over twenty years, numerous agendas are developed to exploit the issue. The interests of the environmental movement in acquiring more power, influence, and donations are reasonably clear. So too are the interests of bureaucrats for whom control of CO2 is a

Ayrdalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12277759681727009183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167972920376989481.post-60830646004021678592011-01-16T13:50:00.010+13:002011-01-19T06:19:34.562+13:00

...the real decline of the environmental movement began with the awareness of the fact that Rachel Carson got it wrong; and that since the popular media embraced her anti-DDT polemic millions have died unecessarily from malaria. The late Denis Dutton, Petr Bekmann (Access to Energy) and prior to him Julian Simon (The Ultimate Resource) and a host of others have pointed out green lies and

Ayrdalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12277759681727009183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167972920376989481.post-73286343114923788512011-01-14T05:03:00.005+13:002011-01-14T05:10:12.020+13:00

Zombie (bless him) says...The data underlying the famous “hockey stick” global warming graph has finally been found after having earlier been misplaced by leading climate researchers. The newly recovered data confirms the accuracy of the abrupt upward turn in readings characteristic of the “hockey stick” shape found in many global warming projections.Up until now, however, the data on which the

Ayrdalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12277759681727009183noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167972920376989481.post-11711480673159371802011-01-08T14:42:00.014+13:002011-01-09T13:16:16.313+13:00

As we move into 2011, it's pertinent to remind ourselves and others of the threats, warnings and outright lies from the green left over AGW. NASA's James Hansen has been one of the most upfront and outrageous of the lot. Now he's getting skewered. Hansen has been wetting himself over global warming for 20 years. 25 metre sea level rises, England to become "a tropical paradise"...Now delighted

Ayrdalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12277759681727009183noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167972920376989481.post-10486653874278151612011-01-04T14:05:00.002+13:002011-01-05T06:35:47.321+13:00

...now I'm going to show him how to gut it and fillet it. Then we'll eat it raw...

Ayrdalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12277759681727009183noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167972920376989481.post-18611559585547121312011-01-02T13:26:00.005+13:002011-01-02T13:46:36.694+13:00

... Scientists have always wondered about The Big Bang. What actually happened during it and immediately afterwards ? The Hadron Collider is attempting to duplicate conditions that will help answer these questions...but not it seems to help answer an even bigger question...What came before The Big Bang ?Now some scientists are claiming that "mysterious forces" - yikes ! -are at work sabotaging or

Ayrdalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12277759681727009183noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167972920376989481.post-49112404820035514682010-12-30T08:53:00.009+13:002011-01-09T15:56:14.497+13:00

One of this country's favourite adopted sons, Denis died aged 66, shortly after Christmas.All those who knew, worked and rubbed shoulders with Denis knew him as a lively, entertaining and passionate man, who cared deeply for the truth. (His masthead motto on his website Arts and Letters Daily is Veritas Odit Moras - truth hates delay). Aldaily.com shot Denis to worldwide fame, and has been

Ayrdalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12277759681727009183noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167972920376989481.post-25697804740455389422010-11-13T16:20:00.012+13:002011-01-01T19:45:30.243+13:00

...never mind that the phrase was made popular by Noam Chomsky, these images (photographed in and around Palmerston North in 1943, click on to enlarge) stir me in a way that I don't really understand. The beautiful young woman has been referred to in an earlier post, and it would make me very happy indeed if anyone seeing these young faces could identify with them in the way that I do. We will

Ayrdalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12277759681727009183noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167972920376989481.post-30737625491477511062010-11-06T11:55:00.012+13:002010-11-07T06:37:05.085+13:00

...the recent mid-term US elections will be remembered for the birth of the vocal majority. The silent majority is silent no more; it has gained its exsibilating voice via blogging and social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter, and its voice has humbled the liberal media. Their shock is evident as they desperately label Tea Party adherents as hate fuelled ultra-conservatives (

Ayrdalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12277759681727009183noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167972920376989481.post-12964934147458956032010-07-28T12:17:00.010+12:002010-07-30T20:32:23.536+12:00

Today this sporadic blog flickers back to life after 6 months of inattention. Today's post though isn't about the crazed green hypocrisy of AGW, instead it's a small reverent bow towards the wonderful WW2 generation.As a physiotherapist I'm privileged to go into people's homes, and I'm posting a few snapshots taken in 1943 mainly in the city of Palmerston North, New Zealand. The beautiful young

Ayrdalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12277759681727009183noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167972920376989481.post-51749561573785315132010-04-03T18:06:00.008+13:002010-04-03T18:35:11.545+13:00

...after my last post I took time off for a 3 1/2 week holiday in the UK. On that afternoon I was also told that I was unemployed. What a bugger.A totally necessary reassessment of our stupid and illogical ACC (Accident Compensation Corporation) health care scheme has involved severe cuts in health spending. Soooo, I'm looking for work and haven't had the necessary enthusiasm to add to this blog

Ayrdalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12277759681727009183noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167972920376989481.post-77421685064471779492010-02-18T08:13:00.031+13:002010-02-18T22:12:42.980+13:00

...ever vigilant reader Butch (right) spotted this reference to a UK enthusiast (John Graham-Cumming) whose amateur sleuthing led to this glorious headline in the London Times... How I made the Met Office admit its climate-change data was wrong......Since my training is in mathematics and computing I thought it best to write self-checking code: I’m unfamiliar with the science of climate change

Ayrdalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12277759681727009183noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167972920376989481.post-40665811887082554062010-02-17T08:13:00.020+13:002010-02-18T12:11:07.430+13:00

...I posted earlier this week on the next move for the green left now that their fantasy of AGW is losing credibility and international political pulling power. It seems likely that TINA 'there is no alternative' will be wheeled in because of so called 'peak oil' - the finite reserves of fossil fuel energy. Hence of course, 'green' energy; wind, solar, tidal and pedal powered bamboo bicycles.

Ayrdalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12277759681727009183noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167972920376989481.post-73442460470039410642010-02-16T07:50:00.018+13:002010-02-16T16:24:31.364+13:00

...the goony bird is still in gestation. If it hatches it seems doomed to become an expensive and useless indulgence, and fated to degenerate into an embarassed, lonely abomination that ultimately vanishes down its own dollar sinkhole. Reviewing Climategate, its associated IPCC shortcomings and the Kiwi ETS, ex ACT MP Muriel Newman observes......What all of this means for New Zealanders is that

Ayrdalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12277759681727009183noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167972920376989481.post-46959563767452406932010-02-14T07:15:00.016+13:002010-02-16T16:10:14.000+13:00

...now the forces of panic and alarm are clearly in retreat re AGW the argument from the green left is typified by this comment from a Guardian reader (left)...The climate change discussion has shifted from a science based decision in my mind, to a logic based decision. Do we continue to put our (human) efforts into exploiting energy sources that are clearly finite (coal, oil, gas et al) or do

Ayrdalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12277759681727009183noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167972920376989481.post-66783225938101924162010-02-12T13:45:00.007+13:002010-02-12T14:34:33.719+13:00

...I have commented before that pragmatic southern hemisphere policies on climate change are likely to lead the world. I wouldn't have made that prediction 6 or 7 months ago, when Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's ETS was the only political option on the table for Australia. However, a lot has happened since then; most of those happenings ending in 'gate'. Exceptions to that terminology

Ayrdalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12277759681727009183noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167972920376989481.post-3289005265736379372010-02-12T07:43:00.008+13:002010-02-15T15:48:52.011+13:00

...as we enter into the last campaign of the war against the green alarmists, the main perpretators and instigators are being assembled, awaiting sentence. Among them is the creator of the now infamous "hockey stick"; Dr Michael Mann of Penn State University (PSU). Preliminary internal investigation of Mann's behaviour after revelations disclosed by the Climategate emails were as expected, a

Ayrdalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12277759681727009183noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167972920376989481.post-57887098888383042372010-02-11T07:53:00.010+13:002010-02-11T17:23:12.654+13:00

... after we consider our involvement in an ill fated relationship or business venture, we may ask ourselves "how could it happen ?" I imagine that many scientists surveying the wreckage of "climate science" are asking this question and reviewing their involvement and the extent of the stain on their careers. This article by Jerome Ravetz of Oxford University "...environmental consultant and

Ayrdalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12277759681727009183noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167972920376989481.post-2301558197262580132010-02-10T15:39:00.012+13:002010-02-10T17:14:09.417+13:00

... to the German Bundestag on the occasion of International Holocaust Remembrance Day is somewhat off topic for this blog, but nevertheless has resonance for all of us. Those of us born immediately after WW2 - the so called baby boomers, grew up within touchable range of war mementoes and war experiences, and this tangible proximity to "the war" has left its mark. I have just finished Ian

Ayrdalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12277759681727009183noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167972920376989481.post-70850647237502425322010-02-10T07:54:00.009+13:002010-02-10T09:55:32.603+13:00

...with the sound of dissent. An anonymous comment a few days back led me to post about Norway, and its bizarre AGW fetish. A fetish that has led the Nobel peace prize committee to give its once respected award to the embarassed and untested President Obama; to honour the IPCC, whose reputation is being shredded every day, and even to award the disgraced and pitiful Al Gore, whose humiliation is

Ayrdalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12277759681727009183noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167972920376989481.post-47727146016345124202010-02-09T14:14:00.012+13:002010-02-09T20:08:22.388+13:00

...will be difficult for them to conceptualise. After all, they have always described their retreat back to socialism as "progressive". However, a great surprise over the last month has been the willingness of the UK Guardian (Moonbeam Monbiot excepted) to examine the scientific failings of the great warmist crusade. In this excellent Guardian article, Ian Katz says "The case for climate action

Ayrdalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12277759681727009183noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167972920376989481.post-2222885670329952592010-02-09T08:56:00.012+13:002010-02-09T14:55:22.489+13:00

...and with it the hopes of Australian power hungry super statists. Two factors will have to unite to revive the dead beast, one of which is a renewed trust in the now discredited field of "climate science", the other an alarming upsurge in global temperatures with accompanying climate catastrophes. This morning's NZ Herald reports... ...since the Copenhagen summit, support for an ETS -

Ayrdalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12277759681727009183noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167972920376989481.post-89451772927271667932010-02-07T19:54:00.023+13:002010-02-08T21:19:26.520+13:00

...A commenter posted this over the weekend...No one seems to be asking suitably probing questions of one political body which is deeply involved in all of this, which is the Norwegian Parliament. They are the people who decide who gets Peace prizes, and they have a distinguished history of cock-up: giving the Peace Prize to Obama, Gore and the IPCC is merely the most recent. It's possible that

Ayrdalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12277759681727009183noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167972920376989481.post-31299716977721238972010-02-05T08:06:00.013+13:002010-02-05T13:32:34.001+13:00

...has been formally announced by influential US commentator Walter Russell Mead... (and Mr Seal and his mates don't look too unhappy about it) H/T Wattie......The global warming movement as we have known it is dead. Its health had been in steady decline during the last year as the once robust hopes for a strong and legally binding treaty to be agreed upon at the Copenhagen Summit faded away. By

Ayrdalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12277759681727009183noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167972920376989481.post-6288200426868668422010-02-04T09:11:00.013+13:002010-02-05T10:14:54.152+13:00

...in its response to climate change, and its leadership and pragmatic policies will advance its economic and political place in the world, poised on the Pacific rim. With northern hemisphere politicians and scientists hopelessly compromised by foolish prior commitments and predictions, based on their own shonky science and yesterday's ideology - and with no hope of curbing global CO2 emissions,

Ayrdalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12277759681727009183noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167972920376989481.post-56895018078954915362010-02-03T07:46:00.012+13:002010-02-03T13:46:34.054+13:00

... repeated signals from the the NZ Herald indicate a new degree of realism and respect for the AGW sceptical cause. This editorial this morning calls for new leadership with the IPCC; criticises our own climate researchers and recorders, and the local and international network of green left agitators including the WWF, keen to make political capital from the fable of so called "global warming"

Ayrdalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12277759681727009183noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167972920376989481.post-4325913055034732802010-02-02T15:43:00.007+13:002010-02-03T09:04:34.196+13:00

...Fred Pearce today writes in the left leaning Guardian a surprising and uncompromising article that we may have expected in the more conservative and traditional Telegraph or the Times, headlined that......Leaked climate change emails scientist 'hid' data flaws...Phil Jones, the beleaguered British climate scientist at the centre of the leaked emails controversy, is facing fresh claims that he

Ayrdalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12277759681727009183noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167972920376989481.post-71460340513712883282010-02-01T11:22:00.007+13:002010-02-02T16:28:16.294+13:00

...when the climate alarmists start to get skewered by the PC MSM (read TV) we will really know that we have traction... A note to Kiwi's re this post. John in this spoof is the voice of John Clarke, a.k.a. our old mate Fred Dagg. This script is a voice over to a 2 year old interview featuring John Clarke as the then Aussie PM; John Howard. Artistic license has substituted John Howard for Rudd's

Ayrdalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12277759681727009183noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167972920376989481.post-39826189678112288632010-01-31T15:08:00.012+13:002010-01-31T16:52:30.884+13:00

...is the blog title under which Emeritus Professor Phillip Stott writes. Stott occupies a prime position in the right hand column on this blog as you may have noticed, by virtue of his observation that global warming "...has become the grand political narrative of the age, replacing Marxism as a dominant force for controlling liberty and human choices." Now, under the heading: Global Warming;

Ayrdalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12277759681727009183noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167972920376989481.post-4768753765130876402010-01-29T12:50:00.009+13:002010-01-29T14:36:51.474+13:00

...that when added to the end of the lonely serviceman's letter stood for "nickers off ready when I come home." Norwich marketing people would no doubt prefer that bawdy association to the present day smell of corrupt science and impropriety that hangs around Norwich's Climate Research Unit now, a smell that threatens to topple the UN IPCC establishment......Norwich's flagship university was at

Ayrdalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12277759681727009183noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167972920376989481.post-69728361235987679432010-01-28T06:18:00.020+13:002010-01-28T16:30:16.246+13:00

...from the green camp, and I feel a little like my father, who as a lowly member (LAC2) of RAF ground crew in North Africa in WW2, was proud to have "done his bit." It is now becoming very clear to many sceptics and greens alike that the full time whistle on the AGW scare has been blown by the statement from the UK Government’s chief scientific adviser John Beddington that “I don’t think it’s

Ayrdalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12277759681727009183noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167972920376989481.post-12227427855388164512010-01-27T14:34:00.005+13:002010-01-27T16:13:30.574+13:00

...the new UK science czar (what happened to David King ?) has just admitted, in the London Times...The impact of global warming has been exaggerated by some scientists and there is an urgent need for more honest disclosure of the uncertainty of predictions about the rate of climate change, according to the Government’s chief scientific adviser. John Beddington was speaking to The Times in the

Ayrdalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12277759681727009183noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167972920376989481.post-16877322711321954982010-01-27T11:36:00.010+13:002010-01-27T13:54:06.080+13:00

...are qualities we value highly in our advisers. Whether we are dealing with our mechanic, accountant, doctor or lawyer, we pay them on the basis of their reputations. Has greenpeace or the WWF or the IPCC earned our trust ? Do they enjoy wide public esteem ? In this editorial from Spiegel Online, authors Richard Tol, Roger Pielke jnr. and Hans von Storch itemise the fatal shortcomings of the

Ayrdalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12277759681727009183noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167972920376989481.post-78046527290280443372010-01-26T09:43:00.016+13:002010-01-26T17:20:23.822+13:00

...well it's always been a foregone conclusion that the green alarmists won't win THIS battle.Here on the sceptical side of the fence we have had a massive ammount of funding from big oil, the tobacco industry, the Vatican and the estates of George Orwell and Ronald Reagan; none of us have proper day jobs so we have become a highly organised subversive cadre schooled in all the black arts of

Ayrdalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12277759681727009183noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167972920376989481.post-42505640752003459972010-01-25T08:37:00.014+13:002010-01-27T12:49:13.842+13:00

...is deafening. Allegations of fraud dominate the field of climate science these days. In the USA lawyers are permanently poised to leap into lawsuits. Climate sceptics however, have over the last 18 months described high profile warmists as liars, crooks and frauds. (See this example.) No lawsuits have been presented against these specific allegations of scientific dishonesty. Today's article

Ayrdalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12277759681727009183noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167972920376989481.post-62508799850583331222010-01-22T11:46:00.010+13:002010-01-22T14:41:02.361+13:00

...where are the fathers ? And does it matter, and does anyone care ? If it does matter, and if an absent Dad equals more youth crime (and our statisticians tell us it does) then we have a chance to improve our standard of living and our social circumstances by developing political policies and supporting political parties that encourage stable families. And which party if any, actually supports

Ayrdalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12277759681727009183noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167972920376989481.post-9505335549197601612010-01-21T08:10:00.019+13:002010-01-21T16:18:38.528+13:00

...this bloke will make a name for himself if he keeps this up..."...And let me say this, with respect to those who wish to harm us, I believe that our Constitution and laws exist to protect this nation, they do not grant rights and privileges to enemies in wartime. In dealing with terrorists, our tax dollars should pay for weapons to stop them, not lawyers to defend them." H/T Michael Phillips

Ayrdalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12277759681727009183noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167972920376989481.post-47363865217913850342010-01-20T14:29:00.004+13:002010-01-20T16:26:54.220+13:00

...well yes and yes. The dire warnings of famine, floods and inundations, species extinction and civil wars seemed to have lessened somewhat since the alarmists had a cold bath at Copenhagen, and the oranges froze on the trees in Florida. As the rhetoric cools so public attention and concern about devastation and climate change quietly fades away. It just remains now for the alarmists to

Ayrdalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12277759681727009183noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167972920376989481.post-14293200219011762782010-01-19T10:19:00.017+13:002010-01-19T16:27:31.405+13:00

...the UK Conservatives are discarding their cardigans, slippers and pipes in exchange for more radical accessories. While they aren't all scrambling to put on their chic black berets, they are displaying an independance of thought re climate change policies. The humiliating admission from the arch warmist propagandist cheerleaders at New Scientist (right) may well have something to do with it.

Ayrdalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12277759681727009183noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167972920376989481.post-1940548924150657312010-01-18T09:12:00.008+13:002010-01-18T12:41:32.383+13:00

...and was introduced onto the world stage in Copenhagen, accompanied by international rejection of the UN/EU'S climate policies. The antiquated and alarmist scare policies of the bureaucratic green left have been discredited and the hope for green resurgence and triumph at the next climate gabfest in Mexico this year looks very forlorn......The failure of the UN climate summit in Copenhagen is

Ayrdalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12277759681727009183noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167972920376989481.post-84310251206801536112010-01-15T07:50:00.011+13:002010-01-15T14:02:54.880+13:00

...students of international affairs who like to speculate about power shifts and the end of empires tend to focus on economic and ideological issues and their reflections are often written in hindsight as a post mortem. As a proud Kiwi Pom, I have posted before that this part of the world will rise to a become a major player on the world scene. We (that is Australia and NZ) are blessed by our

Ayrdalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12277759681727009183noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167972920376989481.post-15082584854852108162010-01-14T12:27:00.011+13:002010-01-15T16:34:15.065+13:00

...many of us are appalled by the widespread acceptance of medical quackery, are awfully insulted by the unquestioning acceptance by the MSM of psychic charlatans, aura readers and other con artists, and have never been abducted and/or probed by alien beings or even seen a UFO. Us poor unfortunates are prone to scepticism and questioning, and have always therefore been wary of the green left

Ayrdalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12277759681727009183noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167972920376989481.post-50963128654363586392010-01-13T08:06:00.014+13:002010-01-13T11:13:27.828+13:00

...further to yesterday's post. The realities of Climategate, international stasis at Copenhagen together with a bitterly cold northern winter, are forcing climate scientists into dispute. Firstly from WuWT, uncomfortable news for the warmists that... the release of embarrassingly candid emails from the Climate Research Unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia has intensified, if not

Ayrdalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12277759681727009183noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167972920376989481.post-83017182142095058972010-01-12T09:14:00.017+13:002010-01-12T16:59:46.032+13:00

...with shame and embarassment as news of record snow falls, global cooling and IPCC scandal continues to dominate the headlines. (See the Sunday Express below.) Among the reddest must be Dr David Viner's (see box left) and red faces must abound too on the Nobel prize committee, (will winning the the Nobel Prize ever mean what it used to ?) after their accolades last year to Al Gore and Rajendra

Ayrdalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12277759681727009183noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167972920376989481.post-41135717381617643822010-01-11T10:26:00.011+13:002010-02-12T10:57:46.329+13:00

...and it is becoming evermore apparent that an inconvenient democracy continues to thwart the one world utopians of the green left. After the failure at Copenhagen the alarmists are now openly stating that we, the unconvinced, unconcerned and unfrightened sceptical general public need to be controlled and led by authoritarian dictatorship. Doubters such as ourselves have recognised the face

Ayrdalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12277759681727009183noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167972920376989481.post-50967408446703257172010-01-08T09:32:00.019+13:002010-01-08T15:02:27.141+13:00

...2009 was another year of global cooling, which saw numerous low temperature and high snowfall records smashed. "Some say the world will end in fire; Some say in ice. From what I've tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hateTo say that for destruction ice Is also great, and would suffice." Robert Frost, American PoetThe Dutch

Ayrdalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12277759681727009183noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167972920376989481.post-34358254195858701662010-01-07T16:21:00.014+13:002010-01-08T10:05:51.698+13:00

...from the great Guido Fawkes, his calm reflection on the wisdom of the welfare state and the modern marvel that is British multiculturism......Here is another evidence-based chart you won’t see elsewhere; it shows how much taxpayers are forced to give to Anjem Choudary – the extremist cleric who wants to lead a protest march through Wootton Bassett. He claims £25,740 in benefits to subsidise

Ayrdalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12277759681727009183noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167972920376989481.post-47793254810171789932010-01-07T13:32:00.005+13:002010-01-07T13:53:29.217+13:00

...while the left attempt to reclaim scientific legitimacy after the Climategate expose, and while they agonise over their failure to achieve victory in Copenhagen, commentators are relishing the passions of the conflict, and attempting to predict the way ahead. At the start of 2010 Ben Pile, writing in Spiked, adds his analysis......Copenhagen’s failure is the culmination of long-standing

Ayrdalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12277759681727009183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167972920376989481.post-53478710510467078722010-01-06T09:44:00.004+13:002010-01-06T12:06:59.673+13:00

...are the one and the same, so called progressives, with the keen pong of what they laughingly call "social justice" and "political awareness" about them. They are the modern day elitist, snobby Tories, real conservatives who hanker for and work for a lost and discredited political system and who pretend to be tolerant but despise any dissent. They are the bossy commissars and bureaucrats who

Ayrdalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12277759681727009183noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167972920376989481.post-51434070887620847342010-01-05T10:17:00.023+13:002010-01-05T16:57:50.550+13:00

After a very happy, sunny and over-indulgent break let's survey what's in store for the doomsayers of the green left, and let's do some crystal ball gazing for the year ahead. 2010 looks to me like the year that "global warming" finally slinks away in shame to disgrace and irrelevance...here's why...In the UK Telegraph, Christopher Booker and Richard North have accused Dr Rajendra Pachauri, the

Ayrdalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12277759681727009183noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167972920376989481.post-45548331005004678522009-12-24T11:26:00.006+13:002009-12-28T19:01:31.369+13:00

“I have only one firm belief about the American political system, and that is this: God is a Republican and Santa Claus is a Democrat. God is an elderly or, at any rate, middle-aged male, a stern fellow, patriarchal rather than paternal and a great believer in rules and regulations. He holds men strictly accountable for their actions. He has little apparent concern for the material well-being of

Ayrdalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12277759681727009183noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167972920376989481.post-10729334896690956222009-12-23T15:09:00.011+13:002009-12-25T22:04:33.828+13:00

...well international socialism of course, which makes their environmental "save the world" pose such an obvious and hypocritical sham. After the chaos and farce at Copenhagen can anyone really be in any doubt now that the only point of the whole climatastrophe scenario is to inspire fear and guilt and grease the wheels of the money train ? And can anyone now really believe deep in their hearts

Ayrdalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12277759681727009183noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167972920376989481.post-66350016577991143712009-12-17T08:06:00.012+13:002009-12-17T13:38:12.381+13:00

...and the burden of proof is now with the alarmists. A subtle change in MSM coverage of the issue has been apparent since Climategate. This excellent post from Samizdata......I've just been watching this video, of Lord Monkton laying into the Climategate gang. What makes it so potent is that he is quite bluntly calling them crooks, and calling anyone who still follows their fraudulent

Ayrdalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12277759681727009183noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167972920376989481.post-71647748737206161732009-12-16T09:47:00.019+13:002009-12-16T17:13:53.697+13:00

...the Himalyan glaciers are shrinking, it's our fault ! According to CNN and the IPCC, they'll be all gone by 2035...it's global warming !Well no, not exactly... Glacier loss is apparently mainly caused by soot from Nepal, India and China. Hope the news gets to Copenhagen quickly, before they go off on a crazy, expensive and pointless CO2 tangent......the new research, by NASA’s William Lau and

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