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Over the last decade like the Australian ABC the UK BBC has been chief amongst media spreading the global warming hysteria. Finally after a decade of global cooling even the mighty BBC has relented.

From BBC online:

What happened to global warming?

“This headline may come as a bit of a surprise, so too might that fact that the warmest year recorded globally was not in 2008 or 2007, but in 1998.

But it is true.

For the last 11 years we have not observed any increase in global temperatures.

And our climate models did not forecast it, even though man-made carbon dioxide, the gas thought to be responsible for warming our planet, has continued to rise.

So what on Earth is going on? “

Writes the BBC’s Climate correspondent Paul Hudson.

Don’t you just love the surprised innocence in Paul’s tone, completely blindsided by this news he is. Now Paul is not your average BBC news journo, he is THE BBC Climate Correspondent breaking this amazing news to the world.

After going through a range of options as to what is really driving the climate, the Sun, World ocean temperatures, Paul comes to the stunning conclusion:

“One thing is for sure. It seems the debate about what is causing global warming is far from over. Indeed some would say it is hotting up.”

How long before Australia’s own National Broadcaster the ABC starts to report the facts instead of the hype?

Indeed how long before our own Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Climate Change Minister (the minister for the natural) Penny Wong, admit the truth to the Australian people,

“the science on climate change is anything but settled”.

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Agmates member JeffT writes:

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From Fox News -- Video

“This thing is Phony” -- Assign it to the scrap heap.

Interview with US Senator James Inhofe on Youtube

Report: EPA buried study showing Global Warming Not Critical

Dissenting report written by two EPA employees

Makes Climate Change Bill (Waxman-Markey) American Clean Energy bill unnecessary.

Using Kevin Rudd’s example of the Waxman-Markey bill being passed through the US lower house to hasten passage of Australia’s CPRS bill through the Senate -- if the US bill comes off the rails after the Senate recess, should not our Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme bill do the same?

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Agmates member JeffT writes:

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You may remember the frightening pictures (recycled from previous year) of the Wilkins Ice Shelf breaking away earlier this year, as portrayed by the media (from the Australian)

A SPLIT over global warming has emerged in Kevin Rudd’s cabinet after it was revealed that a 13-month-old photograph was published this month to support the view that a catastrophic melting of Antarctic ice was imminent.

Climate Change Minister Penny Wong was disappointed with the way her ministerial colleague, Peter Garrett, weighed into the debate about global warming, claiming sea levels could rise by 6m as a result of melting in Antarctica.

The pictures below show what is happening on the West Antarctic Peninsula, in this case over a short period from 10th June to 16th June 2009. The yellow arrow is pointing at the area of the Wilkins Ice Shelf, a sea ice bridge between Charcot Island and Latady Island, shown as two little blue bumps, just below were arrow is pointing.

Antarctic Peninsular 16/06/09

Antarctic Peninsular 10/06/09

As today is 6 days away from the Winter Solstice(the Sun’s up North) , this ice should continue to increase considerably until at least late July.

So the disastrous Antarctic melting scenario of 20′ sea level rise from Wong/Garrett, with it’s Climate Change/ETS reasoning is again proven wrong.

From Todays  Australian: “Ice Shelves Stable over Six Years”

ANTARCTIC ice shelves are showing no sign of climate change, six years of unique research have shown.

“More than six years of observation has not revealed any significant climatic trends,” CUT associate professor Alexander Gavrilov said yesterday.

So at every chance, we should support Senator’s Steve Fielding and Barnaby Joyce – and any other politician who believes that the current push for an ETS under the guise of “Saving Our Planet” – or from Senator Wong – “for our children and their children’s children” (emotional blackmail) is a scam.

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Author, inventor,  businessman and Agmates member Allan Yeomans writes:

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Allan Yeomans

Emissions trading is being ordained as our prime weapon to combat global warming; yet it is designed to permit, absolutely, the continued use of oil, coal and gas. The advocates maintain it will peg their expanded use in First World countries. Meaning that if Third World and Developing Nations do not develop, then the Earth’s rate of global warming won’t accelerate. It will just continue as is.

Emissions Trading Schemes or Cap and Trade pretends to combat global warming. But they don’t. The more one looks, Cap and Trade seems more and more to be about maintaining the prosperity of the fossil fuel industries – not about ending global warming.

The European Union installed an Emissions Trading Scheme four years ago. Carbon dioxide emissions in Europe since the inauguration of this complex Cap and Trade system haven’t decrease one iota. In fact they’ve risen. It seems that the European Union, and all the Nations within that Union are now hopelessly locked in by their own gullible naivety. The oil and coal producers are very happy with the EU system.

Speculators and manipulators in the EU now pull billions from the taxpayers funded public purse in the Alice in Wonderland world of “European Carbon Trading”. In the last four years prices for European Union Carbon Credits have fluctuated between $40 for a tonne of carbon dioxide down to a minuscule ten cents a tonne.

President Obama tells us, in all sincerity, that a satisfactory US Cap and Trade system, or ETS is being worked out in conjunction with the major oil companies. Talk about Dracula running the blood bank!

Consider this analogy.

Should we grant the drug lords total immunity from prosecution, from all damage claims and from any sense of responsibility? And the only restriction we impose is that they put a “Cap” on expanding their sales. And we happily agree to accept a very loose cap. The way the Cap and Trade schemes are structured the bad guys are allowed to expand their unwholesome businesses simply by buying “Monopoly Money” credits to produce more drugs. Then if one of their competitors goes broke, or a few drug users manage to beat their addiction, those people are awarded Government Issue Drug Credits (read Carbon Credits) which they can sell to the drug lords.

Sure it sounds illogical, but that’s exactly what the oil, gas and coal barons are pushing our politicians to draft into law about carbon.

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Agmates Editor Steve Truman writes:

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As the head of NASA’s programs for 12 years (1982-1994) Dr John Theon was was responsible for all weather and climate research in the entire agency, including the research work by James Hansen, Roy Spencer, Joanne Simpson, and several hundred other scientists at NASA field centers, in academia, and in the private sector who worked on climate research.

In January this year Dr Theon has finally spoken out about the useless nature of climate modelling, the manipulation of the data by James Hanson and others in the agency for political means.

“My own belief concerning anthropogenic climate change is that the models do not realistically simulate the climate system because there are many very important sub-grid scale processes that the models either replicate poorly or completely omit.

Furthermore, some scientists have manipulated the observed data to justify their model results. In doing so, they neither explain what they have modified in the observations, nor explain how they did it.

In just November last year Dr Hansen was embarrassingly caught out adjusting the global temperatures upwardly.

Dr Theon goes onto say:

“They have resisted making their work transparent so that it can be replicated independently by other scientists. This is clearly contrary to how science should be done.

Thus there is no rational justification for using climate model forecasts to determine public policy.”

Incredible. The whole need to act on ‘man made global warming’ expressed by governments around the world is based on the predictions of this computer modelling.

Dr Theon has exposed the whole Dr James Hansen / Al Gore global warming hysteria as possibly the greatest con trick ever played upon mankind. Once again I’m reminded of our Emperor Kevin Rudd and his New Cloths.

Click here to see Dr Theon’s comments in full plus his qualifications.

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SE QLD Farmer and Chairman of the Carbon Sense Coalition Viv Forbes writes:

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Viv Forbes

Australian farmers pay livestock levies, research levies, marketing levies and taxes on every product they sell. These support an army of officials supposedly representing their interests, the Meat and Livestock Corporation, the Wool Corporation, CSIRO and the numerous state and federal agriculture departments and politicians.

But not one of these has defended the industry from the obviously fraudulent claim that animal emissions play a significant part in causing global warming.

It does not take even high school science to understand that all animals are part of the natural carbon cycle that uses plants to take carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, and then uses solar energy to convert this to plant sugars and proteins. The carbon is then taken up by animals that live on plants, and finally returned to the atmosphere as carbon dioxide and methane as these animals exhale, excrete or expire.

Carbon dioxide is a harmless natural plant food. Methane is another harmless natural gas which is oxidised in the atmosphere to carbon dioxide and water. Then whole cycle starts again with no net addition to so-called greenhouse gases.

The phrase ‘ashes to ashes and dust to dust’ expresses more understanding of the carbon cycle than all the failed computerised climate models that rate animal emissions as significant factors in climate change.

Animals and plants have always been cycling carbon dioxide and methane with no long term or permanent effect on climate. The wild herds of mammoths, aurochs, reindeer, wildebeest, zebra, bison, antelope, wild sheep, warthogs, horses, camels, rabbits and kangaroos have just been partially replaced by domesticated cattle, sheep, goats, buffalo and pigs.

All are part of the natural world and none of them have any long term effect on the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

To threaten a carbon tax on animal emissions without recognising an equal credit for the carbon dioxide extracted by them from the atmosphere is shoddy science and shoddy accounting. Surely for all the taxes and levies they pay, farmers can get at least one government scientist, official or carbon accountant willing to state the obvious:

‘Cattle and sheep are as green as grass and trees and should not be penalised by any future carbon tax on their emissions’.

Governments should state this clearly now and stop including animal emissions in their spurious carbon accounting.

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Video from Minnesotans For Global Warming. I really like this.

If we had some Global Warming

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Max Rheese of the Australian Environment Foundation writes:

Hi Steve,

Please advise the Agmates members that the e-postcards to Senators are now available on the ListenToUs website

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Oppose the ETS: Send Your Senators a Message

The Rudd Government is postponing the introduction of its flawed emissions trading scheme (ETS) by one year, but the ETS Bill is still going to parliament this June.

Every vote will count in the Senate.

Let the Senators in your state know your views by sending them an eCard from our list below.

Choose the card whose message you support most strongly and check the box or click on the send link.

That will generate an eCard. The card will go to every senator in your state and you can add your personal message to it.

To see all of the easy to send e-cards click on the image to visit the Listen to Us web site.

This enables a message to be sent to all senators in the state of the sender, either a tailored or individual, opposing the ETS legislation.

This is on its way to the Senate – the process has started!

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Agmates member John Mikkelsen writes:

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IT’s good to see sanity prevail with the deferral of the Federal Governments controversial Emissions Trading Scheme for 12 months in light of probable further job losses.

You could see the backflip coming, with mounting opposition from all sectors even though Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Environment Minister Penny Wong kept insisting it would be introduced as planned in July next year.

Mr Rudd finally saw the writing on the wall and announced a deferred and modified plan last Sunday. Oops, did he forget to tell Ms Wong? Her letter promoting the urgent need for the ETS to actually  save  jobs, under the heading of  ‘Can’t sit on our hands on climate change’ was published in The Observer on Monday.

A footnote from the editor stated the ministers letter had been received on the previous Friday, May 1.

Ms Wongs letter pushed the familiar claim stated as fact, that ‘carbon pollution’ was causing climate change, which was threatening jobs.

But she didn’t use the often-repeated term, ‘the science is settled’ , possibly because it is becoming increasingly clear it is not settled at all.

Let me make this clear – I hate pollution in the form of poisonous chemicals, litter and noxious emissions. Who wouldn’t? And I don’t deny ‘climate change’ is real.

Neither do the growing ranks of international scientists questioning any link between the atmospheric trace gas carbon dioxide and climate.

You would have to be a real dill not to acknowledge the obvious fact climate has always been changing since the days of the dinosaur.

The scientists questioning the role CO2 emissions play in all this are certainly not dills. Their ranks include one of Australia’s leading geologists Professor Ian Plimer, Queensland’s own ancient climate expert Professor Bob Carter of James Cook University, and Dr David Evans, who actually spent years working with the Australian Greenhouse Office developing carbon modelling projects such as those the ‘true believers’ in man-made global warming rely on.

Dr Evans recently described himself as ‘the rocket scientist’ who wrote the carbon accounting model (FullCAM) that measures Australia’s compliance with the Kyoto Protocol. But further research and knowledge has made him change his mind.

“The world has spent $50 billion on global warming since 1990 and we have not found any actual evidence that carbon emissions cause global warming. None.”

Now that it matters, we should debate the causes. Townsville’s Prof Carter has been speaking out on the topic for years:

‘Climate change has always occurred and always will, the appropriate action is to have in place reactive response plans to manage the change when it occurs.’

He recently told the Senate Select Committee on Climate that the ETS would cost Australian families an estimated extra $3,500 a year to gain a theoretical temperature reduction of less than one-thousandth of a degree C.

Adelaide’s Prof Plimer has just released a book ‘Heaven and Earth: Global Warming,  The Missing Science‘ which has been hailed as the sceptics Bible. He said that to link carbon emissions with climate change would require ‘many non-scientific leaps of faith.’

There are now thousands of international scientists joining the ranks of the sceptics. Noted UK botanist and TV presenter David Bellamy, claims he has been banned by the BBC for his outspoken views that climate change is part of a natural cycle.

‘The world is now facing spending a vast amount of money in tax trying to solve a problem that doesn’t actually exist,’ he said.

So no, the science is far from settled, despite what we have constantly been told. And repeating a non-proven, hotly disputed claim doesn’t necessarily make it a fact.

Now the ETS has been deferred, a proper public inquiry should be conducted to allow scientists on both sides of the climate debate to present their views.

The truth is out there. We deserve to know if climate change is real problem or just political hot air.

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QLD Farmer and Chairman of the Carbon Sense Coalition Viv Forbes writes:

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The Carbon Sense Coalition today called on the Australian Federal Parliament to stop playing Global Warming politics and focus instead on the irresponsible damage being contemplated by the Cap-N-Tax promises.

In testimony this week to the New Zealand Parliamentary Enquiry into the ETS, I said that it was impossible to achieve the gigantic cuts in carbon dioxide emissions suggested by various western governments without a crash program of Carbon Capture and Burial (CCB).

You can read the full submission here.

There is no evidence that CCB would provide any climate or environmental benefits whatsoever, just a huge misuse of investment capital and a massive increase in the cost of living for any society silly enough to tread this path.

It does not take much engineering, financial or biological knowledge to uncover the logistic, economic and environmental stupidities of CCB.

Australia currently relies on carbon fuels for 90% of its electricity needs and coal for over 70%. Every tonne of coal burnt in an existing power station needs about 2 tonnes of oxygen. But to get 2 tonnes of oxygen from the air requires 8 tonnes of air. The other 6 tonnes are nitrogen which comprises 75% of the atmosphere. Therefore the power station is currently taking in about 8 tonnes of gases for every tonne of coal burnt.

Therefore 9 tonnes of material must come out. After removing the minor quantities of ash and real pollutants such as NOX and SOX, there is still about 9 tonnes of three harmless gases going up the stack , the unchanged 6 tonnes of nitrogen, 2.6 tonnes of carbon dioxide and the rest is mainly water vapour.

These three harmless gases are the natural gases of life in the atmosphere, necessary and beneficial for all life. Any nurseryman could tell Canberra that all vegetation around the power station will show enhanced growth in the lush atmosphere now enriched with the extra carbon dioxide and water vapour.

To extract the 2.6 tonnes of CO2 from every 9 tonnes of exhaust gases, compress it, pump it hundreds of kilometres in specially constructed pipelines and then bury it in carbon cemeteries is environmental and economic lunacy.

All of this can undoubtedly be done, the real question is should it be done?

These are the likely effects:

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