Roger Helmer has been speaking to his Swedish friends after hearing Professor Phil Jones testimony to the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee.  Roger picks up on what the nutty professor had professed:he said that he had been unable to make data available when requested, because it came (in part) from the Swedish Meteorological Institute, which (he testified) had refused to allow its data to be published. But according to my Swedish friend Goran Ahlgren of the Stockholm Institute, the Swedish data are public, and Professor Jones had been advised in correspondence that this is the case.And here is the press release - copied and pasted from Roger Helmers post.     PRESS RELEASE Stockholm March 5, 2010Climate cover-up continuesClimate scientist delivers false...

Original posting published on Digitpedia.com which lists the best gadgets for sale in the UK and worldwide. The very awesome Lotus Evora begins cuddling the planet!...

One of the worrying aspects about climate change is the melting ice in the Arctic, but not because all that melted ice would cause a rise in sea levels. In fact, about 90% of the ice is below sea level, and as water expands when frozen, by around 9%, it is quite possible that the Arctic melting would have zero impact on sea levels. However, ice is also very reflective and a lot of solar energy hitting the earth is reflected back into space by the Arctic ice. No ice, and all that heat gets absorbed by the sea, warming it – and in turn causing sea volumes to expand and sea levels to rise. So, how about increasing the amount of the earth’s surface that reflects the solar radiation? It’s something I have occasionally pondered about, but lacked the resources/skills to work...

There is a petition on the Downing Street Website that is worth a look.  Interestingly, it will not expire until after the General Election, so who knows who will be...

My car was ten years old last week. As chance would have it, 100,000 miles came up on the same day. That’s the most miles of any car I’ve owned. By European standards, it’s a middle of the road kind of vehicle. A 2000 Ford Focus with a 1.8 litre petrol engine, which has delivered 39.8 mpg over the life of the car. The UK government launched a scrappage scheme last April, and extended it in September. My car qualifies. If I scrap the car, the government and dealer will each give me £1,000 off the full list price of any new vehicle I buy. At first sight that’s good, but a new family car still costs £15,000. The cynic in me also noted that before the scrappage scheme began, dealers were offering discounts of £2,000 to drag buyers from the street. Those offers...

I read an article on the BBC News website yesterday morning that had some prominence on the front page. By the time I wanted to show it to my partner in the evening I had to resort to using the BBC search engine to locate the story. It had been buried. What’s more it had been edited to correct two mistakes and also, it would appear, to appease climate change deniers who are strongly motivated, no doubt, to phone in and cry foul. The original story referenced sea lions. It’s not sea lions, we’ve now been told. It’s fur seals. The measurements of average sea temperatures were taken by the Peruvian Geophysics Institute but were wrongly attributed to The Organisation for Research and Conservation of Aquatic Animals (ORCA) in the earlier version. These are sloppy...

Our Japanese advertising correspondent tells us that the Nisshinbo Corporation are at the forefront of the fight against global warming, as these two short ads prove beyond doubt. It seems that they’re doing so in conjunction with bears. In the first ad, a bear is shaving itself with the help of a chipry young Nisshinbo employee. Less fur in a warm world equals happier bears you see, and we’re always on the lookout for happier bears around here. Next comes a touching scene as the bear (with fur having grown back) bawls his eyes out Gazza-style after a reading a newspaper article about the plight of polar bears in this warm-as-balls world. Then he, erm, does a little dance. Nisshinbo? No idea......

A Populus poll conducted for BBC News has shown a marked increase in the number of people who don't believe in the global warming climate change CO2 pollution religion. Just 3 months ago 41% of people believed in man-made climate change, now only 26% believe.  38% believe that climate change is not proven to be man-made when 3 months ago only 32% held that opinion.  Three months ago 8% of...

Oh what a wonderful day! The BBC have conducted a poll into public opinion on Climate Change - and guess what? man made climate change sceptics are now in the majority! So the science is not exactly settled after all is it? The figures show that while 75% of people still believe that global warming is happening, only 26% are convinced that it is man made - a majority, 38% are not convinced. 25% believe that it is not happening at all.From the BBC: "It is very unusual indeed to see such a dramatic shift in opinion in such a short period," Populus managing director Michael Simmonds told BBC News."The British public are sceptical about man's contribution to climate change - and becoming more so," he added."More people are now doubters than firm believers."The Department for Environment,...

On Osama Bin Laden listening for a changeTime and time again I've told our pal Osama Bin Laden to tone things down a bit and change the bloody record. We're sick, we've told him, sick to the back teeth of endless Holy War in his cave-o-gram messages. Jihad, Jihad, Jihad – BOR-ING!And at last, he's paid attention – his latest message dumping the whole "Death to the Infidel" thing in favour of a rather fluffier "Save the planet from global warming because we think polar bears are ace" motif.We can't help but suspect that this whole going green thing might just be a huge double bluff of Osama's part."Ah-ha!" our governments are thinking, "Osama wants us to save the planet through drastic cuts in our carbon dioxide output and turning to sustainable development."We must – therefore –...

Steve Goreham is an engineer, a former business executive, and a U.S. citizen. Steve has just published (ink not yet dry) the book: Climatism! Science, Common Sense, and the 21st Century's Hottest Topic to add weight against climate change alarmism and for sound science and common-sense energy policy.Steve says: Climatism! covers the science, politics, and energy policy impacts of global climate mania, which I call Climatism. It's written in a down-to-earth manner for world citizens, with much discussion on events in the U.K., Europe, the U.S., and around the world. What Others Have Said about Climatism!“This is a serious book that carefully examines the issues that have been used to create the current climate change/global warming crisis…I endorse Climatism! for its easy-to-read,...

I've always liked Andrew Neil and today he has impressed me even more with a great post on his Blog:The bloggers are all over the UN IPCC 2007 report, the bible of global warming, which predicted all manner of dire outcomes for our planet unless we got a grip on rising temperatures -- and it seems to be crumbling in some pretty significant areas.The dam began to crack towards the end of last year when leaked e-mails from one of the temples of global warming, the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, suggested that a few sleights of hand were being deployed to hide facts inconvenient to the global warming case. An official investigation into these e-mails is on-going.But the flood gates really opened after the IPCC had to withdraw its claim that the Himalayan glaciers...

June in Houston. It’s 99F outside as we wait an hour at immigration. A glossy US arrival video is playing on a giant screen above our booth, but we have to wait an hour and offer all our fingerprints before we’re free to pass. Welcome to America. Obama’s America — but has it really changed? The freeway towards the city looks just the same. A little less traffic perhaps. Wide blue skies are yawning wide above the endless sprawl beside the road. The downtown towers inch nearer across the final swoop of our 5,000 mile journey to reach The Loop. In the hotel at last, I flop my bag and body down and switch on the TV. There’s a programme showing all about energy costs, and today’s phone-in prize is (quite remarkably) a free green audit of your home. And it...

Great article from Tom Switzer of The Wall Street Journal, on how opinion around the world is turning against the religion of climate change. When I say the climate is changing, I do not mean, as many people do, that man-made global warming is destroying Planet Earth. I mean that the politics of climate change is changing rapidly all over the globe. Al Gore's moment has come and gone.In the United States, Democrats, nervously facing midterm elections, are calling on President Obama to jettison the cap-and-trade bills before the Senate. In Canada, the emissions-trading scheme—another term for cap-and-trade—is stalled in legislative limbo. In Britain, Tories are coming out against David Cameron's green stance. In the European Union, cap-and-trade has been the victim of fraudulent...

From Christopher Booker in the Telegraph:Impeccable was the timing of that announcement that directors of the Met Office were last year given pay rises of up to 33 per cent, putting its £200,000-a-year chief executive into a higher pay bracket than the Prime Minister. As Britain shivered through Arctic cold and its heaviest snowfalls for decades, our global-warming-obsessed Government machine was caught out in all directions.For a start, we saw Met Office spokesmen trying to explain why it had got its seasonal forecasts hopelessly wrong for three cold winters and three cool summers in a row. The current cold snap, we were told with the aid of the BBC – itself facing an inquiry into its relentless obsession with “global warming” – was just a “regional” phenomenon, due to...

It turns out that serious doubts are coming to light over the IPPC's claim that Himalayan glaciers could disappear by 2035. In fact one scientist, Graham Cogley, a geographer from Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, says: "At current melting rates it might take up to 10 times longer". I make that 250 years, and with the next ice age just around the corner, I think we can call the IPPC's report alarmist to say the least.For all the IPPC's claims of their work being peer reviewed, it appears that the evidence of deglaciation of the Himalayas was taken from remark made in a one off magazine article from 10 years ago.Full Story...

Thousands gather to protest about Global Warming:Hit Tip: Donal Blaney...

Thousands gather to protest about Global Warming:Hit Tip: Donal Blaney...

I've just come across a great post over on Bill O the Wisp's blog:GreenFudge is broadly a pro AGW blog. i.e. they support the theory of man-made global warming. Whatever you may feel about that, their blog makes interesting reading.I picked up the following quote from This GreenFudge Post[quote]Deforestation is responsible for 20% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions and the draining of peat forests or peat bogs releases even more CO2 than deforestation does.[end quote]Now to me, that sounds like 20% + 20% plus a bit more or about 45 % of total man-made Carbon Dioxide emissions. This incidentally roughly correlates with Al Gores "An Inconvenient Truth", although he places the figure at 30 % and spends less than 1 minute on it. Also the original Sheffield University research into the...

In between avoiding mainstream media as much as possible Ecomonkey has heard an assortment of responses to the Copenhagen fiasco and we imagine you have too. It's not entirely clear what exactly went so wrong and what was so difficult about agreeing on a fair solution to safeguard the future of human life on planet earth, but, what do you know... it didn't quite go according to plan, hmmmm.For a great insight and analysis of the day by day action and inaction, The Stupid Show was the screen to be watching. We've watched most of the episodes and despite the clear lack of budget which allows for some highly amusing moments as well as the odd transmission break, Franny Armstrong and her team have produced a quite brilliant. summation of the whole sordid affair. If you watch nothing else, be...

So after all those millions have been spent - and all that extra CO2 pumped into the atmosphere - what exactly has been achieved? The answer, unsurprisingly, is bugger all. Apart from of course, the fact that it is now apparent that there will never be a legally binding treaty that will reduce CO2 by an amount that could make any kind of difference.Even if we are to believe our increasingly discredited scientists, the billions mentioned won't even stop the global temperature rising by at least 2 degrees Celsius. Countries won't bankrupt themselves, or restrict their economic growth in a vain attempt to merely slow down global warming just a little. World leaders have been able to grandstand to their heart's content, safe in the knowledge that their headline grabbing promises would...

As the global warming debate gets heated, it’s official – Winter has finally arrived the UK, with the first big freeze of the season. This week I’ve found myself searching through drawers for a warm scarf and some gloves. Understandably, I’m not going to wear any old scarf and gloves – they’ve got to be reasonably stylish … and, just because something’s quirky and individual, doesn’t necessarily mean it’s got style.Some people are considered cool enough to carry off any look, though you’ll probably find that a lot of work has gone into arranging David Beckham’s Chelsea knot. He’s possibly not so pleased in this weather, having recently had the sides of his hair shaved off – his ears must be freezing!Men who are in touch with their feminine side are great with...

We will have to do as James Lovelock has suggested: prepare for the worst case scenario. Massive temperature rises in some parts of the globe, sufficient temperature rises elsewhere to enforce major lifestyle and social changes, sea levels increasing to the extent that nearly all coastal settlements on the planet and some entire island nations will disappear under the waves, billions of refugees—men, women, children, entire animal species—on the move across continents, battering at the defences of every nation trying to keep them out. An end to world trade, the dissolution of law and order, warlords controlling food and fuel and vast areas of land, mass starvation and dehydration, disease, wars everywhere, fighting on the streets, tens of billions of people dying, plant and...

...for Breaking Federal Global Warming LawFrom: FOE Canada, 15Dec09"OTTAWA – The Government of Canada is facing a landmark legal challenge in the country’s top court for failing to take action on global warming -- specifically for refusing to respect a federal law that requires reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.Yesterday an appeal was filed with the Supreme Court seeking to argue that the Government is breaking Canadian law by failing to comply with the Kyoto Protocol Implementation Act (KPIA). It is the first climate change lawsuit in Canadian history.Filed by eminent Canadian lawyer Chris Paliare and Ecojustice (formerly Sierra Legal) on behalf of Friends of the Earth Canada, the application alleges that the federal Minister of the Environment and the Governor in Council are...

With a big tip of the hat to Mr All Seeing Eye, I would like to direct the attention of fellow flat-earthers to the Popular Technology Blog, and via this link they have published links to 500 peer reviewed science papers supporting the sceptic arguments against "Man-Made" climate change. Further confirmation, not that more was needed that claims of the science being settled is a load of nonsense; propaganda for the limited thinker.As Ed Begley Jr himself advised, with some ferocity, look for and trust the peer reviewed literature... So it would seem that the science is not settled and that more and more sceptics who have kept quiet for fear of losing grants and being shunned by the scientific community are starting to speak out and push their work to the fore. All of the money has always...

I've always liked David Bellamy. I grew up with him on my TV screen, enjoying like millions of other kids, his informative and fun explanation of the environment we all share. I'm a climate change sceptic, but thanks to people like David, I have grown into a man who wants to save energy and protect our environment. My house has the latest energy saving double glazing, extra insulation, a condensing boiler and I've been using energy saving light bulbs for years. I moan about doors being left open, lights being left on, the kettle being too full, my daughter's long showers and the TV playing to itself.I've grown up thanks to David, and others like him, to be an anally retentive, environmentally aware, energy saver. And I'm glad, because I do believe we must conserve energy and protect our...

The climate change consensus has stood on a pillar of "scientific facts" produced by the University of East Anglia. That pillar - thanks to the climategate emails - is...

South West MEP Giles Chichester has expressed concern scientists who question global warming weren’t invited to the Copenhagen Conference on Climate Change. Now the ‘flat-earth-climate-change-sceptic’ hopes that name calling (oops) be put aside and an honest and open debate is entered into. Over to you, Giles… It appears that, as being something of a climate change sceptic, I am one of the large majority of people in Britain who Gordon Brown describes as ‘flat earth’ followers. This is unsurprising, for over the past decade we have been subject to so much government spin and misinformation that it is impossible to give credence to the integrity of government statements on any significant issue, including climate change. In recent weeks, we have witnessed the...

On THINKIUM againThe first blow is cast. Once again, what started as a one-off gag egged on by fellow internet lunatics has taken over my life with new websites, email addresses and authentic-looking press releases. Let's see how far this little beauty goes...PRESS RELEASE – For immediate releaseINFLUENTIAL THINK TANK CALLS FOR ACTION ON CLIMATE CHANGELONDON, 9th December 2009: UK-based Think Tank THINKIUM has called for immediate and decisive action on climate change as world leaders meets to discuss the global crisis in Copenhagen.Renowned for its out-of-the-box analysis, THINKIUM urges both world governments and citizens to take urgent and direct steps in order to combat the threat of rising global temperatures and sea levels.Scientists engaged by THINKIUM note that global warming...

From Reuters: LONDON (Reuters) - Britain on Wednesday said it would auction off rather than cancel millions of carbon permits to come from a closed steel plant, equal to one percent of UK greenhouse gas emissions.The government said cancelling the permits, allocated to a plant owned by Europe's second largest steelmaker Corus in northeast England, would be a "lengthy process" so it would instead sell the rights to emit nearly 7 million tonnes of greenhouse gases back to industry.The Teesside plant is scheduled to be mothballed in late January and if the facility is to be closed for more than 50 days, Corus, owned by India's Tata Steel, is not entitled to receive the permits, worth around 100 million euros ($147.5 million) per year at current market rates.British Prime Minister Gordon...

Some people believe that No10 Petitions don't work, or are a waste of time. I think that is true in many cases, but sometimes you just have to try to let the government know when they are getting something drastically wrong. My petition to "Stop wasting taxpayer's money on climate change propaganda designed to frighten our children" is worth signing because it backs up the opinion of over 350 people who have written to the Advertising Standards Agency to complain about the puppy drowning climate change ad. The ad has been called many things: Indoctrination, propaganda, brainwashing, non-factual and frightening to name just a few.All the major papers and news channels have ran articles questioning the government's judgement for not only showing this ad during prime time TV, but for also...

There is indisputable evidence that the hot air/bullshit that will be generated at Copenhagen this week will increase the planet’s temperature by 0.87 degrees centigrade, cause a tsunami off the coast of Scotland, wipe out fifty seven unknown species of horsefly and move the strand line at Portsmouth by 1 milliband.Now that the hype about manmade climate change has been proven to be bollocks thanks to emailgate, maybe now the boffins can get together and spend their time on something worthwhile rather than prevaricating.Ed Millibandwagon has shown himself to be a typical Labour nonce by demonstrating the age old left wing habit of ‘don’t deal with the message of opposition, attack the messenger instead’ saying that everyone who disagrees with him should be ignored.Recycling is...

Pictured above is Amanda Knox, the young American girl convicted over the weekend of murdering British student Meredith Kercher in Perugia, Italy. Since that verdict was handed down, there has been an increasingly concerted effort by first her family, then the US media, to imply that the evidence against her was flawed and that the Italian legal system was pre-disposed to convict her. We’ve even now got a US Senator, Maria Cantwell, asking US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to intervene, saying that there are “serious questions” about the Italian legal system and that the verdict was “anti-American”. So to sum up, there are voices in America calling for reason, “justice” and compassion. But wait…. Pictured above is British citizen Gary...

From the Telegraph's Andrew Gilligan:The airport says it is expecting up to 140 extra private jets during the peak period alone, so far over its capacity that the planes will have to fly off to regional airports – or to Sweden – to park, returning to Copenhagen to pick up their VIP passengers.As well 15,000 delegates and officials, 5,000 journalists and 98 world leaders, the Danish capital will be blessed by the presence of Leonardo DiCaprio, Daryl Hannah, Helena Christensen, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Prince Charles. A Republican US senator, Jim Inhofe, is jetting in at the head of an anti-climate-change "Truth Squad." The top hotels – all fully booked at £650 a night – are readying their Climate Convention menus of (no doubt sustainable) scallops, foie gras and sculpted caviar...

I noticed something quite strange when I did a Google search for "Climategate" earlier today. The Auto fill search function (see below) does not for some very strange reason include either "Climategate" or "Climate gate". I say this is strange, because surely this must be one of (if not) the most popular search queries over the past week or so.I'm not the only one to notice some funny going-ons with Google and Climategate searches - The Telegraph's James Delingpole writes: Climategate: Googlegate? What is going on at Google? Richard North over at the EU Referendum blog also has some questions.This may all be very innocent, and there may be a very simple explanation, but it does seem strange that such a popular word does not appear in Google's auto fill search function.Click to...

A reader (Joe Moran) has asked me to direct you the following No10 Climategate Petition: We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to suspend the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia from preparation of any Government Climate Statistics until the various allegations have been fully investigated by an independent body.The petition has 2,395 signatures at the moment and could do with many more if we are to stop so called "scientist" from distorting/hiding/destroying climate data to suit their agenda.While you are at it could you please sign my No10 Petition if you haven't already: We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to Stop wasting taxpayers' money on climate change propaganda designed to frighten our children.This is a petition to get the puppy drowning...

Oxfam just launched an interactive documentary about the impact of Climate Change in Gabura, Bangladesh – oxfam.org.uk/gabura. It contains extraordinary footage of cyclone Aila as it hit, plus snapshots of village life. It allows the user to choose the videos they wish to explore. They also launched an interactive Climate Change Challenge Game where players can test how much they know about CC and complete through Facebook. The game features a host of celebrity supporters and is designed to raise public awareness. Click the image below to take a look. All information is © Life Goggles 2009The Impact of Climate Change in Gabura, Bangladesh...

UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown was publicly rebuked over terrorism yesterday when the Pakistani Prime Minister Raza Gilani (pair pictured above) denied his claims that Al Qaeda boss Osama Bin Laden is hiding in his country. Raza Gilani used a Downing Street press conference to denounce a high profile interview by Mr Brown last weekend in which he accused Pakistan of failing to do enough to wipe out Al Qaeda. And Mr Gilani flatly rejected Mr Brown’s claim that three-quarters of terror plots against the UK originate in Pakistan. He also disputed Mr Brown’s criticism of Pakistan’s alleged failure to hunt down the terror chief and his No.2 Ayman al Zawahiri. Instead Mr Gilani said that Pakistani security services had never been given any “credible information” on...

This is not so much Recommended Reading as it is Required Reading.  The Science & Public Policy Institute has released THIS REPORT which analyses the Climategate emails and demonstrates how the Science of climate change is not settled; and how the email revelations have in fact hidden then truth about what is going on with our environment and our climate.The report delves into the science, but is written as best as possible for those of us without PhD's.  There are some interesting recommendations at the end, all of which seem reasonable to me.  If we are to subject the world to carbon taxes in the middle of the worst economic downturn for several generations, it should be based on global, open and verifiable science with the raw data available to everybody on earth to...