NZCPPR | 17 Nov 2022 If the Covid pandemic taught us anything, it’s to be very cautious about the influence of modelling on government policy. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern used exaggerated predictions of potential deaths to justify the world’s harshest lockdowns. The inevitable conclusion is that the underlying assumptions behind all modelling should be challenged…
TCW | 5 Nov 2022 A HUGE international survey measuring public concern about the threat of climate change appears to indicate growing scepticism across the globe. The Gallup Risk Poll, which questioned 125,000 people in 121 countries, reported that less than half of those surveyed saw anthropogenic climate change as a very serious threat. There is now, it appears, a consensus of sceptics. The most…
Judith Curry | 2 Nov 2022 Growing realization by the climate establishment that the threat of future warming has been cut in half over the past 5 years. Summary: The climate “catastrophe” isn’t what it used to be. Circa 2013 with publication of the IPCC AR5 Report, RCP8.5 was regarded as the business-as-usual emissions scenario,…
Net Zero Watch | 23 Sep 2022 The so-called hiatus in global annual average temperature between 2002 – 2014, once controversial to some but now well-established in the peer-reviewed literature, ended in 2014 with the start of a series of record-breaking El Nino events that spiked global temperature with a subsequent fall-back. Now a new study…
Net Zero Watch | 23 Sep 2022 London, 23 September – A prominent climate scientist has warned that the picture of climate change presented in the IPCC’s narrative is simplistic, ill-conceived, and undermined by observational evidence. In a new discussion paper, Professor Richard Lindzen of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) points out that the official picture, focusing narrowly…
Barr Brill | 20 Sep 2022 When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do? – JM Keynes The 2022 Budget took more taxes from working New Zealanders than any before in history, and at a time when real wages were plummeting at record rates. Why? So that Labour Ministers could spend billions…
NZCPR | 21 Sep 2022 The pandemic traffic light system has gone. Masks have gone. Mandates have gone. Life is going back to normal. Or so we have been led to believe. But that’s not the whole truth. By Government decree, you are still required to isolate for 7 days if you contract Covid-19 –…
Net Zero | 16 Sep 2022 Climate alarmism and journalistic bias have reached new heights of misleading hype on the catastrophic flooding in Pakistan which is reported to have received more than three times its annual rainfall in August. The question is, of course, if human-induced climate change has had anything to do with making…
TCW | 12 Sep 2022 OUR government is imposing draconian limitations on our lifestyles, our economy and our finances to save the planet from supposed catastrophic anthropogenic global warming (CAGW), now renamed ‘climate change’. Probably one of the most repeated arguments you’ll hear in support of the need to achieve ‘net zero’ is that ’97…
Net Zero Watch | 7 Sep 2022 Zero Samizdat7 September 2022 1) Britain appoints Rees-Mogg, who dismissed climate change risks, to energy roleReuters, 6 September 2022 2) Truss makes Rees-Mogg energy chief to dismay of climate campaignersThe Independent, 6 September 2022 3) Truss set for clash with Climate Change CommitteeThe Daily Telegraph, 7 September 2022 4) Thanks, Boris: UK…