IPCC: Climate Scientists Urged To 'Cover Up' Global
Warming Pause
Australian Government Sacks Climate Commissioner, Dismantles Climate Agency
Australian Government Sacks Climate Commissioner, Dismantles Climate Agency
Scientists working on the most authoritative study on climate change were urged
to cover up the fact that the world’s temperature hasn’t risen for the last 15
years, it is claimed. Leaked documents seen by the Associated Press yesterday
revealed deep concerns among politicians about a lack of global warming over
the past few years. --Tamara Cohen, Daily Mail, 20 September 2013
Germany has called for the references to the slowdown in warming to be deleted, saying looking at a time span of just 10 or 15 years was ‘misleading’ and they should focus on decades or centuries. Hungary worried the report would provide ammunition for deniers of man-made climate change. Belgium objected to using 1998 as a starting year for statistics, as it was exceptionally warm and makes the graph look flat – and suggested using 1999 or 2000 instead to give a more upward-pointing curve. The United States delegation even weighed in, urging the authors of the report to explain away the lack of warming using the ‘leading hypothesis’ among scientists that the lower warming is down to more heat being absorbed by the ocean – which has got hotter. --Tamara Cohen, Daily Mail, 20 September 2013
Professor Tim Flannery has been sacked by the Abbott Government from his $180,000-a-year part-time Chief Climate Commissioner position, with the agency he runs to be dismantled immediately. Environment Minister Greg Hunt called Prof Flannery this morning to tell him a letter formally ending his employment was in the mail. --Jemma Jones, Herald Sun, 19 September 2013
THE Climate Commission has been scrapped and billions of dollars in renewable energy funding effectively frozen as the Abbott government moved swiftly to wind back Australia's climate change response, as promised. Scrapping the Climate Commission is expected to save taxpayers $580,000 this financial year and $1.6 million in following years. The changes to the commission came as the government pursued plans to wind up the $10 billion Clean Energy Finance Corporation, created by Labor to fund renewable energy projects that would otherwise struggle to get commercial backing. --Graham Lloyd and Chris Kenny, The Australian, 20 September 2013
Climate change scepticism is rapidly increasing in the UK with a FIFTH of people now unconvinced the world’s temperature is changing. A report from the UK Energy Research Centre also shows the number of those who resolutely do not believe in climate change has more than quadrupled since 2005. The report comes as climate change scientists working on a landmark UN report on climate change are struggling to explain why global warming appears to have slowed down in the past 15 years even though greenhouse gas emissions keep rising. --Owen Bennett, Daily Express, 20 September 2013
As Lord Lawson, former editor of this magazine, once pointed out, the time to be most fearful in politics is when a consensus emerges. It usually means that an argument is not properly probed, and desire to sign up to a fashionable cause supplants the proper rigour which policymaking requires. Now, perhaps we are moving towards a ‘climate glasnost’; a time in which, finally, the science can be debated rationally and we can study the decisions made in those days, and see that the Climate Change Act was, in fact, a deeply irresponsible piece of legislation which will hit poor homeowners with huge energy bills at a time when other countries (especially the US) are following a policy of low energy prices. –Editorial, The Spectator, 20 September 2013
Germany has called for the references to the slowdown in warming to be deleted, saying looking at a time span of just 10 or 15 years was ‘misleading’ and they should focus on decades or centuries. Hungary worried the report would provide ammunition for deniers of man-made climate change. Belgium objected to using 1998 as a starting year for statistics, as it was exceptionally warm and makes the graph look flat – and suggested using 1999 or 2000 instead to give a more upward-pointing curve. The United States delegation even weighed in, urging the authors of the report to explain away the lack of warming using the ‘leading hypothesis’ among scientists that the lower warming is down to more heat being absorbed by the ocean – which has got hotter. --Tamara Cohen, Daily Mail, 20 September 2013
Professor Tim Flannery has been sacked by the Abbott Government from his $180,000-a-year part-time Chief Climate Commissioner position, with the agency he runs to be dismantled immediately. Environment Minister Greg Hunt called Prof Flannery this morning to tell him a letter formally ending his employment was in the mail. --Jemma Jones, Herald Sun, 19 September 2013
THE Climate Commission has been scrapped and billions of dollars in renewable energy funding effectively frozen as the Abbott government moved swiftly to wind back Australia's climate change response, as promised. Scrapping the Climate Commission is expected to save taxpayers $580,000 this financial year and $1.6 million in following years. The changes to the commission came as the government pursued plans to wind up the $10 billion Clean Energy Finance Corporation, created by Labor to fund renewable energy projects that would otherwise struggle to get commercial backing. --Graham Lloyd and Chris Kenny, The Australian, 20 September 2013
Climate change scepticism is rapidly increasing in the UK with a FIFTH of people now unconvinced the world’s temperature is changing. A report from the UK Energy Research Centre also shows the number of those who resolutely do not believe in climate change has more than quadrupled since 2005. The report comes as climate change scientists working on a landmark UN report on climate change are struggling to explain why global warming appears to have slowed down in the past 15 years even though greenhouse gas emissions keep rising. --Owen Bennett, Daily Express, 20 September 2013
As Lord Lawson, former editor of this magazine, once pointed out, the time to be most fearful in politics is when a consensus emerges. It usually means that an argument is not properly probed, and desire to sign up to a fashionable cause supplants the proper rigour which policymaking requires. Now, perhaps we are moving towards a ‘climate glasnost’; a time in which, finally, the science can be debated rationally and we can study the decisions made in those days, and see that the Climate Change Act was, in fact, a deeply irresponsible piece of legislation which will hit poor homeowners with huge energy bills at a time when other countries (especially the US) are following a policy of low energy prices. –Editorial, The Spectator, 20 September 2013
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