Posted on 12/17/2014, 6:49:44 AM by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Too many big names too list, and all in one book, edited by Alan Moran and published by the IPA. I’m am just tickled, delighted to be one of the authors.
The proper headline should include Ross McKitrick, Willie Soon, Pat Michaels, Garth Paltridge, Kesten Green, Stewart Franks, Christopher Essex, Jennifer Marohasy and John Abbott. Not to forget the great writers Rupert Darwall, and Donna LaFramboise.
– Jo
An excerpt:
To state the bleeding obvious, Earth is a Water Planet. Water dominates everything and it’s infernally complicated. Water holds 90% of all the energy on the surface,[1] and both NASA[2] and the IPCC[3] admit water is the most important greenhouse gas there is, they just don’t seem inclined to produce posters telling us this is a humidity crisis, or that water is pollution.
I get right into the Dada-science, foggy-text, Klingon plots and zombies. I went right over the word limit… :- )
Climate Change: The Facts 2014, a new book from the Institute of Public Affairs is now available. It couldn’t come at a more important time. You can buy your copy here.
The carbon tax might be gone and the planet might not have warmed since 1998 (as even the IPCC acknowledged last month in its Fifth Assessment Report) but the climate change debate is far from over. Tony Abbott is still going to give $200 million to the United Nations’ ‘Green Climate Fund’. This is after he called the Fund the ‘Bob Brown bank on an international scale’. The federal government says it “accepts the climate change science” – but the government never says exactly what the ‘science’ is that it accepts. The science is clear. There’s been no warming since 1998.
Supporters who donated $25 or more to finance the publication of this book have already been sent a complimentary copy, as have all the IPA’s Premier members.
I’m delighted that the generous support of IPA members also allowed us to send a copy to every federal member of parliament and leading journalists and commentators, to ensure that they receive at least one source of reliable information about climate change.
Yet we will keep on hearing that this year or last year or next year will be the world’s ‘hottest on record’. For example, earlier this month the World Meteorological Organization put out a press release with the heading ’2014 on course to be one of the hottest, possibly hottest, on record’. However, as British scientist Matt Ridley (who delivered the 2013 CD Kemp Lecture for the IPA) has said:
this predicted record would only be one-hundredth of a degree above 2010 and two-hundredths of a degree above 2005 – with an error range of one-tenth of a degree. True scientists would have said: this year is unlikely to be significantly warmer than 2010 or 2005 and left it at that.
At the climate change talks in Paris next year there’s going to be a push from green groups for the world to have ‘zero net emissions’ by 2050. As Robert Bryce from the Manhattan Institute said when he spoke to the IPA earlier this year: out of the world’s population of 7 billion people, 1.2 billion people don’t have electricity. For every one person that has gained access to electricity in the last twenty years from wind and solar power, 13 people have gained electricity thanks to coal. Kevin Rudd of course talked about climate change as ‘the greatest moral challenge of our generation’ – and of course he was wrong. I believe we do have a moral challenge – it is to help bring electricity to those 1.2 billion people who don’t have what Australians take completely for granted. If ever the world adopts a ‘zero net emissions’ policy it is almost guaranteed that those who don’t have electricity still won’t have electricity by 2050.
That’s why Climate Change: The Facts 2014 is so important. And why your financial support for the IPA’s work is so important. We must keep on arguing for the science and for the evidence.
I’m also pleased to let you know that next year the IPA will be holding Climate Change Briefing Sessions for IPA members and supporters around the country. It will be an opportunity for you to hear from experts and ask them questions about the latest on climate change science. The briefings will be presented by two outstanding scientists – IPA Emeritus Fellow Professor Bob Carter, and Professor Stewart Franks from the University of Tasmania. Both Professor Carter and Professor Franks are contributors to Climate Change: The Facts 2014.
The first three briefings will be in Perth, Sydney, and Brisbane in February and I’ll let you know about dates for other locations early in the new year.
The details for the briefings are:
Perth
Monday, 16th February
5.00pm for 5.30pm
Hyatt Regency Perth
99 Adelaide Terrace, Perth
Sydney
Wednesday, 18th February
5.00pm for 5.30pm
Radisson Blu Hotel
27 O’Connell Street, Sydney
Brisbane
Thursday, 19th February
5.00pm for 5.30pm
Hilton Brisbane
190 Elizabeth Street, Brisbane
These events are free, but you do need to register your attendance. To book your place visit http://rsvp.ipa.org.au or email Sarah Wilson on swilson@ipa.org.au or call Sarah here at the IPA office on 03 9600 4744.
Thank you for your support. In 2015 the IPA will keep arguing the science of climate change just as we have been every year for the last two decades.
Kind regards
John
P.S. To purchase your copy of Climate Change: The Facts 2014, click here.
John Roskam
Executive Director
[1] Pielke Sr., R.A., (2003): Heat storage within the Earth system. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 84, 331-335.
[2] http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/WaterVapor/water_vapor3.php
[3] IPCC, Assessment Report 4, 2007, Working Group 1, The Physical Science Basis, Chapter 8. [PDF] Page 632 online
Beeee yootiful!
fyi
Sounds good to me. I have no idea what $24.95 in $AUD is in US dollars.
The Aussie Dollar may be less than the US Dollar,.. a recent happening,...
Just over $20 US on today’s rate.
Thanks. Not bad for a book like this.
IPA has just published Climate Change: the Facts 2014, which I edited and wrote a chapter, Costing climate change, one of 22. The following is my introduction...
Just looked at Forex ...approx AUD/USD 0.815 - 0.816
Sadly global warming has become a religion with an absolute dogma. Any attempt to use actual facts to refute the carbon emissions as sins against mother earth dogma will be met with cries of denier (heretic).
Thanks for the link..
Thanks for the link, I’m going to order my copy as a Christmas present for myself.
Good points: remind that the Earth is a water planet. We live on islands. Water vapor traps much more heat than CO2. The villan, therefore is humidity.
Hey east coast, stop messing with the climate.
The irony is that if the radical “environmentalists” got their wish for an advanced technology-free world, the air would be incredibly polluted. Plus, there would be incredible environmental degradation.
How do they think those who don’t have electricity and gas cook? Where do they think those who don’t have advanced agriculture get their food?
Hint: the areas with the most environmental damage are NOT in the modernized areas of the world. They are in the non-developed or developing world.
Also, the obsession with “man-made climate change” is diverting resources that should be used addressing real environmental problems, like the deaths of amphibians and bats or honeybee colony collapse. Every dollar spent on “climate change” is a dollar spent better somewhere else—even if it is spent on legitimate climate research, it is a better investment.
I just quit arguing with them, not worth my time.
;-)
Thanks Ernest.
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