Greenhouse sceptics to congregate

The Age ^ | February 28, 2007 | Katharine Murphy and Brendan Nicholson, Canberra and Richard Baker

[Fred Nerks]

HARD-CORE global warming sceptics will descend on Canberra today for the release of a book claiming environmentalism is the new religion.

Former mining executive Arvi Parbo will launch Ray Evans' new publication, Nine Facts About Climate Change, at a function at Parliament House.

The book claims climate change is nothing new and declares Howard Government investments in solar power and in cleaning up coal a "complete waste of taxpayers' money".

"Environmentalism has largely superseded Christianity as the religion of the upper classes in Europe and to a lesser extent in the United States," Mr Evans says in the publication.

"It is a form of religious belief which fosters a sense of moral superiority in the believer, but which places no importance on telling the truth," he says.

"The global warming scam has been, arguably, the most extraordinary example of scientific fraud in the postwar period."

The function is organised by the Lavoisier Group, founded in 2000 by Ray Evans and former mining executive Hugh Morgan to test claims that global warming is the result of human activity.

Mr Evans is a longstanding friend and colleague of Mr Morgan and a committed activist on issues such as workplace reform through the HR Nicholls Society, which he founded with federal Treasurer Peter Costello.

Former Labor minister Peter Walsh also will attend today's function, and the group will hold a dinner to be addressed by climate-change sceptic Chris de Freitas, Associate Professor in the School of Geography, Geology and Environmental Science at Auckland University.

Liberal MP Dennis Jensen has organised the function on behalf of the Lavoisier Group and expects about 50 people to attend the dinner.

Dr Jensen, a nuclear physicist, has said he is not convinced that human activity is responsible for global warming.

In an interview with The Age last month, Mr Evans acknowledged that last September's visit by former US vice-president Al Gore to promote his Oscar-winning global-warming documentary An Inconvenient Truth had helped generate a lot of publicity on climate change.

But he described Mr Gore's film as "bullshit from beginning to end".

"The science from the anthropology point of view has collapsed. The carbon-dioxide link is increasingly recognised as irrelevant," Mr Evans said.

"But the Government's frightened.

"Cabinet, from what I understand, is by and large still sceptical of climate change, but it is scared of the drought and worried about how Labor will make use of it."

[Fred Nerks]

"The global warming scam has been, arguably, the most extraordinary example of scientific fraud in the postwar period."

[kinoxi]

But he described Mr Gore's film as "bullshit from beginning to end".

I like the straight talk.

[xcamel]

FReepmail me to get on or off

Click pn POGW graphic for full GW rundown

Ping me if you find one I've missed.

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Straight talk...

[P-40]

Watch their meeting get canceled due to a freak heat wave! :)

[Fred Nerks]

LOL! I just heard a report from Canberra on the radio - they have experienced a super-cell storm and are covered in hailstones!

[Fred Nerks]

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21300646-1702,00.html

Bulldozers were being used to clear ice in the city centre which caused long delays for commuters today.

[hophead]

Manbearpig. Won't anybody take him serially?

[xcamel]

"This photo by an smh.com.au reader shows the ANU's Union Court covered in hail at 1.30am. Photo: Robert Tugen"

[Excellence]

Where can I buy the book?

[P-40]

and are covered in hailstones

That is just too ironic! Ice wrecked havoc with a global warming hearing and other events here and ice is doing the same for a skeptic meeting there. God has a wonderful sense of humor. :)

[Fred Nerks]

http://www.lavoisier.com.au/

For Ray Evans' 'Nine Facts About Climate Change'---a response to the hysteria and superstition in Australia which the media encouraged following the Stern Report issued in London and former US VP Al Gore's repeated visits to Australia---please click here

available on pdf

[Fred Nerks]

Algore the bore in globull warming he did wallow

Yet everywhere the bore went,

ice and snow was sure to follow.

[Intolerant in NJ]

The book claims climate change is nothing new and declares Howard Government investments in solar power and in cleaning up coal a "complete waste of taxpayers' money"...there's also a recently released book in this country by Pilkey and Pilkey-Jarvis called "Useless Arithmetic: Why Environmentalal Scientists Can't Predict the Future" which looks generally at the misapplication of mathematical models in making predictions beyond their range, and specifically at why climatologists should not be making pronouncements on the future - the authors point that after decades of ever more sophisticated weather models, it's still difficult to predict the weather more than five days ahead with any reliability - the weather rebels are beginning to talk back, it seems......

[Fred Nerks]

An inconvenient truth in aussie speak.

[SunkenCiv]

Global warming (as in human induced climate change) is the new Lysenkoism.

[FBD]

bookmark

[Nailbiter]

ping

[syriacus]

The white area is ice
Mother Nature handled the thawing

[mc5cents]

I live near Lake Erie and without global warming the Great Lakes would still be glaciers!

[Constitution Day]

Related article:

Lileks: Another empty symbolic gesture

If environmentalism is the new religion, the Oscar ceremony was the High Holy Mass.

Of course, if the Academy — a remarkable name for people who paint their faces and pretend they're secret agents or royalty — were truly serious about imminent global warming, it would have asked everyone to turn off their TVs and receive the results by some low-impact Earth-friendly means, such as carrier pigeon. Perhaps such drastic measures will be used in 2008, by which time the oceans will have risen 37 feet and everyone east of Cleveland will be clustered on the roof.