Right Pulse

This last fourteen days has been amazing. First we had Lord Monckton exposing on the Alan Jones’ radio programme the world government scam that is the Copenhagen Treaty. Apparently the reaction was so overwhelming that Jones’ agreed to replay the interview along with an interview he had with MIT Prof Lindzen.

Now we have had Climate Gate: the UK’s CRU – the seemingly main conduit for IPCC wisdom – has been exposed as manipulating the climate change science to fit climate change politics. The subdued reaction from certain media quarters to this conspiracy to commit fraud on the public, has seen an explosion of Internet blogging activity on the issue. It is like people are starting to wake up to the issue – finally! It is also timely that it has been reported that:

KEVIN Rudd’s Emissions Trading Scheme will increase the average family’s bills by about $1100 a year.

So much for reducing the cost of living for ‘working families’. Another election commitment gone. Now Rudd will claim that he will re-distribute income from middle to high income earners to low income earners to compensate for the cost of living increase. As if that’s a good thing.

They will be compensated by taxpayers – the Government yesterday vowed nine in 10 poorer households would receive more than what the ETS added to their bills but middle-income families won’t get the same deal.

Yep, these mysterious people called taxpayers. I wonder who they are? And combined with interest rate rises – thanks in part to Rudd’s ’stimulus’ package – middle Australia is going to get done in royally. And then there are the unions:

…miners were quick to speak out against a proposed doubling in assistance for coalminers to $1.5bn in the Rudd governments’ Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme.

“The ‘concession’ in the CPRS will mean that the Australian coal sector will pay $12.5bn rather than $14bn in carbon costs to 2020,” Australian Minerals Council chief executive Mitch Hooke said.

“At present there is no prospect that any other major coal producer, including in the European Union and United States, will face any such costs.”

Sorry – what was the bit about WorkChoices? At least these people had well paying jobs under Howard. So now that people are waking up to the realisation of what all this really means – we just need a leader to capitalise on community angst and unfortunately MT is not the answer.

MALCOLM Turnbull last night threatened to quit the Liberal leadership if his party did not back his assessment that a majority of the Coalition supported an emissions trading scheme deal he had struck with the Rudd Government.

The Liberal leader laid down his “my way or the highway” ultimatum and closed the partyroom meeting after anti-ETS Coalition MPs, led by Senate leader Nick Minchin, refused to accept his calculation that the meeting had supported the ETS deal.

Kevin Andrews has apparently put his name forward for the leadership after Wilson Tuckey said he was calling a leadership vote for tomorrow. Unbelievable!! MT could be gone by the end of the week!! I would not be surprised to find MT sitting on the government front bench by the end of the year (okay maybe a little over done). Well, we will see how events pan out. if Abbott puts forward his name for the leadership, then one can assume that MT is as good as gone. Abbott would not seek a vote unless he really thought he could win. And if MT went, so would Bishop and Hockey. It would be a triple win.

The hard reality is that MT is not one of us.He is pushing a piece of legislation that will undermine our wealth and standard of living and by association is letting Rudd get away with it, and doing so for no reason that has yet stood-up to even basic mathematical analysis. Lord Monckton:

To mitigate just 1 C (2 F) of warming, one must forego the emission of 2 trillion tons of CO2. The world emits just 30 billion tons a year. So the analyst, as a thought-experiment, would shut down the entire world economy, emitting no CO2 at all. Even then, and even on the incorrect assumption that the UN’s exaggerated projections of the effect of CO2 on temperature are correct, it would take 67 years to mitigate 1 C warming. Preventing the 3.4 C (6 F) warming that the UN’s climate panel thinks would occur in 100 years would take 225 years without any transportation, and with practically no electrical energy.

In other words, the ETS has nothing to do with ’saving’ the Earth, but more to do with re-inventing old fashioned socialism, and MT wants us to be a part of it.

UPDATE

The recalcitrance within the MSM are  just driving frustrated people to the internet to find out what is actually happening. There information lock down is also probably just making people more and more angry and sceptical about the issue. In the US via Newsbusters about Climategate:

…ABC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, and NBC through Monday evening have completely ignored the subject.

LexisNexis searches indicate that NPR appears to also be part of this news boycott.

Is it any wonder Fox gets more viewers than the rest combined. The same could probably apply here as well. Though there have been late night splatterings of the issue on ‘our’ ABC.

UPDATE II

In the UK from Telegraph blogger Gerald Warner about the reaction from the BBC:

Yet there was something new. BBC Kremlinologists could not fail to notice just a scintilla of unease, reflected in Susan Watts’ relatively open-minded presentation of the issue; above all, the fact that the BBC felt compelled to address the matter at all. Clearly, someone at the BBC realised that this is a global scoop in which the blogosphere has left the Corporation and all the dead-tree media standing. Those media are already facing increasing marginalisation without marginalising themselves by refusing to report news that is viral on the Internet.

….Media organisations like the BBC have betrayed truth and objectivity on this, as so many other issues, so should not be surprised if the public abandons them for open debate online.

So true.  The MSM have been pushing the one agenda, the one narrative for years now and just like the Iraq War when in the fullness of time they turn out to be wrong, they go silent hoping to avert attention until they can create a new pet issue. The next issue that allows them to lazily push out article after article of empirically and context bare news, without any thought to fair minded critical analysis or investigative journalism.

UPDATE III

Couldn’t help but notice that the single biggest issue for bloggers, probably for the year, that of Climate(warmer)gate is completely missing from Off Air - the blog where ABC journalists let their socialist hair down and drop any pretensions to balance. It seems the ABC has gone MIA on Climategate, or is it simply a case of duck and cover?

UPDATE IV

More sketchy global warming doomongering science exposed, this time at home thanks to the University of Newcastle via Quadrant Online:

Senior climate change researchers have claimed that higher temperatures lead to higher moisture evaporation and that this is why the Murray Darling Basin has experienced such a harsh drought,” Associate Professor Franks said.

This is incorrect and ignores the known physics of evaporation.

During drought, when soil moisture is low, less of the sun’s radiant energy goes into evaporation and more goes into the heating of the atmosphere which causes higher temperatures.

Most importantly, the elevated air temperatures do not increase evaporation but are actually due to the lack of evaporation and this is a natural consequence of drought.

Therefore any statement that the drought experienced in the Murray Darling Basin is a direct result of CO₂ emissions is fundamentally flawed.”

Typical doomongering tactic. Claim your results are supported by scientific consensus, even though the manner in which you reached your results is not supported by a scientific consensus, hence hide or delete the raw data. In this case ’senior climate change researchers’ weren’t tricky enough.

It does seem though that many climate change scientists lack the necessary skills in physics, maths and statistics to executetheir discipline properly. I just remember someone in the climategate email exchanges admitting that he didn’t have the requisite statistical skills to interpret the data.