Chart data from – BP Statistical Review of World Energy 2013 On the day the Australian Climate Authority puts out a load of twaddle it is useful to remind ourselves of the facts of where Australia stands in the global carbon dioxide emissions stakes. The new Australian Federal Govt is itching to sack this GreenLabor … Continue reading Update major national carbon dioxide emissions through 2012
The BoM feeds out this information knowing media mates will beat the thing up even further – as in this paean to warming – Warm winter caps nation’s hottest year – September 2, 2013 – Tim Colebatch, Peter Hannam Here is a screenshot from a BoM webpage showing how marginal this claim is. You have … Continue reading Fairfax media trumpets very marginal claim by the BoM that winter 2013 across Victoria made a record for warm mean temperatures
A reader asked me if I had any historic snow depth data for Australia and drew my attention to Chiefios blog. There is a Snowy Hydro webpage with some annual snow depth charts and I have used those charts from Spencers Creek to build a maximum depth time series. I also have a 1990 report … Continue reading Australian Alps snow depth history – 78 years of noisy data but little long term trend
The ABC reports “Unseasonal snow hits SA(South Australia)” for location of Hallett SA. Must be due to global warming.
This Govt chart of changes in sea level over the last 140,000 years – from NSW Chief Scientist and Engineer article “CSE Report Sea Level Rise Benchmarks” (see my previous post) – could easily have been more informative by showing that sea levels ~6,000 years BP were one to two metres higher than today (marked … Continue reading NSW Chief Scientist and Engineer could be more informative in her sea level paper
Last night on the ABC (Australian Govt owned TV channel)- Q & A usual GreenLeft-fest – I saw Bob Brown say that the never built hydro dam on the Franklin River (thats Tasmania) – would have had a 184MW capacity. What knocked me out was his claim that this(184MW) was one fifth of a baseload … Continue reading Ex Australian Greens Leader Bob Brown misleading reply about solar power on national TV
New paper – “The long sunspot cycle 23 predicts a significant temperature decrease in cycle 24” – Jan-Erik Solheima, Kjell Stordahlb, Ole Humlum. Full paper to read – if only all scientific papers were so easy to access. A 1 °C or more temperature ED can eat up a lot of mental distress among brand … Continue reading Weakening sunspot activity could cause a 1 degree temperature drop 2009-2020
Somebody please assure me that our taxpayer funded broadcaster – the Australian Broadcasting Corporation ABC – has nothing to do with funding this desperate pro IPCC video – which is on an ABC webpage. (warning – offensive language) I can understand many of the cast hiding behind dark glasses. HT Anthony Watts’ epic site.
Dear Government Member of Parliament, Let us look quickly at your Government plans to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. From the above link – I have assumed your Government is aiming to reduce its emissions by between 5 and 15 per cent below 2000 levels by 2020. I have chosen the mid-range 10% reduction for the … Continue reading Reasons to Oppose a Carbon Tax #3
Curiosity got me to download NZ earthquake data from the GNS Science webpage. My graphic shows clearly that there was a relatively quiet period in September at the time that GNS said on the 14th Sep– “Canterbury could get at least two more aftershocks of magnitude 5.0 or higher, but the risk of a bigger … Continue reading Thoughts on Christchurch earthquake data