Thank heavens for Bob Carter

Engchamp

Encore! Well said, President Klaus...
a succinct and erudite synopsis of an excellent book. Congratulations must also go to My Spectator for having the courage to publish.

Tim Hulsey

Thank Heaven for Vaclav Klaus!!

Richard J

A hugely erudite commentary from a libertarian leader who has seen this Machiavellian play before, on a different stage with a different cast.

Baron

spot on; a different mechanism, of which we know nothing, must be the driver of global climatic changes, the transient correlation between CO2 levels and temperatures for no more than a couple of centuries ending around 1980 can in no way be a sufficient evidence for continuing only with the AGW hypothesis.

it should be back to the drawing board for true men of science, the science of Sir Thomas Huxley defined as ‘common sense at its best, rigid accuracy in observation and merciless to fallacy in logic’.

Micki

Thank you.
I however doubt this will stop the renewed push for cap & trade schemes etc as it, like Bob Carter mentioned, is based on politics rather than science.
It will be a costly tax to further sink the commoners to favour those who have set them selves up to profit from this like Al Gore, the Rockefellers, Maurice Strong and tax hungry governments like Australia's labour (minority) government.

Michael Cejnar

Fearless Mr Klaus makes me proud to be a Czech living in Australia.

I too see echoes of the communist government in our recent Labor governments. Central planning, billions wasted on ideology such as $43 Billion national broadband (for 30 million people!) Bold lies go unchallenged, compliant media, endless spin, government bullying of industries, people afraid to speak their mind, no accountability and the population supinely accepting all.

Is it conceivable that we may loose our freedom again, within a single lifetime?

I fear yes. There is a queue of candidates. From the Greens' Mr Cameron wanting to 'suspend democracy' to fix climate change, to our Napoleonic ex prime minister, Mr Rudd, to the warmists bidding us to "cede our sovereignty" to the UN to save the world.

Ed

The FUTILITY of Man-made Climate Control by limiting CO2 emissions

Just running the numbers: watch

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wy0_SNSM8kg

On average world temperature is ~+15 deg C. This is sustained by the atmospheric Greenhouse Effect ~33 deg C. Without the Greenhouse Effect the planet would be un-inhabitable at ~-18 deg C. The Biosphere and Mankind need the Greenhouse Effect.

Just running the numbers by translating the agents causing the Greenhouse Effect into degrees centigrade:
• Greenhouse Effect = ~33.00 deg C
• Water Vapour accounts for about 95% of the Greenhouse Effect = ~ 31.35 deg C
• Other Greenhouse Gases GHGs account for 5% = ~1.65 deg C
• CO2 is 75% of the effect of all accounting for the enhanced effects of Methane, Nitrous Oxide and other GHGs = ~1.24 deg C
• Most CO2 in the atmosphere is natural, more than ~93%
• Man-made CO2 is less than 7% of total atmospheric CO2 = ~0.087 deg C
• the UK contribution to CO2 is 2% equals = 1.74 thousandths deg C
• the USA contribution to CO2 is ~20% equals = 17.6 thousandths deg C

So closing all the carbon economies of the Whole World could only ever achieve a virtually undetectable less than -0.09 deg C. How can the Green movement and their supporting politicians think that their remedial actions and draconian taxes are able to limit warming to only + 2.00 deg C?

So the probability is that any current global warming is not man-made and in any case such warming could be not be influenced by any remedial action taken by mankind however drastic.

So if the numbers above are even close to the right ballpark, the prospect should be greeted with Unmitigated Joy:
• concern over CO2 as a man-made pollutant can be discounted.
• it is not necessary to damage the world’s economy to no purpose.
• if warming were happening, it would lead to a more benign and healthy climate for all mankind.
• any extra CO2 is already increasing the fertility and reducing water needs of all plant life and thus enhancing world food production.
• a warmer climate, within natural variation, would provide a future of greater opportunity and prosperity for human development. This has been well proven in the past and would now especially benefit the third world.

Nonetheless, this is not to say that the world should not be seeking more efficient ways of generating its energy, conserving its energy use and stopping damaging its environments. It remains absolutely clear that our planet is vastly damaged by many human activities such as:
• environmental pollution.
• over fishing.
• forest clearance.
• industrial farming.
• farming for bio-fuels .
• and other habitat destruction.

And there is a real need to wean the world off the continued use of fossil fuels simply on the grounds of:
• security of supply
• increasing scarcity
• rising costs
• their use as the feedstock for industry rather than simply burning them.

The French long-term energy strategy with its massive commitment to nuclear power is impressive, (85% of electricity generation). Even if one is concerned about CO2, Nuclear Energy pays off, French CO2 emissions / head are the lowest in the developed world.

However in the light of the state of the current solar cycle, it seems that there is a real prospect of damaging cooling occurring in the near future for several decades. And as power stations face closure the lights may well go out in the winter 2016 if not before.

All because CO2 based Catastrophic Man-made Global Warming has become a state sponsored religion.
And now after “Splattergate” thanks to the 10:10 organisation everyone now knows exactly how they think.
http://www.disinfo.com/2010/10/murdering-people-who-disagree-with-you/
Splattergate is classic NOBLE CAUSE CORRUPTION. It is probably the most egregious piece of publicity ever produced in the Man-made Global Warming cause. This short film shows doubting schoolchildren being blown up and having their entrails spread over their classmates because they may have been less than enthusiastic about the CAUSE.
So any misrepresentation is valid in the Cause and any opposition however cogent or well qualified is routinely denigrated, publically ridiculed and as we now see literally terminated.

LMWD

Carter is a voice of reason and hís book is on my Christmas wish list! I've been reading everything I can get from him and just wish he would publish more in the mainstream media.

Mirka

Carter doens't get much published in the mainstream media, particularly reputable Nature journals, as these articles would need to be reviewed by his peers in the scientific community for the editor to publish them. His views are bunk, so can not be approved by his peers, so (usually) do not make it to print. Books, however, are a different entity and don't need to meet any standards of scientific fact, hence the publishing of books by deniers that are filled with spin and hyperbole

Kim O'Hara

Well said, Mirka. Let me just add "and partisan reviewing of such books by people with big names but no competence in the subject."

Anaesthetic

Prof Carter`s figures are very well presented in an unemotional style with good sound scientific reasoning throughout.
If only the supporters of AGW could respond in a like vein; Mirka and Kim O`hara (above) take note, you`re following the mantra of AGW supporters ie `Ignore the science, get the man".

Sincere congratulations to Prof Carter on his successful publishing of one of the very few intelligent discussions on AGW in many years.