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Take a big deep breath, Bob Brown =E2=80=93 savour the 78 parts = of nitrogen, 21=20 of oxygen, and the smidgen of carbon dioxide =E2=80=93 and = contemplate the folly=20 of your alternative energy ideas. Renewables are not green. = That=E2=80=99s the=20 view of one of the pioneers of climate science politics. Jesse = Ausubel,=20 Senior Research Associate in The Rockefeller University=E2=80=99s = Program for the=20 Human Environment, helped organise the first UN World Climate = Conference=20 in Geneva in 1979. He is an avowed =E2=80=98deep green=E2=80=99 = scientist who believes the=20 essence of being green, and therefore his mantra, is = no-new-structures.=20 For years he has been arguing heretical views on energy. In the = wake of=20 the Productivity Commission=E2=80=99s scathing comments on = renewables, now is the=20 time to listen to him.

Ausubel has a list of heresies that might horrify the true = believers in=20 wind and solar power, electric cars and distorting government=20 subsidies:

Renewables are not green.
The idea of resource exhaustion is irrelevant.
Hydrocarbons are not the stored energy of the sun.
Little more than 50% of energy will ever be = electrified.
Nuclear is green, but nuclear plants must make hydrogen as = well as=20 electricity.
Most surprising of all - decarbonisation has been going on = for=20 almost two centuries =E2=80=93 without a policy for = it.

(more=E2=80=A6)

June 29th, 2011 | = Categories:=20 Greens, Alternate Energy |

The New Dark (Green) Age

Last week while driving, I happened to hear part of the = farewell speech=20 of Senator Nick Minchin. We will sorely miss people like this = stalwart=20 senator. It struck me that this one sad event was like the bell = tolling=20 for the new Dark Age to come. In the next few weeks, unless a = miracle=20 occurs, and for the first time ever, dark greens and their fellow=20 travellers will gain control of the both houses of parliament in=20 Australia.

No doubt we have won the battle for the minds of the Australian = people=20 =E2=80=93 every poll shows a strong majority is opposed to the tax = on carbon=20 dioxide. And there is growing scepticism for the claim that man = causes=20 climate change. But the green elite, who have never won majority = support=20 in their own right, are determined to pursue their destructive = goals.

Their long-term agenda is to destroy human industry and reduce = human=20 population. Thus they are opposed to farming, mining, fishing, = forestry,=20 exploration and cheap power.

Their preferred strategy is to divide and conquer. Their = tactics are to=20 grab any real concern and magnify and divert it into another = reason to=20 destroy or hobble the industries they hate =E2=80=93 cattle, = sheep, mining, oil=20 and gas, uranium, farming, forestry, fishing and land developers. = Their=20 greatest success is achieved when they harness and inflame one = industry=20 and use it to ram another =E2=80=93 use farmers to destroy the gas = industry, use=20 animal lovers and meat workers to destroy live exports, use small = business=20 to attack big business, make all industries compete against one = another=20 for a dwindling supply of emission permits, get farmers to fight = food=20 retailers, cry crocodile tears about the loss of fertile land, and = then=20 lock up grazing land in trees, heritage areas and other sterilised = ground.=20 And all the time they use their domination of the government media = and=20 education empires to spread their half-truths.

More, including:

BRICS or PIGS?
Australian Tour by Christopher Monckton
What is really going on with the climate?
U.S. Supreme Court kicks out global warming
The Galileo Movement
Camel Cull Creates Consternation

in the PDF here: http://carbon-sense.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/new-dark-age.pdf=20 [PDF, 73 KB]

June 26th, 2011 | = Categories:=20 Greens, Carbon tax, Meetings/Events, Newsletters |

BRICS vs PIGS - the Myth that Green Energy will = promote=20 Prosperity

We are told that we must embrace =E2=80=9Cgreen=E2=80=9D = renewable energy and impose a=20 carbon tax if we are not to be left behind in the world. Exactly = why or=20 how this tax will promote economic growth is a mystery that = Garnaut and=20 the Australian government are having difficulty articulating.

But the real world provides some clues to one secret of = economic=20 strength.

Looking around the world today it appears there is a direct=20 relationship between the economic decline of those embracing = climate=20 alarmism and green technologies and the economic rise of those who = do not=20 =E2=80=93 the PIGS are failing and the BRICS are rising.

Full article: http://carbon-sense.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/brics-vs-pigs.pdf= =20 [PDF, 269 KB]

June 20th, 2011 | = Categories:=20 Carbon tax |

Volcanic Carbon Dioxide

Volcanoes emit enormous volumes of the two main = =E2=80=9Cgreenhouse gases=E2=80=9D -=20 water vapour and carbon dioxide.

Erupting volcanoes are big news these days. There are over 1500 = active=20 volcanoes which are above sea level and many of these show signs = of=20 current activity including explosions, lava flows, gaseous = emissions and=20 tremors. On average, there are about five eruptions per year that = are=20 above sea level.

However, few people realise that there are more than 200,000 = known=20 submarine volcanoes, many of which are active. It is reasonable to = estimate that there could be a total of 3 million submarine = volcanoes.

Carbon dioxide and methane are abundant gases in the = earth=E2=80=99s mantle and=20 they are being continually released to the atmosphere. Volcanic = carbon=20 dioxide cannot be distinguished from the carbon dioxide produced = by=20 burning carbon fuels like coal.

There are very large deposits of methane calthrate on the = continental=20 shelf and lakes of frozen carbon dioxide in the deep ocean. Just = one new=20 eruption or earthquake can mobilise these into the atmosphere.

We are continually told about the rising levels of carbon = dioxide in=20 the atmosphere, but almost all of the world=E2=80=99s carbon = dioxide recording=20 stations are beside active volcanoes such as Mauna Loa, Kilauea = and Raoul=20 Island. Is the rise merely nature=E2=80=99s breath?

All of this says, we have no idea how much carbon dioxide = nature is=20 adding to the atmosphere. The models used to justify the war on = carbon=20 start with dream-time forecasts of world economic activity. These = figures=20 drive forecasts of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, which are = linked to=20 assumptions and complex formula in a big black box that spits out=20 forecasts of global temperature for a century ahead. No one but an = Australian Climate Commissioner could take any notice of these=20 forecasts.

Timothy Casey, an experienced geologist, has produced a well = reasoned=20 article entitled Volcanic Carbon Dioxide. It is worth = reading at:=20 http://carbon-budget.ge= ologist-1011.net/

June 15th, 2011 | = Categories:=20 Volcanoes, CO2 Greenhouse Science |

The Global Warming Delusion

The truth about greenhouse gases and the dubious = science of=20 the climate crusaders.

By William Happer

Will Happer is a physicist at Princeton University. This = article=20 appeared in the internet magazine First Things under the = title=20 The Truth About Greenhouse Gases.

=E2=80=9CThe object of the Author in the following pages has been = to collect the=20 most remarkable instances of those moral epidemics which have been = excited, sometimes by one cause and sometimes by another, and to = show how=20 easily the masses have been led astray, and how imitative and = gregarious=20 men are, even in their infatuations and crimes,=E2=80=9D wrote = Charles Mackay in=20 the preface to the first edition of his Extraordinary Popular=20 Delusions and the Madness of Crowds. I want to discuss a = contemporary=20 moral epidemic: the notion that increasing atmospheric = concentrations of=20 greenhouse gases, notably carbon dioxide, will have disastrous=20 consequences for mankind and for the planet. The =E2=80=9Cclimate = crusade=E2=80=9D is one=20 characterized by true believers, opportunists, cynics, = money-hungry=20 governments, manipulators of various types=E2=80=94even = children=E2=80=99s crusades=E2=80=94all=20 based on contested science and dubious claims.

I am a strong supporter of a clean environment. We need to be = vigilant=20 to keep our land, air, and waters free of real pollution, = particulates,=20 heavy metals, and pathogens, but carbon dioxide (CO2 ) is not one = of these=20 pollutants. Carbon is the stuff of life. Our bodies are made of = carbon. A=20 normal human exhales around 1 kg of CO2 (the simplest chemically = stable=20 molecule of carbon in the earth=E2=80=99s atmosphere) per day. = Before the=20 industrial period, the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere was = 270 ppm.=20 At the present time, the concentration is about 390 ppm, 0.039 = percent of=20 all atmospheric molecules and less than 1 percent of that in our = breath.=20 About fifty million years ago, a brief moment in the long history = of life=20 on earth, geological evidence indicates, CO2 levels were several = thousand=20 ppm, much higher than now. And life flourished abundantly.

To read the rest of this article, click: http://www.firstthings.com/article/2011/05/the-truth-about-gr= eenhouse-gases.

June 15th, 2011 | = Categories:=20 CO2 Greenhouse Science, Pollution |

How to Create Carbon Credits - Kill a = Camel

The people who brought us pink bats and cash-for-clunkers have = a new=20 scheme - we can earn carbon credits by shooting wild camels, = humanely of=20 course.

Surely it would be far easier to shoot tame cattle? There are = big mobs=20 near all of our northern ports going nowhere.

And if greens have their way and stop all live exports, we can = earn=20 heaps more by shooting millions of sheep and goats, humanely of=20 course.

What about those mobs of kangaroos? They burn carbon fuel and = emit=20 dreaded carbon dioxide. Why should they be spared when the future = of the=20 planet is at stake?

One small problem - what do we do with all those carcasses? = Left alone=20 they will release all the carbon sequestered within their bodies = within a=20 couple of weeks, thus incurring massive carbon debits.

And who counts the dead camels? To prevent carbon cull fraud = the=20 economy will boom with jobs for regulators, inspectors, auditors = and=20 prosecutors.

And of course, we must not burn diesel, av-gas or gun powder to = do the=20 slaughter, so the hunting must be done from horses using bows and=20 arrows.

And if killing camels earns carbon credits, why can=E2=80=99t = cattle, sheep and=20 goat abattoirs also earn them?

More: http://carbon-sense.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/camel-cull-c= redits.pdf=20 [PDF: 414 KB]

For lots of comments on this post, and to add your own comments = see:
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/06/= 11/craziest-carbon-credit-scheme-yet-shooting-camels-in-australia/

June 11th, 2011 | = Categories:=20 Carbon tax |

The Repairman: I=E2=80=99m here to fix your = climate

(The Repairman)

(SCENE: Front door of = BRYAN=E2=80=99s home. Door=20 bell rings. BRYAN answers door. It is JOHN.)

John: = G=E2=80=99day. I=E2=80=99m here about=20 the climate.

Bryan: What climate?

John: Your = climate. Our=20 climate. THE climate. I=E2=80=99m here to fix it.

Bryan: What=E2=80=99s wrong with = it?

John: = It=E2=80=99s buggered.=20 Absolutely buggered.

Bryan: No it isn=E2=80=99t. I was = using it this=20 morning.

John: What = for?

Bryan: For drying the washing out = the=20 back.

(more= =E2=80=A6)

June 9th, 2011 | Categories:=20 Humour |

Sixth International Conference on Climate Change, = Washington,=20 DC

Heartland Institute is sponsoring the Sixth International = Conference on=20 Climate Change (ICCC-6) to take place in Washington, DC from = breakfast=20 Thursday, June 30, to noon Friday, July 1, at the Marriott Wardman = Park=20 Hotel. This event will be more modest than in the past, yet as = informative=20 and, perhaps, even more challenging to the orthodoxy. The = principal=20 speakers are S. Fred Singer, Craig Idso, and Bob Carter =E2=80=93 = all major=20 contributors to the NIPCC reports. Of course, SEPP is a = co-sponsor. See:=20 http://climateconference= .heartland.org/

June 9th, 2011 | Categories:=20 Meetings/Events |

The Cost of Using Wind Power to Reduce the = Production of=20 CO2

Peter Lang
21 May 2011

This paper presents a simple analysis to estimate the amount of = CO2=20 emissions avoided by wind generation and the cost per tonne = avoided as=20 wind penetration increases from 0% to 20%. The carbon price = implications=20 are discussed.

For wind power to be viable in Australia the price for = electricity=20 would need to be about $120/MWh. The current average wholesale = price of=20 electricity is about $30/MWhi. So wind energy must be subsidised = by about=20 $90/MWh. If we have a carbon price of $25/MWh then the Renewable = Energy=20 Certificates (RECs) need to reach $65/MWh to make wind viable. = (That means=20 the consumer must subsidise wind by $90/MWh, or three times the = current=20 wholesale price of electricity.)

The paper concludes that as wind energy penetration increases = from 1%=20 to 20% the CO2 avoidance cost increases from $100 to $2,500 per = tonne of=20 CO2 production avoided.

Wind energy is a high cost way to avoid CO2 emissions.

For a print-friendly copy of the full article see: http://carbon-sense.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/lang-wi= nd-and-emissions.pdf=20 [PDF, 49 KB]

June 9th, 2011 | Categories:=20 Carbon tax, Wind Power, Alternate Energy |

Volcanoes, the Environment and Weather = Extremes

Volcanoes emit huge quantities of the main greenhouse gases = =E2=80=93 water=20 vapour and carbon dioxide. They also affect wind patterns and put = large=20 amounts of other gases like sulphur dioxide and particles of ash, = smoke=20 and dust.

All of these have a dramatic effect on the weather events and = the=20 biosphere.

For an article on this subject by Wyss Yim of the University of = Hong=20 Kong, see: http://carbon-sense.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/yim-= volcanoes-water-vapour.pdf=20 [PDF, 418 KB]

June 6th, 2011 | Categories:=20 CO2 Greenhouse Science, The Evidence |

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