Roger Helmer has just published a DVD entitled “Straight Talking on Climate Change “. The DVD is available free of charge from his UK office at Boswell House, 9 Prospect Court, Courteenhall Road, Blisworth, Northamptonshire, NN7 3DG.
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An Englishman's Castle: Free Climate Change Video
Auckland 17 November 2008 – The National Party’s press release detailing Cabinet posts makes no mention of the environment and climate change portfolios, nor the MP who’s rumoured to be heading them.
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Scoop: Climate Change Minister missing in action
The New Zealand Climate Science Coalition has welcomed the agreement between the National and Act parties to appoint a special Select Committee of Parliament to review the current emissions trading scheme legislation and any amendments …
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Scoop: National-Act Agreement On Climate Change Welcomed
Heliogenic Climate Change. The Sun, not a harmless essential trace gas, drives climate change
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Heliogenic Climate Change: Polar bear lifejackets
Arctic sea ice extent well ahead of last year · Cooling trend · Insanity in Britain · Dems: restoration of offshore drilling ban “top p…
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Heliogenic Climate Change: Greens in the driver's seat?
“A new analysis of the dramatic cycles of ice ages and warm intervals over the past million years, published in Nature, concludes that the climatic swings are the gyrations of a system poised to settle into a quasi-permanent colder …
The Sun and global cooling · Warmer Arctic during Holocene Optimum · The Dingell-Boucher cap-and-trade bill · Gore sets record low at Harvard · Investment banks plan to cash in on carbon scam · AGW meltdown · EU climate mandate goes …
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Heliogenic Climate Change: Lights out — insanity at the EPA
80beats: Did a “ Little Ice Age ” Create Special Wood for Great Violins? 80beats: A Monstrous Methane Belch Once Warmed the Earth. Image: T.
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Was Earth Headed for the Mother of All Ice Ages Before Global …
The world has warmed since 1680, the nadir of a cool period called the Little Ice Age (LIA) that has generally continued to the present. These climate changes are well within natural variability and explained quite easily by changes in …
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October Surprise–Global Warming Rising–Mistakes Were Made–Cooling …
Only a few of them show the medieval warm period as even possibly as warm as current decades, though that is within the variability attributed to the studies. Even those show a relatively sedate rate of climate change compared with the …
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Comment on The five stages of (causing) grief by bjchip
“The Green Party just does not get the reality of global climate change ,”Federated Farmers climate change spokesperson, Frank Brenmuhl said today.
A more drastic cooling, similar to that during the Dalton and Maunder minimums, could plunge the Earth into another Little Ice Age , but only time will tell if that is likely. Read more here.
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Quote of the moment……: Global Cooling is Here! Evidence for …
The Sun and global cooling · Warmer Arctic during Holocene Optimum · The Dingell-Boucher cap-and-trade bill · Gore sets record low at Harvard · Investment banks plan to cash in on carbon scam · AGW meltdown · EU climate mandate goes …
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Heliogenic Climate Change: PDO, AMO drive Arctic temperature
“Efforts to achieve gender equality around the world must be accelerated, United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro told a gathering of women leaders in Seoul today, while also highlighting the special burden climate …
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Heliogenic Climate Change: "Climate change" (AGW) is sexist
“More and more governments realise that “it’s very bad for the whole of Europe if we protect the industries of yesterday instead of preparing the responses that will make us rich tomorrow,” [Denmark’s Climate and Energy Minister, …
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Heliogenic Climate Change: Out with the old
Substitute climate scientists for physicians, CO2 for bad humors, and the atmosphere for the body and we have the same consensus today. We may have progressed technologically since those days, but humans themselves haven’t changed much, …
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Heliogenic Climate Change: Bloodletting
In more recent times there was a Medieval Warm Period .
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Why Do People Believe in Catastrophic Global Warming? | Video
Efforts to achieve gender equality around the world must be accelerated, UN Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro told a gathering of women leaders in Seoul, while also highlighting the special burden climate change places on women.
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Scoop: Climate Change Places Increased Burdens On Women
The new centre went “live” Friday on the occasion of a day-long conference on climate change hosted by the Pembrokeshire County Council that featured presentations from leading university and business researchers, …
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Supercomputing Online – Homepage for the World′s High-Performance …
This graph is from the excellent short paper by Brisbane geoscientist Dr. Guy LeBlanc Smith, “Science Exposes Delusions: Great Barrier Reef, Kakadu and the Human-caused climate change and carbon “pollution” myths”. ..
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Heliogenic Climate Change: 20 kyr temperature, CO2, sea level, and …
King Alfonso of Portugal http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfonso_IV_of_Portugal. A woman was spotted yesterday reading today’s paper http://www.techdo.com/a-pictures-worth-a-thousand-time-space-paradoxes/. Solar Cycle #24 begins ..
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Days and Cycles | 24Hour Information Service
The Sun and global cooling · Warmer Arctic during Holocene Optimum · The Dingell-Boucher cap-and-trade bill · Gore sets record low at Harvard · Investment banks plan to cash in on carbon scam · AGW meltdown · EU climate mandate goes …
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Heliogenic Climate Change: "Scientists baffled"
The study, comparing temperature records and four computer climate models, found a warming in both polar regions that could be best explained by a buildup of greenhouse gases, mainly from burning fossil fuels, rather than natural shifts …
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Heliogenic Climate Change: Computer games
It’s basically an awesome steampunk/neo-victorian epic involving Pitcairn Island and the Little Ice Age and Thursday October Christian and an outbreak of Schistosomiasis and Mary Todd Lincoln as queen of America.
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The Sun, not CO2, drives climate change.
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Heliogenic Climate Change: The Miskolczi climate model
“According to official figures, climate change policies already account for 21% of the average business electricity bill – this is especially damaging for heavy energy users including chemicals, cement and steel. …
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Heliogenic Climate Change: EU poised to commit economic suicide
Even more compelling is the fact that there exists a well-documented Roman Warm period from the time of the Roman Caesars, and a Medieval Warm Period , both of which correlate with solar activity, but certainly can have nothing whatever …
UTICA, NY (WKTV) – Student volunteers from colleges around New York State braved freezing cold temperatures on their bikes Wednesday to send a message to state and federal political candidates: pay attention to climate change .
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Cyclists stop in Utica promoting climate change
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Climate change, poverty and empowerment
Scientists have used this labile 18O signal in studies of global carbon cycles and paleoclimatic reconstruction. Improving our understanding of leaf water 18O enrichment allows for the development of better process-based models to ..
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SDSU Geological Sciences – Seminar – Chun-Ta Lai
He’s just had a story published based on his recent trip to Bangladesh, and particularly to the island of Bhola – in the country’s South – looking at the impacts of climate change there. Audio-visual related to Matt’s story is available …
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Climate change in Bangladesh
CNT’s program initiatives are organized primarily around four areas: Transportation and Community Development, Energy Efficiency, Natural Resources, and Climate Change . Much of CNT’s work relies on original research that we conduct …
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Climate Change Associate – Center for Neighborhood Technology
In the last twenty years, climate change and its potential and real impacts have become more and more obvious. This is due to the results of scientific research but also to environmental movements, media, critical intellectuals, …
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Filed under: News, Climate Change , Plants and Wildlife. Over 1000 penguins have washed up in northern Brazil.
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Climate change, pollution linked to 1000 penguins in Brazil
.Hard-hoofed sheep and cattle have caused, and are still causing, a great deal of damage to Australia’s land.
But now we also recognise that they cause damage in other harmful ways. In fact, 11 per cent of Australia’s total greenhouse gases come from cattle and sheep. They produce large quantities of the greenhouse gas methane and in turn contribute to global warming. If we were to replace some of the cattle and sheep in Australia with kangaroos we could reduce the number of animals producing methane and at the same time promote natural habitats instead of hoof-damaged pastures.
Kangaroos are animals that don’t burp methane because they have different micro-organisms to help them digest food. Here they compete with domestic cattle and sheep and are labelled by many farmers as pests as they are not fenced in and roam from property to property seeking the best food.
– The existing industry -
Kangaroos are abundant in the Australian rangelands which covers about two-thirds of Australia. They are humanely shot in the field and therefore, unlike cattle and sheep are not trucked off to abattoirs. There is a kangaroo industry in Australia which harvests some of these kangaroos for their meat and skins. There are millions of kangaroos in the commercially harvested area.
Kangaroo harvesting is regulated in a specific kangaroo harvesting area and quotas ensure that only a small proportion (15 per cent) of the population is taken.5 million eastern grey kangaroos, 2. To be precise, in 2006 there were 8 million red kangaroos, 10.5 million euros/wallaroos.5 million western grey kangaroos and 2.
– Population model -
So what sort of change are we looking at and how many kangaroos do we need to produce the same amount of meat cattle and sheep would produce?
To analyse these questions, we developed a mathematical model or simulation. The true national population is likely to be higher because these figures do not include estimates for areas outside the commercial kangaroo areas. If cattle numbers were to slowly decrease from 7. The model covers the period 2007 to 2020 and enables us to use cattle, sheep and kangaroo populations on the rangelands.5 million and sheep from 38.5 million to 0.7 million there would be more pasture available to increase kangaroo populations.7 million to 2. This is quite a large number of kangaroos, and more than we would need to provide the same amount of meat as the cattle and sheep that were removed – remembering that we only harvest a certain per cent. This is quite a large number of kangaroos, and more than we would need to provide the same amount of meat as the cattle and sheep that were removed – remembering that we only harvest a certain per cent.
The model removed 7 million cattle and 36 million sheep and we permitted the kangaroo population to increase by 141 to 175 million – not to the full 200 million. Net carbon savings by 2020 would be 16 megatonnes of CO2 equivalents (CO2 equivalents are used to compare other greenhouse gases like methane to CO2). These savings over 13 years are 3 per cent of Australia’s annual carbon accountability of 559 megatonnes, or 28 per cent of agricultural emissions.
– Making a living -
Current prices for kangaroo products are lower than they are for cattle, sheep and wool. However, the cost of producing a kilogram of kangaroo meat from a free-ranging animal that needs minimal management would be lower than those for cattle or sheep. For example, there are no costs for fences or yards, internal or external parasite control, shearing, crutching, purchasing new genetic material (e.g., stud rams and bulls), branding, dehorning or castrating.
Also, when Australia starts its climate change plan to reduce greenhouse gases, farmers could be rewarded for swapping their cattle and sheep with kangaroos. Using the rewards system that Britain uses, farmers could receive $655 million over 13 years. While, this sounds like a lot of money, if it is spread between farmers over the 13 years, it would not be enough to encourage farmers to replace cattle and sheep with kangaroos. However, if farmers have to buy permits to be allowed to keep their methane producing cattle and sheep, they will probably be more inclined to swap their cattle and sheep for kangaroos.
– Ethical questions -
Some people are opposed to the commercial use of wildlife for ethical reasons and because they believe it will threaten species. However, overseas examples have shown that raising commercial wildlife on private lands can lead to increased wildlife populations and improved natural habitats. For example, wildlife industries are replacing cattle production in southern Africa and game species thrive on private lands integrated with conventional agricultural production in Britain and North America. In all three examples, iconic species and national symbols – springbok in South Africa, red deer in Scotland, and bison in the USA – are increasing.
Other issues also need to be resolved to manage kangaroos. Local migration is an important element of kangaroos’ adaptation strategy to Australia’s erratic rainfall. This means they move from property to property and claiming ownership or managing them is difficult. There is also the issue of landholders regarding them as pests. Regional collaboration in management has addressed ownership and local movement issues in other countries, and establishment of landholder cooperatives is one solution being trialled in Australia that brings together independent livestock producers and kangaroo harvesters and assists in marketing products.
Livestock grazing damage to native ecosystems has contributed to the extinction of at least 20 species of mammals and continues to threaten around one quarter of the plant species listed as endangered. Fewer livestock and more kangaroos could include a reduction in hard-hoofed livestock damage to river environments, improved soil conservation, fewer weeds, increased capacity of vegetation to respond after drought, and improved water quality. These changes can improve native environments leading to an increase in habitat quality for other species such as emus, wombats, lizards and bilbies.
With further testing of the management of kangaroo harvesting and landholder involvement, we believe that landholders could have the option of replacing some cattle and sheep in Australia with kangaroos and that a series of benefits would follow. First, we could reduce the number of animals producing methane and reduce Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions and secondly, we could help Australia’s native animals through the improvement and protection of natural habitats.
Dr George Wilson and Melanie Edwards work at wildlife management consultancy, Australian Wildlife Services.
This is an edited version of an essay originally published in Australasian Science magazine.
For more information please view the original scientific paper: George R. Wilson & Melanie J. Edwards (2008). Native wildlife on rangelands to minimize methane and produce lower-emission meat: kangaroos versus livestock. Conservation Letters, 1, DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-263X.2008.00023.x. (Accessible via this online database .)
It leads to extended periods of severe cooling such as what happened during the Little Ice Age . It may already be happening.
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Fear the Coming Ice Age
First the science- paleoclimatology to be precise:. Recent short-term gains in Arctic ice coverage indicate nothing about the eventual state of the Arctic
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When Meltdowns are a Good Thing
“it is apparent that solar cycle 23 is a long one. i agree with jan janssens’ spotless day-derived result of month of minimum being july 2009.
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david archibald on solar minimum and global cooling
there are 62 replies, with the last one on 27 january 2007 at 11:33:17 am by dave the fish hey cleggy havent you heard about global warming. that was 5 years ago, in the last iceage , when peter used flouropinkies last.
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