Jay Currie

Apparently the average upper income British Columbian generates 12 tonnes of CO2 per year.

As neither Susan nor I drive and our kids being 9 and 6 don’t either let’s call our evil, bad, noxious plant feeding something on the order of 40 tonnes per year.

The current Chicago price per tonne for CO2 is $.05 USD.

Er, [...]

There is an interesting and very tight election going on in Australia tomorrow.

Fresh from stabbing global warming nutbar and Oz PM Kevin Rudd in the kidneys and leaving him to bleed out, current Oz PM Julia Gillard is running even with Tony Abbott, the leader of a rightish Coalition. Rudd died on the barricades of [...]

I am on a half a vacation. Work in the mornings and evenings but take my youngest to a sports camp for the afternoon and just mooch about. Lovely pub lunch in Cadboro Bay today. Down to the beach to watch the kids race boats and to note that either girls are becoming bigger or [...]

My hypothesis is that the level of vitriol in the climate blogs reflects the last gasp of those who thought they could influence national and international energy policy through the power politics of climate science expertise. The politics of expertise is about how scientific information is used in the policy making process, including how diverging [...]

The 90,000 documents put up by Wikileaks on Afghanistan were clearly stolen and released against the relevant laws. I suspect they will be interesting; but judging from a quick look at the Guardian’s coverage, not world changing.

The Journo-list explains how the Liberal side of the press in the US managed to keep on message.

But the [...]

“The Earth doesn’t care about any of these governments or their legislation,” Prof. Laughlin writes. “It doesn’t care whether you turn off your air conditioner, refrigerator and television set. It doesn’t notice when you turn down your thermostat and drive a hybrid car.

“These actions simply spread the pain over a few centuries, the bat of [...]

“Vast amounts of money are going to be spent on climate change policy, it’s billions and eventually could be trillions. Knowing what is accurate and what is inaccurate is important.”

“I view this as a Parliamentarian for one of the poorest constituencies in the country. Putting up the price of fuel for poor people on such [...]

To no one’s very great surprise the last of the insider “investigations” into the revelations of Climategate has reported and, largely, but not completely, exonerated Dr. Phil Jones and CRU of anything other than misleading the public and ignoring the law. While this is being hailed as a vindication by the warmists it is nothing [...]

St. Algore gropes (?). Dr. Fruitfly swears. Some kook draws up a blacklist of climate skeptics.

Plus Kate Beckinsale naked, almost.

[And, yes it is all about the anchor text.]

Julia Gillard has been elected unopposed to the Labor leadership, seizing power in a bloodless Parliament House coup after Prime Minister Kevin Rudd decided not to contest this morning’s leadership ballot. australian broadcasting corporation

Details at Tim Blair’s lovely blog an, of course, Andrew Bolt’s.

Canadian Liberals might want to take a look at how it is [...]

The Daily Bayonet takes no prisoners.

Last week’s update had the “Hey it’s science.” crowd out in full spate. Here’s the deal guys. There are lots of blogs which deal with the increasingly dubious science, Daily Bayonet brings you the happy news that Al is schtuping Laurie David…the producer of “An Inconvenient Truth”. Which is [...]

The extremities are still twitching…but the Global Warming canard is in terminal decline. Our own Daily Bayonet covers the last gasps and has a lovely pic of Jennifer Love Hewitt to drive the message home.

John Cross whose work I enjoy and who is unfailingly polite pointed out over at Dawgs that 2010 was the “new 1998”. The climate curious will note that both years are El Nino years and are expected to be warm. I pointed this out to John and, bless his heart, he did up a graph [...]

Next time you are reading AGW computer models projections go take a look at The Oil Drum on the Gulf blow out. These are people who actually know what they are talking about. Errors were made, They are discussed and they are dealt with. No pious BS, no agenda (except to shoot at the theory [...]

Well, maybe if you are the IPCC.

Canada’s own Donna Laframboise has the details – or lack of details.

Fortunately, as John Cross will be along to point out in a couple of minutes, this does not matter because press releases are always issued on oath and never in the history of modern journalism has a press [...]

All that needs 20,000 square feet of house, a lagoon and a six car garage. Tim Blair is just being mean and the Sierra club is not impressed. After all, Gisele is an environmentalist just like Tom Friedman of the New York Times.
Update: This was not originally intended as a Boobquake post…but if Gisele wearing [...]

6. Working Groups 2 and 3 of the AR4 violated all IPCC procedures. The conclusions are partly scientifically unfounded, and even partly copied from the environmental movement. The AR4 was substantially changed after the final review, also in parts that had already been accepted by the referees. Valid comments were ignored.

7. As a result, AR4 [...]

Mr. Hockey Stick, Michael Mann is threatening to sue over the hilarious “Hide the Decline” video.

And UVic’s own Andrew Weaver is suing the National Post for “grossly irresponsible falsehoods”.

As a commentor at The Tyee puts it “Back in the days when scientists conducted research instead of propaganda, they did not have much use for a [...]

A SENIOR Iranian cleric has claimed that dolled-up women incite extramarital sex, causing more earthquakes in Iran, a country that straddles several fault lines, newspapers reported today.

“Many women who dress inappropriately … cause youths to go astray, taint their chastity and incite extramarital sex in society, which increases earthquakes,” Ayatollah Kazem Sedighi told worshippers at [...]

Canada’s own Donna Laframboise and a group of citizen auditors have taken a good close look at the references in the much ballyhooed IPCC4 report .

Peer reviewed, er, not so much. Ms. Laframboise issues a report card and someone has got some explaining to do.