Errors in IPCC climate science

Just saw this – well worth a read. I see she is now saying – “The IPCC May Have Outlived its Usefulness”. I said a decade ago that the IPCC should be disbanded.

This global “cold snap” looks more significant than the one we highlighted last month.

I mean the current trace is further below the skein of annual traces than it was in January.

Great article by Terry McCrann – by my calculations in 2020 we will be paying ~$117 per head to buy emission permits from overseas – as Terry McCrann points out – these could be from “Nigerian scam” operators.
By 2050 the Treasury modelling suggests we could be paying $2280 per head. Surely the Gillard Govt will not be able to sustain this huge confidence trick on the Australian electorate.
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I thought this Table was worth posting – so readers can compare / contrast with other cost data. Shows huge costs for solar PV and solar thermal.

The DoE numbers for Biomass seem low – maybe be from projects utilising existing waste material.
There are other DoE links here.

This post will grow – but I wanted to give readers a chance to comment now on the fast moving developments as the Gillard and Rudd forces tear one another apart. I noticed in Kev747′s speech from Washington Thursday morning – he did not mention the Carbon Tax.
This chart shows the decay in Rudd’s support in the first half of 2010 -

but note only to the 50-50 zone – what would Gillard give for those numbers. Then the Rudd removal on 23 June marked RS – the Federal election on 21 August is marked with an E.

This shows the preferred PM % since the 2010 election – the midline is 40% – intervals 5%.

The slow improving of Abbott must terrify GreenLabor.

In recent weeks there has been much publicity about job losses in the banking sector and also the threatened aluminium smelter at Point Henry in Victoria which was only ever built there by ALCOA to take advantage of cheap power generated from the Gippsland brown coal deposits. There has also been much comment on Govt subsidies to the car industry – which I was surprised to learn cost $7,000 per vehicle – not to mention the union featherbedding which these Govt handouts seem to encourage. I would have thought that in the case of South Australia – where I think much of the car industry is – their expanding mining sector could easily replace the job losses.
My own view is that our taxes should not be propping up uncompetitive industries – let them shut down. I wondered what readers think.

Here is a useful link to a list of articles by Anton Lang for those seeking information on this very important subject.
Who really wants their reliable and cheap household electricity that we all take for granted – to get unreliable and expensive. Come on – who will vote for more unreliable and more expensive ?

I was amazed to hear our Governor General say in her speech at the 70th anniversary of the 19 Feb 1942 Japanese air raid on Darwin; that “Seventy years ago the tranquillity of Darwin was rocked. The unthinkable was happening: our nation was under enemy attack.
Unthinkable ? – what rot.
Japan had been invading China here and there under various pretexts since 1931 – Australia had been at war in Europe for over two years – the Japanese raid on Pearl Harbour had happened nearly two and a half months previous starting the Pacific phase of WWII seriously – since then the Japanese had been rampaging through SE Asia sweeping all before them – the Australian base at Rabaul was occupied by Japanese forces on 23 January 1942 – how could an attack on one of our Northern outposts be “unthinkable”.
What was “unthinkable” was the state of our defenses.

Chart replaced by this version with All Ords Index converted to a $US scale.
Thanks for that reminder Philip – I have this new chart from 2 Apr 2010 –

before the Rudd Govt intro of the first version mining tax on 3 May. The ASX fell after that – then Rudd was removed 24 June – then folowed the election 21 August – and the recovery in ASX sentiment can be seen after that with what I term the Gillard honeymoon lasting until debate about the carbon tax set in early last year. The carbon tax produced a negative sentiment and then maybe the recovery this year could be due to a growing realization that stresses within the GreenLabor Govt. means it may not run the full term.
I see today Treasury secretary Martin Parkinson at a Senate hearing has said; Australian consumers are too pessimistic about the future.
You have got that wrong Secretary Parkinson – it is the disgraceful Government that is affecting sentiment. We want an ELECTION NOW.

Talk by David Archibald tomorrow 15 Feb 2012 at Parliament House Canberra.

Paper by David last month;
New report into global energy and food security by David Archibald