Banking Rats Desert The Carbon Emission Sinking Ship

Banks and investors are pulling out of the carbon market after the failure to make progress at Copenhagen on reaching new emissions targets after 2012.

Carbon financiers have already begun leaving banks in London because of the lack of activity and the drop-off in investment demand. The Guardian has been told that backers have this month pulled out of a large planned clean-energy project in the developing world because of the expected fall in emissions credits after 2012.

Anthony Hobley, partner and global head of climate change and carbon finance at law firm Norton Rose, said: "People will gradually start to leave carbon desks, we are beginning to see that already. We are seeing a freeze in banks' recruitment plans for the carbon market. It's not clear at what point this will turn into a cull or a rout."

Paul Kelly, chief executive of Eco­Securities, which develops clean energy projects, said that while markets had not expected a definitive post-Kyoto Protocol deal at Copenhagen, they had expected some progress.

Two sources said that Australian bank Westpac had scaled back plans to increase its carbon desk in London. A bank spokeswoman denied there were plans to recruit more staff in London, adding: "We have always said that we would look to grow this business organically as carbon markets develop and that remains the case."

See the full report:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/jan/24/carbon-emissions-green-copenhagen-banks

I don't think this will make much difference to Rudd the Dud's ETS push. He still has his orders to follow.

Pity they didn't come from the electorate!

This will be my last post for about a week. I will be up the mid North Coast surfing, again!

If Bob Brown and the Greens have their way with a 5c increase in fuel prices and a god knows what increase in power prices, then my surfing trips may be curtailed a little.

Ah well, like Splitpin says, "The Greens - to yellow to admit they're red."

Lord Christopher Monckton Savages Rudd the Dudd

How absobloodylouetly amazing! Mainstream media has reported that there is opposition to The Big Dudder's ETS.

Here it is diret from News.com.au

A BRITISH climate sceptic says he has evidence climate change isn't a problem and the Australian Government's emissions trading scheme (ETS) is unnecessary.

Lord Christopher Monckton says he has come to Australia to prove Prime Minister Kevin Rudd wrong.

The former adviser to British prime minister Margaret Thatcher says Mr Rudd carried out "a 45-minute sustained personal attack" on him last November claiming he had no evidence on the effects of climate change.

"I'm going to say to the people of Australia, when your Prime Minister said I don't have any evidence, here I am, here is my evidence, here is where I got it from," Lord Monckton said today.

The climate change sceptic will carry out an extensive 13-day lecture tour of Australia at an estimated cost of $100,000.

The cost is being covered by two semi-retired Queensland engineers, John Smeed and Case Smit.

Lord Monckton claims climate change isn't a problem for the planet and carbon dioxide emissions don't contribute significantly to global warming.

He claims world temperatures will rise by just half a degree (Celsius) by the end of the decade, compared with UN scientists' prediction of a 3.5 degree rise.

He said millions of dollars were being made by "climate change profiteers".

"The ETS - which I understand your Government is proposing to introduce - is unnecessary," he said.

"It will simply be the largest tax increase in the history of Australia.

"All that will happen is that bankers and politicians will become even richer than they are."

Lord Monckton says his evidence against climate change includes tropical cyclones in Australian are at a 40-year low, Greenland's ice cover is increasing 5cm a year and polar bear numbers are on the rise, although there is some dispute amongst scientists about these findings.

Link to story here:

http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/british-climate-sceptic-lord-christopher-monckton-slams-kevin-rudds-ets/story-e6frfku0-1225823273895

I Wonder Why This Wasn't in the MSM?

As Seen on Radar by thousands Over Australia on January 22, 2010.

What is going on?

Two bizarre features seen on radar over the North West and South East of Australia on Jan 22, 2010.
The ring over the south east appeared approximately 30 seconds before the bizarre red star over the north west.

Colin Andrews reports on his website:

"I have received E-mails from all over Australia today reporting this rather extraordinary feature captured on the Australian Government Bureau of Meteorology radar site. This follows a series of so far unexplained features seen on Australian national radars since the 15th. For a while radar from the Melbourne Airport facility was out of action ( see below). Another strange ring appeared today over the South East of the country as seen below.

Today has been very lively surrounding this debate over what some are suggesting are weather modification experiments now under way over huge country. I have received data also today that shows the HAARP facility has been ramped up (see their own monitoring
data below).

One anonymous source sent me details that he claims to account for the large ring which started this article, that which appeared on the 15th. I would not normally publish material from anonymous sources but in this occasion somehow it seemed right that I should.

Below some of the e-mails today that people who were good enough to let me know what they were seeing on the national radar in Australia.

From: jurgs
Subject: RE: Rings over Australia
To: "'Colin Andrews'"
Date: Friday, January 22, 2010, 1:48 AM

Dear Mr Andrews....please find attached more captures of the National BOM site taken of all days today, 22nd January 2010... showing two rings which flashed on and off, alternatively.. one in colour... again in Western Australia and the lesser of the two circles over Melbourne, Victoria.

The National Loop incorporates 4 frames. The capture numbered 22012010.6 shows when neither circle was present.

Kind regards

Jurgen

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From: Michael Relfe
Subject: RE: The Ring over Australia 2
To: "'Colin Andrews'"
Date: Thursday, January 21, 2010, 4:19 PM

The picture of the "radar rings" is the result of a test period for a Tesla Shield Generator. The
correct question is "What type of government installation is located at the center of that image"

Hi
Similar images can be located on the www.cyberspaceorbit.com website (it is frozen and still
available even though the creator has passed on) I think they are filed under “radar rings” or
something similar. The give away is the fact that it is a ring, with a clear area inside.

As a former Navy radar technician I am familiar with almost any type of radar return and what is displayed is actually impossible unless you are familiar with Tom Beardens description of a “fourier transformed scalar wave” and how it “just appears” at a certain point. A “slow” scalar wave is transmitted, then a “faster” scalar wave is transmitted. When the faster wave overtakes the slower wave, the two waves “pair couple” and create a standing wave at that point. If you transmit this with an omni-directional antenna, you have a “bubble” or “shield” around the transmitting station / area.

Hope this helps. Its nice to see tax dollars at work doing something good for a change.

Sincerely

Michael Relfe

See Colin's article in detail here:

http://www.colinandrews.net/Cloud-Radar-Circle-Australia-2010-0122.html

Global Warming Scientist Endorses Book Calling for Mass Genocide

Prominent NASA global warming alarmist Dr. James Hansen has endorsed an eco-fascist book that calls for cities to be razed to the ground, industrial civilization to be destroyed and genocidal population reduction measures to be implemented in the name of preventing climate change.

Hansen, who was back in the news today commenting on a NASA press release that claims the last decade was the warmest on record, said that Keith Farnish, author of a new book called Time’s Up, is correct in calling for acts of sabotage and environmental terrorism in blowing up dams and demolishing cities in order to return the planet to the agrarian age.

Hansen is a key figure in the global warming movement, for it was his 1988 with testimony to a US Senate committee chaired by Al Gore that really got the ball rolling for the elite in their mission to hijack the environmental movement and promote apocalyptic fears of climate change as a means of seizing absolute power over humanity.

Author Farnish “believes – as the Hon Sir Jonathon Porritt does – that mankind is a blot on the landscape and that breeding (or for that matter, existence) should be discouraged,”

The entire climate change takeover is being spearheaded by self-hating psychotics who want to impose a global one child policy in the name of curbing overpopulation. As we have vehemently proven, the overpopulation hype is a debunked myth with no basis in reality. The real reason global eugenicists want to implement such policies, along with taxing the life-giving gas carbon dioxide, is because it would give them absolute control over every single aspect of our lives – a control freak’s utopia.

The propagandistic method of depicting humans as the enemy is perfectly tailored to this agenda, because it elicits the response of making people call for their own kind to be regulated, controlled, and even killed under the contrived pretext of preventing an ecological apocalypse.

See the rest of the article at:

http://www.prisonplanet.com/nasa-global-warming-alarmist-endorses-book-that-calls-for-mass-genocide.html

World Misled Over Himalayan Glacier Meltdown

A WARNING that climate change will melt most of the Himalayan glaciers by 2035 is likely to be retracted after a series of scientific blunders by the United Nations body that issued it.

Two years ago the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued a benchmark report that was claimed to incorporate the latest and most detailed research into the impact of global warming. A central claim was the world's glaciers were melting so fast that those in the Himalayas could vanish by 2035.

In the past few days the scientists behind the warning have admitted that it was based on a news story in the New Scientist, a popular science journal, published eight years before the IPCC's 2007 report.

It has also emerged that the New Scientist report was itself based on a short telephone interview with Syed Hasnain, a little-known Indian scientist then based at Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi. Hasnain has since admitted that the claim was "speculation" and was not supported by any formal research.

Sound familar? A "reporter" from a once influential and once unbiased scientific publication calls up a never was been, puts a few words in his/her mouth and then publishes the interview as "truth".

Gotta Keep Those Glaciers Melting!

Gotta Keep Those Glaciers Melting.

Well, friends, the AGW folks are on the ropes, and they are taking a beating. When people in the Northern Hemisphere can step out of their doors and tell that it’s VERY COLD, they aren’t going to be easily convinced that AGW is happening. When people have free access to international information, they can see that it is VERY COLD all over the northern hemisphere!

Of course, there are some AGW folks that are trying very hard to keep the faith, but they are coming off as increasingly desperate. Al Gore has not been seen much lately. Could the Goracle be in a fetal position, counting the billions he might have made if Cap and Trade had passed?

Could “AGW” actually be code for “Al Gore’s Wealth?”

Here is an article from the Daily Mail on the current state of AGW.

The bitter winter afflicting much of the Northern Hemisphere is only the start of a global trend towards cooler weather that is likely to last for 20 or 30 years, say some of the world’s most eminent climate scientists.

Their predictions – based on an analysis of natural cycles in water temperatures in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans – challenge some of the global warming orthodoxy’s most deeply cherished beliefs, such as the claim that the North Pole will be free of ice in summer by 2013.

According to the US National Snow and Ice Data Centre in Colorado, Arctic summer sea ice has increased by 409,000 square miles, or 26 per cent, since 2007 – and even the most committed global warming activists do not dispute this.

From 1940 until the late Seventies, the last MDO cold-mode era, the world cooled, despite the fact that carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere continued to rise.

GASP!!!! The Earth COOLED when CO2 levels ROSE???

Many of the consequences of the recent warm mode were also observed 90 years ago.

For example, in 1922, the Washington Post reported that Greenland’s glaciers were fast disappearing, while Arctic seals were ‘finding the water too hot’.

It interviewed a Captain Martin Ingebrigsten, who had been sailing the eastern Arctic for 54 years: ‘He says that he first noted warmer conditions in 1918, and since that time it has gotten steadily warmer.

‘Where formerly great masses of ice were found, there are now moraines, accumulations of earth and stones. At many points where glaciers formerly extended into the sea they have entirely disappeared.’

As a result, the shoals of fish that used to live in these waters had vanished, while the sea ice beyond the north coast of Spitsbergen in the Arctic Ocean had melted.

Warm Gulf Stream water was still detectable within a few hundred miles of the Pole.

In contrast, Prof Tsonis said, last week 56 per cent of the surface of the United States was covered by snow.

‘That hasn’t happened for several decades,’ he pointed out. ‘It just isn’t true to say this is a blip. We can expect colder winters for quite a while.’

He recalled that towards the end of the last cold mode, the world’s media were preoccupied by fears of freezing.

Catch the rest of this report at: http://conservativehideout.com/wordpress/2010/01/15/climategate-will-the-alarmists-have-to-go-back-to-ice-ages/

Thousands Gather to Protest Over Global Warming

Courtesy http://www.davidicke.com/content/blogcategory/30/48/

Climategate Scientist Received Over Half A Million From Obama Stimulus Package

A leading scientist involved in the climategate scandal received over half a million dollars in federal economic stimulus funds from the Obama Administration last Summer, it has been revealed.

Professor Michael Mann of Penn State University, currently under investigation by the institution itself for his role in massaging climate data and hijacking the peer review process to advance the myth of anthropogenic global warming, was awarded a grant of $541,184 by the government in June 2009.

Mann, the creator of the now infamously discredited Hockey Stick Graph, landed money that came directly from the U.S. Treasury’s economic stimulus package, reveals the Washington free-market think-tank group The National Center For Public Policy Research (NCPPR).

The funds Mann is receiving from the government come in addition to another award to Penn State University researchers of $1.9 million in stimulus funds to study the effects of climate change on the spread of infectious diseases.

The leaked emails from the Hadley centre revealed that (now former) CRU chief Phil Jones received 55 endowments since 1990 from agencies ranging from the U.S. Department of Energy to NATO, worth a total of $22.6 million.

$19 million alone came between the years 2000 and 2006.