Natural Science Forum / Earth Science / Meteorology / June 2008

G'day mates,
Because I have been having difficulties with the clowns that run my
ISP (bigpond.com) I'm unsure whether this problem is specific to me or
whether it's more widespread.  Namely:

And that happened, even with the help of UHI!!
June 26, 2008
Samuel's Blog discovers that if you're a global warming believer in
Melbourne or Sydney, it sure isn't because you're unusually warm these

June 25, 2008
An RACV survey reveals a useful new tax on sanctimony - and alarmism:
Fuel for thought for potential hybrid car buyers is the revelation that
the Toyota Prius, which uses an electric motor to help the petrol

Score another point for the skeptics!!!
June 21, 2008
Kiminori Itoh, environmental metrologist with Yokohama National
University, worked on the IPCC's latest report as an expert reviewer.

June 20, 2008
As if the United Nations needed proof it's the natural home of any loon
with an anti-American conspiracy theory:
Critics are calling for the resignation of a UN official who publicly

June 19, 2008
2005:
Tim Flannery predicts that the ongoing drought could leave Sydney's dams
dry in just two years.

June 18, 2008
Prominent endorser and noted effect Al Gore tries to clean up his act:
After the Tennessee Center for Policy Research exposed Gore's massive
home energy use, the former Vice President scurried to make his home

For months KKKonservative Denialists have been insisting that the solar disk
has been clear from Sunspots.
Well, once again they are proven liars.  Right on the heals of the last
sunspot comes this new one.

Steven Goddard
5th June 2008
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/05/goddard_nasa_thermometer/print.html
QUOTE: The discrepancies between NASA and other data sources can't help

For months KKKonservative Denialists have been insisting that the solar disk
has been clear from Sunspots.
Well, once again they are proven liars.  Right on the heals of the last
sunspot comes this new one.

Eric Creed
17 Jun 2008
http://www.cityviewmag.com/stories-the-greatest-hoax-ever-perpetrated_134.html
GOOGLE "RECORD HEAT" and you will get 3,180,000 hits.

May was 11th warmest on the 129-year NASA global data record.
Even though May of this year is 11th warmest, it still is
above the 129-year trend line.   In the long term therefore,
global mean surface temperatures continue an accelerated rise.

Despite often made fossil fool claims to the contrary,
satellite data show warming in this 21st century.
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Satellite Global Land Ocean Warming Rates So Far This Century

June 17, 2008
Exactly what global warming believers want, so it's good, right?
From today, Perth's skyscrapers and shops will shut down lifts and turn
off lights in an effort to save energy. West Australian Premier Alan

Ray Evans
Quadrant Magazine Environment
June 2008 Volume LII Number 6
http://quadrant.org.au/php/article_view.php?article_id=3936