Natural Science Forum / Earth Science / Meteorology / January 2009

January 31 2009
The Age has launched a crusade for a new solar industry in Australia:
Australia is still missing out on major investments in solar energy.
We are?

http://icecap.us/images/uploads/FORECASTING_SOLAR_CYCLE.pdf
Who is Joseph D’Aleo? -
http://icecap.us/index.php/go/experts
David Christainsen - Meteorologist

There's no place to hide from this alarmist bilge!
January 31 2009
Andrew R. went to OPSM for new glasses this week and was asked to read this
chart to check his eyesight:

January 30 2009
Way, way back in time, before warmening had been invented:
In 1908 Adelaide had its hottest heatwave, with six days of temperatures
over 40 degrees.

Al Gore, in entering false testimony to the US Senate, is now guilty
of federal crimes against the US. Although at this point this is a
simple crime of false testimony submitted to the government, it can be
construed as a deliberate subversive attempt to undermine the use of

Don't bet on it!
January 29 2009
Barack Obama trying to walk through a window isn't news, because he's a
genius.

January 30 2009
Climate Change Minister Penny Wong is very nice in person, so Im guessing
she's not really trying to trick people or be deceitful:
The scorching weather across southern Australia proved the accuracy of

This crowd is almost as bad as the UK Met Office!!
The UK Climate Impact Programme Forecasting Scoresheet
Steven Goddard
27 Jan 2009

January 26 2009
Snow falls on the United Arab Republic:
Snow covered the Jebel Jais area for only the second time in recorded
history yesterday.

Don't say you weren't warned!
January 29, 2009
Melbourne now pays the price of being too green and mushy to build the
infrastructure to match its booming population, or even to cope with the

No alarm about rising sea levels here!!
January 25 2009
The Queensland beachfront property mentioned earlier has sold at auction .
for $9,010,000.

January 27 2009
AUSTRALIA's national broadcaster, the ABC, has a science unit dominated by a
fellow called Robyn Williams. Mr Williams is an advocate for the campaign
against global warming and has even suggested on air that sea levels could

January 23 2009
In this week's Science magazine, science writer Richard Kerr reports on some
of the goings-on at this past December's annual meeting of the American
Geophysical Union.

... including Australia's CSIRO!!!!
January 28 2009
YESTERDAY, a former chief at NASA, Dr John S. Theon, slammed the computer
models used to determine future climate claiming they are not scientific in

Thank your licky stars you're not a victim of whacko Victorian Labour.
January 29 2009
Victoria in this heat wave has been desperate for electricity, not least for
all the airconditioning.