'The two MMs have been after the CRU station data for years. If they ever hear there is a Freedom of Information Act now in the U.K., I think I'll delete the file rather than send to anyone. . . . We also have a data protection act, which I will hide behind."
So apparently wrote Phil Jones, director of the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit (CRU) and one of the world's leading climate scientists, in a 2005 email to "Mike." Judging by the email thread, this refers to Michael Mann, director of the Pennsylvania State University's Earth System Science Center. We found this nugget among the more than 3,000 emails and documents released last week after CRU's servers were hacked and messages among some of the world's most influential climatologists were published on the Internet. Read more.
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Natives demand to be treated like the rest of us.
Natives in the West have demanded and got private property rights! They no longer want to live under a dependant quasi-communist regime - I say this means there is hope for all of us! It also bods well for effective development of our northern energy resources. Read on.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 23, 2009
GITXSAN AND NISGA’A BANDS PAVE WAY
FOR WORKABLE TREATIES
Native Proposals for Private Property and Abolition of Indian Act
Historical Steps in Right Direction
Vernon – The BC Conservative Party is commending the Nisga’a communities of New Aiyansh, and the Gitxsan native peoples for their historical and progressive moves toward independence and self sufficiency, said party President, Wayne McGrath.
The Nisga’a Lisms Government in New Aiyansh has become the first native community in Canadian history to move from a socialist model of government titled personal property to a private property model that will allow Nisga’a people living in that community to buy and sell their land to anyone they want, regardless of native status.
“This is monumental,” said McGrath. “It cannot be overstated how important this move is toward bringing Nisga’a people into the fuller community of B.C. with all of the benefits and wealth creation offered by the ownership of private property. It is a fact of history that virtually all personal wealth is dependent upon the ownership of private property. This is a first in Canada and we strongly support it.”
In the case of the Gitxsan, they have petitioned the federal government to remove their “Indian Status” which would mean they would forgo the reserve system and become taxpaying citizens in exchange for a share of resource wealth.
“The Gitxsan proposal has tremendous potential as well,” said McGrath. “But B.C. must insist that it is compensated by the federal government for any deal that is tied to a share of resource wealth which is the exclusive jurisdiction of the province,” McGrath explained.
“We would not oppose such a deal, so long as the federal government takes full financial responsibility for it as per its obligations according to the Terms of Union BC signed when we joined confederation.”
McGrath said that the two proposals of private property and resource sharing in exchange for relinquishing Indian Status could form the basis for all treaties to come. He said such an approach would be readily acceptable to all British Columbians.
“It is a way of bridging the gap between native communities and the rest of BC in a manner which would unite the province rather than divide it as the current treaty process has done.”
McGrath said that where a community such as the Gitxsan becomes prosperous and self sufficient, that the BC Conservative Party would like to see a “phase out period” where resource revenues are no longer dedicated specifically to those native communities, but are shared proportionately with them and the larger surrounding community. “Eventually, once they have achieved parity with other citizens of BC, then there is no longer a need to dedicate resources specifically to them,” said McGrath.
“The ironic thing in all of this is that we have been saying for years that the lack of private property ownership and the Indian Act are the biggest impediments to natives’ advancement. Yet the BC Liberal government has insisted that bloated treaties with cumbersome regulations entrenching natives as second class citizens via ‘Indian Status’ was the only way to go. Now the native peoples themselves are proposing this.”
“This is just one more file that the Premier has bungled to the detriment of all parties involved. We sincerely hope he will step back and adopt these principles, which we have been advocating, as the basis for any new treaties to come. This is a model that can actually work,” concluded McGrath.
A BC Conservative Government would scrap the BC Treaty Commission and replace it with an observer body that would oversee treaty making exclusively by the federal government, as per its constitutional obligations.
British Columbia would make lands and resources available on the conditions that private property ownership form part of every treaty, and Indian Status and the Reserve system be abolished, with compensation paid to BC for any/all lands or resources offered for settlements.
Wayne McGrath
250.542.7744
nwmcgrath@shaw.ca
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 23, 2009
GITXSAN AND NISGA’A BANDS PAVE WAY
FOR WORKABLE TREATIES
Native Proposals for Private Property and Abolition of Indian Act
Historical Steps in Right Direction
Vernon – The BC Conservative Party is commending the Nisga’a communities of New Aiyansh, and the Gitxsan native peoples for their historical and progressive moves toward independence and self sufficiency, said party President, Wayne McGrath.
The Nisga’a Lisms Government in New Aiyansh has become the first native community in Canadian history to move from a socialist model of government titled personal property to a private property model that will allow Nisga’a people living in that community to buy and sell their land to anyone they want, regardless of native status.
“This is monumental,” said McGrath. “It cannot be overstated how important this move is toward bringing Nisga’a people into the fuller community of B.C. with all of the benefits and wealth creation offered by the ownership of private property. It is a fact of history that virtually all personal wealth is dependent upon the ownership of private property. This is a first in Canada and we strongly support it.”
In the case of the Gitxsan, they have petitioned the federal government to remove their “Indian Status” which would mean they would forgo the reserve system and become taxpaying citizens in exchange for a share of resource wealth.
“The Gitxsan proposal has tremendous potential as well,” said McGrath. “But B.C. must insist that it is compensated by the federal government for any deal that is tied to a share of resource wealth which is the exclusive jurisdiction of the province,” McGrath explained.
“We would not oppose such a deal, so long as the federal government takes full financial responsibility for it as per its obligations according to the Terms of Union BC signed when we joined confederation.”
McGrath said that the two proposals of private property and resource sharing in exchange for relinquishing Indian Status could form the basis for all treaties to come. He said such an approach would be readily acceptable to all British Columbians.
“It is a way of bridging the gap between native communities and the rest of BC in a manner which would unite the province rather than divide it as the current treaty process has done.”
McGrath said that where a community such as the Gitxsan becomes prosperous and self sufficient, that the BC Conservative Party would like to see a “phase out period” where resource revenues are no longer dedicated specifically to those native communities, but are shared proportionately with them and the larger surrounding community. “Eventually, once they have achieved parity with other citizens of BC, then there is no longer a need to dedicate resources specifically to them,” said McGrath.
“The ironic thing in all of this is that we have been saying for years that the lack of private property ownership and the Indian Act are the biggest impediments to natives’ advancement. Yet the BC Liberal government has insisted that bloated treaties with cumbersome regulations entrenching natives as second class citizens via ‘Indian Status’ was the only way to go. Now the native peoples themselves are proposing this.”
“This is just one more file that the Premier has bungled to the detriment of all parties involved. We sincerely hope he will step back and adopt these principles, which we have been advocating, as the basis for any new treaties to come. This is a model that can actually work,” concluded McGrath.
A BC Conservative Government would scrap the BC Treaty Commission and replace it with an observer body that would oversee treaty making exclusively by the federal government, as per its constitutional obligations.
British Columbia would make lands and resources available on the conditions that private property ownership form part of every treaty, and Indian Status and the Reserve system be abolished, with compensation paid to BC for any/all lands or resources offered for settlements.
Wayne McGrath
250.542.7744
nwmcgrath@shaw.ca
CRU emails reveal a worrying pattern of bad behaviour
Sometime last week the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia was hacked and materials stolen off its server. That information, including thousands of emails, has been posted on the internet (including at Wikileaks) and has caused a weekend of frantic blogging. There is more or less a rather juicy scandal brewing.
There is more to this story than the "ho hum, nothing to see here, the making of sausages, and science, shouldn't be seen by the public" attitude being displayed by warmenists. There is, however, less to the story than the "this proves the greatest scientific fraud in human history" attitude being taken by denialists. Read more.
There is more to this story than the "ho hum, nothing to see here, the making of sausages, and science, shouldn't be seen by the public" attitude being displayed by warmenists. There is, however, less to the story than the "this proves the greatest scientific fraud in human history" attitude being taken by denialists. Read more.
Terence Corcoran: After Copenhagen, the end of the science
In the run-up to next month’s increasingly shaky Copenhagen global warming policy negotiations, the official advice from the world’s climatists is that the politicians and the rest of us should just pay no attention to the science of climate change. It is settled, they say, and all we have to do — as the Financial Times editorialized recently — is “follow the science” and get on with the business of reconstruction and redistributing world economic production. We must, in the words of Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker’s resident climatist, maintain our “faith in science.” Read more.
Canada stands fast on Arctic
Will defend its territory against all threats, foreign affairs minister says
It sure would be a lot easier to assert Canadian sovereignty in the North if we had a growing population and infrastructure in place. This is why an energy strategy to use the great untapped hydro power of the North is critical to the survival of Canada as we know her.
Canada remains ready to defend its Arctic border against nations that would "push the envelope," Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon says.
Although scientists are still mapping the country's icy and watery northern limits, an exercise that won't be complete until 2013, Cannon said yesterday Canada takes its responsibility for its Arctic lands and water seriously.
"This is why we react so strongly when other nations like Russia engage in exercises and other activities that appear to challenge our security in the North," he said. Read more.
It sure would be a lot easier to assert Canadian sovereignty in the North if we had a growing population and infrastructure in place. This is why an energy strategy to use the great untapped hydro power of the North is critical to the survival of Canada as we know her.
Canada remains ready to defend its Arctic border against nations that would "push the envelope," Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon says.
Although scientists are still mapping the country's icy and watery northern limits, an exercise that won't be complete until 2013, Cannon said yesterday Canada takes its responsibility for its Arctic lands and water seriously.
"This is why we react so strongly when other nations like Russia engage in exercises and other activities that appear to challenge our security in the North," he said. Read more.
Time for Tories to come clean on emissions
By LORRIE GOLDSTEIN, SUN MEDIA
The political fight over what to do about global warming is ultimately a fight over our money and standard of living.
It will involve a massive redistribution of our wealth, both domestically and internationally.
Given the long time frames necessary to study climate change meaningfully, no one alive today will ever know whether efforts to avert so-called "catastrophic" global warming by reducing mankind's greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, actually worked.
Or whether, many decades from now, they proved to be worthwhile or even necessary.However, we will know in our lifetimes -- indeed it's already started -- what this effort will cost us as taxpayers and consumers. Read more.
The political fight over what to do about global warming is ultimately a fight over our money and standard of living.
It will involve a massive redistribution of our wealth, both domestically and internationally.
Given the long time frames necessary to study climate change meaningfully, no one alive today will ever know whether efforts to avert so-called "catastrophic" global warming by reducing mankind's greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, actually worked.
Or whether, many decades from now, they proved to be worthwhile or even necessary.However, we will know in our lifetimes -- indeed it's already started -- what this effort will cost us as taxpayers and consumers. Read more.
Ingenious new ways to use the Green movement to confiscate your money
With any government mandated restriction their comes an army of parasites that will use it to their benefit. These “entrepreneurs” then become the regulation’s biggest lobbyists.
Green redemption
The world saved the bankers. Now it is time for the bankers to return the favour
DEPENDING on how you view it, climate change is either the biggest problem mankind faces or its greatest financial opportunity. For example, McKinsey has become known as a climate-change consultant, thanks to its greenhouse gas “cost abatement curve”. This clever little chart shows the relative opportunity costs of different abatement activities. McKinsey’s curve and expertise on climate change have opened the doors and pockets of ministries and industries around the globe.
Read more.
Green redemption
The world saved the bankers. Now it is time for the bankers to return the favour
DEPENDING on how you view it, climate change is either the biggest problem mankind faces or its greatest financial opportunity. For example, McKinsey has become known as a climate-change consultant, thanks to its greenhouse gas “cost abatement curve”. This clever little chart shows the relative opportunity costs of different abatement activities. McKinsey’s curve and expertise on climate change have opened the doors and pockets of ministries and industries around the globe.
Read more.
James Delingpole on Climategate
Climategate: the final nail in the coffin of 'Anthropogenic Global Warming'?
If you own any shares in alternative energy companies I should start dumping them NOW. The conspiracy behind the Anthropogenic Global Warming myth (aka AGW; aka ManBearPig) has been suddenly, brutally and quite deliciously exposed after a hacker broke into the computers at the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit (aka Hadley CRU) and released 61 megabites of confidential files onto the internet. Read more.
If you own any shares in alternative energy companies I should start dumping them NOW. The conspiracy behind the Anthropogenic Global Warming myth (aka AGW; aka ManBearPig) has been suddenly, brutally and quite deliciously exposed after a hacker broke into the computers at the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit (aka Hadley CRU) and released 61 megabites of confidential files onto the internet. Read more.
Monday, November 16, 2009
Israeli Science Breakthrough Extracts Fuel from Water
(IsraelNN.com) Among the most important challenges facing science today is designing an efficient system for splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen. The ability to do so will introduce hydrogen into the market as a clean, sustainable fuel. But man-made systems for getting to the root of water that exist today are very inefficient and often require additional use of sacrificial chemical agents.
Now, a unique approach developed by Prof. David Milstein and colleagues of the Weizmann Institute’s Organic Chemistry Department, provides important steps in overcoming this challenge. Their research demonstrated a new mode of bond generation between oxygen atoms and even defined the mechanism by which it takes place. It is the generation of oxygen gas by the formation of a bond between two oxygen atoms originating from water molecules that proves to be the bottleneck in the water splitting process. Their research has recently been published in Science Read more.
Now, a unique approach developed by Prof. David Milstein and colleagues of the Weizmann Institute’s Organic Chemistry Department, provides important steps in overcoming this challenge. Their research demonstrated a new mode of bond generation between oxygen atoms and even defined the mechanism by which it takes place. It is the generation of oxygen gas by the formation of a bond between two oxygen atoms originating from water molecules that proves to be the bottleneck in the water splitting process. Their research has recently been published in Science Read more.
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
DANGERS TO FUNDAMENTAL FREEDOMS AT FORTHCOMING UN COPENHAGEN SUMMIT
Lord Monckton has warned the public in Europe and the United States that the upcoming Copenhagen Summit in December this year will use global warming hype as a pretext to lay the foundation for a one-world unelected ‘communist-style’ government with enormous powers. Read more.
The Economic Uses of Al Gore Sincerity is no substitute for disinterestedness.
Last spring Tennessee Republican Rep. Marsha Blackburn asked Al Gore during a House hearing if his investments in green energy meant he would benefit personally from cap and trade.
"If you believe that the reason I have been working on this issue for 30 years is because of greed, you don't know me," Mr. Gore responded (and, yes, according to two reporters present, he sighed).
Mr. Gore is quite right that his arguments should be judged on their merits, not on his investments. He's wrong to think his investments are irrelevant, and, even more, that sincerity is dispositive of anything. Sincerity is no substitute for disinterestedness. Read more.
"If you believe that the reason I have been working on this issue for 30 years is because of greed, you don't know me," Mr. Gore responded (and, yes, according to two reporters present, he sighed).
Mr. Gore is quite right that his arguments should be judged on their merits, not on his investments. He's wrong to think his investments are irrelevant, and, even more, that sincerity is dispositive of anything. Sincerity is no substitute for disinterestedness. Read more.
Peter Foster: Climatism is more than a belief system
A fired official believes climate change is equivalent to a religious belief. Who could disagree?
The case of fired British “sustainability official” Tim Nicholson has attracted much interest. That’s because Mr. Nicholson is pursuing redress from his former employer, home developer Grainger plc, under the UK’s Employment Equality (Religion and Belief) Regulations of 2003. He claims he was fired for his convictions about catastrophic man-made climate change. Read more.
The case of fired British “sustainability official” Tim Nicholson has attracted much interest. That’s because Mr. Nicholson is pursuing redress from his former employer, home developer Grainger plc, under the UK’s Employment Equality (Religion and Belief) Regulations of 2003. He claims he was fired for his convictions about catastrophic man-made climate change. Read more.
Climate change study shows Earth is still absorbing carbon dioxide
The research, by Bristol University, suggests that despite rising emissions, the world is is still able to store a significant amount of greenhouse gases in oceans and forests.
According to the study, the Earth has continued to absorb more than half of the carbon dioxide pumped out by humans over the last 160 years. Read more.
According to the study, the Earth has continued to absorb more than half of the carbon dioxide pumped out by humans over the last 160 years. Read more.
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Top 10 Most Outrageous Things Said By Environmentalists
Tuesday, 03 November 2009 11:11 Environmentalists tend to say the darndest things, but here is a top 10 list of perhaps some of the worst things written or uttered by them- (In no particular order, of course):
Written by Joe Schoffstall
10. 'Phasing out the human race will solve every problem on earth, social and environmental.' - Dave Forman, Founder of Earth First!
9. 'If I were reincarnated, I would wish to be returned to Earth as a killer virus to lower population levels.' - Prince Phillip, World Wildlife Fund
8. 'We, in the green movement, aspire to a cultural model in which killing a forest will be considered more contemptible and more criminal than the sale of 6-year-old children to brothels.' - Carl Amery
7. 'I suspect that eradicating small pox was wrong. It played an important part in balancing ecosystems.' - John Davis, editor of Earth First! Journal
6. 'The extinction of human species may not only be inevitable, but a good thing...This is not to say that the rise of human civilization is insignificant, but there is no way of showing that it will be much help to the world in the long run.' - Economist editorial
5. 'The collective needs of non-human species must take precedence over the needs and desires of humans'- Dr. Reed F. Noss, The Wildlands Project
4. 'Cannabilism is a "radical but realistic solution to the problem of overpopulation." - Lyall Watson, The Financial Times, 15 July 1995
3. 'To feed a starving child is to exacerbate the world population problem.'- Lamont Cole
2. If radical environmentalists were to invent a disease to bring human populations back to sanity, it would probably be something like AIDS- Earth First! Newsleter
1. 'We have wished, we ecofreaks, for a disaster or social change to come and bomb us back into the Stone Age, where we might live like Indians in our valley, with our localism, our appropriate technology, our gardens, our homemade religion-- guilt free at last! - Stewart Brand (writing in the Whole Earth Catalogue)
Patrick Moore- a co-founder of Greenpeace- states in 'Not Evil Just Wrong' he has a checklist he runs through with current Environmentalists, and one of the first things he notices is that they tend to be 'anti-human.' You be the judge...
Go to original article.
Written by Joe Schoffstall
10. 'Phasing out the human race will solve every problem on earth, social and environmental.' - Dave Forman, Founder of Earth First!
9. 'If I were reincarnated, I would wish to be returned to Earth as a killer virus to lower population levels.' - Prince Phillip, World Wildlife Fund
8. 'We, in the green movement, aspire to a cultural model in which killing a forest will be considered more contemptible and more criminal than the sale of 6-year-old children to brothels.' - Carl Amery
7. 'I suspect that eradicating small pox was wrong. It played an important part in balancing ecosystems.' - John Davis, editor of Earth First! Journal
6. 'The extinction of human species may not only be inevitable, but a good thing...This is not to say that the rise of human civilization is insignificant, but there is no way of showing that it will be much help to the world in the long run.' - Economist editorial
5. 'The collective needs of non-human species must take precedence over the needs and desires of humans'- Dr. Reed F. Noss, The Wildlands Project
4. 'Cannabilism is a "radical but realistic solution to the problem of overpopulation." - Lyall Watson, The Financial Times, 15 July 1995
3. 'To feed a starving child is to exacerbate the world population problem.'- Lamont Cole
2. If radical environmentalists were to invent a disease to bring human populations back to sanity, it would probably be something like AIDS- Earth First! Newsleter
1. 'We have wished, we ecofreaks, for a disaster or social change to come and bomb us back into the Stone Age, where we might live like Indians in our valley, with our localism, our appropriate technology, our gardens, our homemade religion-- guilt free at last! - Stewart Brand (writing in the Whole Earth Catalogue)
Patrick Moore- a co-founder of Greenpeace- states in 'Not Evil Just Wrong' he has a checklist he runs through with current Environmentalists, and one of the first things he notices is that they tend to be 'anti-human.' You be the judge...
Go to original article.
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Euro Lobbyists are pushing hard on Obama - they see weakness
Merkel urges Congress to act on climate
Partisan divide that greeted German leader also seen on Senate bill
With Vice President Joe Biden looking on, German Chancellor Angela Merkel addresses a joint session of Congress, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009, on Capitol Hill in Washington.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel urged Congress and the Obama administration Tuesday to take bold steps to address global warming, even as Senate Democrats and Republicans feuded over whether to press ahead with a climate bill. Read more.
Partisan divide that greeted German leader also seen on Senate bill
With Vice President Joe Biden looking on, German Chancellor Angela Merkel addresses a joint session of Congress, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009, on Capitol Hill in Washington.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel urged Congress and the Obama administration Tuesday to take bold steps to address global warming, even as Senate Democrats and Republicans feuded over whether to press ahead with a climate bill. Read more.
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
A 'notible reduction' should also be Canada's Policy
China says its Greenhouse gas emissions will be reduced by a notable margin. I think Canada should copy the China policy and say we will also reduce our emissions by a notable margin. Economics are China’s first concern (as well as making the West pay for any emission cleanup) – economics should also be Canada’s first concern.
China's Climate Change Policy: The Dragon's Green Streak
In a landmark address to the U.N. Climate Change Conference last month, Chinese President Hu Jintao announced Beijing's commitment to trim the explosive growth of China's carbon emissions "by a notable margin." But he also reiterated his country's hackneyed dictum that industrialized countries should bear most of the burden for emissions-cutting. Hu's headline-grabbing speech captured the essence of China's Janus-faced climate change policy -- which, despite remarkable progress, continues to be bogged down with implementation problems and overshadowed by China's concerns with economic growth and its leadership role in the developing world. Read more if your stomach can take it.
China's Climate Change Policy: The Dragon's Green Streak
In a landmark address to the U.N. Climate Change Conference last month, Chinese President Hu Jintao announced Beijing's commitment to trim the explosive growth of China's carbon emissions "by a notable margin." But he also reiterated his country's hackneyed dictum that industrialized countries should bear most of the burden for emissions-cutting. Hu's headline-grabbing speech captured the essence of China's Janus-faced climate change policy -- which, despite remarkable progress, continues to be bogged down with implementation problems and overshadowed by China's concerns with economic growth and its leadership role in the developing world. Read more if your stomach can take it.
The Green Cause is really a religious issue.
If science will not support their policies, then the left will employ emotion - after all man-made global warming is a religion.
Religious leader promotes 'green' causes
An unusual environmental lobbyist will be making the rounds this week on Capitol Hill: the spiritual leader of the Orthodox Church. Read more.
Religious leader promotes 'green' causes
An unusual environmental lobbyist will be making the rounds this week on Capitol Hill: the spiritual leader of the Orthodox Church. Read more.
Monday, November 2, 2009
The Cost of Climate Change Bill will be paid by Democrats
Climate bill faces hurdles in Senate
DEMOCRATS DEEPLY SPLIT
Deal on nuclear plants offered to court Republicans
The climate-change bill that has been moving slowly through the Senate will face a stark political reality when it emerges for committee debate on Tuesday: With Democrats deeply divided on the issue, unless some Republican lawmakers risk the backlash for signing on to the legislation, there is almost no hope for passage. Read More.
DEMOCRATS DEEPLY SPLIT
Deal on nuclear plants offered to court Republicans
The climate-change bill that has been moving slowly through the Senate will face a stark political reality when it emerges for committee debate on Tuesday: With Democrats deeply divided on the issue, unless some Republican lawmakers risk the backlash for signing on to the legislation, there is almost no hope for passage. Read More.
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