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Where are the hurricanes for 2009, Mr. Gore?

Ex-vice-president and Nobel Peace Prize winner, Al Gore, made it abundantly clear in “An Inconvenient Truth”, his Oscar-winning documentary, that we would suffer increasing numbers of more ferocious hurricanes because of global warming. FLASH: The Atlantic hurricane season has just ended and they have had only five hurricanes. The average is 12 hurricanes, and this year not a single one made landfall in the USA. Where are the hurricanes, Mr Gore?

We have a new online poll

We've changed our online poll and we now ask you if the earth is warming dangerously because of human activities. Simple enough. What do you think? PLEASE: everybody vote, and get everyone you know to vote. Go here. The more who vote, the stronger our message to the government.

Environmentalist sceptic

One of the shrewdest falsehoods in the global warming debate is that climate sceptics don't care about the environment. This is untrue but the misapprehension has been cultivated by the activists in an attempt to marginalise the sceptics.

Climate change?

Yes, of course it does. But every time the climate changes, it simply becomes what it was before. It has gone up and down, to and fro, over hundreds of millions of years with every aspect of climate keeping to regular limits and life survives. The climate does not do “unprecedented”. There is no crisis.

No. 3
4th December 2009

Questions in Parliament, praised around the world—what a week!
by Richard Treadgold, Convenor

For a month now I've been meaning to get another newsletter out to you, covering the latest developments around the world. But it's all gone a bit crazy. So this is a brief emergency newsletter to get you out on Monday evening to a public meeting.

Could you come to a climate meeting on Monday?

You're invited to a public meeting at the Royal Akarana Yacht Club, 10 Tamaki Drive, Okahu Bay, Auckland, on Monday, 7 December, at 7:30 pm — NO CHARGE.

It's been a hectic week. I wrote a paper researched by others from the NZ Climate Science Coalition on the New Zealand temperature record. NIWA claim warming, but the actual thermometer readings show no warming. That paper was tabled in the Parliament, sparked questions in the House and seems hell-bent on a meteoric career through the political landscape, and not just in New Zealand.

There's been recognition and feedback from New Zealand and around the world, including praise from Lord Monckton, who, quoting extensively from our paper, remarked that "New Zealand has led the way". He was referring to moves being made to scrutinise temperature records around the world, following the leak of the CRU emails from the University of East Anglia.

I know this is very short notice!

Rodney Hide has been giving us the most terrific publicity, bringing our paper to the attention of the Parliament and asking pointed questions of the Minister for Climate Change Issues, Nick Smith. Today, he suggested to John Boscawen, ACT list MP, that I might go along as guest speaker at a climate change meeting. John rang me and I was happy to agree.

I will speak about our study into the New Zealand temperature record, Are we feeling warmer yet?, sketch in the research, the results and the implications, then cover the political ramifications, which have only just begun, I suspect. We've basically just compared published temperature figures from NIWA and we are asking them to release the adjustments they've made to the readings. We want independent scientists to check them, because the warming that NIWA claim for the New Zealand climate over the past hundred years is due almost completely to the adjustments. The temperature readings themselves show very little trend.

Please pass this message to everyone you know

I (we) would be very grateful if you would kindly forward this message to everyone you can thnk of. Leaflets have been distributed around Orakei, but my involvement has come too late to be included on that, so we need people to know that we'll be talking about the latest developments in New Zealand's own "climategate" scandal, mirroring overseas events.

So come along on Monday. Bring your family and friends and ask lots of questions. John Boscawen will be the main speaker, and he's going to tell us all about the implications for us of our Emissions Trading Scheme. I can't wait to hear what he has to say.

Shortly, I'll get a proper newsletter out with more news in it.

The resounding call of truth

Against the influence wielded by the UN and eco-activists with pots of money, perhaps we shall prevail with the power of truth.

My very best regards to you,

Richard Treadgold,
Convenor,
Climate Conversation Group.

P.S.: Email me. I want to know what you're thinking about climate change, the newsletter and the web site. I'd like to know what you think should be done. Share your strategies, tactics and ideas; it's bright daylight, but let's wake the Kiwis up because they need to stir themselves. And please vote in our NEW poll.

Cheers,
RT.

P.P.S.: If anyone wants a ride from the North Shore to the meeting at Orakei, give me a call. My car can carry six passengers and I'm a careful driver. Email, phone numbers below.
RT.

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