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	<description>Taking the heat out of global warming</description>
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		<title>Sceptics query our truth &#8211; we shall besmirch and slander them</title>
		<link>http://www.climateconversation.wordshine.co.nz/2012/01/sceptics-query-our-truth-we-shall-besmirch-and-slander-them/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 23:12:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Treadgold</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alarmists]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Denier, denier, pants on fire Deniers claim debate is &#8216;over&#8217; because they can&#8217;t win it Constant practise of scepticism is the root of good science Hot Topic have been reviling our good friend and climate warrior Bryan Leyland for his opinion piece published recently. Not to mention several other sceptical climate articles by other people [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A wee debate</title>
		<link>http://www.climateconversation.wordshine.co.nz/2011/08/a-wee-debate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jul 2011 22:48:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Treadgold</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Monckton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christopher Monckton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Climate Science]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everyone wants it; some don&#8217;t want to share. Free speech in New Zealand? Everyone claims the right to free speech, but not necessarily for &#8216;others&#8217;. All talk of curbing free speech is for &#8216;other&#8217; people, never for oneself. What is a debate? It&#8217;s just a few people talking to each other. Who could be afraid [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>50</slash:comments>
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		<title>Renowden misdirects in a septic meander</title>
		<link>http://www.climateconversation.wordshine.co.nz/2011/07/renowden-misdirects-in-a-septic-meander/</link>
		<comments>http://www.climateconversation.wordshine.co.nz/2011/07/renowden-misdirects-in-a-septic-meander/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2011 09:15:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Treadgold</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Disproving AGW]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Chris de Freitas]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[de Freitas feeds his students sceptic propaganda … So says the radical Renowden, he of the non-sceptical &#8220;believe everything they say&#8221; warmist persuasion. But read what he says about Chris de Freitas&#8217; crimes and you&#8217;ll realise he says nothing, because no crimes exist. Gareth Renowden is himself guilty of attempting to abridge the academic freedom [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>72</slash:comments>
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		<title>&#8216;Clueless&#8217; cries the credulous truffle grubber</title>
		<link>http://www.climateconversation.wordshine.co.nz/2011/07/clueless-cries-the-credulous-truffle-grubber/</link>
		<comments>http://www.climateconversation.wordshine.co.nz/2011/07/clueless-cries-the-credulous-truffle-grubber/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2011 11:59:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Treadgold</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Global warming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[What is the evidence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ACT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Climate Science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Don Brash]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hot Topic]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.climateconversation.wordshine.co.nz/?p=10459</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Dr Don Brash, leader of the ACT Party. More sense in his little fingerthan some climate deniers have in their whole body. But Brash simply reflects reality A post today at Hot Topic gets really stuck in to Don Brash. Don gave a speech today to the Federated Farmers annual conference. He mentioned the ETS, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>61</slash:comments>
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		<title>Ooh! Real blog wars</title>
		<link>http://www.climateconversation.wordshine.co.nz/2011/06/ooh-real-blog-wars/</link>
		<comments>http://www.climateconversation.wordshine.co.nz/2011/06/ooh-real-blog-wars/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 03:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Treadgold</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Global warming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CCG blog]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hah! Gareth&#8217;s upset about the Alexa rankings I&#8217;ve started publishing in the sidebar. He gets going in a scholarly way and lengthily, but listen: Treadgold’s Climate Conversation blog ranks at around 500,000. By way of comparison, David Farrar’s Kiwiblog.co.nz is ranked #68,226 in the world (#88 in NZ). Climate Conversation is so far down in [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>25</slash:comments>
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		<title>NZ blog rankings</title>
		<link>http://www.climateconversation.wordshine.co.nz/2011/06/nz-blog-rankings/</link>
		<comments>http://www.climateconversation.wordshine.co.nz/2011/06/nz-blog-rankings/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2011 10:20:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Treadgold</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.climateconversation.wordshine.co.nz/?p=10308</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Alexa rulz! Just a quick note to draw your attention to a new feature on the sidebar: scroll down one page and you should see it. There&#8217;s a little table showing the recent Alexa rankings for the Climate Conversation, SciBlogs and Hot Topic. At the moment we&#8217;re leading them by big margins. It&#8217;s not automated, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>Perspective, raw and bleeding</title>
		<link>http://www.climateconversation.wordshine.co.nz/2011/06/perspective-raw-and-bleeding/</link>
		<comments>http://www.climateconversation.wordshine.co.nz/2011/06/perspective-raw-and-bleeding/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 04:43:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Treadgold</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Global warming]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Open Parachute]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.climateconversation.wordshine.co.nz/?p=10023</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Alexa NZ rankings The best in New Zealand is no. 1. All others fall into line astern according to their number. So far, we at the Climate Conversation are proud of our standing. However, should this ranking fall, we will still be proud of our standing. Latest rankings &#8211; 21 June, 2011 (The closer the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Will Keith Hunter destroy us?</title>
		<link>http://www.climateconversation.wordshine.co.nz/2011/05/will-keith-hunter-destroy-us/</link>
		<comments>http://www.climateconversation.wordshine.co.nz/2011/05/will-keith-hunter-destroy-us/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2011 08:48:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Treadgold</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Disproving AGW]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global warming]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.climateconversation.wordshine.co.nz/?p=9596</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Talk to us again, Keith. All it would take is some evidence Professor Keith Hunter didn&#8217;t continue his conversation with us here (which we all felt was proceeding very well). He based that decision on unspecified comments from some of our readers. But he&#8217;s not above visiting Hot Topic and throwing us a barb from [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>23</slash:comments>
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		<title>Renowden has no evidence for CAGW</title>
		<link>http://www.climateconversation.wordshine.co.nz/2011/04/renowden-has-no-evidence-for-cagw/</link>
		<comments>http://www.climateconversation.wordshine.co.nz/2011/04/renowden-has-no-evidence-for-cagw/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2011 12:20:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Treadgold</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Disproving AGW]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[What is the evidence]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Peter Gluckman]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jo Nova created this iconic cartoon of the shaky evidence for CAGW. This is in response (slightly delayed by an Easter break) to the list of &#8220;proofs&#8221; produced by Gareth Renowden, at Hot Topic, in answer to my request of Sir Peter Gluckman, the PM&#8217;s scientific advisor, for evidence of a human cause for anticipated [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>31</slash:comments>
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		<title>Perrott puts his foot in his mouth</title>
		<link>http://www.climateconversation.wordshine.co.nz/2011/02/perrott-puts-his-foot-in-his-mouth/</link>
		<comments>http://www.climateconversation.wordshine.co.nz/2011/02/perrott-puts-his-foot-in-his-mouth/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2011 07:04:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Treadgold</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Global warming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NIWA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Climate Science]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ken Perrott uses his mouth a lot. Now he puts his foot in it, along with his mate Gareth. Then Renowden joins him Our most vocal critic, Ken Perrott, has chanced upon a file I just posted, containing the unadjusted temperature data which was the subject of our paper, Are We Feeling Warmer Yet? (AWFWY), [...]]]></description>
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