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Priest guilty of 18 child sex offences

A 57-year-old Catholic priest has been remanded in custody after a Sydney jury found him guilty of 18 sex offences involving seven boys.

Exxon and BHP announce big Australia gas project

MELBOURNE, Australia - A subsidiary of ExxonMobil Corp. and BHP Billiton Ltd on Friday announced a $1.25 billion project to tap oil and gas reserves in Bass Strait off southern Australia.

Arctic sea ice extent in 2008 normal
Current scientific research on Arctic sea ice reveals it is typical of the last decade and higher than 2007. This is in contradiction with the false alarmism that the old media continues to push whilst ignoring current reality.

CSIRO again criticised for process
CSIRO have been criticised for not having an open and transparent process when it comes to science.

Sun activity says current cooling cycle to continue
In an updated paper out on the current reduced solar activity its yet another indication that the current cooling cycle is to continue

Australian PM revives plans to include Aborigines in constitution

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd was visiting a remote Outback Aboriginal community Wednesday when he raised the issue of recognizing Aborigines in Australia's 107-year-old constitution.

Global warming over a new cold climate has begun
"After an exhaustive review of a substantial body of climate research, and in conjunction with the obvious and compelling new evidence that exists, it is time that the world community acknowledges that the Earth has begun its next climate change. In an opinion echoed by many scientists around the world, the Space and Science Research Center (SSRC), today declares that the world's climate warming of the past decades has now come to an end. A new climate era has already started that is bringing predominantly colder global temperatures for many years into the future. In some years this new climate will create dangerously cold weather with significant ill-effects world wide. Global warming is over - a new cold climate has begun."--Space & Science

Warming alarmists getting desperate
Actually, ridiculous statements and definitive claims of doom are a good sign. Good because they are a sign of desperation as evidence accumulates that human CO2 is not causing warming or climate change. Good because people and governments are changing their positions faced with the evidence and the costs already incurred by wrong policies and actions. Good because governments are coming to their senses and getting their priorities right. India putting development to feed starving citizens ahead of unsubstantiated threats of climate change is a great advance. It also provides an argument that transcends and regains the moral high ground environmentalists claim.

Alarmists fatal flaw
"For many years now we`ve been bombarded with the increasingly shrill message of the leader of the global warming death cult, Al Gore, telling us that we needed to change our behaviour and save the planet, even while his own behaviour belied the fact that there was any impending planetary emergency. This was all well and good with gas prices at $2/gallon. "

Pack your bags for Baghdad? Iraq looks to tourism

Someone had fun tinkering with the airline board at the old, disused terminal at Baghdad International Airport.

Global warming religion ignores science and facts
Speech by Senator James Ihofe "Regarding the real subject of the hearing, it is no secret what my views on the science of man-made global warming are. I welcome Dr. Roy Spencer, who will be updating the Committee on his recent theoretical and observational evidence that climate sensitivity has been overestimated, as well as giving his perspective on White House involvement in the reporting of agency employee's work. I am also happy to report that there are several updates that are worth noting for purposes of the record for this hearing. Numerous peer-reviewed studies, analyses and prominent scientists continue to speak out to refute many conclusions of the IPCC. I have documented in the past how the consensus on the "science is settled" debate has been challenged, and in many cases, completely refuted, from the hockey stick, to the Stern Review, to the IPCC backtracking on conclusive physical links between global warming and observed hurricane frequency and intensity. Just this past week, a major new study was published in the peer-reviewed journal Climate Dynamics that finds worldwide land warming has occurred largely in response' to oceans, and not carbon dioxide. There have also been recent challenges by Russian scientists to the very idea that carbon dioxide is driving Earth's temperature and a report from India challenging the so-called "consensus." The Physics and Society Forum, a unit within the American Physical Society, published a new paper refuting the IPCC conclusions where the editor conceded there is a 'considerable presence' of global warming skeptics within the scientific community. More and more prominent scientists continue to speak out and dissent from man made global warming. In June, the Nobel Prize Winner for Physics, Ivar Giaever, declared himself a "skeptic" and said "global warming has become a new religion." Atmospheric Scientist Dr. Joanna Simpson, the first woman in the world to receive a PhD in meteorology also dissented in 2008. "As a scientist I remain skeptical" of climate fears, Dr. Simpson said in February of this year. In June, a top UN IPCC Japanese Scientist, Dr. Kiminori Itoh, turned on the IPCC and called man-made global warming fears the "worst scientific scandal in the history." In addition, more evidence of challenges to global warming occurred when two top hurricane scientists announced they were reconsidering their views on global warming and hurricanes."

Better food production with less water - the alarmists hate it!
In a paper published in the Biological Sciences section of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society in July of 2007, Morison et al. report that "agriculture accounts for 80-90% of all freshwater used by humans," that "most of that is in crop production," and that "in many areas, this water use is unsustainable." As a result, they say that "farmers in many countries are now faced with legislative restrictions on use of water," noting that the Chinese government "has set a target of a reduction of 20% in water use in agriculture by the year 2020," such that "if food security for the region is not to be threatened, this must be achieved without a loss in production." So how is this global food and water crisis to be met and overcome?

Aboriginal leader calls for Govt to pull 'unviable' community funding

An Aboriginal leader in Western Australia's Kimberley region says Government should stop supporting Indigenous communities, which aren't viable.

Save a Whale, Harpoon a Jap

A racism row has emerged with a car rental company hiring out vans bearing the slogan "Save a whale... harpoon a Jap". Some of Wicked's campers have been confiscated ...

All time record high temps not in the last 30 yrs
As questions continue to be raised about the validity of global warming alarmism a recent graph of record world temps show that they were predominantly around 100 yrs ago

Catholic protester dies in jail

A 27-year-old French citizen has died in his prison cell after being arrested during the peak of the celebrations for World Youth Day.

Open government Rudd reforms praised

FEDERAL Government ministers will no longer be able to block Freedom of Information requests under reforms of the laws. I didn't know they could. Awesome.

making up the illusionary climate crisis from junk
Everyone has heard the term, "creating something from thin air." Now there is a new term, "creating climate data from junk."... So how is that? The station closed in 1995 but the data continues until 2006? Did some of the worlds leading climate scientists create the data from thin air? Well, not exactly. Part of the USHCN data is created by a computer program called "filnet" which estimates missing values. According to the NOAA, filnet works by using a weighted average of values from neighboring stations. Filnet is applied after a homogeneity adjustment which is not designed to find many of these problems. Imagine that, the worlds leading climate scientists creating temperature data from surrounding stations which are biased by barbecues, bodies of water, wind blocks, jet engines, pavement, roof tops, air conditioner exhausts, inversion layers, non-standard equipment, urban heat islands, automobiles and chimneys. They didn't create climate data from thin air; they created it from junk.

Climate crisis yet to turn up
Someone please help me out here. Everyone is yelling about fixing the "climate crisis", but I still can't find it - the crisis, that is.

The economics make piping water from Tasmania a no-brainer

T HE Tasmanian Government is considering a brash proposal to pipe a massive 350 gigalitres of fresh water a year to Melbourne in a new venture. If it all adds up, why not? Just somebody to something for the love of crumbcake. This has been passed around politician's 'too hard trays' since the 80s.