Author: Rafe Champion

  • More farce at COP

    China is not the only country that is playing the useful green idiots of the west for suckers. China has done a great job of getting them on side by meaningless green gestures and now India has got into the game. First Mr Modi played hard to get, threatening to boycott the meeting, then he…

  • Tom Switzer guest post. Russia and China copout

    Net Zero By 2050? Don’t Plan on It Politicians promise an unrealistic transformation that would deny poor countries a chance to grow. As leaders prepare to gather in Glasgow for the United Nations climate-change conference, you may think the world has agreed to reduce and eventually eliminate its dependency on fossil fuels, stepping up its…

  • Campion’s primer on atmospheric physics

    “Net Zero” is pointless. There is no CO2 “greenhouse effect.” Basic physics proves that. CO2 absorbs outgoing longwave infrared radiation (heat) as photons at the 14.8 microns frequency (Planck’s Law). The temperature of absorption at 14.8 microns is -80 degrees Celsius (Wien’s Displacement Law). Minus 80 degrees Celsius is 95 degrees lower than average atmospheric…

  • China saves COP and the world

    I was waiting for this because the Chinese have been playing the wokies of the west like trout with displays of RE installations and the distant promise of peak emissions. Update. Playing the wokies like a trout is quite wrong, the trout have the good sense to resist. The wokies are not resisting, they are…

  • Trouble at mill

    The Tories are not united on the eve of COP. With just over a week to go before Boris Johnson hosts the largest ever gathering of world leaders in Britain, tensions are rising and tempers fraying in Downing Street. The prime minister is said to be “irritated” by Alok Sharma, the man he appointed to chair the Cop26…

  • Self-destruction of the west

    This is not entirely new but it is a very concise and compelling overview of the way things are going as climate and RE lunacy rule the western world at present. See the story in the file attached. Six fallacies One: There is a ‘green’ energy transitionTwo: Energy is like other commoditiesThree: Energy efficiency will…

  • The progress of the climate crusade

    Sign up here to get regular updates from the IPA about the disgraceful buildup towards COP26. For the duration of the global climate meeting in Glasgow, from 31 October to 12 November, this update will come in a daily email with research from the IPA and commentary from our Special Correspondent who will be reporting…

  • A sign of the times

  • RE fails in SA as usual

    DINNERTIME UPDATE Checking at 6.30 Sydney time, South Australia has turned the corner as the sun went down in the mid to late afternoon after exporting power since late morning and is now importing bigtime. Check the live display and the dispatch summary. The wind across the South East has been at drought level all…

  • The stolen climate debate

    Richard Lindzen is probably the dean of climate science. In this very short video he explains how the real science of climate was stolen by three groups of people in defiance of the majority opinion of genuine scientists associated with the IPPC. The reputable scientists who contribute to deliberations of the IPCC agree on the…