At last. A bit of objectivity. Thanks Mark for writing this excellent article.

Noah seemed to be the last person to get it right.

Tom Tiddler - thanks for the boost. Much appreciated.

Bugsy - in fact I like to think I adopt a reasoned approach in the book, but that does mean I go further into demolishing the climate orthodoxy. However, the article sticks strictly to the obvious and the well established. Temperatures are going to decline over the next year or so at a minimum, but we can check them off against my suggested benchmark to see how this la Nina compares against the previous cycle.
This is obviously not the doom and gloom of vast temperature increases constantly forecast by global warmers but that cannot be helped

RUNNER! Hi 5 Mate :)

I wonder of any of the 'climate change' faitful have looked at the fraudulent work of the IPCC ?

Just for your information...

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/02/04/2810784.htm

Note the words...

"I believe that the scientific evidence that is provided by the IPCC has not been shaken in spite of the very unfortunate mistake," said de Boer.

Hmmm "AAaah beliEVEEEEE... yesssssir..Ah believe...!"

Seems just a tad subjective and vested interest like to me

So over the last 10 yrs we have had an expodential growth of carbon emissions and global temps have fallen.

Why then the urgency for a carbon tax? As realed at Copenhagen by Monckton an others,it is all about financing a "New World Order" or world Govt run by a cabal of corporate interests.

How much democracy do you think we will be able to exercise? Our elections at the moment are a farce with corporate funds dictating how the major parties Govern.

Not long ago you would have been almost burned at the stake for uttering such heresy, Mark.

By not long ago I mean last year. During the last Xmas period sceptical sites mysteriously disappeared from Google for a while. All opposing views were crushed. Plimer was villified by the ABC and others, David Suzuki wanted to jail non-believers, former Clinton official Joe Romm said that climate deniers would be 'strangled in their beds' and NASA's James Hansen has called for trials of climate skeptics in 2008 for "high crimes against humanity.”. Great stuff from eminent 'scientists'!

Then Copenhagen came and the world realised no-one really believed in the idea enough to sign an agreement and everyone just went home and forgot about it - for a while. But there was too much money invested in Carbon Trading for this to go away completely. So it is encouraging to see someone presenting the other side of the story.

I admire your attempt to appeal to simple logic and clear thought but I fear that the Carbonophobics, who are driven by zealotry and emotion, probably won't be swayed.