Update on the average global temperature for 2007

Warning - 10 years of data is probably still too short a time to be speaking about trends one way or another, but if there is any trend, it's a small downward one of 0.05 degree C.

http://denerding.blogspot.com/2007/12/global-warming-earth-cooled-005c-in.html

King's College Choir - Once In Royal David's City

A bit late for Christmas, but I only chanced upon this today. You don't have to be religious to appreciate the beauty of this tune or the choir that sings it.

But why miss an opportunity to diss our ABC yet again? Why it has made the decision not to show the service of Nine Lessons and carols on Christmas Eve any more I don't know, though I suspect that small-minded parochial nationalism is behind this.

Now all we get is a similar kind of thing from an Australian cathedral. The simple fact is that the choir of King's is head and shoulders above the quality of any local one. And this service is a long standing international Christmas tradition.

I'm all for the ABC supporting local choirs and giving people an opportunity to hear them sing, but why play around with this?

And do we really need to see the Anglican archbishop of Melbourne pretending to be an Orthodox hierarch, giving the blessing at the end with the tip of his fourth finger touching that of his thumb? I think not.



And while I'm at it - The Seven Joys of Mary:



Finally, one of my favourites, the old Basque carol The Angel Gabriel:

Are Carbon Emissions the Cause of Global Warming?

(Gratuitous advice for those whose jobs depend on the idea that carbon emissions cause global warming: Find another job to pay your mortgage and feed your kids!)

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“Let them drink rat’s milk” #4

Fixing global warming is important to Google co-founder Larry Page - so why fly 600 guests to a small Carribean island for you wedding, all by private jet? Sir Richard “We must not be the generation responsible for irreversibly damaging the environment” Branson will be best man and also flying by private jet.

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Cold 2007 defies warming predictions

With just a few weeks to go it’s looking like 2007 will be the coolest year this century and possibly the coolest since 1995. If so then one more year like this and we will begin to have enough statistical information to speculate about a downward trend, though a few more years will be better.

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Stolen generations myth claims yet more children

Andrew Bolt explains why the "propagandists who invented the “stolen generations” myth have blood on their hands."

The trees were kidding: world was warmer just a few centuries ago

The IPCC used it in its third assessment report. Al Gore used it in his movie. In fact, no graphic has had such a huge effect as the infamous hockeystick produced by Michael Mann, who used tree ring data to allegedly show that the last century’s warming was unprecedented, and the globe had never in 2000 years been this hot:

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UN chief snows us on Antarctica

In fact, while we’re told to panic about rising carbon dioxide levels, the globe still refuses to warm above the maximum temperature recorded in 1998. Indeed, South America has become very chile chilly, as Alexandre Aguiar of Brazil’s MetSul Weather Center complains:

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The greenest thing about Gore’s company is the cash

“GIM’s portfolio is a run-of-the-mill mix of financial service, healthcare, consumer products, technology and industrial materials companies that hardly seems to live up to Gore’s rhetoric about social and environmental sustainability allegedly driving GIM’s investment choices”

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A professor catches Rudd red-handed on green spin

Rudd was less than honest in the way he described the modelling by MMA, especially in associating it with Monash University.

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Wind power: Ugly, expensive and next to useless

The latest VENCorp annual planning report has yet more bad news for wind farms.

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Greenland celebrates local warming

It’s a reminder that Greenland was once named Greenland for a reason, in days even warmer than these before the deep ice came.

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Best joke ad of the election?

Leave working tipplers alone

THE true sickness of our times is not that we eat too much, smoke cigarettes or knock off a bottle of wine in an evening.It is the ever-growing tendency of medical boards, government officials, politicians and other groups who seem to have nothing better to do than tell us how to lead our lives.

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Grow up Mr Rudd

As Andrew Bolt observed, there's a blogger's vibe to the current series of ads from the two main political parties here in Australia.

Labor anticipated the Coalition's attack on its links to the union movement and immediately had a reply deconstructing it.

Now the Coalition responds in kind.

Man Cold

Howard back in the fight

The odds on a Liberal win have shortened at Sportingbet to $2.65. Labor is still a solid favorite at $1.55, but John Howard is striding back into town.

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Indoctrinate U Trailer

Kill democracy to save the planet

Emeritus Professor David Shearman, an IPCC assessor and honorary secretary of Doctors for the Environment Australia: Do you believe that climate change can be arrested under our sacrosanct system of liberal democracy?

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Success in Iraq shouldn’t be such an unwelcome surprise

Most statistics from Iraq these days are good. While that can change (and probably will), why didn't most mainstream media see this coming?

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