Climate change
At long last the mainstream media are paying attention to global warming sceptics
The failure of the Earth to warm since the start of the century has been a talking point for global warming sceptics for many years, but it is only in… Continue reading
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What’s happening? Snow was ‘disappearing from our lives’ in 2000
Enormous thanks to OGT for alerting us all to the brilliant article from the Independent – published on Monday March 20th, 2000. Here’s the first bit of it: ‘Britain’s winter… Continue reading
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This extreme weather is a consequence of exhaustive reporting
Just as a follow up to what I was talking about below. Here’s the government’s chief scientific advisor, Sir John Beddington: ‘Professor Sir John Beddington said that time lags in… Continue reading
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Nursing prejudice: how climate change activists are prisoners of their own politics
Sir Paul Nurse, the Nobel laureate and President of the Royal Society, has been hitting out at global warming sceptics. In a speech to the University of Melbourne recently, he… Continue reading
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How Oliver Letwin lost his Kyoto bet with Nigel Lawson
Not that anyone has noticed, but the Kyoto Protocol expired on 31 December, with carbon emissions up by 58pc over 1990 levels – instead the 5pc cut the signatories envisaged.… Continue reading
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In Doha, a big green rent-seeking machine
A couple of weeks ago the great global warming bandwagon coughed and spluttered to a halt in Doha, the latest stop on its never-ending world tour. The annual UN climate… Continue reading
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Tata Steel’s job cuts, a tale of 2 press releases
Today brings bad news that Tata Steel is to cut 900 jobs in the UK (at plants in South Wales, North Yorkshire, Teesside and the West Midlands). This is catastrophic… Continue reading
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Revealed: who decides the BBC’s climate change policy
Just when you thought the BBC had no more scandals, Guido Fawkes has revealed what the Beeb tried very hard to cover up: the 28 mysterious individuals who have been… Continue reading
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Another BBC scandal: hiding their climate change agenda
While the BBC struggles to deal with its recent bout of self-proclaimed ‘shoddy journalism’, there’s another ethical scandal simmering away. The simple question of ‘who decides how the BBC covers climate change’… Continue reading
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Danny Alexander’s real enemy
Danny Alexander, the Chief Secretary to the Treasury, is to drop his normally conciliatory voice to attack the Tories at the Lib Dem party conference in Brighton. So what? you… Continue reading
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The Treasury sides with the consumer over climate policy
Tim Yeo is now posing as a friend of the consumer. Launching the latest report from the Energy and Climate Change Committee this morning, he attacked the Treasury for ‘refusing to back… Continue reading
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What fossil fuel subsidies?
The environmental movement hasn’t responded well to the setbacks it has suffered seen since the failure of the Copenhagen climate conference. The #endfossilfuelsubsidies campaign — trending worldwide on Twitter this… Continue reading
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Osborne versus wind farms
Here’s a U-turn that we can all welcome: felling the wind farms. Matt Ridley described, in a Spectator cover story some while ago, how George Osborne has turned against them. Today, the… Continue reading
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Downfall
It did not take long. Last month, Matt Ridley argued in a Spectator cover story that the wind farm agenda is in effect dead, having collapsed under the weight of its… Continue reading
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The green squeeze
Bjorn Lomborg’s article on why Germany is cutting back on its support for solar power is well worth reading and has clear implication for this country’s debate about energy policy.… Continue reading
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Lawson: Abolish DECC
Did we need to replace Chris Huhne at all? Nigel Lawson, a former editor of The Spectator (amongst other things), has an intriguing idea in a letter to today’s FT:… Continue reading
48 CommentsThe Climate Change Committee’s suspiciously opaque report
The Climate Change Committee, a quango set up to advise the Government on its emissions targets, make a big claim in their report today. They have, they suggest, disproved the… Continue reading
23 CommentsWhatever Chris Huhne says, Durban hasn’t changed anything
This morning the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) told us that the climate summit in Durban, which concluded over the weekend, has been ‘heralded a success’. As they… Continue reading
18 CommentsDisappointment in Durban
Will Durban break the cycle of climate change meetings that repeatedly disappoint those hoping to replace Kyoto with an upgraded model? With so much else on, most people seem to… Continue reading
22 CommentsGood news! Sea levels aren’t rising dangerously
This week’s Spectator cover star Nils-Axel Mörner brings some good news to a world otherwise mired in misery: sea levels are not rising dangerously – and haven’t been for at… Continue reading
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