Climate change
An open letter to Chris Huhne
Earlier this year, the former head of the civil service, Lord Turnbull, wrote a pamphlet on climate change entitled The Really Inconvenient Truth or “It Ain’t Necessarily So”. It was… Continue reading
22 CommentsThe policies behind your energy bills
It may be a week old, but last Monday’s episode of Panorama really is worth putting half-an-hour aside for, if you haven’t seen it already. Its subject was energy prices,… Continue reading
43 CommentsOsborne’s carbon conceits
George Osborne told a Conservative Party increasingly wary of expensive climate policies that Britain needs to "cut [its] carbon emissions no slower but also no faster than our fellow countries… Continue reading
16 CommentsThe green threat to growth
Luciana Berger is a frequent speaker at this year’s conference and her creed is simple: tax energy use to tackle climate change. But, journey along the Mersey, from the glamorous fringe… Continue reading
39 CommentsTories hit back at Huhne and his policies
Chris Huhne can always be guaranteed to grate. Several Conservatives have cracked wry smiles at the energy secretary’s comments about the “Tory Tea Party tendency”. Mark Pritchard quipped that plenty… Continue reading
19 CommentsHuhne, the Lib Dems’ black comedian
Today we got the black comedy follow up to Sarah Teather’s stand-up routine. Chris Huhne is going to drive down our energy bills! For those of us wondering how families… Continue reading
16 CommentsLet Them Eat Carbon
After a Spectator debate on climate change in March, Fraser Nelson wrote about whether or not we should try to engage in the debate ourselves or “trust the expert”. Simon Singh had… Continue reading
34 CommentsHuhne pooh-poohs rising energy bills as ‘nonsense’
Chris Huhne was on the Andrew Marr show this morning. As you might expect on a day when the Sunday Telegraph broke the news that fuel bills will boom by 30… Continue reading
66 CommentsThe danger of unbalanced trade with China
The Chinese premier seems to like cars; the Chinese in general seem to like cars. China has bought MG in Britain and Volvo in Sweden, to which it has just… Continue reading
8 CommentsIn England’s green and pleasant land
What do the TUC, heavy industry and the European Commission have in common? This is not the start of a bad joke; the answer is that they all oppose the government’s… Continue reading
45 CommentsThe battle over the 4th carbon budget
At the weekend, it appeared that Chris Huhne had won his battle with Vince Cable and George Osborne over whether or not the government should sign up to the 4th… Continue reading
17 CommentsMonbiot’s mission
George Monbiot is undergoing an astounding and very public transformation. Last week he overcame the habit of a lifetime and fully endorsed nuclear power as a safe energy source. He… Continue reading
35 CommentsWhen it comes to global warming, rational debate is what we need
We had a sell-out debate on global warming at The Spectator on Tuesday and, as I found out this morning, the debate is still going on. The teams were led… Continue reading
84 CommentsTinkering with solar panel subsidy risks making bad policy worse
The fallout from Chris Huhne’s sudden review of the government’s system of subsidies for small-scale renewable energy gathers momentum. Solar firms, who built business cases on the system of subsidies,… Continue reading
40 CommentsDebunking the Antarctica myths
In January 2009, Nature magazine ran the a cover story (pictured) conveying dramatic news about Antarctica: that most of it had warmed significantly over the last half-century. For years, the… Continue reading
163 CommentsA flooded world
It looks like the opening of a Hollywood disaster film. The South African government has declared parts of the country disaster areas, after 40 people died in floods in a… Continue reading
12 CommentsChina in a bullshop
As if to illustrate Pete’s post about the rise of China and India, Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang has just finished a visit to Spain during which agreements worth 5.7… Continue reading
12 CommentsPutting a stop to taxpayer funded environmentalism
It’s that time of year again, time for the world to pay attention to climate change policy for a few weeks. Most of the year, schemes like the EU Emissions… Continue reading
14 CommentsCarbon omissions
With the latest round of international climate change negotiations at Cancun less than a week away, Policy Exchange has published research showing that the UK’s and EU’s performance in reducing… Continue reading
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