Britain’s wind farms have stopped working during the cold snap due to lack of wind, it has emerged, as scientists claimed half the world’s energy could soon be from renewables. The Met Office said there has been an unusually long period of high pressure across the UK for the last couple of weeks, causing the [...]
Research by the University of Birmingham has provided evidence that a warm atmosphere rich in carbon dioxide was present in an ancient ice age. This could only have happened if the planet was nearly all covered in ice and snow. Scientists from the University’s School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, say that, whereas today, [...]
How many times have you heard or read words to the effect that 4000 scientists from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate change (IPCC) supported the claims about a significant human influence on climate? I think I’ve seen it on television, radio and the Internet and I know that politicians at national levels have quoted such [...]
It looks as though one of the rituals of the global warming religion is in trouble: Taxpayers are facing a multi-million-pound bill to store 100,000 tons of waste paper and cardboard as the British recycling industry plunges into crisis. Rubbish carefully sorted by householders is piling up in vast warehouses as the market for waste [...]
Melting icebergs, so long the iconic image of global warming, are triggering a natural process that could delay or even end climate change, British scientists have found. A team working on board the Royal Navy’s HMS Endurance off the coast of Antarctica have discovered tiny particles of iron are released into the sea as the [...]
The Guardian reports on a letter from NASA’s James Hansen to Barack Obama giving Hansen’s views on the direction climate policy should be taking. The main sentence of interest is: The idea is to tax carbon at source, then redistribute the revenue equally among taxpayers, so high carbon users are penalised while low carbon users [...]
The Met Office have released their prediction for global temperatures in 2009. No record to beat 1998 is forecast for 2009, unlike the failed forecast for 2007, which resulted in the 2008 forecast being tempered. Pacific continues to influence climate 30 December 2008 2009 is expected to be one of the top-five warmest years on [...]
The BBC reports: ‘Lord Stern hope over US climate deal:’ Economist Lord Stern has said he is optimistic a global deal to reduce carbon dioxide emissions will be struck under Barack Obama’s US presidency. Lord Stern, who was behind the first detailed economic assessment of the impact of climate change, said US and Chinese agreement [...]
The BBC were fooled, as expected, by a Press Release from global reinsurers Munich Re entitled: ‘Catastrophe figures for 2008 confirm that climate agreement is urgently needed’ Science policy expert Roger Pielke Jr debuked the claim by Munich Re on the Prometheus blog: Overselling Disasters and Climate Change by Munich Re Munich Re, one of [...]
New Booker Book: The Real Global Warming Disaster
Christopher Booker has a new book out entitled: The Real Global Warming Disaster: Is The Obsession With `Climate Change` Turning Out To Be The Most Costly Scientific Blunder In History?
Available from Amazon UK here:
More from Booker himself here. (1)
Why the Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheets are Not Collapsing
Read the AIG News paper here. (1)
Global Warming Ate My Data
We’ve lost the numbers: CRU responds to FOIA requests.
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Climate Depot's Arctic Fact Sheet
Climate Depot Arctic Fact Sheet (for additional updates on the Arctic see new articles tagged Arctic) (0)
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