The six members of parliament and two peers spent 16 days in the South Pacific last month as part of a “fact finding” mission.
The estimated cost to taxpayers to send the group, who flew business class to Fiji via Australia, was at least £68,200, the Channel 4 Dispatches programme said.
Civil servants sent on £1,000-a-head seaside [...]
The study, in conjunction with the Scottish Natural Heritage, looked at 12 upland wind farms in the UK during the breeding season for a dozen common species including rare species such as hen harriers and skylarks.
The research, published in the Journal of Applied Ecology, found seven species were found less often than would be expected [...]
An average global temperature rise of 7.2F (4C), considered a dangerous tipping point, could happen by 2060, causing droughts around the world, sea level rises and the collapse of important ecosystems, it warns.
The Arctic could see an increase in temperatures of 28.8F (16C), while parts of sub Saharan Africa and North America would be devastated [...]
Here’s a re-cap of this saga that should make clear the stunning importance of what Steve has found. One point of terminology: a tree ring record from a site is called a chronology, and is made up of tree ring records from individual trees at that site. Multiple tree ring series are combined using standard [...]
As I found in Pielke (2007), they also found that societal factors are overwhelmingly dominant in coming years, even assuming a direct and significant relationship of greenhouse gas emissions and tropical cyclone intensity and under a range of socio-economic scenarios. They find that about 90% of the increase in losses to 2015 and 96% to [...]
From Roger Pielke Jr’s blog:
Every once in a while amid Joe Romm’s name-calling and doomsaying, he says a bit too much. In this case Chip Knappenberger takes Joe to task for offering up a very weak bet on future global temperature change for the 2010s. Remarkably, the terms of Joe’s bet fall below the range [...]
Researchers in the US may have discovered further evidence that the Sun is heading towards an extended period of quiet activity, the like of which has not been seen since the 17th century. The impact this may have on climate is poorly understood but it would be good news for satellite communications, which would continue [...]
Imagine if there were no reliable records of global surface temperature. Raucous policy debates such as cap-and-trade would have no scientific basis, Al Gore would at this point be little more than a historical footnote, and President Obama would not be spending this U.N. session talking up a (likely unattainable) international climate deal in Copenhagen [...]
Previously I reported our recent purchase of a new Honda Insight Hydrid car. We’re now well past the 650 mile ‘running in’ period. Fuel consumption for my journey to work has improved from 52 mpg to 54.7 mpg. My wife’s much longer journey to head office has seen fuel consumption improve from 55 mpg to [...]
Chinese President Hu Jintao has announced plans to reduce China’s energy intensity of GDP by 20% from a 2005 baseline. Is this achievable, or is it just another climate policy myth?
Over to science policy analyst Roger Pielke Jr:
A few things stand out. One is that China’s energy intensity in 2008 is about the same as it [...]
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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