The Times Higher Education Supplement has an interesting article entitled Profits of Doom: Climate change is serious business – in more ways than one. Martin Cohen describes how capitalist ‘bootleggers’ have co-opted the environmental ‘Baptists’ to fulfil their raison d’etre – making money. Thanks to the ‘greenwash’, the solutions could be worse than the problems. [...]
George Monbiot should be calling the IPCC to account for its unreferenced rainforest claims, rather than attacking its critics. Guardian.co.uk: Response to George Monbiot: Why ‘Amazongate’ matters
“Energy and Climate Change Minister Chris Huhne admitted the massive expansion of wind farms across Britain – along with clean coal power stations – will send electricity and gas prices soaring” reports the Daily Mail. Will massive rises in energy prices affect Mr Huhne’s personal financial situation? It appears that the answer is probably not: [...]
A massive asteroid might crash into Earth in the year 2182, scientists have warned. The asteroid, called 1999 RQ36, has a 1-in-1,000 chance of actually hitting the Earth at some point before the year 2200, but is most likely to hit us on 24th September 2182. It was first discovered in 1999 and is more [...]
Energy and Climate Change Minister Chris Huhne admitted the massive expansion of wind farms across Britain – along with clean coal power stations – will send electricity and gas prices soaring. But Mr Huhne claimed that the price increases would be offset by government plans to improve the energy efficiency of millions of British homes. [...]
To the colourful Daily Telegraph blogger James Delingpole, it was winner of the coveted award for the “Biggest front page non-story in history of journalism”. What he was referring to was a tale published a week ago under the by-line of The Times’s enviromment correspondent Ben Webster which led the paper, covering virtually the entire [...]
Companies including Tata Steel Ltd. and GrowHow U.K. Ltd. may leave the U.K. as climate-protection policies boost electricity and natural-gas costs. Factories will pay 18 percent to 141 percent more for gas, electricity and carbon-reduction programs by 2020, adding about 7 million pounds to the bill for a typical large energy consumer, the London-based Energy-Intensive [...]
Citation: Seager, R., Y. Kushnir, J. Nakamura, M. Ting, and N. Naik (2010), Northern Hemisphere winter snow anomalies: ENSO, NAO and the winter of 2009/10, Geophys. Res. Lett., 37, L14703, doi:10.1029/2010GL043830. Abstract: Winter 2009/10 had anomalously large snowfall in the central parts of the United States and in northwestern Europe. Connections between seasonal snow anomalies [...]
…But one forgets: the election gave us a Coalition, not a Tory, victory. Energy policy is in Liberal hands. Through all the long years that they were remote from power, the Lib Dems could be as green as lettuces, and limper. If they imagined that Britain would become a nation of yurt-dwelling Hobbits, it didn’t [...]
Excerpts: One familiar technique they use is to attribute to global warming almost any unusual weather event anywhere in the world….. Meanwhile, notably little attention has been paid to the disastrous chill which has been sweeping South America thanks to an inrush of air from the Antarctic, killing hundreds in the continent’s coldest winter for [...]
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.
The Register (3)
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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