RSSRemember the Steig et al 2009 Nature paper? As Steve McIntyre points out at Climate Audit: “Like so many Team efforts, it applied a little-known statistical method, the properties of which were poorly known, to supposedly derive an important empirical result. In the case of Steig et al 2009, the key empirical claim was that strong [...]
Average temperatures or temperature ranges are often used as a simple proxy for climate. In combination with some description of rainfall, they encapsulate the essentials: in the Mediterranean it is typically hot and dry in summer and cooler and wetter in winter, and a continental climate is hot and dry in summer and cold with [...]
We can today reveal for the first time the true extent of taxpayer funded environmental campaigning in the UK and the European Union. This sort of campaigning pushes the case for green taxes and distorts decision making in favour of greater regulation. It is a form of taxpayer funded lobbying and, particularly at a time [...]
This time last year, the Copenhagen climate change conference (technically the 15th Conference of the Parties to the UN Climate Change Convention, COP15)) was being widely hyped in the media. This was to be the make-or-break conference, which would come up with a workable international agreement to follow on from the Kyoto protocol. In particular, [...]
The boss of one of Scotland’s most successful companies has warned MSPs that urgent action is needed to secure the country’s energy supply. Rupert Soames, chief executive of Aggreko, said no industrialised country planned to lose so much of its current generating capacity as fast as Britain. And he ridiculed government targets for renewable energy [...]
Climate policy has almost nothing to do with environmental protection anymore, says the German economist and IPCC official Ottmar Edenhofer. The next world climate summit in Cancun is actually an economy summit during which the distribution of the world’s resources will be negotiated. –Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 14 November 2010 First of all, developed countries have [...]
I must admit that I thought it was a hoax when the news broke about the leaked UEA CRU emails around the 19th November 2009. It all seemed too good to be true, but it soon became apparent that the contents of the emails were genuine. In context they were highly damaging to the IPCC, the [...]
It is impossible to predict how the current obsession with climate change will be seen in a hundred years’ time, but it arguably remains the defining issue of the early 21st Century. Despite the acres of newsprint and years of airtime devoted to the issue, the debate is notable for its sterility over recent years. [...]
‘Scientific’ American may regret taking their recent opinion poll on the state of Climate Science given the eye-opening results cast by their “scientifically literate” readership. With a total of 5190 respondents, a consensus of 81.3% think the IPCC is “a corrupt organization, prone to group-think, with a political agenda” and 75% think climate change is [...]
Economist Ross McKitrick has an interesting presentation which looks at the arguments used against coal-fired power stations – pollution, health, greenhouse gases etc: The case against the case against conventional energy (pdf,29 pages) The presentation is based on Canada, but many of the findings are universal. He makes the following points about the ‘green’ economy: [...]
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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)
