RSSWe 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 [...]
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: [...]
The Republican Party has taken control of the US House of Representatives and significantly diminished the Democratic majority in the Senate. As President Barack Obama enters the second half of his term, the BBC looks at how the shift in power will affect his agenda on some of the major issues facing America. Energy The [...]
Excerpt from Judith Curry’s blog Climate Etc. : Heresy and the creation of monsters Let me preface my statement by saying that at this point, I am pretty much immune to criticisms from my peers regarding my behavior and public outreach on this topic (I respond to any and all criticisms of my arguments that [...]
2nd Anniversary of the UK Climate Change Bill signing Climate Fools Day Rally Wednesday Oct 27th 2PM at Parliament “Politicians are more prepared to have people die of extreme weather events than undermine their Climate Change scam…” Look what was said in 2008… Snow blankets London for Global Warming debate “Snow fell as the House [...]
German Vilimelis heard about Spain’s solar gold rush from his brother-in-law in 2007. Now Vilimelis and more than 50,000 other Spanish solar entrepreneurs face financial disaster as the policy makers contemplate cutting the price guarantees that attracted their investment in the first place. “You feel cheated,” he says. “We put our money in on the [...]
Taxpayers face paying billions of pounds to help clean up nuclear power plants to encourage private firms to build the next generation of power stations. Chris Huhne, the Energy and Climate Change Secretary, said nuclear power will be a key part of the energy mix over the next 40 years. He announced eight sites around [...]
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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)
