RSSThe 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 [...]
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: [...]
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 [...]
The lunatics in charge of the climate change asylum have a seemigly endless capacity to waste taxpayers’ money on expensive and futile plans for ‘Canutian’ climate control. Yes, the divorced from reality multi-millionaire climate and energy minister Chris Huhne, who owns 7 homes, has secured £1 billion for carbon capture technology at a supposed time of financial [...]
Trying to meet our EU renewable energy target would cost more than we currently spend on our entire electricity production, says Christopher Booker. Sunday Telegraph: Renewables will add £880 a year to bills
A household is defined as being fuel poor if it has to spend 10 per cent or more of its income on paying to keep the home adequately warm. In 2003 the number of households hit a low of two million, but it climbed to four million in 2007 and then 4.5 million in 2008, [...]
Here is the 25 minute version of ‘Europe’s Ill Wind.’
Via the blogs, we learn that feed-in tariffs are a total rip-off. But how can that message possibly prevail when the BBC’s “take” is that buying in to the scam offers “a great return on investment!” And, needless to say, the Beeb is also talking up the news that the world’s biggest offshore wind farm [...]
It’s not exactly rocket science – when building a wind farm, look for a site that is, well, quite windy. But more than half of Britain’s wind farms are operating at less than 25 per cent capacity. In England, the figure rises to 70 per cent of onshore developments, research shows. Experts say that over-generous [...]
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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)
