HERE'S WHAT A POWER COMPANY SAYS ABOUT PRICE RISES

This diagram from Scottish Power shows clearly where the biggest share of the price increase is coming from - you've guessed it - the government's various green subsidy schemes. Yet this is never made clear when these price increases are discussed on the news. It's always blamed on the increase in the cost of gas.

LEADING IPCC AUTHOR IS GREEN PARTY CANDIDATE

The IPCC is supposedly the last word in balanced science and transparency etc. Yet one of its leading science authors has been discovered to be a candidate for the Green Party of Canada according to this article by Donna Laframboise. Why do the IPCC think they can get away with this?

MANN v STEYN LEGAL SKIRMISH BEGINS

This piece from Steyn's blog focuses on Mann's insistence that he has been awarded a Nobel prize; a point which is disputed by the Nobel committee. Mann has announced his intention to sue Steyn for defaming him. He seems to be getting off to a poor start before even entering a court.

REAL CAUSE OF ELECTRICITY PRICE RISES BECOMES CLEAR

This report looks at how the latest price increase from EDF energy is justified by the company. The conclusion is that most of it is caused, not by the rise in fuel price, but by the government interfering in the industry and insisting on increasing amounts of renewable energy being used.

More evidence of this is in this article which looks at the complex web of taxes and emissions trading costs which will be passed on to customers.

GERMAN GREEN ENERGY COSTS GO BALLISTIC

This report shows how wrong estimates of the costs of wind and solar energy were in Germany. If the germans can be so wrong, just imagine how far out the UK could be!

CLIMATE DEBATE HOTS UP ON COUNCIL LEADER'S BLOG

Cllr. Nick Clarke, the Leader of Cambridgeshire County Council has continued to post sceptic articles about global warming on his blog.  This one contains a huge list of comments from sceptic scientists. Other posts are followed by a fierce debate between sceptics and warmists.

OUR FLAWED WIND ENERGY POLICY

This piece from the GWPF by Prof gordon Hughes shows us just why we are on the wrong track in relying on more and more wind turbines for our future energy policy. Christopher Booker also highlighted this subject in his latest piece in Sunday's Telegraph. The public are now strongly divided on this issue and as bills go on rising, those opposed will surely increase.

USA STUDENTS RALLY FOR ENERGY SECURITY

This piece gives the details. It seems that American students are better organised than their UK counterparts. (See 21 October's post)

MET OFFICE FIGURES PROVE NO GW FOR 16 YEARS

This article from the Mail looks at the data and includes quotes from Judith Curry and Phil Jones. Although the figures were not widely reported in the media, there is no doubt they are genuine. All the alarmists can say is that 16 years is not long enough to show a clear trend, but it is all the direct evidence we have. Those who cry "alarm, catastrophe", have no direct evidence to back it up. Time for more humility from the alarmists, I think.

Update - This Sunday The Mail did a full double page spread follow up article answering their critics. It seems the mainstream media are at last seriously questioning the whole global warming hypothesis.

THE MURKY WORLD OF CARBON TRADING

This article shows how the carbon trading bureaucracy got even more complex as companies seek to minimise their costs as the price of off-sets falls to new lows. While some traders are, no doubt, getting rich on all this it is the ordinary citizen who is paying the price in dearer goods and services.

CLASH OF THE DEMO'S - SCEPTICS OUTNUMBERED

This clip shows the sceptics seriously outnumbered by green activists in a recent demonstration at the UK Treasury in London. Well done to those few who put up a brave show, including Piers Corbin and Fay Kelly-Tuncay the leaders of the "Scrap the Climate Change Act" campaign. There is a large silent majority in the UK who have not yet understood the serious consequences of following the green agenda. They will soon begin to understand that it is causing high energy prices and costing jobs. We may then see the green activists outnumbered.  

COUNCIL LEADER SPEAKS OUT AGAINST AGW

A UK council leader has spoken out against anthropogenic global warming. Here is an article from the local paper in which he explained his position. Good to see other councillors are now speaking up for common sense. UPDATE - You can Read Cllr Clarke's blog here

THE ELECTRICITY EFFICIENCY FEED-IN-TARIFF

The details are in an article on ,Bishop Hill Blog, though having read the blog article as well as looking at the linked article on Business Green, I am still unclear, along with most of the commenters beneath the BH article. I can perfectly well understand what a feed-in-tariff is when applied to a consumer generating electricity and feeding it into the grid, but this seems to apply not to electricity generated, but electricity "saved" by the consumer purchasing some more efficient item such as low-energy light bulbs. What is not clear is exactly how the "saving" is calculated. Is it done by some formula, in which case there may not be any actual saving at all? The consumer might, for example, decide to leave all his lights on for much longer. The "saving" could be calculated by looking at his actual usage, but he could be saving electricity because, for example, his washing machine has packed up and he is doing his washing at a friend's house. Can anyone throw any light on this, or is it simply as daft as I think?

THE CERN CLOUD EXPERIMENT

This lecture is a very good one on the details of how clouds may be responsible for the changes in temperature of the planet. This research is not given nearly enough coverage in the global warming debate simply because it does not conform to the so-called consensus on CO2 being the cause.

PROOF THE MWP WAS WARMER THAN TODAY

New research has shown that the Medieval Warm Period at around 1000AD was warmer than the current period. The article can be found here on the GWPF website.

ALL PARTY CONSENSUS ON WRONG ENERGY POLICY

This piece by MEP Roger Helmer sums up the situation here in the UK where the coalition are desparately worried about the possibility of power cuts in about 3 years, and yet the Labour opposition are trying to force them to remain on course to keep to their CO2 emission reduction targets at all costs. Will anyone save us?

COMPARING CLIMATE MODELS OF SEA TEMPERATURES WITH REALITY

Here is a very interesting account of the way that computer climate models have tried to predict the trend in sea surface temperatures. The comparisons with the actual measurements make rather uncomfortable reading for the modelers who need to be very modest about their work. They certainly cannot claim a high degree of certainty about their predictions so far, so why should  we believe any long term predictions they make? 

CARBON CAPTURE - JUST A PIPE-DREAM?

The UK government started a competition 4 years ago to build a working power station that operated a carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS) facility. At the end of the time nothing had been achieved and this scathing report is what the National Audit Office thought of it. Now we learn that our Climate Change Minister is giving away another £20 million for more research into said CCS.

UK CLIMATE CHANGE FUDGE

This article on GWPF highlights differences between the Treasury and the Climate Change Ministry. The Treasury wants to get the economy going while the Climate Change lot are stuck in a groove. 

THE PERILS OF CONFIRMATION BIAS

This article by Matt Ridley looks at how the IPCC operates in such a way that they set out to confirm the hypothesis of CO2 causing catastrophic global warming by allowing no contrary ideas to be examined. It is the very opposite of the scientific method in which a hypothesis should be examined in a critical way. Every student should see this and so should our politicians.

MAN MADE CLIMATE CHANGE DISPROVED

Joanne Nova has pulled together all the evidence to show that the hypothesis of man made global warming is disproved. See the article here. The link is unequivocal and has many references to back it up. Definitely a tour de force.

JAMES DELINGPOLE IS WIND FARM PROTEST CANDIDATE

Well known writer and climate sceptic James Delingpole is standing as a candidate in the forthcoming Corby and Northants by-election which takes place on 15th November. He is standing on a platform of opposing the building of Wind Farms. Here is his latest blog post on this. I doubt he has any chance of winning but he will certainly throw a spotlight on the many drawbacks to relying on wind to power us in the 21st century.

A GRIM FUTURE IF CLIMATE ALARMISTS GET THEIR WAY

Here is an interesting piece by Donna Laframboise on her No Frakking Consensus blog. It is another example to show what sort of future we could have if these people get their way. The question is, will they get their way? Personally I doubt it, as long as we can elect our politicians I don't believe they would dare to go as far as rationing our use of cars or electricity. If they did they would not last long in the job.

CLIMATE PREDICTIONS ARE IN THE STARS

This article looks at the correlation between exploding stars and climate change. The results apparently show that there could be a connection. More evidence that cosmic rays can affect cloud cover which in turn warms or cools the earth.

UK FACES POWER CUT RISK IN JUST 3 YEARS

Now at last the warnings of possible power cuts for the UK are being made by Ofgem the official organisation that regulates our energy supplies. This has been on the cards for some years as a result of EU regulations to cut CO2 emissions to "save the planet". Now we face a greatly increased possibility of blackouts and all that goes with that, including freezing cold, in just three years time. The government that presides over this will reap a whole lot of abuse and oblivion at the ballot box. They must be praying for some mild winters.

GORE MOVES HIS INVESTMENTS OUT OF GREEN

This article looks at the investment policy of the former Vice-President and it seems that he is not putting his money where his mouth is.

ALARMIST GORE CAUGHT TRYING MORE SCAREMONGERING

This piece on the revived Jo Nova Blog covers the story of how Al Gore's people tried to buy the use of some footage of a firestorm, and got knocked back by the owner who thought it inappropriate for it to be used to further the climate alarmist cause. Good for him!

£34 MILLION PAID TO WIND FARMS TO SWITCH OFF

This article in the Daily Mail reveals that large payments have been made to wind farms to get them to stop producing electricity when high winds are forecast in order to balance the grid. These payments have been kept hidden from the public, as obviously they will only further reduce the publics confidence in these expensive and pointless monuments to government's folly.

PROF JOHN CHRISTY'S TESTIMONY ON CLIMATE CHANGE

One man who commands great respect in the world of climate science is Professor John Christy. His testimony runs to 36 pages, but is a clear and rational account of the current situation. He looks at extreme weather events and puts the recent ones in perspective compared with the last century of data. Christy's testimony is a tour de force which calmly shows where alarmists have failed to prove their case.

YET ANOTHER CLIMATE REPORT FULL OF EXAGGERATIONS AND HALF TRUTHS

Apparently some sections of the world's press have given prominence to something called the Dara Report. I have not seen it myself, but I have read This piece by Bjorn Lomborg, who although he accepts that climate change is a problem, gives the report a thorough debunking. It makes me wonder why these alarmist organisations bother to produce such propaganda in the first place. Perhaps they hope that the headline will be bigger than the debunking, and they are probably right to do so. However in the long run their lies and distortions will find them out.

EXTREME WEATHER REPORTS BACK TO THE 1920's

Here is a fascinating look at a large number of press reports of weather events across the world going back through the past century. The reports along with other data give strong evidence that extreme weather is, if anything, less common today than in the records of the past century. It certainly shows conclusively that the present weather is no more extreme and in no way unprecedented.