THE AGE OF GLOBAL WARMING

That is the title of a new book just published which has been reviewed here. It is highly recommended and the review is certainly well worth reading.

COLD WEATHER IS THE BIG KILLER

This article in the Telegraph highlights the important point that cold weather is responsible for many more deaths than hot. Yet this fact is seldom if ever mentioned when cold spells are in the news.

MET OFFICE FORECASTS LOOK BIASED

This piece lists the forecasts made by the Met Office and in every case they are predicting mild weather when the result is cold weather. The obvious conclusion is that they are producing a forecast that is biased as a result of their belief in the hypothesis of global warming. Clearly they are missing something else that is affecting the weather. 

CLIMATE CHANGE COMMITTEE IN LAST DITCH DEFENCE

I suppose it is to be expected that the scientists behind the whole edifice of Climate Change would not accept it was wrong easily. This article shows their desperate attempt to paper over the cracks in their pet project. If the real climate continues to move in a very different way to the computer models, the eventual demise of the theory will be inevitable.

WHEN THE WEATHER CHANGES TO CLIMATE

This article demonstrates the cynical way that warmist scientists use any unusual weather as "evidence" of climate change. The confusion between climate and weather is one of the most common mistakes in the climate change debate. The comments under the article are also very interesting.

CHIEF SCIENTIST GETS AWAY WITH SOFT INTERVIEW

I just watched the BBC news this evening and heard the outgoing government Chief Scientific Adviser, Prof Beddington, being allowed to state that the kind of weather we are currently experiencing (very cold and snowy) is likely to become the norm - see here. What was so exasperating was that he was not challenged in the slightest. For example no one reminded him that, last year, March was very warm and dry, no one reminded him that we were told a few years ago that we would hardly ever see any snow at all in future "mild" winters. He is simply allowed to trot out his stuff and the viewer is supposed to sit there and swallow it. What he doesn't seem to understand is that most viewers aren't stupid - they have heard too many conflicting stories and they don't believe any of it. The GWPF seems to reach a similar conclusion.

SERIOUS CALLS TO SCRAP UK CLIMATE CHANGE ACT

This piece is an editorial in one of the UK's serious papers and it is unequivocal in calling for the Climate Change Act to be scrapped. At last a serious voice of sanity. I doubt it will have any effect, so deep-seated is the idea that we must continue to de-carbonise, but this will embolden more MPs and others to come off the fence. Such an editorial would have seemed impossible only a couple of years ago, so progress is gathering pace. By the time government acts a lot of money will have been wasted, but that nearly always is the case. 

UK GAS SUPPLY RUNNING LOW

This story on the BBC website looks at how vulnerable we have become. The government deny there is a problem, but they would, wouldn't they?

"THE AGE OF GLOBAL WARMING"

This is a brilliant new book which is being launched in London in a few days time. This link will give you the details.

UK HEADING FOR ONE OF THE COLDEST MARCH'S ON RECORD

Here is the evidence. Of course one month does not mean the climate has changed, but what it does show is that our weather is still very variable and subject to many forces which are far more powerful than CO2.

OCEAN MICROBES GOBBLE UP TWICE THE CO2

This article reveals that micro-organisms have been found to absorb twice as much CO2 as was previously accepted. It makes me wonder how many other previously accepted assumptions are wrong. 

CLIMATE ALMOST AXED FROM UK CURRICULUM

This article reveals this surprising news. There is no doubt that young minds are the easiest to infiltrate and I am surprised that this has happened. Perhaps those in charge of education have realised that the time currently spent on climate change is reducing the amount of time available for the important basic subjects and is simply dumbing down education. Can anyone come up with a better explanation? 

THE GREAT GREEN CON REVEALED AT LAST

This article in today's edition of the Mail on Sunday is the latest in a long line of articles rubbishing the IPCC forecasts of global warming. As the demands for a change of energy policy grow stronger, how long will it be before politicians start to break ranks and side with the long-suffering public against the small rump of hard core eco-looneys? It will soon become acceptable to challenge the green orthodoxy and I will feel less alone at council meetings.

"PLASTIC CARRIERS BAD"

The other day I attended a council meeting at which someone proposed a voluntary ban on issuing free plastic bags should be promoted by the council. the council has no power to enforce a ban, so it would have to be voluntary. The proposer, a member of the public suggested that shops could charge a few pence for a biodegradable bag instead (they cost 100 times as much, I was told ). I pointed out that this would not make any difference. as apart from the carrier bags, plastic was used in practically all the packaging used in the shops and as he was not proposing to ban any of this it would only be a gesture. Also  my experience of a similar scheme in a nearby village had achieved no change at all. My fellow councillors decided to go along with the suggestion nevertheless. They seem convinced that plastic carrier bags were inherently evil and should be stopped. Brainwashing does seem to have an effect which no amount of logic can overcome, sadly.

PAUL KRUGMAN MORALISING ABOUT CLIMATE

This article looks at the views of left-wing economist, Paul Krugman, on climate change. On economics he believes we can spend our way out of the recession, and on climate change he thinks "deniers" will end up in hell. In fact he is a typical left wing politician whose views should be treated with a great deal of suspicion.

JAPAN TO EXTRACT FROZEN GAS FROM SEA BED

This article gives the details of this important new source of energy. Yet another example to show that fossil fuels are not going to run out anytime soon.

CLIMATE CHANGE IS HAPPENING DUE TO LAND MISUSE

this article is most interesting and well worth reading. I also recommend watching the lecture to understand his simple idea.

UK BURNS TREES TO CUT CO2

Christopher Booker exposes another nutty policy by the UK here. This really is complete madness, and as Booker points out, it won't even save any CO2 emissions once all the extra transport and work is factored in. We are truly living in an age of madness.

TRENDS IN 20th CENTURY GLOBAL WARMING

I recently came across an answer given in parliament to a question on the trend in global warming. See this link: http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld201213/ldhansrd/text/121108w0001.htm#12110877000337
I contacted the Met Office to ask for the trend for some periods in between. Below is their reply:

1910-1940: 0.14°C per decade ±0.05°C per decade

1950-1970: 0.01°C per decade ±0.10°C per decade

2000-2012: 0.04°C per decade ±0.11°C per decade

Of course they were right to point out that trends over shorter periods can be skewed by natural variation, but it is both interesting and important to know just how much influence nature plays in our climate over even 20 or 30 years. If global warming can be masked or even reversed by natural factors then how can the warmists claim to predict future amounts of warming?

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY

Below is an amusing piece by Peter Mullen which was sent to me. I cannot find a link to it on line so I have put it on in full.

As a mere man, I was wondering how I might spend today, International
Women's Day. Why is there no International Men's Day, by the way? I
suppose for the same reason there's no Association of White Police
Officers. Anyhow, it's all settled, I'll make my way to the London
Science Museum's Exhibition of Gamification in Service of the
Environment. Paula Owens, described as a consultant, explained,
"Gamification is a simple idea " (It will have to be, Paula, to have any chance of success in our present state of national infantilisation) " of using the concepts and mechanics of games but in a non-gaming environment." I see: it's a bit like smoking in a non-smoking zone.

So what's your Gamification, then? It's all being done to help with
Green propaganda. Paula says that people are "switched off by doom and gloom." Well, we can at least be grateful some people are switching
something off. The most fanatical environmentalists I've found are
sixth formers and undergraduates who - after ten years indoctrination
into Global Warming in state "schools" at our expense - preach endless
sermons about saving the planet but can't for the life of them turn
the light off and shut the door when they leave the room.

The Science Museum's exhibition will feature two highly-imaginative
examples of Gamification in the cause of the environment. There's
"Play Your Eco Cards Right" and "Eco Snakes and Ladders." I'm not
making this up. It's all too true, I'm afraid. But I'm so inspired by
the idea that I've managed to think up a few Green Gamifications all
by myself. How about "Game for an Eco-Laugh" (also called "Spoil the
Landscape") in which the task is to invent the silliest and most
unworkable ideas for providing for the country's energy needs. The
winner is the contestant who builds the most windmills and proposes
erecting them in the most beautiful parts of the countryside. For this
idea I should like to express my gratitude to the inventors of the TV
show "Pointless."
"Eco Snakes and Ladders" is just *so last year's* Kyoto. I've devised
a much more interesting version which is called just "Eco Snakes" or
"The Very Bent Hockey Stick." In this you have to compete to tell the
most outrageous untruths about the rise in global temperatures. (The joke is there hasn't been any for eighteen years) Last year's winners were some contestants from East Anglia who modestly withheld their names.

Then there's the mysterious game "Spot the Nuclear." (I'm going to
give the Gamification away, actually and tell you there isn't any nuclear). This will be followed by a few rounds of "Close the Coalmine" and the fiendishly intellectual puzzle "Paying for Gas." Gamification Grand Challenge Day will end with the final round of the popular game "Subsidy" (also called "Rip Off"). In this, contestants dressed up as poor members of the working class will give loads of money to rich landowners to construct the daftest Green fantasies on their property. Those windmills seem to win every year. And then the lights will go out.

WHAT IS HAPPENING WITH THE SOLAR CYCLE?

This piece from NASA looks at this and concludes that the sun is harder to predict than is often assumed. The sun is being quiet at present and some scientists link this with the pause in global warming. Only time will tell if they are right.

COULD REDUCED WIND SPEED BE CAUSING WARMING?

Over the last 40 years there has been a measurable drop in the average surface wind speed, which according to Dr Roy Spencer will reduce the heat of the surface.

COST OF FRACKING KEEPS FALLING

This article explains how the cost of extracting shale oil and gas keep on falling as technology increases with experience. It's only common sense really, just like it's only common sense that we should be going full ahead with extracting our own shale gas reserves.

UK TOLD TO EXPORT "SURPLUS" ENERGY BY EU MINISTER

Here is proof, if proof was needed, of how out of touch with reality the EU leadership has become. The German EU energy minister is, of course, wedded to the notion that imposing all the costs of decarbonising the economy is essential to "save the planet from global warming". If only someone could save us from the EU and its Alice in Wonderland policies!