UK SHALE GAS OR BUST

Booker keeps up the pressure on the government to scrap the climate change act. He is up against the establishment who have swallowed the climate change alarmism hook line and sinker.

US REPUBLICANS CHANGE STYLE OF ATTACK ON CLIMATE CHANGE POLICY

This article by Judith Curry looks at the new style, in which they attack the cost of the policy rather than the actual science. It is a subtle change but a pragmatic one which will play well with the public. UK politicians take note.

OLDER WEATHER STATION GIVE HIGHER TEMPERATURE READINGS SAYS NEW STUDY

This report gives the details. This is a remarkable conclusion and the potential errors in the temperature records is, in itself, enough to account for the whole of the rise on temperatures over the last century.

UK GAS RESERVE ESTIMATES JUST GET HIGHER AND HIGHER

This report on the GWPF website gives the details. Surely the government must now give the go ahead and quickly.

AUSSIE OPPOSITION PLEDGE TO DROP CARBON TAX

It will be interesting to see how the forthcoming Australian general election turns out, as the opposition Liberal Party has pledged to scrap the controversial new carbon tax introduced by the Labour government (who pledged not to do it before the election). No doubt other governments will be taking note. Here is the report.

BORIS COMES OUT AS A MET OFFICE SCEPTIC

Boris Johnson, the London Mayor, has written of his scepticism of the Met Office in his latest article for the Telegraph.  His suggestion of a class action against the "experts" at the Met Office will find favour with many.

"BIG OIL" BEGS FOR MORE GREEN SUBSIDIES

This piece is yet more proof that major oil companies are deeply involved with the climate change agenda in a financial way. They have as much to lose from its collapse as do the politicians and the environmental activists themselves.

CLIMATE CHANGE RELIGION

British MP, Peter Lilley, has written a piece here which sets out the case for climate change as a religion, and it's quite a compelling one.

LORD RIDLEY EXPOSES THE FOLLY OF THE UK ENERGY BILL

Read the speech in Hansard here. It really is quite astonishing how the government can continue on its current ruinous path.

MP's ASK, " WHY IS THE PUBLIC BECOMING DISENGAGED WITH THE CLIMATE CHANGE ISSUE?"

This is the issue being looked at by the UK Parliament's Science and Technology Select Committee. Here is a link to a video of the Committee taking evidence from a group of concerned "experts" in engaging with the media. I must warn you that the session is about an hour long and not exactly riveting stuff, but if you have the dogged determination to view it, then like me, you may find it a kind of surreal experience. None of the speakers or the MP's gave any hint that they might be sceptical of any aspect of the climate debate, even though at least one does have some. What was discussed was what was "going wrong" with the way climate science is being reported and how can we make sure that people have a "better" understanding. The problem for these politicians is that most of them seem to have been brain-washed and are unable to take a step back and look objectively at the issue. They need to engage with the sceptics and only then would they learn that what is wrong with their "message" is that it is inaccurate and out of date.

THE GREEN JOB MYTH

This piece highlights the oft repeated claim that if only we follow the renewable energy path we will create many thousands of "green jobs". Clearly as the article shows, this is a pipe dream which has not become a reality. The only way to create jobs is to compete by having cheap energy by using your assets like natural gas. We must get fracking and fast.  

10 REASONS WHY GLOBAL WARMING IS NOT A PROBLEM

This piece gives 10 good reasons why we should not be concerned about the threat of man made climate change. An excellent rebuttal of the scare-mongering dressed up as climate change.

MET OFFICE MEETS TO DISCUSS WHY OUR WEATHER IS NORMAL

This article in the Mail on Sunday looks at the latest activity of the Met Office in convening a conference to discuss the recent weather in the UK. A look at the weather records indicate it is normal.

TRUE COST OF UK WIND FARM JOBS - OVER £100k EACH

That is according to this report in the Telegraph. The more that is revealed about this the more angry the public will become.

IPCC REPORTS INFLUENCED BY POLITICAL SPIN

This post by Donna Laframboise highlights the way science is politicized when governments agree the summary report.

SCEPTICS GRADUALLY INCREASING AS EVIDENCE GROWS

This piece from Jo Nova highlights recent polls showing that more people are becoming sceptical of climate alarmism. This is hardly surprising as the evidence reveals the inaccuracy of the computer models.

NEW RESEARCH SUGGESTS WOOD FUEL CAUSES HIDDEN CARBON EMISSIONS

This article looks at the detail. In the end as we see, there is still much to learn about nearly every aspect of the climate debate. Nothing is settled.

MORE SQUABBLING AT BONN CLIMATE TALKS

The squabbling, as usual, is about money, the compensation and how much we should pay and how quickly. Here is the link to the details. What an expensive shambles.

DIESEL POWER TO HELP WITH UK GREEN ENERGY

This news item explains why diesel power is being put in place to even out the output when wind and solar energy fluctuate. How this equates to cutting carbon emissions remains to be seen.

IS NATURAL GAS ALWAYS A FOSSIL FUEL?

Here is a post by Matt Ridley which examines a hypothesis that some natural gas is made from other things than organic matter. Matt discusses the importance of this in the article. Yet another thing that we aren't certain of in the debate over which energy is truly renewable.

BOOKLET SHOWS WHY FOSSIL FUELS ARE GOOD

It is now so common to hear of "dirty coal" that most people simply accept that it is true without even stopping to question it. I recently came across an excellent booklet via Donna Laframboise's excellent website that contains many under-used arguments that seem to have been forgotten in all the fashionable denunciation of fossil fuels. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/84424264/Fossil%20Fuels%20Improve%20the%20Planet.pdf>Here

is a link to it.

LOCAL PEOPLE TO HAVE POWER TO BLOCK WIND FARMS

This article explains how the new rules are going to work. It ought to decrease on shore wind turbines by quite a lot.

BBC BIAS HAS A LOT TO ANSWER FOR AS THE ENERGY DISASTER UNFOLDS

This article looks at the way the BBC has denied a voice to those who oppose the alarmist mantra, and its consequences for our energy policy. An interesting and thought-provoking article.

EU IN TRADE WAR WITH CHINA OVER SOLAR PANELS

This piece gives the details. Cheap solar panels are encouraging more take up, but putting EU manufacturers out of business. This shows that at least the EU is belatedly trying to look after its industry, rather than making grand gestures to save the planet.

BOOKER ON WHY UK MINISTER WANTS TO DENY DEBATE ON CLIMATE POLICY

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2335982/CHRISTOPHER-BOOKER-A-dangerously-deluded-energy-policy-greens-want-hide-truth-soaring-bills.html>This article

by Christopher Booker neatly sums up the rift between those in power and those they govern. It also reinforces the importance of a free press. The press are the last bastion of freedom and must not be muzzled.

MET OFFICE HOLD BACK ON RELEASE OF DATA CODE

This piece has the details. After all the talk about transparency following the Climategate affair, it appears that the Met Office are still hiding something. If they have nothing to hide then why the secrecy?

LEADER OF SMALL GROUP OF ISLANDS THINKS THE WORLD SHOULD CHANGE TO "SAVE THEM"

70,000 people live on the remote Marshall Islands and their leader thinks they are so important that the rest of the world should lower their standard of living to "save them" from the terror of climate change. Read the details here

EU DELAYS AID TO UK INDUSTRY TO MITIGATE INCREASED ENERGY COSTS

This article looks at how the EU is trying to prevent the government from shielding our energy intensive industries from the increased energy costs they are imposing to try to reduce CO2 emissions. What a shambles!

NEW STUDY INDICATES THAT CFC's MAY HAVE CAUSED GW

This article has the details. Yet another example of the lack of consensus over the causes of global warming. In fact this new hypothesis is starting to look more likely than the link to CO2 in view of the 16 years without warming.

YESTERDAY'S POST ON THE STATISTICS OF GLOBAL TEMPERATURES SIMPLY EXPLAINED

Here is the post. The Met Office are, naturally, trying to play down the significance of this, but statistics is a branch of mathematics and even if they claim that other evidence is more important, the Met Office must accept the mathematical calculations in an objective way. The fact is that the statistical model they have chosen to use is up to one thousand times less reliable than a random model. How can that be a scientific choice?