"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!

OCEAN TEMPERATURE INCREASES BY TENTHS OF A DEGREE

This piece from WUWT gives the facts about ocean warming and it isn't scary, in fact it is very small and it does not explain where the "missing heat" has gone to.

LORD LAWSON CONFRONTS SIR PAUL NURSE OVER DENIAL OF GW STANDSTILL

This letter from Lawson to Nurse who is the president of the Royal Society highlights the fact that Nurse seems unable to acknowledge the fact that global warming has been at a standstill for the past 16 years. This is something that all open-minded people will want to see done, not only by Nurse but by the government and others who have relentlessly pushed global warming as a major threat to mankind.

UK MEDIA DECLARES WAR ON "GREEN ENERGY"

1) Blackout Britain: EU Eco-Directive Puts Millions at Risk of Power Cuts - Sunday Express, 24 February 2013 2) Green Energy Bill May Drag Britain Into A New Dark Age - Mail on Sunday, 24 February 2013 3) Landowners ‘£1 Billion Wind Farm Boom’ - The Sunday Telegraph, 24 February 2013 4) Wind Farms Will Create More CO2, Say Scientists - The Sunday Telegraph, 24 February 2013 5) Christopher Booker: One day, turning off the lights won’t be up to you - The Sunday Telegraph, 24 February 2013 6) Neil Hamilton: Cameron’s Idiocy Will Put You In Dark, Cold Poverty - Sunday Express, 24 February 7) Clive James: Attenborough’s Global Warming Blunder - The Daily Telegraph, 23 February 2013 1) Blackout Britain: EU Eco-Directive Puts Millions at Risk of Power Cuts Sunday Express, 24 February 2013 One million homes narrowly escaped a power cut last month as bitterly cold weather placed a massive strain on Britain’s creaking electricity network. Sandbrook Office workers in London attempt to keep warm during the 1974 power cuts. Photograph: Evening Standard/Getty Images Shutdown was only avoided because a gas-fired station due to close by next winter came to the rescue. Last night experts warned that life-threatening blackouts are increasingly likely as “we head downhill – fast”… And as a spell of bitter cold once more hits the UK, the near switch-off which came so perilously close on that freezing afternoon, underscores the magnitude of the energy crisis. Fawley is one of a number of coal and oil power stations being forced into retirement to comply with EU environmental targets. [...] Ann Robinson, consumer champion at uSwitch, said: “We are facing disaster on energy prices. The dynamic has changed, but the thinking hasn’t. “What worries me most is that the average household energy bill will be £1,400 by end of the year; £1,500 is a cliff edge at which most people say they’ll switch off the heating entirely.” Full story 2) Green Energy Bill May Drag Britain Into A New Dark Age Mail on Sunday, 24 February 2013 Mr Yeo has moved an extraordinary amendment to the Energy Bill that would set a crippling and binding target for the amount of carbon dioxide emitted by generating power in 2030. It would transform the electricity industry and bring huge benefits to the business sector, which has so generously rewarded Mr Yeo. For the rest of us, however, the effects will be very different. It will cause already high energy bills to soar further and could lead to more power cuts. The effect on business is likely to be even more dramatic… ‘Even without the amendment, the long-term consequences of the Bill will be horrible,’ said Professor Gordon Hughes of Edinburgh University, one of Britain’s leading experts on energy economics. He issued a strong warning the ‘surreal’ amendment could spell the end of British industry. ‘It’s a recipe for deindustrialisation,’ he said. Prof Hughes thinks the choice is stark: ‘Either we get rid of this obsession, or we give away our future to the rest of the world. The question is whether we’re serious about our economic future or not.’

WIND FARMS CREATE MORE CO2 THAN THEY SAVE, SAYS GOVERNMENT REPORT

This report commissioned by the Scottish government would seem to deal a fatal blow to the policy of building wind farms in remote areas where they can destroy valuable peat bogs which are very powerful stores of CO2.

CLIMATE MODELS v OBSERVATION

Right at the heart of the global warming controversy is the difference between the predictions of the computer climate models and the actual measurements taken both on the ground and higher up in the troposphere by satellites. One of the most respected scientists on the sceptics side is Dr John Christy. Here he gives clear evidence to show that the models have been shown to be incorrect.

HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE KILLED BY CLIMATE CHANGE?

Of course there are always extreme weather events in the world that can be included in the term "climate change", but even that seems unlikely to give a figure of 300,000 deaths per year. Yet the is the figure cited in a book that is examined here. It seems there are no lengths that extremists will not go to further their cause, for that is what it is.

GERMAN PEOPLE AND INDUSTRY SUFFER AS COST OF ENERGY ESCALATES

This report gives the staggering cost to Germany of their planned switch to renewable energy. If carried through it could ruin their economy - an amazing thing for a government to do to its people, but then the UK is planning a similar thing.

"RECORD TEMPERATURES" BEING EXAGGERATED

Here is a report which looks at the way in which some weather bureaus are attenpting to fool the public by manipulating data.

CLIMATE MODELS STILL FAIL

Here is a good article looking at the inaccuracy of current computer climate models. The blog it is from is well worth reading and I have put a link to it on the list.

CO2 INFLUENCE ON CLIMATE APPEARS TO BE MINIMAL

This piece looks at the climate record and concludes that the influence of CO2 seems to be weak.

ANTARCTIC ICE BREAKS RECORD FOR JANUARY

Here's an interesting piece which looks at the Antarctic ice during its "warm" period. It seems that the ice is at record high levels for this time. Interesting!

BANK GOVERNOR BLAMES GREEN POLICIES FOR ECONOMIC WOE

This piece in the Telegraph reports the comments of Mervin King, strangely not mentioned on the TV news bulletins.

RECORD ARCTIC ICE INCREASE

I wonder why this has noy made it on to the TV news bulletins? Could it be that it does not quite fit the narrative of dangerous warming that we have constantly been told is "real" and "beyond doubt"?

UK FACING ENERGY SHORTAGES AS CONFIDENCE DROPS

This article looks at the uncertainty in the UK government energy policy which is causing the problem. Who will get the blame when the lights go out?

BBC SENSORS DAVID ATTENBOROUGH

This report In the Telegraph explains how David Attenborough had said in the final episode of his series on Africa that temperatures in the continent had increased by 3.5C in the last 20 years. After complaints of exaggeration by various informed people, the statement was dropped when the programme was repeated.

JUST WHAT DOES "CLIMATE CHANGE" MEAN FOR OUR WEATHER?

Here is an interesting look at this. What Warmists would like to do is convince you that any extreme weather is "climate change", but serious scientists cannot bring themselves to make such a ridiculous assertion as the linked article shows.

NEW REPORT SAYS UK COULD HAVE ENOUGH SHALE GAS FOR 1000 YEARS

This article at GWPF gives the details. This should mean an end to wind farms, but I don't expect the government to change policy straight away as they are in too deep with the renewables.

MORE SNOUTS IN THE TROUGH AT DECC

This piece from BishopHill looks at connections between the former enrgy minister Stephen Hendry and renewable energy firms. It all looks very dodgy.

NORTH ATLANTIC COOLING HERALDS COOLER CLIMATE?

This article explains the details. If true it would seem that the warmists are doomed.

NEW SOURCE OF ENERGY TO BE MINED

This article gives details of a trial off the Japanese coast to extract methane hydrates from beneath the sea.

GOOD NEWS FOR PACIFIC ISLANDS

Here is the good news that these islands are not sinking due to sea level rise, though I dare say their political leaders will want this kept quiet for obvious reasons.

PREDICTIONS v OUTCOMES

Here is a list of a large number of predictions by "experts" which have turned out to be way out. Is it any wonder that the public are cynical?

DO FORESTS DRIVE OUR CLIMATE?

Here is a new scientific paper that is causing some controversy. It claims that the water vapour from forests causes the winds that drive the climate. It may or may not be correct, but what it does reveal is just how much scientists disagree on the basics of climate science. The science of climate is far from settled. We still have a huge amount to learn. That is what some scientists and politicians are afraid of admitting.

IS THE PRECAUTIONARY PRINCIPLE BEING OVER APPLIED?

This article from the Scientific Alliance explores this question through a document from the EU. On the one hand we do not want to take dangerous, unnecessary risks, but on the other hand we must not become so risk averse that we are afraid to take any risks at all. The precautionary principle is often cited as a reason to limit CO2 emissions, because even if we are not sure that they will cause dangerous global warming, there is a risk, however small. If that is the policy I argue that Los Angeles and San Francisco along with any other towns along the San Andreas Fault Line should be evacuated, but there is no plan to do it and most people seem prepared to take the risk.

GREENS AND COMMUNISTS

When Greens are conpared with the Communists you can see they have many things in common. One is a tendency to do one thing and advise others to do the opposite. A good example is seen here. Another is their desire for the state to run things and organise our lives. In short both movements are made up of idealists who do not seem to have learnt anything from experience of the past.

GLOBAL TEMPERATURE RISE PREDICTIONS REDUCED

This article looks at a range of recent papers which all show a lower prediction of global temperature rise than the last IPCC report. Is this a real sign that the scare is dying down?

ALARMISTS RETRENCH AS EARTH FAILS TO WARM

This article sums up the problem of those who cling stubbornly to a hypothesis that is fading faster than Arctic ice in the summer sun.

LOVELOCK RECANTS

This report explains how the father of the green movement, James Lovelock, has finally seen the light on the wind turbine issue when objecting to the sighting of one in his own locality. His letter of objection is very well written.

WE DEMAND AFFORDABLE ENERGY PETITION

Here is a link to an EU wide petition to the EU demanding affordable energy. I will put a lihk in the side bar for future visitors

IPCC EXPOSED IN TV INTERVIEW

This interview on Fox News with Donna Laframboise exposes the flawed methods by which the IPCC reports are made. Once again we see that under the srface they are in league with activists and their reports therefore cannot be trusted.

CLIMATE POLICIES THAT ARE KILLING NATURE

This article looks at some of the schemes around the world that are destroying habitats and wild life supposedly to save the planet. What a perverted kind of logic destroys the thing it purports to save? We really do live in a strange world.

2012 NO WARMER THAN 2001 SAY CRU FIGURES

This report looks at the latest figures for g;obal temperatures produced by the UK Climate Research Unit, and as expected they show a continued lack of warming. How much longer can alarmists continue to pretend that warming will resume shortly. 16 years and counting seems to be a rather long pause, with a further 5 years to come according to the latest Met Office prediction.

BIG BUSINESS CONSPIRES TO MAKE MONEY OUT OF ENERGY POLICY

This piece list all those charities and businesses that are pushing their preferred policy on to the government, forcing up energy prices.

AUSTRALIAN TEMPERATURES BACK TO NORMAL

This article tells us that the high temperatures being experienced in Australia are now back to normal, so alarmists can go back to looking at the arctic and polar bears to give themselves a fright.

WILL WE GO BACK TO BURNING WOOD?

This article suggests it is already happening as a direct result of the high price of energy in Europe, due to government so-called green policy.

WIND FARM CONTRACTS MAY BE REWRITTEN

According to this article in the Telegraph the government are to see if it is possible to re-write the wind farm contracts which are hopelessly unfair. How did we get such incompetence in the first place, I wonder?

ANOTHER SERIOUS ERROR BY THE MET OFFICE

This report highlights another serious error by the UK Met Office. Coming right after the new five year forecast which contradicts the previous ten year forecast this must affect the credibility of this once revered organisation.

GERMANY CALLING FOR VOLUNTARY CLIMATE TREATY

This article looks at the new German initiative. Apparently they don't believe the UN system is working (they are right there) and so want to forge ahead with other willing nations. Good luck to them, I say. I am sure the Chinese and the Indians will wish them well, while carrying on with their coal-fired power station building programmes.

AUSSIE HEAT WAVE - IT WAS HOTTER IN 1790

When people cite the current hot weather in Sidney and the surrounding area as evidence of global warming, this article is a useful antidote. It serves as a reminder that weather in the past has been just as extreme as the present.

COMPLAINTS ABOUT BBC BIAS AGAINST CLIMATE ALARM

Yes you did read the headline correctly, people (including the Met Office chief scientist)actually complained that the BBC was biased against the alarmists according to this report. No one could accuse the BBC of being stridently anti alarmist, but the timid report stating that the Met Office had said that global warming would not increase over the next five years was still too much for them. As Corporal Jones would say on the BBC comedy Dad's Army, "they don't like it up-'em!"

MET OFFICE BURYING GOOD NEWS

This article by Christopher Booker gives a wide airing of the story of the Met office appearing to slip out its latest prediction, that there would be no global warming for the next five years, without any announcement. They should have known better, as they have now got plenty of unwanted attention.

CONFLICTS OF INTEREST AND UK GREEN POLICY

This article in today's Mail looks again at the many green business interests of Lord Deben (formerly John Gummer MP). It is extraordinary that he is allowed to make decisions on matters when his business interests seem bound to be affected. If he was a councillor he would be subject to a much stricter code. Amazing!

NASA - THE SUN COULD CAUSE CLIMATE CHANGE

This is the report by NASA that looks at the complex effects of changes in the sun's output on the climate.

LATEST WEATHER - CHILLY OUTLOOK

Here is the latest report from my friend Richard North of EUReferendum blog. As you will se from the report there is a lot of cold weather in China and India and other places.

IPCC IN LEAGUE WITH GREEN ACTIVISTS

This report looks at the recent leaked documents which reveal the extent of collaboration between green groups such as WWF and the supposedly impartial scientists of the IPCC. Their reputation is surely now beyond repair.

THORIUM - A FUEL FOR THE FUTURE?

Here is a link to a very interesting article in the Telegraph which elaborates on the advantages of thorium nuclear reactors. The chinese appear to be moving ahead on this, but will the West join the race?

OBAMA'S NEW SEC. OF DEFENSE KILLED KYOTO

This article looks at the background of Chuck Hagel, in particular his prominent role in the throwing out of the Kyoto Treaty by the US Senate by 97 votes to nil - including you note, all those Democrats who now support cap'n'trade.

UK TO EU - PLEASE CAN WE KEEP OUR COAL POWER A BIT LONGER?

Pathetic isn't it? But that seems to be what the UK government are considering doing, according to this piece in today's Telegraph. But that's what happens when you sign away your freedom to act independently. We used to be free once, but now we are trussed up by unelected bureaucrats in the EU, not to mentionour own home grown Climate Change Act.

MET OFFICE NEW PREDICTION - NO GW BEFORE 2017

Here is a link to the article. This extraordinary change seems to undermine their credibility. If they keep changing predictions, why should the public have any confidence in them? Clearly they would only do this in the face of strong evidence that their previous prediction was not viable.

UPDATE:  More on met office predictions here

GOODBYE KYOTO

This article looks at the failure of the Kyoto Treaty to control CO2 emissions. Will there ever be a replacement I wonder?

UK CLIMATE RECORD "SHOWS NO WARMING TREND"

That is the conclusion of this article which examines the 300 year old UK climate record. This conclusion seems at odds with some recent pronouncements by the Met Office.

The weather round-up for 2012 has been figuring prominently in news broadcasts in recent days and it is noticeable that "extreme" weather has figured prominently. We are now being warned to expect more extreme rainfall etc, which of course is due to climate change. (Global warming has fallen out of favour, probably due to the unexplained pause in any temperture rise.)

LAWSON WINS CLIMATE POLICY BET WITH LETWIN

This piece on the GWPF website gives the details. The bet was whether there would br a substantial new world climate treaty in place to succeed Kyoto. Oliver Letwin who is the Conservative Party's policy chief got it spectacularly wrong. Clearly he is not on the right wavelength, or maybe the wrong planet.

USA - EPA CHIEF RESIGNS

Here is a link to the details. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of the USA has for some time been putting forward ever more costly and restrictive legislation to "fight climate change". Now its chief, Lisa Jackson, has been forced to resign over some scandal. I expect there are plenty of others ready to step into her shoes.

THE HIDDEN WORLD OF JOHN GUMMER

John Gummer is a UK politician and the chairman of the powerful Climate Change Committee which advises parliament on how to implement the Climate Change Act. Yet as this article says he is also a member of an organisation that seeks to impose a set of policies on the world that would conflict with him having an open mind.

COULD CFC's HAVE CAUSED THE RECENT GW?

This article refers to the hypothesis that the CFC gases that are blamed for causing the hole in the ozone layer could have also caused the warming which occurred in the 1980's and 90's. The argument for this is certainly well made and deserves consideration, at least as much as the CO2 hypothesis.

DEATH TO THE DENIERS

Here is a link to the article written by a professor. I understand he is an Australian living in Austria and his musings about how to treat leading "deniers" of the seriousness of global warming were put on his university website. Of course he should be treated as a deranged nutcase, but he is a professor and so some impressionable people will no doubt take notice of him. What if one person acts on his suggestion, will the prof. be held responsible?
UPDATE: The author has now removed the article entirely and posted an apology Post in haste, repent at leisure. Happy New Year everyone!

WORLD'S PLANTS FLOURISH WITH EXTRA CO2

Here is the research paper that gives us the evidence. You will not see any reference to such a paper on the mainstream news for obvious reasons.

MATT RIDLEY RESPONDS TO CRITICS

Here Matt Ridley responds to criticism of his post that I referred to on 20th December. It is interesting to see how cut throat the climate science business is. Looking at Matt's response it seems to me that he has given a very robust rebuttal, but when two scientists "lock horns" it is easy to see how the layman is left confused.

WHY WE CAN'T CONTROL CLIMATE

Here is a great piece in the Winnipeg Free Press by Tom Harris. Well worth a read.

IPCC CAUGHT CHEATING AGAIN

This piece on Donna Laframboise's blog explains how the IPCC ensures that scientific papers that support the narrative they espouse get into their report, even if they have not yet been published in a scientific journal. Of course we are already aware that many of their lead authors do their best to prevent any papers opposing their view from getting published at all, and certainly kept out of the IPCC report altogether. I refer, of course to the leaked emails known as climategate. here is a good article which discusses the climategate isue in relation to the way science is treated in universities today.

BEST WISHES TO YOU ALL

I wish all readers a merry Christmas and let's hope for a New Year in which our governments open their eyes to the reality of the lack of warming and stop pouring billions of taxpayers' money away in a fruitless attempt to solve a non-problem.

IPCC PREDICTIONS - ALL WRONG!

This article on WUWT blog gives a very simple analysis of the predictions of global warming from all the four past IPCC reports from 1990. After 22 years it is now obvious that they are hopelessly wrong. How long can this discredited nonsense go on?

MORE TROUBLE WITH WIND TURBINES

Taxpayers subsidising wind turbines are getting an even worse deal than many realise according to this article. The main findings are that their life-expectancy is only 10 to 15 years instead of the 25 years quoted by the wind industry, also they become less efficient as they get older. All this means that the government need a lot more of them to try to replace the traditional fossil fuel generation (if we ignore their intermittency - which we can't). What it ought to mean is that we simply don't need them and we can't afford them.

SAME SLOPPY IPPC IN LEAKED DRAFT

Here is an article which looks at the recommendations in a report into the work of the IPCC and it finds that the IPCC appears to have ignored them, according to the leaked draft of the next report, due out at the end of 2013. With such close scrutiny now on the IPCC, they will be in for a very hard time unless they get their act together.

MORE EVIDENCE THAT THE MEDIEVAL WARM PERIOD WAS WARMER THAN TODAY

This article looks at a new scientific paper about the Chinese climate. The article also links to much more evidence which builds up a more or less global picture of the medieval warm period that was warmer than today.

GLOBAL WARMING CALCULATED TO BE SMALL

The headline ought to be good news and yet it seems highly probable that the IPCC will try and hide this. The detail is in this piece by Matt Ridley. One of the good things about the recent leak of the draft IPCC report is that if (or when) they try to dress it up in alarmist language we will have much more time to prepare and counter their scare stories.

GWPF ASKS BBC TO RE-EXAMINE ITS CLIMATE CHANGE POLICY

The well-respected Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) chaired by the UK's former Chancelor of the Exchequer, Lord Lawson, has decided to write to the new head of the BBC Trust to call for a new seminar to examine the BBC's policy on climate change coverage. The letter can be read here. It will be interesting to see the Trust's response, in view of the fact that so much has happened since 2007 when the last major policy review took place.

UPDATE:
This story was reported in today's Daily Express

MALDIVES NOT DROWNING AFTER ALL

Here's an interesting piece of news about what's happening in the Maldives. Although their leaders constantly complain that their islands are about to disappear under the sea, we note in the article that they are about to build four new airports to improve things for the tourists. Me thinks they do protest too much.

IPCC IGNORES ITS EXPERT REVIEWERS

This piece by the excellent Donna Laframboise shows how the IPCC chairman's claim that the reports issued by the IPCC are thoroughly reviewed by thousands of independent experts is in fact a myth, as the reports can be altered after the reviews are done.

TUVALU EXAGGERATES CLAIMS OF DROWNING

Here is an article by Donna Laframboise which looks at the alarmist way in which the island has tried to portray its plight. 

SEA LEVEL RISE REMAINS CONSTANT

That is the conclusionof a new paper on the subject. Read the background here. So we can stop worrying about all the scare stories the alarmists keep putting out.

NEW IPCC REPORT LEAKED - GW CAUSED BY THE SUN!

Yes astonishingly that seems to be the conclusion according to the scientist who leaked the whole second draft of the report. Read the whole article on WUWT here. Here is a paragraph from the post:
"The admission of strong evidence for enhanced solar forcing changes everything. The climate alarmists can’t continue to claim that warming was almost entirely due to human activity over a period when solar warming effects, now acknowledged to be important, were at a maximum. The final draft of AR5 WG1 is not scheduled to be released for another year but the public needs to know now how the main premises and conclusions of the IPCC story line have been undercut by the IPCC itself."

GERMAN BANK RAIDED OVER CARBON TRADING

Yet more corruption seems to be happening according to this report. This kind of thing has happende time after time and yet our politicians seem to have no other option while we all continue to get ripped off.

LATEST CLIMATE PROPAGANDA ON CHANNEL 4

Last evening I watched a programme on Britain's Extreme Weather. It is still available to view on computer (see this link). As I expected it was a one-sided piece of climate change propaganda dressed up as a normal documentary. It began by showing all the various different "extremes" of weather, particularly highlighting the flooding events around the country. I recall no mention of the fact that these all occurred in flood plains or in places surrounded by steep hills. There was no serious attempt to look in detail at the records for rainfall. A couple of harsh winters from the past were mentioned to try to give an impression of balance.

All this was leading to the obvious conclusion which appeared in the last 15 minutes of the hour long programme - man made CO2 was the culprit and two climate scientists of a "warmist" persuasion appeared to warn us that things were likely to get a lot worse. Funnily enough no one bothered to mention that there has been no statistically significant global warming for 16 years despite CO2 levels continuing to rise. Naturally no one was invited on who had any alternative views. This was clearly aimed at those with no knowledge other than the prevailing orthodoxy. As it was on Channel 4 it probably had quite small audience. In view of the mounting evidence that global warming has stopped for the past 16 years I wonder if there will be any attempt to look at this? 

LATEST CLIMATE TALKS BRANDED A FAILURE

This report looks at the details. While the green activists would no doubt agree with this analysis, there are still a number of costly measures that Western governments are committed to do. Only when these are scrapped will we start to get back to common sense on this issue.

NEWS FROM LATEST CLIMATE CHANGE JUNKET

This report gives a flavour of the nonsense being cooked up to fleece us all. Heaven help us if this lot are on our side. For a round-up of the final decisions go to this link at the BBC and if you read it you may conclude that the charade goes on, though fortnately at a snail's pace. Maybe by 2015 the world may have cooled and even the zealots will struggle to keep this gravy train on the rails.

THE NEW ENERGY REVOLUTION

This article by Lord Lawson in the Mail explains the huge importance of the new found technology to exploit shale gas and oil. A very good article from a very influential man.

NEW PETITION TO UK GOVERNMENT TO SCRAP THE CLIMATE CHANGE ACT

If you are a UK citizen and want to se the infamous Climate Change Act scrapped then go here to find out about the new petition. Do pass this on to others.

CLIMATE PROPAGANDA DE-BUNKED

This excellent piece from James Delingpole looks at how the media, particularly the BBC, are willing to report anything written by the green NGO's, even though it is easily proved to be one-sided propaganda. Shame on them.

UK CLIMATE AID NOT REACHING THE POOR

£2 billion in aid from the UK is being mis-used according to this article in the Telegraph. Not only is it unnecessary as there is no adverse trend in climate, but as usual the aid is not even reaching the poorest anyway. How typical!

THE BBC'S 10 RULES ON HOW TO MANAGE THE CLIMATE CHANGE DEBATE

The following is a list of the guidance rules by which the BBC expects its staff to deal with articles concerning the climate change debate. To read the full article giving the background go to this link Surely this turns the BBC from an impartial provider of news a into propaganda machine for indoctrinating the public?
Those ten points are:


1. Journalists must resist framing the debate by putting up pro AGW advocates against climate sceptics.

2. Such an approach creates an impression of balance but in fact demonstrates that ‘balance is bias’ …against the consensus and therefore wrong.

3. It is important to train new, young journalists in a new approach to climate change because they will then either take that with them to the higher ranks of the BBC or move to other media organisations where they can then have influence over how the science is covered.

4. Journalists must now present the science as a long term ‘process’ and not look for a ‘result’….do not debate the science…facts are not necessary.

5. It is the Media’s role and responsibility to ensure the Public get the correct message about the science so that they then proceed to behave ‘dutifully’ in response.

6. Sceptics lack the knowledge and scientific background to be qualified to challenge the consensus.

7. Climate sceptics put in danger both Democracy and the Planet…..turn the debate into a ‘morality play’….guilt is good.

8. There needs to be a new kind of reporting….as said science as a ‘process’ but also introduce new voices….ignore the science, look at the consequences of global warming and the necessary responses….bring on economists, historians, politicians, social scientists and businessmen who will ensure the Public are made fully aware of the dangers of climate change according to the consensus.

9. Blur the boundaries between news and current affairs and other broadcast categories…drama, history, wildlife documentaries, anything that will further opportunities to influence the viewer’s perceptions and understanding of climate change.

10. There are no more facts to be found…the science is settled…..that is now the ‘Orthodoxy’.

LATEST RESEARCH - GREENLAND MELT INCREASE INSIGNIFICANT

This article explains the new study and its significance. I hope everyone will sleep easier knowing there is still no prospect of major sea level rise in the foreseeable future. I hope the UN will take note (though I doubt they are listening).

UK ENERGY SUBSIDY TO INDUSTRY MAY BE ILLEGAL

This article explains why this could be so under international law.

CO2 REDUCTIONS AND FUEL SECURITY

Here is the latest article from the Scientific Alliance. As usual we have the well-argued common sense that we have come to expect.

WWF WANT MORE MONEY FOR POOR NATIONS TO COPE WITH CLIMATE CHANGE

This report looks at the latest attempt by the WWF to extract yet more cash from the rich west to give to the poor in order for them to deal with the effects of climate change. This despite the fact that no climate event can be attributed to CO2.

UK GOVERNMENT TO PROTECT INDUSTRY FROM ENERGY PRICE HIKE

This article in the Telegraph looks at the new announcement in the forthcoming Energy Bill. It is good news for energy intensive industries, but the bad news is the rest of us will have to pay the extra to make up for it. So our bill will go even higher.

CO2 REGULATION IS A DISASTER

A new book on this subject is reviewed here. This well written summary lists the powerful arguments against over-regulation of the energy sector for the dubious aim of reducing emissions of CO2. 

BE CAUTIOUS OVER INCREASED SEA LEVEL RISE CLAIMS

This article gives the details.

NEW REPORT - UK SHALE GAS WILL KEEP PRICES DOWN

Here is an article which refers to the report and links to it. It gives a cautious conclusion that shale gas would make a difference to the UK, and is all the more believable for not going over the top. All we are waiting for is the goverment to give the go ahead.

GO GREEN OR DIE SAYS PRINCE CHARLES

Dear old Prince Charles seems to be going ott with his latest speech according to this article in the Independent. On many issues I share his concern, but on this one I beg to differ. It is sad that by so over-stating the argument he will merely re-inforce the views of those who find him an eccentric.

WOULD YOU PAY EXTRA FOR WIND TURBINES - VOTE NOW

Here is the link to the Guardian poll, so do let them have your opinion. Poll closes in about 5 hours.

UPDATE
Poll has now closed and the result was 31% in favour and 69% against, which seems rather convincing evidence that the public do not want dearer electricity, even if it were to cut CO2 (which it would not).

BALANCE ON CLIMATE CHANGE AT THE BBC

This piece from Bishop Hill looks at why the BBC has got it so wrong on the climate debate. By giving up on impartiality the BBC has betrayed its viewers and listeners, and sold out to the green lobby. A public service broadcaster that has done the public a disservice.

UK ENERGY BILL A BAD DEAL

This piece explains the bad news contained in the UK government's new energy bill. It's not all bad news as the government did at least not include a new CO2 reduction target that would have ruled out new gas fired power stations without carbon capture, so the door has been left open to start devloping shale gas.

YET ANOTHER WIND TURBINE SCAM

Just when you thought you had read all the wind farm scams along comes this. You really could not make it up. How could the government fail to see this and do something to stop it? Unfortunately this is just typical of what happens when an artificial market is devised, instead of allowing real competition.

NO SUCCESSOR TO KYOTO LIKELY

This report tells us why no meaningful agreement will be reached. The major sticking point is simple - the so-called "develoing nations such as China and India refuse to subject themselves to reducing their emissions, and the USA, Canada, New Zealand and others refuse to take part in an agreement that does not include them. A classic impasse which looks insoluble. Without all major industrial nations taking part CO2 emission cuts cannot happen.    

CIA CLOSES CLIMATE CHANGE DEPARTMENT

This article confirms the headline, which suggests that the hype about climate change causing wars was likely to be an exaggeration, like so much of the climate change hype. Gradually governments are beginning to back off from the collective madness that has engulfed them.

CAN YOU TRUST THE IPCC?

Here is a very good piece about the way the IPCC goes about its business, not its scientific business, but its everyday organisational business. The article looks at two matters; the award of the Nobel Peace Prize is one, and its presence at the latest UN climate change talks is the other. In both cases they seem to be more than a little confused.

BBC HAS A PECUNIARY INTEREST IN AGW

This piece uncovers a hidden link between the BBC's pension fund and promotion of the anthropogenic global warming hypothesis. Something that I have never heard the BBC declare, and nor do I expect them to do so anytime soon.

WHY BIO FUELS WON'T CUT EMISSIONS

According to Matt ridley not only will they fail to reduce emissions, but they will increase food prices as well as energy costs - a real lose-lose scenario. Yet the UK and the EU still persist with the policy.

The BBC has also covered the biomass story.

MORE ON BBC CLIMATE CHANGE DUPLICITY

This article from Christopher Booker (where would the UK climate sceptics be without him?) gives the wider public an opportunity to see how the BBC has abandoned its duty of impartiality at the behest of a one-sided group of climate alarmist organisations. This disgraceful bias is yet more evidence of a lack of integrity by the public service broadcaster. Apart from Booker no other national media has reported this, as far as I am aware.

Here is more on this topic with detail of the little known IBT which seems to wield a lot of power over the media.

ENERGY MINISTER CALLS FOR CURBS ON WIND FARMS

This article highlights new UK Energy Minister, John Hayes strong objections to wind farms. It is hard to imagine that PM David Cameron was unaware of this when he appointed him in the recent re-shuffle. 

UK GOVERNMENT SPLIT OVER TOUGH EMISSIONS TARGETS FOR NEW POWER STATIONS

This article discusses the rift at the heart of the Conservative-Lib Dem coalition over the new Energy Bill. What the article reveals is that the Conservatives are at last realising that the targets in the Climate Change Act are actually incompatible with keeping the lights on. The hard bit is trying to explain this to their Lib Dem partners. 

CLIMATE CHANGE IS ALL ABOUT THE MONEY

When you read this article you can see why so many nations are keen (even desperate) to see climate change taken seriously. It's because they expect to get billions of dollars to fight it. If (or when) it eventually falls flat not one single dollar will be repaid. It is simply the ultimate ponzi scheme. This is a benefits culture on a world scale, not just a client state, but dependent nations. Of course it has many facets and when temperatures continue to flatline or even fall the focus will switch to sea level rise or increasing acidity in the ocean, or something yet to be mentioned. The developed world is beginning to wise up and smell the coffee.

LIST OF BBC "CLIMATE EXPERTS" REVEALED

You can read the full story and the list here on the WUWT website. This has been a bad wekk for the BBC, but I bet this will not make the national news, yet it is more clear evidence that the BBC is far from impartial in its reporting of the contentious issue of so-called "climate change. What can the BBC be trusted on?

More on this at Delingpole.

HUMAN CO2 EMISSIONS MAY BE STAVING OFF A NEW ICE AGE

That is according to This article referencing some research by Swedish climate scientists. If true it rather turns the current argument on its head. Next we will be trying to increase emissions!

UK LABOUR PEER ASKS AWKWARD QUESTION ON GW

Here's an account of a Labour Peer questioning the extent of temperature rise since 1880, with the detailed reply given by the government, probably with some help from the Climate Research Unit. It is interesting to read the comments below the post as some are very sharp. It is looking as though the sceptics are growing both in numbers and confidence.

UK CLIMATE CHANGE DEPARTMENT LIVES A JET-SET LIFESTYLE

The Tax Payer's Alliance has done some research and discovered that our political leaders who keep on exalting us to forsake such high emission things as air travel have been quietly bumping up their air miles. Is anyone surprised? Of course not, after all their travel is so much more important than ours!

STORM SANDY NOTHING TO DO WITH GW

This article looks at the facts and makes the case against tropical storm Sandy being affected by man-made climate change. Yet the alarmists cannot resist trying - it is just too tempting not to use all the pain and suffering from the storm to advance their "cause", despite all the evidence pointing to them being wrong. Yet another desperate attempt to bolster their very weak case. 

NEW ZEALAND GIVES ITSELF A COMPETITIVE EDGE IN CARBON PRICE WAR

This article explains how the New Zealand government has backed off from having a high price for carbon emissions, thus giving its industry a head start over others like the UK and Australia. I notice one interesting line in the linked article which says that Australians had given their government a mandate to have a carbon trading scheme. That is the opposite of my recollection. Once one or two countries start to break ranks with the carbon taxing nations it won't be long before others join them. 

"THE CONSENSUS IS CRACKING", SAYS BOOKER

This article from Christopher Booker shows him in upbeat mood about the recent rebellious noises from our MPs, both on wind farms and also the wretched EU budget. It may be a faltering first step, but at least it seems to be in the right direction.

FOSSIL FUELS ARE THE FUTURE

This article by UKIP MEP, Roger Helmer, looks at the current supplies and reserves of fossil fuels and finds that far from running out, there are ample supplies for the foreseeable future, which means that they are not likely to rocket in price, thus making renewables appear to be comparable.  On the contrary it is the renewables which are going to be the costly option, but will our political leaders have the good sense to change course?

Here is another well-argued article by Ruth Lea who looks at why the UK needs to stop building wind farms and concentrate on gas.

WHY NO DEBATE ON GW SCIENCE?

This article is from an excellent blogger called Pointman. Well worth a read, as are other articles on his blog.  

HIPPY MAKES MILLIONS FROM WIND SUBSIDIES

I sometimes come across "old news" stories that catch my eye and I think they deserve to be highlighted for some reason that makes them current. Here is one. I feel in one way I should say good luck to Mr Dale - my only misgiving is that he should not have been given the chance to fleece the government, and hence all of us.

UK ENERGY POLICY CONFUSION

This article by the Scientific Alliance gives a very informative summary of the state of the UK energy policy in the light of the recent nuclear energy take over by Hitachi.

UK OPPOSITION TO WIND FARMS HARDENING

A new film has been made by activists against wind farms. If you view it you will see that it is a very professional piece of work. The opposition to wind farms is increasing the more people see of them and the more they learn of the weakness of the case for them.

BBC IN LEGAL WRANGLE OVER "SECRET CLIMATE PANEL"

Six years ago the BBC decided to stop giving any right of reply to those sceptical of the global warming hypothesis. The decision was made as a result of a meeting with a panel of climate "experts". A climate sceptic blogger has doggedly pursued a freedom of information request to get the BBC to reveal the names of the expert panel. Here is an account of the long and dogged pursuit.

MP COMPLAINS ABOUT BBC CLIMATE CHANGE BIAS

This letter from Peter Lilley, MP relates to his appearance on Newsnight about seven weeks ago. It will be interesting to see if he gets a better response than other similar complaints.

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.

CLIMATE ALARMISTS WANT TO DENY SCEPTICS ANY VOICE ON AIR

This piece shows what alarmists want, and it is to allow no non-consenting voices to be heard on the subject of global warming. It is a clear sign of how frightened they are that the arguments put by their opponents are too strong to combat. But however hard they try, those arguments will be heard, if not on mainstream TV then they will be in the press or on the internet. If those arguments have merit they will win in the end.

IS THIS OUR ENERGY BIG BROTHER FUTURE?

Two good articles on Eureferendum blog.The first one looks at a project in Denmark where the energy supply to a small village is over 50% from renewables, mainly wind turbines. It makes rather disturbing reading, as it relies on the customers only using appliances when the energy can be supplied - in other words taking a step backwards.The second one looks at how the energy market is being rigged to enable wind turbines to get added to the grid in such large numbers. The second piece looks at how a rigged market is leading us to the situation where we may end up in the position of the citizens of the Danish village.

All this is being promoted by our government as "progress" and yet it can only be called progress in some kind of "nu-speak" world where words take on an entirely different meaning - a bit like calling a same-sex relationship "marriage" (which the government are also proposing).

ANOTHER SCARE DEBUNKED

Remember the one about methane escaping from the ocean floor and increasing the warming? Well according to this piece in Watts Up With That blog a new scientific expedition has discovered that these vents have been going on for many years and are not likely to be linked to human activity or emissions of CO2. Don't have nightmares and do sleep well!

EXACTLY HOW MUCH CO2 DOES WIND POWER SAVE?

It is a complex question as this report to the UK parliament makes clear. What's more, no proper answer has been published by the UK government, so despite the massive cost of adding all the wind turbines to the UK there is no official way of knowing whether the savings are worthwhile, or indeed if there are any savings at all. In this piece on the Bishop Hill blog there is an account of a councillor in Scotland who is taking a case to UNECE against the authorities behind the wind farm policy (the EU and the UK) on the very point of inadequate information about CO2 savings among others. She has already won the right to have her case put and a ruling is expected next summer. If she wins it would be a fantastic victory, but I am not holding my breath.

MORE EVIDENCE OF VARIATION IN ARCTIC SEA ICE

This article by Matt Ridley looks at other evidence coming forward to suggest that the Arctic ice has been much greater as well as smaller than the present. The alarmists want to give only one side of the story.

GERMANY FINDS TOO MANY TURBINES UPSETS THE GRID

This piece from Christopher Booker gives a clear warning of what we in the UK will face if we continue to add more and more wind power to the grid. Yet despite all the evidence our government seems determined to press ahead. This is called the lemming mentality.

COAL STILL CHEAPER DESPITE CARBON TAX

This article confirms that more coal fired power stations are due to be built in Europe, despite the carbon pricing schemes. How can they claim their schemes are any use when they fail in their primary objective? They are simply putting up the price of energy for no useful purpose. What a shambles!

ANTHONY WATTS INTERVIEW

Here is a short interview with Anthony Watts the man behind the great "Watts Up With That" blog. He explains his position on climate change and his views on the climate temperature record.

USA OIL POTENTIAL IS IMMENSE

This article shows where the extra oil could come from if the political will is there, which boils down to who wins the race for the White House. The economy is much more likely to grow with more fuel than less.

ANTARCTIC ICE DEFIES CLIMATE MODEL PREDICTIONS

This article looks at the way the climate models have all been found to have failed to predict the on-going increase in levels of Antarctic ice. In fact the computer climate models have all predicted a loss of ice. How can we trust models that have failed?

AN ENERGY POLICY THAT MAKES SENSE

This is it and I wish those in government would have the good sense to follow it.

INDIA PLANS MASSIVE COAL POWER STATION BUILD

If you thought China was the only nation with a massive coal-fired power station building programme, then read this article to see what India has planned. Yet more reasons why our own UK efforts to cut CO2 emissions will be completely useless at reducing atmospheric levels.

HISTORY OF GW AKA CLIMATE SCIENCE

This article gives a very good account of how the global warming scare began and how it gained so much traction across the globe, despite such weak scientific evidence. It is not a "conspiracy", but rather a conflation if disparate groups all gaining from it in their own different ways. I am putting a link to this in the side bar for reference purposes.

WHEN IS A SUBSIDY NOT A SUBSIDY?

This piece on the Bishop Hill blog highlights a completely ludicrous claim made by a politician that fossil fuels receive more subsidy than renewables. To back up his claim he quotes a report by the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development). He seems to ignore all the taxes that we pay for fossil fuels as well as the fact that investment in such things as wind turbines and solar panels only happen because of the massive subsidies on the energy produced. There is none so blind as those that won't look.

WIND FARMS NOT THE ANSWER

This piece in the Telegraph shows the thinking of the new UK Environment Minister, Owen Patterson. For a minister in the present government this is a very forthright view, and most encouraging. 

JET STREAM BEHAVIOUR EXPLAINED

"All Climate Models are Wrong" is the title of an interesting blog by a young climate scientist called Dr. Tamsin Edwards. She has recently given an interview to Radio Wiltshire in which she has explained the recent behaviour of the jet stream. I recommend it to you all. Unusually, she does not claim to know all the answers - such a refreshing change from the certainty put forward by the Hockey Team (in public). 

KATE'S TITS MORE IMPORTANT THAN GLOBAL WARMING?

OK I admit it, the headline was a blatant attempt at increasing the readership; but there is an important point, which is that millions of people are looking at these while the government are removing £18 billion a year from UK residents in a vain attempt to alter the world's climate and most people are unaware of it. Similar amounts are being taken from residents of other Western nations as well. I know that the Duchess's breasts have caused a great controversy, but we appear to have got our priorities all wrong if we think they are more worthy of study than the great "Climate Change Rip off". I will leave you to carry out your own "research" (you may find the link takes several attempts to work due to the massive interest, but it definitely was working).

I realise that some readers may think it is in bad taste for me to draw attention to the Royal embarrassment, though it does show a great deal of naiivety on her part to imagine that she can get away with appearing topless in any place where she is accessible to the intrusion of high-powered lenses. If you succumb to temptation, you will see that it is all a great fuss about very little - just a normal very slim girl with exactly what nature gave her. In fact the pictures may make other girls realise that they are just like her and don't need silicone enhancement to attract attention either.  

UK SHALE GAS SEEMS A STEP NEARER

This piece from Christopher Booker in tomorrow's Sunday Telegraph reveals that Ed Davey, the Department of Energy and Climate Change Minister appears to be ready to over-rule the Climate Change Committee and give the go-ahead for Shale Gas production. 

COMPARING SURFACE TEMPERATURE RECORDS WITH THE SATELLITE RECORD

The following article is available here by Warwick hughes. I have reproduced it, as it is rather disjointed on the original site. What is interesting here is not only that there is now such a difference between the trends for the land and satellite data, but how the land data has been continually altered as each new data set has been compiled.

"Half a decade back you could make the case that trends 1979-2005 in the old land only CRUTem2 were not too different from University of Alabama at Huntsville AMSU satellite based lower troposphere trends."

LAND ONLY SURFACE TEMPERATURE RECORDS COMPARED WITH SATELLITE TEMPERATURES. (All trends in Degrees C per decade.)


1979 - 2005

             UAH AMSU     CRUTem2    CRUTem3     CRUTem4

Global         0.16                0.17              0.24               0.28

N Hem        0.23                0.25              0.33               0.35

S Hem        0.03                0.10              0.15               0.14

1979 – 2010

Global        0.18                                     0.22               0.27

N Hem       0.24                                     0.32               0.34

S Hem       0.06                                     0.12               0.13


"The introduction of the UKMet Office dominated CRUTem3 in 2006 saw the land trends 1979-2005 blow out and the just introduced CRUTem4 of Dr Phil Jones et al has increased the warming trend 1979-2010 again over the earlier CRUTems and satellites."

So the next time somebody says to you, “…well anyway the satellite temperature trends agree with the surface…”..

You should ask them to check the numbers because it simply is not so anymore.

PIERS CORBIN EXPLAINS WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THE ARCTIC

In this short video Piers Corbin of Weather Action explains why the real climate (as opposed to the alarmist fantasy) is going towards a "little ice age" over the coming years. No doubt the Hockey Team dismiss him as a foolish fantasist, but time will tell. Piers has a good record in predicting weather events and I would not bet against him.

Compare the above account with the alarmist clip from BBC's Newsnight. After the first part the clip shows an interview with Conservative MP, Peter Lilley and the new leader of the UK Green Party.

"COPING WITH CLIMATE CHANGE WILL CAUSE NO DIFFICULTY"

Here at last we have a scientific institution talking common sense. No less than the German Academy of Science and Engineering has come out and said that they believe that climate change is not only manageable but in fact has some advantages. Apparently the news was so shocking that four alarmist scientists have resigned.

COMPUTER CLIMATE MODELS ALL FAIL

Here is an important piece on WUWT which demonstrates serious  shortcomings of climate models in predicting the effect of volcanic activity. The result of the study is that none of the models gave accurate predictions. If they fail in this simple test how can scientists or governments rely on them to predict the climate in the years ahead?

GLOBAL CARBON TRADING SYSTEM COLLAPSING

This article looks at this welcome news. If true it signals the end of one of the greatest attempts to manipulate financial markets ever.

IS THERE A CLIMATE SCEPTIC IN THE CABINET?

This article suggests that there may be, and he is oppsed to wind farms and supports shale gas. If true, this would be a momentous day - time will tell, though even if he is he will be up against very strong opposition.

THIS IS WHAT WE'RE UP AGAINST

This is one of John Gummer's organisations that has caused some to think he may have a conflict of interest when advocating global warming legislation in parliament. When you actually see what is lined up in favour of alarmism.

THE SUN GOING QUIET

This report refers to recent measurements taken of the sun which confirm that it appears to be behaving in an unexpected and quiet way. It will be interesting if this has a bearing on earth's climate over the coming years.

THE ARCTIC IS MELTING BUT NOT AS MUCH AS 6000 YEARS AGO

The Arctic ice summer melt is giving rise to a lot of headlines in favour of global warming alarm, so now is a good time to remind readers about the past behaviour of the region. Here is some excellent research to back up claims that the Arctic ice has melted extensively in the past, in fact more than the present. So although the present melt may look alarming, we should be comforted by the fact that it has happened before, and obviously returned to a colder more frozen state again afterwards.

CUBA, THE HAPPY COUNTRY

Cuba is a happy country according to the happy planet index It is a strange twist of logic that a country where people risk their lives to escape is somehow considered "happy".

CLIMATE CHANGE IN COURT?

This article reviews the situation in the Mann v Steyn legal battle. This is my first look at the Commentator and it seems an interesting website.