BRAZIL STEEL INDUSTRY DOUBLES ITS CO2 EMISSIONS BY FOLLOWING "GREEN POLICY"

Here is the article covering this. The moral of the story is that some policies that are claimed to save CO2 emissions are just wrong. We cannot trust these people. I believe we will find that wind energy is another idea that will not save anything like as much CO2 emissions as is claimed by the government.

COUNTRY FILE ON WIND ENERGY

The BBC nature programme, Country File, had a ten minute segment on wind energy. You can view the programme here . The section on wind is from 10  minutes in to around 20 minutes in. Some objectors to on-shore wind farms were given a few seconds to give their view, but on the whole it was slanted in favour of wind with the cost of constraint payments (paying the wind farm owners when they are asked to switch off, as the electricity is not needed) being dismissed as too small to worry about. What did not get mentioned at all was the point about back up being required at short notice for when the wind was not blowing. Interestingly the programme also featured in another segment the fact that bird populations were declining, and yet no mention was made of the fact that wind turbines are also "bird choppers". Funny that in a nature programme.   

ANOTHER CLIMATE CHANGE MYTH DEBUNKED

Here is the article which links to new research that debunks the myth that hurricanes are getting more frequent. I would also add that nothing can be attributed to global warming, as there has only been 0.81 degrees Celsius in the last 134 years (since 1880) and none in the last 17 years. Even the 0.81 figure is very uncertain due to lack of thorough coverage of the Earth's surface.

UK PSYCHO-HISTORY PROFESSOR CLAIMS HE CAN MAKE US BELIEVE IN DANGEROUS CLIMATE CHANGE THEORY

Here is a link to the report. Luckily I doubt that the professor has the power, but it is a scary thought that he thinks he can. The government would love to have such powers at their disposal, particularly in the run up to the election.

BOOKER ON THE ARCTIC DATA FIDDDLING

Here is Christopher Booker's latest article in the Sunday Telegraph. He is getting the truth out there in the major media. Eventually the public will see that the climate alarm scare is based on exaggeration and deceit. 

MORE DATA FIDDLING - THIS TIME IN THE ARCTIC

Here is the evidence from Paul Homewood which shows how the sparse Arctic data has been adjusted to give an enhanced warming. f course there is no doubt that in the recent past there has been some warming in this region, but this has happened in the 1920s and 1930s so it is not remarkable, and that is the point, it has only become remarkable due to these adjustments.

UNDERSEA VOLCANOES MAY BE AFFECTING THE CLIMATE

Here is a new paper which reveals new studies into the effect of the huge number of undersea volcanoes on the planet. Until now little was known about them and they were assumed to have a small effect. Now we are beginning to learn that they have a much bigger role. Yet another aspect of climate that we have little understanding of.

SOMETHING TO AVOID FOR YOUR DIARY

Continuing the theme of propaganda material Here is another example. This time it's the RSA (Royal Society for the Arts) that is putting on a series of climate change "events", including a very one-sided question time. Quite how this fits in with their promotion of art in all its forms I cannot understand. Although I am not a patron, I bet that some of my taxes will end up in their hands, and I object to charities who branch out into unrelated areas. Surely there are enough art-related projects that need their funding. If you click on the link you can go on and look at their general activities and you will find that they have a much wider remit than the arts, they are involved in numerous social projects as well as education, including running some schools.

HOW THE MEDIA DISTORT THE FACTS TO MAKE THE CLIMATE SOUND SCARY

Here is a good example of what is going on all over the world in the media. Here is another by the BBC (if you view the programme, the reference to climate is around 28 minutes in). What is happening is that journalists and broadcasters look for scary stories. They therefore happily report all the worst case scenarios put forward by those scientists and activists who are trying to promote the idea of scary climate change. Mild, largely beneficial climate change is not a story worth reporting. It is the drip, drip of references to catastrophic events which are entering the subconscious of the public, and unless they actively seek out the truth the catastrophic picture becomes the dominant story fixed in their mind. It is a kind of brain-washing, very similar to that of religions in a bygone era. (Or of Muslims today.)

PRINCE CHARLES - THE CLIMATE ACTIVIST MONARCH

Prince Charles Launches Blistering Attack On Businesses That Ignore His Climate WarningsThe Guardian 28 January 2015

Jo Confino

Prince Charles has launched a blistering attack on companies that are actively seeking to delay progress on preventing runaway climate change. Highlighting the need for a radical shift in the way the economy is run, he said that over the past decade he has been met by either indifference from mainstream business leaders and economists, or outright opposition.

Pointing out that science had proved beyond doubt the terrifying impacts of inaction, he called on executives to collapse the chasm between how they acted at home and what they were prepared to do in the office.

“We need to start integrating the business public self with the private family self,” he told a meeting of the Corporate Leaders Group. “So that when you go home in the evenings, perhaps you think a little bit about what you are doing and whether it is the right way to go.”

  A decade ago, the prince said few businesses were contemplating the transformative changes required to achieve sustainability, with the majority “actively delaying progress by equating environmental action with damage to their balance sheets.”

In the more than 100 meetings and seminars he has attended since then, the prince said he had “experienced every sort of reaction to the suggestions from myself and many others that time is running out. The negative reactions have ranged from polite indifference to the pronouncement by an economist – who else - that I was ‘the enemy of the enlightenment’.”

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4) The Man Who Sees Himself The Saviour King
The Independent on Sunday, 1 February 2015

John Rentoul & James Hanning

The Prince of Wales sees himself as a saviour, others think he’ll be a meddling monarch

 
Constitutional experts fear Prince Charles could provoke a political crisis. 
 

The Prince of Wales' preparations for an activist monarchy have prompted a backlash, as a new book revealed a dysfunctional and divided court around him.

Someone who has worked closely with him said: "He is dying to have his go with the train set. He does cause concern with his outbursts. He'll struggle to restrain himself."

The book, Charles, The Heart of a King, by Catherine Mayer, claims he is a tortured individual who endures moments of "extreme despondency" and feels guilty about his privileged upbringing.

It says the Prince's court at Clarence House is riven by Wolf Hall-style intrigue and divisions. Wolf Hall is a book and TV series set in the court of Henry VIII. Mayer writes that Charles often creates unnecessary turf wars between courtiers by failing to set clear boundaries.

The Prince has stepped up the number of meetings with ministers and civil servants recently, partly in recognition of the Queen's advancing age.

The Supreme Court is expected to rule this month on whether his "black spider" letters to ministers should be published. But some observers are concerned he is pushing for a more active role in national life even before he succeeds to the throne. Someone with close links to the Palace said: "It is no accident that he writes all those letters to ministers. He does see himself as a kind of saviour of the nation, someone who can mend the broken country. Some might see that as presumptuously messianic."

Another said: "He tends to dash off his letters without a great deal of consideration. He is far too energetic for his own good."

Constitutional experts are concerned that he could provoke a political crisis, especially if he were to become involved in discussions in a hung Parliament after an election. Civil servants have had discussions about the transition to a new monarch, and are believed to have touched on the sensitive question of what should happen if the Queen's health fails.

The Fixed-Term Parliament Act has removed virtually all the remaining elements of royal prerogative in the event of a hung Parliament but there is some anxiety that the Prince is less likely than his mother to be a largely passive onlooker.

A senior official said: "He does seem more difficult to deal with the older he gets. The age of smooth relations between the Palace and politicians, when they were all of roughly the same milieu, is not as it was."

The Prince has let it be known that he hopes other religions will be included when he accedes the throne, and over the weekend stories have emerged suggesting he wants to modernise the honours system. Jonathan Dimbleby, the Prince's biographer, commented a year ago: "A quiet constitutional revolution is afoot ... I predict he will go well beyond what any previous constitutional monarch has ever essayed."

FUNDING OF CLIMATE SCIENCE IS KEY TO DISTORTION OF THE TRUTH

This piece by William Briggs looks at the claims and counter claims over the funding of climate research and the influence of the source of that funding. We all know the expression "he who pays the piper call the tune", and it is very true. That is why it becomes so important who is paying for climate change research. William Briggs has touched a raw nerve when he rightly asserts that it is government that is paying the climate scientists to research into global warming, and it is the government that is intent on bringing in all the taxes and subsidies designed to promote renewable energy and phase out fossil fuels. It is the government that has a huge amount to lose if global warming turns out not to be a problem.

CLIMATE DATA FIDDLING ON AN EPIC SCALE

Here is a round-up of the evidence, which has been building over a number of years over a wide range of countries. To accuse the controllers of the major data providers of colluding in a giant conspiracy seems like madness. If they had really intended to do that, then surely they should have destroyed the original data that has been used to uncover the issue?  No, it is much more sophisticated than that. By inventing some obscure reasons for "adjustments" and "homogenisation" of the data these climate scientists are hoping to brazen out any criticism. What they didn't reckon on was the sheer tenacity of a few intelligent bloggers. Now the extent of the fiddling is finally coming together. The story is beginning to trickle out into the mainstream media. For how much longer can it be ignored by the likes of the major TV channels?

WHY DO HYPOCRITES LOVE GLOBAL WARMING?

Here is a prime example of the type. It is unbelievable that a man who lives such an excessive life-style should seek to lecture others to get them to live simple lives. Al Gore was always the prime example, but there are many others. What these wealthy, pampered individuals just do not understand is that the measures that governments are putting forward to control the mythical future warming are going to ensure that millions of those currently in abject poverty will remain there. 

ONLY 18% OF BRITS CONCERNED ABOUT GLOBAL WARMING

This report looks at a recent survey and finds that although the majority accept that the climate is changing they do not accept the apocalyptic scenario put out by the IPCC.

THE REAL HISTORY OF GLOBAL WARMING

This graph puts the current slight warming in perspective. It illustrates just the opposite of Mann's discredited hockey stick graph as it shows just how much variation there has been in the global temperature. The graph is part of this article which includes all the data behind the graph.

THE RAW POLITICS OF CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE USA

There is an interesting discussion of this here  on the Judith Curry blog where Obama's speech is analysed and compared with a reply given by Senator Inhofe,  Chair of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works. Unlike in the UK where the two major political parties have reached a consensus (though individual MP's do not all share it) in the USA there is a major division along party lines with Republicans generally opposed to the climate change policies of the president.

FLAWED DATA CONCEALS THE TRUTH ABOUT GLOBAL WARMING

Here's the evidence that data is being altered. Once again Christopher Booker is exposing something that regular climate blog readers already know. It is only through the work of Booker and a few others that this is ever exposed to the general public. Note that he has picked up on the great work of Paul Homewood on his excellent blog Not A Lot Of People Know That.

2014 AMONG THE 3% COLDEST YEARS IN THE LAST 10,000

This article puts the present temperatures in context. Dr Tim Ball uses a variety of evidence to back his case and produces a compelling argument that world temperatures are nothing to worry about. So relax and chill out as you go through the article.

GREEN PARTY POLICIES COMPLETELY MAD

Read them for yourself here. To think that this load of nonsense is supported by almost 10% of the voters, according to some polls, is enough to make me question the concept of democracy. I suppose that I can console myself with the fact that, as long as they don't exceed 10% they have no chance of forming a government, but if the result is that no one has an overall majority even if they only have two or three MPs they could have much more influence than that set of nutty proposals would deserve.
Just in case readers should think this is the nuttiest party ever here's one from the 1990's that is arguably even more so. I remember they fielded enough candidates to have broadcasts on national television. Of course they did not have much support. Voters had more sense back then! 

US SENATE VOTES THAT CLIMATE CHANGE IS REAL

Yes, they actually voted by 98 votes to 1 that "climate change is real". As if any sane person would argue that our climate is somehow fixed ( well, there was one vote for that!). I notice that in the report it goes on to say that they then tried to pass a motion to say that man is largely responsible for climate change which did not pass. At least the USA has some level-headed thinking politicians.

WIND TURBINES AT THEIR LEAST PRODUCTIVE AS COLD WEATHER BITES

Yet another example of the uselessness of wind energy showed as our coldest weather arrived. This report gives the details. No doubt the government will not be changing their policy in view of this problem, but as more and more turbines come on line more and more back up in the form of gas turbines will be needed for the occasions when the wind is not blowing.

EU ENERGY POLICY "BARKING MAD" SAYS MEP

This article gives the details. Here is a short extract: "Aluminium has lost 42,000 jobs since 2007 (while imports rise).  Steel 80,000.  Petroleum refining 10,000 direct jobs, and an estimated 40,000 indirect.  Chemicals, glass and cement can tell similar stories.  This is what former Industry Commissioner Antonio Tajani called “an industrial massacre in Europe”. This is an excellent article that succinctly sums up the position the EU is in. Barking mad is about right.

DR ROY SPENCER'S VIEW OF THE CLAIM OF 2014 BEING THE "HOTTEST YEAR"

Here is Roy Spencer's view on this spurious claim. Roy talks, and writes, a lot of sense. He is one of the leading scientists who feels able to speak out without (so far) having to fear losing his job. Without people like Roy the climate sceptics would be greatly weakened. With advocates of his stature it is hard to ignore his words. We owe him a lot of thanks. 

THE LIFE OF A "LUKE WARMER"

Here is the latest article from Matt Ridley published in today's Times (paywalled). It describes the prejudice he faces as a climate "luke warmer". It gives a very interesting insight into what he has to go through and explains why others may opt for a quiet life rather than put their head above the parapet.

NEW SIMPLE CLIMATE MODEL PASSES STRINGENT PEER REVIEW AND FOUND TO BE MOST ACCURATE

Here is the article giving the details of this. The scientific paper was published in a prestigious Chinese science journal and passed a rigorous peer review process. The relatively simple model which can be used on a home computer or calculator gave much better predictions than all the models run by the large climate research organisations on their massive computers. It's all down to the information within the programme. 

WHAT ARE THE REAL CHANCES OF 2014 BEING THE HOTTEST YEAR?

Here is one answer from a scientific organisation. And then there's these guys? There is a good discussion of this here at Bishop Hill. No wonder they say "lies, damned lies, and statistics!

THE SUN CONTINUES TO GO QUIET

This article reminds us of the changes that continue to go on in the sun, largely un-noticed by the main media. If correctly interpreted, the changes in the sun's magnetic field will lead us to a period of cooling. 

GLOBAL WARMING SOLVED

That is the title of a blog I have recently come across. Here is a link. I found it a fascinating read and have put a permanent link in the list on the right hand side of the blog. It struck me as an ambitious title, but on reading it I found it was very thoroughly researched and also presented in a very readable format.

IS THIS THE MOST INCOMPETENT PAPER EVER WRITTEN?

This piece has the details of a science psychology paper written by a notorious person called Stephan Lewandowski. Apparently he has interviewed someone over 30,000 years old as well as others who are under-age. When these errors were pointed out to him he made no attempt to correct it or explain it.

AUSSIE MET OFFICE IN FALSE INFORMATION CHARGE

This piece gives the details. The Australian version of the UK Met Office, The Bureau of Meteorology, stands accused of putting out incorrect information concerning rainfall in Queensland. Yet again this is an example of a government organisation putting out allegedly false information which bolsters the message that the world is getting warmer. What are we to conclude?

WAS 2014 THE "HOTTEST YEAR ON RECORD"?

This piece discusses the claim and, more importantly, the reasons behind it. The conclusions show what is at stake and the lengths that those pushing the case for alarm over climate will go to. The propaganda war is hotting up, unlike the real climate!  

CLIMATE ALARMISTS APPEAR TO BE ADMITTING DEFEAT

This article written from a climate alarmist point of view, appears to concede that attempts to control emissions of CO2 are doomed. So despite the efforts of the UK government, the EU and parts of the USA, resulting in massive costs to their people, the aim is set to fail.  

CLIMATE CHANGE LESSONS FROM THE PAST

This article points out some useful things we can learn from the Roman Warm Period and the Little Ice Age, both periods within the last 2000 years. What this article really emphasises is that there is much we don't know about the causes of these previous climate changes, though we can be certain that they were caused by natural factors. Until we fully understand them we cannot make accurate predictions about the future.

OCEAN ACIDIFICATION COULD BE THE BIGGEST CON SINCE THE HOCKEY STICK

Here is the article giving the details of this shocking revelation that scientists were concealing real measurements of historic pH measurements, preferring instead to rely on computer-generated values instead. The virtual world is preferred to the real one. 

UK WIND FARMS PAID £53 MILLION NOT TO PRODUCE ELECTRICITY LAST YEAR

Here's more reason not to keep building more wind farms. Payments not to produce electricity seem to be going up rapidly. The grid cannot cope with more and more intermittent types of energy and yet the government keep on encouraging more and more with these lavish subsidies which in turn drives up our energy bills. What a vicious circle!

THE NEW PURITANS

We have had the Dark Age and The Age of Enlightenment - I think we are now entering a new age which I am calling The New Puritan Age. This report gives a flavour of what is happening. It is a gradual tightening of control on what we are allowed to do. First they banned incandescent light bulbs, then it was high-powered vacuum cleaners, now it is going to be types of coffee percolators. What next? I was thinking that logically they should ban Christmas lights, specially the new increasingly popular outside lights, but I would be very surprised if they did, as that would definitely hand them the title of Puritans.

CLIMATE PROPAGANDA IN THE GOEBBELS MOULD

I would not let your children view this video as it might distress them, but view it as an example of the lengths that alarmists will go to. Such exaggeration should have no place in serious scientific discussion. In fact this sort of thing only damages their already very weak case, and only makes them into a laughing stock. So, have a chuckle as you view it. 

SEA LEVEL RISE GOES INTO RETREAT

This report  looks at the great changes in sea level rise that have taken place in recent years. If anyone mentions that sea level rise is increasing it is worth pointing out that not only does sea level rise change from place to place all over the oceans, but it also changes from year to year, depending on a whole range of variables.  

PUBLIC WILLING TO PAY EXTRA TO HELP CLIMATE, BUT NOT A LOT!

This article looks at the results of a number of surveys across developed countries to ask if they were willing to pay more for energy to cut emissions of CO2 to avoid a climate catastrophe. The answer was yes, but no more than about 5%. That is the answer given by those who believed there was likely to be a catastrophe. I find it hard to believe that they can really believe it and yet be so reluctant to pay to avoid it. Maybe they told the interviewer that they believed it. That would accord with experiences I have had, in which people are reluctant to admit that they don't believe it, as they think it is somehow wrong to do so. My feeling is that most people do not really believe in the catastrophe, but go along with it to be 'polite', or in other words to avoid controversy. Once people realise that others around them are sceptics then they feel able to 'come out' themselves. However even closet sceptics draw the line at paying substantially more for their energy.

HOW WOULD WE COPE IF THE POWER WENT OUT FOR TWO WEEKS?

That was the question posed in a recent government exercise reported here. The findings were not very encouraging as you can read. I only hope the government improves its planning for such emergencies. After all it is not rocket science, just simple common sense. 

GLACIER RETREAT DUE TO NATURAL CYCLES, SAYS EXPERT

One of the most common changes cited as evidence of alarming climate change is the retreat of glaciers. Yet here is an expert in the subject giving a most instructive talk in which he provides evidence that these glaciers have retreated much further in the past few thousand years due to natural causes. This is no cause for alarm and in the next 20 years we can expect many of these glaciers to grow again due to a decline in solar power output.

FORENSIC DEBUNKING OF CLIMATE SCARE VIDEO

A recent short video by a frequent science video blogger, Veritasium, has been comprehensively debunked here by our friend, Lord Christopher Monckton. His Lordship has done more than anyone I know to counter the pernicious nonsense that is under-pinning the current obsession of world leaders of vilifying fossil fuels. This is a must read piece where he counter acts all the main arguments put forward by the alarmists with straight-forward facts. Excellent stuff.

POLAR ICE MORE STABLE THAN PREVIOUSLY THOUGHT - NEW RESEARCH FINDS

This article in the Express looks at the new research into the thickness of both Arctic and Antarctic ice and finding it is not disappearing at the rate previously thought. At the very least this finding shows that our knowledge of these areas is far from complete and the evidence that there is dramatic climate change is not proven so far. This is a very good note with which to start 2015.

Happy New Year!

ROGER HELMER TELLS THE INDEPENDENT THAT CLIMATE CHANGE IS GROSSLY EXAGGERATED

Here is the article in the Independent where the UKIP Energy spokesman pledged that a UKIP government would scrap the Climate Change Act. He also said that green subsidies were a waste of money. At last a politician who is prepared to speak the truth. However it is very unlikely that we will have a UKIP government, more likely we may end up with Labour, if current polls are to be believed.

UK GOVERNMENT CLAIMS ENERGY POLICY WILL BRING SAVINGS - BUT THE FACTS SAY THE OPPOSITE

This article gives a lot of facts left out by the government in its vain attempt to prove that putting on  a whole load of extra costs on energy will lead to savings. The Climate Change Minister, Ed Davey, is either deluded or a liar or both. 

THE ROCKY ROAD FROM LIMA TO PARIS AND BEYOND

This piece from the Times is reported in the GWPF. It is by Irwin Stelzer, who is a very shrewd and experienced diplomat. He assesses the likely outcomes of the protracted UN climate change negotiations. His predictions seem pretty sound. In a nutshell he is saying it will end in a fudge.

EVIDENCE THAT INCREASED SUNSHINE IS THE CAUSE OF A RISE IN SUMMER TEMPS IN THE UK

Here is the evidence taken directly from Met Office records, and yet the Met Office scientists seem strangely reluctant to follow this up.  It may be due to the Clean Air Act, as suggested, though it might be due to a reduction of cloud cover. Our atmosphere changes throughout the day and it is virtually impossible to know every change and so computer programmes can never be accurate.  

WHY THE USA SHALE BOOM IS A WORLD-WIDE REVOLUTION

This article considers the effect on world oil prices of the boom in shale oil production in the USA. What it concludes is that it has broken the stranglehold of OPEC and prevented price-fixing by the former Middle East oil giants. We now have a real free market with all the volatility that brings. The article looks at the possible winners and losers of this.

OZ REJECTED A CARBON TAX - WILL THE U.S.A. DO THE SAME?

This article considers the reasons why Tony Abbot, the Australian PM, decided to ditch the Carbon Tax, adopted by the previous Labour Government, and ponders on the possibility that the USA might consider putting their own Carbon Tax in place and the consequences for their economy of doing so. 

THE UTTER FUTILITY OF WESTERN CO2 REDUCTIONS

As you tuck into your Christmas pudding, consider this article which looks at the calculated temperature reductions for the proposed reductions made by various countries. If only these figures were widely available to the public.

A merry Christmas to all readers.

WHAT THE CLIMATE CHANGE ACT REALLY MEANS FOR THE UK

This piece from Christopher Booker spells out the reality of the cuts still to come over the next 10 to 20 years, unless the government is forced to change course. No cooking or heating with gas, all of us forced to drive electric vehicles. It will be interesting to see how this plays out. I would be surprised if there is not a little bit of resistance from the inhabitants.

THE DIMINISHING INFLUENCE OF CO2 ON TEMPERATURE

This piece looks at the logarithmic relationship between the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere and temperature. This is something that is often (deliberately) overlooked by organisations like the IPCC and governments.

THE LATEST CLIMATE CONFERENCE IN PERSPECTIVE

This article by Prof Tim Ball summarises the outcome from Lima and looks at the whole series of climate conferences and how they have changed over the years.

THE CLIMATE FUND MAFIA THAT ARE ABOVE THE LAW

This article looks at the shady world of the UN and its huge funds, the operators of which are putting deals in place to put them beyond the reach of national laws. Even their salaries will be paid tax-free. This is a clandestine world the likes of which you and I know very little, and they want to keep it that way. A kind of climate mafia.

UK BACK UP POWER TO COST USERS £1 BILLION

This report gives details of the auction for back up power for the intermittent renewables. Some were predicting an even higher cost, and other nations were looking at the idea of an auction to cover their own back up. This seems to be the future - very costly electricity.

AUSTERITY - "WHAT AUSTERITY?", SAYS UK CLIMATE CHANGE DEPARTMENT

This piece looks at the 35% increase in staff levels at the Department of energy and Climate Change. What are all these extra people needed for? Could it be for a propaganda offensive? 

WILL OBAMA PROMISE OF CLIMATE BILLIONS BE OVER-RULED?

This article looks at the problems the Obama administration faces in being able to honour his pledge to give $3 billion to the UN climate fund.

USA THE 21st CENTURY ENERGY POWERHOUSE

This article looks at the remarkable transformation of the USA as a result of fracking of oil and gas. It is about to become a leading exporter which will help to keep world prices low and undermine the motive for going to renewables. Far from running out of fossil fuels it seem we are awash with them despite the increasing demand from developing nations. 

THE TOOTHLESS CLIMATE DEAL REACHED IN LIMA

Here is the detail of what happened at the recent climate change meeting in Lima, Peru. As you will read it was not greatly significant, other than that it was very weak. Is it the beginning of the end for a deal to cut CO2 emissions? We will just have to wait and see. 

MORE BAD NEWS FOR ALARMISTS

This piece in the Financial Post encapsulates all the problems for the climate alarmists, even their forecast of 2014 being the hottest year (by one hundredth of a degree C) may have been premature. The recent cold weather may just push it down. The article by Lawrence Solomen makes happy reading for us climate realists - soon we may all have to join the realist camp. Who will be the deniers then?

"NOT A SINGLE PARAGRAPH" AGREED AT LIMA CLIMATE CONFERENCE

That is the happy state of play at the current climate change conference according to the Irish Times:

Second week COP ritual: Hopes for Lima climate conference unravel. As thousands of people took part in a colourful march through the centre of Lima demanding action to “save Mother Earth”, ministers and delegates from more than 190 countries were struggling to salvage the UN climate conference here. Earlier optimism about a successful conclusion this weekend is unravelling as the text being negotiated has “ballooned” out of control, with more and more amendments tabled by countries and blocs seeking to have their points of view reinforced. Miguel Arias Canete, the new European climate action and energy commissioner, conceded that “not a single paragraph has been agreed” in a text that had grown to 100 pages or more, making it “very difficult for ministers to reach agreement”. –Frank McDonald, The Irish Times, 11 December 2014

MATT RIDLEY POINTS OUT THE DECEIT BY ALARMISTS ON CLIMATE

Here is the latest article by Matt Ridley, and it is well worth reading, as usual. It is time more light was shed on the scientists who attempt to hide inconvenient facts and cherry-pick their data to reach a pre-conceived conclusion.

NEW REPORT FORECASTS EMISSIONS FROM DEVELOPING WORLD TO RISE 50%

Here is an article referring to the new report in which CO2 emissions from the developing world are forecast to increase by 50% by 2050, while the developed world is being urged to reduce theirs by around 80%. This would result in the world total emissions continuing to rise, which according to alarmists would mean a climate catastrophe for all.

UK PARLIAMENT TO RULE ON STREAMLINING FRACKING PERMITS

Here is the article giving details of the upcoming debate. It appears that the Labour opposition is likely to oppose the new legislation making it a close thing. If streamlining is not brought in it could make the whole industry a non-starter, losing the UK many billions of pounds in revenue as well as giving a much-needed boost to industry. In other words an insane decision.

FRACKING BANS STARTING TO COME IN THE USA

Here is a report which sets out the details. At the moment it is only a few isolated areas where green supporters are getting their way, but we will have to watch closely to see if this catches on. It will not help the cause of fracking here in the UK, where there is much less space and no widespread history of drilling as in the USA.

LATEST CLIMATE TALKS MAKING HOT AIR IN LIMA CONFERENCE CENTRE

Here is a report into the latest talks in which 190 countries are supposed to reach an agreement, which seems to be an impossible task when all the conflicting items are viewed. How would Western leaders be able to sell the idea of handing over huge sums of taxpayers' money to prevent global warming that has stopped 18 years ago. No doubt we will soon find out.

LEFT WING REPORTERS JOIN THE "GAMECHANGER SALON"

 Have you ever wondered why so many news outlets push out the same line on issues such as climate change. If so read on and you may have one answer.
A prominent CNN commentator, the top two political reporters for The Huffington Post, a Reuters reporter, the editor of The Nation magazine, a producer for Al Jazeera America television, a U.S. News & World Report columnist, and approximately two dozen Huffington Post contributors are among the more than 1,000 members of "Gamechanger Salon".
Founded by leftwing activist Billy Wimsatt, the group is a secretive digital gathering of writers, opinion leaders, activists and political hands who share information, ideas and strategy via a closed Google group.
The group’s existence was discovered by Media Trackers through an open records request filed with a University of Wisconsin professor who happened to be a member of the network http://eagnews.org/1000-member-secretive-progressive-journalist-group-uncovered/
This is another link with more .” In addition to working at the left-leaning American Sustainable Business Council, David Brodwin writes an online column for U.S. News & World Report. Brodwin is a member of Gamechanger Salon, and on July 14 he published a column arguing that small business owners support a minimum wage increase. Fascinatingly, the Obama Administration’s U.S. Department of Labor relies on Brodwin’s American Sustainable Business Council to argue that very point in a recent “fact-sheet” advocating for a minimum wage hike.
Dozens of members of the leftwing network have contributed columns to The Huffington Post, and others have written opinion pieces for several other publications. The full extent of the network’s activity and effectiveness at amplifying and coordinating left-leaning messaging campaigns has yet to be fully explored. http://mediatrackers.org/national/2014/08/05/cnn-huffpo-reuters-contributors-reporters-part-leftwing-network

INDIA EXPECTS "COMPENSATION" FROM WEST FOR PAST EMISSIONS "DAMAGE"

What damage? Are the developing nations attributing every hurricane, flood, drought to CO2 emissions? If so where is the evidence for it? Even the IPCC report states that such attribution is not proved by the science. Read the article here. 

BIAS IN SCIENCE

This article looks at examples of the way that science has been subjected to undue influence by wrong-headed, though well-intentioned people. It reminds us of the frailty of us all, and how we can so easily dupe ourselves. 

UK SMART METER ROLL OUT DELAYED AGAIN FOR 12 MONTHS

If, like me you were wondering what happened to the UK's smart meter programme, then here is the answer. In a nutshell it is delay on delay as they discover the problems due to data protection issues etc. In tandem with this there are cost escalations. In fact it seems to be the classic massive government hot potato, rather like the NHS computer system. No wonder the national debt is growing by the day!

USA VOTERS TO DECIDE THE FATE OF THE CLIMATE TREATY

That is the message of this article. It appears that Obama wants to sign up to a kind of voluntary deal with nations free to decide how they reach their targets. It sounds like a fudge in which no one will get what they want. Here are some interesting extracts from the piece:

"For the developing world, however, the climate negotiations have always been about how much money they get. From the outset, the talks were predicated on massive aid transfers from north to south."

"Obama-style deep decarbonization of the global economy would require that developed countries pay twice over—once to decarbonize their own economies and a second time for developing ones."

It's well worth reading, and heartening in a way, as it points out that it won't work.

WHO IS GUILTY OF GROSS EXAGGERATION TO PROP UP CLIMATE ALARMISM

The WHO is not a question, but the World Health Organisation, another arm of the UN, which is caught out making outlandish claims as reported here. Yet another example of the desperate attempts of the warmist brigade to convince us all that there is a problem when there isn't. Don't they understand that all this does is undermine their own weak arguments even more? It's like "the boy who cried wolf" on steroids.

LAST CHANCE TO SAVE THE PLANET (AGAIN, YAWN)

Here we are again as Donna Laframboise reminds us with just a few months left to save the planet by agreeing to spend eye-watering sums to reduce our CO2 emissions, except that some of the biggest emitters are being exempt, like China and India. Of course it's perfectly understandable that developing countries would want to continue to develop, but. if there really was a planetary emergency surely that would take precedence over everything else?

UPDATE: Paul Homewood has similar coverage.

CLIMATE GATE EMAILS, FIVE YEARS ON THEY ARE MORE RELEVANT THAN EVER

Here is a good round up of the main issues raised by the leak of the climate scientists emails. Despite a number of attempts by the Establishment to white-wash the issues, the deceit and exaggeration has stuck in the minds of the public. Indeed it has been re-enforced by the continued attempts of some cheer-leaders for climate alarm to exaggerate to try to create alarm, but the public on the whole do not buy it. Facts defeat hype.

HAS THE ROYAL SOCIETY GIVEN UP ON SCIENCE?

This report looks at the recent RS report into extreme weather and concludes that it has much more in common with propaganda than science. It is an extraordinary situation for a scientific institution of such historical importance to be reduced to this advocacy role. My hunch is that they have been " bought" by vested interests, in particular the government who supply the bulk of its funding.

UPDATE: More here.

WIND FARM AD USES SPIN AND DECEIT TO CLAIM 25% OF OUR ELECTRICITY COMES FROM RENEWABLES

This article by Christopher Booker looks at the facts behind a recent claim made by a wind farm operator in a huge advertisement in the Guardian newspaper. What he discovered was that though the claim could be technically shown to be true, in fact for all practical purposes it was nonsense.

2014 - "THE WARMEST YEAR ON RECORD" - DON'T BELIEVE THE SPIN

Here are the facts and they say that it may come out on top on some land based data sets, but only by an amount smaller than the margin of error. In other data sets including the satellite data sets it will not be so. Any attempt to use this as evidence of continuing global warming will be premature and unscientific. 

MP EXPOSES FLAWED IPCC SUMMARY IN UK PARLIAMENT DEBATE

Here is a link to the debate in which Peter Lilley exposed a number of serious weaknesses in the IPCC summary for policy makers. Here are a few extracts:

 "There has been a hiatus in warming, yet during that period since 1997, one third of all the carbon dioxide ever emitted by mankind has been pumped into the atmosphere. We have had 17 years to test the effect of a third of all the CO2 we have ever emitted, and there has been no increase in temperature"
"That does not seem to be evidence for being more certain; it seems to be evidence for being a little more qualified in stating that CO2 may be the dominant factor. It clearly was not dominant during that period. By definition, a period with record emissions but no warming cannot provide further evidence that emissions are the dominant cause of warming"
"For the first time, the authors of the IPCC report are unable to agree on a best estimate of how sensitive the climate is to increases in CO2. In previous reports, they have always been able to agree a best estimate, but this time, there has been so much disagreement among them that they have been unable to reach one".
"Nor does the summary mention that in the body of the report, the IPCC’s medium-term forecast for temperature increases to 2035 is below that given by the climate models. In other words, the experts used their judgment to say that in their opinion, the climate models are wrong. They came up with a forecast below the models, and they explain that the reason is that the models have been overheating"
"None of the models take into account the latest information on aerosols. Had they done so, they would have produced an even higher forecast for future warming, because the future warming forecast involves the warming created by CO2 less the cooling created by aerosols."

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BIOMASS LIKELY TO INCREASE CO2 EMISSIONS

Here is the article that contains the details of a paper on this topic. It goes against the conventional wisdom which makes it all the more important. It seems that a lot of government efforts at reducing emissions may be counter-productive.

RENEWABLE ENERGY NOT THE ANSWER SAY TOP ENGINEERS

This article explains the findings of the experts, who even surprised themselves. It is yet more confirmation of how out of touch with reality our political leaders have become.

OBAMA INSULTS AUSSIE PM ON CLIMATE

2) Obama's Climate Fiasco Drives Aussies Closer To India & China
The Australian, 22 November 2014 (http://www.theaustralian.com.au/opinion/columnists/weird-speech-makes-obama-odd-man-out/story-e6frg76f-1227130149413)

Greg Sheridan

The United States embassy in Canberra advised President Barack Obama not to make the provocative, anti-Abbott speech on climate change which he made at the University of Queensland in Brisbane. That the President acted against the advice of his own embassy reveals a deeply divided and in part dysfunctional Obama administration, unable to reconcile its foreign policy objectives and its domestic imperatives.


The speech was not only damaging for Tony Abbott, as it will be used by all his opponents on climate change up until the next election, it was a disaster for US foreign policy, because the gratuitous climate change remarks completely overshadowed all the regional and security content which Obama's foreign policy team wanted to be the main point of his major address on his Asian tour.

Obama's self-indulgent folly was in striking contrast to the masterful performances of China's President Xi Jinping and India's new Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Xi and Modi have both achieved almost everything they wanted from Asia's season of summits. Obama has achieved almost nothing.

The other big winner from this summit season was Abbott. Despite the damage Obama inflicted on him, Abbott emerged from APEC, the East Asia Summit, the G20 summit which he hosted, and the separate bilateral visits of so many world leaders, with huge structural wins.

The free trade agreement with China has the potential to be transformative for Australia. It locks the two nations much more closely together. It contains a host of immensely important specifics, and was accompanied by numerous side agreements.

But the transformative potential lies in the door it opens for Australian business into China's future. Don't think for a moment that resources will cease to be at the centre of Australia/China trade. The anti-coal propaganda is fanciful nonsense, believed only by Green dreamers.

Coal will be at the heart of China's energy generation for decades ahead.

Nonetheless, China is transforming. Coal and iron ore are about building cities. China has now built its cities on a vast scale. Cities are occupied by middle class people. They need high-quality food and high-quality services. The China FTA opens up the services sector in an unprecedented way. That is the future.
The Indian visit also offers to be transformative. Modi likes Abbott. But of course such likes and dislikes are never the real engine of history.

Modi wants India to develop. Modi's closest friend and partner internationally is Japan's Shinzo Abe. Abe is Abbott's closest collaborator in Asia. It was Abe who advised Modi that Australia was a country to take seriously and that Abbott was a PM who could deliver.

Modi believes Australia can be a big part of India's development.

I attended a small business gathering with Modi in Melbourne. He made a few comments about the need for greener energy, but he also said: "India will have massive requirements for coal and iron ore." Just in case his interlocutors missed the point, he repeated it: "Whatever we do, we will still need massive amounts of coal and iron ore."

But Modi understands that India also needs foreign investment and expertise. Since the turn of the century, India has been the second fastest growing economy in the world. Tens, hundreds, of millions of Indians will enter the middle class over the next decade. They offer the same opportunities as the Chinese middle class. Trade Minister Andrew Robb describes the India relationship as being where the Chinese relationship was 15 years ago. Robb is right. The potential, like China 15 years ago, is enormous.

The ambition to complete a free trade agreement between India and Australia by the end of next year is heroic. But it is not impossible. Indeed, one FTA helps produce another. Australia's success in securing an FTA with South Korea helped motivate Japan. Canberra's success with Tokyo helped motivate Beijing. Part of India's motivation is not to be left out of the east Asian economic success story. So the string of north Asian FTAs Robb has concluded helps us with New Delhi.

Here we need a note of caution. Each one of these relationships - the US, China and India - is intensely complex, influenced by many factors beyond Australia's reach and there are many ways these ambitious plans could fall short, if not fall apart.

Take each in turn.

Obama's speech was deliberately designed to hurt Abbott. This may not have been its primary purpose, but it certainly was a significant effect. Historians of the relationship cannot cite a single similar example of a visiting president going out of his way to wound an Australian prime minister.

The speech was bizarre in many ways and deserves proper analysis as a pointer to the divisions and dysfunction within the Obama administration, features which will only get worse as power, and a sense of responsibility, ebb away from Obama in the less than two years he still has in office.

There was also an element of cowardice in the speech. Obama would never have given that speech at home before the congressional mid-term elections. There would have been some courage in such a speech delivered, say, in West Virginia, or Ohio, a week before the mid-terms.

What was Obama's purpose? Can one more celebrity orgasm really be more important to the President than maintaining his relationship with his closest ally in Asia? Was Obama preparing for his post-presidential life, as a new and improved Al Gore? [...]

Finally, other senior Americans put it to me that many high-level figures in the administration, in so far as they think about Asia at all, think only of China. They fail to understand that a successful China policy has to be embedded in a successful Asia policy. This contributes to their taking close allies for granted.

Virtually all senior Asia hands in Washington outside the administration agree that Obama has never really paid attention to managing alliances.

This was evident in the fact that the Obama team decided to do the speech at the last minute, insisted it be to a university audience, never gave their Australian hosts any hint of what the President was planning to say, and refused to offer the Australians either a text or a summary of the speech before it was delivered. All of that is truly a bizarre way to treat an ally.

Nonetheless, Obama's selfindulgence will not cause the Abbott government to back away from co-operation with the US. The alliance is much bigger than Obama and Australia participates in the alliance because it is in our interests and reflects our values.

The vacuum created by Obama in Asia is partly filled by Xi, although other formidable Asian leaders such as Abe and Modi also occupy important strategic space.

Xi, like most Chinese leaders, is a super hard head with little sentimentality. He is the most powerful leader in modern China since at least Deng Xiaoping. He offered an ambition to make China more democratic in his beautifully crafted speech to parliament, but in truth he has suppressed what little liberal space formerly existed in China.

Nonetheless, Xi is genuinely an economic reformer, which is one reason he undertook the FTA with Australia. Xi's climate deal with Obama is another masterstroke. It commits him to nothing of substance, nothing he was not doing anyway, but, with Obama's benediction, will help insulate Beijing from the type of criticism it suffered after Copenhagen.

Xi spent a lot of time in Australia and devoted a lot of attention to us. This speaks well of him, and of Abbott. But again, we have to be a bit careful of assessing Chinese policy, even Chinese policy towards us, in a narrow Australian framework.
This past few months, Xi has been on a charm offensive with everyone. He even kissed and made up with Abe. As well as his climate faux agreement with Obama, Xi agreed to various confidence-building and military consultation measures with the Americans, which Washington has wanted for years.

Nor is it quite true to say that Australia is the first advanced economy with which Beijing has done an FTA. Xi finalised an FTA with South Korea just before the one with Australia.

All of this is in stark contrast to the aggressiveness Beijing has displayed over the past few years in the South China Sea and the East China Sea. Intelligence agencies in the US and Australia are flat out trying to work out whether this friendliness is the new paradigm for China, or, as one senior American put it to me, "a judo move", that is, moving back for a second in order to trip the opponent up.
China's b_ehaviour in the disputed maritime territories over the next few months will be critical in determining the answer to this question.

Abbott convened a trilateral leaders' dialogue with Obama and Abe. The official communique was full of concern over Russia, Islamic State etc. It didn't mention the main actual topic of conversation - China, or another topic of conversation, Canberra's ambition to buy Japanese submarines and install US weapon systems on them.

And finally Modi's India. Modi offers India its best hope in decades for breaking free from poverty and achieving sustained, socially transformative economic growth. But just as analysts are pondering Xi's true intentions so they are asking one central question about Modi - can he tame the Indian bureaucracy and produce results? This astonishing two weeks of summits has given Australia a great deal of benefit, but left huge and intriguing questions for the future.

Full analysis (http://www.theaustralian.com.au/opinion/columnists/weird-speech-makes-obama-odd-man-out/story-e6frg76f-1227130149413)

THE US-CHINA CLIMATE PACT SWINDLE

Here is a very good article that explains the complete one-sidedness of the recent "deal" between Obama and the Chinese Leader. Why on earth would the US President want to sign such a deal?  

UK PAYS TWICE ITS FAIR SHARE TO GREEN CLIMATE FUND, SAYS OXFAM

Yes, Oxfam (not known for admitting such things) has calculated that the UK has paid twice the amount that is expected. See here for the details. If only the government would  put a stop to this largesse by our Leader. It is so easy to be generous with other people's money.

AUSTRALIAN PM STANDS FIRM IN NOT SHELLING OUT MORE CLIMATE MONEY

Here are the details. He seems to have a good deal of courage to keep out of this and I admire him for it. It is only too easy to get out the nations cheque book and spend other peoples money to make him look good.

OBAMA STUMPS UP $3 BILLION TOWARDS CLIMATE FUND

Here is the details of President Obama's offer. It is by far the largest contribution so far, though it falls far short of the promised $100 billion per year that was apparently promised by the developed world from 2020. I cannot somehow see that sum, or anything like it, being achieved. It's time for world leaders to get real and stop making rash promises, and put all this nonsense behind them and tackle the real problems facing the world.  

GERMANY SET TO ABANDON 2020 CO2 EMISSION TARGET

Here is the detail taken from a German newspaper article. This has to be very significant as the Green Party is part of the coalition government in Germany and if the Germans have to abandon their target then this must set a precedent for all other EU nations. It means that there is no prospect of any world agreement next December in Paris. If this target date is missed then according to some scientists we could be in a cooling world. If that happens then it is hard to see any agreement possible.

AN ALTERNATIVE CLIMATE MODEL PREDICTING COOLING TO START SOON

Here is a link to the climate model devised by David Evans in which he predicts that world temperatures will start to cool within the next decade, most likely within the next two or three years. David's work seems to link with that of Henrik Svensmark which was highlighted a few days ago. Both relate to a cooling effect of the sun. We will not have long to wait to see if he is correct. 

THE CONSENSUS IS - WARMER TEMPERATURES ARE OF NET BENEFIT TO THE WORLD!

Yes you did read that headline correctly - the consensus (ie the majority of experts) is that all the global warming we have had so far, plus any we are likely to get in the 21st century will be of net benefit to the world. Read it here for yourself with all the figures to back it up. Now let's hope that we don't get a cooling cycle.  

THE SUN AND THE CLOUDS CONTROL CLIMATE

This video explains the work of Henrik Svensmark into the role of cloud variation, caused by the variation of cosmic rays entering the lower atmosphere, into the temperature of the Earth's surface. The case presented is very compelling and sounds more plausible than change in CO2.

WHY COAL IS KING, AND WILL BE FOR DECADES TO COME

Some green climate alarmists are trying to stop any coal from being used and want to shut down the whole industry by various means, such as urging universities to sell their shares in the sector. If anyone believes that this will be likely to have any effect, then they should read this article. The facts speak for themselves.

SCHOOL TEXT BOOK PROMOTES FALSE SCIENCE ON GW

Here is the article that gives the details of a scientific paper on the behaviour of butterflies which has been debunked, and yet is in school text books as an example of the effect of climate change. The moral of the story is - don't believe everything in text books.

LATEST CLIMATE P.R. DEAL ANNOUNCED

China and the USA's new climate deal is just a PR stunt. Read the link to get the details of the unenforceable deal, designed to encourage others to make commitments in Paris in December 2015. I am putting my money on the global deal being equally vague.

UPDATE
For a good look at the way China is heading here is a good resume by Paul Homewood.

HOW THE GREEN LEVIES WILL RISE AND INCREASE OUR ENERGY BILLS

This article looks at the latest figures from the government which, laughably, try to claim that their policies will actually reduce the cost of our energy. To achieve this Orwellian claim they include the savings that we are supposed to make by buying new more efficient appliances as well as increasing the insulation on our homes.

SOCIETY RELIES ON CHEAP RELIABLE ELECTRICITY

This article highlights the vital importance of cheap reliable electricity for our economic success as well as the comfort of our people.  A well-argued piece, if only the government would see sense.

NEW CLIMATE CHANGE "PLAY" GETS PANNED BY CRITIC

This review does not make for comfortable reading for the author of this work who is a climate alarmist himself. It reminded me that a couple of years ago there was another climate change play; this one was from a sceptic view point, and here is the report on it, including reviews. I think the sceptic play would seem to offer the best entertainment.

REPUBLICAN-CONTROLLED SENATE LIKELY TO STOP FUNDING TO THE IPCC

Here is the article giving the details. It would be a useful start, and maybe they will also rein in the EPA as well. This could be a very important election result which will have repercussions even beyond the USA. A new world climate deal has just got a little bit harder to achieve.

OIL TO DOMINATE WORLD FUEL USE UNTIL AT LEAST 2040 SAYS OPEC REPORT

Here is the article in the Telegraph with some details. So much for giving up fossil fuels! Some of our leading politicians are misleading us by suggesting that the world is following our lead. It is simply nonsense to make such claims.

ROW OVER HISTORIC TEMPERATURE DATA RAGES ON IN OZ

Here is a link to the discussion at Jo Nova's blog. It is now being raised in parliament. Well done to all those Australian sceptics who have held out for the truth. There is a lot more truth that needs to be told, and it will take similar action here in the UK to get it out.

PARLIAMENTARY MEETING ON CLIMATE CHANGE

Yesterday I set off for Westminster to hear Roger Helmer and Piers Corbyn give their presentations to the Climate Change Meeting, having booked a ticket, only to find that the parliamentary authorities claimed no knowledge of the meeting whatsoever. Having made the 3 hour coach journey I was not going to give up so easily, so I waited around to see if others would arrive. Eventually I met up with Roger Helmer who had travelled all the way from Brussels and was unaware of any change. Luckily I had a card with Piers Corbyn's mobile phone number and he was able to tell us of a last minute change of venue, though many others had already been turned away, being told it was cancelled. Was it  cock up or conspiracy? I am not sure, but at least I was able to attend a much reduced meeting of 18 determined souls who had persevered to the end. In some ways it was a better meeting for those who got there as it was much smaller and more intimate.

Roger Helmer gave a really excellent tour-de-force of the UKIP energy policy, which I must say is by far the most sensible energy policy I have heard from any political party. It's just a pity that it has very little chance of being implemented. Piers Corbyn explained his theories of climate forecasting based on looking at repeating patterns of the positions and behaviour of the sun and the moon. He claims to have had great success with this and tantalisingly left us with a prediction of cold weather during December due to the position of the jet stream, though he sadly predicted a "green Christmas". 

MET OFFICE NEW COMPUTER COSTING 97 MILLION STILL WON'T GIVE ACCURATE FORECASTS

Here's the details from Christopher Booker. As Booker points out, their computer is only as good as the information put in, and looking at the Met Office's recent record they seem to have some missing or incorrect data. In the same article Booker also explains the folly of our energy policy and why he expects the lights to stay on this winter, at a huge price, though they will go out eventually if the government continues to reduce our use of fossil fuels.

CLIMATE LESSONS FROM 2.7 MILLION YEARS AGO

This report looks at new evidence uncovered by scientists which shows that a sudden temperature change 2.7 million years ago was likely caused by both the atmosphere and a change in the circulation of the ocean currents. This is yet more evidence that shows how much we still have to learn.

UK ENERGY NETWORK SAID TO BE "INADEQUATE"

This article gives the details of the concerns of UK industry, who fear they are struggling at a serious disadvantage to their competitors. If the UK continues to follow the path set by the Climate Change Act then this disadvantage is set to get much worse, as our competitors are set to do no such thing. In particular China and India, who are building cheap coal-fired power station far faster than we are closing ours.

PUBLIC MEETING ON WEDNESDAY AT WESTMINSTER - A PRACTICAL ENERGY POLICY

I am coming to this meeting and hoping to meet up with like-minded people and see what the latest ways of getting out a positive message on sensible energy policy are. If any readers are able to come do let me know. I will report on the meeting later on in the week.

A public meeting open to all on Wednesday 5 November from 1pm to 3pm in room 9 at UK Parliament, Palace of Westminster, hosted by Repeal The Climate Change Act

Come via main - St Stephens (Cromwell Green) entrance

Ask for Sammy Wilson's (DUP MP) Meeting 

(Please allow 30 minutes for security)

Speakers include

* Roger Helmer UKIP MEP - A practical UK energy policy 

                - explaining what is needed and how the EU is driving the UK's energy crisis

(Find UKIP's Energy Policy Here)

Piers Corbyn WeatherAction 

Will the lights go out this winter?

- explaining the essential incredibility of the CO2 theory of Climate Change,

the latest advances is solar-based Long Range forecasts and spelling out what will happen this winter. 

* Sammy Wilson DUP MP and other MPs 

(Graham Stringer Labour MP and Peter Lilley Conservative MP invited)

The changing climate of Climate Change in Parliament and beyond. 

*Campaign Against the Climate Act News

Discussion and Questions, Literature   

 

Room booked by Sammy Wilson MP with our thanks.

YET ANOTHER DOOMSDAY CLIMATE REPORT (YAWN)

Here are the details of another scary report that appears to fly in the face of the actual facts, which are of an eighteenth year with no statistically significant change in the world's average surface temperature. How many more scary reports can we expect? Each time the public become a little less inclined to believe the doom merchants.

EARTH'S TEMPERATURE CONTROLLED BY THE CLOUDS SAYS NEW PAPER

Here are the details. It seems a simple explanation, but it appears to fit the data very well.

IS THERE A LINK BETWEEN GLOBAL WARMING AND CONFLICT?

This article looks at the possibility of this and comes to the conclusion that it is unclear. My question is, how can we test this hypothesis when there has been no discernible global warming for the past 18 years? They actually used the term climate change in the article, but I am assuming they mean climate change based on human-caused global warming.

CLIMATE TALKS STALL AGAIN AS SOME START TO PANIC

"Don't panic", should be the advice to those attending the latest climate talks. Here is the report about this latest boondoggle in which no agreement was reached. Apparently there is only one more attempt before the long-awaited Paris meeting at the end of next year. It looks as though there will have to be a fudge with some sort of vague commitment which only the UK will actually take seriously.

"GOVERNMENT POLICY MAY HAVE SLOWED GLOBAL WARMING", SAYS GOVERNMENT MINISTER

Here's the article giving the details. I could hardly believe it when I read it. A government minister actually claiming that the paltry cuts in CO2 emissions, a tiny fraction of a percent of the world's total emissions, could have had any effect on global warming - what hubris. A short while ago this blog had this article which showed that the UK's efforts so far had prevented 0.0004 degrees of warming. Hardly an amount that could be noticed, or even measured by the most sensitive thermometer. 

BILLIONARES FUND GREEN GROUPS TO INFLUENCE GOVERNMENT POLICY ON EMISSIONS

Here's a good piece in the Mail on Sunday which highlights the huge sums of money being given to groups like WWF, Greenpeace and Friend of the Earth by very wealthy businessmen and their trust funds. Against this massive funding there is only one serious sceptic organisation, the Global Warming Policy Foundation, funded by a relatively modest £300,000. Of course the GWPF is supported by the facts, and that is worth more than all the millions stacked up against it.

CLIMATE TALKS KEEP THE GREEN BLOB HAPPY

This report explains the real purpose of climate negotiations, which is to appear to be making commitments, while in reality achieving very little. There is something in this, though even the feeble commitments can prove to be very costly.

EU AGREES TO CONDITIONAL TARGETS ON EMISSIONS AND RENEWABLES TO 2040

Here are the details of the EU deal. I suspect it will only be achieved if the economies continue to under-perform. This is looking quite likely at the moment. The sooner the UK can get a referendum and vote to leave the better!

HUGE FRACKING BOOST FOR LONDON AND THE SOUTH EAST IN THE BALANCE

This article looks at the huge economic boost attainable from fracking in the south east UK. It also explores the things which are preventing the exploitation of the oil. Boris Johnson is being suggested as the leader of the charge to get the project going.

WELCH NHS SPENDS MONEY ON "CARBON MANAGERS" WHILE PATIENTS ARE LEFT TO DIE

Here is the story of the list of politically correct non-jobs being filled by the Welch NHS, currently part of a major story in the Daily Mail. Clearly this will undermine the Labour Party's claim to be the guardians of the NHS.

UK ON THE BRINK OF AN ENERGY CRISIS

This report in the Telegraph explains the situation that has just been made worse due to a fire in a large gas-powered power station. Whether the lights go out will now depend on how severe the winter is. An extended cold spell with little or no wind would be a nightmare for the government, specially with a General Election next spring. Mind you the alternative Prime Minister would be a much worse disaster for our energy policy - so it would be a bit of a catch 22 for the voters.

ABBOTT PUTS THE ECONOMY BEFORE GREEN ALARMISM

This article shows the attitude of the Australian Prime Minister towards jobs in the fossil fuel industry - he supports them and will not allow green ideology to sacrifice them in order to reduce CO2 emissions further than his 5% target. Meanwhile the UK government seems still to be set on its pathway towards an unachievable target of 80% reductions by 2050. By which time they will be a faint memory in the minds of the voters.

REST OF THE WORLD CARRIES ON INCREASING CO2 EMISSIONS AND IGNORES THE UK

Here's the bottom line which shows that the UK, the EU, and the USA are all being ignored, not only by China and India, but also by a whole lot of other medium- sized industrial nations. Not only will we not be likely to achieve our targets on CO2 reductions, but even if we did (while at the same time destroying our economy), it would make no noticeable difference to total emissions and so could not possibly affect climate.

MANN PROVED WRONG AGAIN!

This article refers to a new paper on tree rings as a proxy for past surface temperatures and the conclusion seems to be that the sensitivity of the climate to changes in CO2 is not as high as was previously predicted by Mann. After his hockey stick temperature graph was de-bunked this will come as another blow for Mann.

EX-ENVIRONMENT MINISTER'S SPEECH RATTLES CLIMATE ALARMISTS

This article looks at response of the UK's Climate Change Committee (CCC) to the recent speech by the government's former Environment Minister, Owen Paterson, in which the CCC try to deny that there is a serious problem over the government seeking to reduce CO2 emissions by 80% by 2050. It is clear that they are unable to provide strong reasons why continuing along the path set by the CCC will not result in disaster.

LOONEY BOOK BY SO CALLED CLIMATE EXPERTS

Here is a link to a review of a book which purports to give a scientifically-based prediction of life in the future for a world affected by global warming. It is quite a long review, but considering it is given by a person who is a declared believer in serious problems associated with global warming, it is a damning review. The book's authors, Oreskes and Conway, are, supposedly, widely noted experts in the politics and intellectual history of the climate change controversy. They teach, respectively, at Harvard University and the Cal Tech, and the book in question was published by Columbia University Press, one of the world’s most esteemed academic presses. Such widely respected public figures as Elizabeth Kolbert and Timothy E. Wirth provide effusive endorsements on the back cover.

On reading the review you will learn just how foolish the book is. At only 52 pages, one wonders just who the book is aimed at. Could it be young impressionable children? You will also read a more sinister aim of the book, which is to denigrate the free democracies of the West and praise the harsh and repressive regime of China as somehow superior. I am not sure if the authors are totalitarians first and see climate change as a vehicle to reach that goal, or are they simply climate alarmists who see the only way to reverse their perceived Armageddon is by invoking totalitarianism. Either way, as the reviewer shows us, they are completely nutty in so many ways. Their thinking is superficial and incoherent. 

CARNEY - "OIL MUST REMAIN IN THE GROUND"

This article highlights a worrying concern, in that a man in a very senior position, Governor of the Bank of England, is actually talking down some of the UK's biggest companies. He is entitled to believe what he wants, but when his beliefs are contrary to the interests of our biggest companies it is surely better if he keeps quiet, or finds a better way to express them. Oil companies are in business to find and extract and refine oil and sell it. That is what they exist to do. If Carney believes they should not be doing it then he is not in the right job.

"SCRAP THE CLIMATE CHANGE ACT", SAYS EX MINISTER WHO VOTED FOR IT

This article explains why Owen Paterson has changed his mind, and now realises what a disaster the 2008 Climate Change Act was. What a pity he and his fellow MP's did not give it a bit more thought before voting for it. It is a startling example of what can happen when groupthink takes over from individual rational thought. It is similar to a lynch mob mentality. Owen Paterson should nevertheless be congratulated for having the courage to admit he was wrong. What is now needed is for a lot of his colleagues to do the same.

THE GREEN JOBS MIRAGE

This report looks at the predictions by the government of 400,000 new green jobs made in 2009 and how this has worked out in practice. Yes, you've guessed it - the reality has been rather feeble, with the cost of each job an eye-watering sum of over £600,000 each. No wonder the public has lost trust in government predictions.

TIME TO RE-ADJUST CLIMATE POLICY TO MATCH REAL DATA - ROSS McKITRICK

Here is a link to the article. Surely governments will soon have to re-visit their policies in the light of the 18 year pause in global warming. If the West continues on its current path then its policies will become increasingly unpopular as fuel and energy costs rise ever higher.

STUDENTS ATTACK FOSSIL FUEL INDUSTRY

Here is the latest attempt by student activists to get their universities to sell their shares in the fossil fuel industry. In this case the students of Glasgow University have persuaded the Board to go along with it, and more universities are to follow, according to the article. But is this in the best interests of the fund? Surely the fund should have the best investments if the university is to balance its budget and keep the cost of tuition down. Maybe some more rational students ought to mount a challenge in the courts to reverse this?

SEA LEVEL RISE SLOWING DOWN SAYS NEW STUDY

This report looks at a recent study into sea level rise. Its findings show that the rate of rise is slowing down, which is the opposite of what climate alarmists keep saying. Here we see, once again, a situation where there is controversy and clearly no settled science. It just shows how difficult it is to measure the tiny changes in sea level which are being measured against the massive movements of the oceans due to currents, wind and other factors.

CARBON STORAGE AND CAPTURE - WORKING PLANT REVEALS THE HUGE COST

Here are the facts fully exposed by Richard North. I hope that this gets an airing in the MSM, as it is scary stuff. Surely our government would never allow this to happen in the UK, or the USA, Would they? 

MORE CLIMATE DATA FIDDLING IN AUSTRALIA

This piece explains what is happening. It looks as though the government weather agency, or Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) is now under strong pressure to respond to the evidence that some very intrepid sceptic scientists have found. This story is worth watching.

See our earlier report here.

LIB DEM MINISTER, VINCE CABLE, ADMITS GREEN TAXES ARE HURTING INDUSTRY

This article relates comments made by the UK Minister for Business that higher green taxes in the UK are causing difficulties for energy intensive businesses, making them less competitive than other EU nations. Finally the government are getting the message, but will they act? 

WILD FIRES ARE NOT LINKED TO CO2 OR GLOBAL WARMING SAYS EXPERT

This article contains a lot of facts about large wild fires in the USA which categorically show that there is no link between the fires and CO2. Many of the biggest fires were in the past before CO2 levels had increased by much.

DRAX, BIOMASS AND CO2

Here is an interesting article on the value of changing from coal to wood chips as a fuel for the Drax power station in the UK. The quantities of fuel are staggering and the logistics also deserve a lot of thought. In the end is it worth it? The answer is - only because of the government subsidy.

"GREENHOUSE GASES" ARE BENEFICIAL TO OUR CLIMATE SAYS REPORT

This article makes a powerful case for CO2 and H2O being beneficial to climate and not a likely cause of global warming. It is a plea for us to look at the actual results as opposed to theoretical calculations. With such a complex thing as climate this is a very valid point.