97% OF SCIENTISTS AGREE

This article refers to comments on a recent paper purporting to show that 97% of scientists agree with the GW hypothesis. The comments were made by a senior climate scientist, Mike Hulme, who was highly critical of the paper, and the reference to it being made by the UK Climate Change minister, Ed Davey.  Also noteworthy is the fact that Hulme is a believer in climate alarmism.

DAVID WHITEHOUSE OF THE GWPF LOOKS AT THE MET OFFICE EXPLANATION FOR THE PAUSE IN WARMING

<This article looks at the excuses put forward by warmists for the pause in warming. We are all going to hear the latest propaganda from the various government ministers and others, so it is important to know how weak they are.

NO GW, SO HERE ARE THE EXCUSES

Here is a recent article from the Daily Mail which offers "explanations" why the earth's surface has failed to follow the trajectory predicted by the climate models. (1) It's due to volcanoes putting up dust and sulphur dioxide which acts as an aerosol to reflect some of the heat away, and or (2) the heat is going into the deep ocean where we cannot detect it as the increase in temperature would be too small to measure. If it is (1) then why are we not detecting a significant increase in volcanic activity, and surely this volcanic activity would also be producing a lot of extra CO2 which should be increasing the warming. These arguments seem unconvincing to me, yet they were exactly what Ed Davey gave when asked by Andrew Neil to explain the warming. 

THE PRECAUTIONARY POLICY

There has been quite a lot of interest in a recent interview by Andrew Neil with the UK Climate Change Minister, Ed Davey who replaced Chris Huhne when he was sent to prison for falsely claiming his wife was driving when he was caught speeding. Here is a link to the interview along with an article by Neil justifying his robust questioning. Davey several times tried to justify his policies by saying that, even if the climate sceptics were right the cost of his policies was like an insurance policy. Neil pointed out that 400 billion pounds (being the government's estimate of the cost of the Climate Change Act) was a very expensive policy.  

I often think that we need to ask these ministers to look at other examples of risk that are faced by large numbers of people such as those living above or alongside earthquake fault lines. The San Andreas fault is a good example. The probability of a serious earthquake in the next 30 years is calculated as 70%, and yet there is no attempt to take any costly precautions to move people away from risk. 

BIG BROTHER IS ON HIS WAY VIA YOUR METER

Here is the story about how smart meters are going to be put in every home in the UK by 2020. Most of the public are totally unaware of this and have no idea about the implications, such as privacy or health issues.

PSYCHOLOGICAL PROPAGANDA BEING USED TO MAKE US ACCEPT COSTLY FUEL PRICES

This article will open your eyes to what is happening "behind the curtain" to ensure that we cannot easily see why our energy costs have risen, and continue to rise. Blog readers here will know it is due to the government - how long before the rest of the public find out?

UK MET OFFICE MASSIVE COMPUTER SYSTEM GETS IT WRONG AGAIN

The Met Office seem to be addicted to trying to make longer-term predictions of the weather in spite of their atrocious record. They recently forecast that July would be wetter than usual according to this report and as usual they got it spectacularly wrong. Every time they do this their credibility goes down a bit further and so fewer people will take their warnings of global warming doom seriously. 

RICHARD LNDZEN IN CLIMATE DEBATE AT THE OXFORD UNIONI

This debate was on Al Jazeera, but can be seen via the link. Dr Lindzen is a very laid-back performer whose style does not appeal to everyone, but he is a recognised expert in the field, which gives him a certain gravitas which even Lord Monckton cannot replicate. However Monckton is a much more dynamic debater. In the debate at the Oxford Union several other "experts" were also able to give their opinion, including journalist David Rose, who has written some very prominent pieces with a sceptical perspective in the Daily Mail. At 46 minutes in length, this debate is worth viewing.

PROF CHRISTY SHOWS HOW PATHETIC MUCH OF THE POLITICAL RESPONSE TO GW IS

There are many decent people who go along with the government's attempts to cut CO2 simply because they accept the thesis that there must be a problem (even though the evidence is weak and contradictory) and so they are willing to put up with higher prices for fuel etc. Here is a video of a lecture by Prof. John Christy. The whole lecture is well worth watching, but a section beginning at about 26 minutes in is relevant to this post. Christy tells us about his testimony in a court case about imposing strict new emission standards on automobiles. In it he demonstrates that even if the standards were imposed across the whole of the USA, the change in temperatures would be so small as to be undetectable. And yet the state governments still wished to go ahead.

CLIMATE SCIENTISTS TESTIFY TO US SENATE

Here is a link to the testimony for those who like to see these events. It does give us an idea of the mind-set of politicians.

PHASING OUT ENERGY SUBSIDIES

This article by the Scientific Alliance (SA) explains what is going on in Europe. It seems that political leaders are finally waking up to the reality that they may have over-backed the wrong energy source (wind) some are now putting money on to shale gas. However they are saddled with a lot of excess cost already contracted to the wind as well as solar panels. 

EU LOOKING AT CHANGING OUR DIET

This report reveals a document produced by the EU in which they look at the various obstacles to be overcome in order to change our diet away from meat and dairy products. No doubt a few extra taxes are coming our way to "help" us to make the right choices.

WHAT IS HAPPENING IN THE ARCTIC?

This article looks at the behaviour of ice in the Arctic and it concludes that most of the changes are cyclical. The paper referred to in the article has been translated from the German which gives us a look at what European scientists are working on.

BISHOP HILL GIVES EVIDENCE TO GOVERNMENT SCIENCE COMMITTEE

Hereis a link to the UK Parliament archive video of the session in which MP's were looking at the role of the media in reporting climate science. Bishop Hill (real name Andrew Montford) is in the second half of the session. I thought Andrew gave a very assured performance and upheld the good name of climate scepticism. As he is one of very few sceptic voices that MP's will hear that is very important. From the tenor of the questions It would seem that very few of the committee are sceptical themselves, though we know that Graham Stringer MP is.

DELINGPOLE AND HELMER SHOW THE FOLLY OF UK ENERGY POLICY

This piece is a must for those who want a brilliant summary of the foolish policy followed by the present government. Sadly it is almost certainly the same policy that would be followed by the opposition - which leaves us in a somewhat difficult position.

UK PLAN TO KEEP THE LIGHTS ON - AT A PRICE

This article exposes the sheer lunacy of the government's desperate attempts to cover the weak link of wind turbines by using diesel generators as back up. As this story gains more traction in the press, including Christopher Booker covering it in the Telegraph, the public will become increasingly exasperated. Time to scrap the Climate Change Act.

CLIMATE SCIENTISTS ACCUSED OF FRAUD

This article gives all the details, including a long letter listing all the items in which they made fraudulent claims, backed up with other data and graphs which contradicts them.

COUNTER-INTUITIVE INFO ON GW

Here's some basic information about the sun and its orbit that may surprise you. The explanation is straight forward, though it is not immediately obvious to those who have not heard it.

LATEST UK RAINFALL PREDICTIONS - IT COULD GET DRIER, BUT ON THE OTHER HAND........

When I read this article I could hardly stop laughing. These people at the Met Office might just as well be writing astrology predictions for all the use they are. What earthly use is a forecast with a range of between -20% to +30%? As Bishop Hill points out, the final conclusion is always one of alarm, whereas the computer projections could equally well lead to a conclusion that our rainfall will continue much as it is now. But that would not grab any scary headlines.

ANOTHER LEAGUE OF SELF-APPOINTED PLANET SAVIOURS IS FORMED

This article by Donna Laframboise highlights how a group of activists try to assume a position of authority far greater than their qualifications would fit them for. If only the media would pay them less attention.

UK STEEL UNCOMPETITIVE DUE TO HIGH ENERGY COSTS

This is the message from Tata Steel to a government minister when he visited the steel works in Corby. Not good news for the hundreds of workers, or the town, but is the government doing enough to save them?

SCIENTISTS MUST SHOW THE EVIDENCE

And it better be good. That is my view and it is also the view of Matt Ridley. If only the government shared our desire for a rigorous scientific approach to climate change what a difference it would make. I am sure Matt speaks, not only for me, but for thousands of others who believe that sloppy thinking has led us into he hopeless situation we are in today. People speak of the "wisdom of the crowd", but that is only when people are able to think independently, if they all become indoctrinated we get an unthinking mob which is truly something to avoid.

WMO ALARMIST REPORT DEBUNKED

This piece from David Whitehouse of the GWPF clearly shows how the World Meteorological Organisation has cherry-picked weather events to try to keep the flame of alarmism going, despite the increasing evidence to the contrary.

LET'S IMAGINE IT'S 1781

 

The following is an article written by Roger Helmer MEP and it is such a good illustration of human progress applied to energy that I produce it below.

We’re sitting around in a London Coffee Shop and talking about these new-fangled factories and steam engines.  James Watt has just patented a practical steam engine that delivers continuous power.

Problem is, that’ll mean we need coal.  Lots and lots of it, if all these iron founders and steel masters and factory owners have their way.  But there’s clear evidence that coal mines can produce localised earthquakes (or at least, tremors).  There’ll be pit heads despoiling the countryside, and slag heaps, and open-cast mining, and railways built across the country to deliver the coal and the factory products.  There’ll be air pollution and smog and “pea-soupers”.  There’ll be miners condemned to a working life underground in difficult conditions.  Mining through or near aquifers could contaminate the water supply, never mind the run-off from the slag heaps.

So of course we decide that we simply can’t face the environmental consequences of coal mining, and we’ll stick to water wheels, and wind-mills, and horse power, thank you very much.

Imagine the consequences.  Britain today would be a poor, agrarian society, rife with hunger and poverty and disease.  Every man with an acre and a cow (if he’s lucky).  Of course many of the problems we anticipated in our Coffee Shop did indeed come to pass, and we should be grateful that now in the 21^st Century we have a better understanding of our environment, and that we have proper controls over industrial activity that potentially leads to pollution (even if the regulation is sometimes over-the-top).

And what if we had ignored the possibility of North Sea Oil?  We could have predicted that there would be oil rig catastrophes, lives lost, pollution incidents -- as indeed there have been.  But does anyone today seriously think that we should have ignored the North Sea?  Of course not.  It played a dramatic role in economic development in the UK, and we should all be poorer today without it.

All these arguments are deployed today against fracking.  Earth tremors.  Contamination of aquifers.  Well-heads despoiling the countryside (though a lot less intrusive than wind turbines).  But in this case we have decades of experience of fracking in the USA (and to an extent in Germany).  We know that the risks are small, we know how to manage them, and we know that they have been greatly exaggerated (though for different reasons) by both Green NGOs and by existing gas interests like Gazprom.

It would be downright irresponsible to turn our backs on fracking, just as it would have been in 1781 to turn our backs on coal and steam and the Industrial Revolution.  Or to turn our backs in the 1960s on North Sea oil and gas.  We must not allow ourselves to be intimidated by Grim Fairy Tales from Greenpeace.

NEW CAMPAIGN LAUNCHED TO STOP ENERGY TAXES RISING

The Taxpayers Alliance campaign is an excellent idea which all UK residents should get behind, so read the link and get cracking by contacting your MP using the link provided.

UK GOVERNMENT REPORT - GLOBAL WARMING WILL BE GOOD FOR UK

This report looks at how the UK would benefit from global warming if it were to happen. So it appears we are in a win-win situation. No matter if there is warming or not, though obviously if the warming were large enough we would suffer in the end, though there is no sign of it so far.

FIGHTING FOR TRANSPARENCY BY THE IPCC IN THE COURTS

David Holland is a hero in the campaign to force climate scientists to be open and transparent. Here we can follow his latest effort. At least he appears to have an impartial judge, which is good news.

BORIS JOHNSONS TAUNTS WIND TURBINE SUPPORTERS

"Wind turbines couldn't take the skin off a rice pudding", says the London Mayor as he goes on to support shale gas as the best bet for the UK. I am beginning to warm to the man, though his support for an amnesty for illegal immigrants is still putting me off rather. 

PERILS OF A CENTRALLY PLANNED ELECTRICITY MARKET

Due to the government's obsession with cutting CO2 emissions, all pretence at a free market in energy has been abandoned in favour of a soviet style "planned market", with the result that we now face potential shortages and high prices. This article looks at the sad reality. And this under a Conservative government!

REPORT REFUTES CLIMATE ALARMISM

I just came across this excellent report rebutting the alarmism being promulgated by government agencies, in this case Australian ones. It contains much scientific information and is well worth reading.  

IS THIS THE FIRST SIGN OF GLOBAL COOLING?

Here in the UK we have seen a few signs of cooling, but we cannot interpret this as a sign that the globe is about to cool, but this report looks at behaviour in the Arctic which is widely used as a kind of "canary in a cage" by alarmists as it has in the recent past shown signs of rapid warming. However the article notes that there seems to be a change going on which is just the opposite of what alarmists have been predicting.

AUSSIE UNIVERSITY ENDS LINK WITH CLIMATE SCEPTIC PROFESSOR

Professor Bob Carter is one of the best known scientists who is sceptical about dangerous climate change. Now we learn that he is no longer required by his university. Is he another academic who has paid the price for questioning the so-called consensus on climate change. Bob was the expert witness in the case against the UK government for promoting Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth movie in schools. Without people like Bob willing to put their careers on the line we would never have been able to put the truth in front of the people. Thank you Bob and I wish you a happy retirement. 

UK SHALE GAS OR BUST

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

US REPUBLICANS CHANGE STYLE OF ATTACK ON CLIMATE CHANGE POLICY

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

OLDER WEATHER STATION GIVE HIGHER TEMPERATURE READINGS SAYS NEW STUDY

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

UK GAS RESERVE ESTIMATES JUST GET HIGHER AND HIGHER

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

AUSSIE OPPOSITION PLEDGE TO DROP CARBON TAX

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

BORIS COMES OUT AS A MET OFFICE SCEPTIC

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

"BIG OIL" BEGS FOR MORE GREEN SUBSIDIES

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

CLIMATE CHANGE RELIGION

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

LORD RIDLEY EXPOSES THE FOLLY OF THE UK ENERGY BILL

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

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

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

THE GREEN JOB MYTH

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

10 REASONS WHY GLOBAL WARMING IS NOT A PROBLEM

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

MET OFFICE MEETS TO DISCUSS WHY OUR WEATHER IS NORMAL

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

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

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

IPCC REPORTS INFLUENCED BY POLITICAL SPIN

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

SCEPTICS GRADUALLY INCREASING AS EVIDENCE GROWS

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

NEW RESEARCH SUGGESTS WOOD FUEL CAUSES HIDDEN CARBON EMISSIONS

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

MORE SQUABBLING AT BONN CLIMATE TALKS

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

DIESEL POWER TO HELP WITH UK GREEN ENERGY

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

IS NATURAL GAS ALWAYS A FOSSIL FUEL?

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

BOOKLET SHOWS WHY FOSSIL FUELS ARE GOOD

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

is a link to it.

LOCAL PEOPLE TO HAVE POWER TO BLOCK WIND FARMS

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

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

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

EU IN TRADE WAR WITH CHINA OVER SOLAR PANELS

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

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

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

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

MET OFFICE HOLD BACK ON RELEASE OF DATA CODE

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

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

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

EU DELAYS AID TO UK INDUSTRY TO MITIGATE INCREASED ENERGY COSTS

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

NEW STUDY INDICATES THAT CFC's MAY HAVE CAUSED GW

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

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

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

MET OFFICE ADMIT THAT GLOBALTEMPERATURES MORE LIKELY TO BE RANDOM

This is the interpretation of this article on Bishop Hill blog. The extraordinary thing is that this is an official answer to a parliamentary question.

UK CLIMATE MINISTER HAS SECOND THOUGHTS ON GW CAUSE

I am referring to Tim Yeo, Chairman of the UK Climate Change Committee. According to this piece in the Telegraph he is no longer certain that humans are responsible for global warming, although he still believes it is happening. Even so this is surely a big step for a senior climate alarmist, to which I give a small cheer.

CENSORSHIP AND INTIMIDATION IN US HIGHER EDUCATION COLLEGE

This report is a shocking exposure of what environmental extremism can lead to. It is quite shocking and leaves no room for discussion or debate. 

LORD STERN ADMITS WARMING NOT GOING AS PREDICTED - BUT WE MUST STILL STOP CO2

Yes that is in essence Stern's position. He just cannot stop believing that he was right, even though the evidence is piling up against him. See here for the details. 

UK ALMOST RAN OUT OF GAS

This piece from Bishop Hill has a link to Prof. Fells, an expert in energy who tells us just how close we have been to being cut off. 

MORE ALARMISTS GETTING DESPERATE

This piece by  James Delingpole highlights more examples of alarmists latching on to the recent Oklahoma tornado disaster as being linked to the non-existent global warming. Desperate measures by desperate people.

MATT RIDLEY ATTACKED BY OXFORD PROFESSOR

This piece on Bishop Hill tells of an Oxford professor who has criticised Matt Ridley for an article he wrote in the Times. Matt has been denied a reply so has written one on the Bishop Hill blog. When you read the piece you can judge who gives the most reasonable argument.

ALARMISTS ARE STILL AT IT

This post by the excellent Donna Laframboise highlights an upcoming conference which wants to explore more radical ways to force us to go without. I think most governments will ignore such ideas which are simply suicidal for any democratically elected administration.

ARCTIC ICE HIGHEST SINCE 2002

This report is yet further proof that the world, or even the Arctic is currently refusing to conform to the alarmist view of catastrophic climate change. Remember the Arctic is the place where global warming has been the strongest over the past decade or so, yet it is currently 5C be low average.

SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT AWARE OF WIND TURBINE RIP OFF

At last governments are beginning to realise that wind farms are ripping off the public. In this report looks at the situation in Scotland where they are considering measures to take away some of the income from wealthy landowners. Seems rather like socialism to me, but that has always been closely related to the climate change business. 

40% OF LAST 50 YEARS WARMING IS DUE TO THE BEHAVIOUR OF THE ATLANTIC OCEAN

This article explains the reasoning. Yet another reason why there is no consensus on this issue. Clearly the science is very far from being settled.

MORE ON DATA MANIPULATION

This report on WUWT looks at the USA data and how it has been "adjusted".  Yet more evidence of attempts at altering the past in order to make the present seem more unusual.

NEW ZEALAND GOVERNMENT SCIENTISTS DEFEATED IN COURT

This may well be old news to some of you, but I only came across it recently and thought it had been under-reported, so here is the report of the court case in Auckland which took place last August (2012). The result shows that the NZ scientists had no confidence in their work; there is a presumption by many people that they had been falsely adjusting the data. What an extraordinary state of affairs.

PRINCE CHARLES TALKS OF "DYING PLANET"

This article reports the prince's latest speech in which he ramps up the rhetoric on the effect of global warming. Some say he should keep his views to himself, but I feel that he should be free to give his views even though I disagree with him on this issue. I suspect that by straying into controversial subjects he will create enemies as well as friends and this may not be helpful to the long term future of the monarchy. 

CLIMATE CHANGE - JUST CHANGE THE DATA

If you haven't read Steven Goddard's excellent blog Real Science, then I recommend that you do, and this section on how the climate data has been altered by James Hansen is a good place to start. How Hansen attained such power and influence I don't know, but what is extraordinary is that there has not been more debate on this by other climate scientists who don't agree with his rationale.

More on the same subject is here.

COULD ICE BE OUR WORRY?

This piece on WUWT includes a fascinating, if a little scary video, of ice advancing on lakeside property in Minnesota. While the threat of global warming appears to have stalled, we should not forget that ice-ages have dominated the earth for much of its past and could easily return.

AN OPEN LETTER TO AN MP

Here is an excellent letter by Paul Homewood to his MP. He is happy for others to use it as a template for a letter to their MP. What a good idea.

IN DEFENCE OF CO2

This article looks at the gas CO2 and all its benefits, many of which have been forgotten in an attempt to demonise it. Read it and you get a sense of balance back.

CLIMATE ADVISORS DESERT AS THEIR PROJECT IS DOWNGRADED

According to this report the UK government's climate advisors are leaving as they come to believe that the will to continue down the path of rapid CO2 emission reductions is appearing to wane. The spirit is willing but their flesh is weakening as the spectre of high energy prices coupled with an ever closer election date focuses their tiny minds. When the ship starts to take in water the rats look for an escape route. One can only hope that the next lot of "advisors" are more down to earth, but I am not overly optimistic.

"GREENS CONTROL ENERGY POLICY OF UK AND EU"

This is the conclusion reached by Peter Lilley MP in his recent article in the Spectator, according to this report in the Telegraph. Lilley spells out the danger of not challenging the green lobby. This is a key reason to come out of the EU where we can control our own energy policy.  

CANADIAN TOP ENVIRONMENTALIST OPPOSES MINING

This articlereveals the way-out views of the prominent environmentalist David Suzuki. These are the people driving the agenda on CO2 reduction. A crazy world! 

UK SHOULD GET ON WITH FRACKING

This piece in the popular left wing Daily Mirror urges the government to get on with licensing fracking so that we can benefit from cheaper gas. 

CHINA - THE WORLD'S BIGGEST CO2 EMITTER IS MADE OUT TO BE "GREEN"

This article looks at recent reports purporting to make out that China has strong "green" credentials. The truth is rather different as the report shows. Of course if the public understand that China has no intention of reducing its CO2 emissions then they are unlikely to support costly efforts by the UK. 

US STATES RE-THINK ON RENEWABLE QUOTAS

In the light of the large fall in gas prices in the USA due to the success of shale gas as a result of the technique of fracking, many states are looking to educe the percentage of renewable energy that must be produced, according to this article.

A CRISIS IN UK ENERGY POLICY COMING SOON

Britain's Green Agenda Heading For Disaster

EU policy makers have grossly underestimated the difficulties and risks of their drive to decarbonise the power sector. They have failed to take into account the huge changes in the economic, commodity and financial environments and adjust policy accordingly. A crisis in UK energy policy looks increasingly likely and therefore utility companies and investors would be prudent in limiting their future exposure. -- Peter Atherton and Guillaume Redgwell, Liberum Capital, 30 April 2013 When the crisis hits there will be three possible casualties, the government of the day, the consumer, and the investors who have funded the government’s radical energy policy. Whilst no doubt there will be plenty of pain to go around, in our view investors should be under no illusions that the government of the day will seek to protect itself and the consumer (who are also the electorate) by heaping most of the financial pain on to investors. --Peter Atherton and Guillaume Redgwell, Liberum Capital, 30 April 2013 The U.K.’s 376 billion-pound ($582 billion) program to switch from fossil fuel to renewable and nuclear power is headed for crisis because of looming energy shortages and spiraling costs, Liberum Capital Ltd. said. “Moving from a largely fossil-fuel based power system to one dominated by renewables and nuclear in just a decade and a half, whilst keeping the lights on and consumer bills affordable, may simply be impossible,” Peter Atherton said. --Sally Bakewell, Bloomberg, 30 April 2013 [It's a] struggle to find a single fund manager who believes UK energy policy is credible... That is why they are not investing. --Peter Atherton, London 1 May 2013 It's interesting then to see today's House of Lords report on EU energy policy. Their calculation seems to be that investors will be enticed in if the public are fleeced sufficiently; big bad capitalists will simply be unable to resist all that easy money. Liberum Capital,  on the other hand, seem to have thought things through a little further, asking themselves whether the public will tolerate being fleeced to the extent envisaged in Westminster and Brussels. They conclude, correctly in my opinion, that transfers to big business on this scale will be seen as intolerable. The difference in opinion between the real world and the political world is rather stark, don't you think? --Andrew Montford, Bishop Hill, 2 May 2013 British leaders are making some truly bizarre decisions in an effort to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and comply with European renewable electricity mandates. For example, they are converting a coal-fired plant to burn wood chips that are shipped from the United States. A wood burning plant qualifies under the European rules for meeting electricity generation mandates from renewable energy for the purpose of reducing carbon dioxide emissions from energy producing sources.  But this move is sheer lunacy for it will increase rather than decrease emissions while increasing the price of electricity to consumers. Yet the British parliament has whole-heartedly embraced the move. Have legislators gone mad? --Institute for Energy Research, 30 April 2013 The irony of the situation is that Britain is moving away from coal as other countries which have been big proponents of reducing carbon dioxide emissions are moving to build more coal-fired power plants. Germany is building 20 new coal-fired power plants to back-up its wind and solar plants and to replace its nuclear plants; the first of which (2,200 megawatts) came on line last September. China, the world’s largest emitter of carbon dioxide, is building at least one coal-fired unit a week and is planning to build 363 more coal-fired power plants to fuel its fast growing economy.  India is also planning to build 455 new coal-fired power plants to fuel its growing economy. And then there is Japan, who is building coal-fired power plants to replace its nuclear power after the accident at Fukushima in 2011. --Institute for Energy Research, 30 April 2013

UK GOVERNMENT DITHERS OVER FRACKING

This article by Peter Lilley MP highlights the dilemma facing the government - should they stick to the policy of decarbonising and so ignore the potential of cheaper shale gas, or abandon the policy and go for cheaper energy. It's a no brainer to me.

RUSSIAN SCIENTISTS PREDICT GLOBAL COOLING FOR NEXT CENTURY OR MORE

This piece gives the details. So the consensus is not quite complete.

BIG BROTHER IN OUR HOMES

This article tells us that the so-called smart appliance is a step nearer. Slowly we seem to be heading for an electricity system in which our usage is to be closely monitored. Have those advocating this system thought about how it could be sabotaged by clever computer experts. What if the public don't purchase new appliances, or even by-pass the smart chip?

BOOKER GIVES THE GOVERNMENT A WITHERING BLAST

This is Booker's latest column in the Telegraph in which he rightly shows up the lunacy at the heart of government energy policy. Peter Lilley is still a lone voice of sanity in the government. As the facts continue to part company with the theory he will surely be joined by others.  

EXPERTS FALL FOR SCIENTIFIC SCAM

<This is the extraordinary story of the man who sold fake bomb detectors to governments around the world. In doing so he fooled some so-called experts in the field. Of course he had lots of glossy brochures and impressive videos to back up his claims for the device, but how extraordinary that no one thought to subject it to any sort of test which would have found it to be useless. I can't help but draw a parallel here with the global warming claims of catastrophic warming caused by CO2 emissions. If our governments can be fooled so easily, what hope have we that it could not happen in any other area as well? 

THE ILLUSION OF REALITY

Here is a very interesting article which reveals the true life experiences of a psychologist. Although his experience relates to the world of army recruits as well as finance, the conclusions are very relevant to climate scientists, in particular over-confidence in results.

UK CLIMATE CHANGE COMMITTEE LOOKS AT REDUCING CO2 FROM IMPORTED GOODS

Here is another excellent piece from the Scientific Alliance. Apparently the great minds of the CCC have concluded that while the UK has cut its CO2 emissions from what it produces and consumes internally, if the CO2 used to make what it imports is taken into account then its overall CO2 emissions is actually increasing. Of course they can't easily do anything about that without imposing import duties and starting a damaging trade war. So they will want to keep quiet about it and not let the people realise the whole policy is a pointless and costly charade. Unfortunately for them, the people are starting to find out!

UK PUBLIC WARMS TO SHALE GAS

This article shows some survey results into the public's attitude to shale gas. They show an increasingly positive attitude as they understand the financial benefits of fracking.  

THE DEBATE ON MAN MADE GLOBAL WARMING

Here is an article which refers to a report by a respected Scandinavian organisation. While the whole report is quite long it provides quite a balanced view.

GERMANS DASH FOR COAL, WITHOUT CARBON CAPTURE

The Germans may have a strong green movement, but their government is not going to allow that to stop them from keeping the lights on. This article looks at the rapid increase in the use of coal and gas fired power stations to replace the phased out nuclear ones. Interestingly they are not requiring new fossil fuel stations to capture their carbon emissions, unlike the ridiculous UK government.  

A VOICE OF REASON IN THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT

Here's a report of one MP, Peter Lilley, who is not afraid to speak his mind to his colleagues on the shortcomings of the government's climate policy. Sadly his words seem to be falling on deaf ears.

PAUSE IN GLOBAL WARMING BAFFLES SCIENTISTS WORLDWIDE

This article in the Daily Mail highlights the problem for climate scientists. How long will this pause last and how long will it be before the public and the politicians lose faith in the theory of man made global warming?

PUBLIC TURNING AGAINST CLIMATE POLICY

This article looks at how the people are slowly turning against climate change policies as they see both their cost and the fact that they lack credibility. 

MEPs GIVE SERIOUS BLOW TO EU EMISSIONS SCHEME

Yes, they did it. MEPs finally (by a small majority) voted to stop increasing the cost of emitting CO2. You can read the details here. Does it mean the our MEPs are at last realising that high energy prices are making our recession even harder to escape from? We will have to wait and see how our masters in the EU get this over-turned.

KEYSTONE OIL PIPELINE DECISION STILL UNCERTAIN

This article looks at the safety of the oil pipeline compared with the alternative of rail transport. While no transport system is fool proof, the pipeline is clearly more economic.

IS THE EU ABOUT TO ABANDON ITS EMISSION TRADING SCHEME?

This article explains the decision to be made by the EU parliament tomorrow. Will common sense prevail? Don't hold your breath!

EPA DELAYS NEW CO2 EMISSION LAWS

Here is the story. It seems that they are worried about the consequences and all the legal wrangling.

AUSSIE CLIMATE RENT SEEKERS

This article from the redoubtable Donna La Framboise looks at the huge cost of governments attending the climate change conferences. What a shocking waste of taxpayers money.

IS FRACKING BEING SABOTAGED IN THE UK?

Here is an interesting piece looking at the long list of delays to the progress of fracking for various spurious reasons, the latest of which is to prevent disturbance to birds - despite the fact that the drilling site is located adjacent to a large brickworks. You couldn't make it up! The country seems to be trying to achieve against the meddling of government.

WEATHER IS NOT CLIMATE

This article by Matt Ridley points out the way in which proponents of catastrophic global warming deliberately confuse weather with climate. There can be no doubt that the variations in weather are much more serious than the very modest adjustments to the climate.

MARGARET THATCHER - A WARMIST TURNED SCEPTIC

It is with great sadness that I learnt of the death of Margaret Thatcher, one of our greatest Prime Ministers. Here is an article from 2010 which shows that, though an early proponent of man made global warming, she also became an early sceptic of the hypothesis. This shows that even great people can be convinced of something that is flawed, but it also shows that she was able to change her mind when she became aware of contrary evidence.

NOAA URGES TEACHERS TO DECEIVE KIDS ON OCEAN ACIDIFICATION

This article looks at the dishonest suggestions being urged on teachers. In the end this kind of behaviour will prove to be counter-productive to their own cause.

ITALIAN "KING OF ALTERNATIVE ENERGY" HAS ASSETS SEIZED

It may not actually be a crime to deal in green energy, but it certainly seems to be attractive to some less scrupulous businessmen. See this article for details of someone with alleged mafia links who seems to have done rather well out of it.

USA GAS PRICES FOUR TIMES CHEAPER THAN EU

This piece looks at the effect of the dramatic difference in energy costs in the USA compared to the EU. Unless the EU or the UK wakes up it will find a large portion of its industry has gone west.

PEAK OIL IS AN ARTIFICIAL CEILING IMPOSED BY A LACK OF IMAGINATION

This article sums up the current situation regarding the world's oil resources, and it predicts a bright future as long as we continue to innovate. The current situation in the UK and the EU is a self-imposed denial of cheap abundant energy. When the rest of the world has shown us what we should have been doing, we will belatedly wake up. 

WILL WE ALL FALL THROUGH THE CARBON FLOOR?

How fitting that the UK government should introduce the unique Carbon Floor tax on April Fool's Day. This article in the Scotsman sums up the folly of it very well. There seems to be no answer to the question - why inflict an extra burden on a faltering economy? I notice that while the reductions in welfare payments, which also come into effect today, were given very prominent coverage on the news, the new energy tax did not even get a mention. And yet this carbon floor tax will cause more poverty than all the welfare cuts put together as businesses close or move abroad.

THE AGE OF GLOBAL WARMING

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

COLD WEATHER IS THE BIG KILLER

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

MET OFFICE FORECASTS LOOK BIASED

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

CLIMATE CHANGE COMMITTEE IN LAST DITCH DEFENCE

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

WHEN THE WEATHER CHANGES TO CLIMATE

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

CHIEF SCIENTIST GETS AWAY WITH SOFT INTERVIEW

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

SERIOUS CALLS TO SCRAP UK CLIMATE CHANGE ACT

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

UK GAS SUPPLY RUNNING LOW

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

"THE AGE OF GLOBAL WARMING"

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

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

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

OCEAN MICROBES GOBBLE UP TWICE THE CO2

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

CLIMATE ALMOST AXED FROM UK CURRICULUM

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

THE GREAT GREEN CON REVEALED AT LAST

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

"PLASTIC CARRIERS BAD"

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

PAUL KRUGMAN MORALISING ABOUT CLIMATE

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

JAPAN TO EXTRACT FROZEN GAS FROM SEA BED

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

CLIMATE CHANGE IS HAPPENING DUE TO LAND MISUSE

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

UK BURNS TREES TO CUT CO2

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

TRENDS IN 20th CENTURY GLOBAL WARMING

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

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

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

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

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

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY

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

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

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

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

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

WHAT IS HAPPENING WITH THE SOLAR CYCLE?

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

COULD REDUCED WIND SPEED BE CAUSING WARMING?

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

COST OF FRACKING KEEPS FALLING

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

UK TOLD TO EXPORT "SURPLUS" ENERGY BY EU MINISTER

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

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