LATEST LOOK AT COST OF GREEN POLICIES ON ELECTRICITY BILLS

This report calculates the price for a consumer in 2020 which is 33% more than the current price. Once this is clear to the consumer they will have no doubt as to who is to blame for price increases.

ELECTRIC VEHICLE MADNESS ESSAY

This prize winning essay is a real insight into the fantasy world of green energy. A must read for those who think that electric vehicles are a solution to climate change.

IS ROAD PRICING ON THE CARDS?

This article looks at the issue and warns that the Climate Change Committee are recommending it as an addition to road tax. This will not be a popular move and hopefully there will be strong opposition.

SHOULD CLIMATE SCEPTICS BE KEPT OFF LETTERS PAGES?

This piece discusses the idea. As it is in the Guardian you may not be surprised that the conclusion is that, yes, they should be banned. Of course stupid letters, full of lies should not get published, but to ban letters that make a serious point is a form of censorship that has no place in a free country.

Jo Nova discusses the issue Here.

CHEVRON EXPOSES CORRUPT LEGAL CASE THAT COULD HAVE COST THEM $19 BILLION

This piece looks at the case in which the massive company was blamed for causing pollution on a huge scale in Ecuador, but it seems to have been blown apart by revelations that the charges were false and the case built on blackmail and corruption by the lawyers bringing the charges..

METHANOL FROM CO2 - A SUCCESSFUL LARGE SCALE PLANT

This article gives the details of a process which effectively recycles CO2. Is this the answer? It depends on the price.  

MUSEUMS GIVE US CLIMATE CHANGE PROPAGANDA

This essay looks at what is happening in museums around the globe in respect of climate change information. You've probably deduced from the title of this piece that many museums appear to be providing climate alarmist propaganda, rather than objective, impartial information. This insidious one-sided stuff is particularly damaging as the public trust museums and so would not expect them to biased.

GRANGEMOUTH REFINERY UNDER THREAT

This article looks at the man behind Ineos, the firm that owns the Grangemouth refinery in Scotland. The refinery is in trouble due to strike threats as a result of proposals to reduce pay. All this is not helped by the increase in energy costs and the fact that the plant is losing about £10 million a month. There is over-capacity in European refinery capacity and the feedstock is much more expensive than that in the USA. Altogether this is not a good scenario and highlights the problems facing much of our chemical industry.

For more on this see here.

MAINSTREAM POLITICIAN COMES OUT AS CLIMATE SCEPTIC

Here is the article in today's Telegraph by Jacob Rees-Mogg in which he lays the blame for our energy price increase squarely at the government climate change costs and charges. This is a significant step in confirming public awareness of this. It will very soon be impossible for anyone in government to be able to continue to deny this. So let's give three cheers to Jacob for saying the emperor has no clothes.

THE OFF-SHORE WIND TURBINE NIGHTMARE

This article by Matt Ridley looks at the problems with off-shore wind turbines, which the UK government are so proud of and so reliant on to deliver our green future, and it doesn't seem very rosy.

EVIDENCE FOR HUMAN INFLUENCE ON CLIMATE AS CERTAIN AS SMOKING LINK TO CANCER SAYS LORD DEBEN

This article gives the detail of comments made by Lord Deben. However he is, as usual, vastly overstating his case. The evidence of a link between tobacco smoking and lung cancer is much easier to prove with a huge number of cases. On the other hand the climate is a vast chaotic system with a huge number of variables and outcomes - nothing like as straight forward. Deben is using people's emotions to draw them in to comparing climate change with cancer when there is no comparison at all. There are millions of people in the third world suffering from chronic lung disease and many will develop cancer, through using smoky wood and dung fires to cook and keep warm. If they had access to cheap electricity, and that means fossil-fuelled power stations, their lives would be immeasurably richer and healthier.

NEW ONSHORE WIND FARMS DOUBLES SINCE 2011

Here is the news that the number of planned new onshore wind farms has doubled in the UK since 2011. This is not good news for the price of electricity, but it is good news for the electricity generating companies who are making fat profits thanks to the subsidies.

SCEPTICS RALLY TO SUPPORT BOB CARTER

This link goes to the BBC Feedback blog where climate sceptics vent their anger at the treatment of leading climate sceptic scientist by some listeners dismissive comments. It seems extraordinary that the BBC appeared only to get negative comments about Prof Carter's appearance on The World at One, where he was invited to comment on the release of the latest IPCC report. The whole programme appears to be a contrived attempt to smear him, though looking at the comments it seems to have back-fired.

CLIMATE SCEPTIC SONGS FOR LIGHT RELIEF

Below are links to a couple of catchy songs with a climate sceptic theme.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwGdICfOqF4 (Beach House in Blue Mountain)

http://joannenova.com.au/2013/10/the-climate-brick-road-song-surrender-your-neurology-to-the-church-of-climatology/#more-31070  (The Climate Brick Road)

Humour is a powerful and much under-used weapon, used correctly.

OCEAN ACIDIFICATION GREATLY EXAGGERATED

This article reveals yet another false claim being made which exaggerates the effect of CO2, this time on ocean "acidification.  

NIPCC SUMMARY JUST PUBLISHED

This is the summary of the Non-governmental International Panel on Climate Changeer a thousand.

Here is a 30 minute TV programme in which two of the lead authors are interviewed on the San Diego News Channel.

The job now is to ensure that politicians are aware of this document and they use it.

WHAT THE UK SHOULD DO ABOUT ENERGY POLICY

This piece has some excellent ideas, but I doubt that the major political parties are bold enough to adopt them.

This article looks at the Climate Change Act and its implications in more detail.

UK ELECTICITY PRICES TO SKYROCKET

This piece looks at a report by a House of Commons committee in which the price increase figures are buried. A cynic might say that as it is a government report the increase is likely to err on the low side.

MILIBANDS FREEZE ON ENERGY PRICES DAMAGES MARKET PROSPECTS

This article looks at the situation caused by the leader of the opposition promising to freeze energy prices from 2015 to 2017. It seems he has spooked the markets and frightened investors off, not a bad days work for a politician.

UK TO DEPLOY DIESEL GENERATORS TO KEEP THE LIGHTS ON

This article from Christopher Booker takes a look at this little known aspect of the government's insane energy policy among other things. What I would like to know is whether any significant CO2 emissions savings will even be made at the end of all this expensive charade? 

CLIMATE CHANGE IS DOMINATED BY WATER NOT CO2

This article from the Washington Post makes a very reasonable suggestion that water has a much greater influence on the climate than CO2. A good and very readable piece.

CLIMATE PRAT OF THE YEAR

This website is asking for nominations, so if you have any suggestions just let them know.

SPAIN'S PROPOSED NEW SOLAR TAX KILLS SOLAR INDUSTRY

This report on the BBC website gives the details of the proposed new tax. Clearly the Spanish government is desperate to get out of it's foolish dash for solar which has left it in a financially disastrous position. It is the poor old citizen who must pay the price. 

SUN'S MAGNETIC FIELD ABOUT TO FLIP

This article explains the details of what is happening inside our star.

WOE, THRICE WOE, WE ARE DOOMED AFTER ALL

Those of a nervous disposition should not read this article from the Mail. It warns of a rapid warming over the next two or three decades. After the 16 year pause in global warming the authors of this report are not afraid to announce that we have already passed the tipping point. They claim that even massive reductions in emissions of CO2 will only slow the onslaught by two or three decades, so we (or our descendants) are doomed.

"IPCC JUST A PRESSURE GROUP" - BOOKER

This piece by Christopher Booker sums up the way many people now perceive the IPCC - as simply another pressure group campaigning for their "cause".

LORD DEBEN ANSWERS QUESTIONS

This link is to the video of the session in the UK Parliament where Lord Deben answered questions from the Energy and Climate Change Committee,  including Peter Lilley MP.

SIX QUESIONS TO ASK THE IPCC

This post by Bob Tisdale on Jo Nova's blog poses some important questions that the IPCC should be answering about why their computer models are not able to simulate the ocean currents or the downturns in surface temperatures. Their failure to address these important questions shows us how much they don't know. 

EXTREME WEATHER NOT LINKED TO WARMING SAYS NEW REPORT

This report links to the paper which debunks the latest scare story to replace global warming.

IPCC DRAFT REPORT PLAYS DOWN SCARY PREDICTIONS OF CLIMATE

This report on Bishop Hill is about a meeting at the Royal Society into the latest IPCC report. In the report there is a table which seems to have been overlooked, or at least very much under-reported.

Here are the main points from the table:

The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), also known as the Gulf Stream is very unlikely to undergo a rapid transition. This prediction has "high confidence".

It is exceptionally unlikely that either the Greenland ice sheet or the West Antarctic ice sheet will suffer near complete disintegration. This also has "high confidence".

The possibility that permafrost will become a net source of greenhouse gases has "low confidence".

It is very unlikely that methane from clathrates will undergo catastrophic release - high confidence.

There is "low confidence" in collapse of large areas of tropical forest.

There is "low confidence" in collapse of large areas of boreal forest.

There is "low confidence" in projections of changes in the frequency or duration of magadroughts.

There is "low confidence" in projections of changes in monsoon circulations.

It is "likely" that the Arctic becomes nearly ice free in September by mid century under high emission scenarios. This prediction has "medium confidence".

As can be seen from the above the only item which is likely is the loss of ice in the Arctic. So where is the catastrophe?

   

ARGO BUOYS DO NOT FIND MISSING HEAT IN THE OCEANS

This post refers to a recent paper which has studied the data produced by the Argo Buoys. Its conclusion is that the ocean temperature is not increasing, and may even be decreasing slightly. This seems to fly in the face of the tentative proposition from those scientists trying to find a solution as to why the global surface temperature has been flat for the past 15 years.

UK GOVERNMENT TO PAY FIRMS GREEN ENERGY TAXES

This article explains the policy. It begs the question - just who is going to pay these green taxes? Of course it will be the poor citizen who is unable to move away quite so easily, and who is not that important to the economy. But one thing the citizen can do is vote and he is not going to be too happy when his energy bills keep rising.

LORD LAWSON - A VOICE OF REASON ON THE IPCC REPORT

This article by Lord Lawson himself gives a very clear and concise summary of what is wrong with the IPCC report. 

IPCC IS THE PROBLEM, NOT THE SOLUTION

This piece by climate scientist Judith Curry looks at what has gone wrong with climate science and how it can be made to function in a more useful way for the benefit of the world. Her conclusion is that the IPCC must go makes perfect sense, but those at the UN are unlikely to see it that way.

EARTH'S OUTER ATMOSPHERE SHRINKING AND COOLING

This report gives the details and it is caused mainly by the sun's reduced output.

THE CONSENSUS CRACKS

This article by Roger Helmer MEP is an excellent summary of the failings of the IPCC report.

LIES, DAMNED LIES...........

The primary basis for global-warming alarmism is unfounded. The Met Office has been making false claims about the significance of climatic changes to Parliament—as well as to the government, the media, and others — claims which have seriously affected both policies and opinions. When questioned about those claims in Parliament, the Met Office did everything feasible to avoid telling the truth.

Above is the concluding paragraph of this article which relates an attempt to get the UK government to answer a simple question on the statistical method used to assess the temperature record. Finally at the sixth attempt the answer is given, leading to the conclusion above.

Now The question is being asked again of the Chief Scientist at the Met Office, Julia Slingo. This question of statistics is quite hard to follow and will never be likely to fill the pages of a national newspaper, but it is fascinating nevertheless.

On a lighter note try googling "Senna the Soothsayer" and see what comes up first! (for the benefit of those who wonder who she was, she was a character in a popular TV comedy show from the 1970's called "Up Pompeii" and her main dialogue always began "Woe, thrice woe" 

RAJENDRA PACHAURI (IPCC CHAIRMAN) UNMASKED

Here is a good piece looking at the shortcomings of the IPCC chairman.

PACHAURI IN DENIAL OVER GW SLOW DOWN

This piece on the BBC website is an interview of Rajendra Pachauri (IPCC chairman) by science correspondent Roger Harrabin. Pachauri says "I don't think there is a slowdown (in the rate of temperature increase). I would like to draw your attention to the World Meteorological Organization which clearly stated on the basis of observations that the first decade of this century has been the warmest in recorded history".  To which Harrabin might have replied "yes, but the annual differences are so small that rate of warming has definitely slowed". But alas Harrabin is much too in awe of the "great man" to dare to question him.

A graph is displayed in the article which has been the subject of some controversy. However he does not seem bothered by that as long as it "proves" his point. More on the graph here.

IPCC PREDICTS DROP IN GULF STREAM WILL COUNTERACT GW IN UK

This report in the Telegraph looks at the prediction in the latest IPCC report. What it seems to suggest is that the UK will retain its present temperature due to the reduced warming from the Gulf Stream cancelling out the effects of CO2. They also seem to suggest that our weather patterns will be "disrupted", as if we had some sort of reliable weather now. So the lucky old UK will carry on unaffected, so why are we spending billions of pounds reducing our CO2 emissions? It must be to help those Chinese and Indians who are building hundreds of coal-fired power stations. You couldn't make up a story as daft as that. 

WHAT DOES 95% CONFIDENCE MEAN?

Below is an excerpt from Judith Curry's blog, "Climate Etc" 

 

Reporter:  I’m hoping you can answer a question about the upcoming IPCC report. When the report states that scientists are “95%  certain” that human activities are largely the cause of global warming, what does that mean? How is 95% calculated? What is the basis for it? And if the certainty rate has risen from 90% in 2007 to 95% now, does that mean that the likelihood of something is greater? Or that scientists are just more certain? And is there a difference?

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JC:  The 95% is basically expert judgment, it is a negotiated figure among the authors.  The increase from 90-95% means that they are more certain.  How they can justify this is beyond me.

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Reporter:  You mean they sit around and say, “How certain are you?” ”Oh, I feel about 95% certain. Michael over there at Penn State feels a little more certain. And Judy at Georgia Tech feels a little less. So, yeah, overall I’d say we’re about 95% certain.”  Please tell me it’s more rigorous than that.

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JC:  Well I wasn’t in the room, but last report they said 90%, and perhaps they felt it was appropriate or politic that they show progress and up it to 95%.

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Reporter:  So it really is as subjective as that?

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JC:  As far as I know, this is what goes on.  All this has never been documented.

GWPF CALLS FOR INDEPENDENT REVIEW OF FLAWED MET OFFICE PROJECTIONS

Here is the press release by the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) with links to the report by Andrew Montford into the methods used by the UK Met Office to make their projections of future climate change here in the UK.

This report in the Mail refers to the GWPF report.

CLIMATE SCARE GOES ON AND ON

Booker's column considers why it will be so difficult to dismantle all the government schemes set up to tackle the "global warming crisis".

Booker is always worth reading. Here is an excerpt: "the IPCC itself, as the main driver of the scare, has been more comprehensively discredited than ever as no more than a one-sided pressure group, essentially run by a clique of scientific activists committed to their belief that rising CO2 levels threaten the world with an overheating which is not taking place". Great stuff!

As long as the population is prepared to go along with the expensive energy and the blight of wind turbines, then the government will not change course. However if more jobs are lost as industries migrate and if power cuts become a reality then the backtracking will be worth watching. 

POWER SHARES FALL AS UK LABOUR LEADER PROMISES FREEZE ON ENERGY PRICES

This article in the Mail gives the details. Power bosses claimed the policy could lead to power cuts and lower investment. Some suggest a parallel with the Californian power cuts of 2000.

BBC PUTS OUT PRO WARMING PROPAGANDA AHEAD OF IPCC REPORT

This piece on Bishop Hill blog contains a link to the Newsnight piece which interviewed a number of pro-warmist scientists and Lord Stern, and one token slight sceptic to give an impression of balance. Paxman was a pale shadow of Andrew Neil in his  recent grilling of Ed Davey

GOVERNMENTS ROW OVER LATEST IPCC REPORT

This report in the Telegraph refers to the meeting of nation states to discuss the content of the latest IPCC report due out in a few weeks. Apparently some states are arguing that there should be no reference to the 16 year pause in global temperature rise, while others want a strong explanation put forward to explain it. What they fear, of course, is that sceptics will ridicule any attempt to state that they are more certain of the hypothesis of catastrophic anthropogenic global warming (CAGW), yet that is, apparently, what they intend to report. I wonder what the increasingly sceptical media will make of it. 

ENERGY POLICY CAN BE REVERSED

This article shows how the CO2 madness on energy policy can be reversed. It happens when the population wake up and start demanding it. That will start when the people realise how much it is costing them. It is only when the people feel the effect of price increases and collectively put the blame on the government policy. It requires a number of clear simple articles in the press, which is happening now in the UK.

NIPCC REPORT HAS BEEN PUBLISHED - IPCC HIDES THE TRUTH

Here is a press release with links to the very extensive report. Like the IPCC report hardly anyone will read this right through due to its great length and complexity, but the press release contains the gist.

IPCC MUST THINK WE ARE FOOLS

This article by Ross McKitrick in the Financial Post gives a good account of the current situation between the computer climate models and the data which are growing farther apart as each year passes. As Ross puts it: "The IPCC must take everybody for fools. Its own graph shows that observed temperatures are not within the uncertainty range of projections; they have fallen below the bottom of the entire span. Nor do models simulate surface warming trends accurately; instead they grossly exaggerate them".

CLIMATE MODELS FAIL

Here is a link to a video introduction to a new book by Bob Tisdale on the subject. Well worth a look.

EU CLIMATE MINISTER - "ENERGY POLICY IS RIGHT EVEN IF GW SCIENCE IS WRONG"

This article in the Telegraph quotes the words of the woman in charge of EU energy policy. So that's it - whatever the science turns out to be we are destined for high energy policies. The future looks bleak, time to leave!

GLOBAL WARMING IS ONLY HALF AS MUCH AS PREDICTED

This Mail article again pre-empts the upcoming IPCC report by looking at a leaked draft of it and picks out the inconsistencies. This is but the latest in a long line of articles on the same lines. I almost feel sorry for the IPCC who must be frantically trying to keep the wheels on the climate change bandwagon, and trying to sound credible at the same time.   

OUR FOSSIL FUELED FUTURE

This article gives a thorough summary of the world's future energy demands and how they are predicted to be fuelled. The vast majority of it is likely to come from fossil fuels says the report by the experts at the USA's Department of Energy. Of course any prediction can be wrong, but it's all we can do without a crystal ball. The writer of the article is obviously a climate alarmist, but if you disbelieve all that stuff the facts and figures in the report are very interesting. If one conclusion emerges from it, it is the fact that reducing CO2 emissions is an impossibility, and the UK is spitting in the wind with its current energy policy. Either the climate sensitivity to CO2 is low or we are in for alarming warming.

THE COST OF CLIMATE ALARMISM

Here is a good summary of the cost of extreme climate alarmism versus the reality of how the climate is currently behaving. It is the climate alarmists who should be made to account for their behaviour, not those using fossil fuels. 

CZECHS SCRAP SUBSIDIES ON NEW SOLAR ENERGY SCHEMES

Here is the latest report on the elimination of subsidies for new solar energy. Following on from the new Australian government scrapping their carbon trading scheme and the Spanish having already scrapped the subsidies on their new solar schemes it is looking bleak for the future of uncompetitive forms of renewable energy. How long can the UK continue to buck the trend?

MATT RIDLEY ON CLIMATE ALARM

This piece in the Wall Street Journal looks at the massive problem for the IPCC in trying to keep up the alarm, while recognising the reality of the data. Having seen a leak of the draft report Matt concludes "the new report is effectively saying (based on the middle of the range of the IPCC's emissions scenarios) that there is a better than 50-50 chance that by 2083, the benefits of climate change will still outweigh the harm", but I doubt if you will find those actual words in the report.

CLIMATE CHANGE IS ALL ABOUT POLITICS

Says James Delingpole

UK PARLIAMENT DEBATES THE CLIMATE CHANGE ACT

Here is a transcript of the debate, and you can see a number of MP's are prepared to put on the record their opposition to the current UK policy. The tide is definitely turning, though there is still some way to go.

HAS STERN FINALLY BEEN DEBUNKED?

This article looks at the way Stern's economics is not being accepted in the USA. It appears that his analysis of the cost of the "damage" caused by climate change vastly overestimates what most businesses believe is realistic. Stern has been savaged many times before, but in these times when financial constraints are much tighter and the degree of warming is much lower he seems to be more out of touch than ever.

NEW AUSSIE PM TO SCRAP CARBON TRADING SCHEME

This article confirms that Tony Abbott, the new Australian PM intends to deliver on his election pledge to scrap the carbon trading scheme, recently introduced by the previous Labour government (having promised not to do so). This is yet another sign that the world is ready to ditch costly schemes to reduce CO2 emissions. It is an implicit admission that fears of global warming are receding, fears which have not materialised in real data.

GLOBAL COOLING GOES MAINSTREAM

This piece in the Mail on Sunday confirms that fears of global warming are now hotly contested in the mainstream media. This is deeply embarrassing just a few weeks before the new IPCC report is due to come out. What will they say? Can they possibly stick with the reported "95% confidence" in the hypothesis of man made global warming, which the public will treat with derision, or do they downgrade a bit to say 70%? Such an admission would be unthinkable, wouldn't it?

UK REFINERY MAY CLOSE

This report relates to Grangemouth Refinery, and the reason for the possible closure is mainly due to increased energy costs. So reality is now being felt and real jobs being affected.

EU ENERGY MINISTER WAKES UP TO REALITY OVER SHALE FRACKING

This article gives the news that the EU minister in charge of energy seems to be shifting his position, becoming more favourable to shale gas, and less inclined to go for rapid decarbonisation. As reality dawns the UK's position of going for rapid decarbonisation is getting more and more isolated. I expect it will soften in practice even if they talk the talk.

50 TO 1 PROJECT IS UP AND RUNNING

Here is a link to their website. The idea is to demonstrate using the figures given by the IPCC that it is 50 times more expensive to try to prevent global warming than to mitigate the effects of it if they appear. Although this approach has the drawback of accepting the biased reporting of the IPCC, it nevertheless shows that the carbon trading and taxing schemes are completely pointless, which is well worth making.

HOW MUCH OF RECYCLING IS RUBBISH?

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3mi7a_recycling-bullshit_politics>This film

by Penn and Teller uses some fruity language to make its point, but at 20 minutes in length it packs a strong punch against much of the trendy but very costly recycling industry, heavily subsidised by the government (in this case the US government). The points made in the film will be equally applicable here in the UK, or anywhere else. It does not decry all recycling, even singling out aluminium cans as a profitable and useful item to recycle.

HERE'S WHY CHINA DIDN'T SIGN UP TO KYOTO

This article shows why the Chinese didn't sign, and this is why no developing nation will sign in the future. And this is why it is pointless for the developed world to sign up to any successor to Kyoto - because it won't work, and will simply cripple our own industry while giving the likes of China and India a free pass. Either the world is really facing disaster and everyone must stop using fossil fuels, or it is simply a lot of pointless political posturing. I suspect most, if not all, governments really believe it to be the second while pretending it's the first.

I wonder what would happen if the world's temperature really did start to rise alarmingly, with a corresponding increase in severe droughts and floods. Do we think that the Chinese and the Indians etc would then shut down all their coal and oil fired power stations? Somehow I doubt it. Just as well it's not happening. 

UNUSUALLY COLD WEATHER IN SOUTH AMERICA

This article reveals the unusually snowy weather in South America which has not figured at all in the main stream media here in the UK. Of course this weather is not the same as the climate, in the same way as hot spells causing forest fires in California or Australia. While the hot spells are prominently displayed on our news programmes, the cold ones seem to get missed off. Strange isn't it?

ENVIRONMENTALISTS TRY TO GET USA UNIVERSITIES TO STOP INVESTING IN FOSSIL FUELS

Here's a great letter signed by many prominent scientists and industrialists urging the American universities to resist the pressure being applied by environmentalists to remove their investments in fossil fuel companies. As the letter states, we need education, not indoctrination.  

POLAND'S SUCCESSFUL FRACKING OPERATION

This piece hails the good news from Poland that a well has been successfully fracked to extract promising amounts of gas.

PRESSURE ON UK GOVERNMENT TO SCRAP CLIMATE TARGETS

This piece looks at the situation regarding the Climate Change Act's emission reduction targets, and how some members of the government are now beginning to realise that the EU (and the rest of the world) are not following the UK's example - leaving the UK saddled with hopelessly unrealistic targets which, if met, would lead to financial suicide.  However there are still some who refuse to admit to what is now beginning to be obvious, and still trying to cling to the purity of the Act, including the Lib Dems. The real damage of the Climate Change Act was always going to bite more deeply over the passage of time. The worst is still to come over the next few years - unless they ditch it soon. This will cause the green movement to make a lot of fuss, but if it isn't done the public will soon demand it, as their energy bills go on rising and their industry moves away.

In fact my district council were urging the government to re-think this back in 2011 as This article explains.

GLACIER RETREATS TO REVEAL 400 YEAR OLD WOODLAND

This piece explains how a retreating glacier has revealed the existence of woodland about 400 years ago. In other words the climate there must have been warmer at that time, before the little ice age.

LIB DEMS ANNOUNCE THEIR NEW ENERGY POLICY

Here is an article setting out some of the policies. If you suspected they would be a bit wacky, then you're not far wrong. Surely these policies will keep them out of power. Unfortunately in today's crazy politics this may not be the case. The lunatics are quite possibly going to be partly in charge. 

LOOK AT HOW LITTLE WIND FARMS REALLY PRODUCE

This article in the Telegraph looks at what some wind farms actually produce, and it is a real eye-opener, showing just how unreliable wind energy can be in practice. I hope our politicians are taking note. If the lights do go out, whoever is in power will get the blame.

ESTONIA ALREADY ENERGY INDEPENDENT ON SHALE GAS

This report from the Telegraph goes into details of how the Baltic state has gone ahead with customary zeal. Their situation is a fait accompli, and they will not be shackled by the the EU, of which they are a member, though their extraction does not involve fracking as the article explains. Compare Estonia's attitude with that of the UK, which already appears hide-bound in red tape, some home-grown, but much emanating from the EU - see yesterday's post below. 

EU SEEMS TO BE SET TO STOP SHALE GAS FRACKING

This article in the Sunday Telegraph from Christopher Booker looks at the inner working of the EU. If true, and there is no reason to doubt it, it is yet another reason for us to leave this bureaucratic institution.

WILL UK ENERGY POLICY MEAN GOODBYE TO THE CHEMICAL INDUSTRY?

This piece looks at a new report by the Tyndall Centre, which basically says that the chemical industry in the UK will struggle to survive. Yet it makes no sensible recommendations to save it. This is a government funded organisation that seems to be a waste of money.

DAILY MAIL REPORTS IPCC LEAKED DOCUMENT GIVES 95% CERTAINTY OF AGW

Here is the Mail's report which contains good coverage of the new uncertainty over the lack of warming over the past 16 years. As this gets repeated over and over to an ever wider audience it can only lead to increased scepticism of the whole global warming CO2 hypothesis. 

PROTESTORS QUIT BALCOMBE DRILLING SITE

This piece in the Mail gives the latest update on the attempts by green activists to halt drilling at the exploratory site near Balcombe in South England. Extraordinarily, the protestors, who a few days ago were claiming success as the drilling was stopped by the police over safety fears. However after the police finally got tough with the protestors and arrested a few dozen, the whole thing has turned around. It appears that these protestors don't have the stomach for a real fight. When the going got tough the protestors got going (home).

IPCC CLAIM 95% CONFIDENCE IN AGW, BUT WHAT DOES IT MEAN?

This article looks into the scientific meaning of "95% confidence", and surprisingly this level is far from being as strong as a layman might think. Most of the general public would conclude that 95% was extremely high - up from 90% in the previous IPCC report. However in the article in the link you can see that in fact it is a weak level. Obviously this is not something that the IPCC want to become widely known, but it is deception by the IPCC.  

OCEAN TEMPERATURES - AN OVERVIEW

Here is an excellent and very readable overview of the issue of ocean temperature changes. Climate alarmists often try to persuade us that though the surface temperature of the Earth has stopped warming, the heat has instead been going into the oceans. This hypothesis is discussed fully in the article. 

LATEST DATA SUGGEST THE ARCTIC MAY BE COOLING

This article gives the latest sea-ice extent in the Arctic and it shows that at this stage in the year the ice cover is well above the area of recent years.

UK FRACKING IN ACTION FOR PAST 50 YEARS

This article in the Mail on Sunday looks at a well in Nottingham which has been fracked for around 50 years with no complaints from the local residents and no adverse effect on the environment. 

GREEN ACTIVISTS BRING DRILLING TO A HALT AT BALCOMBE

This piece from the Daily Mail rightly criticises the police for not standing firm against green activists who threatened direct action against the firm drilling a test well near Balcombe in the South of England. While I would not want us to descend into the heavy-handed reaction of the Egyptian military I do think we should be prepared to control numbers of protestors descending on Balcombe. For god's sake this is simple common sense.  

NEW IPCC REPORT 95% CERTAIN OF AGW

This report takes a peek at the report, due out in September. It looks as though the alarmists are getting increasingly desperate, putting forward a whole raft of excuses as to why the warming has stalled. It looks to me that they have far less confidence than they are ready to admit. I am sure that once the report is out it will rapidly unravel as sceptics pick over it like carnivorous beasts at a dead antelope.  

CHURCH OF ENGLAND FLIRTS WITH FRACKING

This article looks at the way the C of E is asserting its ancient mineral rights to try to cash in on the shale gas beneath much of its historic land holdings. Some might say they were 'supping with the devil'.

CAN THE OCEANS CONTROL CLIMATE?

The following links are to four parts of a paper by a scientist called David Coe which has been put on Bishop Hill blog over recent weeks, though each part was put on separately. It is quite long and contains some maths which non-scientists, or indeed those who are not specialists in the field may omit, but this paper is a fascinating piece of work which contains some real insights into the behaviour of the oceans. The conclusions are far-reaching and if it passes peer-review would change the whole science of climate alarm.
Part one Part two Part three Part four

HOW WILL FRACKING SHALE AFFECT PRICES?

This article gives us an idea and the sums involved are very significant.

CAMERON TRIES TO CUT RED TAPE ON FRACKING

This piece in the Telegraph looks at the stages in the process set out by the Environment Agency, which could take up to 6 months to complete. If the Prime Minister is serious then he will need to act to speed up the process. He might be in a fight if he does. The "green" organisation know every trick in the book to frustrate the process, using the massive amount of legislation there is.

WHAT'S HAPPENING AT BALCOMBE?

Balcombe is the small village on the outskirts of which there is drilling for oil. The fear of some residents is that this will lead to fracking. This article looks at what is going on. In particular the way the protest has been hi-jacked by green activists. This is not just a normal protest, it is an ideological battle.

WHY THE CLIMATE MODELS ARE WRONG

This piece contains a short 12 minute lecture on the shortcomings of climate models put in a clear understandable way. The comments below it are also worth reading.

IS THE WIND CHANGING ON CLIMATE POLICY?

This article looks at the possibilities. I, of course hope it is true, but I suspect there is a lot of pressure on ministers to cling to their green policies, most of it coming from the Liberal Democrats as well as vested inerests. There is a lot of money riding on it.

IPCC CHAIRMAN EXPOSED

This article exposes the many failings of the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change chairman, Rajendra Pachauri. All in all it is probably a good thing for sceptics that he is still in charge. What a publicity disaster for climate alarmism. 

BURNING TREES TO SAVE EMISSIONS - WILL IT WORK?

This BBC article looks at the issue. The conclusion seem to be that it is far from clear that emissions will actually be saved, so complex is the issue. It seems to be a case of the government meeting a target for renewables rather than thinking it through.

SPANISH GOVERNMENT TAXES THE SUN'S RAYS

Here is the article giving the details. This is the modern version of the old window tax. Have they learnt nothing? At least the UK government wouldn't do that.

DIY CLIMATE CALCULATOR - FIND OUT HOW MUCH WARMING YOU SAVE

Here is a handy calculator for you to decide how much of global warming can be averted by reducing emission of CO2 by the industrial nations. You decide hat reduction level to have and what climate sensitivity to employ. If you are a sceptic I doubt if you will be surprised by the result. So much pain for so little gain. 

CLIMATE SENSITIVITY - IS IT LOWER THAN IPCC FORECAST?

This article in the Economist looks at the evidence for lower sensitivity, which is getting stronger as the pause in warming enters a seventeenth year.

HYDRO-ELECTRIC SCHEMES KILL FISH

This piece gives the details of how thousands of new hydro-electricity schemes are being proposed for UK rivers, in order for owners to profit from the subsidies available for green energy. However there is a dark side to this superficially attractive-sounding scheme which has received little publicity so far.

THE RISE AND FALL OF ARCTIC ICE

This article looks at the change in ice cover in the Arctic since 1971, and you can see that it is not simply a decline. In fact ice was increasing year on year through the 1970's, followed by the recent decline.

TWO LORDS LOCK HORNS OVER CLIMATE CHANGE

This piece shows the correspondence between Lord Deben and Lord Ridley over the evidence for the value of climate sensitivity. What it shows is the mass of evidence produced by Ridley, a sceptic, versus the rather feeble evidence from Deben, an alarmist.  

WHAT IS THE TRUE SENSITIVITY OF THE CLIMATE?

Here is an interesting article on the subject - how much will temperature rise for a doubling of CO2? The pre-industrial level of CO2 is taken as 280ppm, so a doubling would be 560ppm. The current level is around 400ppm, so we still have some way to go. The world average rise in temperature is around 0.8 degrees Celsius. If the figure for doubling, as the article suggests, is around 2 C, then we are almost halfway there, and there is no cause for alarm. Since the relationship is a logarithmic one a second doubling, from 560ppm to 1120ppm will also only give rise to 2 C and that will take a very long time indeed.

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