Fascinating: WASHINGTON — US scientists say the familiar sunspot cycle seems to be entering a hibernation period unseen since the 17th century, a pattern that could have a slight cooling effect on global temperatures. For years, scientists have been predicting the Sun would by around 2012 move into solar maximum, […]
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New Report: Shale Gas Shock Challenges Climate and Energy Policies
Via the GWPF, a new report – Shale Gas Shock Challenges Climate and Energy Policies: London, 4 May – The Global Warming Policy Foundation today publishes a detailed report about the shale gas revolution and its likely implications for UK and international climate policy. The report The Shale Gas Shock, written by Matt Ridley […]
Read MoreWhat happens when the great fantasies, like wind power or European Union, collide with reality? – Telegraph
Via What happens when the great fantasies, like wind power or European Union, collide with reality? – Telegraph: When we embark on a course of action which is unconsciously driven by wishful thinking, all may seem to go well for a time, in what may be called the “dream stage”. But […]
Read MoreConservativeHome’s Platform: Steve Baker MP: Britain’s low-carbon transport future will rely on petrol and diesel
When Norman Baker delivered his recent statement on the sustainable local transport White Paper, I was surprised he said: “our transport decarbonisation strategy centres around the progressive electrification of the passenger car fleet”. Of course, I understand why the Government is attempting to promote the use of electric cars and to decarbonise our […]
Read MoreConservativeHome’s Platform: Steve Baker MP: The greatest threat to civilisation is not climate change but bad economics
Over on ConservativeHome, I have responded to one of Paul Goodman’s articles, The dog that didn’t bark on Thursday during Energy questions: So, the greatest problem humanity faces is how to use increasingly scarce natural resources to create greater prosperity for a growing number of people in the context of a […]
Read MoreCoping with heavy snow (or why I am a winter tyre bore)
The Royal Air Force used to send me to Bardufoss in Arctic Norway, in winter. I learned there that, if you want to drive on snow, use winter tyres and, if you want to drive on ice, have studs in them. The point was hammered home when we went to Ørland […]
Read MoreGlobal Cooling and the New World Order – Telegraph Blogs
My amazement at the arrogant incompetence of those who wish to manage others’ lives already scarcely knows any bounds but now we shall have to watch which way the environmental research money flows: Bilderberg. Whether you believe it’s part of a sinister conspiracy which will lead inexorably to one world […]
Read More“Sifting climate facts from speculation” – New Scientist
Via the New Scientist: IT WAS a dramatic declaration: glaciers across much of the Himalayas may be gone by 2035. When New Scientist heard this comment from a leading Indian glaciologist, we reported it. That was in 1999. The claim later appeared in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s most recent […]
Read MoreConcern as China clamps down on rare earth exports
Another good reason to promote global free trade: Britain and other Western countries risk running out of supplies of certain highly sought-after rare metals that are vital to a host of green technologies, amid growing evidence that China, which has a monopoly on global production, is set to choke off […]
Read MoreBlair commits a revolt against reason
So here I am, back online in our new High Wycombe home, just in time for this revolt against reason: Following the ‘climategate scandal’, Mr Blair said the science may not be “as certain as its proponents allege”. But he said the world should act as a precaution against floods, […]
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