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Confession of a climate prostitute

Sent to us by our friend Drieu Godefrid* [translation from the original French via Google]. ____________ Today the Academy of Sciences released its report on the climate in which it validates the whole three thousand pages of the latest IPCC report and its conclusions, it is time for the masks to fall. I am ashamed. This is the confession of a climate prostitute. Yes, I confess, I wrote a book discussing the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) under false pretenses; Yes, I confess, my motives were not disinterested; Yes, I confess, I’m sold to lobbyists, for reasons both financial and [...]

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|2010-11-12T15:50:34-05:00November 12th, 2010|Comments Off

CFACT cosponsors international climate conference

Berlin – December 3 & 4, 2010 International Conference on Energy and Climate: Parallel to the UN Climate summit in Cancún we want to invite you to our 3rd International Climate conference. One year after the Climategate scandal, leading international scientists will present new findings in the fields of climate science and energy. In many cases these findings are contrary to the claims made by the IPCC. During two days we will cover topics from the science of climate change to the socio-political and economic impact of current climate and energy policies. Due to the current changes in Europe’s energy policy, [...]

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Adam Houser

|2010-11-10T11:47:09-05:00November 10th, 2010|Comments Off

What the green movement got wrong

British documentary exposes green "misanthropy, exaggeration and damage" Britain's Channel 4's What the Green Movement Got Wrong features former green campaigners explaining how radical ideology warped environmentalism, preventing it from conserving nature and causing unintended harm. Channel 4's decision to air this documentary is the latest evidence that the media is finally moving away from mindlessly repeating radical green claims and at last permitting critical evaluation. Former hippy Greens, directors of Greenpeace, the chairmen of the Copenhagen Climate Council and the like, queued up to admit error. Their reasons for doing so were interesting. None of them repudiated all their previous [...]

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|2010-11-10T10:18:44-05:00November 10th, 2010|Comments Off

Carbon sequestration scrapped in Netherlands and other developments

HANS LABOHM (Amsterdam) A serious dialogue has started between the crème de la crème of the Dutch climate sceptics and climate scientists of the Royal Netherlands Met Office (KNMI). It is focusing on the mechanisms underlying the greenhouse effect (radiation, evapo/convection) and the ensuing climate sensitivity. Profound differences of view still remain. The decision of the previous government to sequester carbon in the densely populated area of Barendrecht (near Rotterdam) has been canceled by the present government. The parliamentary energy spokesman of the VVD (the classical liberal People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy, the major partner in the present coalition government) [...]

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|2010-11-07T14:19:43-05:00November 7th, 2010|Comments Off

Greens realize worth of nuclear energy and GM foods

The Daily Telegraph reports that green campaigners are abandoning old prejudices and embracing nuclear energy and genetically modified foods. The activists now say that by opposing nuclear power they encouraged the use of polluting coal-fired power stations, while by protesting against GM crops they prevented developing countries from benefiting from a technology that could have helped feed the hungry. READ MORE FROM DAILY TELEGRAPH

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Adam Houser

|2012-09-19T17:12:57-04:00November 2nd, 2010|Comments Off

President Klaus: Warming action not justified

"I am not impressed by heavily biased British scientific institutions." Czech President Vaclav Klaus finds no evidence that government spending on global warming would be worth the cost. "I don't see empirical evidence of human-caused global warming. I see so many mistakes in the methodology of science and modelling." President Klaus, who recently served as President of the European Union, has long been a vocal critic of global warming science and policy. Last year he addressed the International Conference on Climate Change which was co-sponsored by CFACT. READ MORE FROM REUTERS

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|2010-10-20T01:11:58-04:00October 20th, 2010|Comments Off

Bright Idea: German entrepeneur markets light bulbs as heat bulbs

4,000 snap up incandescent light bulbs A German entrepeneur got around the EU ban on incandescent light bulbs over 60 watts by importing them as heaters from China. His shipment of 4,000 bulbs sold immediately. That makes at least 4,001 Germans who see the folly of restricting individual consumers from choosing their own preferred light. The bureaucrats may prefer their light ghostly, expensive and laced with mercury, but that doesn't mean the rest of us shouldn't be allowed to choose a warm pleasant light, emitted by Edison's benign tungsten filament in a vacuum, at a price affordable to all. Großartig! READ [...]

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|2012-09-19T12:13:55-04:00October 15th, 2010|Comments Off

Victory for Dutch Climate Realists

HANS LABOHM (Amsterdam) The draft Memorandum of Understanding of the new Netherlands government coalition (including the classical liberal party, VVD, plus the Christian Democrats, CDA, with parliamentary support by Wilders’ Party for Freedom, PVV, – the so-called ‘Danish Model’) contains only two – obligatory – references to climate change. Climate sceptics opined that backtracking from AGW did not go far enough. Nevertheless, it could be argued that this is, so far, the most important political victory for climate scepticism in the world. […]

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|2012-09-19T12:13:56-04:00October 8th, 2010|Comments Off

Another Domino Falls: UK’s Leading Scientific Body Retreats on Climate Change Agenda

By Patrick Henningsen 21st Century Wire Sept 30, 2010 The UK’s leading scientific body has decided to rewrite its own definitive guide on climate change, now admitting that it is “not known” how much warmer the planet will become. The Royal Society has released a new guide which outlines its retreat from its former vanguard stance on the threat of climate change and man-made global warming. The decision to update their scientific guide came after 43 of its members complained that the previous versions failed to take into account the opinion of climate change sceptics. The new guide, entitled ‘Climate change: [...]

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|2012-09-19T12:19:00-04:00September 30th, 2010|Comments Off

Lord Monckton Responds to Prof. Abraham

Many readers of this site have been following the controversy caused when Prof. John Abraham of the University of St. Thomas posted a lengthy video critique of a speech delivered by CFACT Advisor, Lord Christopher Monckton last October in St. Paul Minnesota. Here is Lord Monckton's freshly issued, detailed written response to Prof. Abraham in PDF form. When we watched Prof. Abraham's video we were mainly struck by Prof. Abraham's making much of Lord Monckton not always labeling his graphs with their source. This was not a valid critique. Lord Monckton was doing a power point presentation in which time or [...]

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|2010-07-15T17:26:38-04:00July 15th, 2010|Comments Off

U.K. wind farms paid not to produce

Wind corporations paid not to generate electricity when a strong wind blows The Daily Telegraph reports that thousands of pounds per day will be paid to compensate the wind industry when the British national grid can not use the power. The intermittent nature of wind power requires traditional efficient power generation to remain the mainstay of British power generation when the wind is light or not blowing at all resulting in too much power when the wind decides to blow. Simply not accepting the unneeded power would cost wind investors to lose their subsidies. We can't imagine them welcoming that. A [...]

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|2012-09-19T23:07:21-04:00June 20th, 2010|Comments Off

Lost subsidies on the plain cause bankruptcies in Spain

Spanish solar subsidies cut 30 percent Spain’s government will cut the revenue of most existing solar-power plants by 30 percent, a move that may bankrupt hundreds of companies that produce electricity using photovoltaic panels, a local trade group said. More at Business Week

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|2010-06-18T04:18:19-04:00June 18th, 2010|Comments Off

Update from Bonn Climate Conference

Discord, blame and profiteering at UN Bonn climate conference as UN scrambles to get climate treaty back on track; calls for developed nations to repay 'climate debt' and an 'international court of climate and environmental justice' to prosecute developed world. Full Update at CFACT.org. Press briefing tomorrow June 10, 10:30, room Haydn at Hotel Maritim Bonn. Read our press release at CFACT.tv.

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|2010-06-09T20:15:13-04:00June 9th, 2010|Comments Off

CFACT at Bonn climate talks

CFACT is reporting from the UN climate talks in Bonn, Germany. Our display addresses issues of alternative energy and juxtaposes wind turbines with the famed Moai, the carved heads of Easter Island, stating that civilization can't run for long on superstition or subsidies. On Saturday and Sunday CFACT met with scientists and policy experts credentialed as members of our delegation in the nearby town of Hennef during a meeting organized by the European Institute for Climate and Energy (EIKE). CFACT is providing publications to every delegation, meeting delegates, briefing the press, raising questions and providing hard information. Our press [...]

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|2012-09-19T23:07:21-04:00June 7th, 2010|Comments Off

Global Warming Out Debated

Oxford Union Chooses Economic Growth Over Climate Change Debate Win for CFACT Advisor Lord Christopher Monckton Last week the Oxford Union, one of the world’s premier debate societies, chose economic growth over climate change by a vote of 133-110. The vote by students at an elite U.K. university illustrates the continued shift of public support away from the global warming scare. The proponents of global warming policy always seem to lose whenever they encounter a fair forum where both sides receive equal time. Key warmists such as Nobel Laureate Al Gore and the IPCC’s Rajendra Pachauri avoid debate at all costs. [...]

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|2012-10-23T09:12:30-04:00May 28th, 2010|Comments Off