Climate Policy

UN climate of desperation

DAVID ROTHBARD & CRAIG RUCKER – The Washington Times As the United Nations wrapped up its recent climate conference in Bonn, talks organizer Christiana Figueres proclaimed that climate change is the “the most important negotiation the world has ever faced.” Faced with real problems – financial meltdowns, unemployment, war and genuine human suffering – the world no longer agrees. It’s a good thing human productivity doesn’t threaten the global thermostat the way the U.N. would have us believe. If it did, we’d be cooked. Countries rich and poor are backing away from commitments they made years ago during rosier economic times, [...]

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|2012-09-19T12:13:53-04:00June 29th, 2011|Comments Off

6th International Conference on Climate Change watch live here June 30-July 1

Watch live streaming video from heartlandinstitute at livestream.com CFACT is proud to partner with the Heartland Institute to bring you the 6th International Conference on Climate Change. Heartland continues to do a real service to science with these conferences which we all should appreciate.

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|2011-06-27T16:14:31-04:00June 27th, 2011|Comments Off

CFACT / EIKE scientific briefing – Bonn climate conference. Watch now from the UNFCCC

Scientific briefing CLICK TO VIEW NOW This morning CFACT & EIKE presented a scientific briefing at the UN conference on climate change in Bonn, Germany. The briefing was introduced by Wolfgang Müller of EIKE and Berlin's Manhattan Institut and featured Professor em. Friedrich Karl Ewert a geologist from Paderborn University and Dr. Horst Borchert of the Johannes-Gutenberg Universität in Mainz. The presentations build upon the analysis of Professor S. Fred Singer and provide information on the geological record, solar activity and the big question -- is our climate governed by man or nature?

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|2012-10-19T17:52:32-04:00June 8th, 2011|Comments Off

Green taxes v. green research v. productivity

UK green energy researchers seek exemption from green energy taxes The Guardian reports that "world-class research into future sources of green energy is under threat in Britain from an environmental tax designed to boost energy efficiency and drive down carbon emissions." Researchers at the Culham Centre for Fusion Energy complained to The Guardian that, "considering our research is aimed at producing zero-carbon energy, it seems ironic and perverse to clobber us with an extra bill... We have to use electricity to run the machine and there is no way of getting around that." We sympathize. The power of taxation and control [...]

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|2012-09-19T12:13:53-04:00June 1st, 2011|Comments Off

Kyoto protocol sinking fast

Four G8 nations abandon Kyoto's ship French wire service AFP reports that Russia, Japan and Canada have all indicated that they will cease following carbon limits agreed to under the Kyoto protocol. In addition, President Obama stated at a dinner Thursday night that he does not intend to bring the U.S. into Kyoto. The global warming folks are desperate to obtain a renewal of Kyoto at the UN conference on climate change in Durban, South Africa in December. The expiration of Kyoto places the hopes and dreams of carbon profiteers in peril as their carbon trading markets are set to expire [...]

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|2011-05-29T22:47:26-04:00May 29th, 2011|Comments Off

Leak: Denmark claims the North Pole. Good place for a wind farm?

Plans for North Pole dominance expose Danish climate hypocrisy A leaked document titled "Strategy for the Arctic" lays out Denmark's plans to lay formal claim to the North Pole. Yet the Danish Commission on Climate Change recently released plans to make Denmark "oil free" by 2050. What exactly do the soon to be oil free Danes plan to do at the North Pole? Will they crown the globe with the world's largest and most wasteful wind farm? With oil fetching over 500 Danish Kroner per barrel the answer is clear. Last year CFACT engaged in a dialogue with EU Climate Commissioner [...]

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|2011-05-17T21:47:55-04:00May 17th, 2011|Comments Off

BOMBSHELL: Shutting down energy won’t reduce asserted warming

From Paul Driessen: “In response to pleas for more energy, to meet basic human needs and lift people out of poverty, many politicians and activists continue to insist that “dangerous global warming” concerns must override even these human interests. Now comes this incredible bombshell from Australia’s top climate change commissioner: Even if Australia cuts emissions a full 5% in just nine years, by 2020, the change in global average temperature “will be a very, very small increment …. If we cut emissions today, global temperatures are not likely to drop for about a thousand years.” Art Horn: The Climate War Should [...]

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|2012-09-19T12:13:54-04:00April 6th, 2011|Comments Off

Massive carbon fraud cost Germany €850 million

"Fictitious trades, fictitious companies, bogus addresses" The Süddeutschen Zeitung reports that German fraud investigators have found that €850 million fell off the table when shady companies swarmed into the carbon trading, emissions and energy business. The criminal companies rake in tens to hundreds of millions, fend off regulators with delaying tactics and then announce bankruptcy or disappear. Düsseldorf tax investigators found that in less than a quarter of an hour emissions certificates might change hands five times. The same CO2 allowance would trade up to 18 times. A perverse form of recycling as the Süddeutschen Zeitung makes clear. Elements [...]

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|2012-09-19T12:13:54-04:00March 11th, 2011|Comments Off

Memo to America: Don’t do carbon trading!

The United States must learn from Europe’s mistakes – not repeat them ROGER HELMER, MEP Senator Harry Reid has repeatedly denounced opposition to carbon trading as “dangerous.” Senator Reid is wrong. It is the House and Senate climate and renewable energy bills that are dangerous. Fortunately, the recent elections and the ongoing dissension at the Cancun climate summit could bode ill for carbon trading, any successor to Kyoto – and renewable energy standards. Carbon trading is wrong on so many levels. First, there is a growing realization that the small changes we are seeing in Earth’s climate are entirely consistent with [...]

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|2012-09-19T12:18:59-04:00December 7th, 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

Lord Monckton Testifies Before Congress

May 6, 2010 The Select Committee, in its letter inviting testimony for the present hearing, cites various scientific bodies as having concluded that 1. The global climate has warmed; 2. Human activities account for most of the warming since the mid-20th century; 3. Climate change is already causing a broad range of impacts in the United States; 4. The impacts of climate change are expected to grow in the coming decades. The first statement requires heavy qualification and, since the second is wrong, the third and fourth are without foundation and must fall. The Select Committee has requested answers to the [...]

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Christina Norman

|2012-10-23T09:12:30-04:00May 9th, 2010|3 Comments

700 Papers Supporting Climate Realism

The list continues to grow. The consensus continues to collapse. The good folks at Popular Technology are now up to 700 scholarly papers challenging the theory of man-made global warming. Here they are. Here is CFACT’s coverage of the original 450. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A 2000-year global temperature reconstruction based on non-treering proxies (PDF) (Energy & Environment, Volume 18, Numbers 7-8, pp. 1049-1058, December 2007) – Craig Loehle […]

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|2019-04-17T08:49:00-04:00April 26th, 2010|Comments Off

Paul Driessen: “Global Warming Disasters … Bogus”

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|2012-09-19T14:38:30-04:00March 27th, 2010|Comments Off

Lord Monckton: IPCC “At It Again” in Bonn

U.N. makes new push for climate treaty in Bonn this April. Treaty would infringe national sovereignty without benefit to world climate. LORD CHRISTOPHER MONCKTON (Wisconsin)

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|2012-09-19T12:13:58-04:00March 15th, 2010|Comments Off