Scottish wind subsidies slashed?

1,000 wind turbines gang agley 1,000 land-based wind turbines stand to be scrapped if government follows through and slashes millions of pounds in subsidies.  A report commissioned by ScottishPower concludes that reducing subsidies 25 percent will render the turbines a loss maker for investors instead of just rate and taxpayers. CFACT continues to conclude that alternative energy sources such as wind and solar should only be deployed when they can compete effectively with other sources of energy.  Locking in inefficient power generation and the subsidies and guarantees that goes with it will have a terrible long term impact on industry as [...]

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|2012-09-19T23:07:20-04:00August 29th, 2011|Comments Off on Scottish wind subsidies slashed?

British aristocrats cash in on wind

Regressive redistribution as working people pay landed rich to despoil the British countryside The Telegraph reports that British nobles, including Dukes and a cousin of the Queen are cashing in on tax and ratepayer subsidies to erect wind farms on their country estates.  Each turbine can net a noble £20,000 a year or more. Prime Minister David Cameron's father-in-law is a baronet who is pulling in "as much as £350,000 a year from eight turbines on his estate at Bagmoor in Lincolnshire."  This may give Cameron's un-torylike policy surrender to radical green interests some perspective. For generations the UK could count [...]

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|2012-09-19T23:07:20-04:00August 22nd, 2011|Comments Off on British aristocrats cash in on wind

Britain in rebellion over high energy prices

Reuters reports that with half of major energy suppliers in the UK announcing double digit price increases for electricity and gas the British public has had enough. 75 percent now favor abandoning Britain's green agenda if it means higher prices.

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|2013-01-28T15:33:19-05:00August 2nd, 2011|Comments Off on Britain in rebellion over high energy prices

Lord Monckton wins climate debate down under

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|2012-09-19T14:24:46-04:00July 21st, 2011|Comments Off on Lord Monckton wins climate debate down under

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 on Green taxes v. green research v. productivity

Ban all cars from EU cities? End affordable flights?

The Telegraph reports on an EU plan to ban all gas and diesel vehicles from EU cities and end discount air travel all in the name of global warming. Siim Kallas, the EU transport commission, insisted that Brussels directives and new taxation of fuel would be used to force people out of their cars and onto "alternative" means of transport. "That means no more conventionally fuelled cars in our city centres," he said. "Action will follow, legislation, real action to change behaviour." READ MORE AT DAILY TELEGRAPH

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|2011-03-29T00:47:48-04:00March 29th, 2011|Comments Off on Ban all cars from EU cities? End affordable flights?

No more reliable power grid for the UK?

Electricity consumers in the UK will need to get used to flicking the switch and finding the power unavailable, according to Steve Holliday, CEO of National Grid, the country’s grid operator. Because of a six-fold increase in wind generation, which won’t be available when the wind doesn’t blow, “The grid is going to be a very different system in 2020, 2030,” he told BBC’s Radio 4. “We keep thinking that we want it to be there and provide power when we need it. It’s going to be much smarter than that. “We are going to change our own behaviour and consume [...]

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|2011-03-08T04:55:53-05:00March 8th, 2011|Comments Off on No more reliable power grid for the UK?

Guardian exploits AZ shooting, calls climate realists “Nazis”

Damian Carrington of The Guardian saw the shootings in Tucson Arizona as a ripe opportunity to score points in the global warming debate, even going so far as to label those he disagrees with "climate Nazis' which apparently includes CFACT's Climate Depot. It now appears that just as any weather event, hot, cold, extreme, or mild now proves the theory of global warming, any violence, even by a deranged killer on a crazed mission of his own, now justifies stifling the debate over climate. CFACT responded to the The Guardian and told them: Attempts to use the tragic AZ [...]

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|2012-09-19T12:13:54-04:00January 11th, 2011|Comments Off on Guardian exploits AZ shooting, calls climate realists “Nazis”

A step-change in Earth’s climate outlook?

As Britain suffers through its third straight harsh winter, a British watchdog group is calling for an inquiry into the failed recent long-range weather forecasts of the British Meteorological Office. DENNIS AVERY The Met Office has long one of the leading promoters of man-made warming fears and therefore has tended to see warming around every corner. Dr. Benny Peiser of the Global Warming Policy Foundation says, “The current winter fiasco is no longer a joke, as the economic damage to the British economy as a result of the country’s ill-preparedness . . . could reach $15 billion.” The Met Office informed [...]

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|2012-10-19T17:52:33-04:00January 8th, 2011|Comments Off on A step-change in Earth’s climate outlook?

Extreme weather is natural

The Daily Mail reports that the jet stream is causing Europe's paralyzing cold snap. This year a high-pressure weather system over the Atlantic is blocking the jet stream’s normal path and forcing it to the north and south of Europe. The areas of high pressure act like stones in a stream - blocking the normal flow of milder air from the west and instead forcing colder air from the north down across the UK. Once again if it's hot it's warming and if it's cold it's nature. Attention: climate campaigners, carbon profiteers & leftists -- repeat after us: "Extreme weather is [...]

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|2012-09-19T12:13:55-04:00December 22nd, 2010|Comments Off on Extreme weather is natural

The climate bugaboo is the strangest intellectual aberration of our age

LORD CHRISTOPHER MONCKTON But don’t you realise," said the bearded, staring enviro-zomb with the regrettable T-shirt, “that global cooling is what we must expect because of global warming?” "Don’t you realise," I replied, "how silly that sounds? The lowest temperatures ever recorded here in Cancun six days in a row; four extreme winters on the trot in the Northern hemisphere; more people dying in one three-day cold snap in little England in 2002 than Oxfam pretends died of ‘global warming’ worldwide throughout 2010; where’s your perspective, man?" Perspective, the Olympian capacity to see events as they affect not just [...]

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|2012-09-19T12:13:55-04:00December 19th, 2010|Comments Off on The climate bugaboo is the strangest intellectual aberration of our age

2010: Another record breaking winter. So what happened to global warming?

Weather isn't climate, but after all the hot days falsely attributed to warming, record cold is inconvenient for the warming scam By 21st Century Wire By Patrick Henningsen 21st Century Wire Green News Dec 18, 2010 Britain and Europe have been hit hard for the third straight record-breaking winter season. Labeled by experts as the coldest winter in 100 years and set to blow well into 2011, it is already raising some very interesting questions about the new ideological split we are witnessing throughout society in the much-elebrated green debate. Tonight Britain braces itself for a further 10 inches of snow and more sub-zero temperatures to come- with [...]

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|2012-09-19T12:13:55-04:00December 18th, 2010|Comments Off on 2010: Another record breaking winter. So what happened to global warming?

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 on Memo to America: Don’t do carbon trading!

Excerpt: What the Green Movement Got Wrong

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|2012-09-19T15:25:25-04:00November 22nd, 2010|Comments Off on Excerpt: What the Green Movement Got Wrong

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 on What the green movement got wrong
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