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
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
ROGER HELMER, MEP Rather to my surprise, I bumped into Mother Earth at the Heartland Climate Conference in Chicago (May 17th). There she was, large as life, in her green gown with a wreath of ivy in her hair (when I first saw the green gown I feared she might be a Warmist saboteur who had slipped past Security, but my worries were unfounded). And she was selling (or strictly speaking, giving out) Carbon Indulgences (that’s the white rectangle in the photograph). Fascinated, I read the text: “This indulgence serves as a remittance of all carbon sins. You are forgiven for [...]
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 [...]
Another major daily breaks from climate change orthodoxy The Daily Telegraph editorializes today that CRU scientists got off too "lightly" in the review of their role in the Climategate scandal. Like Der Spiegel before it, the Telegraph is rediscovering that every debate has two sides. The voices of the climate realists are penetrating the climate fog at last. The Telegraph reminds its readers that on climate, "there is another view, for which evidence can also be adduced, even if it seems to conflict with the received wisdom. The findings of the Oxburgh inquiry are not an excuse for again closing down [...]
The London Times Reports that only a quarter of people in the U.K. rank climate change as the world's most serious problem and only half accept that any climate change is man-made. Global warming proponents have been caught in so many falsehoods and exaggerations that it is only natural for the public's faith in them to collapse. Will politicians in Copenhagen be willing to adopt a treaty based on flawed science that lacks public support?
Fair reporting from the BBC? Scientific evidence continues to mount against the IPCC’s climate report, however, the media establishment usually ignores it. What a surprise to read from the BBC that, “for the last 11 years we have not observed any increase in global temperatures. And our climate models did not forecast it, even though man-made carbon dioxide, the gas thought to be responsible for warming our planet, has continued to rise.” […]
The Daily Telegraph reports windfarms, “can reduce bird numbers by up to half” citing a study by Britain’s Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB). The Golden Plover is one of the species the RSPB found was harmed by wind turbines. The idea of generating electricity from the wind always seems attractive at first glance. However, wind continues to generate only one percent of world power. Increasing that percentage requires adding thousands upon thousands of new turbines. Many people, such as those who left in protest when the RSPB endorsed British turbine plans […]
Accepted theories about man causing global warming are “lies” claims a controversial new TV documentary. ‘The Great Global Warming Swindle’ – backed by eminent scientists – is set to rock the accepted consensus that climate change is being driven by humans. The program, screened on Channel 4 will see a series of respected scientists attack the “propaganda” that they claim is killing the world’s poor. Even the co-founder of Greenpeace, Patrick Moore, is shown, claiming African countries should be encouraged to burn more CO2. […]
Review Finds Robust Climate Debate Rather Than “Consensus.” Magazine Rejects Corrections. Read and Judge for Yourself. 1. Dr. Peiser’s Analysis of the Oreskes Study e-letter to Science Magazine sent: 4 January 2005 […]