GWPF
"The decision of Canada to exercise its legal right to withdraw from the protocol has dealt a blow to the spirit of the Durban deal. For long, industrialised countries have been seeking abandonment of the protocol. The US, of course, never signed this agreement. Now another major carbon emitter is out of it. Russia and Japan too have opposed any extension of commitments. All this may render the protocol a dead instrument. ........The decision to withdraw from Kyoto, Kent said, would save Canada $ 14 billion in penalties for not achieving its Kyoto targets. "To meet the targets under Kyoto for 2012 would be the equivalent of either removing every car, truck, ATV, tractor, ambulance, police car and vehicle of every kind from Canadian roads or closing down the entire farming and agriculture sector and cutting heat to every home, office, hospital, factory and building in Canada," Kent said. He said he would not be surprised if other countries follow Canada in pulling out of Kyoto.
Wednesday, 14 December 2011
Snow warning across country
Telegraph
"There will be little let-up in Britain's spell of bad weather, with warnings in place for some parts of the country today."
"There will be little let-up in Britain's spell of bad weather, with warnings in place for some parts of the country today."
Tuesday, 13 December 2011
BBC Brand In Meltdown Over Polargate
GWPF
"BBC feels the commercial chill of 'fake' documentary: Fake allegations are potentially hugely damaging for the BBC, which licensed the most recent series of Frozen Planet to 30 networks around the world."
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BBC admits several scenes in Frozen Planet were NOT shot in the wild as 'faking' row heats up (Daily Mail)
"BBC feels the commercial chill of 'fake' documentary: Fake allegations are potentially hugely damaging for the BBC, which licensed the most recent series of Frozen Planet to 30 networks around the world."
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BBC admits several scenes in Frozen Planet were NOT shot in the wild as 'faking' row heats up (Daily Mail)
The great climate change gravy train rolls on
Herald Sun (Australia)
"Success! Simply put, they ensured that the great climate gravy train would NOT come to a shuddering stop in Durban. It was given a new head of steam to roll on to Qatar next year and who knows where else right through to at least 2015. They've done themselves and their peer group proud. It's perhaps not well understood just how many billions of dollars and how many probably hundreds of thousands of main-chancers ride that gravy train. It's not just the billions of dollars that have been rescued for the ten thousand-plus people that most prominently ride the climate gravy train from one conference to the next. But in the finest example of real trickle-down in action, all the people who feed off the climate hysteria and inanity beneath them. ......Durban was not so much an exercise in re-arranging the chairs on the Titanic. But ensuring the whisky, champagne and caviar continues to flow for those with a seat on the (very, very long) climate gravy train."
"Success! Simply put, they ensured that the great climate gravy train would NOT come to a shuddering stop in Durban. It was given a new head of steam to roll on to Qatar next year and who knows where else right through to at least 2015. They've done themselves and their peer group proud. It's perhaps not well understood just how many billions of dollars and how many probably hundreds of thousands of main-chancers ride that gravy train. It's not just the billions of dollars that have been rescued for the ten thousand-plus people that most prominently ride the climate gravy train from one conference to the next. But in the finest example of real trickle-down in action, all the people who feed off the climate hysteria and inanity beneath them. ......Durban was not so much an exercise in re-arranging the chairs on the Titanic. But ensuring the whisky, champagne and caviar continues to flow for those with a seat on the (very, very long) climate gravy train."
Dressing up Durban
Andrew Bolt,Herald Sun (Australia)
"A conference that resolves only to decide in four years time what to do in nine years seems a very strange “breakthough”."
"A conference that resolves only to decide in four years time what to do in nine years seems a very strange “breakthough”."
Canada pulls out of Kyoto pact
SMH (Australia)
"Canada's Environment Minister says his country is pulling out of the Kyoto Protocol on climate change. Peter Kent said that Canada was invoking its legal right to withdraw and said Kyoto did not represent the way forward for Canada or the world. Canada, joined by Japan and Russia, said last year it would not accept new Kyoto commitments, but renouncing the accord is another setback to the treaty concluded with much fanfare in 1997. No nation has formally renounced the protocol until now."
"Canada's Environment Minister says his country is pulling out of the Kyoto Protocol on climate change. Peter Kent said that Canada was invoking its legal right to withdraw and said Kyoto did not represent the way forward for Canada or the world. Canada, joined by Japan and Russia, said last year it would not accept new Kyoto commitments, but renouncing the accord is another setback to the treaty concluded with much fanfare in 1997. No nation has formally renounced the protocol until now."
The Wind Power Pipe Dream
Climate Change Dispatch
"Unknown to most Americans is the fact that wind power generation requires 100% backup. To maintain electrical grid capacity, the ability to supply customer demand for continuous electricity, every wind farm must have a backup generating facility. Thus, it is coal-fired, gas-powered, nuclear and hydroelectric power generation that ensures a reliable supply of electricity to consumers.
This means that the backup facility must have twice the real rated capacity of the wind farm. The result is more capital is required to ensure this, along with operating and maintenance costs when a traditional power company is forced to include wind power in its inventory. This is a global phenomenon wherever wind power is part of the mix."
"Unknown to most Americans is the fact that wind power generation requires 100% backup. To maintain electrical grid capacity, the ability to supply customer demand for continuous electricity, every wind farm must have a backup generating facility. Thus, it is coal-fired, gas-powered, nuclear and hydroelectric power generation that ensures a reliable supply of electricity to consumers.
This means that the backup facility must have twice the real rated capacity of the wind farm. The result is more capital is required to ensure this, along with operating and maintenance costs when a traditional power company is forced to include wind power in its inventory. This is a global phenomenon wherever wind power is part of the mix."
Climate scientists: not evil, maybe a bit stupid, definitely in a world all of their own
Telegraph
"The Durban climate conference has been an abject failure. But that hasn't stopped those who were there desperately trying – with all the plausibility of Monty Python's Black Knight – to spin their disaster as though it represents some kind of massive triumph. Among them is a man named Michael Jacobs, formerly climate adviser to Gordon Brown.
In his Guardian column today, Jacobs argues that "the conference that has ended in Durban, South Africa, amid considerable drama, should be regarded as very much a success."
I disagree. And today we met on Sky News to discuss it."
"The Durban climate conference has been an abject failure. But that hasn't stopped those who were there desperately trying – with all the plausibility of Monty Python's Black Knight – to spin their disaster as though it represents some kind of massive triumph. Among them is a man named Michael Jacobs, formerly climate adviser to Gordon Brown.
In his Guardian column today, Jacobs argues that "the conference that has ended in Durban, South Africa, amid considerable drama, should be regarded as very much a success."
I disagree. And today we met on Sky News to discuss it."
Durban failed: Relax, everyone , Only agreement is to keep going to conferences
The Register
"Meanwhile the Green Climate Fund is supposed to find €100bn of cash donations a year to send to developing countries each year by 2020. One wit described this as a plan "to shift wealth from the first world’s poor to the third world’s rich without making any difference in climate control". With developed economies crucified by private and sovereign debt, and the credit system even worse, this was never likely to happen - and Durban didn't see any commitments from anybody to finance the fund."
"Meanwhile the Green Climate Fund is supposed to find €100bn of cash donations a year to send to developing countries each year by 2020. One wit described this as a plan "to shift wealth from the first world’s poor to the third world’s rich without making any difference in climate control". With developed economies crucified by private and sovereign debt, and the credit system even worse, this was never likely to happen - and Durban didn't see any commitments from anybody to finance the fund."
Sunday, 11 December 2011
The BASIC Truth About Durban
GWPF
"The basic truth about Durban, the latest and 17th Feydeau farce passing as serious UN climate talks, is simple: the BASIC countries - Brazil, South Africa, India, and China - played a blinder. They outwitted comprehensively the ever-zealous, naive, and hypocritical EU to ensure that they achieved their fundamental goals, which were to delay any agreement on a replacement for the failing Kyoto Protocol until at least 2015, and any actual action to cut emissions until at least 2020."
(Philip Stott,Emeritus Professor of Biogeography in the University of London)
"The basic truth about Durban, the latest and 17th Feydeau farce passing as serious UN climate talks, is simple: the BASIC countries - Brazil, South Africa, India, and China - played a blinder. They outwitted comprehensively the ever-zealous, naive, and hypocritical EU to ensure that they achieved their fundamental goals, which were to delay any agreement on a replacement for the failing Kyoto Protocol until at least 2015, and any actual action to cut emissions until at least 2020."
(Philip Stott,Emeritus Professor of Biogeography in the University of London)
1,500 accidents and incidents on UK wind farms
Telegraph
"The wind energy industry has admitted that 1,500 accidents and other incidents have taken place on wind farms over the past five years."
"The wind energy industry has admitted that 1,500 accidents and other incidents have taken place on wind farms over the past five years."
Kumi Brings The Good News
WUWT
"A “voluntary deal that’s put off for a decade” that contains a “vital get-out clause”… as a compromise that works for me. The real threat now is the “Green Carbon Fund”.
"A “voluntary deal that’s put off for a decade” that contains a “vital get-out clause”… as a compromise that works for me. The real threat now is the “Green Carbon Fund”.
Greenpeace is right and Combet deceives: Durban was a dud
Andrew Bolt,Herald Sun (Australia)
"The Gillard Government cannot stop lying about the global warming scare. Now it sells failure at Durban as success:"
"The Gillard Government cannot stop lying about the global warming scare. Now it sells failure at Durban as success:"
Saturday, 10 December 2011
The Durban Bible: you pay so they may pray
Andrew Bolt,Herald Sun (Australia)
"This is freaky - and it sure isn’t science. The planet savers at the IPCC summit in Durban - attended by Climate Change Minister Greg Combet - are working on a document that reads in part like the Bible of a new green faith:
Rights of mother earth
74. Ensure respect for the intrinsic laws of nature.
75. The recognition and defence of the rights of Mother Earth to ensure harmony
between humanity and nature, and that their will be no commodification of the functions of
nature, therefore no carbon market will be developed with that purpose.
Who is “Mother Earth”? What are the “intrinsic laws of nature” and who passed them? Why do they need “respect”? What is the “harmony” between “humanity and nature”? Discuss using, say, smallpox as an example. Define “commodification of the functions of nature”. Explain using the example of dams and farms.
And tell us who wrote this garbage and how they go through the door.
Lord Christopher Monckton reads through the rest. Here’s his summary, in an important article that should be read in full: "
"This is freaky - and it sure isn’t science. The planet savers at the IPCC summit in Durban - attended by Climate Change Minister Greg Combet - are working on a document that reads in part like the Bible of a new green faith:
Rights of mother earth
74. Ensure respect for the intrinsic laws of nature.
75. The recognition and defence of the rights of Mother Earth to ensure harmony
between humanity and nature, and that their will be no commodification of the functions of
nature, therefore no carbon market will be developed with that purpose.
Who is “Mother Earth”? What are the “intrinsic laws of nature” and who passed them? Why do they need “respect”? What is the “harmony” between “humanity and nature”? Discuss using, say, smallpox as an example. Define “commodification of the functions of nature”. Explain using the example of dams and farms.
And tell us who wrote this garbage and how they go through the door.
Lord Christopher Monckton reads through the rest. Here’s his summary, in an important article that should be read in full: "
BBC puts the best spin on the failure of the Durban Conference!
Climate Common Sense
"Richard Black the BBC Warmist spinmeister is having awful trouble convincing readers that the Durban Climate hug-fest accomplished anything which of course it didn't"
"Richard Black the BBC Warmist spinmeister is having awful trouble convincing readers that the Durban Climate hug-fest accomplished anything which of course it didn't"
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