Christopher Booker, Telegraph
" An extraordinary picture of the state of our public life has come to light in recent days, in accounts of the involvement of some of our most senior politicians in the vast, lucrative and expanding industry of “renewable energy”.
At the centre of the picture is David Cameron, who last month nominated Lord Deben (formerly John Gummer) as the new chairman of the influential and supposedly “independent” Committee on Climate Change, set up to advise government on energy policy under the Climate Change Act. This is despite the fact that Lord Deben’s array of environmental business interests includes chairmanship of Forewind Ltd, a consortium of four energy firms planning the world’s largest, and most heavily subsidised, offshore wind farm in the North Sea."
Sunday, 26 August 2012
Friday, 24 August 2012
The Maldives Emily Littella sea level moment – never mind…
WUWT
"....Follow the money, find the lies. It was never about sea level, or climate refugees, or disappearing islands…it is all about wealth transfer. Whine loud enough to the U.N. that those other big meanie countries are making the sea rise, and they’ll toss money your way. Say it too much, and the investors stay away.
Liars, liars, liars all."
"....Follow the money, find the lies. It was never about sea level, or climate refugees, or disappearing islands…it is all about wealth transfer. Whine loud enough to the U.N. that those other big meanie countries are making the sea rise, and they’ll toss money your way. Say it too much, and the investors stay away.
Liars, liars, liars all."
It's fascinating to take a detailed look at what Time mag told us about global cooling in 1974
Tom Nelson
"It's fascinating to take a detailed look at what Time mag told us about global cooling in 1974: It's been happening for three decades; it shows no signs of reversing; it's causing bizarre and unpredictable weather, including drought in Africa; it may be caused by fuel burning, it could be catastrophic for food supplies, etc"
"It's fascinating to take a detailed look at what Time mag told us about global cooling in 1974: It's been happening for three decades; it shows no signs of reversing; it's causing bizarre and unpredictable weather, including drought in Africa; it may be caused by fuel burning, it could be catastrophic for food supplies, etc"
Thursday, 23 August 2012
Make your own Michael Mann hockey stick at home
Wednesday, 22 August 2012
See you in court
Bishop Hill
"In respect of the Scottish Government's target based renewable energy programme, a serious complaint has been filed to hold both the UK and the Scottish Government to account via the United Nations. It should be appreciated that both the EU and the UK are now being held to account by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe in respect of their non-compliance with the Aarhus Convention."
"In respect of the Scottish Government's target based renewable energy programme, a serious complaint has been filed to hold both the UK and the Scottish Government to account via the United Nations. It should be appreciated that both the EU and the UK are now being held to account by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe in respect of their non-compliance with the Aarhus Convention."
Tuesday, 21 August 2012
New paper finds no evidence of increased humidity in US, contradicts global warming theory
The Hockey Schtick
"A paper published today in the Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology finds, contrary to global warming theory, that "little change has occurred in dewpoint and specific humidity" in the U.S. over the 80 year period from 1930 to 2010. The paper also finds "trends in relative humidity show little change for the period 1947 – 2010." Thus, the paper contradicts the theory of a runaway greenhouse effect allegedly due to positive feedback from increased atmospheric water vapor and specific humidity.
Related: NASA keeps mum on data that could disprove anthropogenic global warming theory"
"A paper published today in the Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology finds, contrary to global warming theory, that "little change has occurred in dewpoint and specific humidity" in the U.S. over the 80 year period from 1930 to 2010. The paper also finds "trends in relative humidity show little change for the period 1947 – 2010." Thus, the paper contradicts the theory of a runaway greenhouse effect allegedly due to positive feedback from increased atmospheric water vapor and specific humidity.
Related: NASA keeps mum on data that could disprove anthropogenic global warming theory"
Monday, 20 August 2012
Sorry we didn't mention the storms, says the BBC: Weatherman apologises on air after predicting sun and ignoring official forecasts of rain
Daily Mail
"If you thought the weather forecast was too good to be true, you were probably right. The BBC has been forced to apologise on air for ignoring official weather predictions and forecasting sun when rain was on the way. Forecasters stuck to their own assessment of the weather and disregarded stormy warnings from the Met Office – and as a result, many viewers were caught unawares when the heavens opened in parts of the country yesterday."
"If you thought the weather forecast was too good to be true, you were probably right. The BBC has been forced to apologise on air for ignoring official weather predictions and forecasting sun when rain was on the way. Forecasters stuck to their own assessment of the weather and disregarded stormy warnings from the Met Office – and as a result, many viewers were caught unawares when the heavens opened in parts of the country yesterday."
Saturday, 18 August 2012
Queen of Climate Consensus,
Quadrant Online (Australia)
"There is another mystery. How did a US geologist working with Western Mining Corporation in South Australia, a co-author of esoteric papers - from the origin of LREE-enriched hematite breccias at the Olympic Dam Cu-U-Au-Ag deposit to the oxygen isotope composition of Chilean El Laco magnetite - transform herself into a credible climate change alarmist in less than a decade? How, indeed?"
"There is another mystery. How did a US geologist working with Western Mining Corporation in South Australia, a co-author of esoteric papers - from the origin of LREE-enriched hematite breccias at the Olympic Dam Cu-U-Au-Ag deposit to the oxygen isotope composition of Chilean El Laco magnetite - transform herself into a credible climate change alarmist in less than a decade? How, indeed?"
A chair for the wind tycoon
Christopher Booker,Telegraph
" Last week, I mentioned the curious fact that Tim Yeo MP serves as chairman of the Commons Select Committee on Energy and Climate Change while earning more than £140,000 a year working for firms that make money out of “green” energy. In the days that followed, everyone seemed to be piling in on this, with calls for Mr Yeo to resign. Perhaps they should also turn their attention to the role of John Gummer, now Lord Deben (right), nominated by David Cameron to be the new chairman of the Committee on Climate Change, set up under the Climate Change Act to advise on climate and energy policy.
The committee is described as “independent”, but it is packed with global-warming zealots, such as Lord May, the former president of the Royal Society, who turned it into a campaigning body on the issue. Lord Deben himself is chairman of Forewind, an international consortium planning to build the world’s largest offshore wind farm in the North Sea, and also president of Globe International, a body which co-ordinates responses to global warming by politicians across the world. (His predecessors in the post include Elliot Morley, before he was imprisoned for fiddling parliamentary expenses, and Stephen Byers, the former minister who was seen in a television documentary claiming that, as a lobbyist, he was now “a cab for hire”.)
Lord Deben still has to be confirmed as a suitable chairman for the Committee on Climate Change. But since the final say on this rests with Mr Yeo’s committee, one suspects that a possible conflict of interests will not prove an obstacle."
" Last week, I mentioned the curious fact that Tim Yeo MP serves as chairman of the Commons Select Committee on Energy and Climate Change while earning more than £140,000 a year working for firms that make money out of “green” energy. In the days that followed, everyone seemed to be piling in on this, with calls for Mr Yeo to resign. Perhaps they should also turn their attention to the role of John Gummer, now Lord Deben (right), nominated by David Cameron to be the new chairman of the Committee on Climate Change, set up under the Climate Change Act to advise on climate and energy policy.
The committee is described as “independent”, but it is packed with global-warming zealots, such as Lord May, the former president of the Royal Society, who turned it into a campaigning body on the issue. Lord Deben himself is chairman of Forewind, an international consortium planning to build the world’s largest offshore wind farm in the North Sea, and also president of Globe International, a body which co-ordinates responses to global warming by politicians across the world. (His predecessors in the post include Elliot Morley, before he was imprisoned for fiddling parliamentary expenses, and Stephen Byers, the former minister who was seen in a television documentary claiming that, as a lobbyist, he was now “a cab for hire”.)
Lord Deben still has to be confirmed as a suitable chairman for the Committee on Climate Change. But since the final say on this rests with Mr Yeo’s committee, one suspects that a possible conflict of interests will not prove an obstacle."
Friday, 17 August 2012
Climate policy crippled by pointless feel-good gestures
The Register
""The entire rationale of policy in US and Europe has been to ignore what's happening in China and India and hope that petty acts of virtuous behaviour in both countries will cure the problem," he said. "Even if you install windmills you're not going to change the trend of overall CO2 emissions."
""The entire rationale of policy in US and Europe has been to ignore what's happening in China and India and hope that petty acts of virtuous behaviour in both countries will cure the problem," he said. "Even if you install windmills you're not going to change the trend of overall CO2 emissions."
German National Weather Service: “No Significant Trend To More Drought In Europe…Dryness La Niña -Related”
NoTricksZone
"The DWD posted 2 days ago an unusually level-headed, sober expert report on what’s behind the dry period that Europe has been experiencing over the last 2 year and half. Their findings are a real cold water deluge on all the alarmist claims we’ve been hearing in the media over the last weeks. The DWD’s conclusion: “There’s no long-term significant trend. The suspect is a two-year La Niña impact in connection with a positive North Atlantic Oscillation”.
"The DWD posted 2 days ago an unusually level-headed, sober expert report on what’s behind the dry period that Europe has been experiencing over the last 2 year and half. Their findings are a real cold water deluge on all the alarmist claims we’ve been hearing in the media over the last weeks. The DWD’s conclusion: “There’s no long-term significant trend. The suspect is a two-year La Niña impact in connection with a positive North Atlantic Oscillation”.
Tuesday, 14 August 2012
US Biofuel Production Should Be Suspended, UN Says
Climate Change Dispatch
"The United Nations (UN) food agency has called on the United States to suspend its production of biofuel ethanol. Under US law, 40% of the corn harvest must be used to make biofuel, a quota which the UN says could contribute to a food crisis around the world. A drought and heatwave across the US has destroyed much of the country's corn crop, driving up prices. The US argues that producing much of its own fuel, rather than importing it, is good for the country. --BBC News, 10 August 2012"
"The United Nations (UN) food agency has called on the United States to suspend its production of biofuel ethanol. Under US law, 40% of the corn harvest must be used to make biofuel, a quota which the UN says could contribute to a food crisis around the world. A drought and heatwave across the US has destroyed much of the country's corn crop, driving up prices. The US argues that producing much of its own fuel, rather than importing it, is good for the country. --BBC News, 10 August 2012"
Monday, 13 August 2012
Drought is not a Global Warming sign
E M Smith
"As usual, the Global Warmers have used their religious zeal to attach causality for a natural disaster to “Global Warming”. The two are quite unconnected and even less connected to anything done by humans. How can we know this? Because of all the history of prior, much larger, droughts."
"As usual, the Global Warmers have used their religious zeal to attach causality for a natural disaster to “Global Warming”. The two are quite unconnected and even less connected to anything done by humans. How can we know this? Because of all the history of prior, much larger, droughts."
Another paper fails to find a human fingerprint on climate
The Hockey Schtick
"A paper published today in the International Journal of Climatology finds "that the atmospheric pressure in the early [Arctic] instrumental period [from 1801 to 1920] was not significantly different to that of the present day." Climate models, however, predict a 'human fingerprint' of decreased Arctic atmospheric pressures due to alleged warming from increased greenhouse gases. Once again, the climate models fly in the face of real-world contradictory observations."
"A paper published today in the International Journal of Climatology finds "that the atmospheric pressure in the early [Arctic] instrumental period [from 1801 to 1920] was not significantly different to that of the present day." Climate models, however, predict a 'human fingerprint' of decreased Arctic atmospheric pressures due to alleged warming from increased greenhouse gases. Once again, the climate models fly in the face of real-world contradictory observations."
Saturday, 11 August 2012
The great wind delusion has hijacked our energy policy
Christopher Booker,Telegraph
"At one point last week, Britain’s 3,500 turbines were contributing 12 megawatts (MW) to the 38,000MW of electricity we were using. (The Neta website, which carries official electricity statistics, registered this as “0.0 per cent”).
It is 10 years since I first pointed out here how crazy it is to centre our energy policy on wind. It was pure wishful thinking then and is even more obviously so now, when the Government in its latest energy statement talks of providing, on average, 12,300MW of power from “renewables” by 2020.
Everything about this is delusional. There is no way we could hope to build more than a fraction of the 30,000 turbines required. As the windless days last week showed, we would have to build dozens of gas-fired power stations just to provide back-up for all the times when the wind is not blowing at the right speed. But, as more and more informed observers have been pointing out, the ministers and officials of the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) seem to live in a bubble of unreality, without any practical grasp of how electricity is made, impervious to rational argument and driven by an obsession that can only end in our computer-dependent economy grinding to a halt." -------------------------------------
ED: http://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/
"At one point last week, Britain’s 3,500 turbines were contributing 12 megawatts (MW) to the 38,000MW of electricity we were using. (The Neta website, which carries official electricity statistics, registered this as “0.0 per cent”).
It is 10 years since I first pointed out here how crazy it is to centre our energy policy on wind. It was pure wishful thinking then and is even more obviously so now, when the Government in its latest energy statement talks of providing, on average, 12,300MW of power from “renewables” by 2020.
Everything about this is delusional. There is no way we could hope to build more than a fraction of the 30,000 turbines required. As the windless days last week showed, we would have to build dozens of gas-fired power stations just to provide back-up for all the times when the wind is not blowing at the right speed. But, as more and more informed observers have been pointing out, the ministers and officials of the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) seem to live in a bubble of unreality, without any practical grasp of how electricity is made, impervious to rational argument and driven by an obsession that can only end in our computer-dependent economy grinding to a halt." -------------------------------------
ED: http://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/
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