Category Archives: Climate Change

The European Renewable Energy Council is taxpayer-funded

By scrubber | Published: June 20, 2011
In my blog yesterday I referred to a posting by Christopher Booker and included a quote from it which in turn included the following: “It was based solely on a paper co-authored last year by an employee of Greenpeace International and something called the European Renewable Energy Council. This Brussels-based body, heavily funded by the [...]
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IPCC caught out again

By scrubber | Published: June 19, 2011
The current furore surrounding the IPCC’s latest report on the potential of renewable energy has been extensively covered in the MSM and on the blogosphere. The interesting part is the almost universally uncritical reporting in the MSM, and the virtually total opposite on the blogosphere. The reason for the latter is simple: As James Delingpole observes, [...]
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EU plans to ban all petrol and diesel cars from cities

By scrubber | Published: April 1, 2011
So, the question is, are the loonies in charge of the asylum? In a crystal-clear example of why the political obsession with AGW is dangerous, EU Transport Commissioner Siim Kallas, unveiling plans adopted by the Commission on Monday for a ‘Single European Transport Area’, has decreed that in order to to save the planet, the EU’s [...]
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BBC’s biased reporting of Global Warming

By scrubber | Published: January 17, 2011
Here’s the intro: watch it, then the follow-up to add to your knowledge of our climate (on the follow-up, you can scroll on in the first over the intro for, say, 3 mins)… And while you’re at it, ponder on whether or not we are being played like fish by those amongst us with a [...]
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Food Court choir

By scrubber | Published: December 6, 2010
Hat tip here to Christopher Booker for a link at the bottom of this excellent article: Only in America… As the man said, go full screen and turn the sound up. Enjoy! Wikio Wikio
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Nobody told the swans about AGW…

By scrubber | Published: October 20, 2010
Well folks, you can forget the nice warm winter the ecotards have been promising us: it’s going to be a seriously cold one… This year the Bewick swans have started to arrive at the Slimbridge Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust reserve in Gloucestershire three weeks earlier than last year, which in itself was earlier than usual, making [...]
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Ecotards overstep the mark again.

By scrubber | Published: October 2, 2010
I hardly know where to begin with this one. I think I’ll work backwards on it, and start with the 10:10 website. 10:10? Who he? No, I hadn’t heard of it either. It seems that the 10th of October is going to be a “Day of doing”. The aim, apparently, is “Cutting carbon 10% at a [...]
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Suffering from election fatigue?

By DiamondGeezer | Published: April 28, 2010
I think I probably am, but not in the ways you might immediately think. In this era of media- and spin-led politics, we are seemingly interminably subjected to a constant barrage of soundbites, ‘news’, glad-handing, palm-pressing, baby-kissing and any other inconsequential drivel that our political classes and their sycophants in the media care to inflict upon [...]
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Sky News’ April Fool. A bit weak this year…

By scrubber | Published: April 1, 2010
I’ve been watching the media today looking for the usual April Fool stuff. There’ve been a couple of half-decent ones (especially this one), but the one on Sky News wasn’t up to much this year. They’ve been claiming that petrol is now £1.20 a litre, road tax has doubled (up to £950 a year) on some [...]
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Nigel Farage explains UKIP’s manifesto on the BBC

By scrubber | Published: March 29, 2010
There’s only a small clip (4m:55) of this programme on the BBC website, but the full programme can be seen on Monday 29th March 2010 on BBC World News at 03:30, 08:30, 15:30, 20:30 GMT, and on the BBC News Channel at 04.30 and 23.30 BST. Watching this, I was struck by two things… Firstly, why [...]
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