Category Archives: Climate Change

France rejects ‘Green Taxes’.

By scrubber | Published: March 25, 2010
Once more, France puts our own leaders to shame by putting France first, and adopting a realistic view of the world. Reported in the Daily Mail yesterday, and little publicised as far as I’ve seen, French Prime Minister Francois Fillon told a meeting of MPs in Parliament that the priority for the country was getting [...]
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Advertising Standards Authority: Miliband’s climate change advert was propaganda

By scrubber | Published: March 17, 2010
We covered the run-up to this back in November when the “drowning dog” video first came to our attention, but now, finally, the ASA has decided which adverts in the £6m campaign were “misleading”. Bizarrely, the video we referred to in our report, and which incensed me for its transparent aim of planting propaganda in [...]
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Head of ‘Climategate’ research unit admits withholding data about global temperatures

By scrubber | Published: March 2, 2010
Today’s Daily Mail, a long-time champion of transparency in the self-inflicted CRU’s Global Warming furore, has reported on Professor Phil Jones’ appearance before the Parliamentary Science and Technology Committee inquiry yesterday. Described as pale and shaky, Prof. Jones, erstwhile Head of the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit which was at the centre of the [...]
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Cameron and the CFP

By scrubber | Published: January 8, 2010
I’m indebted to a tweet for this one from James Delingpole. Here’s the final paragraph: “I’m afraid it’s precisely this kind of spinelessness which explains why some of us find it so hard to be enthusiastic about the prospects of a Cameron administration.” I mostly go along with JD, and this is no exception. I’m a life-long Tory, [...]
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The snow isn’t real – it’s all in your head, honest

By DiamondGeezer | Published: January 6, 2010
Felt that I just had to post this article from the Independent I have just been sent. In all honesty, I think it probably speaks for itself. Lovely to see that the rigorously-researched and infallible scientific orthodoxy of AGW stands up to the test of time so well, though. Wikio Wikio
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The Cloud Mystery

By scrubber | Published: December 22, 2009
Henrik Svensmark is a Danish scientist who studies the effects of cosmic rays on cloud formation. The Wikipedia link offers a pretty full explanation of what he has done. The following (unauthorised, from youtube, 60 minutes worth of) videos comprise a documentary entitled The Cloud Mystery, which premiered in January 2008 on Danish TV 2, about [...]
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Climategate story cuts deeper as Russians confirm data could be manipulated by UK scientists.

By Jackal | Published: December 16, 2009
We had a feeling that the CRU leaked e-mails were the tip of the iceberg for the AGW scam, but this evening James Delingpole who has been covering the debate on the Telegraph has picked up on a blog by Richard North. It details a news release whereby the Russian IEA (Institute of Economic Analysis) are [...]
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Copenhagen Climate Summit stalls just as Ed Miliband calls for more action..

By Jackal | Published: December 15, 2009
Yesterday morning it was announced that the G77 group of developing countries pulled out of the talks over a disagreement with the existing Kyoto framework that runs to 2012 and a switch to an EU and developed nations proposal of an entirely new agreement. Around the same time Climate Change Secretary Ed Miliband had expressed his [...]
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Professor Ian Plimer on Climate Change

By scrubber | Published: December 9, 2009
A hat-tip here to a blogger known as “grandsmalls” who linked to this video from one of Daniel Hannan’s blogs on the DT. Anyone who has been following the AGW debate will have heard of Ian Plimer who is an Australian geologist, academic and businessman. He is particularly animated by the concept of a scientific consensus [...]
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Lord Stern says climate change sceptics are “muddled”

By scrubber | Published: December 1, 2009
Hot on the heels of climategate, Lord Stern has labelled the views of AGW sceptics as ”muddled and unscientific”. On top of today’s ludicrous article in the Telegraph by the preposterous Mary Riddell, this is taking the biscuit. Lord Stern, an economist, purports to lecture us, we who have witnessed climategate in recent days, on scepticism [...]
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