Britons No Longer So Keen On Being Green
Public concern about climate change is on the wane. The number of people willing to alter the way they live in the hope of making a difference to global warming fell by around 10 per cent last year. There was also a sharp drop in those who regarded themselves as ‘fairly concerned’ about climate change.The figures, released by the...
Green Disaster: More Subsidised Bankruptcies
Ener1 Inc., which owns a company that received a $118 million U.S. Energy Department grant to make electric-car batteries, filed for bankruptcy protection after defaulting on bond debt amid Asian competition.The company listed assets of $73.9 million and debt of $90.5 million as of Dec. 31 in Chapter 11 papers filed today in U.S. Bankruptcy...
Peter Foster: Obama Loves Oil — Not!
Nothing more clearly indicates U.S. President Barack Obama’s economic muddledom and ideological stubbornness than the dog’s breakfast of energy policies revealed in Tuesday’s State of the Union address. The good news is that hydrocarbons are back (as long as you forget Keystone XL). The bad news is that “clean” energy isn’t going...Tory MPs Urge Cameron To Cut Subsidies For Windfarms
DAVID Cameron is under fresh pressure from his own backbenchers to slash subsidies for controversial onshore wind farms. Dozens of Tory MPs are joining forces in a new group pressing for the Government to review funding for a technology they argue does “more harm than good”.Selby and Ainsty MP Nigel Adams, one of those who attended the...
2011 Global Temperature: Outside The Top 10
Data for the three main surface global annual average temperature datasets are now available for 2011.HadCrut3
According to (one of the ) HadCrut3 databases 2011 was the 12th warmest year, with a temperature anomaly of 0.342, behind 2010, 2009, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 1998 and 1997.
The rating for the individual months...
Did The Government Invent The Shale Gas Revolution?
One of the nation’s important energy analysts is Michael Giberson, an economist at the Center for Energy Commerce in the Rawls College of Business at Texas Tech University. Giberson, who has occasionally posted at MasterResource, teaches energy courses at Tech such as U.S. Energy Policy and Regulation and Energy Economics.Giberson is...
Steve McIntyre: Another IPCC Demand For Secrecy
Unfortunately, IPCC seems far more concerned about secrecy than in requiring its contributors to archive data. I received another request to remove discussion of IPCC draft reports. On this issue, David Appell and I are in full agreement – see David Appell’s collection of ZOD chapters here.IPCC’s most recent request was as follows:From...
