The Unknown Skeptic – An Essay On “Poles Apart”
Saturday, 04 February 2012 10:04
Maurizio Morabito
Introduction“This is a wide-ranging comparative study about the prevalence of climate skeptic voices in the print media in six countries: Brazil, China, France, India, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America.”
That is the opening line of “Poles Apart: The International Reporting of Climate skepticism“ a report written by a...
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Robert Bryce: Wind Turbines & Noise Pollution
Friday, 03 February 2012 12:57
Robert Bryce, National Review
Canadian regulators have stated, on the record, that wind-turbine noise can harm human beings if turbines are built too close to homes.
In his State of the Union address last week, President Barack Obama touted renewable energy and declared that he would “not walk away from workers” such as Bryan Ritterby, who is employed by a wind-turbine...
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Nobel Laureate On Temperature Trend
Friday, 03 February 2012 09:38
Andrew Montford, Bishop Hill
Andrew Revkin posts what I have to say is an astonishingly fatuous letter from Nobel laureate Burton Richter in response to the letter of the 16 in the Wall Street Journal.
Armed with my own Nobel Medal, I say if you can read a graph, the evidence is indeed incontrovertible because the temperature has gone up. The Physical Society is right, he...
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Roger Helmer MEP: Climate Alarmism Is Falling Out Of Favour In The Rest Of The World - But Europe Hasn't Noticed
Wednesday, 01 February 2012 12:32
Roger Helmer, MEP
We might as well hang up a sign in the airports: "Closed for Business". While EU leaders pontificate about prioritising growth and jobs, we have climate mitigation policies in place that massively raise energy costs and force industries, companies, jobs and investment out of the EU altogether. In the name of environmentalism, we force them to...
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Shale Gas Economics For Beginners
Wednesday, 01 February 2012 00:13
Lynne Kiesling, Knowledge Problem
Ken Silverstein has a good article in Forbes on the business prospects for shale gas developers (and I’m glad to see him there, having followed his work for a very long time). Since he asks in the title whether low shale gas prices are a mirage, I think it’s useful to go through the underlying economic analysis that’s embedded in his...
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Germany's Top Environmentalist Turns Climate Sceptic
Monday, 30 January 2012 20:19
P Gosselin – NoTricksZone
Fritz Vahrenholt, one of the fathers of Germany's environmental movement, no longer trusts the forecasts of the IPCC. Doubt came two years ago when he was an expert reviewer of an IPCC report on renewable energy. "I discovered numerous errors and asked myself if the other IPCC reports on climate change were similarly sloppy. I couldn’t take it...
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Andrew Montford: A Rose On Winter
Monday, 30 January 2012 13:19
Andrew Montford, Bishop Hill
Over the weekend there was quite a lot of interest in David Rose's article in the Mail, which addressed new figures from the Met Office which appeared to confirm a lack of any warming in the last 15 years.
The supposed ‘consensus’ on man-made global warming is facing an inconvenient challenge after the release of new temperature data...
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Sir David King: 'Peak Oil' Scare Can Save Climate Campaign
Sunday, 29 January 2012 07:06
Al Fin Energy
Are Arguments for Peak Oil Doom Scraping the Bottom of the Barrel? That's what CFR Fellow Michael Levi says in a recent blog post. Levi addresses a recent editorial in Nature claiming that peak oil production has already passed, and that peak oil is already upon us.
Levi demonstrates outright mistakes, mischaracterisations, and shifty reasoning...
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Green Energy: The Auditor Isn’t Impressed
Saturday, 28 January 2012 10:00
Donna Lamframboise, No Frakking consensus
There’s too much to read, and too little time. But anyone who has an hour or so could learn a great deal about the alarming gap between wishful green thinking and stark reality by examining a couple of documents produced here, in my home province of Ontario, Canada.
We have an amazing institution known as the office of the Auditor General...
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