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Susan Crockford: Healthy Polar Bears, Less Than Healthy Science
Susan Crockford shows that virtually all of the research reports on polar bears over the last few years have contained good news. Who then is to blame for hyping the “polar bears are dying” meme? Full paper
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Anthony Kelly: Climate Policy And The Poor
This paper aims to show that the measures currently being taken to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide from fossil fuels are directly harming the poor, both in the developing and in the developed world. Energy sources that are not based on fossil fuels make power and food – both of vital importance for the poor – […]
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Philipp Mueller: UK Energy Security: Myth and Reality
Philipp Mueller’s paper shows that open energy markets are a much better way to ensure energy security than intermittent generation systems like wind and solar which risk to undermine the stability and security of the national grid. Full paper
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Nigel Lawson: The Trouble With Climate Change
There is something odd about the global warming debate — or the climate change debate, as we are now expected to call it, since global warming has for the time being come to a halt. Full essay
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Sea-Level Change: Living With Uncertainty
Willem de Lange and Bob Carter provide a succinct summary of the primary scientific issues relevant to devising cost-effective policies regarding sea-level change and show that adaptation is more cost-effective than mitigation. Full report
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Climate Control: Appendix
Climate Control: Appendix
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Technology Introductions In The Context Of Decarbonisation
Professor Michael Kelly (University of Cambridge) shows that most of the ambitions to decarbonise the UK and global economy have not been put through an engineering reality test. Full paper
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Warming Interruptus
Dr Whitehouse reviews 12 speculative causes given for the global warming ‘pause’.
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