President Obama’s supporters sometimes complain about the bad hand he was dealt when he came to office. The truth is that history, technology, and plain old luck deal all presidents bad hands – and good ones, too. The test of leadership is how well the hands are played. The President is now looking at some [...]

As long as the European Union is unilaterally pursuing climate goals while other global actors are not following suit, it will suffer consequences in terms of competitiveness, writes Jacek Saryusz-Wolski.  Jacek Saryusz-Wolski is a Polish MEP and vice-president of the European People’s Party (EPP) “Security, sustainability and competitiveness – this trinity determines the goals of [...]

House of Lords, 14 May 2013: My Lords, I agree with every rapid word from my noble friend Lord Prescott, but I wish to focus on the energy section of this debate, bearing in mind the threat of a new Energy Bill. I will concentrate on the Government’s decarbonisation agenda, pursued with little concern for the [...]

The unraveling of the global warming scare continues thanks to several recent important pieces of science news. The alarmists who have hyped fear for decades should be ashamed of themselves. We begin with an analysis of ice cores taken from the Arctic. The samples, according to Scientific American, “show this region used to be a [...]

The latest science suggests that our policy on global warming is hopelessly misguided There is little doubt that the damage being done by climate-change policies currently exceeds the damage being done by climate change, and will for several decades yet. Hunger, rainforest destruction, excess cold-weather deaths and reduced economic growth are all exacerbated by the [...]

Some people believe the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is a small, unified body composed of the best scientists who make proclamations on lots of things. That isn’t really true. The actual IPCC is a tiny UN group, around a dozen people, but the bulk of the data is compiled by unpaid (well, unpaid by the [...]

For a growing number of Europeans, their continent’s global warming policies have forced them to decide whether to heat their homes or buy food. In short they must choose whether to “Heat or Eat,” which was the title of a talk by a British climate policy expert delivered in Calgary Tuesday. Benny Peiser, director of [...]

Viscount Ridley: My Lords, I wish to speak on the subject of energy and, in response to the prominent references in the gracious Speech, on the importance of economic competitiveness. However, as this is my first time speaking in the House, I hope that noble Lords will indulge me in a few preliminary remarks. It [...]