After Huhne: Will Ed Davey Be More 'Pragmatic'?
New Energy Secretary expected to take less aggressive approach to cutting emissions
Ed Davey, the new Energy and Climate Change Secretary, is under pressure from Conservative colleagues to kick expensive green policies into the long grass.
Senior Tories hope Mr Davey, who is seen as more pro-business than Chris Huhne, will adopt...
Britain Rebuffed: Poland Rejects New Unilateral Carbon Targets
"What the Chancellor has said is that the UK should not go faster or slower than elsewhere in Europe. That's precisely why we want to move to 30% with the EU together so that no European country is penalised for acting alone." --Chris Huhne to Lord Lawson, 18 January 2012Poland Rejects New Unilateral Carbon Targets
A potential European...
The Next Energy & Climate Change Minister Must Learn From Chris Huhne's Successes And Failures
Never has a Lib Dem away-day received so much media attention. Rolling news cameras are currently showing absolutely fascinating footage of… a door somewhere in Eastbourne. It doesn't seem to be opening or closing very much, but presumably behind it Chris Huhne's political career is being weighted in the balance……Ah, he's now...
Now Even China Cuts Green Subsidies
China, the world’s biggest producer of solar panels, cut subsidies for demonstration sun-power projects approved in 2011 and this year after the cost of components declined.The government reduced the subsidy for projects approved last year by 11 per cent to 8 yuan ($1.3) a watt, the Ministry of Finance said in a statement yesterday. It will...
The Mail on Sunday, the Met Office and the Temperature Standstill
On January 29th David Rose wrote an article in the Mail on Sunday showing a graph of annual average global temperatures since 1997 according to the most commonly used version of the HadCrut3 database.Fig 1. Click on image to enlarge.
It showed no increase in temperature. It has been often stated that there has been no statistically...
U.S. Meteorologists Split On Anthropogenic Global Warming
Only 19 percent of U.S. meteorologists saw human influences as the sole driver of climate change in a 2011 survey.You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.
But weather forecasters, many of whom see climate change as a natural, cyclical phenomenon, are split over whether they have a responsibility to educate their viewers...
Villagers Scramble For Fuel In Europe's Big Chill
FARKASLYUK, Hungary, Feb 2 (Reuters) - Hungarian villagers were scavenging for coal with their bare hands on Thursday as a blast of Siberian air killed scores in Eastern Europe and looked set to keep its icy grip on the continent for another week.At least 139 people have died across Eastern Europe and Germany since the cold snap began...
The Unknown Skeptic – An Essay On “Poles Apart”
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...
