Utopian thinking is putting the economy at risk says Cambridge professor The UK’s decision to embark on a wholesale decarbonisation of the economy is beset by superficial thinking that ignores engineering reality. That’s according to Professor Michael Kelly, emeritus professor of engineering at the University of Cambridge. At the Annual GWPF Lecture Professor Kelly told […]

A new paper from the Global Warming Policy Foundation looks at how scientists monitor changes in ocean temperature and finds a story of huge uncertainties and surprising findings. For example, while warming might be expected to be fairly uniform, measurements suggest that it is regionalised, with parts of the South Pacific, in particular, warming more than elsewhere.  As […]

A prominent meteorologist has refuted claims that Hurricane Lorenzo, which struck Ireland at the start of the month, was caused by rapid manmade warming of the Atlantic, as has been claimed in some media reports. Professor Ray Bates, a former president of the Irish Meteorological Society, says that an analysis of ocean temperatures and tropical wind […]

Dr Susan Crockford fired for questioning received wisdom. The Global Warming Policy Foundation has condemned Canada’s University of Victoria for suppressing dissenting views on endangered species. Adjunct professor Susan Crockford has lost her adjunct position at the university, apparently because of publicity surrounding her work on polar bears. Dr Crockford, an expert on mammals, has […]

London, 11 October: The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) has called on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to correct serious errors in its recent Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate. In a letter to the IPCC, Dr Benny Peiser, the GWPF’s director, has highlighted a number of errors and […]

Climate hysteria is unjustified The UK’s key climate indicators have barely changed for 20 years. That’s according to a new paper from the Global Warming Policy Foundation, which rebuts claims that the weather is getting worse. According to author Paul Homewood, the Met Office’s Central England Temperature Record shows that temperatures have barely changed in 20 years […]

The 2019 Annual GWPF Lecture will be delivered by Michael J Kelly FRS FREng Emeritus Prince Philip Professor of Technology, University of Cambridge, UK Energy Utopias & Engineering Reality When: Monday 11 November 2019 — 7:00pm Where: One Birdcage Walk, London SW1H 9JJ Attendance is by invitation only

The British public is facing a doubling of electricity prices to bail out new wind farms. That’s according to Professor Gordon Hughes of Edinburgh University, who has analysed the latest data for wind farms coming on stream in the next few years. “A number of large wind farms have contracts to supply power at extraordinarily […]