According to the latest IPCC report, AR5, the influence of the sun on our climate since pre-industrial times, in terms of radiative forcing, is very small compared to the effect of greenhouse gases. According to some more skeptical scientists such a small solar influence is counterintuitive. The Little Ice Age, the period roughly from 1350 […]

On Wednesday, Britain’s former Environment Secretary the Rt Hon Owen Paterson MP delivered the 2014 Annual GWPF Lecture in London: I would like to thank Lord Lawson and the Global Warming Policy Foundation for inviting me to deliver the annual lecture – an important event in the calendar. As a member of the Cabinet for four years […]

Rt Hon Owen Paterson MP delivered the 2014 Annual GWPF Lecture at the Institute of Mechanical Engineers — full lecture (pdf)

Andrew Montford reviews the scientific literature on rainfall and floods. Full paper (pdf) here

Andrew Montford reviews the scientific literature on rainfall and floods. Full paper (pdf) here

London, 10 October: A new briefing paper from the Global Warming Policy Foundation reviews the scientific literature on rainfall and floods and finds little evidence that there have been significant changes in recent years and little support for claims that they will become worse in future.   Despite claims to the contrary, there has been […]

Abstract: Scientific orthodoxy based on the acquired authority of some scientists has seriously hampered the progress of the natural sciences in the past and continues to do so today because of new societal influences, such as directive funding and political interference in the setting of research objectives. Enhancing the progress of science must continue to […]

This special report by the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society presents assessments of how climate change may have affected the strength and likelihood of individual extreme events.