Dr Whitehouse reviews 12 speculative causes given for the global warming ‘pause’.

The outgoing European Commission has recent proposed new EU-wide CO2 emissions and renewables targets for 2030 which will be discussed by the European Council in the next 12 months. There is no certainty that the targets will be adopted or will remain as stringent as currently proposed. This uncertainty has significant implications for UK climate policy. […]

A debate about the geological perspective of global warming between Robert Carter, Vincent Courtillot and Colin P. Summerhayes. Full report

Dr Madhav Khandekar examines several recent extreme weather events and discusses them the context of the ongoing climate debate. Full report.

Andrew Montford reveals a significant problem in the UK’s official UKCP09 climate predictions. Full report.

Andrew Montford reviews the Cook et al. survey and concludes that its so-called global warming consensus is so broad that it is virtually meaningless. Full Note

Andrew Montford’s written evidence to the Parliamentary Science and Technology Committee Inquiry on Climate – Public Understanding And Policy Implications is available here

This year marks the 40th anniversary of the signing of an international agreement to protect polar bears from commercial and unregulated sport hunting. The devastating decades of uncontrolled slaughter across the Arctic, including the Bering Sea, finally came to an end. And so in honour of the International Polar Bear Day (27 February) – and because some […]