It is now ten years since the publication of the controversial Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change. A new assessment of its evolution and shortcomings published today by the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) comes to a damning verdict. Peter Lilley MP, a former senior UK Minister, and one of only five MPs who voted […]

Science is currently in the grip of a ’reproducibility crisis’ so severe that the editor of a prominent journal has declared that ‘much of the scientific literature, perhaps half, may simply be untrue’. Media coverage declaring that ’science is broken’ has become commonplace. Prior to the 2009 Copenhagen climate summit, Peter Doherty, winner of the […]

In this new paper, the GWPF’s energy editor John Constable shows that governments have underestimated and misled the public about the impact of climate policies on energy-intensive businesses. Full paper (pdf)

China will talk a good game at the UN Climate Conference in Paris but won’t make any legally binding commitments, concludes an important report by Patricia Adams. Full PDF

Forrmer IPCC delegate Dr Indur Goklany calls for a reassessment of carbon dioxide, which he says has many benefits for the natural world and for humankind. Full report

London, 10 February: A new paper by Bernie Lewin and published today by the Global Warming Policy Foundation re-examines the legacy of the father of British climatology Hubert Lamb (1913-1997). After leading and establishing historical climatology during the 1960s, Hubert Lamb became the founding Director of the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East […]

Andrew Montford examines the unintended consequences of climate change policy around the world. Full paper

Willem de Lange and Bob Carter provide a succinct summary of the primary scientific issues relevant to devising cost-effective policies regarding sea-level change and show that adaptation is more cost-effective than mitigation.  Full report here