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Germany’s Energiewende: A Disaster In The Making
Read moreIn 2012, I had the pleasure of delivering the GWPF annual lecture at the Royal Society. I described the Energiewende of the German government – its plan to transition to a low-carbon energy supply – in the aftermath of the tsunami catastrophe at Fukushima. At that time, Germany’s conservative/liberal government had decided to dismantle 19 […]
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Have A Very Merry Christmas From Everyone At the GWPF
Read moreWishing all our friends, readers and supporters a Merry Christmas and a peaceful New Year from everyone at the GWPF.
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Report Reveals £300 Billion Cost Of Britain’s Climate Change Act
Read moreLondon, 11 December: A new report published today by the Global Warming Policy Foundation reveals the extraordinary £319 billion cost of Britain’s Climate Change Act. The report, which is based entirely on official figures, exposes the mischievous attempts by ministers to try and disguise the true cost to households. “Britain has been gulled by false assurances that […]
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A Brief History Of Arctic Angst
Read moreUntil the noise of a century of media hype and unscientific speculation about the Arctic has been removed from the public debate, science will be unable to explain what, if anything, the signal from the Arctic is telling us. In the last days of the Northern hemisphere’s summer, the sea ice that covers part of […]
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Professor Garth Paltridge Joins GWPF’s Academic Advisory Council
Read moreThe Global Warming Policy Foundation is pleased to announce that Professor Garth W Paltridge has joined the GWPF’s Academic Advisory Council. Dr Paltridge is a an atmospheric physicist and Emeritus Professor at the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies at the University of Tasmania. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science and was a […]
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Science Is In Deep Trouble, New Paper Shows
Read moreLondon 31 October: A new report published by the Global Warming Policy Foundation reveals the extent to which current policy-making is reliant on untrustworthy peer-reviewed research, much of which cannot be replicated and “may be simply untrue”. “Fraudulent research makes it past gatekeepers at even the most prestigious journals,” says Donna Laframboise, the study’s […]
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Matt Ridley: Global Warming Versus Global Greening
Read moreMatt Ridley delivered the 2016 Annual GWPF Lecture at the Royal Society, London 17 October — Full lecture (pdf)
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Peter Lilley Calls On UK Government To Abandon Fatally Flawed Stern Review
Read moreIt 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 […]