The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) has today filed a complaint to the BBC, accusing Sir David Attenborough of misleading the public about the state of polar bear populations in Canada. Misleading news coverage (Daily Mail) In last night’s wildlife TV series Seven Worlds, One Planet David Attenborough and the BBC once again misled the public in […]

The Australian author, poet journalist and humorist Clive James has died, aged 80. We republish his GWPF Essay Mass Death Dies Hard in his memory. Imminent Catastrophe The imminent catastrophe goes onNot showing many signs of happening.The ice at the North Pole that should be goneBy now, is awkwardly still lingering,And though sometimes the weather […]

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 […]