The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) has had considerable success in getting their point of view across much of the media. They have been extensively quoted in the print media of all political colours. The main findings from the study of ten UK national newspapers can be summarised thus: [...] The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) has been particularly successful in getting its views reported across most of the 10 UK newspapers. --James Painter,
Poles Apart: the International Reporting of Climate Scepticism, University of Oxford, Reuters Institute for the study of Journalism, November 2011
Twenty-year-old models which have suggested serious ice loss in the eastern Antarctic have been compared with reality for the first time - and found to be wrong, so much so that it now appears that no ice is being lost at all. “It turns out that past studies, which were based on computer models without any direct data for comparison or guidance, overestimate the water temperatures and extent of melting beneath the Fimbul Ice Shelf. This has led to the misconception, Hattermann said, that the ice shelf is losing mass at a faster rate than it is gaining mass, leading to an overall loss of mass. The team’s results show that water temperatures are far lower than computer models predicted.” --Lewis Page,
The Register, 25 June
The great global warming scare has long been dying on its feet, but that sad fiasco of a conference in Rio last week saw it finally dead and buried. “It’s pathetic, it’s appalling,” wailed a spokesman for WWF, one of the thousands of green activists who flew to Rio, many at taxpayers’ expense, to see the last rites read over their lost dream. But the “epic failure” of Rio, as Friends of the Earth called it, is an apt cue to recall how this leaves Britain as the only country in the world committed by law to cut its emissions of carbon dioxide by 80 per cent in less than 40 years. The Climate Change Act, on the Government’s own figures, faces us with a bill of up to £18 billion every year until 2050, making it by far the most costly law ever passed by Parliament. --Christopher Booker,
The Sunday Telegraph, 24 June 2012
Britain’s chemical industry will be damaged if the government presses ahead with a carbon floor price even if other countries do not, the chemical industry’s trade body has warned. “If we get too far ahead of the pack and introduce measures which raise energy costs to the extent that Britain becomes uncompetitive, investment will just go elsewhere and the industry will wither” said Alan Eastwood, economic adviser to the Chemical Industries Association. Unless other countries inside and outside Europe adopted similar policies, he added, the government should “postpone or scrap” the carbon floor price. --James Shotter,
Financial Times, 25 June 2012[Registration Required]
Rio+20 rejected calls by green NGOs to endorse green economics and restated the need for an open global system of free trade. The message was that global environmental problems must be tackled in ways that promote growth, trade and business. The intellectual hegemony of maverick Western NGOs is well and truly over – and that is great news for jobs and growth. --Alan Oxley,
City A.M., 25 June 2012
Read the final draft of the Rio+20 conference. You will be astonished by its utter vacuity. It is 49 pages of pap, expressing nothing but platitudes and mawkish sentimentality, with a dose of health-spa green religion. Just check out this cheap New Age green mysticism in the final draft. Dear God. The Greens at prayer. Break open another box of Green Ritual Organic Incense Sticks. -–Andrew Bolt,
Herald Sun, 22 June 2012
Hundreds of miles of giant electricity pylon lines are planned to be driven through some of Britain’s finest landscape — including at least two national parks — to serve the growing wind farm industry. Among the most damaging is a proposed link through Snowdonia National Park, running from Dinorwig on the Menai Strait to Ffestiniog. --Andrew Gilligan,
The Sunday Telegraph, 24 June 2012
