Britain’s Green Economy: 15 Landowners To Receive £850 Million In Wind Subsidies
By Online Monday, February 13, 2012
Analysis of UK wind farms shows that the 15 biggest owners will between them receive almost £850 million in subsidies that are added on to household electricity bills. It comes after the disclosure last week that 101 Tory backbench MPs had written a letter to David Cameron demanding he slash the subsidies. The Renewable Energy Foundation (REF) expects the total consumer subsidy paid out by 2030 to amount to a staggering £130 billion.—Robert Mendick, and Edward Malnick, The Sunday Telegraph, 12 February 2012
Nullius in Verba: The Royal Society and Climate ChangeBy Online Thursday, February 9, 2012
Andrew Montford provides a straightforward and unembellished chronology of the perversion not only of The Royal Society but of science itself, wherein the legitimate role of science as a powerful mode of inquiry is replaced by the pretence of science to a position of political authority.—Richard Lindzen (MIT), Foreword to Andrew Montford’s Nullius in Verba: The Royal Society and Climate Change
Little Green MoronsBy Alan Caruba Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Michael Brune, the Executive Director of the Sierra Club, holds degrees in economics and finance from West Chester University in Pennsylvania. He is the author of “Coming Clean—Breaking America’s Addiction to Oil and Coal”, published in 2008 by the Sierra Club.
Global Warming Engine Unexpectedly SlowsBy Online Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Preliminary reports from the Energy Information Administration’s “Annual Energy Outlook” (which will be fully published in April) suggest that any carbon crisis may not be quite as imminent as thought. Not so long ago, the EIA predicted [US] carbon emissions levels would rise by 37 percent between 2005 and 2025. The EIA — get this – now thinks that [US] CO2 emissions in 2025 will be 6 percent lower than they were in 2005. The difference between 37 percent growth and 6 percent decline is 43 percent. That is about the level of accuracy you could expect from a blind monkey throwing darts at a wall.—Walter Russell Mead, Via Meadia, 3 February 2012
100 British MPs Revolt Over Wind Farm Subsidies
By Online Monday, February 6, 2012
David Cameron has been hit by a major protest by Conservative MPs over the Government’s backing for wind farms, The Sunday Telegraph can disclose. A total of 101 Tory MPs have written to the Prime Minister demanding that the £400 million-a-year subsidies paid to the “inefficient” onshore wind turbine industry are “dramatically cut”. The demands will be a headache for Ed Davey, the Liberal Democrat Energy Secretary, who joined the Cabinet on Friday when Chris Huhne resigned after being charged with perverting the course of justice. The Tory MPs, including several of the party’s rising stars as well as former ministers, say it is wrong that hard-pressed consumers must pay for the expansion of onshore wind power. A Downing Street spokesman said: “The Government has commissioned a review of subsidy levels and we are proposing a cut for onshore wind subsidies to take into account the fact that costs are coming down.”—Patrick Hennessy, The Sunday Telegraph, 5 February 2012
Green Agenda Faces Existential Crisis: Green Subsidies No Longer AffordableBy Online Thursday, February 2, 2012
Across Europe, cash-strapped governments have come to the same conclusion: we can’t afford to prop up renewable technology. They are reacting accordingly. Subsidies for costly clean energy technologies, mainly solar and wind, are being slashed. With governments from Rome to Athens to London cutting basics such as pensions and healthcare, it is not surprising. Worries are increasing that Europe’s economic woes will claim yet another victim: the green agenda.—Danny Fortson, The Sunday Times, 29 January 2012
Signing Global Warming’s Certificate of DeathBy Alan Caruba Tuesday, January 31, 2012
The sixteen names of the scientists who jointly signed the article in The Wall Street Journal, “No Need to Panic About Global Warming” on January 27th are mostly unknown to the general public. Perhaps the best known would be Harrison H. Schmidt, a former Apollo 17 astronaut and U.S. Senator. Others might recognize Burt Rutan, an aerospace engineer and designer of Voyager and SpaceShip One.
Dear Cousin Punxsutawney Phil,By Dr. Klaus L.E. Kaiser Monday, January 30, 2012
Once again, mid-winter is near, and it’s time to send you my annual greetings. Hope you and the family are alright and enjoying life at the edge of the meadow; any more offspring coming along?
Here in Canada, winter has been quite miserable so far; much too cold in some areas and far too warm in others. Just can’t rely on Mother Nature anymore. What a change from the good old days. But, as you know, winter ain’t over until the blizzards are replaced by warm spring rains.
Some climatologists in Germany say it’s getting colder because it’s getting warmer, or perhaps the other way around. I find it all a bit confusing but am sure it’s very scientific. In any event, whether warming or cooling, we are eagerly looking forward to a fine spring.
Global Cooling? Sun Heading Towards A ‘Grand Minimum’
By Online Monday, January 30, 2012
The supposed ‘consensus’ on man-made global warming is facing an inconvenient challenge after the release of new temperature data showing the planet has not warmed for the past 15 years. The figures suggest that we could even be heading for a mini ice age to rival the 70-year temperature drop that saw frost fairs held on the Thames in the 17th Century. Based on readings from more than 30,000 measuring stations, the data was issued last week without fanfare by the Met Office and the University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit. It confirms that the rising trend in world temperatures ended in 1997.—David Rose, Mail on Sunday, 29 January 2012
Cooling and CoolBy Michael Oberndorf, RPA Sunday, January 29, 2012
To me, happiness is heading south until when you show someone a snow shovel, they say, “What the heck is that?” So, mah fellow Amuricans, it’s with a heavy heart that I tell you that global warming is definitely not happening, and, massive propaganda from the leftist media and Marxist/neo-fascist Academia notwithstanding, a mini-ice age appears to be on the way. Oh, well.
Spain Stops Green Energy SubsidiesBy Online Saturday, January 28, 2012
Spain halted subsidies for renewable energy projects to help curb its budget deficit and rein in power-system borrowings backed by the state that reached 24 billion euros ($31 billion) at the end of 2011.
Leading Scientists: No Need To Panic About Global WarmingBy Online Friday, January 27, 2012
The number of scientific “heretics” is growing with each passing year. The reason is a collection of stubborn scientific facts. Perhaps the most inconvenient fact is the lack of global warming for well over 10 years now. The lack of warming for more than a decade—indeed, the smaller-than-predicted warming over the 22 years since the U.N.‘s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) began issuing projections—suggests that computer models have greatly exaggerated how much warming additional CO2 can cause.—Claude Allegre +15, The Wall Street Journal, 27 January 2012
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