Whoopsie: 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 ...

Critics have rounded on some recent climate studies for failing to emphasise potential benefits

In spite of risks, businesses could benefits from cheaper shipping costs to new fishing and crop opportunities

Concerns are growing in Brussels that persistent denial of human-caused global warming among Republican presidential hopefuls could damage EU-US relations and even spark a trade conflict. More »

We know that previous warmings have not been caused by rises in atmospheric CO2 (yet they're not fully understood); we know about the lack of detailed correlation between the carbon dioxide and temperature records over the last 100 years; we know about the absence of the model-predicted temperature hotspot high in the tropical troposphere. Now in a post on Watts Up With That "232 complete and...

Cheap energy is one of the foundations for economic prosperity. A country with dear energy makes itself less likely to prosper in a world where competition is global. Coalition energy policy is based on the discredited theory that carbon dioxide in the atmosphere drives global warming. Even if the science had been right ... even if we were seeing the warming in the troposphere that the theory pred...

Just what the global economy didn't need is a new EU tax on airlines for carbon emissions! About a week ago the topic of the EU carbon market and the European Union Emission Trading Scheme was discussed at The Political Commentator. The eight critical questions that needed to be asked to global warming proponents were laid out and the new record low for EU carbon prices was discussed. New EU ...

Climate negotiators agreed a pact on Sunday (11 December) that would for the first time force all the biggest polluters to take action on greenhouse gas emissions, but critics said the action plan was not aggressive enough to slow the pace of global warming. More »

Confusion surrounded the United Nations climate talks in South Africa as some delegates began drifting away from the Durban conference venue without apparently having reached agreement on new measures to combat global warming. As the only movement at the 194-nation conference yesterday afternoon was that of coffee machines being carried away and ministers leaving, the option loomed of the conferen...

An agreement on new measures to combat global warming appears within reach at the UN climate talks in South Africa, but time is running short.