An important debate is taking place in Australia, one of the few "western" (you know what I mean) countries in which mainstream politicians are (to some extent) able to question the gospel of climate change. Here is the relevant report...
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CentreRight on 23rd Jun 2009 (via conservativehome.blogs.com)
An article in today's Canberra Times in Australia by Simon Grose has just lifted the lid of the climate change pot a little higher. It shows that some climate change scientists who rejected claims the sun was responsible for the Earth's changing climate are starting, grudgingly, to have second thoughts. But even when they do, they defy all logic by making claims about future warming that have no
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CllrTonySharp on 27th Aug 2008 (via feeds.feedburner.com)
Another day, another bullshit propaganda report into climate change. Oxfam says that climate change is killing poor people because of failing crops and losing water supplies to droughts. Climate change was first seen as a scientific problem, then an economic one,” explained report author Kate Raworth. “Now it is becoming a matter of international justice. Erm, no -
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WonkosWorld on 9th Sep 2008 (via wonkosworld.co.uk)
To dismiss the implications of climate change based on an error about the rate at which Himalayan glaciers are melting is an act of astonishing intellectual legerdemain. Yet this is what some doubters of climate change are claiming. But the reality is that our understanding of climate change is based on
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TimWorstall on 27th Mar 2010 (via timworstall.com)
Meg Hillier MP, Labour's Shadow Energy and Climate Change Secretary, commenting on the committee on climate change’s report released today, said:
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LabourParty on 30th Jun 2011 (via labour.org.uk)
A few faked email stats and suddenly the entire edifice of climate change is in the balance. There's no doubt that the revelation of less than pure scientific method being used by the prominent climate change boffins at the University of East Anglia has given a new lease of life to the climate change deniers, or climo-sceptics. But, as we get ready to see our leaders parading their concern at the ...
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PoliticsEtc on 6th Dec 2009 (via sgspolitics.blogspot.com)
More robust and realistic annual climate-change targets are required to ensure that Scotland will contribute to the reduction in greenhouse-gas emissions over the next decade, according to a report published by the Transport, Infrastructure and Climate Change Committee today.
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ScottishParliament on 24th Apr 2009 (via scottish.parliament.uk)
The Guardian has one of its climate change scare scoops for us all to panic about today. Their good friend and climate change guru, Professor Robert Watson has held court and it is clear from what he says that we are all doomed. The UK should take active steps to prepare for dangerous climate change of perhaps 4C according to one of the government's chief scientific advisers. In policy areas
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CllrTonySharp on 7th Aug 2008 (via feeds.feedburner.com)
Ahead of Tony Blair's launch of a report on climate change, he's given an interview to The Sunday Times. The interviewer Jonathan Leake is highly sceptical of Blair and takes particular issue with this statement from him: “The answer to climate change,” he says solemnly, “is the development of science and technology. Yes, we will get changes in the way we consume but we...
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Spectator on 5th Jul 2009 (via spectator.co.uk)
Individuals are less willing to change their lifestyles or spend money to stop climate change according to new research showing attitudes to climate change as the economy slows down.
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Telegraph on 26th Nov 2008 (via telegraph.co.uk)