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)
Yesterday was Fossil Fools day - when a small clique of climate change deniers gather at Parliament to decry logical and the scientific method. Yet the ever thinning ranks of even vaguely credible people associated with climate denial has finally jumped the shark with an article that once and for all lays bare the real thinking behind climate denial; not science but pure naked ideology.
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LiberalConspiracy on 28th Oct 2010 (via liberalconspiracy.org)
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)
The BBC reports that "Gordon Brown is "unequivocal" about the scientific case for action against climate change, No 10 has said, ahead of the forthcoming Copenhagen summit." But there isn't a scientific case for policy action against climate change. There...
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CentreRight on 6th Dec 2009 (via conservativehome.blogs.com)
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)
contribution by Climate Sock In the last two years, we’ve heard repeated claims that people are becoming less worried about climate change. The UEA email release – Climategate – has been blamed, though after trial may well have been innocent. And despite some attempts to hype up the change in mood, opinion seemed to bounce
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LiberalConspiracy on 20th Sep 2011 (via liberalconspiracy.org)
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)
The UK Climate Projections 2009, released today, will help us plan and prepare for change to our climate in the UK. By acting now, we can limit the severity of climate change in the future. Labour’s approach to tackling climate change centres on protecting the public from immediate risk, preparing for the future, leading international efforts to get a global deal in Copenhagen in December, c...
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LabourParty on 18th Jun 2009 (via labour.org.uk)
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)
In recognition of the important work on climate change conducted by the trade union movement, the UN body dealing with climate change (the UNFCCC) has granted the ITUC the select formal status of being an “official constituency” in the Climate Change process for the ITUC’s...
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Tigmoo on 8th Dec 2008 (via touchstoneblog.org.uk)