From the GWPF and Dr. Benny Peiser
Climate Sceptics Promoted To Key Government Positions
The UK’s lead G8 negotiator rejected moves from Germany and France to make climate change a key talking point. Officials from the two countries are said to be disappointed their suggestions were rebuffed. There appears to be a view within Whitehall that a limited agenda has a better chance of success, and that focusing on the economy amidst an increasingly bleak financial landscape is a sensible ambition. Blocking climate change from the main agenda appears an odd move given the profile it has had at previous meetings. –Ed King, The Guardian, 26 March 2013
Two significant announcements from No 10 this morning that should give the carpers something to cheer quietly about. John Hayes is leaving the energy brief to become the Prime Minister’s senior parliamentary adviser. The appointment of Michael Fallon to the energy brief will delight everyone. He shares the climate change scepticism of his predecessor, but will keep his focus on the point George Osborne keeps making: how to keep costs down for consumers, and how to secure long-term cheap energy. –Benedict Brogan, The Daily Telegraph, 28 March 2013
It was Georges Pompidou, the most neglected of president of the 5th Republic and perhaps the most interesting, who said: ‘There are 3 roads to ruin. Women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women. The quickest is with gambling. But the surest is with technicians.’ I wonder what he would have said if he had met a climate scientist. For what distinguishes the age of global warming is that scientists — particularly climate scientists — had more impact on public policy and on the destiny of nations than in any other era. –Rupert Darwall, The Global Warming Policy Foundation, 27 March 2013
The Committee on Climate Change has given its view on the much-discussed recent article on global warming predictions in the Mail on Sunday, written by David Rose. However, Professor Sir Brian Hoskins and Dr Steve Smith misuse statistics. If this kind of data were from a drugs trial it would have been stopped long ago, even allowing for the little understood stopping bias effect which occurs when looking for the first signs of effectiveness or harm in such trials. –David Whitehouse, The Global Warming Policy Foundation, 27 March 2013
Over the past 15 years air temperatures at the Earth’s surface have been flat while greenhouse-gas emissions have continued to soar. The mismatch between rising greenhouse-gas emissions and not-rising temperatures is among the biggest puzzles in climate science just now. The mismatch might mean that—for some unexplained reason—there has been a temporary lag between more carbon dioxide and higher temperatures in 2000-10. Or it might be that the 1990s, when temperatures were rising fast, was the anomalous period. Or, as an increasing body of research is suggesting, it may be that the climate is responding to higher concentrations of carbon dioxide in ways that had not been properly understood before. This possibility, if true, could have profound significance both for climate science and for environmental and social policy. —The Economist, 28 March 2013
A paper published today by James Hansen has some startling admissions, including: the effect [forcing] of man-made greenhouse gas emissions has fallen below IPCC projections, despite an increase in man-made CO2 emissions exceeding IPCC projections; the growth rate of the greenhouse gas forcing has “remained below the peak values reached in the 1970s and early 1980s, has been relatively stable for about 20 years, and is falling below IPCC (2001) scenarios.” Hansen believes the explanation for this conundrum is CO2 fertilization of the biosphere from “the surge of fossil fuel use, mainly coal.” —The Hockey Schtick, 27 March 2013
The looooong walk back is starting.
Too bad about the $Trillions of public dollars wasted on useless feel good Eco projects and filched by Greenie Grifters, con artist level university professors and main stream meds desperate for a good fear mongering cause to sell their advertising space.
Could have provided a lot of health care and public education, fixed a lot of bad roads and supported a large amount of real scientists doing real science instead of the Team messing around with upside down sediments, fraudulent statistical techniques and “necessary data adjustments”
Uh-oh. Climate Crock of the Week is going off on Anthony.
Glad to hear some politicians are getting the news and are finally able to slow the alarmists agenda. Has the tide turned? Admission be Hanson is shocking. Is this some confirmation of the coming end of the tyrannical rule of the climate agenda?
Hansen believes the explanation for this conundrum is CO2 fertilization of the biosphere from “the surge of fossil fuel use, mainly coal.”
Is it all right if I bang my head off the wall now?
W.T.F.!
If any government came afresh to this subject and looked at the evidence as it is now.
They wouldn’t give this policy a second thought.
This is not a policy … it’s an excuse … for not doing the right thing and scrapping it right now. (Unless, until, … some time in the way distant future … after thorough comprehensive review by competent scientists and not the current bunch of idiots … if there really was anything to be concerned about …. if there were any economic advantage to active … if all the things that should have been done now were done … perhaps there might come a time, but right now the right thing to do is scrap this idiotic policy).
Congratulations!
They might still have time to save the nation?
Somebody needs to get with Dr. Hansen on this and rework it. Fertilizing the biosphere doesn’t sound scary at all. Maybe John Abrahams time would be better spent explaining to Dr. Hansen that he’s ignoring 150 years of climate science and is disagreeing with his own prior research, rather than hassling Anthony Watts.
Once again this small island nation stands up to the unstable, collective madness coming from mainland Europe. Thank you for standing tall in the midst of a chill wind.
Observers might see some delicious irony in the fact that the UK economy is the dying canary in Global Warming’s/Climate Change’s “Coal Mine” of remedial prescriptions. Freezing in a home one cannot afford to heat, or going broke in a business that can no longer afford the energy to run, like hanging, does concentrate the mind wonderfully.
Clearer heads begin to prevail. Refreshing
The explanation is that ‘back radiation’ is a failure to understand that the Stefan-Boltzmann equation predict a potential energy flux t a sink at absolute zero. For 70 years, Meteorologists now Climate Alchemists have assumed that it is a real energy flow. thus the models are a perpetual motion machine of the 2nd kind driven by a 6.85 increase of real GHG energy absorption, none of which is by CO2 so the claimed CO2 warming and positive feedback needed to predict 33 K GHE is imaginary.
The real GHE is ~9 K and is set by constant water vapour, no CO2 effect. Real climate change has been mostly solar driven.
Given the weather (or is it climate?) Great Britain has experienced lately, it’s no wonder they’ve decided to remove CAGW/Climate Change from the agenda.
Beautiful-made my AM..
I don’t think we should get too exited about this – Delingpole’s title to his piece
sums it up nicely.
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100209502/hayes-fallon-deckchairs-titanic/
I suppose I should be happy. However I think two cheers only. I would be really happy if the government would stop all ridiculous expenditure on wind farms and kill the subsidies for ” green energy”. The money would be better spent on new ,none green, generating capacity to keep the lights on. Two fingers to the Brussels and the EU.
What readers should realise is that this is a fight between the people and the carbon traders operating behind the Pagan CO2/windmill religion which has replaced Christianity, including deep in the Church of England.
This new religion wants to kill the unbelievers. The windmills are a cross between The Windmill in Orwell’s ‘Animal Farm’, the Easter Island Statue Cult and the Swastika, the latter the ever-present symbol of EU totalitarian domination.
Shell leads the carbon traders, followed by major banks. They intend to profit from killing off the poor and disadvantaged.
Would love to know where the data for this graph came from
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/mar/27/climate-change-model-global-warming
“Analysis of climate change modelling for past 15 years reveal accurate forecasts of rising global temperatures”
You don’t even see that at GISS
@ResourceGuy
e again this small island nation stands up to the unstable, collective madness coming from mainland Europe. Thank you for standing tall in the midst of a chill wind.
Um… not exactly. It’s probably that there’s a limit to the lies a negotiator can utter at a conference and get away with….
Or is the UK government afraid that the other G8ers are likely to decide that climate change is no-longer a threat and leave them isolated?
I don’t think much will ever happen. The worlds economies run on oil, not clean energy. Until then, we’re fairly screwed.
Rats, ship, sinking!
I don’t think anyone here will have the satisfaction of seeing any quick demise of AGW (like arrests of ASW fraudsters LOL). It will be a slow death just as we are witnessing now. I think Singer gave it 10 years from this year to completely shut down.The really ONLY ONLY interesting phenomenom are the changes in solar activity. It is the ONLY variable that is apparently changing and may be beginning to affect weather/climate.
I postulate there is a direct correlation between goose bumps on the testicals and the formation of global warming policy herewith being the bigger the goose bumps the waning of the policy
It appears that he Brits’ cool-aid has frozen into popsicles.
Britain appears to be headed toward climate water boarding by torturing us with smaller jabs of regulation. A stream of small offenses against society, each below the radar, but with a horrific cumulative effect. Rather like a cone snail, I think.
http://gizmodo.com/cone-snail/