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The Tories’ Wind Power Delusion–Matt Ridley
From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT By Paul Homewood Matt Ridley in the Spectator: A very strange parliamentary rebellion has been taking place with Boris Johnson, Liz Truss…
Matt Ridley: Green Zealots are Threatening Real Conservation
Where’s the outrage from environmentalists about the rape of the planet by the lucrative crony capitalists in the renewable industry? Silence. Real conservation can go hang, so long as we…
Madness of Our Worship of Wind: Matt Ridley
The wind industry has already been fattened on subsidies of more than £6billion a year (paid for out of green levies on your electricity bills), it has privileged access to…
“Power Mad” (Matt Ridley on the UK Energy Crisis)
Energy is not just another product: it’s what makes civilisation possible.
Matt Ridley: Britain’s Energy Policy Keeps Picking Losers
From The GWPF Matt Ridley, The Times The liberalised energy markets introduced by Nigel Lawson in 1982, embraced by the Blair government and emulated across Europe, delivered both affordability and…
'Global warming vs global greening' GWPF lecture by Matt Ridley
Josh writes: Last night Matt Ridley gave the Global Warming Policy Foundation annual lecture titled ‘Global warming vs global greening’. Here are my cartoon notes. You can read Matt’s text and slides here. Cartoons by…
Matt Ridley: some basic science is not worthy of taxpayer funding
In a Wall Street Journal op-ed piece on Sunday, friend of WUWT Matt Ridley argues that basic science research does not lead to technological innovation, and therefore isn’t deserving of…
Matt Ridley: Fossil Fuels Will Save the World (Really)
There are problems with oil, gas and coal, but their benefits for people—and the planet—are beyond dispute From The Wall Street Journal, 14 March 2015, via The GWPF By Matt…
WSJ: Matt Ridley Replies to Jeff Sachs and Bob Ward, cleans up their 'intellectual mess'
Matt Ridley Replies to His Climate-Change Critics Jeffrey Sachs blows a gasket, and our contributor cleans up the intellectual mess.Sept. 9, 2014 9:56 a.m. ET THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Editor’s…
Matt Ridley in the WSJ: Whatever Happened to Global Warming?
Now come climate scientists’ implausible explanations for why the ‘hiatus’ has passed the 15-year mark.By MATT RIDLEY Sept. 4, 2014 7:20 p.m. ET THE WALL STREET JOURNAL On Sept.…
Matt Ridley: Climate Cure Worse Than Thought
(via the GWPF) Matt Ridley, Financial POst The IPCC produced two reports last year. One said that the cost of climate change is likely to be less than 2% of…
Matt Ridley's new article in the WSJ – a dose of pragmatism about revelations from the new IPCC report
This will be a top sticky post for a day, new stories will appear below this one. Climate Forecast: Muting the Alarm Even while it exaggerates the amount of warming,…
Dr. Matt Ridley on the Bolt Report on Haiyan and Carbon Tax
INTERVIEW WITH MATT RIDLEY ANDREW BOLT, PRESENTER: Typhoon Haiyan hit the Philippines last week and killed perhaps 4,000 people. The Greens couldn’t wait to exploit it like they exploited last…
Call for essays: The 2013 Matt Ridley Prize
The Matt Ridley prize for exposing environmental pseudoscience was inspired by Matt’s discovery that a Ridley family trust was making money from a wind farm company. All too often, hysterical groupthink, based…
A must watch – Greening the Planet – Dr. Matt Ridley
I met Matt Ridley for the first time in person last month on his trip through California. We shared lunch in Novato on a Saturday, it was a pleasant and…
Lord's O' Leapin! Congratulations to Matt Ridley
Prominent Climate Skeptic Dr. Matt Ridley Elected To The House Of Lords Viscount Ridley has been elected as a Conservative hereditary Peer in the recent by-election to fill the vacancy…
Matt Ridley: A Lukewarmer's Ten Tests
What it would take to persuade me that current climate policy makes sense Guest post by Matt Ridley I have written about climate change and energy policy for more than…
Matt Ridley responds to Tim Lambert's War @ Deltoid
Since it has been mostly silent in the last few months, I didn’t even know Deltoid blog was still up and running, but I’m happy to publish this rebuttal for…
Joe Romm demonstrates himself to be an angry know-nothing in his attack on Matt Ridley’s WSJ essay – Ridley responds
Guest post by Matt Ridley Joe Romm of ThinkProgress described my Wall Street Journal op-ed as: riddled with basic math and science errors Yet he fails to find a single…
Thank you, Matt Ridley
Required reading. UPDATE: Matt Ridley has graciously allowed me to repost his speech in entirety here. It follows below. If there’s one speech about the climate debate worth reading in…
Ridley on the 'Bullying of climate skeptics'
From The GWPF (originally in The Times) When did demonising your opponents become so acceptable? Lennart Bengtsson is about as distinguished as climate scientists get. His decision two weeks ago…
Ridley on the claims of exhausting global resources
In the Wall Street Journal, Matt Ridley has an interesting article about the the claims that we will run out of “X”, except that human ingenuity always seems to grasp…
Ridley: IPCC & OECD reports are telling us clear as a bell that we cannot ruin the climate with CO2 unless we have a population explosion
Matt Ridley: The Richer We Get, The Greener We’ll Become The world’s climate change experts are now saying that strong growth doesn’t hurt the environment, it protects it Matt Ridley,…
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