Newsbytes from The GWPF via Dr. Benny Peiser
Britain’s carbon emissions grew faster than the economy last year for the first time since 1996, as a cash-strapped population relegated the environment down its league of concerns and spent more money keeping warm, according to a new report. The rise in Britain’s so-called carbon intensity increases the danger that the country will miss legally binding targets on reducing emissions, warns PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), the consultancy behind the report. –Tom Bowden, The Independent, 7 November 2011
A RADICAL shift in policy on climate change is to be outlined by the Irish Minister for the Environment Phil Hogan today, when he announces that a climate change Bill is not a priority. It signals a major change from the policy of his predecessor John Gormley, who rushed to publish legislation setting binding statutory targets for emissions reductions in the weeks before the previous government collapsed last January. In another departure that will be seen as controversial, he said he would not set sectoral targets for emissions reductions as he did not subscribe to them. This is likely to attract criticism from environmental organisations and opposition parties. –Harry McGee, Irish Times, 3 November 2011
The government could save each member of the population almost £550 by 2020 if it scraps expensive wind energy plans in favour of cheaper nuclear and gas-fired power plants. A controversial report by KPMG, the accountants and adviser on government energy policy, will this week say that Britain can reach the 2020 target on reducing pollution imposed by the European Union for a third less than predicted, a potential saving of £34 billion. To do so, says the report, entitled Thinking About the Affordable, the proportion of wind power envisaged in the current plan would need to be slashed and the energy shortfall made up by new gas-powered stations and nuclear reactors. Danny Fortson, The Sunday Times, 6 November 2011
A FIRST licence for the controversial gas drilling technique known as fracking has been granted in Scotland – with more likely to follow. — Jennifer Fyall, Scotland on Sunday, 6 November 2011
Many of the Western democracies are likely to become major oil and gas producers, helping to glut the world and collapse energy prices. And today’s energy-rich countries, most having undiversified economies, will then lose the lion’s share of their revenues and become neutered politically. –Lawrence Solomon, Financial Post, 5 November 2011
Climate Change Minister Greg Barker this morning told an audience of local councillors that it was “morally wrong” that the feed-in tariff scheme was offering such large returns when it is funded by a levy on everyone’s energy bills. –James Murray, BusinessGreen, 2 November 2011
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The time-integral of sunspot numbers, properly reduced by earth IR radiation by using conservation of energy, accurately (R2=0.88) correlates with average global temperatures since 1895 as shown in the pdf made public 3/10/11 at http://climaterealists.com/index.php?tid=145&linkbox=true
The pdf made public 9/24/11 shows the equation that accurately predicted agt since 1990.
Change to the level of atmospheric carbon dioxide had no significant influence.
It seems to me without any facts at hand – so i could be wrong – that economies that don’t promote the agw agenda, like India and China are doing rather well, whilst continents that do, like Europe and America are facing decline and economic downturn
Updated: “Frack, baby, Frack!”
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Very interesting to hear the feedback on the BBC programme. Where I live in Spain, I cannot get BBC, nor will the BBC iplayer work. It does sound as if some measure of reality was put forward and if so then this is a departure from the usual BBC political mantra. I guess that they have little choice since if the UK is in for a couple of cold winters there will be people dying of fuel poverty and in the present economic situation more and more people will be complaining at high energy prices. Even the BBC would not be able to keep a lid on these types of stories which one can envisage will become more frequent. That being the case, perhaps the BBC has recognised the inevitable and is prepared to address the rising cost issue but I suspect that it will be quite sometime before the BBC goes as far as saying that the green agenda should be halted.
I never understood the “legally binding” part. To who? What is Britain going to pay and who are they going to pay it to if they miss their target? Half of the EU is in the toilet with a few on the verge of bankruptcy and they think they’re going to make them pay a few billion dollars/euros/pounds as a punishment for missing some arbitrary target? Is PT Barnum running this show?
“MattN says:
November 8, 2011 at 4:36 am
I never understood the “legally binding” part. To who? What is Britain going to pay and who are they going to pay it to if they miss their target? Half of the EU is in the toilet with a few on the verge of bankruptcy and they think they’re going to make them pay a few billion dollars/euros/pounds as a punishment for missing some arbitrary target? Is PT Barnum running this show?”
No, the EU is, through its laws (hence the legally binding bit), to which our deluded politicos still subscribe (big time). With luck it will all be over with pretty soon, when the whole shabby totalitarian edifice collapses under the weight of its own craziness.
“Very interesting to hear the feedback on the BBC programme. Where I live in Spain, I cannot get BBC, nor will the BBC iplayer work”
Richard, what you need is a proxy server. There are free, and paid for programs. The free ones are generally financed by advertising, and can be a pain. The paid-for programs are pretty trouble free. Your search bar is your friend.
Whilst the BBC programme on energy costs was substantially more balanced/realistic than recent efforts, it still repeated the mantra that our CO2 emissions actually matter as far as the climate is concerned. Until they drop this ridiculous position there is still much to be done as far as BBC bias is concerned.
And yes…George Moonbat came over as almost reasonable/sane.
Must be on new medication.