Press Release 14/12/14
Lord Lawson: After Lima, UK Climate Change Act Should Be Suspended
London 14 December: Dr Benny Peiser, the director of the Global Warming Policy Forum (GWPF), has welcomed the non-binding and toothless UN climate agreement which was adopted in Lima earlier today.
Dr Peiser said:
“The Lima agreement is another acknowledgement of international reality. The deal is further proof, if any was needed, that the developing world will not agree to any legally binding caps, never mind reductions of their CO2 emissions.”
“As seasoned observers predicted, the Lima deal is based on a voluntary basis which allows nations to set their own voluntary CO2 targets and policies without any legally binding caps or international oversight.”
“In contrast to the Kyoto Protocol, the Lima deal opens the way for a new climate agreement in 2015 which will remove legal obligations for governments to cap or reduce CO2 emissions. A voluntary agreement would also remove the mad rush into unrealistic decarbonisation policies that are both economically and politically unsustainable.”
Lord Nigel Lawson, Chairman of the Global Warming Policy Forum, added:
“The UK’s unilateral Climate Change Act is forcing British industry and British households to suffer an excessively high cost of electricity to no purpose. Following Lima, it is clearer than ever that the Act should be suspended until such time as a binding global agreement has been secured.”
Dbstealey
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Here is a write up on the OISM petition by a real “skeptic”
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http://www.skeptic.com/eskeptic/08-11-12/
http://www.skeptic.com/eskeptic/08-11-12/…..and a majority of the comments debunked the author’s view.
If David went to the OISM site and actually READ it, he would find that they debunk his list. I am still waiting for David’s list of scientist signing a petition that states “AGW will be catastrophic to the world.”
Since zero such petitions exist, then ZERO percent of the worlds scientist support CAGW as a valid scientific theory.
(Notice how the logic used above by failed alarmists like David and village idiot have now trapped themselves, as any such petitions he finds, will then be placed against ALL the worlds scientists.)
Talking about ‘peaking’ …..The Peak District, Derbyshire, England.
Mined from Bronze Age onwards, the Romans had lead smelters there. However, from the 16th century onwards the mineral and geological wealth of the Peak became increasingly significant. Not only lead, but also coal, fluorite, copper, zinc, iron, manganese and silver have all been mined here
Lead mining, peaked – 18th century
Coal, peaked – 19th century
Millstone Grit, peaked – 19th century
Fluorite or fluorspar (Blue John), peaked -1990
Limestone, peaked -1990
Dale Dyke Dam, peaked -1864 killed 240 http://www.mick-armitage.staff.shef.ac.uk/sheffield/flood.html
The largest textile printworks in the world in Glossop, peaked -1929
The Railways, peaked -1960s
And then there’s the Peaks – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_hills_in_the_Peak_District
That’s a few reasons its called The Peak District – see also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_District -sorry its a wiki,( but it’s not to bad on these facts !! )
Shameless tourist plug – http://www.visitpeakdistrict.com/ – I used to live there !!!
Richard Courtney, please don’t forget your medication.
Kon Dealer
No chance of that! I am up to 11 different medications now, and it is a tricky job keeping track of which to take when throughout the day.
Thankyou for you concern.
Richard
“As Richardscourtney pointed out there is no peak problem in theory, but as result of the dissipation issue(dS), in the very long run it will become more and more expensive to reclaim resources. Haber already tried to recover gold from seawater, to have an idea about the difficulties.”
The shale oil revolution is all about technology that captures dispersed oil or gas. The ‘peak oil’ that we’ve experienced is the peak in big, easy oil fields of pooled oil. It’s a specific geological process that squeezes oil into caprock. Tight oil or oil shale hasnt gone through that process, so ‘fracking’ is the human engineered equivalent. As a result, we have access to a lot more oil, albeit at higher cost.
In the long run, it does become more expensive to reclaim limited resources, but technology brings that cost down. With 1 trillion barrels of equivalent oil in US oil shale deposits in Colorado and Wyoming, we’ll never run out of oil … but we may find cheaper energy. … FHTR Nuclear, anyone?
I spent a good amount of time this morning watching The British Prime Minister Cameron, talking back and forth with some British climate custodian kind of chap, about Britain’s carbon tax policy, on some C-SPAN channel.
The two of them rambled on back and forth about what UK should do in UK’s interests, and what they should do vis-à-vis what EU’s interests or reactions might be.
I don’t think the two of them together said as much as on intelligent comment, on why they were even talking about climate, or what to do about it.
I’m sure that US Congressional debates or committee machinations, aren’t much different.
It’s no wonder they don’t have time to study important bills before they all sheepfully sign them.