Posted 23 May 2015
"Global warming is pre-eminently a political project. On Tuesday, the leaders of France and Germany met to set a goal for the December climate summit in Paris: to fully decarbonise the world economy by the end of the century. ... The role of experts is to provide a scientific c...
Posted 23 May 2015
"As the year-end Paris climate change summit draws ever nearer, preparatory meetings continue apace and we see streams of reports and stories arguing how vital it is to come to a binding international agreement to limit carbon dioxide emissions. One of the key arguments is that...
Posted 21 May 2015
"[President] Obama's remarks at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy's Commencement May 20 demonstrate the extent to which his advisors are keeping him divotrced from the facts. The bulk of his speech was devoted to what is now becoming more and more obviously a non-problem: 'the chal...
Posted 18 May 2015
"Modern industrial society commenced with the use of coal and oil to power factories, trains, ships and agriculture and to generate electricity. With abundant energy, properity increased, and people could save enough to support leisure, education, culture and environmental conc...
Posted 15 May 2015
"Investment bankers and carbon traders are already gearing up for the UN Paris climate conference scheduled in December. The aim of 'securing a legally-binding global climate agreement on curbing carbon emissions' is in reality an attempt for global dictatorship. ... The issue...