‘When Britain Really Had Some Oil’

If I were asked “What has been the single biggest failure in UK politics over the last thirty years?”, I should have to reply “The abject failure of all political parties to develop, and to put into action, a realistic energy policy for the next thirty years.” Although rather belated, I am thus delighted to see that a few of our more enlightened MPs have at last grasped the seriousness of the situation.
With the EU closing down our older coal plants; with the imminent demise of our older nuclear power stations; with our lack of adequate gas storage facilities; with a rose-tinted and utopian view of ‘renewables’ blinding MPs; and, with the economically-fatuous and ill-fated policies currently being adopted in the name of ‘global warming’ hysteria, Britain faces a very grim future of power blackouts and massive economic disruption.

Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr. Research Group News » An Upcoming Talk By Roy Spencer “Global Warming As A Response To The Pacific Decadal Oscillation”

On December 15, 2008 Noon-1:30pm there will be an interesting and provocative talk titled “Global Warming as a Response to the Pacific Decadal Oscillation” by Dr. Roy Spencer of the University of Alabama-Huntsville at the Capitol Hill Club 300 First St., S.E., in Washington, D.C.

Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr. Research Group News » Holland Inundated? No Way! Guest Weblog By Hendrik Tennekes

My weblogs of 28 October and 7 November, and a incisive two-page centerfold article by Karel Knip in the November 8 issue of NRC/ Handelsblad, Rotterdam’s counterpart to the New York Times, finally received a clear response from KNMI, the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute.

In a November 10 message to the director-in-chief of KNMI, I suggested that the Institute should contemplate issuing a low-end estimate for sea-level rise, in order to balance the alarmist furor sweeping the country. This is exactly what KNMI decided to do. In an op-ed piece in the December 11 issue of NRC/Handelsblad, Wilco Hazeleger, a senior scientist in the global climate research group at KNMI, writes:

“In the past century the sea level has risen twenty centimeters. There is no evidence for accelerated sea-level rise. It is my opinion that there is no need for drastic measures. It is wise to adopt a flexible, step-by-step adaptation strategy. By all means, let us not respond precipitously.”