What happened to the climate consensus? - Nova Scotia News

The acknowledgement there actually is a scientific debate about global warming and its causes would be, at the very least, a refreshing change from the monotonous droning of the climate change cultists that it’s all a done deal. Um, no, it’s not.

Prominent scientists, in ever greater numbers, are now speaking up to reject the group-think paradigm. While there’s no doubt the climate is changing, there’s less certainty about just where it’s going.

I expect one trend to continue, however. I predict the number of scientists willing to defy the global warming "consensus" is only going to get bigger.

'Energy czar' pick shows Obama not 'centrist'

Barack Obama's pick of Carol Browner for "energy czar'' puts the lie to the notion Obama is a "centrist.''

Abu Dhabi allegedly leads the green way — The Straits Times Blogs

IT MIGHT seem like an unlikely destination where a green revolution might take place: An oil and gas-producing state with little public transport, dirt cheap oil, millions of cars and palaces built with gold.

But Abu Dhabi is proving to the world this week, just how serious it is about being the world's leader in clean technologies.

At the World Future Energy Summit, there is a stunning number of delegates. About 15,000 people have descended on the state for this conference to talk about renewable energy challenges.

The speaker's list reads like the who's who of the energy industry, from Nobel Peace Prize winner Dr Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, to Professor Lord Nicholas Stern who penned the Stern report, and captains of industry such as chief executives of energy firms such as BP, and last but not least, environmental activists such as Greenpeace.
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Dr Al Jaber also told the conference that Abu Dhabi has set a new renewable energy target - that 7 per cent of the Emirate's total power generation capacity by 2020.