Climate fund 'recycled' from existing aid budget, UK government admits | Environment | guardian.co.uk

A £1.5bn pledge by Gordon Brown to help poor countries cope with the ravages of climate change will drain funds from existing overseas aid programmes to improve health, education and water supplies, the government admitted today.

The move, revealed in an email exchange between campaigners and an official at the Department for International Development (DfiD), appears to undermine repeated government pledges that such climate aid should be additional to existing overseas development aid (ODA).

Tim Jones, policy officer at the World Development Movement (WDM), said: "The UK government has publicly said 90% of money for tackling climate change should be additional to existing aid commitments. In private, all of the UK's climate change money is being diverted from international aid. The UK has a moral responsibility to put new money into tackling both development and climate change."

Express.co.uk - Alan Titchmarsh: Give us truth on climate change

THE British public deserves to be told the “whole story” on climate change, gardening expert Alan Titchmarsh said yesterday.

The popular TV presenter and author said people should be treated as “grown-ups” and given a more “balanced” picture.

The Daily Express columnist said that while he accepted that man-made emissions were exacerbating climate change, facts that appeared to weaken the argument were being “swept under the carpet”.

He called factors such as historic warm periods between Ice Ages “inconvenient truths” – a dig at former US Vice President Al Gore’s controversial film about climate change, An Inconvenient Truth.

Green Jobs or Green Gyms? | The Foundry: Conservative Policy News.

A person on a bicycle generator would do very well to average 150 watts of output during a day. At this level, a modern-day cyclist/generator could produce electricity worth 10-15 cents per day at retail prices. With sufficient subsidies, people could be induced to power such generators and the proponents could then point to the “green” jobs that have been “created.” What is not seen is the value of the cyclists’ forgone output elsewhere. Even at minimum wage, the value of the labor is $52.40 per day. So each human powered generator would shrink the economy by over $50 per day. This is not an economic stimulus.”

LibertyWeek 78: IPCC Backtracks on Glaciers | GlobalWarming.org

Richard Morrison, Jeremy Lott and the American Spectator’s Jim Antle collaborate on Episode 78 of the LibertyWeek podcast. Among other topics, we discuss Rajendra Pachauri and the IPCC’s shameless response to the Himalayan glacier scandal (segment starts ~17:00).

Warning Signs: MY State of the Union

The present administration is maniacally opposed to Wall Street. They oppose the engines of energy in America, oil, coal, and natural gas. They waste billions on so-called “renewable” energy or “biofuels”, all of which are incapable of producing sufficient energy for even a moderate-sized city or town. Biofuels just drive up the cost of crops like corn for no sensible reason.