[I blame Sean Hannity]: Climate Minister: Britons Are ‘Inherently Sceptical’ Of Climate Science And Politics

High levels of scepticism and indifference among Britons continue to dog efforts to get the country to go greener, a Europe-wide study has concluded.

Margaret Thatcher – the world’s first climate realist | The SPPI Blog

Margaret Thatcher was very conscious that the Left tries to taint every aspect of life by attempting to politicize it.

In her thinking, therefore, there is genuine outrage that the coalescence of financial and political vested-interest factions in the scientific and academic community that are driving the climate scare should be striving to bring the age of enlightenment and reason to an end by treating scientific debate as though every question were a political football to be kicked ever Leftward.

In the elegant words of my good friend Bob Ferguson of the Science and Public Policy Institute, she is interested not in “policy-based evidence-making” but in “evidence-based policy-making”. The present crop of politicians on both sides of the Atlantic could learn much from her honest, forthright, no-nonsense approach.

NewEnergyFocus.com - Scottish Government invests £7.7m in low carbon transport

Local authorities will receive 'bridging' funding this year to cover the difference in cost between purchasing conventionally-powered cars or vans and low carbon alternatives, such as electric vehicles. Funding will also be available for other public bodies to develop charging facilities.

[Pesticides: They're bad because CO2 is emitted when they're manufactured?!]

From coast to coast, eco-concerned homeowners are ripping out their manicured, chemically-treated lawns and replacing them with organic food gardens, native flowers and sometimes, just rocks.
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“Lawns contribute to climate change,” Saffier told IPS. “The fossil fuels used in fertiliser and pesticide production add CO2 to the environment..."