Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Minister gives accidental preview of spending plans
The pages photographed referred to Britain "providing 2.9 billion pounds of international climate finance" to support efforts to reduce global warming.

The opposite page had a reference to a previously published official forecast of 490,000 public sector job losses by 2014/15, followed by a comment that this was likely to change.
Why GISS Temperatures Are Too High | Real Science
GISS is the only temperature index which shows significant warming since the year 2000. The animation below highlights the primary thing they are doing wrong.
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Their algorithm creates an imaginary hot spot at the North Pole (2-4 C based on no actual data within 800 km) and then weights it as heavily as a closer measured temperature reading, in the next step.
Guardian Reveals Failure of Kyoto Protocol | The Foundry: Conservative Policy News.
Europe got neither more jobs nor a cleaner environment from carbon reduction policies.
Spain's Solar Deals on Edge of Bankruptcy as Subsidies Founder - Bloomberg
Now Vilimelis and more than 50,000 other Spanish solar entrepreneurs face financial disaster as the policy makers contemplate cutting the price guarantees that attracted their investment in the first place.
Green Subsidies: Price Shock For German Electricity Customers
Next year, German households are in for a big price shock: the renewable energies levy, which every household in Germany has to pay as part of their electricity bills, will increase by over 70 per cent to 3.5 cents per kilowatt hour.

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