Thursday, October 20, 2011

The health impacts of climate change - YouTube
Climate change is the greatest current threat to public health.  This is the view shared by Dr Margaret Chan, director general of WHO, and a growing number of the world's health professionals.  [Within the first minute, this guy actually suggests that because of CO2 "baby polar bears are unable to make the leaps from one ice floe to another"]
UK Green Agenda Fades With Deep Solar Cuts
Government is in retreat from green agenda as Financial Times reveals deep cuts to subsidies for household solar panels.
Green Tax Revolt: Government May Be Forced To Kill Wind Boondoggle
There was growing speculation last night that the Government is on the verge of cutting multibillion-pound financial incentives to build wind farms. It is believed that the Government could cut so-called ROC incentives for green energy projects as a means of keeping a lid on rising power prices.
A Cool Look At 2011, and 2012
Under the current hypothesis the annual average global temperature must start increasing. One can invoke natural decade cycles to hold it back for so long, but they must eventually give way to greenhouse gas forcing. Eventually the temperature must increase at a faster rate than it would have done to make up for its temporary suppression.

The problem is, of course, the data. We are at the stage where theory is becoming unable to explain what is going on. We have had no global temperature increase since the 1998 super El Nino, and now have the prospect of 2011 and 2012 being significantly cooler than the temperature plateau of the past decade.
Andrew Neil: Green Energy Costs May Be Much Higher Than Chris Huhne Claims
And maybe the Huhne green agenda, involving huge subsidies to wind generation, which end up on all our fuel bills, is much larger than we've been told

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