Nigel Lawson Calls For DECC To Be Broken Up

Nigel Lawson, the former Chancellor and a former energy secretary, has called on the Government to break up the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC). He believes the time has come to put responsibility for climate policy back into the environment department, and to put energy policy into the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.

In a letter to the Financial Times, he said: "I would like, as a former energy secretary, to wish Ed Davey, the new secretary of state for energy and climate change, the best of luck in his new job. He has the opportunity to enter the history books as the only minister to use his position to abolish it for the wider public good."

Lord Lawson criticises what he describes as "the yoking together of energy and climate change" which "has given this country the worst energy policy for a generation - bad for the economy, bad for industry, bad for the taxpayer and bad for the consumer".

Central Asia Institute » February 7, 2012 – Badakhshan: Heavy Snowfall Brings Humanitarian Crisis

A few weeks ago, 10 feet of snow trapped an entire village of 72 families in their homes in nearby Ishkashim district, according to news reports. Rescue teams were sent to the area, but a provincial government official told the BBC, “We don’t have any equipment to help people there.”

More than 40 people have died in Badakhshan this winter as a result of avalanches, heavy snow and freezing temperatures.

Global Warming In Southwest Florida | Real Science

The ten most anomalously warm months occurred during the 19th century.

The CLIMATE SCEPTICS Blog: No need to attribute 20th Century Warming to CO2 - Peer reviewed

Morellon et al conducted a multi-proxy study of several short sediment cores they recovered from Lake Estanya (42°02'N, 0°32'E) in the Pre-Pyrenean Ranges of northeast Spain. Their studies suggest that  there is no compelling need to attribute 20th-century global warming to the concomitant increase in the air's CO2 content.

Island states want "climate justice" | Australian Climate Madness

An opportunity to get the climate alarmists’ case before a court to be cross-examined in a judicial environment sounds too good to miss. The claimants will have to prove an extremely long chain of causation, namely that the rising sea levels are a result of rising temperatures, which are themselves a result of increased CO2 emissions, which are a result of man’s burning of fossil fuels.

They will also hope they can explain away all the confounding factors – natural climate change, solar variation, sinking landmasses – that might break that chain.

Some states, like the Maldives, will need to explain why they are building new airports whilst at the same time claiming compensation for sinking islands…