Tim Yeo – like a cross between Ebola and Chris Huhne – Telegraph Blogs

So, to recap: the job of the Energy and Climate Change Committee is to examine the expenditure, administration and policy of the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) and its associated public bodies.

And the man who has been appointed chairman of this committee, Tim Yeo, charges up to £555 an hour for his green side-projects, makes upwards of £100,000 a year from his green investments, and is chairman of the Renewable Energy Association.

Tim Yeo has been using his position of influence to argue vociferously for more taxpayer subsidies for the renewables industry, despite copious evidence that it is damaging the economy, blighting landscapes, destroying property values and making the lives of those unfortunate enough to live near the wind farms he so heartily endorses utter misery.

Conflict of interest, anyone?

Why Are Sea Levels So Low? | The Resilient Earth

What caused the extra ice sheet melting during the Eemian? There were no fossil fuel burning humans around to conveniently blame the extra balmy climate on. Dutton & Lambeck conclude that it must have been a slightly higher rate of solar irradiance that caused the dramatic difference in sea levels the last time around. Bottom line: humans have precious little to do with the waxing and waning of glaciers and hence, not much impact on sea levels. While climate change alarmists attempt to frighten the public with images of flooded cities and other horrors, it is really the Sun that dictates climate change here on Earth.

Speech - Keynote Address by the NOAA Administrator at the International Coral Reef Symposium 2012, Cairns, Australia

Reducing carbon emissions is clearly an essential step in achieving healthy oceans and reefs.

With Warming, Peril Underlies Road to Alaska - NYTimes.com

WHITEHORSE, Yukon Territory — In February 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave the Army Corps of Engineers an assignment: Build a road from British Columbia across the Yukon to Alaska — in eight months, before winter sets in...
They suffered “the most extreme conditions imaginable,” as a private contractor put it a year later while seeking civilians to work on upgrading the new road and on a subsidiary oil pipeline built nearby.

“Temperatures will range from 90 degrees above zero to 70 degrees below zero,” read a help-wanted ad. “Men will have to fight swamps, rivers, ice and cold. Mosquitoes, flies and gnats will not only be annoying but will cause bodily harm.”