Minister: let locals block wind farms - Telegraph

Wind farms should not be built against the wishes of local communities in future, according to the energy minister.

On climate, GOP turns from concern to denial - Houston Chronicle

In an interview, Ebell deftly reversed the charges made against the denial camp: that they are a small cabal of professional ideologues and disgruntled scientists whose work is not published in peer-reviewed journals.

He insisted that global temperatures have not risen for 15 years, a common claim produced by statistical sleight of hand.

"The alarmist case is largely a creation of … a political program, a fantasy," Ebell said. "The scientists who are involved in the global warming movement, the alarmist movement, it's a very small group of people, it's always the same names."

Discoverer of global warming: Rising temperatures were good | The Daily Caller

Steam engineer and amateur scientist Guy Stewart Callendar, who first theorized a link between global warming and carbon dioxide emissions 75 years ago, believed that global warming would be a boon to mankind.

“Callendar, who died in 1964, aged 66, thought global warming was good because it would stop what he called ‘deadly glaciers’ returning and could boost the growth of crops at high latitude,” The BBC reports.