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- Bishop Hill blog - Cheshire gas

      It now estimates that the volume of "gas initially in place" could range from 15.1 trillion cubic feet to 172.3 trillion cubic feet - nearly 20 times more.

To put that in perspective, UK demand is currently about 3TCF per annum

Ed Davey attacks papers who report 'destructive' climate sceptics - Telegraph

Newspapers are wrong to give a “platform” for campaigners and groups that question whether climate change is caused by human activity, Ed Davey, the energy secretary, will say.
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"But some sections of the press are giving an uncritical campaigning platform to individuals and lobby groups [Well, we certainly wouldn't ever want that, would we?],” the minister will say.

Coldest spring for 34 years : The Isle of Man's Premier Radio Station

It's been the coldest Spring for 34 years - and that's official.  [Via MH]

- Bishop Hill blog - Davey rants and raves

It's funny to read the specific terms of the rant that Davey's speechwriters have crafted for him. As readers at BH know, ministers in DECC meet two kinds of people only: energy giants and green campaigners. Both these groups are of course are massive vested interests and the latter are the publicity seekers par excellence. So it takes the kind of chutzpah in which those ministers specialise for Davey to label his critics in this way. Particularly as he is going to deliver his speech at a meeting attended by a bunch of those same vested interests.

You can imagine how this sort of thing comes together. The speechwriters will be spectacularly uninformed on the global warming debate or what it is that sceptics are doing or saying. Their work will be based on what they read in the Guardian last week; probably Nuccitelli et al. They probably know that they know little or nothing, but there is a simple political requirement for a distraction. So we can watch and snigger and move on to something more important.