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Energy: the hypocrite speaks again

And now, having giving up making London a "world leader in tackling climate change", Boris has climbed back on the climate sceptic bandwagon. He has abandoned his quest to cover London with windmills and is now dismissing the Government's efforts to replace closing coal stations with wind power and nuclear.

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: New paper finds in retrospect, we predicted global warming would slow for only 5 years

A paper recently published in Nature Climate Change claims to "retrospectively predict" the "pause" in global warming due to Trenberth's "missing heat" sinking undetected to the bottom of the ocean. Close examination of the paper, however, reveals that the model used by the authors only predicted a slowdown for up to 5 years, not the complete lack of warming for the past 16+ years. Buried in the paper is the admission that "The reasons for the warming pause to be sustained late in the decade have not however been clearly identified from our [modelling] experiments."

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: New paper finds no evidence of an increase in storminess in the U.S. since 1900

A new paper published in Nature Climate Change finds no evidence that the frequency of U.S. ‘extreme weather events’ has changed over the last century.