Offensively timed stunts over climate change are a bad idea - Blue and Green Tomorrow

By aggressively shoving the issue in the public’s face through the large banner on Tower Bridge, the group is inviting anger, disdain and ridicule from outside parties – especially when you add the context of the Paralympic Games into the mix.

The timing of such a stunt could not have been worse, too. Public sympathy will be at a premium, arguably more so than if the banner had appeared above the Olympic rings.

Chief scientist issues warning over DECC budget cuts - 03 Sep 2012 - News from BusinessGreen

Office for Science raises concern that government will fail to deliver new low-carbon technologies in time

Rajan's Take: Climate Change: The American Meteorological Society (AMS) reaffirmation of Global Warming: What’s the big deal? Climate sceptics are anyway winning the debate.

So finding themselves totally impotent to stop climate skeptic weathermen from influencing public opinion on the climate debate, the AGW lobby did the next best thing. Get the AMS to endorse AGW. And how would they do that? By offering liberal funding just as the West offers our NGOs to advocate adoption of policies friendly to their interests herein this country. Lord Monckton, former adviser to Margaret Thatcher, in a lighter vein exposed such funding to AMS in his article Climate ($$ and) Change. Read here.

Theft by wind | Climate Nonconformist

James Delingpole has an interesting take on the Cameron Government’s fetish for renewable energy.