Climate & Climate Change

From today's Times: China’s drive for wealth means end of our low-carbon dreams Hu Jintao wants to make every Chinese twice as rich by 2020. He has done it once – in just five years, income per capita doubled to $2,000 (£983) - and the only … [Read more...] about China’s Inconvenient Truth

Governments across the world are mishandling climate-change issues. Policies to curb ‘greenhouse-gas’ emissions too often take the form of costly specific regulations, rather than a general price-based incentive such as a carbon tax. More … [Read more...] about Inconvenient Truths about the UN’s Global Warming Panel: A Note from David Hendersen

Reported first in The Times: The UHT route to long-life planet It’s enough to put the nation off breakfast. Civil servants have suggested that Britons put long-life milk in tea and pour it on their cornflakes to save the planet from global … [Read more...] about Latest from the Global Warming Rubber Room: UHT instead of ‘Traditional’ Milk

It was claimed in 'An Inconvenient Truth' that sea levels could rise by up to 20 feet in the 'near future' due to melting ice sheets. Anyone who believed such a claim wouldn't really be expected to buy a property near San Francisco Bay, would … [Read more...] about Who’d Buy a Property by the Sea?

There's an interesting story on the BBC website: Arctic muds reveal sea ice record A new technique to track changes in the extent of Arctic sea ice over the past 1,000 years is being developed by a UK team from the University of Plymouth. There is … [Read more...] about Using Arctic Mud to Extend Sea Ice Records

From The Times: Please, sir - Gore's got warming wrong THE tormentors of Al Gore, who last week won a legal victory against his film, An Inconvenient Truth, are to step up their battle by sending British secondary schools a documentary attacking … [Read more...] about Monckton to Send TGGWS Film to UK Schools