British Drivers In Uproar Over EU Plans For Climate Taxes

Thursday, 02 September 2010 09:34
British drivers face being hammered by taxes from Europe to pay for climate change policies. The plans include controversial road pricing and higher levies on fuel.

A 99-page study commissioned by the European Union says “aggressive policy measures are vital in reducing transport emissions”. It favours imposing the same measures across the...

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Hey Presto: Developed Nations Expect $30 Billion 'Fast-Track' Climate Fund

Thursday, 02 September 2010 11:28
The U.N.'s climate chief says poor countries are right to expect that any funding they receive to combat global warming be kept separate from development aid or poverty relief.

Christiana Figueres says developing countries taking part in two days of talks on climate change financing this week expect the $30 billion "fast-track" package they...

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Ben Pile: Lomborg’s Technology-Led Policy

Friday, 03 September 2010 06:40
Roger Pielke Jr has a post about Bjorn Lomborg’s apparent turnaround on the climate issue.

Specifically, his proposal for a low (starting and rising) carbon tax to fund innovation comes directly from the work of Isabel Galiana and Chris Green (in the video above) of McGill University, written up for Lomborg’s Copenhagen Consensus...

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Czech Government To Kill Solar Boom

Thursday, 02 September 2010 11:48
The [Czech] government is currently weighing a draft amendment that would further limit the solar industry.

Following recent reports that electricity prices in the country could go up significantly to pay for government solar subsidies, a number of government measures are in the works that would reign in the solar industry while meeting goals...

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Sun-Earth Coupling

Wednesday, 01 September 2010 12:42
Our understanding of the influence of solar short-wavelength radiation on the Earth’s upper atmosphere is poorer than many realise. It is a significant area of research as some scientists believe that solar short-wave variations play a greater role in climatic variations than an initial analysis of the amplitude of those variations suggests...

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Clive Crook: Reforming The IPCC

Wednesday, 01 September 2010 10:50
The report of the InterAcademy Council on the IPCC is a real step forward. The council, representing academies of science and equivalent bodies all over the world, assembled a review committee on the IPCC at the request of the UN and the IPCC itself. Its team was chaired by Princeton's Harold Shapiro. How refreshing that it surveyed opinion...

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They Sow The Wind And Reap The Whirlwind

Thursday, 02 September 2010 20:56
Political Science - We grow some strange politicians here in the Commonwealth of Virginia, none stranger than our chief law enforcement officer, Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli II. He swept into office last January and within days had begun a crime-fighting crusade against Federal health care legislation and university policies barring...

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The Greening Of Godzilla

Thursday, 02 September 2010 11:33
Watching the colossal and implosive decline of the once mighty green movement to stop global warming has been an educational experience. It’s rare to see so many smart, idealistic and dedicated people look so clueless and fail so completely. From the anti-climax of the Cluster of Copenhagen, when world leaders assembled for the single most...

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