Government To Review Green Deal Fiasco
Downing Street is about to review the government's Green Deal after warnings that it's liable to fail. The number of people unable to afford their energy bills is likely to rise to 8.5 million.The Cabinet Office has been interviewing critics of the flagship scheme and is expected to report soon.
The Deal - to insulate the UK's aged housing...
Green Energy Fiasco: German Electricity Prices To Double
A recent study estimates that the Germans will soon have to reckon with dramatic price rises in their electricity bills. According to the study, electricity cost for households will doubled in ten years. The rising costs are due to the expansion of renewable energy as well as the necessary grid expansion and the subsidisation of solar and wind...Christopher Booker: Keeping Britain Short of Water Is Now Government – And EU – Policy
It has become quite deliberate government policy to keep Britain short of water. The explanation for this baffling volte-face lies in a “Communication” issued in 2007 by the European Commission “addressing the challenge of water scarcity and droughts in the European Union”. This document was based on the belief that Europe was facing a...The World Is Running Out Of Energy Scares
Methane hydrates constitute the world’s No. 1 reservoir of fossil fuel. Ubiquitous along vast stretches of Earth’s continental shelves, they hold enough natural gas to fuel the world for a thousand years – and beyond.In a joint announcement two weeks ago, the United States and Japan (along with ConocoPhillips, the U.S.-based...
Is The Stratosphere Responsible For Global Warming?
Variations in ozone in the lower stratosphere could be the main reason for the global warming seen in the past few decades, according to a new paper in press at the Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics. It is claimed that the new model is capable of explaining 82% of the total Earth temperature variability.Nataliya Kilifarska...
UK Government Confirms IPCC Has A Transparency Problem
Simon Anthony’s excellent report on Thomas Stocker in Oxford reminds me that I should add a postscript to the piece that Andrew and I posted after the 33rd IPCC Session when the IPCC decided to make the drafts and comments of its Assessment Reports confidential. We did not say so at the time but that was the handiwork work of Thomas Stocker...Duration Of 'Kyoto 2' Threatens Rift At UN Climate Talks
A dispute over the length of the second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol has threatened to fracture a coalition between the EU and some of the world's poorest countries at the latest round of U.N. climate talks, which started in Bonn on Monday.Negotiators from Least Developed Countries (LDCs) and the Alliance of Small Island States...
International Disinformation Agency
This from ESI-Africa, a website focused on energy issues for Africa.Ambassador Richard H. Jones, deputy director of the International Energy Agency (IEA), opened the IEA's April conference by-lined Clean Energy Progress, by saying global temperatures are "probably" going to rise by "six degrees Celsius" by about 2050.
According to the IEA...
