A few days to catch up on, so here are quite a lot of global warming-related stories you may have missed:
- China will not be engaging in carbon trading internally
- Britain wants to debate global warming at the UN Security Council
- …while UK government departments are missing their own targets on emissions
- A senior climatologist suggests that those scientists engaged in building climate models are in fact merely software engineers
- MIT Professor Richard Lindzen suggests global warming alarmism is a religious belief
- Europe goes nuclear
- The EU Presidency’s conclusions on energy and climate (sections 29 to 38)
- …but Cyprus argues that it shouldn’t be included
- Climate alarmists accuse their previously beloved IPCC of corruption
- IPCC’s second working group summary is leaked to press
- Poland accepts EU plan on basis that no country will be forced to pursue emissions cuts (!?)
- One major solar scientist argues that more research on the sun is needed to assess accurately what causes climate change
- Czech President Vaclav Klaus also compares environmentalism to religion
- UK politicians engage in a massive battle to capture the (vast?) green vote
- … but splits emerge in the Tory party over the issue
- … and one left-leaning newspaper calls Tory plan “plane crazy“
- … splits also emerge in Labour
- … so Chancellor (and likely successor to Blair) calls for “new world order“
- … yet also insists green policies should be costed
- … while Blairites call on Environment Secretary to challenge Brown (That’s enough Brit politics. Ed.)
- Columnist Janet Daley says green lobby must not be allowed to stifle debate
- Active debate over the meaning of Solar System Warming
- A statistical examination of climate shifts suggests some interesting things
- The Western Himalayas appear to be responding differently to warming than other parts of the globe
- Tree rings may not be a good indicator of climatic conditions
- Despite accepting the consensus science, Americans aren’t particularly worried about global warming
- The EU Parliament’s peripatetic existence is harming the environment!
- Germany rejects EU call for a speed limit on its freeways
- India’s coal demand may quadruple by 2031
Lots of stuff to while away the hours with there…
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