Germany’s top climate scientist Jochem Marotzke admids: climate models were too sensitive On October 5, 2018, German national weekly Spiegel presented a noteworthy interview with Germany’s top climate modeler, Jochem Marotzke, director of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg. Top German climate modeler, Jochem Marotzke, Director of the Hamburg-based Max Planck Institute for Meteorology. Image: Max […]

Benny Peiser, Director of the London-based Global Warming Policy Foundation, appeared in the Japanese Yomiuri Shimbun, the world’s leading daily in terms of circulation. Image: Yomiuri Shimbun Dr. Peiser gave a lecture at the Cannon Institute for Global Studiesin Tokyo on October 1st and this was the basis for the Yomiuri Shimbun feature article. Little dissent in Japan Traditionally the Japanese […]

Sir David Attenborough has decided to ditch the finger-wagging and the doom-mongering from his next wildlife TV documentary series, Dynasties. Viewers, he has finally realised, find it a turn off. Attenborough, 92, told the Observer (sister newspaper of the Guardian): “We do have a problem. Every time the bell rings, every time that image [of a threatened animal] comes […]

Two states and more than 80 cities and counties have now announced a goal of receiving 100 percent of their electricity from renewable sources. Wind, solar, and biofuels are proposed to replace electricity from coal, natural gas, and nuclear power plants. But evidence is mounting that 100 percent renewables is poor policy for US households […]

A group of roughly three dozen scientists and other energy experts are claiming a seminal United Nations report on climate change is biased against nuclear power. Why it matters: A global entity like the UN climate panel can have a big impact on the acceptance of nuclear power, as calls to address climate change intensify and […]

Another highly misleading BBC report: Green Party MP Caroline Lucas has said that energy generated from onshore wind is cheaper than other forms of renewable energy. What are the figures behind the claim? Renewable, or ‘green’ energy is generated from natural resources like the sun, wind and water, so they are restored and never run […]

The GWPF video should be shown in every school as the basis for a proper debate on environmental policies as well as our own moral responsibilities A couple of days ago, following new headlines about Britain’s growing and toxic plastic waste mountain,  we republished public health expert Mikko Paunio’s analysis of the causes of this crisis. Now a short […]

The IPCC report does not justify climate scaremongering. We should all be dead by now, thanks to overpopulation and resource depletion. The few of us remaining should be scavenging a landscape denuded of life by acid rains and UV rays. Thankfully, we are not. Also still standing are the scientific institutions and the global bureaucracies […]