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Rex Murphy: US Democrats’ ‘Green New Deal’ will turn America into Venezuela
Read moreThe Green New Deal uses environmentalism as a lever to pursue a far-larger, more sinister, agenda, a mad leap to a socialist nightworld Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is out to prove she is the Thomas Jefferson of the infantile social-justice progressive Left. And she is doing one (non-carbon emitting) hell of a job. She is a marvel. […]
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Sir Jim Ratcliff: Open Letter to the European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker
Read moreINEOS Group Tuesday, 12 February 2019 Open letter to President Jean-Claude JunckerPresident European CommissionEuropean CommissionRue de la Loi 200B-1049 Brussels 11th February 2019 Dear President Juncker, “Are you quite mad?” was the reaction of one well known CEO of a European chemicals company when INEOS publicly announced recently its huge €3 billion petrochemicals expansion in […]
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IPPR Climate Lies Promoted By BBC & The Guardian
Read moreThe self-styled “progressive” think tank IPPR has issued a ridiculously alarmist report today, This is a crisis: Facing up to the age of environmental breakdown. The report recycles various bogus scares, and contains obvious falsehoods such as • Since 2005, the number of floods across the world has increased by 15 times The IPCC says in AR5 that […]
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Sir Jim Ratcliff: Green Taxes Are Killing Europe’s Economy
Read moreIneos founder and Brexit-backer Sir Jim Ratcliffe has slammed the EU over expensive regulations and “stupid” green taxes he claims are choking Europe’s chemicals industry. In an open letter to European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker, Sir Jim warned Europe is “no longer competitive” as a result of its strict energy and labour laws, which he […]
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IPPR Disaster Story
Read moreThe media gets itself into trouble over natural disasters again There has been much huffing and puffing in the media today about a new report from the Institute of Public Policy Research, which claims that the environment is facing multiple disasters, all at once. Same old, same old, I hear you say. And you wouldn’t […]
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Labor Unions Fear Democrats’ Green New Deal Poses Job Threat
Read moreWASHINGTON (Reuters) – Labor unions say they are withholding support for a Green New Deal unveiled by Democrats last week to transition the American economy away from fossil fuels, arguing the loosely-defined plan could kill jobs if its architects aren’t careful. The cool response from unions underscores the challenge facing Democratic presidential hopefuls who support […]
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China and India Lead The Way In Global Greening
Read moreThe world is literally a greener place than it was twenty years ago, and data from NASA satellites has revealed a counterintuitive source for much of this new foliage. A new study shows that China and India—the world’s most populous countries—are leading the increase in greening on land. The effect comes mostly from ambitious tree-planting […]
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Old Warmth In The Sea And New Cold In The Living Room
Read moreIn January 2019, Science published a work worth reading entitled “The Little Ice Age and the 20th-century deep Pacific cooling”. The result: the Pacific has cooled down in depth from 1870 until today, the Atlantic has not. The circulation of the deep sea means that the Pacific depths are still influenced today by the Medieval […]
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‘Insect Collapse’: “Hyper-Alarming” Study Was Hype
Read moreCalls for withdrawal of “insect collapse” paper London, 11 February: The scientific paper behind newspaper claims that insect populations were threatened with extinction was based on data known to be unreliable. That’s according to the Global Warming Policy Foundation, which today called for the paper to be withdrawn. The paper, by US scientists Bradford C Lister and […]
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Green Madness: UK Government Accused Of Killing Shale Revolution
Read moreTHE GOVERNMENT has been accused of killing the fracking revolution by forcing drilling firms to suspend work over tiny tremors. It comes after a group of 49 scientists urged ministers to urgently review the fracking earthquake limit Current rules force fracking firms to stop drilling if tremors reach 0.5 on the Richter scale. Professor Quentin […]
