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Reality Check: Global Oil Demand Reaches Record Levels And is Expected to Keep Increasing
Read moreThe common “Keep It In the Ground” movement claim that “peak oil” demand is imminent was thoroughly debunked by a pair of International Energy Agency (IEA) reports released this week. IEA announced in one report that global oil demand and production crossed the 100 million barrel a day thresholds for the first time ever in the third quarter. And not only […]
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Trump: Climate Scientists Have A ‘Very Big Political Agenda’
Read moreUS President Donald Trump has accused climate change scientists of having a “political agenda” as he cast doubt on whether humans were responsible for the earth’s rising temperatures. But Mr Trump also said he no longer believed climate change was a hoax. The comments, made during an interview with CBS’s 60 Minutes, come less than […]
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Britain’s Met Office Welcomes Audit By Australian Researcher About HadCRUT Errors
Read moreBritain’s Met Office has welcomed an audit from Australian researcher John McLean that claims to have identified serious errors in its HadCRUT global temperature record. The audit said the HadCRUT temperature record, the main global temperature set used by climate models, showed exaggerated warming and was not fit for global studies. “The HadCRUT dataset is […]
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Senior U.S. Policy Makers Question IPCC Alarmism
Read moreAfter the devastation of Hurricane Michael and a recent United Nations report warning of a looming climate crisis, White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow and Sen. Marco Rubio on Sunday questioned the extent of human contribution to rising global temperatures. “I think they overestimate,” Kudlow said of the U.N. report, which found that policy changes […]
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British Government Axes Green Cars Subsidies
Read moreBad news if you want to go green but don’t have thousands of pounds to spend on a car – the Department for Transport has cut a grant for new electric and hybrid cars making them even more expensive. The UK government had been funding a subsidy to make them more affordable, with the most eco-friendly […]
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Rex Murphy: The UN Climate Panel That Cried Wolf Too Often
Read moreYou can’t set multiple deadlines for Doomsday. It’s a kind of one-off by nature. Do it too often and people cease to take notice or even care. Everybody loves the Apocalypse. The idea of the end of the world, the more imminent the better, has always had enthusiastic popular support. For as long as we’ve […]
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Richard Lindzen: ‘Warming Of Any Significance Ceased 20 Years Ago’
Read moreProfessor Lindzen said the IPCC report this week had reduced the alleged tipping point from 2C to 1.5C because there had been no significant warming for 20 years. ‘Warming of any significance ceased about 20 years ago, and 2C warming was looking increasingly unlikely.’ Professor Richard Lindzen slammed conventional thinking on global warming as ‘nonsense’ […]
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Green Campaigners Defeated In Attempt To Block UK Fracking
Read moreAn environmental campaigner has failed in a High Court challenge to temporarily block energy firm Cuadrilla from fracking the UK’s first horizontal shale gas well. A High Court judge has ruled against an injunction sought by environmental campaigner Robert Dennett who had tried to obtain a last minute court order against Cuadrilla to prevent the […]
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BBC Finds Lord Deben Guilty Of Misleading Public
Read moreLord Deben, the Chairman of the influential Committee on Climate Change, has been found guilty by the BBC Executive Complaints Unit of misleading listeners of the Today Programme. The former Environment Secretary claimed that the government were preventing communities that want to build onshore wind farms from doing so: “What on earth is the government doing, saying that […]
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Florida’s Major Hurricane Strikes: No Change In 120 Years
Read moreI’ve updated a plot of Florida major hurricane strikes since 1900 with Hurricane Michael, and the result is that there is still no trend in either intensity or frequency of strikes over the last 118 years: This is based upon National Hurricane Center data. The trend line in intensity is flat, and the trend line […]
