GWPF | 12 July 2016 Brexit Threatens EU Climate Policy The speech given by the next Prime Minister this morning contained some important passages setting out what kind of prime minister Theresa May will be. “This is a different kind of Conservatism,” she said, seeking to differentiate herself from David Cameron while remaining true to…
GWPF | 8 July 2016 Germany’s Biggest Energy Company Faces Bankruptcy The “Climate Protection Plan 2050″ is supposed to make Germany’s economy more environmentally friendly. But it is stirring resistance among Christian Democratic leaders who fear the plan endangers Germany’s prosperity and social peace. The CDU politicians claim that the plan is “basically wrong”, that it…
GWPF | 5 July 2016 Britain & Germany May Delay Coal Phase-Out The financial uncertainty triggered by the UK’s vote to leave the EU has sent shudders through virtually every industry, but Europe’s renewable energy sector faces even greater insecurity. The successful Leave campaign was led by several political figures opposed to tackling climate change by…
GWPF | 1 July 2016 Germany Starts Roll-Back Of Climate Policy Britain’s exit dashes the European Union’s leadership ambitions on efforts to slow climate change, leaving the bloc on the sidelines while others endorse the global pact it championed to curb greenhouse gas emissions. Britain’s vote to leave the union has disrupted everyday affairs and…
GWPF | 1 July 2016 Second largest 2-month drop in global average satellite temperatures UAH Global Temperature Update for June 2016: +0.34 deg. C July 1st, 2016 by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D. Second largest 2-month drop in global average satellite temperatures. Largest 2-month drop in tropical average satellite temperatures. NOTE: This is the fifteenth…
GWPF | 28 June 2016 British Solar Industry In Total Free Fall After Subsidy Cuts UK’s probable departure from the EU throws carbon cutting agenda into confusion just as countries were preparing to approve Paris climate agreement. EU envoys will meet in Berlin next week for informal talks on saving the bloc’s reputation as a climate leader.…
The Daily Caller | 16 Feb 2016 “Profound lifestyle changes” i.e. “raising insects as an animal protein source” Fighting global warming will require “profound lifestyle changes” for millions of people, according to leaked European Union documents obtained by The Guardian. “It will require exploring possibilities for realising ‘negative’ emissions as well as profound lifestyle changes…
GWPF | 27 June 2016 Brexit, Climate Alarmism And The GWPF Myth The UK may take a more skeptical approach to addressing man-made climate change in future due to the victory of the “leave” forces in last week’s Brexit referendum to quit the European Union. Prominent leaders of the “leave” campaign — including Conservative MP…
GWPF | 23 June 2016 The Return Of The Global Warming Pause? Even though global average tropospheric temperatures are rapidly falling now as La Nina approaches, it is usually the second calendar year of an El Nino event that is the warmest, especially in the satellite record of tropospheric temperatures. This is because it takes…
Not A Lot Of People Know That | 19 June 2016 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2016GL068356/full A paper recently published attempts to measure the relationship between ice accumulation and temperature in Antarctica for the last 31000 years. The study is based in West Antarctica. I won’t go into the details, which were covered by WUWT here. But what…