Sacked Paterson Turns to Broken Banker Ridley for Climate Speech Briefings
A scathing attack on the coalition government’s climate change policies launched by sacked environment secretary Owen Paterson was written with the assistance of his brother-in-law and Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) supporter Lord Ridley. The speech, delivered at the Institution of Mechanical Engineers under the shadow of the Houses of Parliament, called for the Climate Change Act to be suspended […]
Fracking Boom Has Had Devastating Consequences For Motorists
A joint investigation by the Houston Chronicle and Houston Public Media shines a light on one of the fracking boom’s lesser known impacts: traffic deaths. With several shale fields in play—including Eagle Ford and Permian Basin, which together are pumping out over 3.2 million barrels per day—Texas has contributed heavily to the fracked oil boom. […]
Australian Treasurer Joe Hockey Latest Minister To Tout Coal Industry "Energy Poverty" Spin
Australia’s Treasurer Joe Hockey barely missed a beat when challenged to justify the country’s massive fossil fuel export industry and bottom-dwelling record for domestic greenhouse gas emissions. “We are exporting coal so that nations can lift their people out of poverty,” the Liberal Treasurer told the journalist Stephen Sackur on the BBC‘s HARDTalk interview program. Hockey’s argument […]
10 Reasons To Remain Skeptical About Lawson’s Climate Advocacy
Lord Lawson (pictured) and his charity the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) will provide a platform from which the sacked environment minister Owen Paterson will launch a scathing attack on David Cameron, the Prime Minister and leader of their Tory party, on the issue of climate change. Paterson used the front page of the Sunday Telegraph to […]
Europe Poised to Press Ahead on Drastic Greenhouse Gas Reductions As Other Nations Lag Behind
Pressure continues to grow for European politicians to agree to further reductions of greenhouse gas emissions between now and 2030. The European Union’s 2020 climate and energy package, which is binding legislation, calls for emissions to be cut by 20 per cent from 1990 levels by 2020. In addition, the plan calls for energy efficiency savings […]
How Margaret Thatcher Came to Sound the Climate Alarm
Margaret Thatcher’s contribution to the climate debate while British Prime Minister would cause her free market fellows considerable difficulty in the coming decades. They would spark speculation that the Prime Minister, in her prime, was taken in by environmentalists. Lord Lawson, then her chancellor, preferred to believe that Thatcher was engaged in a Machiavellian deception of the British […]
Did Louisiana Attorney General Caldwell Miss the CDC Memo That Incineration Kills Ebola?
Louisiana Attorney General Buddy Caldwell got a temporary restraining order to stop the incinerated remains of Ebola victim Thomas Eric Duncan’s belongings from being disposed of in Louisiana. Caldwell’s headline grabbing move was mocked by Mother Jones writer Tim Murphy who bestowed Louisiana with the “Prize for Ebola Fearmongering.” “There are too many unknowns at this point, and it […]
Tar Sands Trade: Kuwait Buys Stake in Alberta As It Opens Own Heavy Oil Spigot
Chevron made waves in the business world when it announced its October 6 sale of 30-percent of its holdings in the Alberta-based Duvernay Shale basin to Kuwait Foreign Petroleum Exploration Company (KUFPEC) for $1.5 billion. It marked the first North American purchase for the Kuwaiti state-owned oil company and yields KUFPEC 330,000 acres of Duvernay shale […]
US Defense Secretary Hagel Outlines Military's Response to Climate Change "Threat Multiplier"
While U.S. politicians continue to disagree on global warming and its potentially catastrophic consequences, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has just released a report saying climate change will have serious implications for national security. “Rising global temperatures, changing precipitation patterns, climbing sea levels, and more extreme weather events will intensify the challenges of global instability, hunger, poverty, […]
Sacked Environment Minister Owen Paterson Provokes Widespread Disbelief
Sacked environment minister Owen Paterson has provoked derision and disbelief at his “perverse” call to scrap the Climate Change Act, according to a report by the Guardian newspaper. Paterson will present the Global Warming Policy Foundation’s annual lecture tomorrow (Wednesday) at the Institution of Mechanical Engineers on Birdcage Walk, Westminster at 7pm, where he will […]