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Norfolk Blogger (Free subscription) | 07/02/2010
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According to reports today , the Conservatives, if elected to power this year, would stop local councils having the right to make planning decisions about new schools, with this power being taken by central government and a minister in London making decisions instead of locally elected councillors. This harks back to the days of Thatcher when powers were routinely taken from councils and centralised...
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AMERICAblog (Free subscription) | 07/02/2010
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The warm and fuzzy face of the Conservatives may not be the same as reality. The Tories may win this year but it might be more of a challenge to hold on than they expect. Their strongest selling point - and it's not to be undervalued - is the fact that they are not Labour. The Guardian : Most Conservative MPs, including at least six members of the shadow cabinet, are sceptical about their party's continued...
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EU Referendum (Free subscription) | 07/02/2010
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No sooner is the Africagate piece up then Bishop Hill comments on it. That brings up further comments which identify this article from the National Geographic News . Confirming the observations of the Tunisian government in its "initial national communication" (where it suggested that rainfall might increase), the National Geographic article is headed: "Sahara Desert Greening Due to...
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EU Referendum (Free subscription) | 06/02/2010
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In all the coverage lately given to the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and its embattled chairman, Dr Rajendra Pachauri, one rather important part of the story has largely been missed, writes Christopher Booker in his column. This is the way in which, in its obsession with climate change, different branches of the UK Government have in recent years been pouring hundreds of millions...
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EU Referendum (Free subscription) | 06/02/2010
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Following an investigation by this blog (and with the story also told in The Sunday Times ), another major "mistake" in the IPCC's benchmark Fourth Assessment Report has emerged. Similar in effect to the erroneous "2035" claim – the year the IPCC claimed that Himalayan glaciers were going to melt – in this instance we find that the IPCC has wrongly claimed that in some...
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EU Referendum (Free subscription) | 07/02/2010
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Playing for public sympathy (I'm just a simple scientist) the poor lamb tells us he considered committing suicide. He gets a very rough ride in the comments. Several make this point: "Anyone tempted to feel sorry for Jones should bear in mind what he wrote when the skeptic John Daly died: "'In an odd way, this is cheering news!'". This one too betrays a certain lack of sympathy: "In...
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Bitterwallet (Free subscription) | 06/02/2010
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In the week when doomsayers predicted that the cost of gas and electricity would shortly rise to a level where it would be cheaper to have liquid platinum piped into your house instead, the government have launched a solar power initiative that could save the lives of millions of penguins and make you some hard [...]
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Green Car Congress (Free subscription) | 07/02/2010
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LA Times. The Southern California Assn. of Governments rejected $11 million in federal stimulus money targeted to build 55 ethanol fueling stations across Southern California, saying it had policy concerns about ethanol as an alternative to gasoline. Corn-based ethanol causes...
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Anorak News (Free subscription) | 06/02/2010
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A story of sex, disaster, onanism, BBC bias, global warming, money and bloggers saving the world...
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Bishop Hill (Free subscription) | 05/02/2010
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Darrel Ince, a professor of computing at the Open University " gets it ". Many climate scientists have refused to publish their computer programs. I suggest is that this is both unscientific behaviour and, equally importantly, ignores a major problem: that scientific software has got a poor reputation for error.
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Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog (Free subscription) | 04/02/2010
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The Guardian has a feature today in which they ask a range of people (me included) for their capsule views on the IPCC and the state climate science. The online version has more complete responses than the print edition. Have a look.
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Bishop Hill (Free subscription) | 04/02/2010
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The Guardian has a short piece by David Leigh et al on the police investigation into the Climategate emails. Leigh has picked up on the comment left on this site by UEA's Paul Dennis, a climatologist who has a much less antagonistic approach to sceptics than his colleagues in CRU. Dennis had commented that he had been interviewed by police. Here's the bit where I get a mention: Dennis has now posted...
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EU Referendum (Free subscription) | 03/02/2010
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Based on a press release issued by the energy regulator Ofgem, multiple news reports today warn of impending power shortages. In the vanguard is the BBC , which also tells us that the regulator has also warned that a significant number of consumers may not be able to afford the higher energy prices they would have to face. Details also emerge in agency copy and outlets such as Bloomberg but nowhere...
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EU Referendum (Free subscription) | 03/02/2010
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For the first time, Indians are experiencing an organised, systematic and vicious attack by powerful and well-funded lobbies in the developed world. These lobbies are aiming to diminish the perception of the impact of global warming and climate change on our common future, and the consequent need to change our lifestyle. Such lifestyle changes will damage the future of many industries, so there are...
