Al Gore: Junk Science Huckster How double standards mislead Congress with absurd proclamations of Climate Armageddon By Paul Driessen *********************************** House Global Warming Subcommittee Chairman Ed Markey (D-MA) was outraged that a renegade freelance lobbyist had sent a dozen phony letters to members of Congress, urging them to vote against cap-and-trade legislation. Congress will...
The east coast line's fortunes have been revived since it passed from National Express to state ownership, raising hopes of a return to network integration last seen in the days of British Rail Lord Adonis , the transport secretary, has big plans for Britain's largest rail franchise. Asked by the Observer last week if he was considering changes to the government-owned East Coast service, he said:...
The president's approach to the 9/11 trials offers something for everyone-and decisions on nothing. Obama may be the anti-Bush, Lee Siegel argues-but he's failing to govern. Lord Acton once wrote that in a political system's success lie the seeds of...
Former Vice President Al Gore has, to date, refused to debate Lord Christopher Monckton on the subject of global warming. Hoping to “sweeten the pot” for the man who’s made millions hocking predictions about the end of the world coming soon due to man-made climate changed, the folks at the Competitive Enterprise Institute have decided [...]
From Telegraph UK Lord Smith of Finsbury believes that implementing individual carbon allowances for every person will be the most effective way of meeting the targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions. It would involve people being issued with a unique number which they would hand over when purchasing products that contribute to their carbon footprint, such as [...]
I suppose it says something about The Daily Telegraph's admirable commitment to freedom of speech that it let this comment I paste up below through, or possibly, the laxness of its editors. Following a comment piece about the forthcoming trial of the alleged mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, we get this remark, by someone dubbing itself "Lord Barnett": The trial will be a farce,held in New...
POOR old Central Station. One of the official grot-spots of the railway network, according to a report that went straight to Transport Secretary Lord Adonis this week.
. I’m not sure what to make of Gordon Brown’s promise outlined in the Queen’s Speech to end means testing for care at home for the most vulnerable. On the face of it, the scheme is long overdue and, certainly, Brown calls it a ‘breakthrough’. On the other hand, Labour peer Lord Lipsey says that the announcement was a gimmick which has bypassed proposals set out in a Green...
A fortnight ago a delegation from England's 2018 World Cup bid team, led by Lord Triesman, was in Paraguay to visit Dr Nicolas Leoz, the president of the Conmebol federation. Dr Leoz is one of 24 men who will vote on the hosts of the 2018 and 2022 World Cups.
A fortnight ago a delegation from England's 2018 World Cup bid team, led by Lord Triesman, was in Paraguay to visit Dr Nicolas Leoz, the president of the Conmebol federation. Dr Leoz is one of 24 men who will vote on the hosts of the 2018 and 2022 World Cups.
• Chief executive Ian Watmore keen for no job losses • £200m investment in grassroots football unaffected The Football Association board agreed in principle today to cut the organisation's spending by 10% as a means of coping with the summer collapse of the Irish broadcaster Setanta. At today's meeting of the 12-man board, the FA's chief executive, Ian Watmore, presented plans to make...
• Premier League wanted more say in strategy from the start • Bid team seeks commercial partners to bridge £2.5m gap The Premier League is believed to have closed the door on providing extra financial support for England's 2018 World Cup bid. Last week it pledged "wholehearted support", promising to use the power of its global appeal to promote the bid internationally, but...
Richard Lambert says even the Conservatives are not ambitious enough about cutting the Britain's deficit Richard Lambert can see for himself the hole into which public money is being poured. Outside the CBI's offices in London's Centre Point, excavation work is under way on the £16bn Crossrail project to link Heathrow to the City and Canary Wharf. The leader of Britain's premier employers' organisation...
The British National Party mixed up two members of the House of Lords during a hate campaign waged on the internet, it has been revealed Lord Patel of Blackburn (Lab) told peers of his experiences with the ultra-nationalist group during the debate on the Queen's Speech yesterday. "I am myself a great lover of the internet and all that it brings, although I did have some problems of my own last...
Lord Desai came out today and said what we are all probably thinking about unelected PM Gordon Brown. That he is indecisive and weak. However he got the next bit wrong because he claimed that Gordon was put on earth to remind us how good Blair was and this is where I started to get angry. I want to make it perfectly clear from here that I think and have always thought that the whole New Labour exercise...
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