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Let's do the Time warp again!

Posted by Graham Thompson — 28 June 2013 at 1:06pm - Comments
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Thanks to petepassword for this Time Magazine spoof cover

So why did David Rose put a forgery of a Time Magazine cover in the Mail on Sunday? Well, the simple answer is that there weren't any real Time covers which supported his point, otherwise I'm sure he would have used one of them. His point was, to quote Michael Crichton, "in the 1970′s (sic) all the climate scientists believed an ice age was coming.”

The subtext being that climate scientists are slightly hysterical doom-mongers who were wrong then and so can be wrong now. I'm sure you can guess who really has the monopoly on wrongness in this debate.

Article tagged as: climate change, climate sceptics

Dear Mail on Sunday, Time is not on your side

Posted by Graham Thompson — 28 June 2013 at 7:00am - Comments

Once in a while, roughly every month or two, Daily Mail journalist David Rose likes to focus his laser-like mind on the twisting swindlers of the so-called scientific community, and write a big exposé of the Great Climate Hoax. He's an expert on hoaxes, and so would never be caught out by one himself. You would think.

Article tagged as: climate change, climate sceptics, David Rose, mail on sunday, time magazine

Cleaner cars vote postponed as Germany secures pit stop for gas guzzlers

Posted by Hugh Mouser — 27 June 2013 at 6:13pm - Comments
Car exhaust fumes
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Clean car vote postponed? We're fuming

It looks like Angela Merkel's call to David Cameron last night has paid off, and the key vote on cleaner cars has been postponed.

Article tagged as: angela merkel, cars, co2 emissions, david cameron, EU, oil, transport

URGENT: is Cameron doing a dangerous last-minute U-turn on cars?

Posted by jamess — 27 June 2013 at 10:50am - Comments
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You want it? You got it..

We've heard from an inside source that Angela Merkel the German Chancellor called Prime Minister David Cameron last night in a bid to block a critical law to make cleaner European cars. Ministers were supposed to agree the law today.

Article tagged as: cameron, cars, climate, emissions, EU, merkel, oil

URGENT: is Cameron doing a dangerous last-minute U-turn on cars?

Posted by jamess — 27 June 2013 at 10:50am - Comments
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You want it? You got it..

We've heard from an inside source that Angela Merkel the German Chancellor called Prime Minister David Cameron last night in a bid to block a critical law to make cleaner European cars. Ministers were supposed to agree the law today.

Article tagged as: cameron, cars, climate, emissions, EU, merkel, oil

On a clear day you can see the future

Posted by Graham Thompson — 24 June 2013 at 4:19pm - Comments
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Borisconi and his chief climate advisor

Borisconi's leadership campaign has struck again, and the Telegraph's somewhat battered reputation for science reporting is again the first casualty.

Article tagged as: boris johnson, climate change, climate sceptics

The final countdown to a decision on law for cleaner cars

Posted by Elena Polisano — 24 June 2013 at 11:01am - Comments
Norman Baker Lewes
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Another day another attempt to kill a clean car law in its tracks.

Or so it seems. Because only the other week I wrote about the German government’s last ditch attempt to sabotage a law that will cut CO2 emissions from cars and provide 400,000 new jobs by 2030 across Europe. Now they're back with round two. No prizes for guessing that they’ve gone for stamina over originality.

Article tagged as: cars, europe, oil

Oil companies: evil or stupid? Lawson weighs in

Posted by Graham Thompson — 19 June 2013 at 3:44pm - Comments
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Lord Lawson: expert witness in the defence of Big Oil

On Tuesday, the Energy Bill we’re all so exercised about (oh yes you are) went for its second reading in the Lords. Their lordships Teverson, Deben, Prescott, Oxburgh and others spoke well. Stern and Worthington are actually worth reading.  

Article tagged as: big oil, climate change, climate sceptics, lord lawson

Standing up to bullying tactics over cleaner cars

Posted by Elena Polisano — 18 June 2013 at 4:22pm - Comments
Banner outside meeting of European environment ministers in Luxembourg
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German environment minister Peter Altmaier is keen to keep gas guzzlers on the road
It was 6.30am in Luxembourg and we were all keen to start. We got into our vans ready to launch our final action for cleaner cars in Europe. But this morning it was different. Instead of a handful of national activists calling on a car company to clean up its act, we went big.

There were thirty of us from across Europe who came together for the whole day to unveil a banner, placards and hand out flyers telling European governments to stand up to the bullying of Germany and its environment minister Peter Altmaier.

Article tagged as: cars, co2 emissions, EU, oil, peter altmaier, transport

The anti-wind Blobby

Posted by Graham Thompson — 17 June 2013 at 4:49pm - Comments
One of John Constable's colleagues
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One of John Constable's colleagues

The Telegraph is yet again trying to pretend that Noel Edmonds’ anti-wind lobby, the cosmically ordered Renewable Energy Foundation, is a reliable source of data. In case you don’t remember, this is the organisation which produces nonsensical made-up ‘reports’ attacking wind power, whilst claiming on their home page to be in the business of promoting renewable energy.<--break->

Article tagged as: climate change, climate sceptics, energy, REF, renewable energy, telegraph
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