Tim Worstall

Are you saying that the scientific community, through the IPCC, is asking the world to restructure its entire mode of producing and consuming energy and yet hasn’t done a scientific uncertainty analysis?
Yes.

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Or is there something terribly wrong with this idea?
Huge quantities of methane below the Arctic seabed are showing signs of destabilising, according to research conducted in the East Siberian Sea.
Scientists aboard Russian icebreakers have discovered that methane is leaking from the sub-sea permafrost far faster than had been previously estimated, [...]

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Via Richard.
No, they didn’t did they?
Sustainable Cities: Options for Responding to Climate cHange Impacts and Outcomes (SCORCHIO)
Yes, they did.

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In the Express.
Even if the climate science is correct, and awful lot of what we’re told we must do about it isn’t.

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As you will know, you well informed people you, the government provides different levels of subsidy for different renewable/non CO2 polluting technologies. What you might not realise is that they are cretins for doing so:
Ms Thompson said: “We are not confident that the [subsidy] regime for what is one of the cheapest forms of renewable [...]

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Big new report from the UN.
The cost of pollution and other damage to the natural environment caused by the world’s biggest companies would wipe out more than one-third of their profits if they were held financially accountable, a major unpublished study for the United Nations has found.
OK, they make the usual mistakes: they’re counting all [...]

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The environmental audit committee is calling on the government to introduce measures such as a new carbon tax to push the price of carbon from its level of €15 (£13) a tonne to what the MPs see as a more credible price of €100.
Tim Yeo, chairman of the committee, said: “Emissions trading should be helping [...]

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And writing the editorials too:
There are many excellent reasons to effect the transition to a low-carbon economy: cleaner air, economic independence from oil-exporting states, cheaper energy….
Jebus, if low carbon energy were in fact cheaper then we wouldn’t be having a problem, would we? We could do away with cap and trade, carbon taxes, subsidies and [...]

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There are four sides to the debate. At one extreme are those convinced that global warming is a massive hoax, got up by a worldwide conspiracy of scientists and governments. Since nothing will convince them it is real, they are often called deniers. They rightly object [...]

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This is making waves.
However, according to my man who knows (Hi Professor!) it really was just a typo. And a typo that once corrected does not change the calculations whatever the other problems with the Stern Review.
The correct number was used in the sums n’ stuff while the incorrect one was printed in the tables.

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Quite simply, we cannot have economic growth because it’ll cause climate change. Thus we must stop economic growth.
In slightly more detail, economic growth necessarily means that we’ll go over 2 oC of warming and thus Flipper will boil as the oceans evanesce into the atmosphere.
Thus we should stop economic growth.
I refute it thusly:
The IPCC tells [...]

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At the back of my mind has always been the thought that technology will make the whole low carbon thing entirely redundant. We’ll move away from fossil fuels because we find something better, not because we want to stop emitting CO2.
No doubt this is the result of too much science fiction consumed as an adolescent.
Or [...]

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“They can’t attack the science so they attack the chairman. But they won’t sink me. I am the unsinkable Molly Brown. In fact, I will float much higher.”
- Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the IPCC,

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However, he said that the mistake, included in its 2007 assessment global warming, did not alter the broad picture of man-made climate change.
He told the BBC: “I don’t see how one mistake in a 3,000-page report can damage the credibility of the overall report.
“Some people will attempt to use [...]

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Britain’s freezing weather: worst snow for 50 years paralyses transport networks
Uhn Hunh.
And, umm, how are those windmills doing in keeping us all warm then?
Wind, in all its glory, managed to deliver a risible 0.4 percent – which is hardly even a rounding error and amounts to an insignificant contribution to the national electricity supply. Producing [...]

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These astonishing images from Sir David Attenborough’s long awaited Frozen Planet series could be the last time many species are filmed in their natural habitats because of the devastating effects of global warming, the show’s producer has claimed.
The Telegraph illustrates this with a picture of a dog.
Very threatened is the dog’s habitat.

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The fact that low-carbon lifestyles are both healthier and cheaper gives politicians plenty to work with.
If low carbon lifestyles were in fact cheaper then we’d all be doing it, wouldn’t we? There wouldn’t be any fuss about taxes, subsidies, forcing people to do things, legally binding treaties and all the rest.
The incentive to go [...]

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Asked last week by the BBC about these emails, King would say only that their leak and publication in the run-up to the Copenhagen summit had to be the work of some malign national agency (the CIA? The Russians?). Since we know that a Briton with Asperger’s syndrome, working on a domestic [...]

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Politics is being weighed in the balance and found wanting.
There really are problems which politics will not and cannot solve.
It’s not just this climate change thing either: there’s a whole raft of things out there which people identify as problems (say, the gender pay gap) and which are simply not solvable by the political process [...]

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Around 2,000 passengers were trapped in the Channel Tunnel overnight as four Eurostar trains broke down amid freezing temperatures that have brought travel chaos to Britain.
Is this too much of it ot not enough?

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