Tim Worstall

Camilla Templeman Adams goes to the North Pole.
Can you spot the error in this video?

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Via, this.
Tsk, tsk, naughty Mr. Booker.

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Leggett goes all renewables on us again.

The oil giants are recarbonising, wilfully choosing to forget both global warming imperatives and the need for renewables in national security terms. Shell pulled out of the biggest offshore UK windfarm yesterday and BP is losing interest in solar and investing in the tar sands - having once refused […]

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Global warming will stop until at least 2015 because of natural variations in the climate, scientists have said.

Snigger.
Ñow there’s actually (at least) three different ways to read this. Firstly, as they themselves describe, things like El Nino and changes in the Gulf Stream change the decadal and annual numbers, but those are simply blips around […]

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M’Kay?
Gosh, I wonder what other fashionable eco-groove we’ll find out is a bad idea?

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Just a quick reminder: we could well be finished soon. Yes, the WWF are back with new results that confirm the worst: the arctic ice caps are melting even faster than we thought. As the ice melts and more of the surface is water, the temperatures rises more because the water can absorbe heat that […]

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Well, yes, there is this problem of diverting to the Continent:

The Treasury has proposed three bands: travel within most of Europe, flights of up to 3,000 miles and those of more than 3,000 miles.
British airlines fear that the changes could lead to millions of passengers taking their business abroad, choosing to change planes at continental […]

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I wonder, I do you know:

Britain is to get its first disposable nappy recycling plant, which will convert the mountain of waste which goes into landfill every day into plastic, cladding and roof tiles. Knowaste, a Canadian company which recycles nappies and other products in the US, plans to invest more than £20m in the […]

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This is causing some confusion:

It denies that there is a conflict between meeting renewables targets and protecting wildlife. But this conflict keeps on happening. The biggest single source of renewable power in the UK would be the tidal barrage that is proposed across the Severn estuary - it could potentially generate 5% of the country’s […]

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In order to rail against he over-fertilisation of lawns, the excessive use of pesticides, Ted Steinberg makes this mindboggling statement:

While some of the company’s claims for the environmental benefits of grass are reasonable - lawns do indeed cool the surrounding air, at least relative to, say, asphalt - others are just plain silly. Exhibit A: […]

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Air passengers could benefit from lower fares after a scathing report from the Competition Commission paved the way for the break up of BAA’s monopoly of British airports.

Geek points for the first person to spot a Greenie arguing that BAA should reamin in one piece in order to stop Gaia boiling.

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Oh dear, these guys don’t seem to have quite grasped the new digital world. A report out today:

Climate change could cause global conflicts as large as the two world wars but lasting for centuries unless the problem is controlled, a leading defence think tank has warned.
The Royal United Services Institute said a tenfold increase in […]

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This is something that’s not often noted with all of these cries to hit hard at those who drive people carriers and the like:

"Many families have three or four children, and they need the space to fit child seats the Government insists on."

If you’ve got more than two kids, you rather need to have a […]

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The European commission is backing away from its insistence on imposing a compulsory 10% quota of biofuels in all petrol and diesel by 2020, a central plank of its programme to lead the world in combating climate change.
Amid a worsening global food crisis exacerbated, say experts and critics, by the race to divert food or […]

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Tony Juniper:

More recently still, however, and based on an analysis of conditions in the past derived from ocean bed sediments and ice cores, leading climatologists led by NASA’s Jim Hansen have suggested that even 350 ppm might dangerous.
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While the climate change sceptics and deniers comprise an ever-dwindling band, they are still undermining our last chance […]

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Or rather the ice upon it:

But her team also found that, when considered over the whole year, the surface meltwater was responsible for only a few per cent of the movement of the glaciers that they monitored. Even at its peak, it appeared to contribute only 15%, and often less, to the annual movement of […]

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This is all really rather amusing.

Japan is celebrating a groundbreaking science experiment in the Arctic permafrost that may eventually reshape the country’s fragile economy and Tokyo’s relationships with the outside world.
For an unprecedented six straight days, a state-backed drilling company has managed to extract industrial quantities of natural gas from underground sources of methane hydrate […]

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If we need to adjust policy in the light of new evidence, we will.

Umm, no you won’t. You’re not the people who get to decide this. Your Masters in Brussels are the people who get to decide.

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This sounds very expensive.

Over the next four years he intends to erect 2,700 turbines across 200,000 acres of the Texan panhandle. The scheme is five times bigger than the world’s current record-holding wind farm and when finished will supply 4,000 megawatts of electricity - enough to power about one million homes.
It’s not just the breathtaking […]

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Alistair Darling has demanded an urgent review of international biofuel programmes as part of a plan to tackle the world’s mounting food crisis. The Chancellor said he had asked the World Bank to produce an analysis - for June’s G7 meeting of global leaders - on the impact of green policies, including America and Europe’s […]

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