Oil links of Tory climate denial grandees
Climate denying Tories Lord Nigel Lawson and Peter Lilley MP have close associations with the oil industry. The grandees have 13 years of Cabinet experience.
Climate Change
Zero carbon homes by 2016 as green gloves come off
Labour and Conservative made green announcements today. Low carbon homes will be compulsory by 2016. But George Osborne’s plans faced criticism.
Why Lord Lawson is wrong
A detailed rebuttal of the ridiculous Lord Lawson, a man competely wrong, wrong, wrong, just plain wrong on climate change.
Storm latest • Largest rainfall ever • Evidence of climatic change • More to come in future
The flash floods and storms that hit Cumbria are something we’ll see more of, unless action is taken to deal with global warming, says Envoronment Agency head.
Climatic Research Unit data is valid – don’t let the sceptics tell you otherwise
The data used by the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research unit is perfectly valid. Do not listen to a word the deniers have to say.
Tory MEP hosts “climate sceptics'” conference
In the week a UN study warned of dire consequences for the planet, predicting a 6-deg. rise in the Earth’s temperature, Tory climate-sceptics gather in Europe.
Lansley opposes local wind farm
Andrew Lansley is among campaigners who have opposed a wind farm in Cambridgeshire. It raises new questions about the shadow cabinets commitment to renewables.
TPA more “out of touch” than the Archbishop
Polling evidence reveals that the Archbishop of Canterbury is more in tune with “the British taxpaying public” than the Taxpayers’ Alliance.
Rethinking economic policy
The main themes of the TUC’s ‘Beyond Crisis’ conference were reinforced in an afternoon session. Lord Layard, Andrew Simms & Glenis Willmott MEP all spoke.
Times’ climate change poll contains good news and bad
Times poll showed that 41% of voters think that “climate change is happening & … largely man made.” But the public is more positive on green policy.