Yvo de Boer, the UN climate chief during the 2009 Copenhagen climate change talks, said his conversations with scientists working on the next report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change suggested the findings would be shocking. “That report is going to scare the wits out of everyone,” Mr de Boer said in the only…
I don’t often sign web petitions because I’m not sure how much of a difference they might make. But here’s one that I have signed – and I would urge you to make your voice heard, too. Here are some reasons why: First Minister Alex Salmond: Stop the reckless siting of wind turbines in…
According to the Columbia Climate Law blog: Doha COP Report: Friday, December 7 This should have been the last of our reports from the UNFCCC negotiations in Doha, but it is now in the early hours of Saturday, December 8 and it appears that the negotiations are far from over. A message frequently repeated today…
Notwithstanding all the duly recycled little-bit-louder-and-a-whole-lot-worse chapters and verses from the long established “climate bible” on the part of enviro-activists from the UN’s Secretary-General to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)’s chair, Rajendra Pachauri – along with his stable of “objective, transparent, inclusive talent” – it seems that desperate delegates in Doha are down…
Canada’s CBC and the U.K.’s BBC like to wrap themselves in the flag of “public trust”. Yet there are two major issues in which such trust has been shown to be both misplaced and blatantly abused: their coverage of Israel and of “climate change”. Christopher Booker had eloquently documented a number of concerns on the…
Just in case you might have missed it, due to all eyes being on the Doha non-negotiations (or diverted elsewhere), there was a meeting of yet another UN body, albeit of shorter duration, that has just concluded. This was a confab of a body of The United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) which (all…
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