Peter C. Glover has a way with words that I’ve always admired: he calls a spade a spade. He has an article today in the U.K.’s The Commentator, in which he discusses the weaving and unravelling of the myths of renewable energy. Glover writes: Energy insiders have long known that the notion of ‘renewable energy’…
Amongst the many Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)’s Climate Bible adherents of whom you may not have heard, is a woman by the name of Catherine Happer. She calls herself an “Honorary Research Associate, Glasgow University Media Group at University of Glasgow”. The Scots are somewhat famous for their fierce independence (and/or or the…
Back in March of this year, the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) announced an “innovative initiative” in which participants from around the world are invited to vote on what the priorities should be in a post-2015 world. When I first stumbled across the “For information media • not an official record” of a March 13…
[Please note UPDATE within text below -hro] Rajendra K. Pachauri is the (somewhat unwanted and some would say unqualified) Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The IPCC’s much vaunted – and daunting, if not positively scary – Fifth Assessment Report (AR5), the first volume of which (or rather, the first wave of…
In the race to grasp the unholy grail of “carbon neutrality“, one of the more insidious elements found in various and sundry “Climate Action” plans – and their assorted “offspring” – is the inclusion of provisions such as the following found in British Columbia’s “Climate Action Charter“: (5) In order to contribute to reducing GHG…
As I have documented (here, here and here) previously, during – and after – IPCC-nik, Andrew <we are the vote> Weaver’s campaign as a Green party candidate for election to the British Columbia provincial legislature, Canada’s taxpayer funded national broadcaster, the CBC, has been one of his greatest cheerleaders. Their “reporters” repeatedly made the false…
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