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Leading Scientists Set Out Resource Challenge of Meeting Net Zero Emissions in the UK by 2050

Leading Scientists Set Out Resource Challenge of Meeting Net Zero Emissions in the UK by 2050

First published 5 June 2019 A letter authored by Natural History Museum Head of Earth Sciences Prof Richard Herrington and fellow expert members of SoS MinErals (an interdisciplinary programme of NERC-EPSRC-Newton-FAPESP funded research) has today [5 June 2019] been delivered to the Committee on Climate Change The letter explains that

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Investors Are Backing Uranium for Reliable Emission-Free Electricity

Investors Are Backing Uranium for Reliable Emission-Free Electricity

Ronald Stein cfact.org Ron Stein is an engineer who, drawing upon 25 years of project management and business development experience, launched PTS Advance in 1995. He is an author, engineer, and energy expert who writes frequently on issues of energy and economics. As a reaffirmation of what Abraham Lincoln

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Happy Birthday, Global Warming: Climate Change at 33

Happy Birthday, Global Warming: Climate Change at 33

Rupert Darwall cfact.org Rupert Darwall is a Senior Fellow at the RealClear Foundation. Last month, climate change celebrated its 33rd birthday. On June 23, 1988, NASA scientist James Hansen testified that the greenhouse effect had been detected. “Global Warming Has Begun,” The New York Times declared the next day.

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Weather Eye with John Maunder

Weather Eye with John Maunder

John Maunder sunlive.co.nz Some of the answers to the complexities of the climate system are given in my recently published book Fifteen shades of climate… the fall of the weather dice and the butterfly effect. The following are extracts are from pages 203- 207. When I was in

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The End Is Nigh. In Other News

The End Is Nigh. In Other News

Rodney Hide bassettbrashandhide.com Rodney Hide is former ACT Party leader, and Minister in the National-ACT Government from 2008 to 2011 We were admonished on the blog by “Otway1” for our “seemingly deliberate scientific ignorance” because “[t]he evidence for anthropogenic (manmade) global warming driving climate change is overwhelming.” I

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The Wrong Path

The Wrong Path

Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com Last year Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern declared a “climate emergency” in New Zealand. Now, in response to the Climate Commission’s report outlining how New Zealand should reduce greenhouse gas emissions to meet its United Nations Paris Accord targets, she’s claiming climate change is

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Weather Eye with John Maunder

Weather Eye with John Maunder

John Maunder Some of the answers to the complexities of the climate system are given in my recently published book Fifteen shades of climate… the fall of the weather dice and the butterfly effect. The following are extracts are from pages 197-201. The Greenlandic Vikings’ Apogee The Greenlandic Vikings’ apogee

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Discussing the Weather

Discussing the Weather

Chris Sellars I like to keep an eye on the weather as it’s handy to know which way the wind blows and if a hard rain is gonna fall. I am not qualified though. I don’t call myself an expert or a professional. I have been rained on

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Electric Power Fantasies Are Lining Up

Electric Power Fantasies Are Lining Up

David Wojick cfact.org David Wojick, Ph.D. is an independent analyst working at the intersection of science, technology and policy. Seems like every big policy gun wants to take a shot at fantasizing the decarbonization and electrification of the energy system. No doubt that is where the government policy

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three brown deers

The Blackout Agenda

Viv Forbes forbes@saltbushclub.com Viv Forbes has science and financial qualifications and long business experience and no vested interests in hydrocarbon fuels except as a consumer. Solar power fails every day from sunset to sunrise as well as during rain, hail, snow or dust storms. No matter how much

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Save the Planet: Buy a Coal-Powered EV

Save the Planet: Buy a Coal-Powered EV

As the ideologues in government announce a reverse Robin Hood tax to encourage EV sales, one has to wonder where they were when the ability to think critically was handed out. Stealing from the poor to subsidise the wealthy into smugmobiles is wrong on so many levels and yet the

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The Climate Debacle

The Climate Debacle

We all know about the Climate Commission’s report, which came out last week. It continues with the usual narrative, that we are destroying the planet, and we all have to live like Stone Age people if we wish to survive. The prime minister jumped in with her usual dose

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