The Trouble With Climate Change Denial

  http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/bob-ward/climate-change-denial_b_5554513.html?utm_hp_ref=uk-politics&ir=UK+Politics Bob Ward Policy and Communications Director, Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment Huffington Post 4 July 2014 11:57   Over the past few months, the Global Warming Policy Foundation has been strongly pushing a campaign pamphlet on ‘The trouble with climate change’, written by its founder and chair, Lord Lawson of Blaby. […]

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Open letter to Tony Hall and Director General of the BBC

Open letter to Tony Hall, Lord Hall of Birkenhead and Director General of the BBC, on the platform given to Prof Bob Carter on the World at One programme (Fri 27th Sept 2013). Instigated by the Claverton Group.   We, the undersigned scientists and engineers, write to condemn the appearance of Prof Bob Carter on […]

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Consensus of peer reveiwed scientific paper on climate change

There have been various efforts on this front over the years.  This was one of the key ones: The scientific consensus on climate change by Naomi Oreskes 2004 (looking at papers on climate change): http://www.sciencemag.org/content/306/5702/1686.full “Many details about climate interactions are not well understood, and there are ample grounds for continued research to provide a […]

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The Global Climate 2001-2010, A Decade of Climate Extremes

“The world experienced unprecedented high-impact climate extremes during the 2001-2010 decade, which was the warmest since the start of modern measurements in 1850 and continued an extended period of pronounced global warming. More national temperature records were reported broken than in any previous decade, according to a new report by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).” […]

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Climate change discussion, OECD report, CCS

Hello all The OECD’s report on the global environment to 2050 (available to buy or read online free at http://www.oecd.org/document/11/0,3746,en_2649_37465_49036555_1_1_1_37465,00.html) includes a summary of where we are at with emissions trajectories at the moment.  On the current path, 85% of energy will be provided by fossil fuels in 2050, with an estimated atmospheric CO2 concentration […]

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Papers in Energy Policy from Mark Delucchi and Mark Jacobson, Stanford / California University USA – 100% renewable energy at reasonable prices and timescales

Mark Jacobson and Mark Delucchi recently published two papers in Energy Policy expanding upon our article on 100% wind, water, and solar power for the world, published in Scientific American in November 2009. I am attaching corrected in-press proofs of the articles. Mark and I continue to work on various aspects of this, so we […]

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