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It is ludicrous to set out soviet-style five-year plans at a sectoral level which specify where you plan to reduce carbon emissions. The state does not have sufficient understanding of the economy to do that well. It’s...

We pay 2.5 times that paid by US consumers, and four times the amount paid in China. We then wonder why high energy businesses, from steel to ceramics, are preferring to invest overseas.

The bureaucrats – without any justification in law – are using the forthcoming General Election as a pretext to cut off the petition at midnight on 29 May, so you will need to get your vote registered online at once.

Putting green political ambitions before any other practical consideration has made us poorer, and is going to create a problem far worse than climate change. 

But as to the period after 2030, the Court found that the legislature had not adopted sufficient targets for GHG reduction, and ordered it to do so!

Just how stupid does Lynton Crosby think we are? Very, very, VERY stupid, I'm guessing. And perhaps he's right. As part of his ongoing campaign to make the Conservatives more electable, he's inviting us to experience the...

There is so much good news about the collapse of the EU's carbon trading scam, that I'm not sure where to begin. But let's start with the fact that it has really, really annoyed Bryony Worthington - the activist from the...

Dear Dame Helen Ghosh, Congratulations on your appointment as £160,000 a year director-general of the National Trust. At the weekend you celebrated by giving an interview in which you declared that "a wind turbine in the...

Josh writes in that he’s completed a series of livetoons on hearings related to the climate change Act (CCact) in Britain. He felt that one witness who testified deserved a separate cartoon to illustrate the impact....

One and a half cheers for George Osborne. As the UK economy prepares to hurl itself off a cliff, he has decided it should do so with a parachute with lots of holes in it. Which is an improvement on his Plan A, which was to...

This is a guest post by Hugh Sharman, an Engineer by trade and editor of the UK focussed energy blog DimWatt. The post appeared earlier on the highly informative web site European Energy Review. The UK desperately needs...

Guest Post by Barry Woods TATA recently announced the loss of 1500 jobs in the steel industry in the UK, with the explanation that this was at least in part because of a price on carbon announced in the setting of Carbon...