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- Obama and the climate change musical Tue, 16 Feb 16, 1:22amRepublicans in the US House of Representatives are currently trying to get a grip on one small part of the Washington bureaucracy by trying to get the National Science Foundation to concentrate on funding useful science...
- Solving the Uruguay mystery Fri, 4 Dec 15, 9:00amAccording to Wikipedia, in 2013, Uruguay had 10MW of wind power capacity out of a total electricity generating capacity of 2337MW. That's 0.4%. Fully 1538MW or 66% was hydro. It suggests wind as a percentage of generating...
- Oz Met Office hacked Wed, 2 Dec 15, 10:45pmThe Australian Bureau of Meteorology has apparently been hacked.
- Hugo's howler, Harrabin's howler Thu, 26 Nov 15, 9:31pmThe Spectator doesn't do a great deal on the climate front, but when it does, it does it very well. At the moment they have a long piece (£, but you may get a free look) by David Rose on Judy Curry, which although containing...
- Greenpeace banned Sat, 7 Nov 15, 2:05amThe latest from the subcontinent is that Prime Minister Modi has finally decided that enough is enough and has banned Greenpeace for good:
- South Australia today, UK tomorrow? Mon, 2 Nov 15, 7:45pmThe authorities in South Australia have been pretty right on in terms of their devotion to the green cause, and the state has been in the forefront of efforts to increase renewables' share of electricity generation...
- Turnbull's not for turning? Mon, 14 Sep 15, 11:50pmIt's all go on the political front. While attention here has been focused on Jeremy Corbyn, in Australia, staunch sceptic Tony Abbott has been ousted by the considerably more eco-emollient Malcolm Turnbull, news that has...
- In Poland, workers and windfarms sit idle Wed, 12 Aug 15, 6:56pmIt's hot in parts of Eastern Europe at the moment - this happens in summertime I believe - and so people are switching on the airconditioning in droves.
- A dampish squib Tue, 4 Aug 15, 6:33pmSo President Obama has a new climate plan out and his fans in the BBC are getting very excited about it. The main thing seems to be a requirement for states to formulate climate plans, but not for a while. There is an even...
- Spanish fail to fly Tue, 28 Jul 15, 10:35pmInteresting news from Spain, where it has been revealed that the country has failed to install a single megawatt of wind power capacity in the last six months...
- Silent economics Mon, 16 Mar 15, 11:30pmGavin Schmidt, a climate scientist at NASA's Goddard Institute, is up in arms today about an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal by the Conservative peer Matt Ridley...
- The environment correspondent's standards Fri, 13 Mar 15, 9:00pmThe FT reports that carbon dioxide emissions remained steady in 2014, despite the global economy having continued to expand.
- French sceptics group launches Sat, 28 Feb 15, 3:44amNot much to go on in the English language as yet, but I gather that a French sceptics group, l'Association Francophone des Climato-optimistes (AFCO) has been launched...
- Ecoterrorism in Canada Thu, 19 Feb 15, 1:33amVia GWPF, we learn that Canadian police are worried about violent extremists in the environmental movement:
- Antifracking: the Russian connection Wed, 28 Jan 15, 7:36pmVia Instapundit comes an article from the Washington Free Beacon which reports that money is being funnelled to anti-fracking activists by a mysterious company in Bermuda with links to the Russian oil business: