3/30/13, "Government's climate watchdog launches astonishing attack on the Mail on Sunday... for revealing global warming science is wrong," UK Daily Mail, David Rose
"The official watchdog that advises the Government on greenhouse gas emissions targets has launched an astonishing attack on The Mail on Sunday – for accurately reporting that alarming predictions of global warming are wrong.
We disclosed that although highly influential computer models are still estimating huge rises in world temperatures, there has been no statistically significant increase for more than 16 years.
Despite our revelation earlier this month, backed up by a scientifically researched graph, the Committee on Climate Change still clings to flawed predictions.
Leading the attack is committee member Sir Brian Hoskins, who is also director of the Grantham Institute for Climate Change at Imperial College, London. In a blog on the Committee on Climate Change’s website, Sir Brian insisted: ‘The scientific basis for significant long-term climate risks remains robust, despite the points raised . . . Early and deep cuts in emissions are still required.’
He also claimed our report ‘misunderstood’ the value of computer models. Yet in an interview three years ago, Sir Brian conceded that when he started out as a climate scientist, the models were ‘pretty lousy, and they’re still pretty lousy, really’.
Our graph earlier this month was reproduced from a version first drawn by Dr Ed Hawkins, of the National Centre for Atmospheric Science. Last week it was reprinted as part of a four-page report in The Economist.
The accuracy of computer forecasts is
vital because they influence politicians and their key environmental
advisers on how urgently to act on climate change – and how many
billions of pounds they take from the taxpayer in ‘green’ levies.
The Committee on Climate Change claims such forecasts must be right because world temperatures have previously matched computer models’ ‘outputs’ for most of the past 60 years.
Yet as this newspaper pointed out, for almost all of that 60-year period the models were not making predictions – because they did not yet exist.
Instead, the models had recently been making ‘hindcasts’ – backward projections based on climate simulations and tailored to actual temperatures. The evidence shows the models collapse when they try to forecast the future....
David Whitehouse, of the Global Warming Policy Foundation, said the graph showed models were so unreliable that ‘if this kind of data were from a drugs trial it would have been stopped long ago’.
And last week, The Economist repeated our claims that many scientists now believe that previous estimates of ‘climate sensitivity’ – how much the world will warm each time the level of carbon dioxide doubles – are far too high.
In a key 2007 report, the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change suggested this was most likely to be about 3C, with 4.5C considered ‘likely’. However, recent research suggests the true figure is much lower – between 1.5C and 2C – giving the world many more decades to avoid disaster through effective new technologies.
The Committee on Climate Change, established by the 2008 Climate Change Act, advises the Government on setting ‘carbon budgets’ and CO2 emissions cuts. It is chaired by Lord Deben, who also heads Veolia Water UK, which connects windfarms to the National Grid." via Tom Nelson
The Committee on Climate Change claims such forecasts must be right because world temperatures have previously matched computer models’ ‘outputs’ for most of the past 60 years.
Yet as this newspaper pointed out, for almost all of that 60-year period the models were not making predictions – because they did not yet exist.
Instead, the models had recently been making ‘hindcasts’ – backward projections based on climate simulations and tailored to actual temperatures. The evidence shows the models collapse when they try to forecast the future....
David Whitehouse, of the Global Warming Policy Foundation, said the graph showed models were so unreliable that ‘if this kind of data were from a drugs trial it would have been stopped long ago’.
And last week, The Economist repeated our claims that many scientists now believe that previous estimates of ‘climate sensitivity’ – how much the world will warm each time the level of carbon dioxide doubles – are far too high.
In a key 2007 report, the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change suggested this was most likely to be about 3C, with 4.5C considered ‘likely’. However, recent research suggests the true figure is much lower – between 1.5C and 2C – giving the world many more decades to avoid disaster through effective new technologies.
The Committee on Climate Change, established by the 2008 Climate Change Act, advises the Government on setting ‘carbon budgets’ and CO2 emissions cuts. It is chaired by Lord Deben, who also heads Veolia Water UK, which connects windfarms to the National Grid." via Tom Nelson
graph from UK Daily Mail, data from Nat. Center for Atmospheric Science, Dr. Ed Hawkins
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They don't even pretend anymore. Steep new "climate change" taxes in UK going straight down the tubes to prop up the failed, organized crime infested, completely useless EU carbon trading system and to pay general gov. expenses:
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3/31/13, "Energy bills to soar due to ‘stealth tax’," Scotsman.com, K. Dorsey
"Energy-intensive industries are bracing themselves for a renewed surge in utility bills tomorrow when the UK government’s highly controversial Carbon Price Floor starts feeding through into energy costs.
Lambasted by business and environmental groups as a “stealth tax”, the price floor is expected to raise up to £3.2 billion over the next three years.
Although critics say the funds should be ploughed back into the green energy technologies that the price floor is intended to support, the money will instead be absorbed for general use by the cash-strapped Exchequer....
"Energy-intensive industries are bracing themselves for a renewed surge in utility bills tomorrow when the UK government’s highly controversial Carbon Price Floor starts feeding through into energy costs.
Lambasted by business and environmental groups as a “stealth tax”, the price floor is expected to raise up to £3.2 billion over the next three years.
Although critics say the funds should be ploughed back into the green energy technologies that the price floor is intended to support, the money will instead be absorbed for general use by the cash-strapped Exchequer....
The net effect
will be to take money out of a fragile economy, with firms committing
more of their cash to meet rising operating costs.
“That is the first call, and will come before investment in growth and new jobs,” Murphy added....
“That is the first call, and will come before investment in growth and new jobs,” Murphy added....
The UK government has said it
will compensate those at risk of being driven out of business via a £250
million package of support, but details of how this will work have not
been finalised....
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The UK
levy is intended to drive investment in low-carbon technologies by
propping up the current low price for the “right to pollute” under the
European Union’s Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS)."...
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11/23/11, "Europe's $287 billion carbon 'waste': UBS report," The Australian, by Sid Maher
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"SWISS banking giant UBS says the European Union's emissions trading scheme has cost the continent's consumers $287 billion for "almost zero impact" on cutting carbon emissions."...EU CO2 trading provided "windfall profits" to participants paid for by "electricity customers.""
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"SWISS banking giant UBS says the European Union's emissions trading scheme has cost the continent's consumers $287 billion for "almost zero impact" on cutting carbon emissions."...EU CO2 trading provided "windfall profits" to participants paid for by "electricity customers.""
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12/1/10, "EU Carbon permits missing from registry due to (computer) virus," Reuters, Nina Chestney
"One million European carbon permits (valued at $19.54 million US) have gone missing from the Romanian subsidiary of cement company Holcim's (HOLN.VX) emissions registry account due to a computer virus,
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"One million European carbon permits (valued at $19.54 million US) have gone missing from the Romanian subsidiary of cement company Holcim's (HOLN.VX) emissions registry account due to a computer virus,
- the EU Commission said on Wednesday."...
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2/1/2011, "Austria Asks Sweden to Return Carbon Permits Worth $3.9 Million," Bloomberg, by Johan Carlstrom and Mathew Carr
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"Organized crime may be responsible for theft of European Union emission allowances this month, and national authorities are working with Europol...a top EU climate official said." Sweden admits it has Austria's stolen 'carbon credits' but says it might just be 'a coincidence.'"...
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6/14/11, "Europe tackles huge fraud," Nature, "Regulators scramble to recover millions of euros awarded to fake research projects."
"They are prosecuting members of a
large network accused of pocketing more than €50 million (US$72
million) in EC (European Commission) grants for fake research projects....
Investigations are still under way in the United Kingdom, France,
Greece, Austria, Sweden, Slovenia and Poland."...
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7/16/10, "Carbon Trading Used as Money-Laundering Front," Jakarta Globe
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10/8/10, "Murder on the Carbon Express: Interpol Takes On Emissions Fraud," Mother Jones, M. Schapiro
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10/8/10, "Murder on the Carbon Express: Interpol Takes On Emissions Fraud," Mother Jones, M. Schapiro
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12/10/09, "$7.4 billion lost from carbon trading fraud in Europe." NY Times Green blog
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12/28/10, "Europol Arrests More Than 100 In Carbon Trading Fraud," P. Gosselin, NoTricksZone
"Here’s more proof that trading of CO2 emission certificates is fraught with fraud and attracts seedy criminal organizations – all costing the consumers and taxpayers billions.
Worse yet, it has spread out of control and appears that the authorities can’t keep up."...
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12/28/10, "Europol Arrests More Than 100 In Carbon Trading Fraud," P. Gosselin, NoTricksZone
"Here’s more proof that trading of CO2 emission certificates is fraught with fraud and attracts seedy criminal organizations – all costing the consumers and taxpayers billions.
Worse yet, it has spread out of control and appears that the authorities can’t keep up."...
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11/14/10, "Climate policy distributes the world's new wealth," NZZ, am Sonntag, German press, interview with former co-chair of the UN IPCC Ottmar Edenhofer" a German economist.
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4/20/10, "Buying Carbon offsets may ease eco-guilt but not global warming," CSM, by Doug Struck.
11/14/10, "Climate policy distributes the world's new wealth," NZZ, am Sonntag, German press, interview with former co-chair of the UN IPCC Ottmar Edenhofer" a German economist.
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4/20/10, "Buying Carbon offsets may ease eco-guilt but not global warming," CSM, by Doug Struck.
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4/21/12, "Why [CO2] Emissions Are Declining in the U.S. But Not in Europe," by Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus, newgeography.com
"As we note below in a new article for Yale360, a funny thing happened: U.S. emissions started going down in 2005 and are expected to decline further over the next decade."
"As we note below in a new article for Yale360, a funny thing happened: U.S. emissions started going down in 2005 and are expected to decline further over the next decade."
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""We do worry a lot that there is not much coordination between those working on the taxation, the regulation and the pricing of carbon," said IETA's Derwent."...
5/30/11, "Exclusive: EU energy plan threatens carbon billions," Reuters, Pete Harrison
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5/30/11, "Exclusive: EU energy plan threatens carbon billions," Reuters, Pete Harrison
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"The Europe Union's carbon market could be flooded with excess pollution permits over the next decade, cutting prices in half and depriving governments of billions in budgeted revenues, EU sources say.
"There's a real concern of negative impacts on prices if the issue is not properly addressed," one EU source said on condition of anonymity. "Some of the studies imply that carbon prices will collapse."
It is not clear, however, whether European governments will support measures that would erode carbon prices, which would put a severe dent in budgeted government revenues in 2013-2020."...
"There's a real concern of negative impacts on prices if the issue is not properly addressed," one EU source said on condition of anonymity. "Some of the studies imply that carbon prices will collapse."
It is not clear, however, whether European governments will support measures that would erode carbon prices, which would put a severe dent in budgeted government revenues in 2013-2020."...
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Prince Charles has restructured the UK monarchy's income stream so that a large part of it will derive from offshore wind turbine lease fees. The financial survival of the UK monarchy therefore relies on people believing in CO2 terror. Then there's the EU. Both these parasites, the monarchy and the EU, rely on the world (not just Europeans) believing in non-existent man-caused CO2 terror. Even if such a thing existed, it's entirely in the hands of China. Nothing the UK (or the US) does from now on can effect global CO2 or offset what China does. If the NY Times and Washington Post came out and admitted this, and dropped the whole subject of 'climate,' it would be over.
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10/24/10, “Queen’s £38m a year windfarm windfall,” This is money, by Martin Delgado and Christopher Leake
“Experts predict the growth in offshore windfarms could be worth up to £250m a year to the Crown Estate….’It is wholly inappropriate that the Palace should have such a direct interest in a subject like windfarms, given Prince Charles’s obsession with renewable energy. It raises the question as to
whether he is seeking to increase his
each time he makes a favourable reference to wind power.’”
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Arab Sheikh friend of UK Prince Andrew put millions into wind farm from which UK Royals will profit
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“”Mutual benefit: Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, Sheikh Mohammad bin Zayed al-Nahayan has been friends with Prince Andrew since childhood.”
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10/31/2010, “Andrew’s friend the Abu Dhabi prince – and the £3billion windfarm off Britain that could earn the Queen millions,” UK Daily Mail, Ian Gallagher and George Arbuthnott
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and lobby EU for EU to increase its power:
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"The European Commission is spending millions of euros each year funding
‘civil society’ groups which act as cheerleaders for greater political
and economic integration.
A new report Euro Puppets: The European Commission’s remaking of civil society shows
the extent to which taxpayers’ money is channelled towards
organisations which
campaign for EU institutions to be given more money and power....
The ‘Green 10’ represents the largest of Europe’s environmental lobby groups. All but one of their members receives substantial funding from the EU (proportion of income provided by the EU shown below):
Commenting on the report, its author, Christopher Snowdon, said:
“It is
astonishing that a supposedly democratic body is spending so much
taxpayer money supporting political lobby groups. The EU doesn’t want to
hear what ordinary Europeans think of it so it has created a parody of
civil society which is more supportive.
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“Inevitably, much of this money is spent lobbying for larger budgets for unpopular causes. The question must be asked – why does the EU feel it must spend so much money promoting its own popularity?”"
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campaign for EU institutions to be given more money and power....
The ‘Green 10’ represents the largest of Europe’s environmental lobby groups. All but one of their members receives substantial funding from the EU (proportion of income provided by the EU shown below):
o Birdlife Europe: €332,163 (35%)
o CEE Bankwatch Network: €836,238 (45%)
o Climate Action Network Europe: €295,022 (33%)
o European Environmental Bureau: €894,000 (41%)
o European Federation for Transport and Environment: €275,516 (16%)
o Health and Environment Alliance: €362,992 (59%)
o Friends of the Earth Europe: €1,195,259 (46%)
o Naturefriends: €365,735 (41%)
o WWF European Policy Office: €599,954 (13%)
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Outside Europe,
the EU has awarded grants to such groups as Friends of the Earth
International (€814,243), WWF Pakistan (€1.6 million) and WWF Indonesia
(€0.5 million). ‘The International Federation of Organic Agriculture
Movements’ has been awarded €450,000 to promote organic farming in North
Korea.
80%
of the ‘civil society’ groups which are members of the alliance which
supports the 2013 European Year of Citizens receive funding from the EU.
The majority rely on the EU for more than half of their income.
· The Union of European Federalists received €110,000 (63% of its income).
· The International Union of Socialist Youth receives €50,000 each year from the EU.
· As well as
receiving extensive funding for the World Service, the BBC also received
a specific grant for EU integration of €355,000....
Taxpayers’ money used to promote the EU
Civil society groups in non-member countries are another
funding priority for the Commission. In 2012/13, its Neighbourhood Civil
Society Facility had a €45.3 million budget to be distributed to groups
in Eastern Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. Many EU grants
have been given to projects such as:
· ‘Combating Euroskepticism and Promoting Active European Citizenship’ (Hungary)
· ‘Unite Unite Europe!’ (Serbia)
· ‘Be Active, Be European!’ (Albania)
· ‘Citizen of my country, citizen of my Europe!!’ (Kosovo)"...
Commenting on the report, its author, Christopher Snowdon, said:
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“Inevitably, much of this money is spent lobbying for larger budgets for unpopular causes. The question must be asked – why does the EU feel it must spend so much money promoting its own popularity?”"
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