Politics Posing as Science: A Preliminary Assessment of the IPCC’s Latest Climate Change Report
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) new Summary for Policymakers (SPM) of its Syn-
thesis Report (SR) should be taken with several chunks of salt...

Fuel poverty will hit 500,000 households
Analysts have warned that householders' energy bills may soar by up to a fifth in the New Year as suppliers pass on a rise in wholesale gas prices. Russian firm Gazprom, which is responsible for supplying a quarter of Europe's gas, said that it expects suppliers to raise charges by February 2008...

Shares in carbon offset business dive after collapse of crucial deal
The fledgling carbon-offset market was undermined yesterday when AgCert International, a producer and seller of certified emission reductions (CERs), said a key deal had collapsed leaving it with an overhang of uncovered liabilities...

A Look at Senate Global Warming Bill
Global warming legislation approved Wednesday by the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee would:_ Require carbon dioxide and other so-called greenhouse gas emissions reduced by 20 percent from 2005 levels by 2020, and 70 percent by 2050...

The Science of Gore's Nobel
What if everyone believes in global warmism only because everyone believes in global warmism?
The Nobel Committee might as well have called it Al Gore's Inner Peace Prize, given the way it seems designed to help him disown his lifelong ambition to become president in favor of a higher calling, as savior of a planet...

For US, Carbon Dioxide Ranks Last Among Climate Factors and is Decreasing
The now familiar plot of the US climate network since 1895 shows a cyclical pattern with a rise from 1895 to a peak near 1930 and decline into the 1970s and then another rise with an apparent peak around 2000. Note the minor warming from the peak in 1930 to the peak in 2000...

Ray of hope: Can the sun save us from global warming?
Could the Sun's inactivity save us from global warming? David Whitehouse explains why solar disempower may be the key to combating climate change.
Something is happening to our Sun. It has to do with sunspots, or rather the activity cycle their coming and going signifies...

Senate Panel OKs Global Warming Bill
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats turned back repeated efforts by Republican senators to soften the economic impact of a global warming bill before advancing it out of a Senate committee on Wednesday...

More on New York Hurricanes
Back in October, we reviewed an article dealing with hurricanes in New York over the past four centuries, and the researchers found that intense Big Apple hurricanes were more common during the much-colder Little Ice Age than today...

The Other Side of Global Warming Alarmism
Thank you for the invitation and the opportunity to address this distinguished audience. I would like to start by stressing how glad I am to be for the first time in the well-known Chatham House which has been the place of so many important talks and discussions in the whole 87 years of its existence...

Let policy follow science: Tie a carbon tax to actual warming
The temperature of the troposphere above the tropics has changed little.
Climate change is one of the most complex topics in science. New insights arise every month. Key discoveries are anticipated in the next few years. Yet politicians seem to think we've learned everything there is to know about the climate. And they keep designing static policy plans based on that assumption...

Power firms accused of emissions trade cheating
The global exchange system designed to cut greenhouse gases through traded carbon credits is being gatecrashed by hundreds of projects that will actually increase the net amount of carbon going into the atmosphere, a report published today finds...