One of the readers of these posts has asked what I think of the emails emanating from East Anglia University which has appeared to show that some climate data may have been “sexed up” to use a phrase once in vogue. What is the truth?
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Apparently less than half the population of the United Kingdom thinks that climate change is a problem. I suppose that we can compare the positions that people take on climate change to positions that they take on religion. There are believers, atheists and agnostics. The climate change atheists and agnostics make up more than half [...]
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There is plenty of disbelief in the theory of human made climate change in the United Kingdom according to a survey by the University of Cardiff in Wales. It is not hard to understand the reasons for climate change scepticism.
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I wrote yesterday about the renewable energy deniers. They are those who decry wind turbines as useless, solar panels as not productive enough and photovoltaics as too expensive to make sense. I showed, I hope, that denying the utility of renewable on costs grounds alone does not work; there are many hidden costs in traditional [...]
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The real problem that environmentalists face is not the climate change deniers. It is those who think that fossil fuel is cheap and plentiful and with harm. I do not mind those that deny man made global warming and climate change; it is a perfectly respectable view to take and one that has a respectable [...]
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I have written a great deal about energy from the climate change perspective. This has roused, from time to time, the ire of climate change deniers, who have often not bothered to read my views but argue against opinions that I do not hold. However, in all the arguments of those that think that climate [...]
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In London when I was much younger there were two fellows who walked around with sandwich boards, not because of their occupations, but as a result of their preoccupations. One chap’s board had a message that warned against the eating of beans and pulses, which according to this chap were at the root of all [...]
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It is also important to understand that the oceans act as a heat buffer. They store 90% of the heat in the earth’s climate system and release some of it and suck other heat in.
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