Conservative leader David Cameron has issued a statement reiterating his party’s commitment to “tackling carbon emissions” to deal with the “real danger of climate change” and describing the Copenhagen summit as of “historic importance.” (Hat Tip: my splendid new friend Plato Says)
And the party faithful don’t like Cameron’s Copenhagen Kool-Aid Consumption one tiny bit.
Here’s what [...]
Archive for November, 2009
Climategate: the Conservative backlash begins
Sunday, November 29th, 2009Climategate: the IPCC is over says UEA climate scientist
Saturday, November 28th, 2009Could this be the beginning of the end for the IPCC-endorsed AGW scam? UEA climate science professor Mike Hulme has expressed these reservations before. But Climategate is the game-changer that will make people listen. Here’s what he has to say in response to the leaked files:
[Upcoming UN climate conference in Copenhagen] “is about raw politics, [...]
Climategate: sack ‘no longer credible’ Michael Mann from IPCC urges climatologist
Saturday, November 28th, 2009Not everyone shares the BBC’s rosy view of discredited Climategate scientist Michael Mann (inventor of the roundly discredited Hockey Stick graph and unlikely Youtube comedy musical star) (hat tip: Bishop Hill) (Still less will they do so after the gobsmacking revelations by Steve McIntyre that in his latest paper, he’s actually got his data UPSIDE [...]
Climategate: the whitewash begins
Saturday, November 28th, 2009Breaking news from the splendid Bishop Hill. It seems the AGW establishment has launched an urgent damage limitation exercise in order to whitewash the Climategate scandal in time for Copenhagen.
Here’s the (so far unconfirmed) story:
1) Lord Rees (Royal Society) to be asked by UEA to investigate CRU leak.
2) Foreign Office and government leaning heavily on [...]
Climategate: What would the Gipper do?
Saturday, November 28th, 2009Climategate is a Conservative issue.
Conservatives believe in a small state. The Climategate scientists are part of a global conspiracy to expand it.
Conservatives are pragmatists who believe “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” But Al Gore’s AGW agenda is about spending vasts sums of public money on a problem than doesn’t exist.
Conservatives are empiricists, with [...]
The Tory test that all Conservative candidates should pass
Saturday, November 28th, 2009The other day I met the perfect prospective Conservative parliamentary candidate. She was young, she was very bright, she was seriously good-looking and she had a thorough intellectual grasp of Tory values.
“God, you should seriously stand for election. You’d be a shoe-in with Dave Cameron’s new all-female shortlists,” I told her.
“I already tried and they [...]