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Talk by Prof Roger Pielke Jr. at the GWPF, London 20 July 2017 Filed under: Climate News Tagged: Climate Politics, Energy Policy

South Korea currently obtains around 30 percent of its energy from nuclear power, but with the election of a new president the country seems ready to shift away from that energy source to something a bit safer...

With bitter battles over the confirmations of Scott Pruitt as Environmental Protection Agency administrator or Jeff Sessions as Attorney General, perhaps it shouldn't come as a surprise the Senate confirmed the slightly less...

As divided as Americans are, there is at least one issue on which they can agree. 87% of Americans believe that renewable energy is an important part of their country’s future, while 74% of Americans support a policy of...

Spirit of america / Shutterstock.com As part of a broad-ranging effort to cut carbon emissions over the course of his second term, President Obama is set to announce a plan today for federal agencies to triple their use of...

"Get rid of all the green crap" David Cameron has told his aides. According to today's Sun, at any rate. I'm sure Lynton Crosby will be delighted – even if Downing Street has subsequently issued a careful statement...

Just how stupid does Lynton Crosby think we are? Very, very, VERY stupid, I'm guessing. And perhaps he's right. As part of his ongoing campaign to make the Conservatives more electable, he's inviting us to experience the...

So you're a Tory backbench MP and you chose your career path not for the money (well not unless you're, say, Tim Yeo) but for the cause. You believe in free markets, personal responsibility, rewards for hard work, lower taxes,...

Guest post by Mike Jonas From the UK’s BBC comes this news item: Trillion-euro shortfall facing EU energy sector – Lords Committee Under the obligatory photo of chimneys spewing steam, is a totally uncritical...

  My original headline for this piece was I. BLOODY. TOLD. YOU. SO! but I'll save that for another occasion. All I wanted to note, really, was that these last few days the argument appears to have been going very much...

Photo by Shutterstock By now, most of America has started to shake the Election Night hangover. While it was the wee hours of the morning before President Obama delivered his victory speech, many other victories were won...

My campaign as the Anti Wind Farm candidate in the Corby and East Northants is going very well, thank you. I now have a brilliant website at http://www.delingpoleforcorby.co.uk/ (thanks Donna Edmunds!), a superb election...

This is a guest post by Matthew Kuperus Heun (Calvin College) and Martin de Wit (Stellenbosch University & de Wit Sustainable Options) based on their recent paper in Energy Policy.

Editorial by Dr. Fred Singer Romney can clinch the election by detailing an energy policy that restores jobs, prosperity, and American economic leadership. “To be credible, a reform agenda must have some reform substance.”——————————————————————————————-...

Dr. Steven Chu, head of the US Department of Energy, gave an information-packed, 50-minute speech at the World Renewable Energy Forum in Denver on Wednesday. Speaking to a crowd of renewable energy leaders, Dr. Chu patted...