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- Dropping costs in renewable tech spurs rapid shift to clean energy Sat, 8 Apr 17, 1:58amWelcome to the clean energy revolution - with or without Trump. A new report from the United Nations Environment Programme, Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF), and Frankfurt School - UNEP Collaborating Centre for Climate...
- Newsbytes: The ‘Climate Reparations Game’ – Poor Countries Walk Out Of UN Climate Summit Thu, 21 Nov 13, 1:41amThe Price Of Climate Hysteria West Faces Liability Claims For Extreme Weather Disasters Representatives of most of the world’s poor countries have walked out of increasingly fractious climate negotiations after the...
- Why and How the IPCC Demonized CO2 with Manufactured Information Thu, 14 Nov 13, 1:19pmGuest essay by Dr. Tim Ball Elaine Dewar spent several days with Maurice Strong at the UN and concluded in her book The Cloak of Green that, “Strong was using the U.N. as a platform to sell a global environment …...
- Water Is Replacing Climate As The Next UN Environmental Resource Scare Sat, 2 Nov 13, 8:11amGuest essay by Dr. Tim Ball The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed and hence clamorous to be led to safety by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. - …...
- UN Warns of Harmful Resource Rush as Arctic Ice Melts at Record Rate Wed, 20 Feb 13, 3:22amPhoto via Shutterstock This week, the United Nations’ Environment Programme released a new report warning that a rush for Arctic resources would threaten an already fragile ecosystem...
- Earth Day Network Plants 350,000 Trees in Uganda, Aims to Plant 10 Million Trees in 5 Years Wed, 19 Dec 12, 7:27amWe all know that trees are great for the environment, but did you know that trees are also good for the social well-being of communities, so much so that they can help to stabilize entire economies? Earth Day Network knows...
- Record high for global carbon emissions – China is the leader Mon, 3 Dec 12, 7:39amFrom the University of East Anglia home of Climatgate and Phil Jones. Fortunately, we already covered this at WUWT graphically as shown below: This graph and subsequent story shows just how well the Kyoto protocol has succeeded,...
- “Sustainable justice” = redistribution of scarcity Tue, 19 Jun 12, 5:47pmThe UN Rio+20 agenda means less freedom, happiness, true justice and human rights progress Guest post by Paul Driessen and Duggan Flanakin Presidential candidate Barack Obama promised that his Administration would “fundamentally...
- Too many cooks spoil the carbon footprint Tue, 10 Apr 12, 2:05amFrom the American Chemical Society it seems that newer is not always better. Even Yale environment360 bought into this idea. I should add that I’m all for reducing carbon soot, but in the zealous rush for solutions,...
- A word from the Government's Chief Scientific Hysteria Promoter Thu, 2 Jun 11, 10:59pm“Britain’s worm population is exploited, under appreciated and underpaid”, says a new report, published today by the Ministry for Climate Change and Alleged Motoring Fine Evasion...
- The UN “disappears” yet another inconvenient climate claim, and once again, botches the cover up Thu, 28 Apr 11, 2:20amIt seems there’s a purge on at the UN to remove failed climate claims. Last week it was the 50 million climate refugees that never materialized and was covered up, this week it’s the poor of Africa they’ve...
- The UN “disappears” 50 million climate refugees, then botches the disappearing attempt Sat, 16 Apr 11, 11:00amHoo boy, government idiocy at its finest. Not only is the original claim bogus, the attempts to disappear it are hilariously inept. Apparently, they’ve never heard of Google Cache at the UN. Rather than simply say “we...
- United Nations Report Says Just 2% of GDP Would Create a Green Economy Thu, 24 Feb 11, 1:38amA new report by the UNEP says that just 2 percent of the global domestic product could move the world from fossil fuel dependency to a low carbon economy.
- Same news, different century Wed, 19 Jan 11, 10:00pmThey say those who don’t learn from history are condemned to repeat it. Read this article in the Vancouver Sun, May 1982, and tell compare to the sorts of news stories we are seeing today about the same topic with …...