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Climate Sceptics Exposed
Andy Rowell
Feb15
It was not probably the Valentine’s present the leading climate sceptic organisation, the Heartland Institute, was expecting. But after years of exploiting ClimateGate and leaks from climate scientists, yesterday they were on the receiving end of their very own leak. The climate denial watch-dog, DeSmogBlog, was leaked details of Heartland’s strategy and funding documents exposing…
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Time to Come Clean, Lord Lawson
Andy Rowell
Jan23
At the end of last week, the British government launched its long awaited consultation on its proposed regulations of lobbyists. The commitment to introduce a statutory register of lobbyists was made in the Coalition agreement in May 2010 between the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats. Nearly two years ago, British Prime Minister, David Cameron warned…
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British MPs to Examine Arctic Drilling Risks
Andy Rowell
Jan10
So the Arctic oil rush gathers apace. The Norwegian oil firm Statoil has made a second big oil discovery in the Barents Sea in less than a year. Statoil confirmed that the new oil find, called Havis, might contain some 200 to 300 million barrels of recoverable oil equivalent. If you add these to the…
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The API doesn’t just threaten Obama, it threatens us all.
Lorne Stockman
Jan05
Yesterday’s presentation by American Petroleum Institute CEO Jack Gerard (right) was reported widely as the oil industry laying down the gauntlet for Obama to approve Keystone XL. The threat was indeed pretty clear. Gerard claimed President Obama would face “huge political consequences” if he denied the permit for the project. But the API’s agenda, which is clearly…
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“Gas & Oil Party” passes Keystone XL poison pill
Steve Kretzmann
Dec14
Yesterday, Republicans and a few Democrats defied a veto threat from President Obama and passed a bill extending a cut in Social Security payroll taxes which also would fast track a decision on the Keystone XL pipeline and give polluters a variety of other gifts. Representative Edward J. Markey, Democrat of Massachusetts, said the Republicans…
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Methane Leaks Alarm Scientists
Andy Rowell
Dec14
In the fallout from the Durban conference, one of the debates I have heard is people debating what keeping warming to 2 degrees means, rather than letting warming increase to 3 degrees or even 4 degrees. One of the answers was that if warming goes above 2 degrees the chances of a runaway greenhouse effect…
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“Dirty” Canada Dumps Kyoto Protocol
Andy Rowell
Dec13
Finally the pretence is over. For years Canada said it cared about climate change at the same time as developing one of the most dirty fuels on the planet, the tar sands. But we knew it was a lie. For years Canada has told European politicians that it is committed to greenhouse gas reductions in…
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Picking over the “Corpse” of the Durban Deal
Andy Rowell
Dec12
The good news is that against all the odds, the Durban climate conference produced a deal. To some the deal is seen as historic, but to many it is once again far too little. But first let’s look at the good news. Many delegates were really pleased after their marathon negotiating session that they had…
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“Time to Leave ‘Fossil’ Canada Behind”
Andy Rowell
Dec08
As Canada continues to push its pro-tar sands message out across North America, Europe, Asia, it was greeted by protests at the COP17 Climate talks in South Africa. Yesterday members of the Canadian Youth Delegation were ejected from the meeting as Canada’s Environment Minister Peter Kent delivered his opening address. Just as Kent began his…
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Record CO2 Emissions and a Deal by … 2020
Andy Rowell
Dec05
The daunting task of somehow creating a meaningful post-Kyoto deal at the Durban climate talks has been made even more urgent by the news that global emissions of carbon dioxide from fossil-fuels jumped by the largest amount on record last year. According to new research by the Global Carbon Project (GCP) emissions of CO2 rose…
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