The fall-out from Al Gore’s winning of the Nobel peace Prize and the High Court Decision continues in the UK. It has emerged that climate skeptics are going to send copies of the controversial and factually-incorrect film The Great Global Warming Swindle, to all secondary schools. The main figure behind the move is Viscount Monckton, … Read More
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BBC Messes Up Again On Gore Story
The BBC is making a real hash of the Al Gore story. Today on Radio Four’s flagship lunch-time news programme, it invited Martin Livermore from the Scientific Alliance, to give an interview on Gore winning the Nobel Prize. As we have blogged on the site, the Scientific Alliance was set up by Scottish quarryman Robert … Read More
Gore and IPCC Win Nobel Peace Prize
They say a week is a long-time in politics, and so it is for ex-politicians. Earlier this week, Al Gore was under fire from a British High Court Judge for making “alarmist” and “exaggerated” claims in his film An Inconvenient Truth. Today, Gore will silence his critics with the announcement that, along with the IPCC, … Read More
Revealed: The Hidden Agenda Behind Al Gore Film Attack
It’s the story many hacks and sceptics have been waiting for: to shoot down Al Gore’s Oscar-winning film, An Inconvenient Truth. Last night, the BBC’s flagship news programme, the Ten O’Clock news, led with the story that a British High Court Judge had ruled that Gore’s film had made “alarmist” and “exaggerated” claims. Sadly, BBC … Read More
Iraqi Oil Law “Passed by End of the Year”
Iraq’s parliament will re-start negotiations next month on the country’s controversial oil law, according to Khaled al-Attiya, the deputy speaker. Attiya said the parliament would take its time to discuss the draft oil law, but he expected it to pass before the end of the year. Attiya, a senior member in the ruling Shi’ite Alliance, … Read More
BBC Adopts “Cowardly” Position on Climate Change
The BBC is under fire for dropping an awareness-raising programme on climate change. The scrapping of the programme, Planet Relief, an awareness-raising broadcast similar in concept to programmes such as the poverty-focused Comic Relief and Live8, and planned for early next year, is a real cop-out by the BBC. Environmentalists and politicians have rightly criticised … Read More
Wolfowitz “Tried to Censor World Bank on Climate”
We know that the Bush administration has consistently tried to water down policy documents on climate change, both home and abroad. Now there is evidence that the White House’s pointman at the bank, the now disgraced Paul Wolfowitz, personally intervened to remove the words “climate change” from the title of a bank progress report and … Read More
Gore Attacks Exxon
Former Vice President Al Gore has criticised some of the world’s largest oil companies, including Exxon for continuing to fund climate sceptics as part of a campaign to mislead the public. “There has been an organized campaign, financed to the tune of about $10 million a year from some of the largest carbon polluters, to … Read More
New Study Counters Climate Sceptics’ Main Argument
The sceptics must be choking on their corn-flakes this morning, as one of their main arguments to counter the mainstream consensus about climate change has yet again been shot down in flames. In building their argument that human activity is not to blame for climate change, the sceptics have argued that the current warming is … Read More
Exxon: We Never Doubted Climate Change
An oil-industry spin doctor is probably not high on peoples’ list of trustworthy people. Probably ranking even lower than real estate agents, journalists and politicians. So you should always take what they say with a large does of salt….especially when the spin doctor works for Exxon. Remember when they said that Prince William Sound was … Read More