Environment

Micro-chips in wheely-bins

Monday, March 8th, 2010

Climate change may or may not be occurring, but one thing that is accumulating is household and industrial garbage. Much of this is in the form of the dreaded plastic.

Much of this plastic still sadly finds its way into the rivers and streams …read more

Biofuel is not as green as it seems

Monday, March 1st, 2010

According to a report that the Times has seen, the use of biofuel may not be as good for the environment as first thought.

At present the government has a target for us to increase the use of biofuel in the UK. Under the Rehewable Transport Fuels Obligation …read more

The vaquita, an endangered species

Monday, February 22nd, 2010

According to the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), the rate of species extinction is 100-1,000 times higher than natural due to human activities.

In order to highlight this, the WWF has directed its efforts towards ‘Flagship’ and ‘footprint impacted’ species. …read more

Utah condemns the climate alarmists,China ignores them

Monday, February 15th, 2010

The House of Representatives of the US’s officially most Republican state has passed a resolution that “urges the United States Environmental Protection Agency to cease its carbon dioxide reduction policies, programs, and regulations until climate data and global warming science are substantiated”.

Utah’s legislature also “urges the United States Environmental Protection Agency to immediately halt its carbon dioxide reduction policies and programs and withdraw …read more

Plastic soup in our ocean gyres

Sunday, February 7th, 2010

Whilst everyone gossips about whether climate change data has been manipulated or not and traders quietly start making fortunes trading carbon credits, there is an environmental disaster happening right under our noses. …read more

The environment, what do we really know?

Sunday, January 31st, 2010

According to the Times Rajendra Pachauri, the IPCC chairman, knew about the flaws in the Himalaya Glacier report well before the Copenhagen climate summit. The report was a major factor in formulating the summit’s proposals.

The report claimed that most of the Himalayan glaciers would have melted away by 2035. But according to most …read more

Climategate: there may be more errors in the UN glacier report

Saturday, January 23rd, 2010

The case for man-made climate change continues to crumble before our eyes. The head of the UN climate change panel (the IPCC), Dr Fajendra Pachouri has admitted there may be further errors in the now infamous ‘glacier report’. The report which, published in 2007, won the Nobel Peace Prize. …read more

Solar panels and wind turbines are just eco-bling for houses

Wednesday, January 20th, 2010

Professor Doug King of the University of Bath has poured cold water on claims that solar panels and small wind turbines placed on peoples’ houses will reduce the UK’s carbon emissions. In the report, “Engineering a low-carbon built environment – the discipline of building engineering physics”, by the Royal Academy of Engineering …read more

More misleading climate change data

Monday, January 18th, 2010

When you consider how much tax is taken from the UK (and other) population(s) in the name of climate change you suddenly realise what a vested interest the government(s) have in keeping the climate change conveyor belt going. …read more

Global warming to pause, but not the climate change claims

Monday, January 11th, 2010

According to a report in the Daily Telegraph there are a few scientists who believe that global warming is set to ‘pause’ over the two or three decades. This will be a result, according to them, of the cyclical changes that occur in ocean currents.

Professor Mojib Latif of Germany’s Kiel University Leibniz Institute believes these ocean current cycles …read more

Snow falls, the UK panics and shuts down. Why?

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010

As the usual panic sets it because we have a few inches of snow, it is symptomatic of how the welfare state has enfeebled the country. Somebody must be found to take responsibility for this thing called ‘Winter’.

It started last night. The old were told not to panic over heating their homes because the Government are going to give them a couple of extra quid, so that’s a relief.

…read more