The Committee on Climate Change has released a new brochure, Reducing UK emissions, described as a “2018 Progress Report to Parliament”. It’s a long document – 267 pages – but it has four messages to the Government at the front, one of which is this graphic: Yes, they really are claiming that adding more wind turbines … Continue reading "Committee on Climate Change Misleads Parliament and Public"
via Climate Scepticism
June 28, 2018 at 11:49AM
WUWT regular Mumbles McGuirck writes: Last night NOVA (PBS) ran it’s newest episode “Rise of the Superstorms”, a look back at the 2017 hurricane season. I watched it so you don’t have to. Here’s the trailer: The bad news is, from the title on, the assumption by the writer and director that Harvey, Irma, and…
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June 28, 2018 at 11:46AM
A decade on from the country’s climate change act, greenhouse gases from electricity generation are falling but virtually every other sector has failed to pull its weight.
In its latest report, the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) warned the lack of support for simple, cheap measures such as insulating homes and planting trees would mean skyrocketing future costs for everyone.
The much-anticipated appraisal of the nation’s climate action comes in the wake of controversial decisions on Heathrow expansion and the Swansea Bay tidal lagoon.
Environmental groups and ministers have been highly critical of both actions, and have called the newly released report a “wake up call” after these government decisions showed “how empty their green rhetoric is”.
Striking a far more critical tone than previous reports, the committee said the government must learn from the lessons of the past 10 years and commit to tough new regulations and strict enforcement.
CCC chairman Lord Deben said housing and car companies “should be ashamed of themselves”, and accused construction companies of “cheating” their customers by not providing effective insulation for homes.
via The Global Warming Policy Forum (GWPF)
June 28, 2018 at 11:43AM
Fayette, Iowa is 77 degrees and having an “Excessive Heat Warning.” Their forecast maximum is a blistering hot 86 degrees (30C.)
June 27 temperatures at Fayette have dropped about ten degrees since 1930, and today’s “Excessive Heat” forecast is just above the long mean, and 22 degrees cooler than 1934.
The climate is getting cooler, but the snowflakes are melting.
via The Deplorable Climate Science Blog
June 28, 2018 at 10:17AM
Iowa Climate Science Education 