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Is this the most stupid idea ever?
edie.net writes that farmers in Estonia are to pay green taxes on greenhouse gasses emitted by cows.
I didn’t quite believe it as first either, and so I spent a couple of minutes with Google to confirm that it is indeed true. I also notice that a similar scheme was […]

Once in a while we notice something which even the most ardent climate change advocate should really question.
We all know that the world is currently warming, as a result of human activities, right? Well, maybe not. Maybe the world is not warming at all? Anthony Watt, a former meteorologist uncovers an important issue with […]

Although there is an increasing consensus that the greenhouse gas theory is settled, that doesn’t necessarily mean that the current theory of man-made climate change is fully resolved.
In an interesting post at Climate Skeptic (one of the more sensible Red proponents) the Skeptic makes the observation that whilst Co2 may has a warming effect […]

Reading the mainstream news today it is easy for the layman to assume that the case for reducing Co2 emissions to combat climate change is complete. These beliefs tend to be enforced by daily stories in the world’s media blaming global warming for every natural disaster or instance of unusual weather.
The danger is that […]

A paper recently published in the British Medical Journal claims that climate change is putting human health at risk, and that this demands an “urgent response”.
Climate change will exacerbate issues such as changes in infectious disease patterns, the effect of worsening food yields and loss of livelihoods, according to the paper entitled “Global Environmental […]

Continuing our commentary on the madness of biofuels we have been happy to note that a group of British Members of Parliament  have come to their senses and are petitioning the EU to rethink their biofuels policy.  The report follows a previous admission from the Environment minister of the European Commission that certain environmental and […]

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is currently touring China, reportedly visiting ‘green’ sites including gas fired power stations – a step forwards from the dirtier coal powered varieties which are mostly powering Chinas’s industrial rise.
During his visit, Mr Brown may also learn some valuable lessons in renewable energy. Whilst the EU is likely to will […]

The EU has at long last admitted that it’s policies on biofuels were a “mistake” and is implementing a policy review to redress the issue. Environment minister of the European Commission Stavros Dimas admitted that certain environmental and social problems associated with biofuels had not been foreseen.
Our view is that the impacts of many green […]

As populations increase, so does the need to produce energy to power our factories, light our homes and support of way of life.
E.On - the UK’s largest energy producer -  have received approval from Kent Medway Council to build a coal fired power station capable of providing electricity to 1.5 million homes. The new power […]

Your TalkClimateChange Red team have recently been a little disappointed at the performance of many of our fellow global warming skeptics having read too many bold statements which are ill supported by evidence.
So we are pleased to be able to bring you a guest post from Matthew Sann of the Glowarming Skeptics blog which presents […]

It’s often hard to be ecologically virtuous. We recently wrote about the things that most people can’t do to prevent climate change, and today we’ve been reading the results of a survey describing the top five sins of climate change.
So once we confess our climate sins, what can we do by way of penance?
We started […]

Between 1974 and 2005 food prices fell by almost 75%. Good news for the whole world, and a good barometer of human progress. Cheap food = well nourished, happy people.
And then came Global Warming.
Global warming threatens our world not by warmer temperatures (historically mankind has prospered in warmer times), but by poorly conceived schemes and […]

The world’s longest running radio soap, The Archers, has been tackling the fallacy of bio-power this week. A brief synopsis follows;

An enlightening article by Ross Clark in The Times this week challenges the popularly held belief that recycling is a  universally environmentally sound good idea.
The article highlights the additional transport emissions of multiple refuse collections for glass, plastic, cardboard, paper and metal. It then goes on to describe numerous studies which have shown the incinerating […]

Leaked documents reveal that British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has been advised to step back from previous commitments to generate 20% of all Europe’s energy from renewable sources.
Government minister John Hutton advises that such energy generation schemes will be prohibitively expensive and face “severe practical difficulties”.
Britain initially backed European renewable energy plans as ex PM […]