Global warming has shrunk. The Arctic ice cap has grown. Scientists gathering this week face a struggle to persuade sceptics about the scale of climate change to come, writes Jonathan Leake http://www.thegwpf.org/sunday-times-panic/
The government has billed its Green Deal as “the most ambitious home improvement programme since the second world war”, but it has now been revealed that just 12 homeowners are making repayments through its finance package for energy-efficient work carried out on their property. http://www.thegwpf.org/green-fiasco-12-homes-green-deal/
You’ve got to hand it to the climate sceptics. Over the last years they seem to have been winning the battle for public opinion. A new survey shows that the proportion of Britons who believe the world’s climate is not changing has increased almost fourfold since 2005 from four to Read more
Scientists working on a landmark UN report on climate change to be published this week are at loggerheads over their explanation for why the earth’s surface temperature has stopped rising as rapidly as they previously predicted. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/10325562/Row-over-IPCC-report-as-nations-try-to-hide-lack-of-climate-change.html
A windfarm development looks set to get the go-ahead despite 50 objections. http://www.dgstandard.co.uk/galloway-news/news/2013/09/19/windfarm-opposition-to-be-ignored-51311-33860371/
A DINGWALL-BASED civil engineering firm has landed a multi-million-pound contract to help build a 33-turbine wind farm south of Inverness. http://www.ross-shirejournal.co.uk/News/Dingwall-firm-lands-55million-wind-farm-contract-20092013.htm
Last night, Mr Paterson’s office angrily denied that allegation and insisted that Cabinet Secretary Sir Jeremy had never been called in to keep the peace between the pair. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2428672/Top-Whitehall-mandarin-called-series-blazing-rows-cabinet-members-wind-farms.html