The debacle in the Antarctic ice is probably the largest setback for global warming campaigners since Climategate scandal in 2009. http://www.thegwpf.org/ft-antarctic-debacle-biggest-setback-campaigners-climategate/
Congress failed to extend generous tax credits to wind power producers this year after conservatives spent months campaigning to let the subsidies die. http://dailycaller.com/2014/01/02/congress-allows-wind-tax-subsidies-to-fizzle-out/
More than £5.2 million in loans have been written off by the Department of Energy and Climate Change over the past two financial years after companies given advances for energy efficiency projects went into administration. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/10550350/Green-loans-worth-5m-written-off.html
Anna Gault A VIEW towards the world’s oldest surviving sea-washed lighthouse could be “ruined” by a massive windfarm dwarfing the historic tower, planners fear. Turbines planned for 10 miles off the Angus coast would be five times the size of the 200-year-old Bell Rock lighthouse, say Angus Council’s planners. The Read more
It is welcome news that self-catering staycations are growing in popularity (“Self-catering holidays in Scotland prove increasingly popular”, The Herald, December 30) and it is to be hoped that the wilder proponents of wind farms at all costs will take on board your editorial (“Scotland’s special effect”, The Herald December Read more