”The Triple Challenge Facing the Global Economy”/IMF
”The Triple Challenge Facing the Global Economy” an Address to the High-Level Forum on Sustainable Development http://www.imf.org/external/np/speeches/2013/092413.htm
Ed Miliband has made David Cameron’s anaemic centrism look like bleeding red meat(James Delingpole)/The Telegraph
There are at least two things that bother me about Ed Miliband’s Labour party conference speech yesterday. The first is how much territory it needlessly concedes to David Cameron’s worthless coalition. Obviously I’m not remotely agin Britain being run by a Conservative government, so long as it’s a proper Conservative Read more
Dundee port facilities ‘ready for offshore renewables projects’/the Courier
Dundee’s port facilities are ready to take advantage of opportunities arising from the offshore renewables sector, bosses say. http://news.stv.tv/tayside/240679-wind-turbines-show-dundee-port-ready-for-offshore-renewables-projects/
95 per cent of intelligent people know the new IPCC report is utter drivel(James Delingpole)/The Telegraph
Experts 95 per cent certain ‘humans are responsible for global warming’. Well, of course they are. If there is one overriding prerequisite of every new IPCC Assessment report, it’s to sound even more scary and urgent and certain than its predecessor. http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100237633/95-per-cent-of-intelligent-people-know-the-new-ipcc-report-is-utter-drivel/
Wind farms are a ‘blot’ on ‘God’s creation’, says bishop/The Telegraph
The Bishop of Newcastle, the Right Reverend Martin Wharton, whose diocese in Northumberland includes some of the most dramatic countryside in England, is calling for a moratorium on allowing any more wind farms in the county. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/10332173/Wind-farms-are-a-blot-on-Gods-creation-says-bishop.html
Sustainable Shetland ‘pleased’ as judge rules on Viking wind farm – Shetland Times
[Full judgement at http://www.scotcourts.gov.uk/opinions/2013CSOH158.html ] by Neil Riddell A judge has ruled that the Scottish government failed to take proper account of its obligations under a European bird directive in granting consent for Viking Energy’s 103-turbine windfarm. In a lengthy judgement issued on Tuesday, Lady Clark of Calton stated that Read more
Highlighting the real danger to the country’s precious peatlands – The Herald (letters)
David Ross is correct to highlight the dangers of wildfires to the peat stored in Scotland’s uplands, and the evidence of massive damage in the English Peak District over past decades is a warning (“Peat wildfires are linked to climate change”, The Herald, September 24). As our climate changes, Read more
Energy costs – the hard choices to come – The Financial Times
by Nick Butler Ed Miliband’s comments on energy in his Labour party conference speech on Tuesday have profound implications for policy. The immediate focus will be on the suggestion of a price freeze lasting until 2017. The industry will no doubt focus on the implications of cutting profits and the Read more