Articles Tagged &quot;Lord Lawson&quot;

MET OFFICE MET OFFICE DECADAL FORECAST WORLD TEMPERATURES BENNY PEISER DAVID WHITEHOUSE LORD LAWSON HEADLINE STORY UPDATED

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'Global warming is NOT as bad as feared': Met Office under fire as it claims Earth's temperature is rising more slowly than first thought (and could even have stalled) by Sam Webb and Lewis Smith: Updated

Tuesday, January 8th 2013, 5:40 PM EST

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Global warming is not causing temperatures to rise as quickly as previously feared, the Met Office has claimed.

Today the weather agency released its revised forecast which was quickly seized upon by climate change skeptics who used the data to claim global warming has stopped.

In turn, the scientific community accused them of ignoring the weight of evidence showing that global warming is a reality, and accused the Met Office of 'falling short' of the standards expected of it.

The UK's national weather service recently changed its projections for climate change through to 2017, known as 'decadal forecasting', to show a marked difference to the rate at which the world's temperature will climb.

Updated below with more media links

Source Link: dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech

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AUDIO LORD LAWSON BBC CLIMATEGATE ANDREW MONTFORD STEVE MCINTYRE

MUST LISTEN: ClimateGate Revisited BBC Radio 4

Thursday, November 1st 2012, 4:30 AM EDT

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Over a year left to listen Duration: 28 minutes First broadcast:Wednesday 31 October 2012

Climategate was the term quickly applied in 2009 to the mysterious appearance on the internet of large numbers of emails and documents belonging to some of the world's leading climate scientists.

This happened just a month before the Copenhagen climate change conference, which failed to meet the expectations of many for agreement on international action. The timing may not be coincidental.

Source Link: CLICK THIS LINK for a MUST LISTEN 28 min summary of "ClimateGate" from the BBC

LORD LAWSON ENERGY & FUEL

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Nigel Lawson: Thought we were running out of fossil fuels? New technology means Britain and the U.S. could tap undreamed reserves of gas and oil

Saturday, December 8th 2012, 8:59 AM EST

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Thirty years ago, I was Secretary of State for Energy in Margaret Thatcher’s government, and one way and another I have been a close observer of the energy scene ever since.

In all that time, I have never known a technological revolution as momentous as the breakthrough that has now made it economic to extract gas from shale.

Geologists have long known that shale — a finely grained rock created from compressed mud, which sits in layers — contains, trapped in it, massive amounts of gas, and in some cases, oil.

Source Link: dailymail.co.uk/debate

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MUST SEE VIDEO LINK: Sir Paul Nurse Vs Lord Nigel Lawson on Climate Science

Tuesday, February 19th 2013, 6:22 AM EST

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Ben Pile exposes the weak and misleading comments made recently by Royal Society President Sir Paul Nurse on Lord Nigel Lawson's views on climate science and climate policies.

Aslo goto RepealTheAct.Org.uk and sign EU PETITION

Public appeal calls for suspension of the EU's hugely expensive Climate & Energy Package

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Minister for Government Policy Oliver Letwin Concedes Defeat - Nigel Lawson Wins Climate Policy Bet

Thursday, January 3rd 2013, 5:17 AM EST

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Oliver Letwin, David Cameron’s chief policy adviser, has conceded defeat in a £100 climate policy bet with Nigel Lawson which they had agreed four and a half years ago.

Towards the end of a climate debate between the two Conservative heavy-weights in the July 2008 issue of Standpoint, the following exchange took place:

Oliver Letwin: Nigel can’t know whether there is going to be a successor to Kyoto.

Nigel Lawson: Well, look, there’ll be an international agreement in the sense that there will be platitudes. The acid test is: will there be an agreement to have binding cutbacks for all participants on their carbon emissions? Instead of arguing about it, we could have a wager on it.

Oliver Lewtin: I’d be very happy to have a wager, and I offer you a £100 bet that before either of us is dead, whichever is the first — our estates can pay — we will see a very substantial agreement on carbon reduction.

Source Link: us4.campaign-archive1.com (GWPF Newsletter)

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LORD LAWSON LETTER HEADLINE STORY

Lord Lawson’s Letter To Sir Paul Nurse

Wednesday, February 27th 2013, 6:40 AM EST

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Sir Paul Nurse
President
The Royal Society
6-9 Carlton House Terrace
London SW1Y 5AG
February 25, 2013

Dear Sir Paul

My attention has been drawn to a speech you gave last month at Melbourne University, in which you chose to criticise me by name in terms which bear no relation to the truth. In the interests of accuracy, I have obtained a full transcript. I recognise that, as a distinguished geneticist, you are not a climate scientist, and may therefore feel ill at ease discussing the complex issue of climate policy. But that is no excuse for wanton misrepresentation both of the issues involved and of my own position.

So far as the latter is concerned, you claim that I “would choose two points and say ‘look, no warming’s taking place’, knowing that all the other points that you chose in the 20 years around it would not support his case”. That is a lie. I have always made clear that there was a modest degree of recorded global warming during the 20th century (see, for example, my book An Appeal to Reason, which you have clearly not taken the trouble to read). However, so far from choosing any arbitrary ‘two points’, I was drawing attention to the fact that this warming trend appears to have ceased, since – contrary to the predictions of what you describe as “consensus scientific opinion” – there has been no further recorded global warming at all for at least the past 15 years, as even the IPCC Chairman, Dr Pachauri, has now conceded. Whatever the precise reason for this, it cannot simply be dismissed or denied.

Source Link: thegwpf.org

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The Hounding Of Lord Lawson: Adrian Lee, Daily Express

Wednesday, January 25th 2012, 5:29 AM EST

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Lord Lawson had barely removed his microphone when the vitriolic attacks began.

The veteran politician had just taken part in a calm debate about the merits of extracting gas from shale. During the discussion on the BBC’s Today programme he stated his firmly held view that there has been no global warming so far this century.

It was the catalyst for an outpouring of venom on message boards and social networking sites. In a selection of the printable insults Lord Lawson was described as “a rabid climate change denier”, “a liar” and “a lone nutcase”. One listener even posted: “Why isn’t he dead yet?”

Former Chancellor Lord Lawson celebrates his 80th birthday in March and might be forgiven for wondering, at his time of life, if he really needs to endure all this. His supporters insist he is turning the tide in the bitter debate over the impact of global warming but such is the might of the green lobby there must have been occasions when he felt like a lone voice.

Energy Secretary Chris Huhne has called some of the Foundation’s work “misinformed, wrong and perverse”.

Climate change is a complex issue and it could be decades before there is a definitive answer as to its impact on the planet and the extent to which pollution caused by man is harmful. At the moment there’s much that we can’t explain but it is certainly an emotive issue that polarises opinion.

Source Link: express.co.uk

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James Delingpole: Why isn't Lord Lawson dead yet?

Wednesday, January 25th 2012, 4:27 PM EST

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This isn't me asking, you understand. I'm merely repeating a question someone posted on the internet after Lord Lawson had the temerity to appear on BBC Radio 4's Today programme speaking out in defence of shale gas in a debate with Friends of the Earth's Tony Juniper. (H/T Bishop Hill)

Did anyone on Lawson's side of the debate post similar messages earnestly hoping that Juniper choked on his organic tofu? Or demanding that Friends Of The Earth have its charity status withdrawn because it's quite clearly a viciously misanthropic, anti-capitalist political organisation funded by deep-green ecoloons who given half the chance would have us all living in Maoist peasant collectives while they busily bombed our economy back to the dark ages? I doubt it somehow. Climate realists tend to be far too busy being nice and reasonable and balanced – as Lord Lawson always takes pains to do – to adopt the Alinsky-ite smear tactics adopted by their opponents.

I'm sure Lord Lawson can take consolation from the words of his old boss Margaret Thatcher: "I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left."

Source Link: blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole

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Tim Yeo vs Nigel Lawson: Is There A Valid Economic Case For ‘Going Green’ In An ‘Age Of Austerity’?

Wednesday, February 15th 2012, 5:27 AM EST

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None of the pledges made by the UK Coalition Government upon coming to power in May 2010 were more striking than the following two:

To tackle the nation's finances and bring the budget under control
To be the "greenest government ever".
The argument has raged amongst Conservatives about whether green jobs are the future of the economy and a path to economic prosperity, or the misguided policy of those following a bad science that damages Britain's hopes for financial recovery and heaps cost and misery on the bills of energy company customers all over the UK.

In the 2nd of the CPS' new Debate series, we offer the chance for two leading voices from either side of the argument - Tim Yeo MP and Lord Lawson - to set out their case.

Is there a valid economic case for ‘going green’ in an ‘age of austerity’? We want to know your thoughts!

Read the debate and then get involved in the comments section below. We will be running a poll on our Facebook page and highlighting the best responses on our Twitter feed.

Source Link: cps.org.uk