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NIGEL LAWSON: IF CLIMATE CHANGE IS REAL, WE MUST ADAPT, NOT FIGHT NATURE by Julia Hartley-Brewer, Sunday Express

Monday, February 8th 2010, 8:41 AM EST

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NEVER before has the debate over global warming been so bitter or so public.

Climate change sceptics have been rubbing their hands with glee over the recent revelations about dodgy goings-on in the research laboratories and at the UN’s International Panel On Climate Change that suggest all is suddenly not so well with the theory of man-made global warming.

Some of the most alarmist claims about how the world is hurtling towards disaster unless we drastically curb carbon emissions have been shown to be nothing but, well, hot air. These damaging exposes may have shocked the public but were no surprise to Britain’s foremost climate change sceptic, Lord Lawson.

He was one of Margaret Thatcher’s most successful Chancellors and is father of TV chef Nigella. Now, at the age of 77, Lawson, has a new goal: to save the world from itself. His new think tank, the Global Warming Policy Foundation aims “to bring reason, integrity and balance to a debate that has become seriously unbalanced, irrationally alarmist”.

As in Lawson’s best-selling book, An Appeal to Reason: A Cool Look at Global Warming, the foundation argues against the fashionable policy of drastically cutting carbon emissions .

Source Link: express.co.uk

LORD LAWSON PRESS RELEASE CLIMATEGATE

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Press Release: Lord Lawson calls for CRU Inquiry to be held in public from WUWT

Thursday, January 28th 2010, 5:13 PM EST

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LONDON, 28 January 2010 – Lord Lawson, the Chairman of the Global Warming Policy Foundation, has this week written to Sir Muir Russell about the terms of reference and the conduct of his Independent Inquiry into the allegations against the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia.

Lord Lawson said the terms of reference needed to be broadened to cover not just what occurred within the CRU but also the impact externally, including whether the CRU sought to deny opportunities to other scientists to publish dissenting views. The Inquiry should take evidence not just from the CRU but also from those who feel they or their work have been improperly treated or have had information unreasonably denied to them.

Click source to read FULL Press Release from Nigel Lawson of the Global Warming Policy Foundation,

Source Link: wattsupwiththat.com

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Time for a Climate Change Plan B by Nigel Lawson, Wall Street Journal

Tuesday, December 22nd 2009, 4:09 PM EST

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The U.S. president is in deep denial.

The world's political leaders, not least President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Gordon Brown, are in a state of severe, almost clinical, denial. While acknowledging that the outcome of the United Nations climate-change conference in Copenhagen fell short of their demand for a legally binding, enforceable and verifiable global agreement on emissions reductions by developed and developing countries alike, they insist that what has been achieved is a breakthrough and a decisive step forward.

Just one more heave, just one more venue for the great climate-change traveling circus—Mexico City next year—and the job will be done.

Or so we are told. It is, of course, the purest nonsense. The only breakthrough was the political coup for China and India in concluding the anodyne communiqué with the United States behind closed doors, with Brazil and South Africa allowed in the room and Europe left to languish in the cold outside.

Source Link: online.wsj.com

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MUST SEE: BBC: Ed Miliband clashes with Lord Lawson on global warming.

Tuesday, December 8th 2009, 9:07 AM EST

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Many thanks to Nick for sending in this YouTube from the BBC Politics Show on 6th December [LINK]. The BBC link to it could not be found yesterday, and after you see it, it's little wonder why!

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BBC: Ed Miliband clashes with Lord Lawson on global warming.

Monday, December 7th 2009, 9:43 AM EST

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Climate Change Secretary Ed Miliband has clashed with former chancellor Lord Lawson over global warming, ahead of the Copenhagen summit.

They appeared on the BBC's Politics Show, where Lord Lawson, chairman of the Global Warming Policy Foundation, repeated his long-held doubts.

He said there had been "no further warming" since the late 20th Century and dissent should be tolerated.

Mr Miliband accused Lord Lawson of being "profoundly irresponsible".

The energy secretary said Lord Lawson was "spreading doubt" despite a scientific consensus.

"What we've heard from the national academies of the eight leading industrial countries, and the five leading emerging countries, like China and India, is that global warming is man-made and it's happening," he said.

Source Link: news.bbc.co.uk

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Book Review :An Appeal to Reason’ by Nigel Lawson

Wednesday, December 2nd 2009, 5:36 AM EST

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Charles Moore reviews 'An Appeal to Reason’ by Nigel Lawson.

This book appeared last year, but I am reviewing it now because I have noticed that its arguments are beginning to catch fire. It is a well-known feature of British culture that we usually come to the right view about something in the end, but only after we have indulged the wrong view for too long. This helps to explain why Nigel Lawson had such difficulty in getting this book published. But as the Copenhagen summit on climate approaches, people are at last beginning to question whether it can really be true that we have only – as Gordon Brown has said – a few days in which to "save the planet". "Nations will vanish and millions lose their homes to rising seas," shouted a headline in a serious paper yesterday, carefully on time for Copenhagen. But we are wearying of being terrified by what are essentially speculations.

Lord Lawson is highly unusual in being an intellectual who has also held political office at the highest level (he was Mrs Thatcher's chancellor). He can therefore master, dissect and expound argument without forgetting how ideas and ideals can be grotesquely distorted by politics. He was also a good journalist, so he can explain things in clear English.

Source Link: telegraph.co.uk

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Green totalitarianism by Melanie Phillips, UK Spectator

Wednesday, November 25th 2009, 6:04 AM EST

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Lord Lawson was right to call in today’s Times for an inquiry into the global warming scandal. As noted below, through a set of hacked emails a group of some of the most influential scientific proponents of anthropogenic global warming have been revealed to have been manipulating, suppressing and distorting scientific evidence in order to bolster their claim. They in turn have said the email messages have been taken out of context. And with so much material now in the public domain, it is possible that some of it has an innocent explanation. But in an awful lot of it it is hard to see such innocence. As Lawson observes:

There may be a perfectly innocent explanation. But what is clear is that the integrity of the scientific evidence on which not merely the British Government, but other countries, too, through the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, claim to base far-reaching and hugely expensive policy decisions, has been called into question. And the reputation of British science has been seriously tarnished. A high-level independent inquiry must be set up without delay.

Source Link: spectator.co.uk

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Copenhagen will fail – and quite right too by Nigel Lawson, The Times

Monday, November 23rd 2009, 4:21 AM EST

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Even if the science was reliable (which it isn’t), we should not force the world’s poorest countries to cut carbon emissions

Exactly a fortnight from today, the United Nations climate change conference opens in Copenhagen. Its purpose is (or was) clear: to agree a successor to the Kyoto Protocol, which expires in 2012.

Under Kyoto, all those developed nations that ratified the treaty (all, in practice, except the US) agreed to cut their carbon emissions to 5 per cent below 1990 levels by 2012. The successor treaty, to be agreed at Copenhagen, was intended to secure a cut in global emissions, from the developed and developing world alike (and China has now overtaken even the US), of 50 per cent below 1990 levels by 2050, leading to more or less total decarbonisation by the end of the century.

As Gordon Brown declared in his Guildhall speech only a week ago, Copenhagen must “forge a new international agreement ... [which] must contain the full range of commitments required: on emissions reductions by both developed and developing countries, on finance and on verification”.

Source Link: timesonline.co.uk

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Re: Systemic BBC bias and global warming

Sunday, April 5th 2009, 2:51 PM EDT

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The following letter to the BBC has come to us for display...

Within the last few days I’ve received three letters from you - well, specifically from your colleague, Mr. Vander, to be pedantic about it. Two are dated 27 March, of which one is referenced 15439897, and relates to the Non-reporting of International Conference on Climate Change, March 2008. The other is not referenced, but relates to a selection of topics, including general bias. The third (Ref: 16124658) is dated 31 May but, self-evidently, is meant to read 31 March. I must say, with you people, it really is either feast or famine, is it not? Months pass with nothing except the occasional bleat for more time; après ça le déluge! Oh well, better that, I suppose, than the more usual echoing silence.

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