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Fracking roundup 27 Aug 2013 | 02:30 pm
There's quite a lot of newspaper coverage of fracking this morning, which will no doubt be of interest to readers. In the Telegraph, Robert Mair, who headed the inquiry by the Royal Society and the R...
A life propagandic 27 Aug 2013 | 01:33 pm
The BBC's Life Scientific strand today featured Joanna Haigh, the Imperial College physicist who studies links between the sun and the climate, although she is not above a bit of propaganda for the gr...
The widening war on...sand 27 Aug 2013 | 12:18 pm
When I wrote about Propublica's rather dishonest rebranding of sand as "crystalline silica" the other day, I thought what I'd stumbled across was just a particularly egregious example of the green tac...
Ads 26 Aug 2013 | 10:18 pm
OK, I did it. Put ads on the site. No, I don't like it either, but the effort I put into it needs to pay, so this is the way it will have to be. (If anyone wants to offer me large sums of money to tak...
The Lib Dem energy policy document 26 Aug 2013 | 12:08 pm
Over the weekend the Liberal Democrats published a new policy paper on how they envisage the energy market developing the next time they are in government. The document gives the impression of having ...
A timely reminder 25 Aug 2013 | 01:14 pm
Also in the Telegraph, and on equally good form, is Christopher Booker, who issues a timely reminder about where the real green menace is: All media eyes were last week focused on that infantile litt...
One turbine per kettle? 25 Aug 2013 | 01:06 pm
The Telegraph is on top form today, looking at the detailed wind power data and finding some horrific results: The Telegraph examined a snapshot of RWE’s own figures on Thursday afternoon last week. ...
Diary date: Meeting the climate change 24 Aug 2013 | 06:10 pm
Here's a diary date for readers in Manchester: Title: Meeting the climate change: Is a low carbon energy future possible? Date: 5 September 2012 2013 Time: 6-8pm Venue: Renold building, Universit....
Pielke Sr and the decline of the AGU 24 Aug 2013 | 12:38 pm
The corruption and decay of the great scientific institutions is a theme that BH returns to from time to time. Many are now little more than vehicles for the political campaigns of their administrator...
Greens back shale 23 Aug 2013 | 08:27 pm
This is a bit of a turnup for the books: One [green] group in Surrey set up to encourage sustainable living has come out in favour of exploration and fracking, the process which may have to be used i...
