New UN IPCC Chair ‘belongs to a privileged, protected, secretive entity headed by the UN’s former top climate official’
When Hoesung Lee was elected head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) recently, the Seoul-based Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) issued a celebratory press release. Lee – who hails from South Korea – has a seat on one of the GGGI’s governing bodies. But this little-known entity is no mere institute. In fact, […]
Warmist Prof. Alice Bows-Larkin calls for ‘planned recessions’ to fight ‘global warming’: ‘Economic growth needs to be exchanged’ for ‘planned austerity’ – ‘Whole system change’
Alice Bows-Larkin – Senior Lecturer in Energy and Climate Change – University of Manchester (Full Transcript of her talk here) Filmed June 2015 at TED Global London Prof. Alice Bows-Larkin and her colleague Prof. Kevin Anderson have written papers calling for “planned recessions’ to reduce economic growth and thus emissions in order to fight man-made climate […]
Scientist: ‘There Is No Such Thing As A 1000-Year Flood’
Climate Statistician Dr. Matt Briggs: Phrases like “100 year rainfalls” or floods or whatever for whatever period of time are awful. They convey an improper idea of uncertainty. The phrase “X year event” is based on inverting the probability of the event; call that probability p. Thus “X year event” is equal to “1/p year event”, […]
Indian villagers protest Greenpeace solar grid: ‘We want real electricity, not fake electricity!’ – ‘Coal Trumps Solar in India’
M.V. Ramana, a physicist at Princeton University who has studied energy access in India, questioned the ethics of foisting an expensive solution on the poor, who’ve historically contributed so little to global warming. “I strongly encourage [microgrids] for urban, upper classes of people who can afford it,” he said. “But [I would] not do […]
South Africa likens draft UN climate deal to apartheid
http://news.yahoo.com/south-africa-likens-draft-climate-deal-apartheid-153717199.html