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Why the BBC will always be wrong on Climate Change

Today I had another go at the BBC for its biased coverage of 'Climate Change', this time venturing into the belly of the beast itself for an interview on Radio 4's Media Show. (God I hate doing programmes on the BBC. If you want to hear me on form, listen to me on US radio where my dangerously conservative views get so much more sympathetic a reception – here, say, from my old mate Greg Garrison).

Anyway, the BBC is clearly very het up about the notion that it's in breach of its code of...

Syed Hasnain, RK Pachauri and the mystery of the non-disappearing glaciers

As my esteemed colleague Geoffrey Lean reported yesterday, the IPCC has egg all over its face thanks to its ludicrously wrong claim that the Himalayan glaciers will have disappeared by 2035, when of course what it really meant was "Er 2350, probably, though we haven't really got a clue. We got the story from New Scientist, which heard it in a phone call with a bloke called Syed Hasnain, and we didn't bother to check because it suited our scaremongering cause just dandily…"

What our Geoffrey...

Just 6 per cent of top Conservative candidates give a stuff about 'reducing Britain's carbon footprint'

At last, some promising news about our likely next Government. Conservative Home has polled the 250 Tory candidates with the most winnable seats on their most important personal priorities in the next election. And guess what? Of the 19 suggested issues, "Reducing Britain's carbon footprint" came right at the bottom of their list.

The candidates were given a list of policy priorities and were asked to give each one of them a rating between 1 and 5, 1 meaning the goal would not be important to ...

'Even though we're completely wrong we're still totally right,' Britain's longest-serving Environment Correspondent graciously concedes

Joy shall there be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth.

But I think what our Dear Lord was talking about was proper, sincere repentance. Not the kind where the sinner – having admitted that the cause he has long stood for is intellectually threadbare, morally dubious, incompetent, mendacious, compromised and corrupt – concludes that everything is still OK and that his party still has right on its side.

Climategate goes American: NOAA, GISS and the mystery of the vanishing weather stations

For those who haven't seen it, here's a link to US weatherman John Coleman's magisterial demolition of the Great AGW Scam. I particularly recommend part 4 because that's the one with all the meat. It shows how temperature readings have been manipulated at the two key climate data centres in the United States – the NASA Goddard Science and Space Institute at Columbia University in New York and the NOAA National Climate Data Center in Ashville, North Carolina. (Hat tip: Platosays)

This is a...

Haiti disaster caused by failure of Copenhagen summit – says actor Danny Glover

You thought it had something to do with tectonic plates. But apparently not according to this dramatic new insight into the Haiti earthquake from the much-loved international star of Lethal Weapon, Lethal Weapon 2, Lethal Weapon 3, Lethal Weapon 4 and Predator 2. (Hat tip: Burgess, via Tim Blair)

"What happened in Haiti could happen to anywhere in the Caribbean because all these island nations are in peril because of global warming."

"When we see what we did at the climate summit in...

Dodgy GISS temperature records exposed: the US Climategate?

Has Climategate moved to the US? Looks like it from this story at Watts Up With That. (Hat tip: R. Campbell)

It reports:

Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that it has obtained internal documents from NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) related to a controversy that erupted in 2007 when Canadian blogger Stephen McIntyre exposed an error in NASA's handling of raw temperature data from 2000-2006 that...

'AGW? I refute it THUS!': Central England Temperatures 1659 to 2009

If there's anyone left you know who STILL believes in Anthropogenic Global Warming, you might want to show them this chart.

The Central England Temperature dataset is the oldest in the world – with 351 years of temperature records drawn from "multiple weather stations located both in urban and rural areas of England, which is considered a decent proxy for Northern Hemisphere temperatures – not perfect, but decent." Climate Cycles Change provides the analysis.

The first characteristic of the...

Delingpole to be appointed Independent's environment correspondent

Toby Young's recent revelation that Rod Liddle is being mooted as the Independent's new editor came as no surprise to me. That's because two weeks ago, Liddle sounded me out as to whether I'd like to be his new Environment Correspondent. Naturally, I said "Yes."

Here are some of his other (planned) key appointments:

Health – Howard Marks

Women's Editor – Kate Moss

Religious Affairs – Geert Wilders

Political Editor – Jeremy Clarkson

Youth Culture – Simon Heffer

Helmand Correspondent – Marcus...

Steven Mosher: the real hero of Climategate?

Steven who?

Well according to a superb and profound piece of investigative journalism by Patrick Courrielche at Big Journalism, he's the eminence grise of the Climategate leak. (Hat tip: PlatoSays)

Few outside the climate skeptic circle have ever heard of Steven Mosher. An open-source software developer, statistical data analyst, and thought of as the spokesperson of the lukewarmer set, Mosher hasn't made any of the mainstream media outlets covering the story of Climategate. But make no...