I feel like i've been taking crazy pills!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/mar/07/flood-catastrophe-exercise-watermark-emergency

Bernard Ingham Writes To Chris Huhne:

Dear Chris, I’ve been meaning to write this letter for some time.
I am assured on all sides that you have a very good brain and are “an evidence-based economist”. Unfortunately, this does not square with your energy policy.
http://www.anenglishmanscastle.com/archives/009543.html

Anthony Watts gives an encouraging thumbs up from what he has seen of the new BEST (Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature) project, to the extent that he even supplied his surfacestation data in confidence to that team to run conparisons.

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/03/06/briggs-on-berkeleys-best-plus-my-thoughts-from-my-visit-there/

Questions invited for Prof-elect Myles Allen and friends http://www.eci.ox.ac.uk/news/events/linacre11/

Final Session: Perfect Storm "Question Time Panel"

5.30pm Thursday 10 March 2011

Please send your questions to: ridingtheperfectstorm@gmail.com by 12pm Wednesday 9 March 2011

Panel:

* Professor Myles Allen, Professor-elect of Geosystem Science, SoGE, and Leader, Climate Dynamics, Department of Physics, University of Oxford
* Professor Jim Hall, Director ECI, Professor of Climate and Environmental Risks, University of Oxford
* Dr Steve Jennings, Head of Programme Policy Team, Oxfam
* Professor Chris Leaver CBE, Emeritus Professor, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford
* Mr Colin Tudge, Author and co-Founder, Campaign for Real Farming

"Climate Change" and the EU in one article - quelle surprise ...

No ice here ... move along please
http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2011/03/no-ice-here-move-along-please.html

This notice, which is displayed at the entrance to a garden centre, left me totally baffled.

“Bio Mass boiler. Dobbies heat their building with a Bio Mass boiler, which is fuelled with wood chips. Only carbon is omitted when burning this material.”

So they leave the carbon out of the biomass, but only the carbon, before they burn it???

Demand will be controlled, you will be assimilated:
http://www.decc.gov.uk/assets/decc/Consultations/smart-meter-imp-prospectus/225-smart-metering-imp-programme-design.pdf

'Load management capability to deliver demand side management; ability to remotely control electricity load for more sophisticated control of devices in the home'

'Remote disablement and enablement of supply that will support remote switching between credit and pre-pay'

'Support for load control (electricity)
1.19. The high-level functional requirements call for load management capability.
This can be achieved through internal switches in the meter, auxiliary switches close
to the meter or at the appliance level. The smart metering system functional
requirements do not specify a particular solution but instead call for a HAN and WAN
that can support load control commands that can be used as the trigger for the
solutions described above.
1.20. It is envisaged that if there is a preferred scheme for achieving this then the
detailed technical specification will include it. Again, it should be noted that
standards in this area are emerging and it will be important to select a solution with
some level of future proofing.'

In the NY Times (!) http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/05/us/05koch.html
"Koch Industries — which owns oil refineries, pipelines and consumer brands like Dixie cups and Lycra — responded that “it is Greenpeace that is the denier here — denier of any rational and honest dialogue on the underlying scientific debate regarding climate change.” "

Scraping the barrel....

"A 2008 study also projected that global warming will lead to a possible increase in the prevalence of kidney stones due to increased dehydration, although the link hasn't been proven."

http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/03/the_global_warming_health_scar.html

Also on standpoint.

http://www.standpointmag.co.uk/features-janfeb-11-renewables-will-not-keep-the-lights-on-john-constable-wind-power-energy

UK heads down wrong energy path, well someone is starting to listen.