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Booker: The IPCC declares Greenpeace in our time

What is the link between a beautiful stretch of north Devon countryside, the brother of Diana, Princess of Wales, and that ever more curious body, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change? The starting point for teasing out this … Continue reading

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Booker: The green hijack of the Met Office is crippling Britain

By far the biggest story of recent days, of course, has been the astonishing chaos inflicted, to a greater or lesser extent, on all of our lives by the fact that we are not only enjoying what is predicted to … Continue reading

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Booker: The warmist demands heat up as 'green’ costs soar

It is probably fair to say that, in the real world, the need to fight runaway global warming was not at the top of most people’s agenda last week. The Central England Temperature record, the oldest in the world, showed … Continue reading

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Booker: There are black days ahead for the carbon industry

It might seem mildly entertaining that the media's warmist groupies, led by the BBC, have been so eager to report the latest claims of James Hansen and Phil Jones – of Climategate fame – that 2010 is the hottest year … Continue reading

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Booker: The climate change scare is dying, but do our MPs notice? (2)

Nothing more poignantly reflects the collapse of the great global warming scare than the decision of the Chicago Carbon Exchange, the largest in the world, to stop trading in "carbon" – buying and selling the right of businesses to continue … Continue reading

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Booker: MPs must act on the scandal of seized children

Britain’s social workers took a beating again last week. On the orders of the children’s minister, Tim Loughton, full versions of two harrowing case reviews of the Baby P tragedy were published. They found fault not only with Haringey’s social … Continue reading

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The Thanet wind farm will milk us of billions (1)

In all the publicity given to the opening of “the world’s largest wind farm” off the Kent coast last week, by far the most important and shocking aspect of this vast project was completely overlooked. Over the coming years we … Continue reading

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A cunning bid to shore up the ruins of the IPCC (1)

The Inter-Academy report into the IPCC, led by Rajendra Pachauri, tiptoes around a mighty elephant in the room, argues Christopher Booker. A report on the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, on behalf of the world’s leading scientific academies, last … Continue reading

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Booker: Desperate days for the warmists

Warmists may be winning the big grants, but they’re not winning the argument, says Christopher Booker Ever more risibly desperate become the efforts of the believers in global warming to hold the line for their religion, after the battering it … Continue reading

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Booker: David Cameron learns who's in charge (1)

It is a constant wonder how little people realise the extent to which our lives are now controlled by our real government in Brussels. Last week, when David Cameron attended his first European Council, this was still ignorantly described by … Continue reading

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Booker: The woolly world of Chris Huhne

Two events last week led me to muse on the links between the man who is now our Energy and Climate Change Secretary, Chris Huhne, and the extinction of the woolly mammoth. A team of scientists suggest in Nature Geoscience … Continue reading

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