Andrew Argyle: IPCC Cools on Global Warming
Few subjects are so controversial and arouse such hostility between debaters as global warming and it’s ‘antidote’, renewable energy. The arguments are complex and many books have been written with...
View ArticleAndrew Argyle: Policymaking OF the policymakers BY the policymakers FOR the...
The Daily Mail reports (19th September 2013) that documents seen by the Associated Press suggest IPCC scientists have been pressurised by governments to ‘explain away’ the 15-year ‘hiatus’ (pause) in...
View ArticleAndrew Argyle: Politicians’ fashions are changing – green is out, red is back
Fashions come and go and politicians, especially, are not exempt. They deftly, imperceptibly, change clothes and colours with the way the electoral wind is blowing. Green, in particular, is now out and...
View ArticleAndrew Argyle: The unnecessary threat to Grangemouth petrochemical
Threatened closure of INEOS’s Grangemouth petrochemical plant has been averted following a humiliating climb-down by the employees’ UNITE union and government intervention culminating in £134 million...
View ArticleAndrew Argyle: Energy panaceas collide wth Scandinavian wealth distribution
The basic proposition that higher levels of atmospheric CO2 are likely to cause modest warming of the order of 1C is reasonably well-established and only a handful of people [which does not include the...
View ArticleAndrew Argyle: Ruth Wishart’s ‘Chicken LIttle’ moment
I couldn’t stop myself from smiling at Ruth Wishart’s heart-rending tale in last Thursday’s, 9th January, Helensburgh Advertiser, of the recent ravages of ‘man-made climate change’ on the Helensburgh...
View ArticleAndrew Argyle: Yes campaign impaled on currency
In Tuesday evening’s [5th August] debate with Alasdair Darling, Alex Salmond railed against food banks in Scotland. He denounced Westminster austerity measures, intimating that John Swinney has...
View ArticleAndrew Argyle: Scottish energy policy – humbug galore
Ongoing ‘Yes’ campaigners are fond of blaming that diabolical triumvirate, Westminster, the banks and shareholders, for increasing levels of fuel poverty and use of food banks in Scotland, labelling...
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