http://ccgi.newbery1.plus.com/blog Climate, the countryside and landscapes Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:47:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en An update on the progress of Kemble Air Services attempts to bring Llanbedr Airfield back to life makes depressing reading. Airfield application decision due On 3rd November, the BBC website had a story that  the Snowdonia National Park Authority was seeking further specialist legal advice on applications to grant certificates of lawful ... http://ccgi.newbery1.plus.com/blog/?p=235 [Peter has very kindly sent me his impressions of the lecture. Many thanks, TonyN] I went to the Plimer Lecture organised by The Spectator and thought I would share some of my first impressions.I arrived early with my son Leo and we were ushered into the reception area for drinks; not ... http://ccgi.newbery1.plus.com/blog/?p=234 At a time when we are all meant to be good disciples of the new climate change orthodoxy you would think that a lecture by a leading sceptic filling a large lecture hall in London might be newsworthy. Well it certainly isn't at the BBC. I was doing he usual start-of-day ... http://ccgi.newbery1.plus.com/blog/?p=233 In the first part of his new book, Peter Taylor scrutinises the scientific research that underpins concern about global warming and finds that it is unconvincing. This extract, taken from the second part of the book, looks at the political dynamics that have promoted global warming to the top of ... http://ccgi.newbery1.plus.com/blog/?p=231 Last week it became clear that the Advertising Standards Authority had launched an inquiry into the Government's £6m TV advertising campaign aimed at climate change sceptics. Now it appears that the UK broadcasting regulator, Ofcom, will also investigate complaints that the advert is politically motivated and therefore breeches the ban ... http://ccgi.newbery1.plus.com/blog/?p=230 [Back in December 2007, Dr David Whitehouse, who was for many years a science correspondent and then science editor at the BBC, wrote a very controversial article for the New Statesman entitled ‘Has Global Warming Stopped?'. This sparked a heated blog debate that accumulated some 3000 comments before the New ... http://ccgi.newbery1.plus.com/blog/?p=229 From the TIMESONLINE website: Climate change sceptics are to be targeted in a hard-hitting government advertising campaign that will be the first to state unequivocally that Man is causing global warming and endangering life on Earth. The £6 million campaign, which begins tonight in the prime ITV1 slot during Coronation Street, ... http://ccgi.newbery1.plus.com/blog/?p=228 When I am watching the day-to-day unfolding of the AGW controversy it often seems that things are moving slowly and not much is happening. All that changes if I come back after three weeks away and try to catch up. Here are a few things that have caught my eye. At Climate ... http://ccgi.newbery1.plus.com/blog/?p=227 I only got home last night after being out of the country for most of the last two and a half weeks. It may take a while to catch up, so if I have  missed anything important or urgent please leave a comment here. http://ccgi.newbery1.plus.com/blog/?p=226 In December of last year I posted about the efforts at the Poznan Conference (here)  to prepare the way for a successor to the Kyoto Treaty. This was scheduled to be agreed at Copenhagen this December. I suggested that at a time of economic crisis, politicians and activists would find ... http://ccgi.newbery1.plus.com/blog/?p=223