The Met Office finally come clean:

scientists at the Met Office and elsewhere are beginning to understand the effect of the 11-year solar cycle on climate.

“We now believe that [the solar cycle] accounts for 50 per cent of the variability from year to year,” says Scaife.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/35145bee-9d38-11e0-997d-00144feabdc0.html

I examined in detail what drives the climate and I looked at all the available data, from Europe, from USA, from Japan – all data were evaluated, and naturally the global data. It clearly shows that the climate is dominated by the sun, and then on top of that by the oceans, and then a little bit by the CO2 effect. I would estimate it has a magnitude of 10%, for Co2, and not more.

Prof. Horst Malburg at the Gegenwind Conference at the German North Sea island of Sylt
video and transcript

In the Reuters link Lord Beaverbrook posted,

Biogate, FOI refused and circumvented by a leak

The EU has been arguing for two years over the extent of indirect damage to the environment caused by it setting a target of increasing biofuel use to 10 percent of all road fuels by 2020, from less than three percent today.

Its own analysis shows the target may lead to an indirect one-off release of around 1,000 megatonnes of carbon dioxide -- more than twice the annual emissions of Germany.

The emerging picture that the EU has got its policy wrong has proved unpalatable, and the European Commission has refused a Reuters freedom of information request for the latest studies, arguing the public interest of disclosure is insufficient.

However, those documents have now been leaked.

Guardian energy bill shelved, most recommended comments 115 and 93 support dropping bill, supporting comments down below 30.

115

Barpropper
7 July 2011 1:04PM
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"reflects badly on Cameron" I think that most folk would say the opposite?

>> Generally Dave is doing well and going up in the estimation of the public.

.. Maybe when he gets a bit more confident he'll kick the rest of this climate change nonsense into touch for good?

93

Thank goodness! The more delay, the more time for more people to come to their senses about this preposterous legislation. I'd say withdraw it completely. I'd also urge HMG to repeal the even more monstrous and profoundly misguided Climate Change Act.

(Reuters) - Europe's biodiesel industry could be wiped out by EU plans to tackle the unwanted side effects of biofuel production, after studies showed few climate benefits, four papers obtained by Reuters show.

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2011/07/08/us-eu-biofuels-idUKTRE76726B20110708

Wow! Maybe not surprising, but still wow!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/jul/07/energy-bill-shelved

It isn't only climatology: http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&ct2=us%2F0_2_g_5_0_t&gid=INT&bvm=section&usg=AFQjCNHeS4t1m1o3dxy_4b7kcQCQCD-TxQ&did=b106c1beaba41013&cid=8797722720826&ei=qAQXTti1KofEgQec2u5E&rt=HOMEPAGE&vm=STANDARD&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2011%2F07%2F08%2Fhealth%2Fresearch%2F08genes.html

A man who likes a challenge!
Gas Boss: 'Email Me With Price Hike Concerns'

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Business/British-Gas-To-Raise-Gas-Prices-By-18-and-Electricity-Costs-By-16/Article/201107216026640?lpos=Business_First_Home_Article_Teaser_Region_2&lid=ARTICLE_16026640_British_Gas_To_Raise_Gas_Prices_By_18%25_and_Electricity_Costs_By_16%25_

The EU exists in part as a way of ensuring we do not have a repeat of WW2, but as Matthu and earlier myself has shown we just seem to have swapped a single maniac dictator for a cabal of bureaucrats intent on dictatorship.

We may have peace with no threat of war but is the price too high.

The next plan is for the EU to spend 20% of its budget on carbon reduction.

The EU authorities are attempting to muzzle free opinion, first by threatening Fitch, Moody’s, and S&P with vague retribution, and then by drafting restrictive laws to prevent them from publishing unwelcome messages.

It is financial repression, pure and simple. The same will be done to the press in due course. Then to you, dear reader.

“We must break the oligopoly of the rating agencies,” says German finance minister, Wolfgang Schäuble. By “we”, of course, he means the EU apparatus of coercion.

The European Commission has already created a pan-EU oversight body with binding powers to breathe down the necks of these agencies. It will draft restrictive legislation by the end of the year. The Portuguese downgrade ensures that it will be even nastier.”

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/finance/ambroseevans-pritchard/100010742/europe-free-speech-and-the-sinister-repression-of-the-rating-agencies/

Where have we seen all this before?