Professor Sir David King, the Chief Scientific Advisor to the British Government, has said in a BBC radio interview that global temperatures are likely rise by 3 degrees Celcius, with consequences of drought, famine, water-stress and death.   His forecast is based on new computer modeling undertaken by the UK Meteorological Office’s Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction [...]

Global warming may be getting worse because our air has become cleaner.
It has been suggested that clean air allows more solar energy through the Earth’s atmosphere than polluted air.
This conclusion was presented at the European Geosciences Union General Assembly meeting in Vienna last week, and reported by the BBC yesterday.
If true, it shows how little [...]

The EC is about to launch a spate of legal actions to open Europe’s major energy markets to greater competition, according to today’s Financial Times.
“The action will be particularly welcome in Britain where gas prices rose sharply this winter yet the main gas pipeline linking the UK to the continent remained below capacity as imports [...]