Less apparent is Outside’s work in the corporate field, where its activities tend to be rather more covert. “We don’t advertise a lot of the things we do,” says Edwards, who was called in by the University of East Anglia when Climategate blew up. The university’s Climatic Research Unit wanted Outside to fire back some shots on the scientists’ behalf after leaked emails from the unit gave climate change skeptics ammunition and led to an avalanche of negative press about whether global warming was a real possibility. –-
Music Week, 25 September 2010
The British Council is finally going to stop wasting money on useless climate change programmes, which do not have anything to do with its real purpose. Instead the British Council will "focus on its core business areas of arts, English and education and society", says Anne Wozcencraft, BS's acting director of education and society. --
The New Nostradamus of the North, 15 July 2011
Germany is facing the prospect of power shortages and a winter blackout unless it restarts a mothballed nuclear plant, raising doubts over the government's plans to move the country away from atomic energy in the next decade. --
The Daily Telegraph, 14 July 2011
Your granny dies so polar bears may live? I don't think that's the real choice. Your granny is collateral damage in a battle for subsidies built on outdated theories. We have old people dying so that billionaires can assuage their guilt over their carbon footprint? That is simply obscene. --
Nick Grealy, No Hot Air, 15 July 2011
Setting out a low-carbon policy in the UK will have next to zero effect on climate change, whatever the effect of manmade greenhouse gas emissions will be. It will make UK business less competitive and it will push more people into fuel poverty. It may even cost jobs if some firms quit Britain altogether. But never mind, eh? At least British politicians will be setting a ‘moral lead’ on climate change to the rest of the world. --
Rob Lyons, Spiked Online, 14 July 2011
