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Newsbytes from Dr. Benny Peiser at The GWPF: Power companies were under mounting pressure last night to come clean about the green ‘stealth levies’ secretly added to fuel bills – and tell customers exactly how much they are paying for Britain’s climate change revolution. Consumer groups and MPs say energy suppliers should be forced to lay out on household bills how much customers are paying to subsidise green power and to end the UK’s dependence on coal, oil and gas. Energy minister Charles Hendy said: ‘I would welcome more companies including cost breakdowns on bills.’  –David Derbyshire, Daily Mail, 10...

In Maryland, like in many other states, candidates carrying the designation of "libertarian" emerged on the ballot. In Maryland, the libertarian Senate candidate was Kevin Zeese, a former official of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws. He wants the government to leave him alone so he can smoke dope. Generally speaking, libertarians are supposed to favor limited government and low taxes. Yet, the libertarian magazine Reason has astonished many observers by publishing an article that seems to be endorsing global taxes and the world government such a scheme would entail. In an article about the collapse of...

From a dry-as-dust economist such as Sir Nicholas Stern, the apocalyptic language is startling. He warns that, without action to control global warming, we risk disruption to social and economic activity "on a scale similar to those associated with the great wars and the economic depression of the first half of the 20th century".This lurid prognosis sets the tone for his 600-page cost-benefit analysis of climate change and is clearly designed to shatter any sense of complacency we may still harbour towards this contentious issue. Alarmism is never a sound basis for formulating public policy. In fact, the Stern review...

HARD-WORKING families face crippling new bills as the Government fights global warming with a raft of stinging taxes. Shadow Environment Secretary Peter Ainsworth said last night: “We don’t need a programme of green taxes: We need a green programme, full stop. He was speaking after it was revealed that Environment Secretary David Miliband had already drawn up sweeping green tax plans which he has put to Gordon Brown. The move came on the eve of today’s publication of a major study on climate change — which some experts blame on harmful man-made emissions. Tony Blair describes the report — drawn...