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Business, Innovation and Skills: First Capital Connect (12 Nov 2009) has video

Peter Lilley: My constituents will be as grateful to my hon. Friend the Member for St. Albans (Anne Main) as her own will be for bringing the Minister before the House today to answer these questions. My constituents have been flooding me with e-mails complaining about not only cancellations, but short trains, overcrowding and poor communication by the company. Many of them are spending more than...

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Electricity Generation (12 Nov 2009)

Peter Lilley: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what estimate he has made of the proportion of electricity generated (a) in total and (b) from offshore wind farms was lost in transmission to final users in the latest period for which figures are available.

Olympics: Energy National Policy Statements (9 Nov 2009) has video

Peter Lilley: The Secretary of State said that he foresaw 150 MW of wind power capacity being installed. Can he confirm that on average 27 per cent. is the typical usage, so that typically 100 MW of that 150 MW will not be in use at any one moment?

Climate Change (5 Nov 2009) has video

Peter Lilley: rose—

Climate Change (5 Nov 2009) has video

Peter Lilley: And usually right.

Climate Change (5 Nov 2009) has video

Peter Lilley: It was a case for lukewarmism.

Climate Change (5 Nov 2009) has video

Peter Lilley: My hon. Friend asks a question. May I respond in the form of a question? Does he not realise that most medical research is conducted on precisely that sort of statistical basis, in that a product that has only a small chance of causing cancer goes into the public domain, whereas we legislate against products that have a large chance of doing so? I think that global warming is likely to cause...

Climate Change (5 Nov 2009) has video

Peter Lilley: I am afraid the hon. Gentleman's point is wrong. There is a lower support for, or belief in, action to curb climate change in this country than in the United States of America.

Climate Change (5 Nov 2009) has video

Peter Lilley: May I draw the House's attention to my entry in the Register of Members' Interests? I wish to return to the theme of the £6 million advertising campaign on the television which shows a father reading bedtime fairy stories to his little girl. I do not know whether it was a Freudian slip on the part of Ministers to plant in viewers' minds the suggestion that these alarmist stories that...

Climate Change (5 Nov 2009) has video

Peter Lilley: My hon. Friend makes a very good point. The alarmism and the overstatement have caused the problem. As a group of scientists, including the former chief scientist, have recently warned, alarmist overstatement—a refusal to acknowledge the difficulties and uncertainties—is bad for getting the message over and has a counterproductive effect. When I raised the matter with the hon....

Climate Change (5 Nov 2009) has video

Peter Lilley: It does. It is unusual for me—

Climate Change (5 Nov 2009) has video

Peter Lilley: I am a global lukewarmist, and I take seriously—

Climate Change (5 Nov 2009) has video

Peter Lilley: A sort of sceptic, yes. Unlike my right hon. Friend, who is simply credulous. A lot of fairy stories are attached to and latched on to a genuine scientific concern. The first fairy tale, which the Government foster, is the idea that there is total consensus in science at the alarmist end of the spectrum. The key to the science of global warming and climate change is physics. One can study the...

Climate Change (5 Nov 2009) has video

Peter Lilley: With your permission, Mr. Deputy Speaker, the list will be available in Hansard. I have only three more to go, but I want to point out to those hon. Members who say persistently that only a handful of mavericks disagree, that, in fact, a lot of serious professors at serious universities do so. With your permission, Mr. Deputy Speaker, I shall add the last few: the professor of physics at the...

Climate Change (5 Nov 2009) has video

Peter Lilley: I shall pray you in aid, Mr. Deputy Speaker, when people say that there is only a handful of dissenters and that the science is settled. I am very grateful to you for giving me your authority to do so. The simple fact is that the science is not resolved. A lot of serious scientists think that although there is a measure of impact—I agree with that—the alarmist views are not upheld...

Climate Change (5 Nov 2009) has video

Peter Lilley: More than a majority? You cannot have more than a majority, can you? A majority may disagree, but my point is merely that there is dissent, that the science is not settled and that argument and debate go on. We should not pretend otherwise.

Climate Change (5 Nov 2009) has video

Peter Lilley: When Einstein came out with his theory of relativity, the Nazi authorities in Germany did not like it because he was a Jew. They got 100 professors of physics—Germany's entire physics establishment—to sign a statement that he was wrong. He replied that if he were wrong, it would only take one to prove it. In this case, there is a majority on one side of the argument, and a...

Climate Change (5 Nov 2009) has video

Peter Lilley: Will my right hon. Friend give way?

Climate Change (5 Nov 2009) has video

Peter Lilley: My right hon. Friend has mentioned me a number of times.