Results 1-20 of 43 for climate change speaker:Peter Lilley

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.

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: ...Pew survey—this survey is carried out across the world every year— shows that only 15 per cent. of people in this country take seriously, or are seriously concerned about, the prospect of climate change and almost half believe that nothing can be done. On the latter point, the corresponding figure worldwide is much lower—it is less than 40 per cent.—and on the...

Climate Change (5 Nov 2009) has video

Peter Lilley: ...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 physics of global warming without having much knowledge of meteorology, but one cannot study meteorology without studying physics, someone...

Climate Change (5 Nov 2009) has video

Peter Lilley: ...on the matter a while ago, so the answer must be at her disposal. There are plenty of other fairy stories around, and I want to touch on the idea that a rise of 2° C would constitute dangerous climate change that we should try to avoid by spending unlimited amounts. That is a 2° C rise not from now, but from before the industrial revolution. We have already had a rise of...

Climate Change (5 Nov 2009) has video

Peter Lilley: The hon. Gentleman seems extraordinarily complacent, like everyone else who has spoken so far, about the fact that the proportion of people concerned about climate change in this country is now lower than in any other country in the world and has fallen by one third over the past year. Why does he suppose that this is so, and why does he ignore it?

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Global Temperature (5 Nov 2009)

Peter Lilley: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change if he will discuss with the Met Office Hadley centre and the university of East Anglia climate research unit the publication of near-surface temperature data used to calculate changes to average global temperature.

Bills Presented: Copenhagen Climate Change Conference (16 Jul 2009) has video

Peter Lilley: Politicians, having committed themselves to the idea of climate change, invent the reasons to justify it, and there is a tendency to demonise anybody who dissents from the consensus. I make a point of doing so, because I think it is helpful to have an alternative view expressed in this House. Outside the Chamber a very polarised debate is taking place, on blogs and elsewhere, between the...

Energy and Climate Change: Topical Questions (9 Jul 2009) has video

Peter Lilley: The Secretary of State and the leaders of the world have defined dangerous climate change as a change of more than 2°C in the average temperature. Can the Secretary of State confirm that the average temperature in Cornwall is more than 2° higher than that in the north-east of England? Will he assure people that if they move from the north-east of England to Cornwall they will not...

Business of the House (18 Jun 2009) has video

Peter Lilley: If the Leader of the House listened to the "Today" programme this morning, she will have heard the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs giving an interview about climate change projections, on which he is to make a statement after business questions. Although that was deplorable—it is doubly deplorable in the Secretary of State's case, because he is usually...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Programming of Bills (Suspension) (17 Jun 2009) has video

Peter Lilley: ...; on the Counter-Terrorism Bill Members had only three hours to discuss 16 new clauses and 60 amendments covering crucial issues such as post-charge questioning and control orders; and on the Climate Change Bill we were not allowed to debate the crucial amendment increasing the carbon reduction target from 60 to 80 per cent., which doubled the Bill's cost and which many supporters felt did...

Business of the House (4 Jun 2009) has video

Peter Lilley: I have previously asked the right hon. and learned Lady whether we could have a debate on the impact assessment, or the cost-benefit analysis, of the Climate Change Act 2008. It showed that costs had doubled to £400 billion since the Act came into force and that the Secretary of State had accidentally mislaid £1 trillion of benefits. Thanks perhaps to the intervention of the Leader...

Business of the House (14 May 2009) has video

Peter Lilley: Will the Leader of the House tell us when we are finally going to have an opportunity to debate the revised assessment of the costs and benefits of the Climate Change Act 2008, which was slipped out for the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change without a statement, as were his responses to my subsequent questions, even though it shows that the costs, at some £400 billion, will...

Business of the House (12 Mar 2009) has video

Peter Lilley: May we have a debate about the dramatically revised estimates by the Government of the costs and benefits of the Climate Change Act 2008, which were sneaked out this week, even though the changes are greater than the cost of bailing out several failed banks? The Leader of the House will remember that the Government were forced to revise their original figures, when I pointed out that they...

Energy and Climate Change: Topical Questions (5 Mar 2009) has video

Peter Lilley: Given that the Government say that we should accept the economics and science of the intergovernmental panel on climate change because they have been peer reviewed, and given that the methodology used by Sir Nicholas Stern has been repudiated by his own economists when producing the impact assessment on the Climate Change Bill, will the Secretary of State submit the Stern review to peer review?

Oral Answers to Questions — International Development: UN Conference (Poznan) (17 Dec 2008) has video

Peter Lilley: ...a watering down of the commitment by European countries to prevent global warming or contributions to it from CO2 and yet the impact of any global warming—we can see this even if we are not climate alarmist, which I am certainly not—will fall most severely on the poorest countries, which have contributed least to the problem, does that not mean that our obligation to help them...

[Mr. Peter Atkinson in the Chair] — Stern Report (19 Nov 2008)

Peter Lilley: Is my hon. Friend aware of remarks by Mike Hulme, the director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research in the United Kingdom, who said: "The IPCC is not going to talk about tipping points; it's not going to talk about five-metre rises in sea level; it's not going to talk about the next ice age because the Gulf Stream collapses; and it's going to have none of the economics of the...

[Mr. Peter Atkinson in the Chair] — Stern Report (19 Nov 2008)

Peter Lilley: ...poverty group was considering ways of trying to improve the lot of people in developing countries who live on a fraction of the money that we have in the developed world. We were conscious that climate change was likely to have a more adverse impact on them than on anyone else. Yet, by definition, people in those countries cannot be held to blame for carbon emissions, their emissions per...

[Mr. Peter Atkinson in the Chair] — Stern Report (19 Nov 2008)

Peter Lilley: ...—I am not one of those who deny that carbon dioxide emissions heat the planet. They do have that effect, although there is less certainty about how much the complex feedback effects that climate models seek to replicate may amplify the comparatively modest effect of increasing CO2 and other greenhouse gas emissions. None the less, in my view it is wise to take measures to prevent and...