Results 1-16 of 16 for climate change speaker:Lord Soley

Climate Change — Debate (21 May 2009)

Lord Soley: ...their appropriation difficult or impossible. It is always timely to have that in mind. However, I intervene in this debate to talk about the science and technology role as opposed to the personal change role, as I believe this important point underpins the discussion. I intend to mention aviation only tangentially but I declare an interest as the campaign director for Future Heathrow. Many...

Queen's Speech — Debate (5th Day) (10 Dec 2008)

Lord Soley: ...Lords, I would like to speak today mainly about the environment and transport. In that context, I declare an interest as campaign director for Future Heathrow. I yield to no one in my concern about climate change. I wrote my first article about it at least 20, possibly 25, years ago. If noble Lords read it they would see that I was in something of a panic mode, as many people are today. I...

Climate Change Bill [HL] (9 Jan 2008)

Lord Soley: ...business organisations, airlines and others associated with the airline industry, although I am not speaking about that particularly today. Like many others, we have given attention to the issue of climate change in aviation. I congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Teverson, on the way in which he introduced the amendment, as he is basically on the right lines. He recognises the difficulty of...

Climate Change Bill [HL] (9 Jan 2008)

Lord Soley: ...working on it, but it would be unrealistic merely to state in the Bill that we are going to make this provision regardless of what others do. I also want to sound a note of warning. The danger with climate change in the public perception is that the public either think that it is too big for them to do anything about and so give up; or, when the figures are contradictory and confusing, and...

Environment: Nuclear Power Stations (28 Jun 2007)

Lord Soley: My Lords, does the Minister accept that nuclear power is likely to be a medium-term answer to a very long-term, serious problem of climate change? If we do not recognise that, perhaps we had better stop advising people to travel to Europe by train, because 80 per cent of the electricity for the French railways is provided by nuclear generation. If we are wrong on this, we had better start...

Housing: Energy Performance Certificates (22 May 2007)

Lord Soley: My Lords, will the Minister make sure that she gives advice to everyone? Homes are a major cause of carbon in the atmosphere, and if we are serious about climate change it is very important that we debate these issues, preferably on a cross-party basis, and make any changes that we need from time to time. It is important that this should work. Will she confirm that she will keep that climate...

Debate on the Address (16 Nov 2006)

Lord Soley: My Lords, I am delighted to follow the speech of the noble Lord, Lord Sheikh, not only because I agree with a great deal that he said but because he brought our attention to the impact that climate change has on developing nations. What he said about Lake Chad, Lake Tanganyika and Mount Kilimanjaro are good indicators of that escalating problem in developing countries, and the noble Lord's...

Climate Change (16 Oct 2006)

Lord Soley: My Lords, does the Minister accept that our problem really is the speed of change of the climate, which reduces the ability of organisms to adapt to it? Will he also take this opportunity to tell the House a little more about the economics of biofuels? All the evidence is that, when the oil price rises to $70 or $80 a barrel, biofuels become profitable. Given the demand from India and China,...

Climate Change (EAC Report) (14 Jul 2006)

Lord Soley: .... It does not get over the importance of the issue. I can see the effect that the noble Lord, Lord Lawson, may have had on the Committee with his doubts about the importance and significance of climate change and whether it is really happening. Unlike him, I think that the precautionary principle is very important here. I accept that the precautionary principle is a little like common...

Civil Aviation Bill (8 Mar 2006)

Lord Soley: ..., it is not the largest single contributor; it is the fastest-growing contributor. The largest contributor is our homes, so if you want to close down everyone's homes, that is the way to deal with climate change. Air travel is the fastest-growing contributor and that is important, but we should look at the new aircraft that are coming along, which are 20 per cent more fuel efficient and...

Freedom of Speech (9 Feb 2006)

Lord Soley: ...injury time, my Lords. Religious leaders are leaning over backwards to try to build bridges, but something very important has happened over the past 10 or 15 years. I do not accept the idea of a change of climate so much as a radical shift from a clash between political ideologies—communism on one side, led by China and the USSR, as it was, and on the other western Europe and the...

Civil Aviation Bill (1 Nov 2005)

Lord Soley: ...that. There is a problem about how people perceive their own behaviour in relation to a wider social economic problem. I do not want to turn to the Bill before I address the really big issue of climate change, which several noble Lords have addressed. It is so enormous that we cannot ignore it. In the nightmare scenario of climate change, it will not be a matter of discouraging people from...

Anglo-Irish Agreement (26 Nov 1985)

Mr Clive Soley: ..., as many people would have learned a great deal from it. The Labour party accepts the agreement as a small but significant step in the right direction. It is a small step because it does not change the status of Northern Ireland, and may change only the climate of the relationship between Britain and Ireland. That is particularly important, but it does not change Northern Ireland's...

Africa (Famine) (22 Mar 1985)

Mr Clive Soley: ...—was regarded as an electoral liability. All the parties felt that it was not a subject that would win the sympathy of voters. I do not think that that is true any longer because there has been a change in the climate of opinion, in some ways for the worse and in some ways for the better. Opinion has changed for the worse in that we have tended to dismiss the United Nations and to...

Business of the House: Northern Ireland (Emergency Provisions) (8 Dec 1983)

Mr Clive Soley: ...not unique to the hon. Gentleman. We all experience them, but our task is to find a solution to the problems, and not simply to make statements which, however attractive and sympathetic will not change things. We must also consider descheduling offences. At the moment we obviously cannot return to jury trials. However, Dermot Walsh found that between January and March 1981, about 40 per...

Orders of the Day — Civil Aviation Bill: Nomination of Directors of Successor Company (30 Jun 1980)

Mr Clive Soley: ...timing be right? I find it difficult to think of a time in the next 18 months when it will be right. British Airways are facing major problems, given the general state of the financial market, the changes in the airline business and the apparent determination of the Secretary of State to stir up a price war. Already in the newspapers we see advertisements by British Airways for cheap...