Results 1-20 of 29 for climate change speaker:Andrew Tyrie

Written Answers — Treasury: Climate Change: Costs (11 Nov 2009)

Andrew Tyrie: ...of the Exchequer what the evidential basis was for the Prime Minister's statement at the Major Economics Forum on 19 October 2009, that the economic cost of failure to avoid the current effects of climate change could lead to an economic cost greater than the losses caused by two world wars and the Great Depression; and what estimate he has made of the global financial cost of (a) World...

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Renewable Energy (10 Nov 2009)

Andrew Tyrie: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what recent assessment he has made of the effects of the use of biomass boilers installed to meet Renewable Energy Strategy targets on (a) air quality, (b) levels of particulate emissions and (c) levels of (i) morbidity and (ii) mortality.

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Renewable Energy: Food (27 Oct 2009)

Andrew Tyrie: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change pursuant to paragraph 170 of the impact assessment for the UK Renewable Energy Strategy 2009, by how much he expects (a) food and (b) biomass prices to rise as a consequence of implementation of the strategy.

Nato: Constitutional Reform and Governance Bill (20 Oct 2009)

Andrew Tyrie: ...majority of our own. So in an effort to achieve parity and beyond, the overall size of the Lords will increase, because those will be life peerages, and so it will go on. Each time there is a change of Government, there will be tit for tat. We cannot carry on like that, with an ever expanding House of Lords. There is one radical solution, to which I referred a moment ago and for which I...

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Departmental Ministerial Policy Advisors (4 Feb 2009)

Andrew Tyrie: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what expert advisers have been commissioned by his Department since its inception; on what topic each was commissioned; and whether the adviser so appointed made a declaration of political activity in each case.

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Renewable Energy: National Grid (24 Nov 2008)

Andrew Tyrie: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what estimate he has made of the cost likely to be incurred by the National Grid in order to meet the 2020 renewables target.

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Renewable Energy: National Grid (20 Nov 2008)

Andrew Tyrie: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what estimate he has made of the cost which would be incurred by the National Grid if nuclear energy were used to meet the 2020 renewables target.

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

Andrew Tyrie: ...in the scientific community. A Hamburg institute study of opinions, prepared by Professor Storch, is decisive on that point. Furthermore, Professor Lindzen—arguably the father of modern climate science—of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was asked to be the lead author of the 2001 science part of the report by the intergovernmental panel on climate change and has...

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

Andrew Tyrie: ...of nuclear proliferation, of being hit by an asteroid or of pandemics, all of which have their adherents, including some of the world's leading scientists who argue that they are greater risks than climate change. From what I can tell, the Copenhagen group has concluded that climate change is not even high on the list of those catastrophic risks, but relatively low down.

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

Andrew Tyrie: ...a view can be found in the work of David Henderson. Ian Byatt has also done something on the matter. A good number of other top international people, including Professor Lindzen and a number of top climate scientists, have also come to the same conclusion. Let me turn to the Stern report itself. Lord Stern came to the issue afresh in 2005. He told us that himself; he knew very little about...

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Carbon Emissions: EU Law (28 Oct 2008)

Andrew Tyrie: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what percentage contribution to a reduction in UK carbon emissions on 1990 levels, as defined by the Climate Change Bill, are expected to be made by full compliance with the EU Renewables Directive by 2020.

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: International Panel on Climate Change: Correspondence (15 Oct 2008)

Andrew Tyrie: ...for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs if he will place in the Library a copy of correspondence between Dr. John Mitchell, Chief Scientist at the Hadley Centre, and the International Panel on Climate Change occurring in the last 12 months.

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Carbon (22 Jul 2008)

Andrew Tyrie: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what discount rate was used in the figures set out in the analysis in the Climate Change Bill Financial Impact Assessment.

Orders of the Day: Climate Change Bill [Lords] (9 Jun 2008)

Andrew Tyrie: ...agree. Some areas of the science are settled, but many are not. Having read the literature extensively, my tentative conclusion is that there is still considerable uncertainty about how the climate system varies, and particularly about how it reacts to emissions of greenhouse gases and aerosols. We should regard the current estimates of the magnitude of future warming as tentative. I note...

Orders of the Day: Climate Change Bill [Lords] (9 Jun 2008)

Andrew Tyrie: ..., have often been drowned out. All the incentives are against speaking up about the subject. Some have described Professor Lindzen of Massachusetts Institute of Technology as the father of modern climate science. He wrote recently that "scientists who dissent from...alarmism have seen their grant funds disappear, their work derided, and themselves libelled as industry stooges, scientific...

Climate Change (5 Mar 2008)

Andrew Tyrie: ...debate. To finish off my comments on the intervention made by my hon. Friend the Member for Shipley (Philip Davies), the summary of the Harvard-Smithsonian centre for astrophysics' study on proxy climatic and environmental changes in the past 1,000 years states: "across the world, many records reveal that the 20th century is probably not the warmest, nor a uniquely extreme climatic period...

Climate Change (5 Mar 2008)

Andrew Tyrie: ...is actually warmer, which was what we were just discussing. Establishing that involves considerable measurement problems, but it is clear that the planet has warmed. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's median estimate is 0.6 per cent. over the past 100 years, with a margin of error of plus or minus 0.2 per cent. Secondly, it needs to be shown that we are causing that increase....

Climate Change (5 Mar 2008)

Andrew Tyrie: ...would probably be put into reverse. In other words, he would have had to conclude not that we should be rapidly decarbonising the economy, but that we should, for now, be primarily adapting to climate change. To arrive at his conclusion, Nick Stern had to make an extraordinary assumption: that we should value the welfare of every future generation, however far distant, to the same extent...