Results 1-10 of 10 for climate change speaker:Lord Tanlaw

Climate Change — Debate (21 May 2009)

Lord Tanlaw: ...and the politicians around the world who supported them. The scientific facts as presented by the IPCC scientists to support the treaty have led to the publication of the Stern review, to the Climate Change Bill and many other related papers, and, indeed, to this debate, but they may not be quite as clear-cut as they should. It therefore may be worth while for a non-scientist such as...

Energy Bill (28 Oct 2008)

Lord Tanlaw: ...or otherwise. Let me quote what happens to sheep. It may not be generally known that the ewe reaches the stage when she desires the tup due to the effect of the number of hours of daylight and the changing length of day, which causes this process to take place. This is a photoelectrical process". It is nothing of the sort. A photoelectric or photoemissive effect is when light strikes a...

Energy: Imported Gas (23 Apr 2008)

Lord Tanlaw: My Lords, is the noble Baroness aware of the statistic from the National Grid that if daylight saving had been incorporated in the Climate Change Bill it would have saved the equivalent of one nuclear power station. If daylight saving were implemented, how many gas-fired power stations would not have to be built? If she disagrees, can she produce, with the parties opposite, coherent...

Energy: Efficiency (10 Dec 2007)

Lord Tanlaw: ...more than 1 million tonnes of atmospheric carbon would have been saved if daylight saving had been in place here last year? Why did the all-party drafting committee exclude daylight saving from the Climate Change Bill, which we will discuss tomorrow, in favour of untried offset carbon trading and socially divisive taxes? Is it because the party managers cannot work out how to tax the...

Energy: White Paper (12 Jul 2007)

Lord Tanlaw: ...in the real world of business, rather than in politics, are formidable, and I intend to draw on them during the course of my intervention today. I hope that his appointment signals a real change in the new Administration's approach to changes in climate and, in particular, to a related subject in which I can declare an interest; namely, daylight saving. I am the founder chairman of LEAP,...

Climate Change: Tourism (23 May 2007)

Lord Tanlaw: My Lords, will the Minister explain why daylight saving has not been incorporated into the forthcoming climate change legislation, the 342-page energy White Paper or the forthcoming ministerial Statement after Question Time? Will he therefore say why the Government think that lighter winter evenings will not assist sport, tourism or the hotel industry? Will he also explain why the Government...

House of Lords: Reform (13 Mar 2007)

Lord Tanlaw: ...seemed to be getting nowhere. That was a huge setback to British industry and was all a result of the political process that we had to deal with at the time. I am bound to say that, apart from many changes that have occurred since, I am left with the impression—perhaps as a result of my outside business activity—that the political world within the Palace of Westminster can, on...

Climate Change (EAC Report) (14 Jul 2006)

Lord Tanlaw: ...together. My only claim to fame, as I have said before, is that I was an early whistleblower on the greenhouse effect some 30 years ago. But I have had a Damascus road conversion in regard to climate change which is based on the report before us. Having read it, it appears to me that the climate does not change but it changes; it has changed and will no doubt change again in the future....

Climate Change (10 Nov 2005)

Lord Tanlaw: ...speech was followed by the maiden speech of the noble Lord, Lord Turner, I have very little to say. My only qualification for taking part in this debate at all is that I introduced the subject of climate change to the House 27 years ago with an Unstarred Question which had the rather mysterious title, "Atmospheric Changes and Weather Patterns". For the historically minded, it can be found...

Climate Change (9 Feb 2004)

Lord Tanlaw: ...we are all, "but parts of one stupendous whole, "whose body Nature is, and God the soul". I wonder whether noble Lords will allow me, in response to the noble Baroness's timely debate on energy and climatic change, to go back 31 years to the 1970s. On 28 February 1973 I stood precisely where the noble Baroness was standing this evening when I opened the first energy debate in this House....