Results 1-20 of 26 for climate change speaker:Lord Lawson of Blaby

Climate Change: Copenhagen Conference — Question (22 Oct 2009)

Lord Lawson of Blaby: My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister for reminding the House that the European Union agreement was changed to make it explicitly conditional on a satisfactory agreement in Copenhagen. Is he not aware, however, that that is not the case with the UK's unilateral Climate Change Act? According to the Government's impact assessment, this will cost the economy up to £18 billion every year...

Energy: Low Carbon Transition Plan — Statement (15 Jul 2009)

Lord Lawson of Blaby: My Lords, is the Minister aware that, whatever view one takes of climate change, to pretend, as this Statement does, that the enforced move from cheaper to dearer energy, greased by lavish bribes at the taxpayer's expense, is economically beneficial displays a level of economic illiteracy that even a first-year student should be ashamed to exhibit? Further, when the Statement boasts that this...

Written Answers — House of Lords: Climate Change: DfID (2 Jun 2009)

Lord Lawson of Blaby: To ask Her Majesty's Government how much the Department for International Development paid to commission the concept paper An Institutional Architecture for Climate Change from the Center on International Co-operation.

Climate Change Act 2008 (2020 Target, Credit Limit and Definitions) Order 2009: Motion to Approve (13 May 2009)

Lord Lawson of Blaby: My Lords, the Minister does not want to mislead the House. The consensus to which he refers is not a consensus but a majority. There is a wide range of opinions among climate scientists. The majority view, as encapsulated in the IPCC's report, is that it is very likely that most—not all—of the warming in the last quarter of the 20th century was due to the increase in carbon...

Climate Change Act 2008 (2020 Target, Credit Limit and Definitions) Order 2009: Motion to Approve (13 May 2009)

Lord Lawson of Blaby: ...that may accrue as a result of reduced warming would not help the United Kingdom, at least for the next 100 years, since scientists are agreed that northern Europe would actually benefit from a warmer climate over that period. Secondly, and rather more importantly, there can be no discernible benefit to anyone unless the rest of the world follows the United Kingdom's quixotic lead, which,...

Low-carbon Economy — Question (29 Apr 2009)

Lord Lawson of Blaby: ...the case that the economics of the noble Lord, Lord Stern, have been comprehensively rubbished by all the most competent economists on both sides of the Atlantic? Is it not also the case that the Climate Change Act under the Government's own figures will cost the British economy something like £400 billion, which we can ill afford at present?

Written Answers — House of Lords: Climate Change Act (28 Apr 2009)

Lord Lawson of Blaby: To ask Her Majesty's Government how much of the estimated £324 billion to £404 billion cost of implementing the Climate Change Act 2008, as set out in the March 2009 impact assessment by the Department of Energy and Climate Change, will be borne by the public sector; and how much by the private sector.

Climate Change: Carbon Dioxide Emissions — Question (19 Mar 2009)

Lord Lawson of Blaby: My Lords, given that the Minister's department has estimated in its latest impact assessment the annual cost of the Climate Change Act at £15 billion to £18 billion for every year between now and 2050, and not even for any conjectural benefit unless the rest of the world follows suit, will he give an undertaking that if there is no such global agreement at the Copenhagen conference...

Energy: Renewables (Economic Affairs Committee Report): Motion to Take Note (24 Feb 2009)

Lord Lawson of Blaby: .... It was a great privilege to be a member of the Economic Affairs Committee of this House. During my time, a number of reports were produced. I will name simply three: the one on the economics of climate change, to which both noble Lords have already referred; the one on the economic impact of immigration; and the one before the House today. It is the sort of thing that the House does...

Energy: Utility Bills — Question (2 Feb 2009)

Lord Lawson of Blaby: My Lords, is the Minister aware that the noble Lord, Lord Turner, the chairman of the climate change committee, made it clear that the only way in which the Government's binding commitments for emissions reductions can be met is by a significant increase in energy prices? In light of that, has his department calculated how large an increase in energy prices is likely to be required to meet...

Written Answers — House of Lords: Climate Change (14 Jan 2009)

Lord Lawson of Blaby: To ask Her Majesty's Government what are the recent developments in climate science and in the analysis of potential impacts referred to in part 1 of the First Report of the Committee on Climate Change.

Climate Change Bill [HL] (17 Nov 2008)

Lord Lawson of Blaby: ...Arctic this year there has been a greater extension of ice than ever before. Furthermore, I would be interested if he could refer me to where in the fourth report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change it says that it makes sense for us to have a binding commitment to cut back carbon dioxide emissions by 80 per cent by 2050? That is what we are talking about here. The science may...

Climate Change Bill [HL] (17 Nov 2008)

Lord Lawson of Blaby: .... We know, of course, that it is not. The figures published each year and, indeed, monthly, by the Met Office or the Hadley Centre, which is a department of the Met Office in association with the climate research unit of the University of East Anglia, show without any doubt that there has been no warming so far this century at all. Some people say that there has been a cooling but,...

Fuel Prices (25 Jun 2008)

Lord Lawson of Blaby: My Lords, in order to allay the confusion over the Government's current policy, will the Minister confirm the statement made to the Financial Times by the noble Lord, Lord Turner, chairman of the Climate Change Committee to be established under the Climate Change Bill, that an integral part of their climate change policy is to have still higher carbon-based energy prices?

Climate Change (19 Jun 2008)

Lord Lawson of Blaby: My Lords, is the Minister not being a little over the top? I am sure that he is aware that the impact assessment of his own department, Defra, for the Climate Change Bill suggests that the cost to the British economy of the Bill's absurd proposals for a 60 per cent decarbonisation—more may well be recommended—is £200 billion by 2050; many independent economists have put it...

Railways: Electrification (11 Jun 2008)

Lord Lawson of Blaby: ..., why is the Minister so gloomy about all this? Why does he not openly welcome the sharp increases in oil prices? Is he not aware that the noble Lord, Lord Turner, the chairman of the Government's climate change commission, acknowledged to the Financial Times only a few days ago that the Government's climate change policy, as set out in their absurd Climate Change Bill, requires a...

European Council: 13-14 March 2008 (17 Mar 2008)

Lord Lawson of Blaby: ...-mindedness he will read it and inform himself. I shall ask the noble Baroness a question that was increasingly puzzling me as she was going through her Statement. It is clear that the Government's climate change policy—which is, I am afraid, the same as the climate change policy of my own party and equally misguided—requires a substantial increase in the price of energy. That...

Taxation: Green Taxes (10 Jan 2007)

Lord Lawson of Blaby: My Lords, does the Minister agree with Mr Ian Pearson, who, I gather, rejoices in the title of Minister for climate change—an awesome responsibility, I must say—that Ryanair represents the irresponsible face of capitalism? If so, what do the Government propose to do about it?

Climate Change: Developing Countries (4 Dec 2006)

Lord Lawson of Blaby: ...are based, imply that in 100 years' time people in the developed world will be between three and six times better off than they are today—even after the highest conjectured damage from climate change? Further, under the highest conjectured damage from climate change suggested in the Stern review, people in the developing world will be between 11 and 60 times better off. Does she not...

Climate Change (EAC Report) (14 Jul 2006)

Lord Lawson of Blaby: ...has not been a steady process; it has come in fits and starts. I shall give the broad figures, which are generally accepted, so I do not need to take much time over them. Before 1915, there was no change at all; between 1915 and 1945, there was a considerable spurt; between 1945 and 1975, there was a slight cooling—indeed, at that time Professor Lovelock and others were saying that...