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United Kingdom: Government promises Green Deal boost for solid wall insulation
2013-01-10 14:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: The government has today relaxed planning rules to make it easier for households and offices to install solid wall insulation, ahead of the launch of the Green Deal energy efficiency scheme later this month. Speaking to reporters this morning, Climate Change Minister Greg Barker confirmed the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) had worked with the Department of Communities and Local Government (DCLG) to agree a clarification to planning rules that ensures the vast majority of properties...
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United Kingdom: Solar panels for listed college at Cambridge
2013-01-10 13:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: The college's 200--year--old, Grade 1--listed New Court has been earmarked for refurbishment to improve its accommodation and energy efficiency. Aspects of the plans were opposed by groups including English Heritage and Cambridge Past, Present and Future, which said other options were available which would not "harm the character or fabric" of the building. As a result, the proposal was amended to reduce the number of panels visible from public areas. The works include a revamp of student accommodation...
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United Kingdom: Renewables industry welcomes move to retain RPI calculation
2013-01-10 12:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: The UK's decision not to make any fundamental changes to the retail price index (RPI) has been welcomed by renewable energy companies concerned that any shift would have created uncertainty over returns from subsidy schemes. Anyone receiving feed-in tariffs or the Renewable Heat Incentive for the energy they generate from clean energy technologies such as wind turbines, solar panels, or biomass boilers, are awarded payments that rise in line with inflation in accordance with the RPI over a 20-year...
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United Kingdom: A Closer Look at a Shift in Britain's Near-Term Global Warming Forecast
2013-01-09 23:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Quite a few professional climate skeptics have been crowing in the last few days about a 20-percent downward shift in the short-term forecast for global temperature (through 2017) from Britain`s weather and climate agency, best know as the Met Office. Here are the graphs showing the change, with the first published in 2011 (see the related release here, thanks to Leo Hickman of the Guardian) and the next one from late last month: Met Office This was the 2011 forecast from Britain`s climate agency...
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United Kingdom: Climate Change: Met Office Defends Predictions
2013-01-09 17:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sky News: The Met Office has been forced to hit back after its five-year weather forecast was seen to imply that global warming had "stalled". The weather forecaster originally explained global temperatures were still at record levels - and predicted to be above average - but that the rate of rise had slowed. "Global average temperature is expected to remain between 0.28°C and 0.59°C above the long-term average during the period 2013-2017, with values most likely to be about 0.43°C higher than average,"...
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