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The Montreal Conference climaxed with Bill Clinton’s speech, in which he announced that he loves the Kyoto Protocol. The speech aroused a great deal of enthusiasm and after his speech, Clinton [...]
Lue kirjoitusThe UN Summit on Climate Change is just now in session in New York to discuss the future climate agreement that is expected from the Copenhagen Conference this coming December. Our Prime Minister [...]
Lue kirjoitusThe academic dissertation of Eija-Riitta Korhola (MEP 1999-2014) was presented for public examination with the permission of the Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences of the University [...]
Lue kirjoitusMr Opponent, Mr Custos, Ladies and Gentlemen! In my dissertation I have taken a bold, daring step by trying to draw an over-all picture of climate change, and by doing that seek to explain why so [...]
Lue kirjoitusThe debate on climate warming is indeed continuing in Europe. On Christmas Day, the UK MET Office website published a rectified graph on the annual global temperature forecast, which it had [...]
Lue kirjoitusIn recent climate discussions, the possibility of the collapse of the entire emissions trading system (ETS) has been flashed. An oversupply of emission allowances has been created in the midst of [...]
Lue kirjoitusProbably I am not the only one who has been wondering about the apparent contradictions that arise from the various climate positions. Meteorologists claim that global warming has made a [...]
Lue kirjoitusI have now been a member of the European Parliament for 13 years, and thought I already knew all the essentials of EU decision-making. Only last summer I realised what, in practice, explains the [...]
Lue kirjoitusWELCOME SPEECH I will not speak for long as we have much to do and many problems to tackle. We should be able to fix anything – as I note from our programme we have a Mayor, several MEPs, 1 Prime [...]
Lue kirjoitusIt is that time of the year again. “Judgement Sunday” (Finnish term; the last Sunday before Advent; in the Catholic world known as the Solemnity) came and went, but the environmentalists are [...]
Lue kirjoitusSometime in the future when the historiography for the first decade of the 21st century is read, it will no doubt be called an era of climate hype, even climate mania. This period was [...]
Lue kirjoitusA year ago, we prepared for the Copenhagen climate conference, and the world was looking forward to redemption. There was a counter on the European Parliament’s website which counted the seconds [...]
Lue kirjoitus“I told you so” is one of the most unpleasant sentences in the world, I do know that. Hearing it from the mouth of a politician makes you want to reach out for a sick bag. But these days when [...]
Lue kirjoitusNot much is needed to create a fuss in the media during the Dog Days. A couple of weeks ago, I posted a blog on this site, concerning the most common counter-arguments against nuclear power. [...]
Lue kirjoitusI once ordered a completely new combination of words from a Latinist, because I was longing for a fresh and accurate definition of a human being. I was convinced that of the human’s general [...]
Lue kirjoitusI have decided to resign from the post of vice-chairman of the National Coalition Party at the next party congress in June. I have several good reasons for my resignation, such as my own time [...]
Lue kirjoitusThe EU’s first emissions trading period for aviation begins on 1 January 2012. The emissions trading scheme applies to all flights departing from and arriving at EU aerodromes, unless they are [...]
Lue kirjoitusThe credibility of the IPCC has again come under fire after it admitted that the claim in the IPCC’s 3 000-page 2007 report on climate science that Himalayan glaciers will almost disappear by [...]
Lue kirjoitusPolitics is not always logical. You get punished differently for the same things – you see, it depends. Vihreä Lanka, the yellow press of Finnish politics, asked me a couple of years ago, [...]
Lue kirjoitusThe leaked electronic files of the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia have greatly disturbed the scientific world. Prominent scientists conspired against critical [...]
Lue kirjoitusThe decision reached by the government’s task force on development issues was published on Tuesday and it aroused concern among the Finnish development organisations. Based on Prime Minister [...]
Lue kirjoitusThe application of different rates of VAT to books and audiobooks gave rise to much bewilderment in the EU Member States, both about the basis for these rates and about how they would be [...]
Lue kirjoitusOh you interplanetary dreamer, silhouette of an ectoplasm. These were exactly my feelings as I heard what the Danish commissioner candidate Connie Hedegaard said some three hours ago. She is [...]
Lue kirjoitusDirective 2007/64/EC(1) of the European Parliament and the Council on payment services in the internal market was adopted on 13 November 2007. The aim of the Payment Services Directive is to [...]
Lue kirjoitusThe poor result from the Copenhagen Conference has been criticised, but as a matter of fact, it may be best for the planet at the moment. I predicted the proceedings at the Copenhagen Conference [...]
Lue kirjoitusSteve McIntyre, the mathematical statistician who has launched the website Climate Audit, aroused interest in the so-called Yamal materials after having studied these more thoroughly and found [...]
Lue kirjoitusThe reply given by Commissioner Andris Piebalgs on behalf of the Commission did not fully answer my Question E 2255/09 concerning the Incandescent Lamp Directive, particularly the effectiveness [...]
Lue kirjoitusWhen the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir, asked the famous economist John Maynard Keynes. And how about us? During the past weeks, some strange surprises have popped up in the [...]
Lue kirjoitusNowadays, I also write a blog for the newspaper Aamulehti, and one of my readers there recently questioned why I am on environmental organisations’ black list. These organisations draw up lists [...]
Lue kirjoitusAs the Copenhagen Climate Conference approaches, besides CO2, the air is full of different wagers concerning whether an agreement will come about or not. The most common guess is that it is [...]
Lue kirjoitusOn Monday, in the context of the Copenhagen Conference, the Parliament’s Environment Committee held an additional meeting in Strasbourg, during which the Swedish Minister already predicted the [...]
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