Deepak Lal, one of the world’s leading economists and a founding member of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), passed away on April 30 at the age of 80. Deepak Lal was deeply suspicious of governments and politicians. That could _…

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The recent furore over the Modi government’s ban on the Indian branch of Greenpeace receiving funding from its foreign parent raises some important issues. What should be the role of foreign NGOs in Indian democracy – particularly since, as I have argued at length _…

https://www.netzerowatch.com/deepak-lal-the-eco-fundamentalists/

The geostrategic implications of the shale gas revolution invalidate predictions of the death of American-style capitalism. Within five years of the United States being written off as a declining economic and imperial power, the shale gas revolution it has pioneered _…

https://www.netzerowatch.com/deepak-lal-shale-gas-pax-americana/

The CO2 theory of global warming could soon be superseded by an alternative concept based on clouds to explain climate change. In an earlier column I had outlined two alternative theories about global warming: the CO2 theory propagated by the _…

https://www.netzerowatch.com/deepak-lal-clouds-of-climate-change/

Deepak Lal is a British development economist of Indian origin who has held academic posts both at Oxford and at University College London. He has most recently been Professor of International Development Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.

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It has been a bad two months for the purveyors of the “science” of manmade global warming. The BASIC group of countries (Brazil, South Africa, India and China) stood firm at Copenhagen from being bounced into an agreement on mandatory _…

https://www.netzerowatch.com/deepak-lal-man-made-global-warming/

India should turn away from the Paris accord as latest research shows particles from space affect climate on Earth more than human activity. Over the years this column has been supporting the theory of ‘cosmo-climatology’ propounded by Danish physicist Henrik _…

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Given Mr. Trump’s record of shaking up the international order — he has moved to pull the U.S. out of UNESCO and the Paris climate accord — it would come as no surprise if he replaces the climate-conscious Mr. Kim _…

https://www.netzerowatch.com/environmentalists-fear-trumps-pick-will-reverse-world-banks-climate-change-focus/

The global political scramble to replace Jim Yong Kim promises to be an ideological free-for-all The surprise early resignation of World Bank President Jim Yong Kim on Monday has produced a flurry of reactions from the bank’s supporters and critics, _…

https://www.netzerowatch.com/terence-corcoran-who-will-replace-obamas-man-at-the-world-bank/

The Global Warming Policy Forum (GWPF) said it welcomed Dr Kim’s departure, accusing him of turning “the World Bank into a green think tank, betraying its core mission of lifting the world’s most disadvantaged populations out of poverty.” London, Jan. 11, _…

https://www.netzerowatch.com/search-starts-for-new-world-bank-president/

A new report: The Anti-Development Bank: The World Bank’s Regressive Energy Policies by the London-based Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) finds that the World Bank has abdicated its primary mission of tackling poverty in the developing world. The report, written by author _…

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The Global Warming Policy Foundation is pleased to announce that Professor Fritz Vahrenholt has joined the GWPF’s Academic Advisory Council. Professor Fritz Vahrenholt was one of the founders of the environmental movement in Germany. In the 1980s his bestseller Seveso _…

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