On Tuesday I attended an "Exchange of Views" with the European Commission on their negotiating position for the up-coming climate talks in Lima, ahead of next year's Paris conference, and I shared with them some robust and unpopular views.  Part of the package seems to be a proposal for a $10 billion Fund to help developing countries deal with "the effects of climate change." We in UKIP, the United Kingdom Independence Party, take the view that climate mitigation on the Kyoto model is probably unnecessary; certainly ineffectual; and ruinously expensive. Unnecessary, because the science underpinning climate alarmism is highly speculative.  There has been no global warming for nearly two decades.  The computer models on which it is based have repeatedly failed to deliver on their predictions.  Far from being settled, there is a lively scientific debate about the sensitivity of the climate system to atmospheric CO2.  The IPCC favours...(Read Full Article)