We are surprised that the media has paid such little attention to Caroline Lucas’s statements likening climate change scepticism to holocaust denial. Her comments expose much of what is rotten about the environmental movement: its lack of proportion, its religiosity,...
The Great Solar Warming Squabble
The reaction of scientists and environmentalists to The Great Global Warming Swindle has been far more interesting than the programme itself. The most recent tirade against it comes from Professor Mike Lockwood of the UK’s Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. Here he is...
Caroline Lucas's Radio Gaga
Caroline Lucas was on BBC Radio Oxford's Bill Heine show last night to explain why she thinks climate change scepticism is the same as holocaust denial.There is so much wrong with this that it's going to take us a little while to list it all. We'll get back to you...
56% of You are Fascist B***ards
We mentioned yesterday that Ipsos MORI regard the majority of the UK population as ignorant sheep who can't come to an informed decision even if it's handed to them on a plate. Well, next to what Caroline Lucas, Green Party MEP for the UK South East region, thinks of...
56 Per Cent of You Are STUPID (Or is it Just Ipsos MORI?)
Ipsos Mori are about to publish some research they've done, Tipping Point Or Turning Point? Social Marketing & Climate Change Phil Downing, head of environmental research at the company, and one of the report's authors appeared on yesterday's Today program on BBC...
Fat People are Killing the Polar Bears
Two recent gems from New Scientist magazine... First up, Climate Change Sceptics Criticise Polar Bear Science, a story about some bad scientists, funded by bad money, who have apparently published some bad science in what is presumably a bad science journal, for bad...
May, the 'Facts' Be With You
Bob 'respect the facts' May has been failing to heed his own advice again. Here's a recording of him at the 'Oxford is My World' event on 5 June, accusing Martin 'great global warming swindle' Durkin of being 'a chap who earlier is notable for Channel Four's [...]...
Charlie, Carbon, and the Carrots
Prince Charles's footprint has hit the headlines again. He is now officially 'carbon neutral'. Among the first to congratulate the next in line to the throne was Friends of the Earth Director, Tony Juniper: The fact he reduced his carbon emissions by 9% in the last...
Fairford vs Oxford
There's another letter in the TLS today - from Lord Leach of Fairford - criticising (Lord) Bob May (of Oxford)'s Respect the Facts piece:Sir, – As a non-scientist I cannot have read one-hundredth of the number of scientific articles read by Robert May, yet I am...
Third time lucky?
A while ago now, we mentioned that the Royal Society had dropped from its website all reference to 'on the word of no one', the traditional translation of its motto Nullius in Verba, and that its former president, Bob May, had re-translated it as 'respect the facts'....