There's been a lot of talk this week -- and probably a lot of disappointment -- about the end of the world. Said the Observer today... To the shock and distress of a handful of ultra-devout Christian believers, the sun went down yesterday on an America and a world...
Can Pap-Pop Save the Planet?
A couple of commenters on my last post questioned my judgement of misery-act, Radiohead. I hope that we can find a consensus on this little number more easily... [youtube h65xXOVrQzQ] Eww. It's the Finnish entry to the Eurovision Song Contest -- an annual high camp,...
Science-Pop Won't Make Climate Science Pop-Science
What is worse than pop stars preaching about climate science? [youtube EkBS7Sw5BaA] [Thom Yorke, lead singer of crap miserablist act, Radiohead, wondering what he's doing on Age of Stupid director, Franny Armstrong's Stupid Show] It's climate scientists expressing...
The Inter-NGO Panel on Climate Change
The IPCC has published an SPM of its forthcoming report on renewable energy. The Guardian claims, Renewable energy can power the world, says landmark IPCC study. Hmm... Sven Teske, renewable energy director at Greenpeace International, and a lead author of the report,...
The Eco-House of Horror
Popular wisdom has it that 'necessity is the mother of invention'. I'm not so sure. How could we explain this in terms of 'necessity'? [youtube -jw2mNeR1tw] I'm not knocking it. I think it's fantastic. This, on the other hand, is damn awful. A tour of the Cube from...
The Ecology of Stupid
The Guardian has a revealing editorial today, which makes the claim that Biodiversity: It's the ecology, stupid At every level, human civilisation is underwritten by the planet's countless and still mostly unidentified wild things As discussed in the previous post,...
Trust Me, I Speak for Science
Two recent posts here have been about the role of trust in the environmental debate. Briefly, Mark Lynas and George Monbiot seem to expect everybody to share their trust in scientific authority, yet not so long ago, they were themselves suspicious of it. It was the...
Hope, Fear, and Miliband
Today the UK gets to decide whether or not it keeps the first-past-the-post system of electing Members of Parliament, or instead switches to 'Alternative Vote'. It's the single most pointless referendum ever, and owes almost nothing to a public desire for such a...
Mark Lynas Doesn't Get It
Barry Woods points us to Mark Lynas's latest comment on the gap opening up between himself and anti-nuclear environmentalists. Yesterday I was an environmentalist. Today, according to tweets from prominent greens, and an op-ed response piece in the Guardian, I’m a...
In Whom Do We Trust?
I've been too busy for blogging, again. Moving house -- or trying to, and boring stuff like that. This is a very long post, and slightly out of date. So only read if you've got some spare time this Easter weekend. I will come back to some of the points I've tried to...