Just when you thought climate alarmism had passed its peak... We’re treating soil like dirt. It’s a fatal mistake, as our lives depend on it Says George Monbiot in today's Guardian... War, pestilence, even climate change, are trifles by comparison. Destroy the soil...
A Decade of Lynas
Mark Lynas writes in the Guardian in the wake of the paper's new climate campaign, We must reclaim the climate change debate from the political extremes Alarmists and deniers need to climb out of their parallel trenches, engage with the developing world and work...
Barry Gardiner's #TimeToAct2015 Photo Album
Yesterday saw the 'Time To Act 2015' protests in a number of cities throughout the world. The Huffington Post proudly announced 'People's Climate March In London Draws 5,000, Including Russell Brand And Naomi Klein'. Have you ever been to Central London on a Saturday...
About 'Denying', 'Deniers', and 'Denial'
There has been some discussion about the D-word recently. The Science of Doom blog considered the historical implications of the word, and argues that its use in the climate debate trivialises the deaths of millions, and urged people to stop using it. Keith Kloor...
Celebs, Comedians, Pop Stars… Climate Whores
While browsing Twitter the other day, I chanced upon this tweet from the Dept. of Energy and Climate Change (DECC)... How should we power London? http://t.co/GixAT5FcJ9 Discussing tonight #powerlondon @jonsnowc4 @JayRayner1 @shappikhorsandi & @prospect_uk—...
Advocating the Science Cake and Politicising it
The science-advocacy axis has provoked much fraught discussion over the years. Crudely put, there appear to be scientist, activists, and activist-scientists, and scientists-activists. The consensus appears to be that political advocacy and science should not be...
We Need to Talk About Green NGOs…
NGOs are weird. And green NGOs are even weirder. Even at face value they are weird, precisely because we are supposed to take them and the issues they seemingly speak for at face value, as plainly as we would take the Campaign for the Abolition of Stubbed Toes (CAST)...
2071 and Counting
I have a review of Chris Rapley's "play", 2071, over at Breitbart London. The latest development in the green colonisation of the cultural sphere is the planet-saving stage play. This year, the Royal Court Theatre commissioned Duncan Macmillian and Chris Rapley to...
Lewandowsky's Logic
It's Lewandowsky time, again. 'Are you a poor logician? Logically, you might never know', he observes with Richard Pancost over at the Conversation Nonversation. More about that logic shortly... At the Nonversation, of course, comments from Lewandowsky's critics have...
Why Environmental Correspondents Trip Over Themselves
One of the things I've tried to point out here is the emptiness of the categories and concepts that dominate reporting on the climate debate. In particular, the notion of 'consensus' has become so entirely divorced from its substance that those who invoke it often...