"I'm Dreamin' of a White Easter"

It's spring. And you can tell, not by the chirping of birds in the trees, or the frolicking of lambs in the fields, but by the whining and bleating of journalists in the Independent and Guardian newspapers about how spring is coming earlier every year, and how this...

Sustainababble

Writing in the Guardian this week, John Vidal says, The government is in danger of losing credibility on climate change because more than half of all its departments are failing to reduce their carbon emissions enough to reach levels that the nation as a whole is...

Bogus Body Counts: Casualties in the Climate War

CommentIsFree, rather like Grist, is a rich mine of ecobabble. Its writers are so prolific that it's hard to keep up with their imaginations. Yet its writers are also often the highly qualified experts we're all being asked to invest our confidence in. We missed "It's...

What's Left About Green?

Our stance on the climate debate is often assumed - with approval or derision, depending on who's doing the assuming - to reflect a wider Conservative outlook. We wouldn't want people <cough> to go around thinking that Climate Resistance is some sort of...

Pesky Oreskes

And so to the 2nd (and quite possibly the final) part in our mini-series of posts about videos that really annoy us: “The American Denial of Global Warming” We find ourselves somewhat obsessed with this one. It's a lecture by Naomi Oreskes, professor of the history of...

Tickelled Green

Patron of the Optimum Population Trust, neo-malthusian and miserablist to world governments, Sir Crispin Tickell went head-to-head with Austin Williams of the Future Cities Project on the question of "are there too many of us?" on Thursday. BBC Radio 4's PM program...

Blaise the Lord

This is the first in a mini-series of posts about videos that really annoy us. First up - "The Most Terrifying Video You'll Ever See": Greg (we almost feel a little bit bad for having...

In a Sea of Greens

We are flattered to have been included in the "50 Best Eco Blogs" published today by the Times (London). Apparently, we are A site actively involved in standing up for climate change sceptics, [that] puts its points across eloquently and is not afraid to stand up to...

'Science' – Environmentalism's Fig Leaf

On The Nation blog, David Roberts of Gristmill (another blog) writes: Long-time greens are painfully aware that the arguments of global warming skeptics are like zombies in a '70s B movie. They get shot, stabbed, and crushed, over and over again, but they just keep...

The AGW Debate Descends to ‘Science’

The American Geophysical Union (AGU) issued a statement last month, outlining its position on global warming... The Earth's climate is now clearly out of balance and is warming. Many components of the climate system—including the temperatures of the atmosphere, land...