Writing in New Scientist this week, James Hansen tells us that the scientific community (you know, those 'thousands' of specialised scientists at the IPCC) are wrong, and have massively underestimated the extent of polar ice melting as a consequence of anthropogenic...
Activism 2.0 : The Big World Wide Whinge
Good news for armchair activists... You can change the world from the comfort of your own webcam. Environmentalism's real-world rallies have proved unpopular in the past, resulting in a chaotic alliance of anti-capitalist anarchists, NIMBYs , hippies, and ossified...
A Nation all Trussed
The Guardian reports that the National Trust - a conservation charity that owns 1.5% of England, Wales and Northern Ireland - is to jump on the bandwagon reinvent itself by turning its membership into "the largest green movement in the world". Founded in 1895 by...
Antediluvian Diluvial Delusions
According to news reports:British scientists say a soon-to-be-released study supports the idea that global warming caused by humans is responsible for this summer's heavy rains.Let's face it, it would be nice to be able to blame somebody for this rubbish summer, with...
More on Lucas
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...