Poor old Mark Lynas, author of Six Degrees: our future on a hotter planet, who once thrust custard pies into the faces of people who dared to question environmental orthodoxies. He now finds himself on the receiving end of eco-dogma. Fancy that. Just a month ago I had...
Identity Crisis Politics
According to commentisfree, Ewa Jasiewicz is a writer, journalist, human rights activist and union organiser. In a recent post to the site, she identifies a split in the environmental movement between those who aim to stop climate change through ‘the system’, so to...
Split Over the Atom
George Monbiot's recent conversion to atomic energy, on the basis that 'I have now reached the point at which I no longer care whether or not the answer is nuclear. Let it happen', continues to generate fallout. The latest is that Arthur Scargill, the man who led the...
Hypocritic Oaf
There was a lively little exchange on the Today programme this morning between class-warrior Julie Burchill and posh eco-activist George Monbiot. Burchill was there to promote her new book Not In My Name: A Compendium of Modern Hypocrisy, in which she accuses...
Smoking Out Unreasonable Certainty
In conversations with our exasperated green friends, we are often asked what we would accept as 'proof' that global warming ‘is real, and is happening'. This is a fairly typical misunderstanding of the sceptical position. Well, ours anyway. We do not argue that humans...
90 Minutes of TV; 16 Months of Handwaving…
...and counting... Every day in the UK, £millions are spent on making sure that national and local government departments do not produce too much CO2. Business, schools and hospitals have to make sure they are complying with regulations that require them to reduce...
Who'd've Discredited It?
'Case against climate change discredited by study' shrieked the Independent yesterday. That must be one hell of a study. Except that it isn't: A difference in the way British and American ships measured the temperature of the ocean during the 1940s may explain why the...
Monbiot's Partial Epiphany
George Monbiot took us by surprise last week. Reflecting on the housing problems facing many people in the UK, George appears to have realised that putting the environment first can be bad for humans, and that that is a bad thing. Is the housing crisis as acute as...
Why Monbiot is so Miserable
In yesterdays Guardian, George Monbiot tells us that, A powerful novel's vision of a dystopian future shines a cold light on the dreadful consequences of our universal apathy Oh, God! What is this novel that tells us about the dark, horrid abyss of the human...
All Over the Place
More apologies. We are still busier than ever, which makes blogging difficult. We will be back up to speed in about three weeks. Meanwhile, here are a few things to check out. Alexander Cockburn and George Monbiot have been battling it out for a while now over at...