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...
We Are Armed Only With Rumour, Hyperbole And Friends In High Places
The Climate Camp protestors have been complaining about the way they have been treated by the police. Again. Caroline Lucas explains, on commentisrubbish, Everyone who enters the site is being searched. Police officers are taking anything away that "could be used for...
Who is Pachauri Calling 'Flat Earthers'?
A hat-tip to Anthony Watts, who points to an interview in the Chicago Tribune with head of the IPCC, Rajendra Pachauri. Q: What do you think about the small but vocal group of doubters still out there? A: There is, even today, a Flat Earth Society that meets every...
Camping It Up
It's Climate Camp time again. Last year, activists numbering 1500 (less than the capacity of some nightclubs) took part in a high-profile protest near Heathrow Airport, the site of a proposed new runway. As the camps occupied themselves recycling their own urine,...
Politics: Aborted
Asking Can This Planet Be Saved?, Paul Krugman in the NYT, contemplates the effect of oil exploration in the USA, and the '5%' possibility of 10°C rise in global temperatures, and comes to the conclusions that the continued moralisation of such questions is the only...
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...