100 Today

Here's something special (and not work-friendly), to mark our 100th post, which brilliantly captures the absurdity of the nature worship in today's world. Unless you are easily offended, turn up the sound: [youtube ClCmO42_tQ0]

What Else Won't the Greens do for us?

Back in February, we reported on the new plans for 'eco-towns' in the UK, to make up part of the housing shortage. We suggested that it was unlikely that even the eco-town-planners would actually go as far as to replace the sewage system with water-free composting...

Do Environmentalists Want to Save the Planet or What?

They like their weird analogies at Gristmill. The latest comes from scientist and Green oracle Joseph Romm, in an introduction to a tirade about geo-engineering by guest poster Bill Becker, executive director of the Presidential Climate Action Project: Geo-engineering...

"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...