Eco-Humanism?

At New Matilda, Sarah Burnside argues that: The simplest and most compelling argument for addressing climate change is humanist in nature. As human beings, we must take seriously our need to care for each other, whether at the specific level of provision of universal...

NGOligarchy

The BBC reports that... Eight of the UK's leading environmental groups have joined forces to urge political parties to adopt a joint approach on green issues. These eight are the usual suspects - Green Alliance, Friends of the Earth, the Woodland Trust, WWF, the...

Iceberg Stories Are a Wet Lettuce

In the Guardian yesterday, the paper's US Environmental correspondent, Suzanne Goldenberg writes: The world's ocean surfaces had their warmest summer temperatures on record, the US national climatic data centre said today. Climate change has been steadily raising the...

Future-Present Imperfect Imperative, Part 2

Further to this post, a reader has sent us an ingenious example of a novel linguistic construction that attempts to escape the constraints of the English language in order to give the impression that tentative predictions of the future are happening now: "The fact is...

Has Climate Porn Already Tipped?

At the BBC's Earth Watch blog, Richard Black takes a different perspective on the recent survey of the British public (well, 500 of them, anyway) and Climate Porn that we covered in our last post. Among the emails that arrive in my inbox regularly on climate change,...

Tipping Point for the Climate Porn Industry

Headlines don't get much more alarmist than this... As Tory Outcast points out, the story that the Independent Newspaper thinks a catastrophe is in fact far more mundane: The article by Tony Patterson tells the story of two commercial vessels which have managed to...

May, the Farce be With You

We haven't mentioned Bob May for a while. Here he is, talking to BBC R4's World at One presenter Martha Kearney today about... oh, you know, everything. [Listen again - UK Only] MK: The issue of climate change is being addressed tonight by the president of the British...

0 out of 10 for 10:10

It turns out we've missed a trick in our articles about the fashion for what we have called 'pastiche politics', the phenomenon by which environmentalists attempt to muster non-existent public support by comparing themselves to world-changing political movements of...