Sometimes it's hard to know if things you encounter in the climate debate are real, or clever works of fiction or satire. For example, the website Trees Have Rights Too - ecological justice for all sounds to me very much like a joke, parodying the excesses of some...
Rio +20: Not About the Environment, After All…
From the pages of the Guardian... Use Rio+20 to overhaul idea of growth, urges EU climate chief Connie Hedegaard says GDP model of growth causes overconsumption, drives up commodity prices and ignores the environment Connie Hedegaard is the European Commissioner for...
Post-Huhne Climate Politics?
So Chris Huhne has resigned, pending something or other about perverting the course of justice. Sceptics and other critics of UK/EU energy policy are understandably happy. Good riddance, perhaps. It also gives the opportunity for some pause on the UK's energy policy....
'Transparency' & the GWPF – Part 2
A letter at the Guardian says, Science is by its nature sceptical: scientists interrogate information and only on repeated investigation does data become science. The science of climate change has been established through numerous high-profile studies (IPCC, NOAA,...
Greens to sceptics: show us the money!
Published on Spiked-Online at http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/12005/ The first question asked about anyone making a non-conforming argument in the climate debate is ‘who funds them?’ And so it is with the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) - a...
FOIA and the GWPF
I have a piece up on Spiked today, about Brendan Montague/Request Initiative and their ongoing attempt to use the FOIA to 'find out' about the GWPF's donors. The first question asked about anyone making a non-conforming argument in the climate debate is ‘who funds...
The the-End-is-Nigh Genre
In a moment of boredom, I watched a few minutes of this Channel 4 documentary on the Mayan prophecy that the world will end this year. Prophecies of doom and destruction crop up in all cultures and at all times throughout history, with dire predictions about the end...
Panic on a Plate (not climate related)
Nothing to do with climate change... Or not much, anyway... Food, rather than climate alarmism... If you're in or near Oxford next week, you may be interested in an event I'm hosting.... The Oxford Salon will launch in the new year. Our first event will be kicked off...
Moonbat — still at it…
Following the recent post on Monbiot's war on 'liberatians', Alex Cull points towards Monbiot's latest article in his .... Bruenig explains what is now the core argument used by conservatives and libertarians: the procedural justice account of property rights. In...
It's That Monbiot Again…
Happy new year. Over in the Grauniad today, George Monbiot gets his new year knickers in an unfestive knot over the failure of the Daily Mail's prediction of a cold winter. "Brrr-ace yourselves! Britain to shiver in -20C in WEEKS as councils stockpile extra grit". So...