The 'Green Energy Revolution': Spinning Failure as Success

The UK government recently gave its 'low carbon transition plan' an airing. At the launch of the plan, the unelected Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills who has been forced, twice, to resign from previous roles within the government for his...

Only Four Years Left to Save Environmentalism

Another sure sign that environmentalists are struggling to sustain a rational basis for their influence emerged last week. The pages of the Observer featured the opinion of NASA activist/scientist James Hansen in two articles [1 , 2] and an editorial. Barack Obama has...

Under the Moon: Gore's Giant Limp for Mankind

Al Gore announced his strategy for powering the USA entirely from 'renewable' resources -a mixture of solar and wind - by a decade from now. (Are the sun and wind 'renewable'? How?) [youtube dt9wZloG97U] The ten-year time-span, and the 'big project' are borrowed from...