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...

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...

A Notional Trust

Two articles in the Guardian/Observer this weekend seem to have stretched reports produced by conservationists to effect the maximum possible alarm. On Saturday, the Guardian reported that the National Trust had produced an audit of climate change effects on wildlife...

Observing the Observer

The Observer (the Sunday Guardian) welcomes the appointment of a Gaia-botherer to Obama's team. The decision by Barack Obama to appoint John Holdren as his chief scientific adviser deserves widespread welcome. The Harvard academic and former energy expert at the...

The Silly-Season’s Soap-Opera Ice-Storm in a Tea-Pot

Explorer Lewis Pugh, self-proclaimed 'Voice of the Arctic' took a break from cold-water swimming to try to become the first person to kayak to the North Pole to raise awareness of himself the shrinking Arctic ice mass: There is one side of me that really hopes I can...

Polls Apart

One of our major gripes with Environmentalism concerns the claims made by its adherents that it is some sort of popular, grass-roots movement. Time and again, polls suggest otherwise. And yet these polls are rarely, if ever, reported in terms of the undemocratic...

Global Warming… Jumping the Shark…

Wikipedia tells us, The term jumping the shark alludes to a specific scene in a 1977 episode of the TV series Happy Days when the popular character Arthur "Fonzie" Fonzarelli literally jumps over a shark while water skiing. The scene was so preposterous that many...