Happy New Year! We have been somewhat neglectful of our blog. The truth - other than that we’re very busy - is that we decided to enjoy Christmas, and forget about climate change for a while. Normal blogging service will be resumed shortly. And there will be much to...
Forecast for Satire Worse Than Previously Thought
We find ourselves temporarily elsewhere and otherwise engaged. We'll be back shortly. It has not escaped our notice that there has been a couple of interesting elections recently, and that a new report for the UK government proves beyond doubt that it's very hard to...
Fighting Gaia with Kaya
Ben has an article about Roger Pielke Jr's criticism of the UK's Climate Change Act on Spiked. The rate of decarbonisation required to meet these targets would, according to Roger Pielke, be ‘more aggressive than has ever been documented in any developed country at...
George's Aga Ga-Ga and the Heathrow Hoo-Haa
George Monbiot is a very confused man. A few days ago, he announced his campaign against the Aga cooker (because it uses lots of energy). This, he said 'is indeed a class war' - the Aga is an expensive piece of kit, and therefore, you have to be rather wealthy to own...
Comment is NOT Free
Over at Comment is Free, George Monbiot attempts to rescue the eco-movement from the criticism that they're a bunch of toffs by launching a campaign to 'ban the aga'. "This is indeed a class war," he says. So where is the campaign against Agas? There isn't one. I've...
More Climate Wars
Ben has an article on Spiked-Online today, about the BBC's recent 'Climate Wars'. Iain Stewart, professor of geosciences communication at Plymouth University, introduced last week’s instalment with the words: ‘Global warming - the defining challenge of the...
The Queen of the Greens
Ben has an article in today's Spiked on our favourite Green, Caroline Lucas, who was elected as the Party's leader last Friday. The UK Green Party – formally the Ecology Party (1975-1985), formally PEOPLE (1973-1975) – once rejected the conventional party structure...
Switch Off, Tune Out, Give Up
We were tempted by an advert in the Times (London) yesterday: Get your kids to help you switch-off this summer Yes folks, you too could buy your energy from n-power, who will, in return, encourage your kids to spy on you and make sure you don't lapse into climate...
Climate Change Delusion By Proxy
Since the first case of the psychiatric disorder 'climate change delusion' was diagnosed in an Australian patient earlier this month, commentators have suggested that the symptoms expressed by Al Gore and the like point to the condition being a rather common one....
Bishop of Stafford Sillier Than Chief Scientific Advisor?
Given that climate sceptics are as bad as the tobacco lobby and holocaust deniers, and that climate change is worse than international terrorism, which is worse than obesity, which is worse than climate change, and that the church is as desperate to connect with the...