The Guardian's ethical agony aunt, Leo Hickman complained yesterday that, Climate sceptics flirt with intelligent design and Islamophobic group Leaving aside the question about whether or not it is true that the group really is in the business of promoting...
Observing the Oberver's 'Ethical' Awards
Every year, the Guardian's sister Sunday, the Observer, holds an 'ethical awards' ceremony. It is quite a sight. Awards ceremonies are, as a rule, full of the pathologically smug anyway. An 'ethical' awards ceremony sets the smug-o-meter past any conceivable limit....
All Watched Over by Monbiot
Monbiot, again. He has a piece in yesterday's Guardian, taking issue with a report commissioned by the previous government -- but taken up enthusiastically by the coalition. The report aimed to put a value on the UK's ecosystem, such that planning policies could take...
A Brief History of Ecology
Regular readers of this blog will know that one of its central themes is the idea that, in the environmentalist's argument 'the politics is prior' to the science. Environmentalists seem to forget what it is they have presupposed, and appear to believe that...
Putting humanity in a kangaroo court
<em>Published on Spiked-Online at http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/10549/</em> You may not have noticed, but last week you were a co-defendant in a court case. In Stockholm, the Third Nobel Laureate Symposium on Global Sustainability met at the...
Against Humans
I have an article up on Spiked-Online today, about the Third Nobel Laureate Symposium on Global Sustainability and their mock-trial of humanity. The ‘trial’ was merely a stunt, of course, designed to make a stuffy, pompous and self-serving enterprise such as this more...
Eco-Rapture and the Cult of Malthus & Gaia
There's been a lot of talk this week -- and probably a lot of disappointment -- about the end of the world. Said the Observer today... To the shock and distress of a handful of ultra-devout Christian believers, the sun went down yesterday on an America and a world...
Can Pap-Pop Save the Planet?
A couple of commenters on my last post questioned my judgement of misery-act, Radiohead. I hope that we can find a consensus on this little number more easily... [youtube h65xXOVrQzQ] Eww. It's the Finnish entry to the Eurovision Song Contest -- an annual high camp,...
Science-Pop Won't Make Climate Science Pop-Science
What is worse than pop stars preaching about climate science? [youtube EkBS7Sw5BaA] [Thom Yorke, lead singer of crap miserablist act, Radiohead, wondering what he's doing on Age of Stupid director, Franny Armstrong's Stupid Show] It's climate scientists expressing...
The Inter-NGO Panel on Climate Change
The IPCC has published an SPM of its forthcoming report on renewable energy. The Guardian claims, Renewable energy can power the world, says landmark IPCC study. Hmm... Sven Teske, renewable energy director at Greenpeace International, and a lead author of the report,...