When environmentalists aren't aping the war on terror ('you're either with us or against us', not to mention sexing up documents to generate an unwarranted sense of urgency) they can sometimes sound uncannily like the lunatic extremists that the war on terror is...
More Heat than Light on the Warming Swindle
Martin Durkin's Great Global Warming Swindle is in the news again following an open letter to Wag TV signed by 37 scientists. The Letter, organised by Bob Ward - former Senior Manager for Policy Communication at the Royal Society, complains about the DVD release of...
Environmentalism Spiked
Three excellent pieces from Spiked about the green movement...First, Rob Lyons' 'The IPCC goes looking for bad news' is based on an interview with Aynsley Kellow, a contributor to recent IPCC reports.'even though Kellow has expressed public disagreement with the...
Poor Thinking
Apparently, 'climate change will be worse for the poor'. Who'd have thunk it? We really don't need the IPCC WGII report to tell us that - things are always worse for the poor. And yet the report seems to have taken many by surprise.Stranger still is how this rather...
What the Papers Don't Say
Over at Prometheus, Roger Pielke Jr makes a good point about how the actual views of IPCC reviewers often don't make it into the papers. This sheds some light on this story, and perhaps even this one, too. It's not simply the views of "sceptics" and "deniers" that...
How the Marxists Have Fallen (For It)
Over at Political Affairs, which promises "Marxist Thought online", an article published today warns that, according to the latest IPCC report, Mass extinction of species is likely within 60-70 years, on a scale larger than most of the five major extinction events...
Challenging Climate Orthodoxy…
April 2007. Since its release in February, the IPCC's AR4 (Working Group I) Summary for Policymakers has been uncritically reported in the mainstream media, and its findings often exaggerated. Because of a perception that the public mood demands action to mitigate...