Hats off to the Competitive Enterprise Institute's answer to the miserablist's 'Earth Hour'. Human Acheivement Hour is a celebration of our progress. What's curious about this is that the CEI are frequently criticised for their right-leaning economic perspective....
Ragin' Roberts
Over at Gristmill, the angry David Roberts gets his knickers in a twist about an email list: Barnes gets his information on climate change the same place everyone in the right-wing media world gets it: from Marc Morano, the in-house blogger/agitator for Sen. James...
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...
The Poorly Physician in a Huff
Just over a year ago, we picked up on a post at the miserablist blog, Grist, by Professor Andrew Dessler, former scientific advisor to the Clinton administration. Dessler had compared the planet's 'suffering' from climate change to a child with cancer. 'Who are his...
The Far-Right Deep-Green Hoo-Ha
The British National Party (BNP) causes much anxiety to today’s mainstream politicians. Almost entirely unable to take the immigration debate head on, Britain’s parties have, for the last few years been wholly mealy-mouthed about their policies. The juggling act...
Identity Crisis Politics
According to commentisfree, Ewa Jasiewicz is a writer, journalist, human rights activist and union organiser. In a recent post to the site, she identifies a split in the environmental movement between those who aim to stop climate change through ‘the system’, so to...
Politics: Aborted
Asking Can This Planet Be Saved?, Paul Krugman in the NYT, contemplates the effect of oil exploration in the USA, and the '5%' possibility of 10°C rise in global temperatures, and comes to the conclusions that the continued moralisation of such questions is the only...
Barr Barr Green Sheep
So, Libertarian Party presidential candidate Bob Barr has congratulated Al Gore on his stance on global warming. Former Vice President Al Gore and I have met privately to discuss the issue of global warming, and I was pleased and honored that he invited me to attend...
It's All About Ethanol
Poor old Gordon Brown: More than 80 Labour MPs have signed an amendment to the Climate Change Bill, which would force ministers to promise greater cuts in carbon emissions. The Climate Change Bill commits the government to make at least a 60% cut in CO2 emissions by...