This is a big post in two parts. The first is our take on the current story about the Himalayan glaciers. The second is a similar case of non-scientific research being passed off as 'science'. A story in the Sunday Times demonstrates the murky nature of the process by...
Ho Ho Ho Green Giantz
Thanks to George Carty for pointing us to the Energy From Thorium Discussion Forum, where someone named Klaus Allmendinger has spotted something strange in the small print of a new report from WWF and Allianz insurance that claims to rank G8 countries in terms of...
No Fire Without a Smokescreen
In far flung corners of the globe, where tedious matters of grim reality tend to be of greater concern than the theoretical possibility of the ravages of global warming, there seems to be a growing realisation that, to generate interest from the western media in stuff...
The Blue/Green, Upside Down, Left/Right, Inside-Out, Three-Bags-Full Agenda
Leader of the UK's Conservatives, David Cameron, is at it again... Here he is, unveiling the latest installment of the 'resurrection' of the Tory Party, by announcing his continued commitment to Environmentalism, in spite of the prospect of an economic downturn, and...
The Well Funded World Wide Fund for Fear
We reported earlier in the year how claims that a 'denial lobby' had influenced public opinion on climate change were totally at odds with reality. The UK's Royal Society, for example wrote an open letter to Exxon in 2006, accusing it of funding these sceptics. The...
Fat People are Killing the Polar Bears (Again)
Last year we mentioned Ian Roberts' theory, as reported in New Scientist, that fat people are responsible for more than their fair share of global warming, and, in order to get a snappy headline out of it, we tied it into another New Scientist article, which was...