Alec Baldwin, the American actor, is of course right to say that climate denialism is a mental illness: However, Psychology Today author Jean M Twenge Ph.D. points out that Alec Baldwin himself is mentally ill, suffering as he obviously does from intense narcissism. She writes: Not every narcissist who gets thrown off a plane makes the news, … Continue reading
The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. His heart sank as he thought of the enormous power arrayed against him, the ease with which any Party intellectual would overthrow him in debate, the subtle arguments which he would not be able to … Continue reading
Over at The Conversation recently Geoff Chambers of these pages responded to academic and blogger And Then There’s Ken Rice, who asked, snarkily, ‘is [the fact that major publications ignore criticisms of bad practice in climate science] some kind of conspiracy?’ Continue reading
Writing for Spiked magazine, Ben Pile has given his assessment of the Paris pantomime: it was, he says, ‘a humpty-dumpty fudge’ so vague that one of its major outcomes will simply be to give ‘more licence to climate champions than a precisely worded document ever could’. More licence, that is, to keep the whole racket rumbling on in … Continue reading
There’s a man I follow on twitter whose tweeting is by turns infuriating and brilliant. I follow him because he writes about tv and comedy (he’s an author of several books on show-business and is also the biographer of Les Dawson). This man hates Quentin Letts. To him, Letts is the epitome of… how shall … Continue reading
So once again the streets of Paris are filled with protest and clashes – as they were in May 1968, when revolutionary slogans were daubed and pasted all over town by angry students. Many of the student revolutionaries behind the paste, posters and paint back then called themselves ‘situationists’ Continue reading
We are, according to Stephan Lewandowsky, dealing with a problem bigger than anything humanity has ever seen. That’s how he describes climate change in the latest issue of Nonesuch, Continue reading
A new essay entitled ‘The Climate Wars and The Damage to Science’ has been published by the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF). Continue reading
And everyone, it seems, is off on holiday there – meaning trouble for our institutions There has for some time now been hot debate over changes occurring in the Earth’s polar regions. Continue reading
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