The Graun really is worse than you thought. This article by John Gibbons plumbs new heights. Under a fetching picture of Gigi Love’s fluorescent bottom, Gibbons drools bile over the Irish Climate Science Forum, Richard Lindzen, retired male engineers and meteorologists, deniers, aging contrarians, conservative white males, elderly white men, elderly engineers, and elderly white … Continue reading
Author Archives: Geoff Chambers
The Elderly White Leftwing Sceptical Man’s Burden
Being a leftwing sort of person in the world of climate scepticism is sometimes a bit of a bore, and I tend to avoid political discussion which doesn’t actually impinge on the question of climate change. As Paul Matthews established in an article-cum-survey at Bishop Hill a while ago, we lefties, while in a minority, … Continue reading
How Many Irmas in 2100?
We get a lot of readers sent to us from European sceptic sites, for example http://www.staatvanhetklimaat.nl/ which is in Dutch, and which I recommend strongly to anyone who thinks they’re not gifted for languages. Just read it aloud with a Norfolk accent, and you’ll get the gist. This article is from our French sister site … Continue reading
‘The Worst X Since Y’
From the Guardian: The last time Georgia was struck by a hurricane of force Category 3 or higher happened in 1898. The last Category 5 storm to hit Florida was Andrew in 1992. Its winds topped 165 mph (265 kph), killing 65 people and inflicting $26 billion in damage. It was at the time the … Continue reading
Heat the Rich (0.1): My Millionaires
My first two articles in a series “Heat the Rich” were suddenly given relevance by Hurricane Irma. The first one, “Heat the Rich (0)” because it brought to light the thinking of an eccentric 19th century sociologist on the primitive habit of attributing sentience to impressive catastrophic phenomena, a habit which can be observed live … Continue reading
The Worst Hurricane Since the Invention of Colour Satellite Photography
People have died from Hurricane Irma, one on Barbuda and eight on the French side of the French/Dutch island of St Martin, so it’s no joking matter. The physical damage is immense, but there are few images of the kind that would suggest massive casualties, like Tsunami-type waves or the collapse of large buildings, and … Continue reading
Oreskes’ Oracular Orifice
A new paper, Assessing ExxonMobil’s Climate Change Communications (1977–2014) by Geoffrey Supran and Naomi Oreskes, published 23 August 2017, “..assesses whether ExxonMobil Corporation has in the past misled the general public about climate change, [presents] an empirical document-by-document textual content analysis and comparison of 187 climate change communications from ExxonMobil … [examines] whether these communications … Continue reading
