Tolstoy hit the nail on the head. All climate alarmists are alike; each climate sceptic is unhappy in his own way. Only kidding. The smug self-satisfaction still includes some minor variations. I wish to return to Matt Ridley, an expert who I believe was unfairly criticised in September by two perceptive experts here, Geoff Chambers … Continue reading
Author Archives: Richard Drake
Ongoing ignorance of experts 1
I’m going to try to divide this up into a series of reasonably digestible chunks, beginning with Dr Matthews’ clever ploy of mostly posting tweets. Let’s start with this guy on the first day of November: The enlightenment needs saving https://t.co/f0xd0jvjUs — Matt Ridley (@mattwridley) November 1, 2017 Who had prompted that? This fellow: blocked … Continue reading
The game may be changed
Climate sceptics, feast your eyes on two brilliant and appropriately passionate articles in best-selling UK tabloids this morning: Now that’s an inconvenient truth: Report shows the world isn’t as warm as the green doom-mongers warned. So will energy bills come down? Fat chance in the Daily Mail by Labour MP Graham Stringer How scientists got … Continue reading
Gove and The Blob
Today is a month exactly from the UK general election as well as the last day of the G20 summit in Hamburg. Michael Gove is a UK politician who was not expecting to return to the cabinet after his sacking last year. The Blob is a 1958 American science-fiction horror film, according to Wikipedia. And … Continue reading
Gove meets Trump
A day before his inauguration I thought it’d be good to take a fairly lighthearted look at the president-elect, as seen by the UK’s archetypal political egghead, Michael Gove, together with Kai Diekmann from Bild, on Sunday. The charm of being there This is from the full transcript of the interview (sadly, as with the … Continue reading
Memories 1975-2016, 1917-2017
This is part personal highlights of 2016, and the first few days of 2017, part leftovers of my narrower Christmas Eve post. It looks back, just a little, in the hope of historical perspective. It also covers one foreign policy issue with profound links to so-called climate policy. Whatever else, there’s some recommended reading. It … Continue reading
Two views of good science
In this message for Christmas 2016 we go back seven years. Once we’ve taken a look at our two protagonists it’s likely to get us into matters of history, science and philosophy going back a hundred, then an odd reflection at the end of a far-from-normal year in the new century. London newspaper-wise we’re talking … Continue reading
