It’s broader than that. In fact, let’s include the amazing recent election in Hong Kong: Just screw Hong Kong, amirite? — Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) December 11, 2019 They are putting their lives at stake for their freedom while some nutjob I being bandied around the globe talking out of a script and is being … Continue reading
Author Archives: Richard Drake
The climate crisis and transphobia
With apologies to This Is Spinal Tap, someone at Pink News has just turned all the knobs to weird. Read This is what climate change and transphobia have in common, according to non-binary author Dr Meg-John Barker if you dare. There are some hilarious comments under Helen Joyce’s tweet, mostly from the ‘gender critical’ contingent … Continue reading
A Miracle Just Happened
The hero of Climategate on 17th November 2009 had a tremendous sense of style, as recounted by ‘Dominic’ on Climate Audit almost two months later: I find the initial posting here with the link to the FOIA.zip file at RC almost divine. It was on a thread called “Miracles and Strip Bark Standardization” which had … Continue reading
Remembrance season
This short post with lots of embedded tweets starts with a quiz. Don’t cheat by reading further down before answering, at least in your head. What are the six key anniversaries, four with rather pleasing round numbers attached this year, that we have been in the process of remembering or at least perhaps vaguely … Continue reading
Environmental protections?
More screencaps from my iPhone today. Discuss? Continue reading
Hope, compromise and stepwise refinement
Here was a segment of my Twitter timeline just before midday: Sadly my iPhone screen didn’t allow me to capture with full clarity and imagination what The Guardian thinks hope is. But it seems safe to assume it involves changing the world for the better, progressive intellectual style. For instance: I don't know Ben, there … Continue reading
Climate Change – the Missing Facts
TL;DR David Attenborough’s “Climate Change – the Facts” was unbalanced. It failed to mention twelve key facts. It also failed to interview experts whose views on energy policy have, rightly, been informed by these facts. In its pre-prepared defence of the programme, already used as a stock response to at least three complaints we know … Continue reading
Extinction First
Having agreed with a few other Cliscep founders to post up Ben Pile’s excellent Twitter thoughts on Extinction Rebellion before the early hours of Thursday had – yawn – expired, I took First Bus out of Weston-super-Mare towards home and was greeted by this on the top deck. Someone had decided that XR was more … Continue reading
Educating Greta
Three weeks ago, on 15th February, Greta Thunberg burst onto the world scene with the Student Climate Strike. Next Friday she and her collaborators aim to do the same but bigger. Whatever else you think of the operation, and its many adult cheerleaders, this instance of Google My Maps showing the global extent is both colourful and … Continue reading
Post-strewth politics
In the afternoon of 15th January, the day I put up some thoughts on Project Fear on Cliscep, and Theresa May lost by over two hundred votes in the House of Commons on her original Withdrawal Agreement, agreed with the EU, I read something truly shocking in the Daily Telegraph: Michael Gove Age: 51 Odds: 12/1 … Continue reading
