In the Telegraph today: I was put in a bad mood recently after hearing the Turner Prize-winning artist Lubaina Himid on Desert Island Discs. She said she was glad that artists often no longer worked alone, preferring to be members of groups. The word “group” makes grumps like me shudder, being one of those … Continue reading
Category Archives: Journalism
Fake News At The Con Yet Again – Fijians Victims of ‘Sudden Onset’ Climate Change Impacts
The Conversation now has a policy of publishing articles which promote the false notion that extreme weather is virtually synonymous with climate change and in particular that vulnerable, low-lying island and coastal communities are climate change victims because of sea level rise and/or extreme weather. Their most recent fake news article has apparently … Continue reading
BBC Malfunction. Corporation Reports ‘No role’ for Climate Change in Antarctic Iceberg Calving – Normal Service Expected To Resume Shortly
Miracles happen. You wake up one day, lazily scan the science news on the BBC website, expecting the usual climate alarmist drivel and then suddenly it hits you – bang! Continue reading
Daily Mail: Britain Will Get Hotter and Wetter and Plagued By Killer Zika Carrying Mosquitoes as Global Temperature Rises 8.5C by 2100 in ‘Business as Usual’ Scenario!
Alarmism on stilts with its dunce cap on. This is what the public are being fed on. It’s just so ridiculous, I wonder if it’s worth even commenting on, but people who know nothing about IPCC climate science will read this and think it is fact Continue reading
BBC Talking out of its Exit Point Again
The BBC’s latest climate insanity is a four minute video in their series “Ideas” entitled “Are you suffering from climate change anxiety?” consisting of interviews with three anxious young people, and comments by a psychologist. Paul Homewood was first off the mark (he always is) with this article, but I thought it might be useful to enquire … Continue reading
The Conversation’s Fact-Free Claim That Rich Countries Are To Blame For Idai
Even by Con standards, this fact-free article by ‘climate justice’ academics, Michael Mikulewicz and Tahseen Jafry, at Glasgow University, is outrageously bad. The title alone is enough to make you blanche: Cyclone Idai: rich countries are to blame for disasters like this – here’s how they can make amends Presumably, the making amends for causing poor … Continue reading
Mann and Ward’s Kick in the Graun
…and now for the pièce de résistance of this three course feast of Guardian Newspeak: Michael Mann and Bob Ward claiming that Donald Trump is the new Stalin: … a group of hardcore climate change deniers and contrarians linked to the administration is organising a petition in support of a new panel being set up by the National Security Council to … Continue reading
