The Conversation has signed up to something called Covering Climate Now – a special week of climate change coverage, supported by more than 170 media outlets who are disturbed by the fact that no-one in the media is talking about climate change. They’ve started off with a bang today with this article by digital editor … Continue reading
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Dominic Cummings: the Brexit Connexion
With Britain obsessed with Brexit, and the USA obsessed with the failure of Russiagate to pin anything on Trump, I sometimes find it surprising that anyone is still interested in climate change. Haven’t you got anything better to argue about at your dinner parties? The three subjects have in common the absence of intelligent debate … Continue reading
Global Warming may be making baboons less aggressive – are humans next?
A study published in the American Journal of Primatology, by renowned neurobiologist and primatologist, Professor Robert Sapolsky of Stanford University, has shown that levels of intra-group aggression exhibited by troupes of baboons on the Serengeti Plains diminishes significantly during periods of drought. The reasons for this moderation of behaviour are unclear but it may … Continue reading
European Temperature Extremes: Models Don’t Fit, Data Isn’t As Expected, So Therefore It Must Be Climate Change!
The long hot summer of climate change/heatwave propaganda continues with the release of yet another ‘study‘ of European temperature extremes, this time by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. As usual, the story is splashed all over the media that Europe is warming even faster than models predicted. So it’s just the usual … Continue reading
Environmentalism’s Divergence Problem
I noted in a previous post a surprising fact about the coverage of the Amazon fires: that several media outlets normally only too happy to spread any alarmist rubbish that would aid the catastrophic climate change narrative were publishing articles which contradicted the normal propaganda. I mentioned the BBC, Bloomberg, the New York Times and … Continue reading
The Revenge of Incy Wincy Spider
I think we are all familiar with the exploits of Ms Wincy, of order Araneae. But, just in case you are not, I will recap: Apparently, said spider climbed up a waterspout only for the rain to come down, thereby washing her out (the details are unimportant). Fortunately, or perhaps inevitably, the sun returned, resulting … Continue reading
Amazon Fires
(Fire in the forest: Piero di Cosimo, Ashmolean Museum) Kip Hansen at WattsUpWithThat reports that forest fires in the Amazon are less than at the same time in 2016, and praises an article in the New York Times by Alexandria Symonds which gives a clear and fact-based account of what’s happening, noting particularly that most of the … Continue reading
