By Tim Hunter I grew up with David Attenborough. His programmes inspired awe, wonder and a thirst for knowledge. But now I find myself despairing every time a new programme is released as the underlying message that runs through every programme has become dogmatic and unscientific. However, I do try to watch with my 12 … Continue reading
Barry Woods just alerted the rest of us to this gem ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOibBy290cM In which you can see a bunch of desperate individuals issue a Message to Trump from Climate Scientists. Let’s forget for a moment that two of them (Peter Gleick and Stephan Lewandowsky) are proven liars, and concentrate on the first messenger, Katherine Hayhoe, … Continue reading
George Marshall, roving climate psychologist, known to Dr Seuss fans as the Twat in a Hat, has a new article at Business Today in India, reprinted at Climate Outreach . Here are some extracts: My colleagues in the environmental movement, echoed by newspapers and policy makers, persist in talking about climate change as an environmental problem, … Continue reading
Doug McNeall of the UK Met Office wrote an interesting sequence of tweets this morning starting from the perceived threat from Trump, then moving on to the strength of the climate sceptic position and how climate scientists should respond. You can see the sequence of 20 tweets here as a storify. Below is the content … Continue reading
The final countdown, the title somberly states. So begins the “100 months to save the world” series in The Guardian, penned by Andrew Simms exactly 100 months and two days ago. Ostensibly the purpose of the series was to chronicle our doom over the ensuing 100 months whilst uselessly flailing about with ridiculous policy suggestions … Continue reading
There’s a heartrending article in today’s Guardian. A mother looks at her child playing with a broken toy picked up by the roadside, symbol of a sick, collapsing world. In tears, she asks why he was ever born. She speaks of her fear of dying, her paralysis, her sense of hopelessness. Aleppo? Haiti? The Yemen? … Continue reading
UPDATE: In the comments section of George Marshall’s climate-silence blog, linked to below, un certain agent provocateur based—where else?—in France and named—what else?—Geoff Chambers has the bad manners to sow doubts as to Lord Marshall’s basic numeracy. Darrell Harb has informed us that he attempted to come to the academic’s aid by neutralizing the … Continue reading
