This post doesn’t matter in the way that Paul’s recent post on the insanity of the British Met Office matters. But I thought I’d put it up anyway to get it off my chest. And because there’s another chronology than that obeyed by Met Office press releases – that of creative artists. When I reviewed … Continue reading
Tag Archives: COP21
Is climate alarmism fading?
Encouraging news from the Guardian today, based on a report from MediaMatters. Despite all the hype around the COP21 Paris climate conference in December, the airtime devoted to climate news stories by the US TV networks actually fell in 2015 compared with 2014. The only channel that substantially increased its coverage was Fox, which takes … Continue reading
2015 smashes the record for climate bullshit
The official numbers are now in for 2015 and it’s been confirmed by all independent sources that levels of climate bullshit in 2015 shattered the record of previous years. Globally, over 59 million pieces of climate bullshit were produced in 2015. This was well above the previous record set in 2013 following the publication of … Continue reading
Trampling over everything
There has been plenty of discussion here already on COP21. Before we collectively start to naturally tail off our commentary on the annual climate jamboree however I wanted to mark something I consider to be one of the most symbolic and underreported COP21 related events. Geoff remarked on November 14th that out of respect for … Continue reading
A Humpty-Dumpty fudge: Ben Pile on Paris
Writing for Spiked magazine, Ben Pile has given his assessment of the Paris pantomime: it was, he says, ‘a humpty-dumpty fudge’ so vague that one of its major outcomes will simply be to give ‘more licence to climate champions than a precisely worded document ever could’. More licence, that is, to keep the whole racket rumbling on in … Continue reading
COP21: A Nobel Prizewinner Speaks
This article was originally published in French at https://theconversation.com/accord-de-paris-encore-un-long-chemin-52338 where, as nearly always at the French edition of their blog, no-one comments except me. Since the Conversation very decently allows free use of its articles, and since the author is a Nobel Prizewinner for Economics, it seemed only reasonable to translate his thoughts and make … Continue reading
Agreement reached: planet saved. Or a COP-out?
In a historic agreement reached at the end of the Paris COP21 talks, the world has literally been saved from the brink of catastrophe. Across the world, negotiators are returning to their countries, waving a piece of paper which bears their names as well as others. Continue reading
The Shape Of Things To Come
It’s Saturday night, Laurent Fabius has brought his green hammer down on proceedings at the climate summit and the Paris Agreement is a done deal – now what will it all mean? Earlier this afternoon, while we were all still waiting for the announcement, the BBC’s Nicholas Owen interviewed Professor Mike Rosenberg of the IESE … Continue reading
Paris pantomime reaches final act
The Paris COP21 farce is now entering its final act. As predicted by Josh, stage 5 has now been reached, with some reports of deadlock between developed and developing nations. The next stage of the corny melodrama will be the long, agonising extension of the deadlines, followed at last by the triumphant announcement that the planet … Continue reading
Good COP, Bad COP
I’ve been commenting at about seven different articles at https://theconversation.com/uk/topics/paris-2015-climate-summit sometimes on several at once, which is great fun. Continue reading
