A few weeks ago, as reported here, the BBC and the rest of the media gave a great deal of publicity to a report from a think tank making untrue statements about climate change. In particular, Martha Kearney, on the Radio 4 Today Programme, read out the following falsehood to her 7 million listeners: But … Continue reading
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Twat in the Hat Tweets Back
It’s difficult to write about George Marshall except in a tone of ridicule, so I won’t even try. He’s written a whole book – “Don’t Even Think about It” – about what it’s like to be a modern Ancient Mariner, mocked and ignored by family and friends, the unwelcome guest at the dinner party. from Paul Kingsnorth’s … Continue reading
Prediction: Climate Change Will Be Blamed For Making February Heatwave ‘X Times More Likely’.
Carbon Brief summed up the media and scientific community’s response to the remarkable spell of summery weather the UK has just experienced when it was supposed to be winter (today is the first day of Spring and it’s much colder!). Reading between the lines, I would hazard to guess that within the next … Continue reading
Genetically Modified Journalism
Ever wondered where grubby old Guardian environmental editors go to pupate? James Randerson was the Guardian’s science correspondent and then environment editor for 10 years He’s now news editor at Politico (Europe), a very attractive, well-presented, well-informed on-line news source committed to selling us the Euro-kool Aid. At the Guardian, Randerson was responsible for their … Continue reading
Panic Now, Or Die Horribly!
Climate alarmists are becoming desperate. We’re not concerned enough about climate change, so they are going full out to try and create blind panic in the forlorn hope that we will be herded like sheep into taking action and/or consent meekly to the taking of drastic action, because we have become fearful, fed as we … Continue reading
Rupert and the Magic Windmill
One of the great advances of modern life is the separation of dwelling place from workplace. Until quite recently the farmer lived on his farm, the schoolmaster in the school house, and the miner in a terrace in the shadow of the slag heaps. Few workers nowadays live on the premises of their office or … Continue reading
Climate catastrophe due next year
A classic from the Guardian/Observer archives, from February 2004: The article is so absurd that it hardly needs any commentary. After explaining that Britain will be Siberian by next year according to a suppressed report, it goes on to claim that the ‘findings’ of the report will embarrass the climate-denying president: The findings will prove humiliating … Continue reading
