From an early age I’d accepted that I would never have children. One of my first memories is of the kindly family doctor who explained how my chromosomes weren’t like more than 50% of people’s. “This doesn’t make you less than the other kids,” she said. “It just makes you a boy.” I still have … Continue reading
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Flip My Hood Up: I’m a Climate Sceptic Sissy
Lise van Susteren is mentally ill. She says so herself. And she should know, because she’s a psychiatrist. She’s suffering from Pre-Traumatic Stress Disorder, which she contracted from listening to climate scientists: “.. everything the scientists are telling us, given how late the hour is, and how grave the consequences… what we are hearing about … Continue reading
I Spy Cli-Fi
Climate Fiction is big business. There’s even a website devoted to academic research in the subject with its own Research Tool (Dan Bloom is his name. He’s a 1971 graduate of Tufts University in Boston where he majored in post-modern European literature.) Most of it seems to be rough, tough American stuff, but I’m sure … Continue reading
Friday Funny: Hayhoe talks to Marshall
A bit of light relief. This is hilarious. Katharine Hayhoe talks to George Marshall and other members of the Green Blob about how to talk climate change outside of the ‘green bubble’. She’s preaching in a church. #YouCouldntMakeItUp. How to talk climate change outside of the 'green bubble'? Check out this video from @ClimateOutreach … Continue reading
Climate Change for Communists (and Sikhs)
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
Lew Role Unravelled
The discussion between two psychologists, reproduced in Ian’s article Lew and George in Bristol, reveals environmentalism at its most deranged. It’s worth examining in detail, I think, in order to try and understand what we’re up against. First of all, who they are: Stephan Lewandowsky has a perfectly normal day job as professor of cognitive … Continue reading
Lew and George in Bristol
We are, according to Stephan Lewandowsky, dealing with a problem bigger than anything humanity has ever seen. That’s how he describes climate change in the latest issue of Nonesuch, Continue reading
