2018 Sagan Prize winner, Peter Gleick, has written a review of Michael Shellenberger’s new book, Apocalypse Never and it’s been getting a lot of links from Shellenberger’s critics. He starts out with a description of the two opposed philosophies of Cornucopianism and Malthusianism and how they apply to environmentalism. The review is illustrated with side by … Continue reading
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The Great Corona Lockdown Hockey Stick Twitter Brawl
When Brad Keyes wrote his great Shibbolithic post at WUWT, I just had to tweet it out. Hey @Revkin @chriscmooney @theresphysics @BSchmidtTweets @michaelshermer @BrianDunning @NaomiOreskes @EthonRaptor @ClimateOfGavin @Potholer54T @BadAstronomer @STWorg @rebeccawatson You people are so missing out!@BradPKeyes @wattsupwiththat https://t.co/rZn3T8nVjo — Canman (@DombroskiMike) April 9, 2020 This resulted in a long long thread about issues like … Continue reading
Doctor Who and the Deadly Wokeness Peril
(This was going to be a comment on Richard’s excellent Culture War post, but it was getting a bit long, so I’ve turned it into a sort of follow-on post to Richard’s.) On 12 January 2020 the BBC aired Episode 3 of their latest season of Doctor Who, starring Jodie Whittaker as the eponymous Doctor. … Continue reading
Climate Change – The Lies, Propaganda, Misinformation, Disinformation and Emotional Blackmail. Part II
I think this comes under ‘misinformation’/’disinformation’ and ‘propaganda’. Talking of the projected rise in temperature to 2100, Attenborough says: “Based on our current trajectory, the various models predict our planet will be somewhere between 3 and 6 degrees hotter.” Continue reading
Climate Change – The Facts. Saint Attenborough Will Reveal All on April 18th and Deniers Shall Repent.
Climate deniers are about to be smited by Saint Attenborough @ the BBC. It will be the coup de grace after being pummeled almost into submission by heart-breaking footage of walruses tumbling to their deaths shown recently by Attenborough @ Netflix. He gets around does our nonagenarian much loved wildlife presenter turned climate change prophet … Continue reading
Dutch comedian exposes green energy scam
This is remarkable. A satirical Sunday news programme presented by Arjen Lubach, on a mainstream TV channel in the Netherlands, debunks the green energy con. It’s in Dutch of course, but there are English subtitles. (Update: Scroll down to find new version of video) Assuming the subtitles are accurate, he says that green energy is … Continue reading
Nazis Had it Right: Oreskes
The NY Times has a less than stellar record for science coverage, so we were pleasantly surprised to see this adult, nuanced story on the Gray Lady‘s pages. Veteran reporters Marcus Toynboyalé, Jeff Chambers and Steven Glass have taken a critical, unfawning look at the upcoming überpaper from Harvard’s Naomi Oreskes; the climate connection should … Continue reading
New Paper on Disappearing Solomon Islands Spawns Alarmist Media Hype
The Media Hype The Guardian: Five Pacific islands lost to rising seas as climate change hits “Five tiny Pacific islands have disappeared due to rising seas and erosion, a discovery thought to be the first scientific confirmation of the impact of climate change on coastlines in the Pacific, according to Australian researchers.” ABC News: Five … Continue reading
Global Warming – a Good Thing?
Bjorn Lomborg has an interesting new article in the Telegraph, No one ever says it, but in many ways global warming will be a good thing. This seems to have been prompted by the recent story of “global greening”, thought to be caused mainly by increasing carbon dioxide levels but with warming playing a role … Continue reading
Climate change and flight times
The latest piece of hyped-up climate-related silliness to appear in the media is Winds of climate change will make transatlantic flights longer, study shows. The Guardian claims that ‘thousands of hours’ will be added to flight times. In fact if you read the article, the claim is that if all the climate science predictions are correct … Continue reading
