We’ve discussed Jordan Peterson a couple of times previously here. In particular, Ian wrote An Invitation to Jordan Peterson, encouraging him to investigate the “vast continent of muddled thinking in the climate debate”. Well, it appears that Dr Peterson read Ian’s post and has risen to the challenge — either that or he’s been talking … Continue reading
The jet-setting, climate-campaigning celeb and poet Emma Thompson recently dismissed Britain as a “tiny little cloud-bolted, rainy corner of sort-of Europe, a cake-filled misery-laden grey old island”. And presumably since the vote for Brexit, we’ve sunk even further in her estimation. However, not all of us are misery-laden these days, especially since the referendum. (NB, … Continue reading
Professor David Campbell has a fairly virulent article at the GWPF criticising a BBC radio interview with Lord Adair Turner, head of the Energy Transitions Commission and ex-head of the UK Climate Change Committee. Professor Campbell’s article ends: Everything Lord Turner said about the Paris Agreement and China’s Intended Nationally Determined Contributions was wrong. That … Continue reading
On Friday last week, the Today programme on BBC Radio 4 featured some items about a report just released from the National Infrastructure Commission, which describes how Britain (lucky thing!) is perfectly placed to kick off a “smart power revolution” and become a world leader in all things low-carbon. Here’s a transcript of one segment: … Continue reading
A common theme at Bishop Hill is how policies that are supposed to help the environment actually do the opposite. Examples include biofuels, windfarms, and chopping down trees in the US to burn at Drax. But it’s rare to hear this point made on the BBC, so I was amazed to hear this exchange on … Continue reading
Earlier this month, atmospheric physicist and professor emeritus at MIT Richard Lindzen was interviewed by radio host William Frezza, and here is a transcript of that interview. The conversation covers a fair deal of ground, ranging from the inadequacies of processing temperature measurements and the way computer models are tweaked to get the expected results … Continue reading
An entertaining interview by Australian radio host Alan Jones of MP Craig Kelly, about the 2007 Australian of the Year Tim Flannery is being discussed at Bishop Hill, at the Australian climate skeptics and here. It’s amusing not just for the failure of Flannery’s predictions, but also for the style in which interviewer and interviewee keep telling … Continue reading
There’s an interesting blog based in Belgium called Trust, yet verify. If you’re not familiar with it, do take a look, there are plenty of good posts there. The blogger, Michel, describes in a series of posts starting here how he started out as a devout believer in what we were being told about the climate … Continue reading
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
The BBC Trust has decreed that a light-hearted Radio 4 programme by Quentin Letts, “What’s the point of the Met Office”, which included a brief section suggesting that global warming might be a bit exaggerated, broke its guidelines on impartiality. Continue reading
