I’ve had several comments to the effect that my position on climate change policy ignores information from climatologists; that it is ignorant of scientific observations. In case my previous posts on the matter (for example this) haven’t been clear enough, let me state my actual position so that the discussion can start from there, […]

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“Early morning, and the city comes alive. And what is immediately clear is the parameters of a global war between nature and the car. By a little after sunrise, it is clear that it is the car that is winning.”
So says the BBC’s Malachi O’Doherty in a report for Radio Ulster’s Sunday Sequence. […]

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For environmental wackoists, Sir Jonathon Porritt could be either a traitor or a visionary. He is an aforementioned environmental wackoist himself, having been a ‘Friend of the Earth’ and a Green Party figurehead, and current advisor to the Blair government. To these groups of wackoists, what Porritt believes is wildly controversial. To […]

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I live a few minutes from the Colorado River along the California/Arizona border. To the casual observer, the beautiful turquoise water is a haven of activity in the desert: speedboats, barbecues, deckchairs, bikinis and floating restaurants. I spent many days this summer playing and relaxing on boats, jetskis and other gas-guzzling water toys […]

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The latest trend among environmental wackoists (a technical term meaning “One given to wackoism”) is to propagate and discuss the idea that global warming may now be “irreversible”. We’ve gone too far. We’ve damaged, plundered, raped, mutilated and butchered this fragile planet more than it can take. We’ve sprayed one aerosol too […]

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Some reports of Blair taking the opportunity of the Clinton Global Initiative to say with “brutal honesty”: “My thinking has changed in the past three or four years,” on Kyoto, and: “No country is going to cut its growth,” and once Kyoto runs its limit: “They’re not going to start negotiating another treaty like Kyoto.”
This […]

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