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Monthly Archives: May 2012
How to get through the eye of the needle
Yesterday, on Learning from Dogs, Paul Handover published his thoughts on the 6-minute video of a presentation by a remarkably altruistic venture Capitalist, Nick Hanauer, which you can now view here (below). However, firstly, here are some words of introduction … Continue reading
Posted in Capitalism, Consumerism, Economics, Ethics, Growthmania, Money Fetishism, Politics
Tagged Nick Hanauer
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More heat than light on Question Time
For those not familiar with British television, Question Time is a weekly show on the BBC that allows members of a self-selected audience (i.e. you have to ask to be in it) to pose questions on current events to a … Continue reading
Is Azerbaijan in Europe?
To mark the slightly-weird occasion of the Eurovision Song Contest coming from Baku (4 hours ahead of the UK and almost as far east of London as as Titanic wreck off Newfoundland is west), I am going to take a … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Populism
Tagged Azerbaijan, Eurovision song contest, Geography, Geology, Humour
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On the trail of Christopher Monckton – part 2
I reviewed the backstory to this yesterday; and concluded with the first of Monckton’s responses to me this week (which I cannot share with you because he has asked me not to publish them). However, you can get an idea … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Science, Environment, Junk Science, Politics, Pseudo science, Richard Lindzen, Scepticism
Tagged Christopher Monckton
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On the trail of Christopher Monckton – part 1
The third Viscount of Brenchley, Christopher Monckton, is a bit of a slippery customer: A member of the British aristocracy with no scientific training or qualifications, but nevertheless idolised as an expert by climate change “sceptics”, he is prone to … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Science, Environment, Junk Science, Politics, Populism, Pseudo science, Scepticism
Tagged Christopher Monckton, SPPI
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A very unsustainable Energy Bill
Here in the UK, the Coalition government has published a draft Energy Bill for consultation. Crucially, this does not contain any commitment to phase-out the use of fossil fuels by 2030 – or any other date (i.e. as per an … Continue reading
It doesn’t have to be like this
In 1974, the former World Bank economist Herman E Daly published an article on ‘The Economics of the Steady State’, beginning with a quote from the famous scientist Sir Arthur Eddington: “But if your theory is found to be against … Continue reading
Glacier in retreat – will denialists follow?
With my thanks to Climate Denial Crock of the Week, I present this Spot the Difference competition using photos of the Columbia Glacier in Alaska taken in 1938 (USGS), 1986 and 2011 (NASA). As a Google search of images of … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Science, Environment
Tagged Columbia Glacier, glaciers, Himalayas, World Glacier Monitoring Service
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Same old G8? – or – Will it be gr8?
Thanks to Avaaz, I have been alerted to the possibility that the G8 could do something really great – they could decide to stop subsidising the destruction of an effectively-functioning global ecosystem and invest in renewable energy instead. The Carbon … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Science, Economics, Energy Crisis, Environment, Fossil Fuels, Politics, Renewable Energy
Tagged Belshazzar's Feast, G8
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Dirty water kills 180 children per hour
As I have said many times now, I chose to pursue hydrogeology as a specialism because I wanted to find some way of using my geological knowledge to improve the lives of less fortunate people. I may have got distracted … Continue reading
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