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Monthly Archives: February 2013
Shell abandons Arctic drilling this year – Greenpeace
This is great news but, what we really need is an International agreement (like that which protects the Antarctic from resource exploitation). If we need to despoil the Arctic to get fossil fuels, then we are very clearly far too … Continue reading
Posted in Arctic, Climate Science, Economics, Energy Crisis, Environment, Fossil Fuels, Greenpeace, Politics, Renewable Energy, Sustainable development
Tagged Go Beyond Oil, Greenpeace
3 Comments
Life is full of tough choices…
…but this isn’t one of them. Or is it? The trouble is, of course, that removing all the subsidies and tax breaks given to the fossil fuel industry (which are delaying the creation of a free market in power generation) … Continue reading
Lindzengate – one year on
Today is the first anniversary of my trip to London to hear a certain Professor Richard S. Lindzen give a talk to an invited audience of climate change “sceptics” in a Committee Room inside the Palace of Westminster. Having sat … Continue reading
What on Earth are we doing?
I appear to have a habit of posting items starting with the words “What on Earth..”. Here, then, is another one to add to that list… A few weeks ago, one of the regular contributors to discussion on this blog … Continue reading
Climate Change: First Wake-Up Call in 1910?
I was looking for something else in the Letters to the Editor section of the Geological Society website, when I came across this very short but massively powerful letter. I knew instantly that I must draw it to the attention … Continue reading
They came from the sky
UPDATE 2300 hrs UTC: I have amended this post to include a Russian TV news report and explanation of events. The commentary states that the DA14 asteroid is the size of an olympic swimming pool (i.e. 50m in length). On … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropocene, Climate Science, Environment
Tagged Belshazzar's Feast, Russian meteor impact, Writing on the wall
17 Comments
There is nothing abstract about climate change denial
There is an awful lot of rubbish spoken about climate change scepticism. I have had a very busy week this week: preparing and delivering a Powerpoint presentation to students doing one of the options I did on my MA two … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Science, Cognitive Dissonance, Confirmation Bias, Denial, Environment, Merchants of Doubt, Politics, Psychology, Scepticism
Tagged Peter Jacques
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Climate denier guilty of syntax avoidance
Regular and longer-term subscribers to this blog may recall some of my exchanges with Doug Swallow (a.k.a. jdouglashuahin) who claims to be a US citizen resident in SE Asia somewhere. Whoever or wheresoever he may be, English is clearly not … Continue reading
Climate Science – Room 101
A warmer atmosphere can hold more moisture and – as atmospheric physicists have been warning us for over 50 years now – this will result in more frequent and more extreme weather events of all kinds. A recent opinion poll … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropocene, Climate Science, Cognitive Dissonance, Confirmation Bias, Denial, Environment, Insanity, James Hansen, Scepticism
Tagged 350.org, climate dice, Insanity
18 Comments
Anthropocene Reality 