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Category Archives: Cognitive Dissonance
An open letter to James Delingpole (2)
Dear James, Please tell me you are still not mad with me for something I did 5 years ago? If not ‘Pilegate’, I hope you are not still annoyed by the ‘Background’ page of my blog. Can you not see … Continue reading
A brief history of climate change ‘scepticism’
Here is my attempt to make sense of the academic literature categorising the rhetorical positions adopted by climate change ‘sceptics’. However, please note that the term ‘sceptic’ is used solely for convenience: Given that the totality of post-industrial climate change … Continue reading
From Noah to Nordhaus via Inhofe
US Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) is a climate change sceptic primarily because he believes God has promised not to flood the Earth again; and the rainbow in the sky tells him it must be true. Such ideologically-driven wilful blindness is … Continue reading
Posted in Civilisation, Climate Science, Cognitive Dissonance, Denial, Environment, Fossil Fuels, Mass Extinctions, Palaeoclimatology, Psychology
Tagged Antarctica, Archaeology, Ark, Comet, glaciers, Gobekli Tepe, Graham Hancock, History, James Inhofe, James Painter, Noah, Sphinx, Stephan Lewandowsky, William Nordhaus, Younger Dryas
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Why is the G7 still ignoring what scientists and economists say?
Despite the scientific and economic consensus – that 80% of known fossil fuels must be left in the ground if humanity is to avoid allowing climate change to become unstoppable and irreversible (IEA, IMF, IPCC, OECD, etc.) – the best … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Science, Cognitive Dissonance, Denial, Economics, Environment, Fossil Fuels, Insanity, IPCC, Politics, Psychology
Tagged Angela Merkel, BBC, Euro Zone crisis, G7, IMF, Insanity, International Energy Agency, IPCC, OECD, Roger Harrabin, The Carbon Brief
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James Delingpole is full of sheet
Hi folks. Sorry for the distinct Lack of blog posts over the last 12 months (it’s a long story I will not bore you with). James Delingpole is the reason that I started blogging four years ago. (If this is … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Science, Cognitive Dissonance, Confirmation Bias, Denial, Environment, James Delingpole, Maketplace of Ideas, Merchants of Doubt
Tagged Anglia Ruskin University, Benny Peiser, Christopher Booker, Christopher Monckton, Daily Mail, Fine Art, Ian Wolter, In Memoriam, James Delingpole, Melanie Philips, Philip Foster, Sustainability Art Prize
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Merchants of Doubt need to do the math
A feature-length documentary, based on the content of the Merchants of Doubt book by Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway, went on general release at movie theatres in the USA this weekend. As Desmogbog.com points out, it has already attracted the … Continue reading
Why do our politicians not act on IPCC advice?
I am hereby delighted to invite all my readers to indicate (by voting on a question [on the Survey Monkey website] that I have created) why they think our politicians continue to fail to respond effectively to the increasingly stark … Continue reading
Occam’s Razor works for me!
‘The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches From The Front Line’ by Dr Michael Mann, Professor of Meteorology at Pennsylvania State University, was recently published in paperback. I decided to purchase a copy. Here is my review of the … Continue reading
Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains
This must surely be a contender for the most well-known opening line of a personal treatise on political theory. Written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-78) in, possibly his most famous work, The Social Contract (first published in 1762). Is it not … Continue reading
How many more must die because of climate change denial?
Warmer oceans cause more evaporation; leading to more moisture in the atmosphere more of the time. This results in more frequent storms of greater intensity than before. This email from Greenpeace therefore needs no further introduction from me: ————————— Dear … Continue reading
Anthropocene Reality 