Category Archives: Denial

President Trump should avoid taking tea with strangers

Posted on February 6, 2017 by Rick Altman
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Is this ‘Game Over’ for climate change mitigation?

Posted on December 11, 2016 by Rick Altman

Last January, I posted It’s ‘Game Over’ for Fossil Fuels because… “I’d really like to think oil companies will soon admit the game is up: The extraction of fossil fuels is going to become increasingly financially uneconomic and socially unacceptable.” However, … Continue reading →

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Troubling times indeed

Posted on December 4, 2016 by Rick Altman

This mini-post has been prompted by a recent post on LearningFromDogs.com, entitled Troubling Times. I often wish I were not so well-informed because, whereas power without knowledge is very dangerous, knowledge without power is very frustrating. However, as Leonardo Di … Continue reading →

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We do indeed live in interesting times

Posted on November 5, 2016 by Rick Altman

A giant effigy of Donald Trump holding Hillary Clinton’s head to be burned at Lewes bonfire night festival.* Image: Tony Kershaw/SWNS.com “May you live in interesting times” – it is an ancient Chinese curse. Victoria Coren-Mitchell summarised the situation well … Continue reading →

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‘Climate Inaction Figures’ campaign to combat Anti-Science Absurdity Posted on July 22, 2016

Posted on July 22, 2016 by Rick Altman

With my thanks to DeSmog Blog for alerting me to this. http://www.desmogblog.com/2016/07/19/climate-inaction-figures-campaign-launches-combat-anti-science-absurdity No prizes for guessing who would feature prominently if such a campaign were to be launched here.

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AGU continues complicit support for Merchants of Doubt

Posted on April 23, 2016 by Rick Altman

This is not surprising given the AGU’s failure to discipline Richard Lindzen for academic misconduct, hypocrisy, and the denegration of fellow AGU members, but, as reported via DeSmogBlog recently: Scientists are being asked to boycott the next major meeting of … Continue reading →

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It’s ‘Game Over’ for Fossil Fuels

Posted on January 19, 2016 by Rick Altman

I’d really like to think oil companies will soon admit the game is up: The extraction of fossil fuels is going to become increasingly financially uneconomic and socially unacceptable. After all, it is almost 4 months since Mark Carney said … Continue reading →

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Please welcome Cumbria to the world of global weirding

Posted on December 7, 2015 by Rick Altman

Whilst I have the greatest of sympathy for all those affected by flooding in Cumbria, they should not seek to blame the government or the Environment Agency. If anybody is to blame it is the fossil fuel industry, which has … Continue reading →

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An open letter to James Delingpole (2)

Posted on December 5, 2015 by Rick Altman

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 →

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A brief history of climate change ‘scepticism’

Posted on September 26, 2015 by Rick Altman

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 →

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