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Category Archives: Growthmania
Now is no time for climate change scepticism
This graph, as compiled by Dr Ed Hawkins (Reading University/Met Office), featured in an article by Damian Carrington, on the Guardian website yesterday, which highlighted the fact that: 2014 will be the warmest year in Central England for over 300 … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropocene, Climate Science, Environment, Growthmania, Politics, UNFCCC
Tagged Belshazzar's Feast, COP 20, Ed Hawkins, Guardian, Herman Daly, Met Office, NASA, reality, Writing on the wall
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Humanity will not be able to say it was not warned
This post is to mark the impending publication of the latest book from Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway, entitled The Collapse of Western Civilisation: A View From the Future. The authors have already published a summary of this book’s thesis … Continue reading
Are we all Britain haters now?
Here in the UK, the Daily Mail has got itself a lot of publicity for printing an article last Saturday entitled “Man Who Hated Britain”. The article was about the late father of Ed Milliband, who is the current leader … Continue reading
Posted in Capitalism, Civilisation, Climate Science, Denial, Environment, Growthmania, Politics, Religion
Tagged Daily Mail, Ed Milliband, Karl Marx, Ralph Milliband, Writing on the wall
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The graphical nature of reality
In response to demand (and comments submitted), here is yesterday’s post in graphical form: Questioning the reality, reliability, or reasonableness of the consensus understanding of atmospheric physics (i.e. that post-1850 warming cannot be explained unless 40% extra atmospheric CO2 is … Continue reading
Stop climate chaos within the UK government
Jesus of Nazareth once said, “Any kingdom divided against itself will be ruined, and a house divided against itself will fall…” If so, the next UK government is likely to be (at least led by) the Labour Party. OMG – … Continue reading
Can technology save us?
I happened to stumble across a BBC TV Horizon special, entitled ‘Tomorrow’s World’ last Thursday. It begins with a fascinating review of humankind’s history of – and propensity for – invention. It also explains some truly fascinating – and inspiring … Continue reading
Posted in Carbon Capture and Storage, Climate Science, Consumerism, Economics, Energy Crisis, Environment, Financial Crisis, Growthmania, Hydraulic Fracturing, Intergenerational Injustice, Mass Extinctions, Modernity, Politics, Renewable Energy
Tagged BBC, Horizon, Liz Bronnin, Michael Pritchard, Robert Langer, Tomorrow's World, water
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Why we will probably fail to prevent catastrophe
Alex Salmond, First Minister of Scotland, was interviewed by offbeat TV presenter Eddie Mair on The Andrew Marr Show yesterday on BBC1. Salmond’s comments about energy policy highlight the intellectual incoherence and dishonesty to which our politicians are driven by … Continue reading
A cornucopia of Prometheanism
This post has been prompted by an exchange of comments I have been having with Patrice Ayme – on my previous post (i.e. here) – that I feel deserves wider exposure and/or appreciation. However, if you have not the faintest … Continue reading
Anthropocene Reality 