Tag Archives: Melanie Philips

James Delingpole is full of sheet

Posted on June 1, 2015 by Rick Altman

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 →

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Moisture + Cold Air => Snow

Posted on January 19, 2013 by Rick Altman

I just want to pre-empt the almost inevitable piece of journalistic garbage – by Christopher Booker, James Delingpole, Melanie Phillips, David Rose, or whoever – suggesting that the current snowy weather in the UK proves that global warming is not … Continue reading →

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Ignorance is the enemy of humanity

Posted on May 10, 2012 by Rick Altman

Melanie Phillips, a columnist in the UK’s Daily Fail snoozepaper, once denounced the veteran environmental campaigner – and now Chancellor of Keele University – Johnathon Porritt as “not so much a friend of the earth [sic] as an enemy of … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Science, Cognitive Dissonance, Denial, Energy Crisis, Environment, Fossil Fuels, Insanity, Junk Science, Palaeoclimatology, Politics, Populism, Pseudo science, Renewable Energy, Scepticism | Tagged , | 6 Comments

A letter to the (right-wing) Editors

Posted on December 16, 2011 by Rick Altman

A transcript of my recent email to the Editors of the Daily Express, Daily Mail and Daily Telegraph newspapers here in the UK… Dear [x], Please don’t let your newspaper become anachronistic Please forgive the unsolicited email, which I hope … Continue reading →

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The road to hell is paved with good inventions

Posted on September 20, 2011 by Rick Altman

…that are not true! Earlier this year, I posted a review of Prof. Ian Plimer’s most recent 500-page epic, Heaven and Earth: Global Warming – the Missing Science, on amazon.co.uk under the title “Nice book (cover) – shame about the … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Science, Economics, Environment, James Delingpole, Limits to Growth, Merchants of Doubt, Scepticism | Tagged , , , , , , | 7 Comments

The problem of arguing with a sceptic

Posted on August 17, 2011 by Rick Altman

I recently got into a discussion over on the Amazon website with another ex-Telegraph blogger, regarding Peter Taylor’s Chill, A Reassessment of Global Warming Theory: Does Climate Change Mean the World is Cooling, and If So What Should We Do … Continue reading →

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