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Tag Archives: Paul Ehrlich
Jeremy and Piers Corbyn – ‘Brothers at Odds’
Here in the UK, the Labour Party has, almost by accident, just voted in the most overtly and unashamedly socialist leader since Michael Foot over 30 years ago. As such, 66-year old Jeremy Corbyn, has already managed to upset many … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Science, Denial, Environment, IPCC, Pseudo science, Religion
Tagged IPCC, Paul Ehrlich, Piers Corbyn, Weather Action
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The population consumption environment nexus
Today’s post is that which was intended for last Monday. However, thanks to the happy coincidence of incoming information, Monday’s post was taken up with summarising an 11-year old presentation by Dr Albert A. Bartlett, entitled ‘Arithmetic, Population and Energy’, … Continue reading
“Population as a problem is over…” (?)
So said Tim Worstall (author of Chasing Rainbows: Economic Myths, Environmental Facts [2010]) on this bIog last October, after I dared to criticise his Prometheanism (i.e. the belief that human ingenuity – rather than nature’s bounty [Cornucopianism] – will enable … Continue reading
The political misuse of scepticism
Connecting the dots – the story continues… This is the second of 3 posts re-visiting three points made in the introduction to my MA dissertation on climate change scepticism in the UK (as summarised on my About page), which are … Continue reading
Not sustainable going forward
I have something important I want, on behalf of Bill McKibbin’s 350.org, to ask you to do today: The idea is that for a 24 hour period—starting at 8AM UTC/GMT today, folks around the world create a Twitterstorm by sending … Continue reading
Confront scarcity now (or pay later?)
A recent post on the website of the Overseas Development Institute (ODI), echoes the warnings of ‘The Limits to Growth’ (TLTG) reports published in 1972, 1992, and 2004 by a team of researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (i.e. Meadows … Continue reading
Goodbye Goldilocks Planet?
Is it time to say goodbye to the Goldilocks Planet? I hope not, because the next-nearest one yet discovered is 600 light years away! However, if we are indeed now passing a tipping point (i.e. as the widespread rapid thawing … Continue reading
Top UK Christmas Sales
Following on from yesterday, my second revelation courtesy of Christmas television is this: The 1984 Band Aid single “Do they know its Christmas? (Feed the world)” is the biggest-selling Christmas Number One of all time in the UK (selling twice … Continue reading
Fables about toxic chemicals?
In this, the last chapter of Betrayal of Science and Reason (1996) dealing with “brownlash fables” (i.e. denialist misinformation), Paul and Anne Ehrlich return to their first love – biology: In so doing, they start by reminding us that humans … Continue reading
Fables about climate change?
Continuing my review of Paul and Anne Ehrlich’s Betrayal of Science and Reason (1996), we come to Chapter 8 – regarding (what they called) the “brownlash’s” fables about the Atmosphere and Climate. Given that the Ehrlichs acknowledge that climate change … Continue reading
Posted in Betrayal of Science and Reason, Climate Science, Computer Models, Environment, Hockey Stick Illusion, James Hansen, Mass Extinctions, Modernity, Politics, Richard Lindzen, Storms of my Grandchildren, Sustainable development
Tagged Paul Ehrlich, Sir Nicholas Stern, William Nordhaus
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