I’m a cimate change sceptic: I think there are huge uncertainties (good and bad) about the phenomenon of anthropogenic global warming and much will be revealed as the current generation of adults refuses to do much to stop adding carbon to the atmosphere.
Posted by RDN under Climate change / Politics and campaigns on 24 November 2009. No comments.
Lord Lawson and Benny Peiser are bonny climate change policy warriors but they have perhaps made a strategic error in lining-up climate (or AGW) deniers for their new think-tank. More »
Posted by RDN under Climate change / Politics and campaigns on 24 November 2009. 2 comments.
The battle lines in the climate change wars are not quite where I had thought they were.
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Posted by RDN under Climate change / Politics and campaigns on 17 November 2009. No comments.
In the run-up to the Copenhagen update of the Kyoto process, the biggest climate change deniers are those who can’t or won’t see that most of the rhetoric about what we “must” do is so much hot air. What we ought to do is another matter. More »
Posted by RDN under Climate change / Handling protest / Politics and campaigns on 17 October 2009. No comments.
Typically, the media (I’ve just been watching Sky news) has got in a muddle about the latest direct action protests. More »
Posted by RDN under Climate change / Politics and campaigns on 16 September 2009. No comments.
The latest climate change row concerns a book by the “denier”, Ian Plimer (an Australian geologist) and its most public critic, climate “alarmist”, George Monbiot (of the Guardian). George seems to be winning hands-down at the moment. It happens that another Australian, Garth Paltridge, has also produced a climate change book, and it is sceptical rather than refusenik. I hope my review of the books, below, shows how they are both bad. More »
Posted by RDN under Climate change / Handling protest / Politics and campaigns on 19 January 2009. No comments.
It seems obvious that expanding Heathrow Airport with a third runway is bad for climate change. But the thought does not bear inspection. More »
