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Why I’ve nearly stopped blogging
Posted at 7:07 pm | Filed Under Uncategorized
Over the past few weeks, a lot of things have happened: I’ve changed jobs (to a much better one, I hasten to add), moved location (by 600 miles), and to a certain extent, changed attitude to blogging and blogs in general.
A part of that has been the new responsibilities that have come from my job [...]
Clive James on scepticism and global warming
Posted at 9:12 pm | Filed Under Uncategorized
a class=”zem_slink” title=”Clive James” rel=”homepage” href=”http://www.clivejames.com”>Clive James is always a fascinating read, but here’s one from a column on scepticism and “golf ball crisps”:
In Montaigne’s day you could get into terminal trouble for taking scepticism too far, which is probably one of the reasons why not even he pushed it on the subject of religion.
Since [...]
Energy Sprawl and the Green Economy
Posted at 3:07 pm | Filed Under Uncategorized
With the emphasis on sprawl. You can bet that environmentalists will oppose this sort of build-out in wilderness areas even though it is a direct response to environmental concerns about non-renewable energy changing the climate in the first place.
Energy ‘Sprawl’ and the Green Economy
We’re about to destroy the environment in the name of saving it.
By [...]
Aryan Physics Revisited: A Comparison of 1930s German Physics and Global Warming Science Today
Posted at 10:56 am | Filed Under Uncategorized
Essay by James H. Rust, Professor of Nuclear Engineering (ret.)
For more than a quarter century controversy has embroiled the scientific community over whether carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas formed from burning fossil fuels, is causing increased global temperatures with catastrophic consequences. This is also called anthropogenic global warming (AGW). Many supporters of AGW are adamant [...]
650 million years of Plate Tectonics in 80 seconds
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Starving themselves for purity’s sake
Posted at 7:34 pm | Filed Under Uncategorized
This from the UK’s Guardian newspaper, the newspaper of choice for the green ethically obsessed:
Eating disorder charities are reporting a rise in the number of people suffering from a serious psychological condition characterised by an obsession with healthy eating.
The condition, orthorexia nervosa, affects equal numbers of men and women, but sufferers tend to be aged [...]
Self-awareness
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Quote of the week: Miranda Devine
Posted at 5:26 pm | Filed Under Uncategorized
From the Sydney Morning Herald:
Something stinks in the climate science industry. The confected sense of urgency. The comic predictions by the United Nations that we have only "four months" to save the planet or that next year as many as 50 million climate refugees will be "displaced" by human-caused climate change.
“We choose to go to the Moon”
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John F. Kennedy via last.fm
Its now almost 40 years since Apollo 11 landed on the Moon in the Sea of Tranquillity. But before we go to that place, let me remind you of what John Fitzgerald Kennedy, that flawed and charismatic President of the United States, said in a 1962 speech given at Rice University [...]
Greenwash explained
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