Skeptical Heresies #9
Wednesday, May 4th, 2011 Posted in Climate Change, Conspiracy Theories, General Science, Health | No Comments »9. Skepticism is abused by conspiracy theories I'm beginning to wonder why I called this series "Skeptical Heresies", instead of something more descriptive like "Major Challenges Within Skepticism". Anyway... This post is about the fact that Skepticism has been kidnapped and forced ...
Looking Ahead to 2009 – Part 3
Tuesday, December 30th, 2008 Posted in Climate Change, Conspiracy Theories, General, General Science | No Comments »Environmental issues came to the front of everyone's mind in 2008 - right up until the credit crunch began to bite. And it may well turn out that the credit crunch was just the catalyst required to get people really ...
Obama breaks mould, selects intelligent cabinet
Tuesday, December 16th, 2008 Posted in Climate Change, Politics | No Comments »Obama has named Steven Chu as his new energy secretary. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7784802.stm Chu, a Nobel Prize winner for his work on lasers in particle physics, is an expert on energy research. His appointment really highlights the difference between the 8 years of glorified ignorance of ...
Put your name to it
Monday, September 15th, 2008 Posted in Climate Change, Conspiracy Theories, General | No Comments »I've come up with a way to stop all this squabbling about contentious issues. It's simple - we agree to differ. But it's better than that - I've just finished implementing a petition system, modified from a WordPress plugin by ...
Climate change series on BBC Two
Sunday, September 14th, 2008 Posted in Climate Change | 2 Comments »I appreciate that (for now, at least) this is only going to be accessible for the Brits reading this page, but there's a wonderful series on global warming on BBC Two at the moment called 'Earth: The Climate Wars'. If ...
Greenpeace gets away with vandalism
Wednesday, September 10th, 2008 Posted in Climate Change, General, Politics | No Comments »The news tonight is that five members of Greenpeace have been acquitted of charges of criminal damage after breaking into a coal power station and dropping a banner from the top saying "Gordon"; presumably aimed at the Prime Minister. The full story ...
Ireland’s Environment Minister = nutjob
Friday, September 5th, 2008 Posted in Climate Change | No Comments »According to BBC News, the Environment Minister of Northern Ireland, DUP's Sammy Wilson, has just said something job-losingly-stupid. Yes, Mr Wilson thinks that climate change, if it exists, is probably not due to human activity, and whatever it does we ...
Climate resistance, holidays
Sunday, August 24th, 2008 Posted in Climate Change, Conspiracy Theories | 3 Comments »I'm off on holiday in a few hours, expected back late on Sunday night (31st August). I'm not expecting to add any more posts until Monday 1st September. Just in the mean time, I thought I'd say something to the folks ...
