Posts Tagged ‘global warming’
One year on, the Deepwater Horizon story is far from over
So is it now safe to go back into the Gulf of Mexico? A year after the Deepwater Horizon blow-out – which killed 11 workers and spilled 4.9 million barrels of oil – it might seem so. Beaches alon... Read More
Climate change: will Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature change Watts Up With That's mind?
[A rare treat: Anthony Watts has responded to this post, in a wonderfully polite and actually very complimentary post on Watts Up With That. My thanks to him. A grown-up debate on climate change - t... Read More
What people do makes all the difference to the severity of disasters
Mother Nature must have a good spin doctor. For 3,000 years – from ancient Mycenae via Inca mythology to the Smurfs – she has basked in her image as a benign, nurturing figure, the giver of life. ... Read More
The Heretic is about so much more than global warming
Times, as they say, change. My one and only professional excursion into the world of theatre took place when I came up with the basic idea for a television drama, developed far beyond anything I co... Read More
If Ben Goldacre thinks I'm a ***** what does that make him?
Ben Goldacre says I’m a “penis.” He has told his 85,000 or so followers as much on Twitter. I’m also “absolutely a dick”, he goes on to tell his fan base, lest any... Read More
Did Australia's obsession with global warming contribute to the Brisbane floods?
Who, if anyone, is to blame for the terrible flooding in Brisbane? Commentators are pointing their collective finger at the usual suspects. For the extreme green magazine Grist, the floods expose mank... Read More
The Government goes easy on suspected terrorists – thanks to the Lib Dems
Quite a few unexpected things happened in 2010, but at least some things do not change. Just guess which was the one and only water supply company in the United Kingdom that could not cope with a spel... Read More
Laughing gas is serious stuff – for the atmosphere
We know it as “laughing gas”, but it is getting beyond a joke. Nitrous oxide is reckoned to be the third most important greenhouse gas contributing to global warming after carbon dioxide ... Read More
Ten years ago, the Independent predicted that snowfalls would soon be a thing of the past. I wonder what the paper will predict this year?
I’m not making this up. On March 20 2000, the Independent predicted that snow would shortly disappear from our lives: Sledges, snowmen, snowballs and the excitement of waking to find that the st... Read More
Time for global warming lobby to admit they could be wrong, says meteorologist
Here’s something you’ll never hear from the Met Office. Joe Bastardi, a senior meteorologist at AccuWeather, has laid into the the global warming lobby for making absurd claims, especially their a... Read More