politics, Tag

Discussion over why its far better for the environment to pipe water from Tasmania to Melbourne than building the Wonthaggi desalination plant

(warning lots of rant-y swearing NSFW) While this young man makes his point using a whole slew of profanity, he is 100% right. I honestly can not believe we are having this debate in 2010, I mean come on! It makes a certain...

Al Gore’s Church of Climatism has claimed a new glorious martyr. His name is James Lee – the Discovery channel attempted eco-suicide-bomber – and if he’d had his way he wouldn’t have been the...

This week a study on peak oil by a German military think tank was leaked on the Internet. The document shows that the German government is closely studying the issue of peak oil, and is aware of the potential for serious...

Reducing funding for household generation of renewable energy will jeopardise job creation and energy security, Huhne is toldA coalition of green, countryside and housing groups has warned energy secretary Chris Huhne not...

Earlier this week my fellow columnist and old Oxford chum Boris Johnson wrote a jolly piece which wittily melded the story of the wheelie-bin cat woman with an account of an agreeable safari he had recently enjoyed with his...

The ecotard media – led, naturally enough, by the Guardian – has been making great play of “Skeptical Environmentalist” Bjorn Lomborg’s apparent Damascene conversion...

In a long line of victories Cape Wind has won yet another legal battle. Just build the damn thing already, its been almost ten years and a million hearings and legal battles, all of which have favored Cape Wind, this has...

I have just been listening to Uncertain Climate, the first in BBC “Environment Analyst” Roger Harrabin’s two-part Radio 4 investigation into the politics of climate change...

While the IPCC gets taken to the woodshed, Mannian methodology gets another free pass. Cuccinelli left Credit: TIMES-DISPATCH, Dr. Mann, right An Albemarle County judge has dismissed Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli’s demand...

I have just been listening to Uncertain Climate, the first in BBC “Environment Analyst” Roger Harrabin’s two-part Radio 4 investigation into the politics of climate change...

Very nice talk, well worth a watch. The politics and chemistry of oil and why this summer is so important.

Obama Admin Urges Supreme Court to Vacate Greenhouse Gas ‘Nuisance’ Ruling By GABRIEL NELSON of Greenwire The Obama administration has urged the Supreme Court to toss out an appeals court decision that would allow...

Like me, Dr. Pielke was queried for this article in the Economist, and like me, he responded. Like Dr. Pielke, I documented some of the responses that were not printed in the Economist here. Additionally, Dr. Pielke documents...

The new yorker published a great article on how one family of rich industrialists have built an empire of bad science and climate change denial. a bad bad bad bad man With his brother Charles, who is seventy-four, David...

If you are on the right or the left, unlimited anonymous spending on campaigns is a bad idea. Every dirty trick you think you might get away with because of this, the other side can do as well. It eventually will destroy...