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The Rational Optimist on Crop Circles and other Scientific Heresies
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ThinkorSwim censor Zone5!
On February 4th this year I wrote a post called Climate Change: Will the Real Skeptics Please Stand up?. A couple of weeks later, I offered the same post to John Gibbons who runs the climate change blog ThinkorSwim, after … Continue reading
Posted in climate change, Science and Rationaltiy
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A Taste of the Unexpected
Book Review A Taste of the Unexpected How to grow your own remarkable fruit, vegetables, nuts, herbs, spices and flowers by Marc Diacono Hdbck 192pp Quadrille publishing 2011 Marc Diacono runs Otter Farm in Devon, “the UK’s only climate change … Continue reading
Posted in book review, climate change, Food, Forest Gardening
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Cat’s out of the Climate Change Bag
(Update 21-06-11: Further discussion on Greenpeace and the IPCC at the economist. Steve McIntyre on conflcit of interest policy here.) Mark Lynas- who featured on last year’s channel 4 documentary What the Greens Got Wrong- has put the cat amongst … Continue reading
Posted in climate change
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All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace
I only just recently got to watch Adam Curtis’ latest documentary, All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace, which I really enjoyed. As with Curtis’ previous work, such as The Power of Nightmares, a very wide range of different … Continue reading
Open Letter to Rob Hopkins and Transition
Rob Hopkins, founder of the Transition Towns movement, has posted some comments on my recent blog post The Hockey Stick Illusion in which he has challenged the change of course this blog has taken since its inception in 2006. Since … Continue reading
The Hockey Stick Illusion
Book Review The Hockey Stick Illusion- Climategate and the Corruption of Science by A.W.Montford pbck; 482pp Stacey International 2010 In this thorough and well documented book Andrew Montford of the Bishop Hill blog tells the extraordinary story of one of … Continue reading
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Virtuous Corruption
Book Review The Virtuous Corruption of Virtual Environmental Science Aynsley Kellow Edgar Elgar 2007 Hdbck 218pp This book by Aynsley Kellow, Professor and Head of the School of Government at the University of Tasmania, Australia, is a provocative and in … Continue reading
Posted in Biodiversity, book review, climate change, Environment
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Fleeing Vesuvius: Collapse and the Church of Gaia
Book Review Fleeing Vesuvius Overcoming the risks of economic and environmental collapse edited by Richard Douthwaite and Gillian Fallon Feasta 2010 ppbck 417 pp. The recent economic collapse is not just a financial and banking issue, not just an economic … Continue reading
Posted in book review, climate change, collapse, Overshoot, Peak Oil, Renewable Energy
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Is a “Denialist” just Anyone who questions the Immorality of Progress?
A lot of the commentary from skeptics blogs on the BBC Attack on Science programme was expressing the view that the Beeb was engaged in a one-sided attack on climate skepticism, and only plays to the environmental agenda. I dont … Continue reading
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