Monthly Archives: October 2013
The Four Hoarse Men of the Apocalypse: The Hoody, the Diplomat, the Biologist and the Millionaire
There have been a lot of calls following the IPCC’s Fifth Assessment Report – sometimes veiled, sometimes open – for clmate sceptics to be banned or ignored. The LA Times has actually instituted such a policy on its letters page, … Continue reading
Monbiot’s Zombie Blog Revisited
Six weeks ago I had a look at the Campaign against Climate Change’s zombie blog. https://geoffchambers.wordpress.com/2013/09/07/monbiots-zombie-blog/ I was alerted by Robin Guenier to a video at http://www.campaigncc.org/blog/TimetoAct2 which was part of a campaign to relaunch their mass movement Robin left … Continue reading
Apocalypse Close Chapter 15: Recursive Foolery
George had been arrested before, but never in South America, and never while disguised as someone else. His first attempts to explain that he was not Tony Blair, the well known war criminal, were met with aggressive rebuffs. As he … Continue reading
Carry On Up the Amazon
I have this idea that the prime movers of our civilisation who are in the process of transforming Western society into a zombie power, a source of wonderment and entertainment for the future rulers of the planet in Asia and … Continue reading
Apocalypse Close: Chapter 14: MoonBlair Hoax Landing
[The story so far: Secret Agent George Moonbat, disguised as Tony Blair, is off to Guyana to give the keynote speech at an Environmental Conference, accopmpanied by his MI6 minder Captain Delingpole, the delicious Miranda Doyle-Rigg, and the faithful Barry … Continue reading
Apocalypse Close chapter13: Moonblair Blows It
George Moonbat stared at his unrecognisable reflection in the shaving mirror. His former towsled mop of curly black Gallic locks had been straightened and thinned to resemble a mousey grey-brown toe rag. His signature lefty-intellectual square specs had been replaced … Continue reading
Stephan Is At It Again (2) The FAQs
This continuation of the previous post refers to the article by Professor Lewandowsky at http://www.shapingtomorrowsworld.org/lewandowskyFAQPLoS1.html I’ll deal with Lewandowsky’s FAQs, not in the order that they are presented, but in an order that attempts to bring out their logic. Lewandowsky … Continue reading
Stephan Is At It Again (part one)
Lewandowsky has a new paper out on climate scepticism and conspiracy ideation – his third. You will remember that the first one (actually the second to be published, though the first to be publicised) Lewandowsky, Oberauer and Gignac 2012 (LOG12 … Continue reading
John Ashton: Just Another Jerk in the Circle
John Ashton has an article in the Guardian today, 2nd October, http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/01/bbc-betrayed-values-carter-scorn-ipcc in which he tells the BBC whom it can and can’t interview, describing the interview it accorded Australian climate sceptic Bob Carter as: “throwing .. a piece of … Continue reading
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