Category Archives: France Italy & the rest
Keep the Coal in a Black Hole and the Gas up Rusbridger’s Wassname
I was idly surfing the English language TV news channels looking for reactions to the Greek crisis, and came across two science items. In the first the presenter was interviewing a science correspondent who was holding a cuddly furry toy … Continue reading
Censorship of a Climate Sceptic
Benoît Rittaud is a mathematics lecturer at the University of Paris, and the author of “Le Mythe Climatique”. He also runs the climate sceptic blog skyfall.fr. He’s just written a book called “La Peur Exponentielle” (The Exponential Fear). Here’s an … Continue reading
‘Allo ‘Allo
Hello again. Just to let you know about the launch of an “Association Francophone des Climato-Optimistes” (AFCO). You can read about it at http://www.skyfall.fr/?p=1490 and their manifesto is at http://www.climat-optimistes.com/ Membership costs 50 euros, which I find a bit steep. … Continue reading
Benoît Rittaud: Climate Models Capable of Anything
Benoît Rittaud is a maths lecturer and blogger at “Changement Climatique”. This article, from November 11th 2014 is one of a series analysing a recent series of reports by Meteo France containing climate predictions for France (Metropolitain and Overseas). The original … Continue reading
Investing in NGOs
I really should start a consultancy business advising ambitious entrepreneurs on how to make money out of setting up NGOs. There are property columns and share tipsters on the money pages of the serious press. Why not NGO investment advisers? … Continue reading
French take Leave of their Senses
The Lower House of the French Parliament has just passed a law on the Energy Transition to Green Growth, which is going to the Senate for rubber stamping before being passed into law under a special accelerated procedure. You can … Continue reading
We’ll Always Have Paris
From the official website of the French Ministry of Ecology, Sustainable Development, and Energy: http://www.developpement-durable.gouv.fr/Les-enjeux-de-la-conference-de.html Les enjeux de la conférence de 2015 The challenges of the 2015 conference February 17, 2014 (updated February 20, 2014) This conference should be a … Continue reading
IPCC: We still have Paris
IPCC WG III is out, and reading through the comments at http://bishophill.squarespace.com/blog/2014/4/13/working-group-iii.html#comments I stopped and smiled at this from TinyCO2: “Aunty BEEB and Granny Guardian are right behind you and if this year you’re not a success, there’s always COP21 … Continue reading
Italian Politics Again
Apart from the climate wars, the only other subject I know of whose fate is so profoundly entwined with the internet is Italian politics. The future direction of the world’s climate and energy policy depends largely on how long it … Continue reading
Climatoscepticisme à la française
[This article grew out of a comment I left on a French sceptical site which I mention below, which got some very positive reactions. I hope to encourage French-speaking sceptics to participate in the discussion. It’s clear from reading French … Continue reading
