Category Archives: Phantom Bodies & Zombie Blogs
thefuture.net Climate Porn – George Monbiot with Tits
There’s a new movement afoot to make us aware of the danger facing the planet. It’s called thefuture.To get an idea of what it’s about, I do recommend you watch the video at It starts with an image of a … 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
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
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
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
Monbiot’s Zombie Blog
Robin Guenier alerted me to an article at the Campaign against Climate Change on which he’d left a comment. http://www.campaigncc.org/blog/TimetoAct2 I left a comment, as did others. There are now 18 comments. The last six articles over the past six … Continue reading
Emmott: Ten Billion (25): Sheep Tweet Leet Bleats
Emmott’s “Ten Billion” got a lot of publicity on readers’ blogs. I noted one, by an estate agent in Texas who claimed to have read it four months before it was written, at https://geoffchambers.wordpress.com/2013/03/17/stephen-emmott-ten-billion-a-review/ Here’s a typical review following publication … Continue reading
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“Passionate Collaboration” or: Forty Shades of Green
John Vidal, the Guardian’s Environmental editor, who can write an eyewitness report on the effects of climate change in Tanzania (complete with desperate quotes from the locals) while staring out of the plane window on a flight to Pretoria, has … Continue reading →