Category Archives: Stephen Emmott
Emmott’s Swastika-shaped Graphs: from Risible to Despicable
“13 Graphs That Suggest The Planet Might Be Totally Screwed” have recently turned up at http://www.buzzfeed.com/ and seven other news sites in the past hour or so. They all come from Emmott’s new book. Six of them are hockeystick shaped. They’re … Continue reading
Ten Billion Reasons why Stephen Emmott should get out a bit more
The media hype for Stephen Emmott’s end of the world Penguin paperback has begun, with a long extract in the Observer at http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jun/30/population-growth-wipe-out-life-earth plus an interview with the Observer’s editor at http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/30/stephen-emmott-windfarms-not-the-answer and a special offer for cheap tickets to … Continue reading
Dorling’s Happy Medium
Publication of Emmott’s book “Ten Billion” has been brought forward from September to mid July, possibly in response to this neat spoiler – a book by Danny Dorling entitled “Population Ten Billion”. He has an article at http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/jun/14/global-population-10-billion-worry There’s a … Continue reading
Emmott’s Wildly Wonky Chocolate Factoid Factory
(Guest Post by Alex Cull) Amongst all the alarming factoids relating to water that appear in Prof. Steve Emmott’s play “Ten Billion” (and possibly also in his forthcoming book), few can have been more alarming than the one about chocolate, … Continue reading
Emmott’s Big Wet Mac (Alex Cull)
[This is a guest post by Alex Cull] In his play “Ten Billion”, Stephen Emmott makes several references to the amount of water required for food production, stating that: 1) 3000 litres of water are needed to make one beefburger. … Continue reading
Emmott’s Ten Billion: the film of the book of the play of the computer model of the end of the world
Suhrkamp/Insel, Germany’s largest paperback publishers, are bringing out Stephen Emmott’s “Zehn Milliarden” on September 9th at about 15 euros. http://www.suhrkamp.de/buecher/zehn_milliarden-stephen_emmott_42385.html Here’s an extract from the blurb (my translation): “For the production of a burger It takes 3000 litres of water … Continue reading
A Tale of Two Steves
Stephan Lewandowsky, Professor of Cognitive Psychology, formerly of the University of Western Australia, now of Bristol University, England, recently published a paper establishing a causal link between climate denial and belief that the Apollo moon landing was a hoax. This … Continue reading
Stephen Emmott: “Ten Billion” – a Review
[Update July 8th 2013 This article is featured on the first page of Google hits for “Stephen Emmott” + “Ten Billion”. If you’ve come here for information on the book published in Britain today, please go to https://geoffchambers.wordpress.com/category/stephen-emmott/ and explore … Continue reading
Cuckoo in the NESTA
I mentioned NESTA and the talk by Stephen Emmott at https://geoffchambers.wordpress.com/2012/11/21/delingpole-emmott-and-the-invasion-of-the-defra-funded-swamp-creatures/ and started transcribing it at https://geoffchambers.wordpress.com/2012/11/23/stephen-emmott-at-nesta/ but gave up because of the poor quality of the recording. It’s now available as a good quality video at http://www.nesta.org.uk/events/previous_events/assets/events/nature_and_necessity_of_a_scientific_revolution I’ve transcribed … Continue reading
