Population – the elephant in the global warming green room

Robert Henderson Let me put my cards on the table: I see no hard evidence for man-made global warming, nor do I believe that pollution generally will be the undoing of humanity, although it can obviously have severe effects on particular populations. Readers interested in my reasons for dismissing environmental scares in general and man [...]

London Zoo and the global warming religion

This  precious piece of warmist propaganda is plastered all over London  Zoo. (I reproduce  the gem as it appears in the Zoo, the illiteracies and capitalisation being their own). “ 350 – THE MOST IMPORTANT NUMBER IN THE WORLD  350 parts per million (ppm) of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere is the safe upper limit for almost all [...]

“…since records began in 1659″

The year 1659 appears with remarkable frequency in the media in  connection with the English climate, often in the form “since records  began in 1659”. It is a statement  rarely if every questioned by  anyone with access to the mainstream media.  Just pause and think about that claim. Does it seem probable that  official weather [...]

If weather persists it becomes the climate

Letter published  in Sunday Telegraph 26 December 2010    Sir,   The advocates of man-made global warming meet any meteorological event such as the recent severe winters we have experienced   which does not fit into their ideology by chanting one of their favourite mantras ” weather should not be confused with climate”. The problem for warmists is that [...]

Man-made global warming is the 21st century phlogiston

In the 18th century a   theory arose to explain the process of oxidation (combustion and rusting). The theory involved a non-existent substance named  phlogiston (from the ancient  Greek for burning up. It was a theory which neatly accounted for oxidation processes such as combustion and rusting. Phlogiston was supposedly contained within every flammable substance and [...]

The age of stupid

 Film Review  This is a film to make “An inconvenient truth”  (AIT) look like a model of objective open-mindedness.  Unlike AIT it does not engage in a bogus one-eyed scientific approach in  which any fact that contradicts the man-made global warming thesis is ignored and claims ranging from the highly contentious to the objectively false, [...]

The overheated climate debate

NB I wrote this in 2006 but it still holds true, even more so perhaps because of the discrediting of the IPCC.    The hysteria “Britain has 4 years to help cool the planet” shrieked a headline in the Metro (15 9 2006).   It was prompted by a report commissioned by  the Cooperative Bank and [...]