Climate Change

The Pope Is Still A Catholic

Gerry Lynch on October 2, 2015, 10:37 pm

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Lefty atheists from North London to Northern California are in outrage today at the latest shock revelations that Pope Francis is, in fact, a Catholic. “The pope played us for fools, trying to have it both ways”, thundered Michaelangelo Signorile in the Huffington Post, outraged that the Pope had (briefly) met Kim Davis. Ms Davis, you’ll remember, is the rather silly Kentucky county clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples on ‘biblical’ grounds while herself being on …

Climate change is no longer a stand-alone issue

Patrick Corrigan on September 23, 2014, 9:23 am

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As world leaders meet today in New York for the UN Climate Summit, Eithne McNulty of Trocaire writes this guest post for Slugger to argue: Climate change is no longer a stand-alone issue, it is the entire context in which the world exists Humans, along with every other species, depend totally on the proper functioning of the planet for the air we breathe, the water we drink and the food we eat. A small change to nature’s system can have the effect of knocking the …

Vegetarian Stalinism Part 2: Ready the Gulags on the South Downs

Turgon on March 15, 2014, 10:34 am

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Last month I highlighted the bizarre suggestion by the Green Party that in response to the flooding all government ministers and advisors who were sceptical of climate change should be sacked. Memorably when given the opportunity to refine and tone down this suggestion the leader of the Green Party Natalie Bennett claimed that even those advisers with no connection to environmental issues should be sacked if they do not accept climate change. The BBC suggested the Chief Veterinary and Chief …

Green Party propose sacking climate deniers: Vegetarian Stalinism?

Turgon on February 15, 2014, 9:04 pm

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Northern Ireland may have been spared the absolute worst of the weather this year (though the last couple of days have been bad) but the South West of England and South Wales have been extremely badly affected with the Somerset Levels heavily flooded. Then more recently the Thames Valley has been affected. Whether this flooding is actually worse than previous years has been disputed and the suggestion (made on Question Time on Thursday night) that the media only started to …

The Climate Change Response Bill 2010 is dead….long live the climate bill

Peter Doran on January 25, 2011, 5:56 pm

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An update on the status of climate change legislative proposals after the collapse of the Fianna Fail-Green Party coalition government.

“if you’re willing to put aside the conspiracy theories for a moment we will move on”

Pete Baker on July 30, 2010, 12:39 pm

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The publication of the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s State of the Climate in 2009 report, with analysis by the Met Office, prompts the Daily Telegraph‘s Tom Chivers to produce the most sensible piece I’ve seen for some time on the subject. As Dan Gardner says in his wonderful book Risk: the science and politics of fear, to which I will be returning, the phrase “very likely” is about as strong as scientific language gets, and a 95 per cent confidence level …