“How green bullying, junk science and EU lies killed off another successful industry,” I wrote in a piece a few months back. The story went roughly like this: 1. Greenpeace and similar organisations decide to target chemicals industry. 2. They
Do they still read at Harvard these days or is at all just about empathy, gender awareness, race sensitivity and important stuff like that? I only ask because if they do still read at Harvard there’s an article I’d like
Michael Palin has finally admitted what many of us have known in our hearts for some time: a lot of Monty Python’s material was “crap.” “People forgive you the things that don’t work. A lot of Python was crap, it
A leading UKIP MEP is being investigated over suggestions that he stands to benefit financially from a wind farm on his land – in strict contravention of UKIP’s anti-wind-farm policy. The Earl of Dartmouth – who campaigns under the name
British schoolchildren are being brainwashed by a deep green environmental curriculum which fills their heads with “confusion, ignorance and fear”, says a new study by the Global Warming Policy Foundation. The report, by science writer Andrew Montford and statistician John
Climate change is a form of “extreme, horrific, longterm, widespread violence” akin to mass murder or nuclear war, claims American writer and cultural historian Rebecca Solnit in the Guardian’s Environment pages. Ms Solnit – “the author of numerous books about
“Buy One Get One Free” deals in supermarkets are unsustainable and should be banned. So says a new report by the House of Lords European Union Committee called Counting The Cost Of Food Waste. Already your eyes are glazing over
One of my favourite games when I have an idle hour or so to spare is to imagine which of all the world’s politicians I would most like to see cast into a pit of rancid entrails, cockroaches, toe nail
Lying about climate change to advance the environmental agenda is a good idea, say two economists in a peer-reviewed paper published in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics. The authors, Assistant Professors of Economics Fuhai Hong and Xiaojian Zhao, take it as
The latest verdict is in on ‘climate change’ – and the news is good. The planet is greening, the oceans are blooming, food production is up, animals are thriving and humans are doing better than ever: and all thanks to
You’ve been reading all week in the MSM about the doomsday predictions in the latest IPCC report. You’ve quaked at headlines like: “Climate change harms food crops, says IPCC” (Financial Times) “Climate signals growing louder” (New York Times) “Climate change
Congratulations to all the winners of the 2014 Bloggies – the web’s longest-running blog awards, as voted for by readers all around the world. Here’s a curious thing: no fewer than seven of the category winners are prominent climate skeptics. They are:
Nigel Farage and Nick Clegg locked horns for the second and final time last night. The BBC played host, and all the polling seems to suggest that Farage walked away as the winner. James Delingpole presents five key take-aways from
There’s a father I know who I suspect may be a child abuser. He sends his kids away for weeks on end to a prison-like boarding environment run by authoritarian strangers. Even when they’re home he can barely find the
Green ideologues working for the British government helped “sex up” the latest Intergovernmental Panel On Climate Change (IPCC) report in order to make its conclusions sound more scary than the evidence warrants, it emerged today. The draft version of the
Today sees the release of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) latest findings on the state of “global warming” and the news isn’t good. Here are some of the highlights: Giant malarial mosquitoes the size of crane flies may
OK then, Nate Silver. Don’t take my advice. Why not go and do something really stupid, like kiss goodbye to integrity, pay Danegeld to your tormenters, and humiliate one of your innocent writers? Oh. No. Wait. You already did. If Silver still
Ever wondered how it would feel to be dropped from a helicopter into a swirling mass of crazed, genetically modified oceanic whitetip sharks in the middle of a USS-Indianapolis-style feeding frenzy? Just ask Nate Silver. He’s been living the nightmare
Nigel Farage has accused the European Union of having “blood on its hands” over the Ukraine. Does that sound over the top? Well it might if you’ve been taking your cue from much of the media this last month. Mostly
The World Health Organization (WHO) has released its latest figures on the annual death toll caused by pollution–and they look shocking. Of all the deaths across the globe in 2012, no fewer than seven million–1 in 8–are apparently the result
The economic costs of ‘global warming’ have been grossly overestimated, a leaked report – shortly to be published by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) – has admitted. Previous reports – notably the hugely influential 2006 Stern Review –
The answer to that one is a big “no” by the way, but that certainly hasn’t stopped the usual green suspects trying to shoehorn the Malaysian tragedy into their grand universal theory of everything. Here’s how an enterprising environmental reporter
Global warming ‘deniers’ are as bad as ‘Holocaust deniers’ because climate change is as “as certain as Auschwitz”, a Guardian columnist, Nick Cohen, has claimed. (H/T Marc Morano at Climate Depot) Anyone who disagrees with this is a “bed-wetting kidult”,
