Nigel Farage says that nurses working for the NHS should be able to speak English. I agree. What a pity that this is about the most daringly controversial criticism of the NHS we’re likely to hear from almost any politician,
Just three months ago, President Rousseff of Brazil told the UN “Climate change is one of the greatest challenges of our times,” but in a rare example of realism winning out over political correctness, she has now appointed a climate
Billionaire hedge fund manager Tom Steyer, lately obsessed with climate change, euphorically described California Governor Jerry Brown as “shockingly effective” after attending Brown’s swearing-in Monday morning and Brown’s subsequent speech.
And up until now now Pope Francis had been doing so well: pious, popular, a scourge of incompetence and corruption, a champion of the poor…. But unfortunately, 2015 looks like the year he’s going to blow it all by casting
Next year, Pope Francis will issue a rare encyclical calling on Catholics the world over to do their bit in reducing emissions, the Observer has reported. The pontiff also plans to make a series of speeches and summit appearances in
New reports on Pope Francis’ encyclical letter on ecology, slated for release in the spring of 2015, appear to be aimed at stoking fires of division between conservatives and liberals. Though contents of the letter have yet to be released, the Guardian predicts that the Pope’s letter on human and environmental ecology “will anger deniers and US churches.”
Further evidence that public interest in Global Warming is cooling has been unveiled by the science news website EurekAlert!, who have released their list of the top ten most read science articles this year. Climate change and global warming doesn’t
Comedian Bill Maher delivered his long-anticipated and controversial speech at the University of California Berkeley winter commencement on Saturday–and it turned out to be a rather conventional liberal address. Though much debate surrounded Maher’s views on Islam, he largely avoided the subject, instead telling
“Climate change is a top priority for me as the new leader of the Senate,” California state Senate President Pro Tem Kevin De Leon said at a recent NextGen Climate Leadership Forum in Oakland. That priority is reflected in a
Household energy bills are set to rise by 40 percent by the end of the decade thanks to government energy policies, but the hike pales in comparison to the 77 percent increase that medium sized businesses are likely to face,
They may look cute and harmless, but squirrels and beavers are contributing to climate change far more than previously thought, climate scientists have claimed. However, their discovery doesn’t let us humans off the hook, as the scientists still insist that
Silent Night! Endless night!All is dark, there’s no light.Cyclone clouds have blocked out the sky, We’re almost out of our dry-meat supply. Sleep in uneasy peace.We may have to eat Aunt Bernice. What the New Yorker is calling “Climate Change Carols” are
In a moment of supreme irony, Michael Mann, the climatologist who constructed the now debunked hockey stick graph designed to make the case for global warming, has today delivered a lecture on “professional ethics for climate scientists”, Watts Up With
In part one of the Breitbart News Network’s interview with Seth MacFarlane, we covered a host of issues, including Jenny McCarthy, Frank Sinatra, Seth’s new Christmas album (which is terrific), and our shared love of 70’s sitcoms. We wrap things
LIMA (Reuters) – About 190 nations agreed on Sunday the building blocks of a new-style global deal due in 2015 to combat climate change amid warnings that far tougher action will be needed to limit increases in global temperatures.
After hitting a standstill that took the Lima, Peru, climate talks two days past their scheduled end, representatives from countries around the world secured a temporary agreement on December 14. The Associated Press reported the UN global warming talks in Lima had
Is that all there is? After two weeks of elbow-gripping climate hysteria, 11,000 people from over 190 nations left the COP 20 conference in Lima, Peru agreeing on just one thing. They want our money. Lots of it. In small
The National Journal article The Next Plan to Get Climate Denial Into Textbooks reads like a Texas-bashing manifesto from progressive education interests. Their target was a Lone Star watchdog group Truth in Texas Textbooks, a coalition of volunteer researchers, scholars, a curriculum accuracy
The 12-day UN climate change summit in Peru has generated more carbon dioxide than an entire African country. The talks, aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions worldwide, generated more than 50,000 tonnes of CO2, as more than 12,500 politicians, green
The Guardian’s environmental blogger George Monbiot has written an article claiming that whales should be conserved because their poo helps to mitigate climate change. He takes this as “refutation of the idea that we can manipulate the living world with
Along with the beautiful natural scenery at our nation’s parks and national monuments, visitors may also get a lecture about global warming delivered by a park ranger, a report says. A recent article at National Journal notes that, along with
In a message to the UN Climate Change Conference winding down in Lima, Pope Francis said that “there is a clear, definitive and urgent ethical imperative to act” to combat climate change. “The consequences of environmental change,” Francis said, “which
A major British scientific group has published a booklet designed to give people advice in how to tackle climate change sceptics, or “ill-informed pub bores or the family know it all” as they call them. The booklet, by the Royal
I am writing this from a small copse of stunningly tall redwood trees. But I’m not in California; I’m in Gloucestershire. The redwoods, a type of sequoia, were planted fifty years ago in the Forest of Dean in an arboretum,
Greenpeace has been accused of defacing a UNESCO world heritage site after unfurling a banner at the site of the famous Nazca lines, considered by some to be sacred to the Peruvian people. On a video produced by the organisation,
