Did you hear about the Muslim security guard called Zouheir at the Stade de France in Paris who, like, singlehandedly foiled what would have been the worst terrorist incident of Friday night?
Sorry, conservatives: when President Obama describes climate change as the greatest threat we face, he’s exactly right. Terrorism can’t and won’t destroy our civilization, but global warming could and might. Paul Krugman, Nobel prizewinning economist, public intellectual; New York Times columnist
We have only ourselves to blame for the Paris outrage, Salon has argued, again – just in case it failed to offend enough people the first time it salivated over the ISIS atrocity as payback time for the West and
Despite the 129 dead and the hundreds more wounded, The Ecologist has cut through all the emotive nonsense about the Paris massacres and identified the real victim of this grisly affair: why, the forthcoming UN climate change conference, of course!
Does the West yet have the resolve to deal with the Islamist threat? Douglas Murray thinks not. As he argues here and here it will take more than the deaths of a mere 128 people in Paris – and the wounding of
Never mind the crucifixion, enslavement, torture, imprisonment, gang-rape and beheading of just a few thousand Christian, Sunni and Yezidi women in Iraq and Syria. An American feminist campaigner has just reminded us the real problem lies at home: with the tens, if not
The Guardian has responded to the death of psychopathic ISIS terrorist Jihadi John as only the Guardian knows how: by reviving a charming, Facebook-style photo montage showing the martyred victim’s tragic journey from “shy, football-loving boy to Isis killer”. If you
Scientists have discovered the cause of the world’s second deadliest environmental threat after global warming. And the news really couldn’t be worse for the greenies. It seems that Ocean Acidification is not, after all, the result of man’s selfishness and
Bjørn “Skeptical Environmentalist” Lomborg has been doing the math on global warming – and it’s worse than we thought. Even if every nation in the world adheres to its climate change commitments by 2030 the only difference it will make to
The British government’s devious, cynical, hypocritical energy policy has just unravelled horribly – with the leak to The Ecologist of a private ministerial letter which admits that Britain hasn’t a hope of meeting its legally-mandated “clean energy” targets. Officially, Britain’s line is that
President Obama has just nixed America’s contribution to the biggest oil clean-up operation in history. Of course, that’s not quite how he chose to spin his decision to cancel the Keystone XL pipeline. On the contrary, he claims he did it
The American Meteorological Society has weighed into the debate on the climate fraud allegedly committed by scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). It thinks that NOAA’s dodgy, data-fudging, parti-pris scientists should be allowed to go on spending taxpayers’
The Indian government has just outlawed Greenpeace. Naturally, Greenpeace are spinning this as a terrible injustice and a blow for freedom of speech. “This is an extension of the deep intolerance for differing viewpoints that sections of this government seem
The forthcoming UN climate talks known as COP21 which start in Paris at the end of this month are going to be a MASSIVE SUCCESS. I say this with confidence for three reasons. 1. $1.5 trillion. This, according to a fairly conservative
Big Oil is the new Big Tobacco and must be destroyed in the courts on RICO charges. This is the latest big idea in environmental circles – and it didn’t come from nowhere. It was in fact the invention of
China has shown the world how much it truly cares about global warming by burning significantly more dirty, carbon-unfriendly coal than it previously pretended. According to shock data released, without fanfare, by China’s statistical agency, its coal use has been about 17 per cent higher per
Global warming will kill your sex life, according to a paper by the National Bureau of Economic Research.
Antarctica is growing not shrinking, according to the latest study from NASA. Furthermore, instead of contributing to rising sea levels, the still-very-much-frozen southern continent is actually reducing them by 0.23 mm per year. The study – by an organization not hitherto noted
“Representative democracy” has failed; the private sector is “inept”; and only bigger government – led by China and the US – has the power to save the world from climate change. So says Bill Gates in a dogmatic but somewhat confused
Today, as you’re all probably aware, is World Vegan Day. But have you stopped to think what that actually means?
I’m afraid I can’t stop thinking about Dr Jack Monroe’s breasts. I know that as an ex-lesbian-turned-self-declared-trans-activist this probably isn’t what she wants to hear from a middle aged cis-gendered male. I know she’s not a real doctor, it’s just an honorary
The US government’s main climate research agency has refused a request by House Republicans to release key documents concerning the controversial issue of whether or not there has been a “pause” in global warming. Despite being a public, taxpayer-funded institution,
If we don’t stop climate change very soon our children will die. So warns the American Academy of Pediatrics in a policy statement “urging pediatricians and politicians to work together to solve this crisis and protect children from climate-related threats
Up till recently, Chipotle used to be by far my favourite fast food chain. But then it started venturing into areas which have nothing whatsoever to do with tasty, overstuffed burritos – making straight people feel bad about not finding crude,
Al Gore thinks he might just have found the holy grail of climate change alarmism: a peer-reviewed study “proving” that carbon dioxide actually makes you stupid. Important piece by Joe Romm @thinkprogress on the direct, negative impact CO2 has on human
By spooky coincidence at the exact moment I read in the newspaper that the World Health Organisation has declared processed pork products to be in the same cancer risk category as asbestos, tobacco and plutonium, I was eating a big
Across Mexico, they are counting the cost of the strongest hurricane ever recorded. It may be days before we know the full tally, but already we can guess from shocked eyewitness accounts that the damage from Hurricane Patricia could run into
Much wailing and gnashing of teeth in the comments section at the Spectator which this week has gone full Yiannopoulos on the subject of the unspeakable awfulness of Third Wave Feminism. Except, on this occasion, it’s not a gay, attention-seeking bitch (or “modern
Only a period of enforced “planned austerity” can save the world from dangerous global warming, a warmist academic has claimed at a TED lecture. Alice Bows-Larkin, a climate researcher from the Tyndall Centre at the University of Manchester, said in her
This column is sponsored by my kind friends at ExxonMobil: the Gaia-raping, children-of-the-future-murderers you can trust! No, of course it isn’t really and that’s my only serious beef with ExxonMobil. It ought to support its media defenders but it doesn’t. So
Wind power now UK’s cheapest source of electricity – but the Government continues to resist onshore turbines. That was the headline in the Independent this time last week. I’m not suggesting for a moment that you’re an Independent reader but
A Democrat-voting, tofu-eating environmentalist has written movingly about his conversion to the light on climate change. My name is David Siegel. I’m not a climate expert; I’m a writer. Early in 2015, I became interested in climate science and decided to
France’s top weatherman has been suspended from his job for questioning the cult of global warming. Philippe Verdier, a household name for his nightly weather reports on the France 2 channel, has just published a book in which he argues that the climate
Sheldon Whitehouse, the preposterous Democrat senator for Rhode Island, has been preaching to his choir at HuffPo that the only way to deal with those pesky climate change deniers is to pursue them through the courts using RICO laws. Good luck
The climate models used by alarmist scientists to predict global warming are getting worse, not better; carbon dioxide does far more good than harm; and President Obama has backed the “wrong side” in the war on “climate change.” So says one of
One of my resolutions this year has been to try to avoid the use of personal invective against the insufferably thick, dribble-mouthed, grant-troughing, pathologically mendacious, small-penised, knuckle-dragging, impotent, spavined, dishonest, compromised, sub-redbrick-educated inadequates, poltroons and borderline criminals on the opposing
Nikki Haley, the governor of South Carolina, has described the floods which have inundated her state as a “thousand year” event.
Climate change is such a pressing, dangerous and universal threat that it should be made illegal under international law, a top barrister has told a conference of leading lawyers in London. Philippe Sands QC, an international law specialist and Professor
Donna Laframboise has a good story about a climate change conference for high level international lawyers which was recently staged in London and financed, inter alia, by the Supreme Court; the UK government; and King’s College, London – and endorsed with a special
Charlotte Church, the millionaire former pop starlet who has now reinvented herself as an Occupy-style revolutionary, was on BBC Question Time the other day telling anyone who would listen that the Syrian conflict had been caused by “climate change.” When challenged
