Some not-yet-jaded climate activists are getting quite excited that six European Oil companies recently wrote a letter to the United Nations requesting a carbon price and emissions trading scheme. Ever-so-kindly,they even offered to help design it… This is part of the general flurry of activity in the lead up to the Paris climate change talks... Continue Reading →
For Millicent?
“Why so sad?” she said, as I walked towards her in a cloud of gloom. Millicent (not real name) is a young woman who works somewhere I go a lot. I don’t know what kind of contract she is on. It’s probably not zero hours (yet). She probably has shit terms and conditions that leave... Continue Reading →
Nice slideshow about denial industry from UCUSA
A 42-slide extravaganza exposing (some) of the mechanics of climate denial in the US. http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/solutions/fight-misinformation/global-warming-facts-and-fossil-fuel-industry-disinformation-tactics.html#.VR_xZCvF_9Y The trouble in Manchester is not outright "denial" but the obsession with inward investment and the horrific culture of the Labour Party. So it goes...
Stepper reading: Delayism from IPA, Mann’s “Serengeti Strategy” and “policy dictators”…
So, started with “The Greenhouse Panic” by Dr Brian Tucker, who was a leading player in the CSIRO's climate efforts, and wrote a 1981 book on the “C02 connection”. From his obituary I knew that he'd gone to work for the (libertarian) Institute of Public Affairs. This article,written in mid-1995, (IPA Review, Vol. 48/1) is... Continue Reading →
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