Also by Graham Thompson

Not-quite-instant karma's gonna get you

Posted by Graham Thompson - 23 April 2013 at 12:21pm - Comments

Osborne feeling slightly overwhelmed

This week, the Office of National Statistics will tell us if Britain has slipped into a triple dip recession, and if the news is grim we may be treated to the sight of George Osborne – the most stridently anti-environment chancellor for a generation – blaming it all on climate change.

Article tagged as: budget, climate, climate change, george osborne, low carbon

Born Wrongborg

Posted by Graham Thompson - 15 April 2013 at 4:59pm - Comments

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Cross my palm with silver...

Bjorn Lomborg, the man who used to be the world’s most well-known climate sceptic, has resurfaced in the Wall Street Journal and Channel 4 with a new way to be wrong on climate change.

Article tagged as: climate change, climate skeptics, lomborg

Hanging's too good for us

Posted by Graham Thompson - 12 April 2013 at 4:10pm - Comments

Exhibit D

The winner of the bloggy awards’ best political blog and the winner of the bloggy awards’ best scientific blog are having a fight after school. This is the best show since the Olympics. Popcorn, anyone?

Article tagged as: climate change, climate skeptics, delingpole, energygate

Do the quake and frack

Posted by Graham Thompson - 10 April 2013 at 4:27pm - Comments

Good news! Fracking doesn’t cause earthquakes. Or, to be more precise, hydraulic fracturing for gas is not a significant cause of felt seismic activity. Or, to be even more precise, it does cause earthquakes, but it’s not one of the biggest man-made causes of large (that is, noticeable at the surface) earthquakes. A new study shows that fracking can reactivate dormant faults, but if frackers use 3D seismic imaging, then according to Richard Davies, director of the Durham Energy Institute and study leader, they ‘can avoid faults that are critically stressed and already near breaking point”.

Climate kraken wakes

Posted by Graham Thompson - 26 March 2013 at 5:10pm - Comments

One of the arguments currently popular with climate change contrarians and science deniers is that climate change has paused, or, in less moderate language, global warming stopped in 1997. Either phrasing is wrong, but there’s wrong, and then there’s climate denier wrong, and we didn’t realise quite how spectacularly wrong this was until this week.

Blair's legacy to be demolished

Posted by Graham Thompson - 22 March 2013 at 2:19pm - Comments

The third worst eyesore in Britain, according to readers of Country Life, and one of our top three polluters, closed forever today.

Article tagged as: climate change, coal, didcot, gas

Chillax, says Boris, it's a climate change-busting mini ice age

Posted by Graham Thompson - 21 January 2013 at 5:51pm - Comments

"I say relax" - Boris

Boris Johnson has a message for "scientists and environmentalists". Or at least, it’s addressed to scientists and environmentalists, although if I were trying to reach that particular audience, I might not have chosen the Telegraph. In fact, I’d probably be more likely to try to put an article in the Telegraph if I was trying to reach Tory backbench MPs. But that’s just me.

Article tagged as: boris, climate change, hair, politics, UK

Going down the up escalator

Posted by Graham Thompson - 9 January 2013 at 2:53pm - Comments

The Met Office have changed their decadal forecast for the next four years from a predicted 0.54 degree rise to a 0.43 degree rise, measured relative to the 1971-2000 average. This doesn’t sound all that exciting, even to real climate geeks like us, but then Lord Lawson’s climate denial outfit, the Global Warming Policy Foundation, got hold of the story and turned it into ‘Global Warming at a standstill’ in the Telegraph and similarly dramatic variations on the BBC’s Today programme and elsewhere.

Article tagged as: climate change, met office, temperature

Zombies sneak under the wire

Posted by Graham Thompson - 10 February 2012 at 9:54pm - Comments

Thursday we issued a zombie warning – we had concerns that armies of undead arguments were likely to crawl from their graves onto ITV’s ‘Tonight: the real cost of going green’. Did you spot any?

Well, perhaps not entire armies - ITV were a bit more sensible than we expected. And they were a lot more sensible than the Panorama crew who based a whole documentary on a KPMG report on the costs of renewables, which they never actually saw, and which KPMG have now decided not to release. Overall, Tonight was relatively even-handed. Perhaps the KPMG fiasco has taught the media to be a bit less trusting of dubious pronouncements on green energy.

Nevertheless, a few zombies did manage to sneak under the wire.

Article tagged as: comment, household bills, renewable energy, subsidies, wind power

Tonight: Climate Zombie Bingo

Posted by Graham Thompson - 9 February 2012 at 6:18pm - Comments

Since Lord Lawson’s climate denial group the Global Warming Policy Foundation gave up on disputing climate science and moved on to disputing climate economics, a whole new army of zombie arguments have started lurching their way across the internet in search of mainstream media exposure and brains to consume. We're worried an entire legion of the undead might appear in ‘Tonight: The Cost of Going Green’ on ITV at 7.30pm.

Article tagged as: climate change, climate denial, energy bills, ITV, zombies

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