Be Responsible – Be Free!

I ask this because I have read precisely zero about it lately in all the mainstream media. Even the Wikipedia article on it is confined to four terse paragraphs. I get the impression governments, business and the MSM have pretty much written off the 2010 United Nations Climate Conference as an event likely to produce anything in the way of a binding agreement.

Also, by the time the conference is held, the U.S. mid-term elections will have been run and won, and if the influence thus far of the Tea Party movement in that country is anything to go by, climate change by then will be very much yesterday’s news.

So if it’s all over before it begins, why not call it off and save us all some money?

I’m neck deep in work right now, but I hope to write something more substantial next week.

Splattergate! I’ve seen the film once, and not really had the stomach for a second viewing. But the Richard Curtis-directed short promo on behalf of the 10:10 movement is turning out to be one of marketing’s all-time disaster stories.

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China isn’t buying it. Russia isn’t buying it. The citizens of the United States of America aren’t buying it and are making this fact painfully clear to their legislators; my own countrymen, with their well-attuned B.S. radar, aren’t buying it. And now, the oldest scientific body in the Western world has announced that… not quite that they aren’t buying it any more, but henceforth they will be buying competing products as well.

I’ve just finished reading Climate change: a summary of the science, the Royal Society’s latest word on the subject. Before James Delingpole and others get everyone altogether too excited about it, I thought I would share what it basically says. Continue reading →

The Lincolnshire Sniffer Dog strikes yet again!

LibertyGibbert’s Pavarotti of pictorial punditry, Fenbeagle, this week brings his historical epic forward to the Victorian era, and that greatest of all British engineers. At least, when he stuck to building railways, bridges and tunnels… Continue reading →

Seeing as we’re back onto our favourite topic, I thought I’d mention an issue that’s been buzzing around the Ozboy headspace for a while now. In the AGW debate, it’s clear the battle lines (for such they are) were drawn some time ago. It has long ceased to be a purely scientific debate, both sides drawing down issues of philosophy, politics and psychology. Trying to place myself in the shoes of a newcomer to the debate, it’s obvious that wading through all that to get to a scientific conclusion must be—at a minimum—a daunting prospect; the temptation must be there to write off all participants as cranks of one form or another.

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No ill wind can pass unnoticed by the nose of the Lincolnshire Sniffer Dog!

Continuing his historical romp through alternative energy sources, LibertyGibbert’s Leonardo of lampoon, Fenbeagle, this week zeroes in on the Tudor era, and one man’s relentless alchemic quest to extract energy from thin air…

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