Archive for April 13th, 2008
More on The Great BBC Website Swindle
Posted by Paul, April 13th, 2008 - under Uncategorized.
Tags: Climate & Climate Change
Comments: 34
The controversy over climate campaigner Jo Abbess’s claimed success of intimidating the BBC’s Roger Harrabin into changing a website article rumbles on.
Christopher Booker of The Sunday Telegraph gives his opinion here:
Warmists beat straying BBC man back into line
A talking point among “climate sceptics” on both sides of the Atlantic has been the bizarre tale of [...]
Advertisement
A Catalogue of Animals to Shoot From
Posted by jennifer, April 13th, 2008 - under Uncategorized.
Tags: Plants and Animals
Comments: 108
Most safari outfitters offer a menu of game that clients can choose from. It’s like shopping from a catalogue.
Looking down these lists is slightly surreal. Everything is on offer, including porcupine ($250 – is it possible people really hunt these?), warthog ($300), on through a multitude of indistinguishable deer-like species, up to the big ticket [...]
The ‘Best Book on the Market’ according to Eamonn Butler
Posted by jennifer, April 13th, 2008 - under Uncategorized.
Comments: 6
A lot of people blame ‘market failure’ for environmental problems like pollution or over-fishing. More often, though, it’s political failure that causes the problems, by preventing markets from even existing. Like in water. As I explain in my new book, The Best Book on the Market:
In the dry western states of the US, the ‘prior [...]
Cosmic Rays, Clouds and Climate (Part 1)
Posted by jennifer, April 13th, 2008 - under Uncategorized.
Tags: Climate & Climate Change
Comments: 25
There are a couple of emerging theories on clouds, and how they form, and in time these theories may blow away the current so-called consensus on anthropogenic global warming from carbon dioxide as a key driver of climate.
One of these theories concerns cosmic rays.
A couple of weeks ago I mentioned the words “cosmic rays” with [...]

