I wasn’t planning on bringing up my hideous encounter with Old Etonian climate-fear promoter Jonathan Porritt on BBC Radio 4’s Any Questions again. It feels like picking at an old scab. But, if you’ve ever nurtured suspicions about the BBC’s persistent left-liberal-AGW bias, here’s a blog you absolutely have to read.
In it blogger TonyN gives [...]
Posts Tagged ‘climate change’
The BBC: Al Gore’s UK propaganda mouthpiece
Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009‘Dark Energy’ reminds us: consensus has no place in real science
Tuesday, August 18th, 2009So Dark Energy might not exist after all? Good. I’m delighted to hear it. Not that I have anything personal against this mysterious substance which until very recently scientists believed made up three quarters of the universe. (In fact if it does exist, I want some in a jar in my office. It sounds pretty [...]
Wind Farms: Will Paxo ride to his brother’s rescue?
Tuesday, August 11th, 2009On telly Jeremy Paxman is a terrifying figure: combative, irascible, impatient, contemptuous and ungenerous. (For an example of the latter, do check out how he begins his interview with right wing US commentator Ann Coulter – who promptly wipes the floor with him). But in real life he is an absolutely sweetheart. On several occasions [...]
Is George ‘Jello’ Monbiot too chicken to debate ‘Global Warming’ with an expert?
Friday, July 24th, 2009A couple of weeks ago, you may have seen, I wrote a piece in the Spectator which drove the global warming alarmists almost insane with frothing indignation. It was an interview with the Aussie geology professor Ian Plimer whose bestselling book – Heaven And Earth – is being hailed as the great turning point in [...]
Miliband’s brilliant plan to combat climate change: ‘We’ll export unicorns to China’.
Wednesday, July 15th, 2009My all-time favourite story from the spot-on news satire website The Daily Mash was the one sending up Alistair Darling’s pitiful attempts to rescue the British economy. Among his brilliant schemes was a plan to breed unicorns and sell them to Chinese millionaires.
“The chancellor would invest public money in up to a dozen unicorn farms [...]