Category Archives: Climate

Encyclical: the embarrassing politics of the utopian vision.

The”news” rush from the pope’s encyclical is now well and truly over as today I see the coverage is now of sceptics pushing back. But whilst we climate sceptics might focus on the science, the climate doesn’t actually appear to … Continue reading

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Russian official questions U.S. moon landing

Well the Pope’s encyclical has come and gone and frankly it’s not made a bit of difference – except they’ll be quite a few furious republicans and other world leaders resolved to ensure this debacle never happens again – so … Continue reading

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BBC News at ten does not lead on Pope's encyclical – Scottish sceptic very confused.

Just watched the headlines on BBC news at ten after pope’s encyclical. Not mentioned at all in headlines. What’s happened to the BBC?

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We live in luxury that even kings a few centuries ago could only dream of.

As a result of the industrial revolution – to which I’m proud to say a lot of Scots contributed. The world is now living in luxury, we are healthier, better educated and safer than at any time in history. Our … Continue reading

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A lot of late nights for the intelligence services

I’m seeing a lot of headlines which are going to be causing really sleepless nights for those who understand government security and intelligence services. It’s ones like this: Pope urges revolution to save Earth, fix ‘perverse’ economy Pope Francis Calls … Continue reading

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Governments can no longer sit and just watch this eco-fascism take over.

Looking at the news coverage, a very profound realisation has occurred and it is this: most governments will be horrified by at least some aspect of this encyclical. Basically it is nuts. And to be frank it seems many governments … Continue reading

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Enclyclical: a totally scandalous and immoral betrayal of the people the world

There is a fundamental rule of politics that you try to unite people. But reading the Reuter’s article released a few minutes ago, I see so many red flags to so many bulls that many who never paid any interest … Continue reading

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The relationship between "denier" journalists in the media and reader comments

There’s been a whole raft of articles on the web preceding the pope’s proclamation. Unfortunately, a small but obvious minority have resorted to the same childish name calling of “denier”. However, as I tried to comment on these articles and … Continue reading

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A sceptic's view of climate

A while back I published a consensus document called “the sceptic view“. With so many new journalists now coming to the issue of climate as a result of the encyclical, I started thinking: “what would I want them to know … Continue reading

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An Encyclical too far?

There’s a general rule that anyone with any sense doesn’t make predictions based of very short runs of data. So it would be crazy for me to start getting excited on what is after all just the first day of … Continue reading

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